The "patch" over the membrane breach only held for a brief moment before being pierced straight through by the slender black needle. The black needle entered the most critical region of Lin Lei's mind—the skies above his Soul Ocean.
*Boom~~*
The entire Soul Ocean surged violently. Countless streams of Soul Power danced into the air, merging with the green light and surging toward the black needle to entangle it. The black needle had nowhere to flee.
*Sssss~~* The green-glowing Soul Power clashed against the black-glowing needle in a tense deadlock, both sides consuming energy at a ferocious rate.
Moresley and the other fourteen Six-Star Demons looked up at Lin Lei.
"Lord Moresley, what do we do now?" They all turned to him.
"Keep attacking. His soul defense isn't that strong. Otherwise, it wouldn't have taken him this long to hold off my strike." Moresley issued his orders immediately. "Remember—target his soul."
"Yes!"
The powerful fighters shot into the sky at once.
Lin Lei's face was deathly pale as he regained consciousness. By now, Meleena and Shanta from the Green Dragon clan—ten Six-Star Demons in total—had gathered around him.
"Captain, are you alright?" Meleena asked quickly.
"I'm fine." Lin Lei shook his head, though inwardly he was shaken. *Thank the ancestors for the Ancestral Hall Baptism. My Green Dragon clan's origin energy was strengthened, and after fusing it with my Soul Power, I barely managed to hold them off.* The Green Dragon clan's origin energy—that green glow—was unique in that it could be combined with Mental Power to unleash Innate Divine Abilities. It also greatly enhanced soul defense.
"They're coming up!" a teammate called out urgently.
Lin Lei looked down at the fifteen figures hurtling toward him from below and immediately sent a soul transmission: "That bald man in the gray robe is a Seven-Star Demon who specializes in soul attacks. When we engage, Shanta—your six, the strongest in physical combat, take him on. The other four, come with me and kill the remaining Six-Star Demons."
"Captain, can just Shanta and the six of them handle it?" Meleena asked, worried.
"Don't worry—I still have an ace up my sleeve." Lin Lei gazed at the fifteen figures charging upward. The reason he hadn't unleashed his ultimate technique earlier was that his reinforcements hadn't arrived yet, and he feared the enemy might flee. That was why he'd held back this move—Soul Chaos! Soul Chaos could only be deployed in conjunction with the Black Stone. Back on Biluo Island, Lin Lei had used this technique to leave entire groups of High Gods in a state of dazed confusion. Even Seven-Star Demons felt some effect from it. In a clash between experts, even a sliver of disruption was more than enough.
"Eleven of them?" Moresley narrowed his eyes.
"Don't worry about the others—kill the leader first!" Moresley commanded through soul transmission. "Kill this Seven-Star Demon and that counts as avenging your captain."
"Kill!"
No one flinched. Anyone bold enough to join a family combat squad knew no retreat. Moresley led his fourteen Six-Star Demons skyward, plunging directly into Lin Lei's Black Stone Space. The fifteen banded tightly together, unwilling to risk being picked off one by one.
They moved as a single mass, hurtling toward Lin Lei.
On Lin Lei's side, the ten Green Dragon Six-Star Demons stood beside him. With a cold expression, Lin Lei gave the order: "Go!" As planned, Lin Lei and his eleven dove downward. After all, the two groups were only a few hundred meters apart.
The two forces clashed in an instant!
"Kill!" Lin Lei's side, disregarding life and death.
"Kill!" Moresley's side, equally fearless.
Lin Lei's gaze turned icy.
Within his Soul Ocean, Soul Power spiraled outward from the Black Stone at its center, and the eerie force radiated instantly to fill the entire gravitational space. Soul Chaos took effect on all fifteen opponents simultaneously.
*Whoosh~~*
All fifteen on Moresley's side simultaneously heard a strange whistling sound erupt inside their minds, a sound that made their heads spin uncontrollably. But that single moment of disorientation came at the most critical juncture of the fight—
*Thud! Thud! Thud!* ...
Like cleaving through watermelons, the Six-Star Demons of the Barbari Family—affected by Soul Chaos—were cut down in droves. Lin Lei tore through them like a tiger among wolves, slaughtering three Six-Star Demons in an instant.
Shanta and the other six, specialists in physical combat, directed their attacks straight at Moresley.
Moresley felt only a slight dizziness, but his consciousness remained clear. As a supreme expert in soul techniques, this level of soul disruption barely affected him. However, seeing so many of his own cut down before his eyes, he flew into a rage.
Moresley roared.
A transparent, fan-shaped wave of force emanated from him, sweeping toward the six charging at him. Shanta and his five companions managed to unleash a single fierce physical attack each before the wave reached them.
The transparent wave washed over all six. Their bodies shuddered, and then three of them plummeted from the sky.
Three dead!
"Shanta!" Meleena cried out.
"Brother!" Another female teammate screamed.
Among the three who had fallen was Shanta.
"Not good." Watching from behind, Lin Lei was stunned. *This man—he's completely unaffected by my Soul Chaos!* He had fought a Seven-Star Demon on Biluo Island before, and that one *had* been affected. But Moresley was clearly a soul specialist with far greater resistance.
*Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!* ...
The physical attacks Shanta and the six had launched just before death—slashes shaped like blades, needles, cones, threads—bore down on Moresley from every angle. Moresley's soul was formidable, but his physical defense was merely ordinary. With gravity this intense, he had no time to dodge.
*Roar~~* Moresley bellowed, unleashing a deep, guttural roar.