Pretending to be a genius starts with the civilization advancement assessment.

Chapter 390 We Have to Bear This Together (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

The three of them stopped what they were doing and looked up. Receiving distress signals from their own faction in the secret realm was not uncommon, but how to handle it required careful assessment.

"Receive the information and conduct a preliminary analysis," Luna commanded coldly.

The illusory image of the crystal tree shimmered with light, simultaneously transmitting a decrypted urgent message to the three of them in the form of a thought wave.

The message was concise yet clear: "I am Servila, a Spirit Race deity, and I am being hunted by two Outworld Gods. I request assistance from nearby allies!"

“Servera? Servera of the Spirit Race?” Hui Lie frowned slightly. “I seem to have heard of this name before. She is a high-level deity who is skilled in the laws of life and wood, and her strength is quite solid.”

"Only two Eclipse Clan gods are in pursuit?" Lin Yi caught the key information.

"The signal strength is moderate to weak, and it is a continuous broadcast, indicating that the sender is in a state of intense combat or escape at high speed and cannot conduct stable communication," Luna analyzed. "According to convention, when a distress signal is broadcast publicly, nearby teams will try to contact it, assess the situation, and then decide whether to provide assistance."

Hui Lie nodded: "That's right. If we can help, we should certainly lend a hand. Although there is competition within the Pan-Spirit Alliance, mutual assistance is a basic understanding when facing external enemies. But the premise is that the situation is within our control. If it's a trap, or the pursuers are too strong or too numerous, we can't risk getting ourselves caught in it. After all, in the secret realm, the worst outcome is being kicked out, losing points and gains, not actual death."

Lin Yi agreed with this assessment.

He had been on too many battlefields and knew all too well that blind enthusiasm would only lead to annihilation.

He looked at Luna: "To try to establish stable communication, we need to know more details."

"Attempting to establish an encrypted point-to-point communication connection successfully." Luna's intelligent life form is extremely efficient.

A woman's voice, clear and melodious like that of the Eldar but filled with anxiety, immediately came through the public channel: "This is Eldar Servila! I'm being pursued and urgently need help!"

“Servera, this is Luna.” Luna responded first. “We received your distress signal. Report your situation: number of enemies, strength, and configuration.”

"Luna? That's great!" Serena, on the other end of the communication line, visibly relaxed upon hearing her kin's voice. She quickly explained, "I temporarily formed a team with a human god named Shi Feng. About five standard days ago, we unexpectedly encountered a team of Eclipse Clan gods, led by a peak-level high-ranking god! Knowing we were outmatched, we immediately split up and fled in different directions. The enemy also immediately divided their forces; that peak-level high-ranking god went after Shi Feng! Now, I'm being pursued by two Eclipse Clan gods of similar strength, one specializing in the Law of Darkness, and the other in the Law of Death! I'm fighting and retreating, and my divine power is nearly half depleted!"

The information is very clear.

A high-ranking Eldar god whose condition is declining due to being hunted down by two enemies of the same rank.

Lin Yi's eyes flickered slightly when he heard that another human god, "Shi Feng," was also being hunted down.

Luna noticed Lin Yi's expression and pressed him for details, "You said that only two Eclipse Clan gods were chasing you, and their strength was similar to yours?"

Serena immediately confirmed, "That's right! I'm certain! Individually, they're slightly weaker than me, but their teamwork is excellent, their laws complement each other, making them very difficult to deal with. If we can repel or kill these two Eclipse Gods, we might still have a chance to rescue Shi Feng!"

Upon hearing this, Luna did not answer immediately, but instead looked at Lin Yi with a questioning gaze.

Since there was no threat, she would naturally be saved. Lin Yi immediately gave Luna a reassuring look.

Luna transmitted, "We are currently operating as a joint operation of three gods. Tell us your real-time coordinates, and we will move towards you to provide assistance."

Serena was overjoyed upon hearing this and immediately replied, "That's wonderful! Thank you all! My current coordinates are... Based on the limit of signal reception, it would take me about 30 standard days to rendezvous with you if I flew at full speed towards you. I will do my best to guide them towards you to shorten the rendezvous time. I dare not stay put and wait. Fighting and retreating at the same time, I can still hold them off. If I stop and they surround and attack me fiercely, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold out until reinforcements arrive."

This is the most rational approach.

