Bimfield had always been much faster than him!
He had the Blackstone Space, and the other side had also used a god's power. Yet Bimfield was still faster! If he let Bimfield keep closing in for even a moment, that short distance of a few hundred meters would be swallowed up in an instant!
"Hmph!" Lin Lei willed with his mind.
The direction of gravity in the Blackstone Space shifted abruptly—what had been a repulsive force turned into an upward pull!
"Huh?" Bimfield's body lurched involuntarily, his trajectory veering sharply upward.
"My Blackstone Space isn't that simple," Lin Lei thought darkly. At the same time, he began rapidly and continuously altering the direction of the Blackstone Space's gravitational field—one moment pulling upward, the next downward, then repelling outward. The gravitational force itself was already abnormally powerful, and with such violent, erratic shifts, even Bimfield found his movements drastically disrupted.
Bimfield's fury mounted.
"All of you, just die!" His eyes turned icy cold.
"Whoosh, whoosh~~"
Pale, misty arrows of transparent energy shot forth from within Bimfield's body, aimed directly at Lin Lei and Bei Bei. Over a dozen ethereal arrows slashed through the air in an instant, split between the two targets. Soul attacks were blindingly fast—Lin Lei and Bei Bei barely managed to twist aside, yet four transparent arrows still pierced into Lin Lei's body.
And in Bei Bei's body, a full three arrows had embedded themselves.
Lin Lei's face drained of color. "Bei Bei, use a god's power!" Bimfield's soul attack had been described in the intelligence Beirute had provided—it was terrifyingly powerful. And right now, Bimfield was using a Destiny God's Power to execute this technique. Its destructive potential was beyond imagination.
"Hummm~~" A tawny golden glow immediately surfaced across Lin Lei's body.
Without hesitation, Lin Lei had used the Earth God's Power!
Inside Lin Lei's mind—
"Crack!" "Crack!" "Crack!" "Crack!" The four transparent arrows smashed violently against a transparent membrane, shattering like eggs against stone. But after shattering, they transformed into a mass of translucent threads that spread out and enveloped the entire membrane. The countless threads then began tightening, probing toward the patched breach.
Countless hazy, phantom sword shadows burst outward, hammering into the translucent threads.
"Relying on a soul-defensive divine artifact and the Earth God's Power, I still lost over half the repair on the membrane's patch." Lin Lei was shaken.
The patch on his soul-defensive divine artifact's membrane had been reapplied after leaving the Netherworld Mountain, and with the sixty-one years in the Planar Battlefield, it was nearly a century of accumulated reinforcement. And in a single exchange, more than half had been consumed. That was with the Earth God's Power active. Without it, Lin Lei wouldn't have stood a chance.
"That's terrifying. Without the soul-defensive divine artifact, even with a god's power, I probably couldn't have held." Lin Lei's expression suddenly changed drastically. "Bei Bei!"
Bei Bei had been hit just the same.
"Boss, I'm fine." Bei Bei's voice echoed inside Lin Lei's mind.
Lin Lei was stunned to discover that Bei Bei hadn't used a god's power at all. How had Bei Bei blocked the attack without one? With a mere divine-grade soul-defensive artifact, that should have been impossible. "Could it be that Bei Bei has a soul-defensive divine artifact of god-tier quality? Or… could Bei Bei's soul itself be extraordinarily special, with exceptional defensive power?"
The thought flashed through Lin Lei's mind and vanished.
Now was no time for contemplation, because… the crisis was closing in!
"Big brother!"
A deep, resonant voice rang out. The black-armored giant stood atop a massive scarlet serpent that spiraled through the air at tremendous speed. The serpent had flown in from outside and now hovered directly in front of Lin Lei and Bei Bei.
"Boss, this is bad," Bei Bei said urgently.
"I know." Lin Lei well understood how dire the situation was.
Blocked in front by the scarlet serpent and the black-armored giant, with Bimfield behind them—there was nowhere to go!
"Bimfield… how does he have two more companions? And they're not even from the same faction." Lin Lei cursed silently in frustration. During the chase and fight, he'd noticed that Bimfield and the other two weren't on the same side—he couldn't sense Bimfield's faction emblem on them at all.
They were clearly enemies!
But the 'red-robed woman' who had transformed into the scarlet serpent and the black-armored giant—Lin Lei could sense their faction emblems. They were on his side.
People from different factions had formed a small team.
"Bei Bei, follow me—this way, now!" Lin Lei wrapped Bei Bei in his Earth divine power and burst forward at maximum speed. The two of them veered off to the side, heading in the direction where Bimfield would have the easiest time giving chase.
But the Blackstone Space's power had increased nearly a hundredfold, and the horrifying gravitational field made it extremely difficult for Bimfield to catch up.
"Whoosh!" Bimfield quickly flew out of the Blackstone Space's area of effect—within it, catching Lin Lei was impossible. "Listen well, you two brats! Today, I, Bimfield, will kill you. I swear it!" His furious voice echoed through the void.
Bimfield streaked through the sky almost parallel to Lin Lei and Bei Bei, flying at terrifying speed.
The two sides were separated only by the Blackstone Space's obstruction.
Behind them, the red-robed woman and the black-armored giant were desperately trying to keep up.
"I can't let Bimfield close the distance. Just now, when he attacked both me and Bei Bei simultaneously, I barely held on. If he gets within striking range and unleashes his strongest attack, I definitely won't be able to withstand it." Lin Lei was at least confident about Bei Bei—earlier, Bei Bei had blocked the attack without even using a god's power.
"Boss, we have to shake him off," Bei Bei transmitted.
"I know." Lin Lei's gaze snapped toward Bimfield at his side.
Behind him, the spectral image of an enormous Azure Dragon materialized—a serpentine figure stretching nearly a thousand meters, with its massive head hovering above Lin Lei, its eyes fixed on Bimfield. From within Lin Lei's mind, the Earth God's Power fused with his innate draconic azure light and surged outward toward Bimfield—
Innate Divine Ability—Dragon's Roar!
This was the innate ability executed with the Earth God's Power, and its might was devastating!
"Hmm?" Bimfield's body stiffened for just a fraction of a second.
"Go!" Lin Lei and Bei Bei seized the opening and bolted.
Bimfield was a supreme expert who excelled in soul arts. Possessing a soul-defensive divine artifact and a god's power, he broke free of the restraint almost immediately.
"You think you can run?" Bimfield caught sight of Lin Lei and Bei Bei's fading afterimages and shot off in pursuit.