Lin Lei felt his heart shatter in an instant!
When he was with Dilia, Lin Lei felt like a lone boat returning to harbor, his heart at an unprecedented peace. Their souls had become so deeply intertwined that neither could live without the other!
"No, no, this can't be..." Lin Lei couldn't accept it.
He would rather die himself than witness this.
How many years had it been? The first time he'd learned of his father's death, the time he'd watched helplessly as Grandpa Derin sacrificed himself for him — those two times had driven Lin Lei to the depths of despair. Since then, hatred had been buried in his heart, and it had turned cold.
It was because of Dilia...
That Lin Lei had rediscovered the warmth of home. Before Dilia, Lin Lei held nothing back, his heart completely merging with hers. He felt truly blessed — heaven had not been unkind to him...
Because he had Dilia, the other half of his life!
But today...
His father's death, Grandpa Derin's death — those two blows had nearly destroyed him. But this blow was even more devastating than the previous two. He and Dilia had been together for so long!
A thousand years of sharing life together — their lives had become one!
"This..." Pusiro was also stunned.
"Dilia!" Bei Bei was also frozen. Connected to Lin Lei's soul, he could feel the absolute despair and deathly stillness pouring from Lin Lei's very being, and the force of it made Bei Bei's soul tremble.
What kind of despair was this?
"Boss!" Bei Bei was nearly in tears.
BOOM~~~ Tempu, his entire body shrouded in dark light, charged at Lin Lei once more, while Lin Lei just stood there frozen in midair.
"Die." Tempu was so excited he was trembling.
He threw his full force into a punch aimed at Lin Lei's head. Before the fist even arrived, the ripples of spatial distortion it created had already reached Lin Lei's skull. Lin Lei turned his head in a daze, and the first thing he saw was the fist coursing with dark light.
"AAAHHH~~~" Lin Lei let out a horrifying roar as if he'd gone completely mad!
His intact left hand shot forward, grabbing the incoming fist and pulling it toward his own body. SPLIT! That devastating punch shattered the layer of Sovereign's power shielding Lin Lei's body and struck his chest full on.
CRACK! His breastbone shattered, his chest caving in.
"Huh?" Tempu was completely stunned. What was Lin Lei doing?
WHOOSH! Lin Lei's dragon tail whipped around and coiled tight around Tempu. His left hand gripped the opponent's right arm while his tail bound them together, wrapping both of them in a single crushing embrace.
Tempu couldn't break free!
The two faced each other, pressed together!
"AAAHHH~~~" Lin Lei, like a madman, violently whipped his head forward and smashed it against his opponent. The hideous golden-green spike on his forehead, glowing with azure light, drove forward with savage force.
"Get off!" Tempu tried to wrench free.
But the Sovereign's power surging across Lin Lei's body was immense. The Water System's Sovereign's power was especially renowned for its resilience — and Lin Lei's physical body had always been stronger than Tempu's to begin with. Breaking free? Nearly impossible!
"DIE!!!" Lin Lei howled, completely insane! His head smashed against Tempu's over and over, the grotesque spike on his forehead — coursing with Sovereign's power — stabbing relentlessly into flesh!
What was the hardest, sharpest thing on Lin Lei's body?
Not his fists, not his scales — but this spike!
Just like the Spine-Armored Iron Dragon, whose final, most powerful attack was to launch this very spike — the spike of a ninth-level magic beast, the Spine-Armored Iron Dragon, was capable of piercing through the body of a Saint Realm magic beast. And Lin Lei's spike had been further reinforced by Azure Dragon bloodline essence and Sovereign's power.
Its sharpness was terrifying beyond measure.
Head against head with Tempu — Tempu's body had always been inferior to Lin Lei's.
After the Sovereign's power defense was pierced three times in rapid succession, Tempu managed only a single roar before falling silent.
THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!...
In the blink of an eye, no one could count how many times Lin Lei's head had smashed into his opponent.