In the vast and mysterious wilderness, it is common for rescuers and those being rescued to travel to each other's locations.

However, at that moment, a calm male voice interrupted the communication, "No need to move closer to us. Serena, send us your current spatial coordinates. We'll be there soon."

Serena's heart skipped a beat!
No need to meet up? We'll be there soon?
Could it be that they have a deity who has mastered the laws of space?
This guess instantly ignited a huge hope in her.

If there truly is a master of spatial laws, they will arrive in an instant!

“Okay!” Without any hesitation, Serira immediately sent over her most accurate spatial coordinates, along with a simple energy map of the surrounding environment.

Inside Luna's spaceship, Lin Yi received the coordinates.

He did not act immediately, but closed his eyes slightly, using his powerful soul force combined with his understanding of the laws of space to remotely sense the starry sky indicated by the coordinates.

A moment later, he opened his eyes and nodded slightly to Luna and Huilie: "The space is stable, with no signs of large-scale interference or blockade. Teleportation is possible."

This is normal.

Communication range within the secret realm is inherently limited, and the treasures used to interfere with or block the space are extremely precious. They are usually only used during specific tactical encirclements and have a limited range of influence.

In dynamic chase scenarios, unless you use and successfully trap the target from the start, it's easy for them to escape the interference range, making it a complete waste.

Serena's ability to fight and run simultaneously also indirectly confirms that none of the pursuers are strong in terms of spatial laws, or at least they did not use powerful spatial sealing methods.

"Let's go, let's get out," Lin Yi said, and took the lead towards the spaceship's exit.

Luna and Hui Lie immediately followed.

The three quickly arrived in the void outside the spaceship.

With a thought, Luna's Spirit Clan spaceship, which resembled a crystal leaf, transformed into a stream of light and was returned to her own divine kingdom.

The three of them floated beneath the cold starry sky.

Lin Yi said to Luna and Hui Lie, "Do not resist my spatial power."

As soon as he finished speaking, he had a slight thought, and the silver-gray light of the laws of spacetime began to flow around him, and an invisible spatial fluctuation enveloped himself, Luna, and Huilie at the same time.

Luna and Huilie immediately withdrew all their outward divine power and law fluctuations to minimize Lin Yi's burden.

"Walk."

Lin Yi murmured something and raised his hand to make a gesture forward.

The space around the three of them rippled violently like water, their figures instantly became blurred, and then, as if wiped away by an invisible hand, they completely disappeared from the spot.
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On the other side, in a desolate starfield filled with shattered stardust and icy radiation, two figures exuding a chilling, corrosive aura clung to a figure ahead, like a leech, tightly gripping a figure shimmering with emerald green life force.

Those two figures were the two Devourer Gods who were chasing Servila.

One of them, resembling a giant shadow bat and shrouded in surging darkness, was the Devourer God who specialized in the Law of Darkness.

The other one resembled a ferocious beetle covered in pale bone armor, its compound eyes flashing with a ghastly green light, and its body exuding an unsettling aura of death. It was a Eclipse Clan deity who specialized in the laws of death.

Working in perfect harmony, the Dark Corruptor used the laws of darkness to create a vast area of ​​shadow, interfering with vision, slowing down perception, and constantly eroding Servila's defenses.

The Bone-Eroding God lurks in the shadows, constantly releasing silent death rays or conjuring death spears to launch deadly sneak attacks.

Serena, who was fleeing ahead, was still agile, but the emerald green light around her was much dimmer than before, and her breathing was somewhat disordered, indicating that she had consumed a lot of divine power.

"Her speed has slowed down! Her life force is continuously weakening!" The Dark Eclipse God said through the unique soul transmission of the Eclipse Clan, his voice filled with cruel excitement. "Her divine power should be less than half! Continue to apply pressure and pursue her for a while longer. When her divine power drops below 30%, that will be her death!"

"Hmm." The Bone-Eroding God's response was simple and cold. "Beware of her counterattack. These Spirit Race members who play with the laws of life, their life force bursting forth before death can be a bit troublesome. However, she can't escape."

However, just as they launched another combined attack, the Shadow Touch and the Spear of Death clashed and struck Servila, forcing her to unleash the Light of Life once more to defend herself. For a fleeting moment, her movements faltered—

A sudden change has occurred!

