When Elder Gavi clashed with his enemy, the aura of a Highgod's power spread out, drawing the other three clans of the Four Divine Beast Families rushing over. The moment they caught sight of six figures converging on Lin Lei in the distance, their faces changed dramatically.
"No good — all six of them are using Highgod's power, and two of them are clan chiefs!" The Vermilion Bird Clan Elder recognized the enemy experts at a single glance from afar.
"How can this be? Have these Eight Great Families gone mad?!"
The White Tiger Clan Chief, the Black Tortoise Clan Chief, and the other elders all stared in disbelief. No matter how powerful Lin Lei was, he was only a Seven-Star Demon — how could he have provoked the Eight Great Families into having six people unhesitatingly use Highgod's power, two of whom were clan chiefs?
The eight clan chiefs of the Eight Great Families — seven were envoys of Highgods, and the remaining one was even stronger.
What manner of people were these eight? And two of them had actually joined hands without hesitation, throwing aside all dignity, to kill a junior like Lin Lei? It was simply inconceivable!
"Lin Lei, fall back!!!" A thunderous shout echoed through Lin Lei's mind. At that moment, Lin Lei had already glimpsed six powerful figures charging toward him, and he couldn't help but be stunned: "Six of them? All using Highgod's power?"
Six pairs of eyes brimming with killing intent locked onto him — like six lions poised to devour a little lamb. "Haha, Chief, this Lin Lei actually flew out of the Heavenly Sacrifice Mountain Range. This is truly a heaven-sent opportunity," a tremendously burly man shrouded in white robes transmitted mentally.
"We must seize this chance. Spare no cost — kill him!"
"He won't escape!"
All six fixed their stares on Lin Lei. For nearly a thousand years, these Eight Great Families had been attacking the Four Divine Beast Families with frantic intensity, precisely because they feared that given enough time Lin Lei would become a Highgod. They had been trying to force him out.
Yet... all these years, Lin Lei had never shown himself.
Lin Lei's existence was like a thorn lodged in the throats of the Eight Great Families. They dreamed of eliminating this menace, and today, heaven had granted them the perfect opportunity. How could these six hold back? They wouldn't hold back...
And Lin Lei was no fool. He knew his own limits.
Seeing six such people charging toward him, Lin Lei retreated explosively while transmitting mentally: "Gavi, fall back!"
As he rocketed backward, a earthen-yellow glow radiated outward from Lin Lei in concentric waves, instantly expanding to engulf a massive spherical area five hundred meters in diameter. It swept up both Elder Gavi and his opponent in their distant battle.
Black Stone Space!
Black Stone Space was Reis晶's ultimate technique, and today Lin Lei was using the power of the Earth Highgod to execute it. Black Stone Space was inherently an earth-attribute attack, and the power of the Earth Highgod was its perfect match — the technique's power had reached a terrifying level.
With mid-tier earth divine power, Black Stone Space could affect weaker Seven-Star Demons.
With high-tier earth divine power, it could influence experts approaching the Seraphim level — that was the tier at which Reis晶 operated.
And with the power of an Earth Highgod, Black Stone Space forced the opponents to use Highgod power as well, and even then only super-experts could mount any resistance at all... otherwise, within Black Stone Space, one had no ability to fight back.
"Ah!" The burly man from the Balik family who had been battling Elder Gavi was caught by the gravitational pull. Caught off guard, he began to plummet. In a battle between experts, exposing an opening was fatal!
"Boom!" Elder Gavi seized the moment and slammed his palm onto the Balik family giant's head, blasting it apart on the spot. A divine spark floated away.
The Balik family elder was dead!
Right at that moment—
"Whoosh!" Six figures plunged into Black Stone Space. The space was simply too vast, and if they wanted to kill Lin Lei, they had no choice but to close the distance. Even knowing Black Stone Space's power, they had to charge in.
But the technique's power exceeded their wildest imagination!
Black Stone Space — maximum repulsive force!
The six figures who had been hurtling inward at tremendous speed saw their velocity plummet. Caught completely off guard, two of them were actually shoved backward, expelled from Black Stone Space entirely. Having been charging at full speed and then violently repelled in the opposite direction, the conflicting forces rattled their bodies, bringing a flush of red to their faces — they were injured just like that.
This was the terrifying power of the ultimate Black Stone Space!
"How is this possible?" The remaining four barely managed to avoid being repelled, but their speed had become agonizingly slow.
There was no way they could catch Lin Lei.
"Attack!" Chief Borin of the Borin family mentally bellowed the command. Simultaneously, wings of white light unfurled behind him, and the holy, white power of a Fate Highgod suffused his entire body. His once-holy countenance turned utterly devoid of emotion as he gazed coldly at Lin Lei.
"Whoosh!" A semi-transparent white arrow instantly tore through the air, hurtling toward Lin Lei.
"Hmph!" A cold snort.
A stern man with floating azure eyebrows and piercing blue eyes flicked his right hand, and a cyan curved blade instantly shot forward with blinding speed. Wherever the cyan blade passed, the Infernal plane seemed to tear open like a sheet of paper.
When a blade is sharp enough to slice through a human head, it leaves nothing but a thin red line on the neck.
The curved blade cut through space in exactly the same way — it left only the faintest slit, nearly invisible unless one looked closely. But the power of that blade had reached a truly terrifying level.
A white arrow and a curved blade — both hurtling toward him simultaneously.
"Hmph!" With a thought from Lin Lei, earthen-yellow walls materialized out of thin air, blocking the path of both the white arrow and the curved blade. But the cyan blade was simply too fast — it overtook the white arrow in an instant and sliced through the walls as though they were nothing.