Starting as a prodigy wanting milk? A world-destroying deception in the opposite direction.

That afterimage wasn't fake!

The mental energy gathered in his palm wasn't particularly vast, but it was refined to the extreme, carrying a strange penetrating power.

"Snap!"

The protective psychic power that the second-tier leader had hastily gathered on the back of his neck was instantly pierced.

The palm struck him squarely on the back of the neck.

"Ugh!"

The second-tier leader cried out in pain, staggered forward, and felt a burning pain in the back of his neck.

Furthermore, a chilling, despairing mental force seeped into his body through the wound, frantically eroding his meridians and will!

"Damn it... what kind of telekinesis is this?!" he thought in horror.

"They really succeeded?!" Li Qingyan forced back a heretic and caught a glimpse of this scene. He was both surprised and delighted. He hadn't expected that Shen Zhen could actually break through a second-tier defense!

Shen Zhen landed a successful blow but did not pause at all.

The four figures reunited and appeared ten meters in front of the second-tier leader, their faces slightly pale.

Maintaining four almost indistinguishable shadow clones simultaneously consumed a great deal of his mental and spiritual energy.

But his eyes remained sharp as knives.

"Shadow Strike isn't just about speed." Shen Zhen took a breath, his voice clearly reaching the other's ears.

"This is a new killing move that combines my own insights with improvements to the Shadow Split technique, incorporating psychic penetration!"

He slowly raised the ruler:

"You rely too much on the speed and power that your realm brings."

Unfortunately, battles are never just about these things!

"An improved Shadow Strike?" Zhao Huaijin, who was locked in combat with his opponent, was shocked.

"He's really gone this far?!"

He considered himself a chosen one and had been secretly chasing after Shen Zhen. But now, he realized that there was still an insurmountable gap between him and Shen Zhen.

The second-tier leader's face was ashen. As a second-tier powerhouse, when had he ever suffered such humiliation? To be injured by someone whose cultivation level seemed lower than his own, and then forced to listen to that person...

"Arrogance!" The second-tier leader roared in fury. The sharp pain in the back of his neck and the corrosive effect of that cold, sinister mental power filled him with both shock and rage.

"I want you dead!"

He held back, forming hand seals, his mental energy surging wildly, eventually condensing into a huge, pitch-black ghost claw above his head.

The ghostly claws spread out, covering an area of ​​three zhang in radius, and with terrifying suction and corrosive power, they slashed down towards Shen Zhen's head!

"Ghost Claw! He actually mastered this move!" Qiu Zhengnan, caught a glimpse of it during the fierce battle, and his expression suddenly changed.

This is a sinister spell recorded in the scriptures of the Temple of Remembrance. It targets the sea of ​​consciousness, is extremely difficult to deal with, and is listed as a forbidden technique.

Before the ghostly claws even arrived, Shen Zhen felt a chill envelop his entire body, and it was as if countless vengeful spirits were howling in his ears, disturbing his mind.

At the same time, a powerful suction force came from above, trying to drag him into the claws.

"Shen Zhen, retreat!" Ye Zhi Qiu shouted, and a gentle breeze of mental energy swept over him, trying to stabilize his mind and counteract some of the mental erosion.

But Shen Zhen shook her head.

Instead of retreating, he took a step forward, and the white light of the ruler in his hand blazed brightly.

"Buzz—!"

The intense white light radiated outwards from the Nianjie ruler, spreading like ripples and instantly forming a protective light shield.

Shen Zhen activated the mental energy that Wang Juan had previously injected into the ruler.

After the battles at Xiaojia Village and Zhangjiawan, when most of his mental energy within his foot was depleted, he pondered the battle deeply and resolved not to rely on external forces so easily again.

Over-reliance on external forces will only hinder one's own growth. Only by becoming strong oneself can one follow the right path. I believe Lord Wang Juan also holds this view.

At this moment, he must conserve the remaining mental energy within his body and wait for the opportunity to strike decisively.

The ghostly claws slammed into the light shield, instantly producing a piercing "sizzling" sound. The black energy and white light frantically eroded and dissolved each other!

"You think this tortoise shell can protect you?!"

The second-tier leader grinned maliciously, pressing down with both hands. The black energy from the ghost claws surged, causing the light shield to tremble violently and cracks to appear on its surface.

Shen Zhen stood in the center of the light barrier, his expression calm.

This is the moment he's been waiting for.

When the opponent concentrates all their strength on attack.

"crack!"

Shen Zhen uttered a single word, and the Mind Ruler in his hand suddenly burst forth with an even more dazzling white light.

In that instant, he felt an almost tearing, throbbing pain in his meridians.

Maintaining four rifts was already his normal limit. To surpass that limit and split the rifts into seven was not only a massive extraction of mental energy, but also a terrifying exploitation of his mental will.

"film!"

As soon as the words were spoken, Shen Zhen's figure split apart once again!

But this time, it wasn't four paths.

There are seven!

"hit!"

Seven figures, like seven white lightning bolts, each carrying a blazing white light, shot out from seven different directions.

Each figure held a phantom of the Mind Ruler!

The aura of each figure was exactly the same!

Each figure's attack trajectory was completely different!

Each figure contained the power of Shen Zhen's full-force attack!

"Seven paths?!?" This time, even the usually aloof Qiu Zhengnan couldn't help but exclaim in surprise:

"This...how is this possible?!"

Gu Chengye, who was beside her, murmured:

"How...how could he split into seven paths? And the aura of each one is...almost real?!"

They were already greatly shocked when Shen Zhen unleashed four figures.

Now that these seven figures have appeared together, their understanding of this basic divine healing spell has been completely overturned.

Feng Yu's pupils shrank suddenly in the distance. He considered himself quite skilled in speed and explosiveness, but seeing these seven solid and lifelike figures, he felt a chill.

"impossible!"

The second-tier leader stared wide-eyed, completely captivated by this extraordinary scene.

In the very moment his mind went blank—

The attack of the seven figures arrived.

The first figure attacked his left shoulder, and he barely managed to dodge by turning to the side.

The second figure attacked his right rib, but he swung his palm to disperse it; it was just an illusion!

A third figure attacked his lower body, and he raised his leg to block.

A fourth figure appeared behind him, attacking his back. He countered with a palm strike, but it was just another illusion!

The fifth and sixth waves attacked from both sides...

A mixture of truth and falsehood, reality and illusion.

The second-tier leader was struggling to cope, his protective aura was being repeatedly attacked, and his mental energy was being consumed rapidly.

The most fatal flaw is that he simply cannot distinguish which strike is real and which is a feint.

When the seventh figure appeared above his head, and the phantom of the Mind Ruler, carrying a dazzling white light, struck down like divine punishment, the second-tier leader gritted his teeth and chose to withstand it head-on.

He bet that this attack was also a feint.

however--

"Sizzle!"

The illusory image of the Nianjie ruler solidified the moment it came into contact with his protective aura.

White light surged!

"It's real!" Alarm bells rang in the mind of the second-tier leader, who frantically activated his psychic power to strengthen his defenses.

But it was too late.

This attack concentrated most of Shen Zhen's remaining mental power, and brought out the "penetrating" and "eroding" characteristics that he had comprehended from the mental power of despair to the extreme!

Like a red-hot needle piercing through the surface, the tip of the ruler pierced the protective qi, tearing it apart and penetrating deep inside.

"puff!"

Blood splattered.

The second-tier leader had a bloody hole pierced through his left shoulder!

He screamed and retreated violently, his eyes finally showing fear.

This late-stage Tier 1 kid... is too weird!