Tens of thousands of kilometers in front of Serena, the void began to ripple violently without warning, spatial ripples spread wildly, and a powerful and profound spatial law fluctuation suddenly descended.

Dark Erosion and Bone Erosion were startled and abruptly stopped their pursuit.

At the same time, three figures stepped out from the center of that rippling space.

"Reinforcements? How unlucky! There's a Pan-Spirit Alliance squad nearby!" The Dark Erosion God's soul transmission was filled with shock.

"There are four Pan-Spirit Alliance deities in total, run!" the Bone Erosion Deity immediately said. "Among them is a spatial law deity; splitting up to escape will only lead to faster deaths! Now we can only run in the direction the captain is chasing!"

The Dark Erosion God instantly understood his companion's intention, a fierce glint flashing in his compound eyes: "That's right! After the captain deals with that human, he'll follow the divine power mark we left behind to rendezvous with us. The captain is a peak high-level god; only by rendezvous with him, three against four, can we escape unscathed!"

They weren't really panicked.

Once they reach the level of high-level gods, they are generally not to be trifled with, and they have a lot of treasures, defenses, and other equipment.

Even if they were outnumbered two to one, they wouldn't die so easily; otherwise, they wouldn't have chased the Spirit Race deity Servila for so long without ending the battle.

Usually, at the level of high-level gods, the only way to determine the winner is to slowly exhaust their divine power. Therefore, they felt that they still had some hope of being able to survive until they could reunite with their captain.

Therefore, the moment they saw Lin Yi and the other two and realized that the other party had a spatial law god, Dark Erosion and Bone Erosion tacitly abandoned all attack postures. They frantically surged their divine power, and shadows and death energy intertwined to form two thick defensive halos that enveloped their entire bodies. At the same time, they activated the acceleration-type treasure effects to the maximum.

"go!"

Without any unnecessary movements, the two Eclipse Gods turned around decisively, transforming into two streaks of light, one dark and one gray, and fled desperately in the direction their captain was chasing!

Lin Yi and his two companions, who had just completed the teleportation, naturally witnessed this scene.

The fact that the other party so decisively abandoned the pursuit and turned to flee did not surprise them.

Lin Yi's gaze swept over the two rapidly departing streaks of light, finally landing on the Spirit Race deity Servila, who had just escaped pursuit and was flying towards them.

"Servera, recover first. We're going after them!" Before he finished speaking, a flash of silver-gray light appeared in Lin Yi's eyes. Then, he slightly spread his five fingers on his right hand and gently clenched them in the void in the direction the two Eclipse Gods had fled.

A barely perceptible ripple suddenly appeared in the space surrounding the two Devourer Gods.

Using the technique of Void Annihilation Condensation, Lin Yi forcibly condensed several "prototypes of spatial void annihilation points" around it, which almost instantly disintegrated and disappeared.

These rudimentary forms existed for a negligible period of time, but their birth and demise were like small pebbles being continuously thrown into a calm body of water, causing continuous, brief interruptions to the flow of the underlying space in that area.

This is precisely the brilliance of the "Illusory Annihilation Record" as a supreme-level secret manual.

It does not directly confront the enemy's laws, but rather achieves the purpose of interference, restriction, or even attack by influencing the properties of the space in which the enemy resides.

Unstable space structure naturally obstructs flight paths and causes undue delays in energy circulation.

Dark Erosion and Bone Erosion felt as if the surrounding void had suddenly become viscous and stagnant. It was not that they were directly bound by powerful energy or laws, but rather as if the space itself had become disobedient, causing their acceleration and divine power circulation to experience an extremely uncomfortable sense of stagnation, and their speed to drop sharply.

"Spatial laws! This kind of interference!" The Dark Erosion God was horrified. It had never encountered such a strange spatial interference before. It didn't seem like a power suppression, but rather a pollution of space itself.

"Don't stop! Charge through!" Bone Erosion roared, frantically burning his divine power, trying to break through this stagnant space with brute force.

Just as their speed was slowed by this unique spatial interference method originating from the Void Annihilation Catalogue, Luna and Huilie also moved at the same time.

Hui Lie unfurled his wings of light, and holy radiance flowed around him, forming a stable and solid "field" of light laws. This field of light made slight contact with the edge of the stagnant space area created by Lin Yi, producing a wonderful resonance effect. It was as if a layer of light film was coated on that already stagnant space, making its interference effect more lasting and more difficult to break through by brute force.

