The twelve bodies Niff originally had all attacked with their legs, and he hadn't used his divine artifact, because Niff himself didn't want Lin Lei to detect his true body. But when he saw Lin Lei's Blackjade Heavy Sword slashing toward his true body, Niff flipped his hand and produced a long spear covered in mottled black spots.
"Phht!" Space warped.
"Clang!"
The Blackjade Heavy Sword clashed with the mottled black-spot spear, and a faint gray illusory sword wave passed straight through Niff's body defenses and into his body. This was Lin Lei's Void Sword Wave, greatly enhanced after fusing the "Earth Element" and "Earth Pulse."
"Die!" While controlling his mental power to block the Void Sword Wave, Niff frantically controlled his other bodies to attack Lin Lei.
He would kill Lin Lei even if it cost him his life!
Moreover, Niff didn't pay too much attention to this attack. In his view… how powerful could Lin Lei's soul attack possibly be? It was probably just condensing a strand of mental power into a shape and then sending it out. But Niff was wrong!
Countless mental waves, dense and aligned according to the profound mysteries of the Earth Pulse, had formed into a unified whole.
"Hummm~"
The Void Sword Wave's countless mental waves hammered against his mental power defenses one after another, tearing through them as if they were nothing. They plunged straight into Niff's soul ocean, slamming violently against the godhead radiating green light. Niff only felt a deafening roar that shook his soul, and then he lost all consciousness.
At that very moment—
Countless white threads of light appeared out of nowhere, wrapping around all twelve of Niff's bodies and binding them tight, rendering them completely unable to move, let alone attack Lin Lei in the slightest.
"Haha, Lin Lei." A light laugh rang out, and a handsome young man appeared before Lin Lei and Bei Bei.
"Lord Adkins." Lin Lei was somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected Adkins to suddenly show up, but he still said gratefully, "Thank you, Lord Adkins, for lending a hand."
Adkins was secretly pleased.
Ever since releasing his divine sense across the Rohr Empire a year ago and inadvertently discovering that Tanner and his men were discussing Niff's plan to kill Lin Lei, Adkins had kept watch. He had even made a point of traveling to that canyon and positioning himself near Niff.
All so that at the critical moment he could save Lin Lei, making Lin Lei grateful to him, and Bei Bei grateful to him as well!
Building a good relationship with Bei Bei was something Adkins placed great importance on. Since Lord Bluefire was on the Yulan Continent, if Adkins still wanted to obtain treasures in the Divine Beast Cemetery, he could only rely on allying with Beirut.
"I was just passing through and happened to notice…" Adkins was all smiles, but halfway through his sentence, Lord Adkins's voice cut off abruptly.
He had noticed that of the mid-god Niff's twelve bodies, eleven had already collapsed and dissipated, turning into wind elements and scattering into the air. As for Niff's true body, it was bound by him without the slightest resistance. A muscle in Adkins's face twitched.
He had clearly sensed that the soul within Niff's true body had already dissipated. All that remained was a single godhead.
Adkins smiled awkwardly at Lin Lei. "Lin Lei, I really didn't expect that you'd actually killed Niff already. Whether I intervened or not wouldn't have made any difference." Lin Lei's Void Sword Wave had killed Niff in a single blow. With Niff's soul dissipated, his clones would naturally dissipate as well.
His true body wouldn't attack either. Lin Lei had never been in any real danger!
But Adkins had planned all along to save him at the most dangerous moment, so that Lin Lei would be even more grateful. Yet now he realized that what he'd done was completely superfluous! Even without his intervention, Lin Lei would have been perfectly fine.
"I still need to thank Lord Adkins," Lin Lei said with a smile. Then he turned to look at Bei Bei. The one who had truly saved him this time was Bei Bei. If Bei Bei hadn't used his innate divine ability to identify which of the twelve bodies was the true one…
Based on Lin Lei's earlier random choice, he would have attacked the wrong body entirely. And if he hadn't hit the true body… then facing the frenzied attacks of a mid-god, Lin Lei's body would have definitely exploded.
"Boss." A smile appeared on Bei Bei's face.
Lin Lei and Bei Bei didn't need to say much. A single glance was enough to convey what was in each of their hearts. They had been through this kind of danger many times before.
"This man was killed by you. Everything belongs to you." Adkins used his power to float Niff's mid-god godhead, space ring, and divine artifact in front of Lin Lei. Lin Lei didn't stand on ceremony and stored them directly into his own space ring.
Adkins felt quite sour inside.
Ever since learning that Niff intended to kill Lin Lei, he had been preparing for this day for a long time! He had even gone out of his way to intervene at the most critical moment!
Who would have thought that all his efforts had been completely unnecessary.
"Lord Adkins, I'd like to ask—what kind of profound mystery did that person use just now? Why did he have so many clones? And why couldn't his aura be pinpointed?" Lin Lei asked.
Adkins was determined to build closer ties with Lin Lei and Bei Bei, so he answered with great enthusiasm. "Oh, that man was using the 'Clone Technique' from the Wind Element Laws. His divine power was quite limited, and his soul wasn't particularly strong either. His mastery of the Clone Technique wasn't very high. I know of upper-god powerhouses who can split into thousands of clones in an instant!"
"Thousands of clones?" Lin Lei was stunned.
"That's the extreme case. Most powerhouses can only manage a few dozen at most. Eleven clones is indeed very few," Adkins said dismissively. "Judging by that man, he was probably a god refined from a godhead. His understanding of the Wind Element Laws was also quite shallow. His clones weren't that powerful—only capable of physical attacks. They'd work against weaker opponents, but against someone of equal strength, they'd be useless."
Adkins suddenly smiled. "However, they're an excellent way to escape danger."
Lin Lei's eyes lit up upon hearing this.
The clones' auras were identical to the true body's, making them genuinely difficult to distinguish. After all, very few people could identify which body contained a godhead the way Bei Bei could. And the price Bei Bei had paid to do so was considerable.
"Lin Lei, this mid-god—I know who he is," Adkins volunteered.
"Who is he? Why did he want to kill me?" Lin Lei pressed immediately, and Bei Bei listened intently as well. In the past few years, Lin Lei had already been targeted by assassination twice.
Adkins said, "Do you remember the upper-god that Lord Bluefire killed last time? That upper-god's name was Sadista. This man was one of Sadista's subordinates." Adkins had learned the name "Sadista" by extending his divine sense over Sadista's residence and overhearing Tanner and the others talking.