Bei Bei, Pusiro, Tewila, and even the four enemy elders were all frozen in shock. Tempu's entire head had been beaten to a pulp — his divine spark had even been sent flying — and Lin Lei still wouldn't stop.
Smashing the head, smashing the body!
Blood sprayed everywhere, chunks of flesh flew through the air — the sight was unbearable. Lin Lei's eyes burned crimson with blood, his madness at its peak.
"Boss..." Bei Bei had never seen Lin Lei this crazed. Through their soul connection, he could feel that Lin Lei was completely lost in unconscious frenzy — that wildness made his heart tremble.
"This..." The four elders were also stunned.
A Seven-Star Demon's fight could turn into this?
Lin Lei had actually chosen not to block Tempu's punch, instead grappling with him and smashing his own head against him?
Looking at Lin Lei — his arm broken, his chest caved in, his face covered in blood — they felt a chill run through their hearts.
"Lin Lei, stop, stop!" Pusiro's divine sense boomed. "Stop now!" Pusiro rushed over and struck Lin Lei with a powerful punch. Lin Lei's body jolted.
That punch jolted Lin Lei awake.
"What am I doing?" Lin Lei felt he had completely lost his mind. Then, glancing at Dilia lying on the ground far below, his eyes instantly turned crimson again, and he turned to look at the four remaining elders.
Those four elders — none of them had Sovereign's power!
The four elders had been shocked into a daze by Lin Lei's frenzy, and only now were they snapping back to their senses.
"Elder Chab and the others are all dead. There's no point in us staying here. Pusiro showing up this time was a huge surprise. Let's flee!" The four elders communicated urgently through divine sense, then scattered in every direction.
But Lin Lei let out a roar.
HUM~~~
Azure light spread outward, blanketing a range of several hundred meters and engulfing all four fleeing elders. The azure light then condensed into a massive cube!
Black Stone Prison!
A Black Stone Prison formed from Sovereign's power!
Although this Water System Sovereign's power wasn't of the Earth attribute, it was still far stronger than Lin Lei's original Middle-stage Earth divine force. Its resilience, in particular, was extraordinary. And the four enemy elders had no Sovereign's power at all.
Trapped inside the Black Stone Prison, they had no chance of escape.
"Lin Lei..." Pusiro started to speak.
"Pusiro, Tewila, don't interfere. Leave the Black Stone Prison first — those four are mine!" Lin Lei's voice was low and cold. A passage to the outside cracked open above them. Pusiro and Tewila exchanged a silent sigh and flew out.
Inside the Black Stone Prison, Lin Lei could take them down one by one.
And without Sovereign's power, they were in an entirely different league!
Darkness. Not a sliver of light.
The four elders were each trapped in separate cubes, desperately attacking the walls. But could they break through a cube forged from Sovereign's power?
Inside one of the cells.
"It's over." The gray-robed elder was completely hopeless.
WHOOSH! The wall cracked open, and a figure stepped through.
The gray-robed elder's heart trembled as he looked at Lin Lei before him — drenched in blood, his body in full draconic transformation.
"This is all because of you." A deep, low voice echoed.
WHOOSH! Lin Lei charged forward. The gray-robed elder, terrified, tried to resist, but a wave of soul power washed over him — a Soul Confusion cast with Sovereign's power. The gray-robed elder instantly fell into a dazed stupor.
Back when Lin Lei had fought Tempu and all five of them, using this technique could easily plunge the other four into confusion. But Elder Tempu's soul had been protected by Sovereign's power, so Lin Lei couldn't affect him at all.
Tempu had naturally shielded the other four as well.
Which had rendered this technique completely useless. But now... the gray-robed elder, struck by Soul Confusion, was nothing more than a sitting duck!
"Hello, my name is Dilia..." In Lin Lei's mind, he remembered the first time he'd met Dilia, during a Wind System class at Ernst Academy. She had been such a sweet, adorable girl back then.
CRACK! Lin Lei's fist, covered in dragon scales, crushed the gray-robed elder's skull.
Lin Lei shifted and headed for the next elder's cell.