Qin Chuan's voice sounded in the six of them's minds, calm and steady. Like an anchor, it instantly steadied their nearly shattered nerves.
The six instinctively stepped back, clearing the battlefield for the one who was about to arrive.
The indescribable mass of chaotic flesh seemed to sense a threat as well.
Its enormous single eye stopped tracking the Water God and the others. It turned toward the void behind them, its murky eyeball rolling violently as purple veins spread across it.
"New... food..."
"A stronger... soul..."
Countless mad whispers overlapped in the void, thick with sickening hunger.
Then it happened.
Riiip!
An ear-piercing tearing sound rang out without warning.
The space before them was not sliced open. A force of overwhelming brutality tore it apart.
An irregular black opening appeared out of nowhere, Spacetime Turbulence flickering along its edges.
A figure walked slowly out.
A black coat. Two daggers of strikingly different designs. It was Qin Chuan.
He gave off no astonishing aura when he appeared, yet the mass of chaotic flesh stopped writhing for an instant.
"President!" the Water God blurted.
"Hee-hee... hee-hee-hee-hee!"
The mass of chaotic flesh reacted even faster than the Water God.
It seemed to regard Qin Chuan as a delicacy unlike any other. Its central eye contracted sharply, and six eerie dark-purple runes shot out, aimed straight at Qin Chuan as he stepped from the Space Rift.
"President, watch out! That thing can corrupt Divinity!" Season Star shouted.
Before she finished speaking, the six runes had crossed the distance and were closing on Qin Chuan's body.
Qin Chuan neither dodged nor blocked.
He merely raised his eyes and glanced at the six purple runes hurtling toward him.
Then nothing happened.
The six runes, each carrying terrifying corruptive power, abruptly stopped less than half a