Luna flicked her finger, and several tiny, exquisitely green particles of life light silently flew out.

These light particles are not physical entities, but highly condensed seeds of the laws of life, which fall precisely into the stagnant space created by Lin Yi.

The next moment, countless fine, light green veins, as thin as hair, suddenly grew out of the originally formless and intangible stagnant area.

These veins, formed by the pure laws of life combined with the disturbed spatial structure, instantly enveloped the two Eclipse Gods.

These spatial veins themselves do not have much physical binding force, but they greatly enhance the viscosity of the laws in that area, making the Devouring Gods within them feel that their divine power and law usage are trapped in an endless quagmire of life, becoming extremely heavy.

Lin Yi's figure became blurred the instant he completed the spatial interference.

Void Annihilation Step!
The next instant, his figure reappeared behind and to the side of the Dark Erosion God.

Lin Yi didn't even glance at the violently fluctuating shadow shield.

With a slight thought, the Sky Shuttle instantly coalesced, transforming into a long, sharp silver battle spear.

Holding the Sky-Piercing Shuttle Spear, Lin Yi poured all his exquisite control over the laws of space from the Void Annihilation Manual into the spear, especially into the extreme sharpness of the spear tip.

Immediately afterwards, he flicked his wrist slightly, and the spear transformed into a silver streak that was difficult to detect with the naked eye, piercing out silently.

The Dark Erosion God was filled with rage, and it used all its mind and divine power to reinforce its shield. The shadows rolled, trying to devour and delay the attack.

However, at the point where the shadow shield, which seemed capable of swallowing all light, came into contact with the tip of the Sky Shuttle Spear loaded with spatial annihilation points, the spatial structure underwent a bizarre collapse.

The shield was "annihilated" by that extremely condensed annihilation point, leaving a tiny hole!

The spear tip plunged straight into the hole. Although it was immediately blocked and consumed by the subsequent surge of shadow energy, the breakthrough at that moment caused the entire shield to vibrate violently and the divine power transmission node to become disordered.

The Dark Erosion God felt an indescribable tremor from the shield. The massive amount of divine power it had poured into the shield was instantly cut off as if by an invisible gate, and was being consumed frantically!
"Pfft!" The Dark Erosion God's body trembled violently, and the shadow on its body surged violently. Its compound eyes were filled with unbelievable horror.

"How is this possible!" it cried out in shock, its voice booming within the Bone-Eroding God's consciousness. "My Shadow Devouring Shield! Divine power depleted! Just now, my divine power dropped by nearly 1%!"

Upon hearing this, the Bone-Eroding God looked at Lin Yi in horror.

Nearly 1% of divine power consumed?
Just one strike?!

You should know that they are all high-ranking deities with immense divine power.

Even though the divine power was consumed faster than usual for defense and acceleration, a single attack could directly deplete nearly 1% of the divine power. This means that the power of the opponent's attack has reached an extremely terrifying level, which is definitely not an attack power that a high-level god can possess!

"This attack power is already close to the threshold of a high-level god!" The voice of the Bone Erosion God was tinged with fear.

Their captain was at the peak of a high-level deity, just one step away from becoming a superior deity, but that one step was a huge gap.

The human before me has an attack power that has actually reached that level?

On the other side, Lin Yi, who had landed a successful blow, frowned almost imperceptibly, a hint of dissatisfaction flashing in his eyes.

His attack just now was a long-awaited assault, combining the condensation point of the Void Annihilation Record, the True Meaning of Destruction, and the sharpness of the Sky-Escape Shuttle. He intended to take advantage of the gap in the opponent's mind being slowed down by multiple laws and to try to break through the core defense directly.

Unexpectedly, the only effect achieved was to cause the opponent's defensive treasure to vibrate violently and deplete some of the opponent's divine power, which was far from the desired effect.

"As expected," Lin Yi thought to himself, "the gods of peak races are completely incomparable to the star-sea beasts like the Light-Eating Ray."

The leader of the Light-Eating Rays is, in the end, just a cosmic beast that fights based on instinct and talent.

Lin Yi, using the Void Annihilation Record and the sharpness of the Sky-Piercing Shuttle, could easily find weaknesses and kill his opponent with a single blow.

But these Devourer Gods before us are different.

They have been through countless battles, are well-equipped, and have extremely rich combat experience.

Not only do they possess powerful laws and innate armor for defense, but they also have meticulously crafted or exchanged defensive treasures. They know how to efficiently allocate divine power for defense, movement, and counterattacks, how to cooperate when at a disadvantage, and how to judge the situation and choose the optimal strategy.

Their defense is a three-dimensional, multi-layered system, far superior to that of the Light-Eating Ray.

"Like a seasoned warrior in full armor." A cold glint flashed in Lin Yi's eyes. "Although I have the advantage in strength, if I can't find an opening to deliver a fatal blow, then I can only fight head-on, exhaust his strength, and shatter his armor!"

Since that's the case, let's go for the hard way!

Let's see if your shield is stronger, or my spear is sharper!
Thinking of this, Lin Yi's aura suddenly changed, and the Sky Shuttle Battle Spear in his hand emitted a deep hum.

"Huilie, continue to suppress the interference! Luna, maintain the life force and weaken its divine power activity!"

Lin Yi's voice rang in the minds of the three on his side, "Servera, provide ranged support and disrupt the other one! I'll lead the attack and break through from the front!"

"Understood!" Hui Lie replied immediately.

Luna nodded slightly, maintaining the output of the life law meridian.

Serena, who had just swallowed the recovery item and whose breathing had stabilized slightly, immediately replied, "Okay!"

She waved her hands, sending streaks of emerald light toward the Bone-Eroding God. Though difficult to break through its defenses, the light continuously drained its divine power and interfered with its ability to support its companions.

Lin Yi then took a step forward, activating the Void Annihilation Step once more, and appeared in front of the Dark Erosion God.

He held the gun in both hands, let out a low shout, and the war gun transformed into a silver dragon, piercing the shadow shield of the Dark Corrosion God once again with the most savage posture.

The Dark Erosion God roared, raising its defense to the limit.

boom!
The silvery-gray power of spacetime annihilation clashed violently with the rolling dark shadows, causing space to distort violently and energy to ripple in all directions.

The Dark Erosion God trembled violently, and violent ripples spread across the surface of the Shadow Shield, even revealing several fine black lines resembling spatial rifts.

Its compound eyes were bloodshot, and the divine power within its divine realm poured out like a flood.

"Another 1% of divine power!" the Dark Eclipse God roared immediately. "This isn't a burst attack; he could be this powerful with every strike!"

"This can't go on!" The Bone Erosion God was also anxious. It roared and, ignoring Hui Lie and Serena's interference, poured more divine power into the death armor on its body. At the same time, it swung its death scythe, condensing a huge gray blade of light, and slashed fiercely at Lin Yi, trying to share the pressure with Dark Erosion.

However, Lin Yi didn't even glance at it. The moment the death blade was about to strike him, the space around him rippled slightly, and his figure blurred like a reflection in water. The death blade actually grazed past his afterimage.

His profound understanding of spacetime structure enabled him to predict and dodge attack trajectories to an astonishing degree.

Lin Yi didn't even turn around when Dark Erosion launched a counterattack with the Shadow Spear. He simply raised his left hand and pointed it in the air in that direction.

In an instant, several spatial structural anomalies were created along the trajectory of the Shadow Spear.

These anomalies acted like invisible tripwires, causing the energy flow within the rapidly shooting Shadow Spear to become suddenly disordered, greatly reducing its speed and power, allowing Lin Yi to easily dodge it.

At the same time, Lin Yi's Sky Shuttle Spear in his right hand erupted with an even more dazzling silver light, and he thrust it out fiercely once again!
Despair finally appeared in the eyes of the Dark Erosion God.

After only a short time of fighting, its divine power had already been depleted by nearly 10%. At this rate, even if it used its precious divine power recovery treasures, it wouldn't last more than half a standard day, let alone wait for the captain's rescue.

"Help me! We have to withstand this human attack together! If I'm knocked out of the secret realm, you won't be able to escape either!" it frantically transmitted its voice.

The Bone-Eroding God gritted its teeth and lunged towards Dark Erosion. At the same time, the pale bone armor on its body shone brightly, and most of it separated, transforming into a huge, pale bone shield covered with spikes, which stood in front of Dark Erosion's shadow shield.

It is sacrificing part of its own defense to buy its companions a chance to breathe.

(End of this chapter)