Ryuseki and Ryuu Mufei vs. Lin Yingbin 4

The ground began to crack, the range of the fissures growing steadily wider and larger.

"Hah~"

Lin Yingbin flushed red and mustered all his strength, actually managing to lift the ground up.

"What monstrous arm strength, he just used brute force to... flip the ground up!" Ryuu Mufei drew a sharp breath at the sight.

Rubbing his abdomen and enduring the pain, Ryuseki lost his balance and nearly fell over as the ground beneath his feet was hoisted up.

Next, the ground yanked up by brute force arched high, looking like a cobra straightening its body upon discovering prey. Ryuseki lost his footing on the cobra-like ground and tumbled down, while Lin Yingbin tugged at the earth, casually manipulating the dragged-up terrain as if tidying a bedsheet. Watching the ground come crashing toward him, Ryuseki gathered strength in both hands, grabbed the empty air, and yanked hard, drastically shifting the wind direction.

"Great Tornado!!!"

A pillar of air rose like a cannon shell, piercing the ground, and the wind gathered strength, beginning to tear apart the earth-formed cobra.

Then, an indigo translucent sphere formed around Ryuseki. He only saw Ryuu Mufei rapidly press his palms together and then spread his arms wide.

"Absolute Domain!"

Instantly, the indigo translucent sphere expanded, forming a light-blue visible spherical space that engulfed the arena in a flash. The tornado generated by Ryuseki continued to wantonly devastate the huge cobra, sending debris flying everywhere, only for it to bounce back upon hitting the membrane of the spherical space.

Caught in the center of the tornado's wind pillar, Ryuseki looked up and actually spotted hard concrete blocks breaking through the tornado's barrier and plunging right into the eye of the storm.

It was Lin Yingbin. Lin Yingbin was actually hoisting a massive boulder and hurling it toward Ryuseki.

"You brat are something else!" The smile Lin Yingbin wore with his mouth bared looked somewhat deranged. He threw the gigantic concrete block at Ryuseki, and Ryuseki met it with all his might. Refusing to let up, Lin Yingbin slammed his legs like rockets fiercely against the concrete block. For a moment, bearing excessive pressure, Ryuseki dropped to his knees. His hands supported the massive concrete block above his head, and his knees struck the ground, drawing blood. The airflow protecting his hands began to grow thin, and Lin Yingbin's smile grew increasingly crazed, as though his psyche had reached the absolute edge of its limit.

The destruction of the tornado did not cease on account of this, and the sound of widespread devastation filled their eardrums. Confined by the spherical space, the churned-up soil turned to dust, wantonly invading the entire spherical space. Viewed from the outside, it looked just like a black spherical dome covering the area. It was impossible to tell how much time had passed before the tornado finally stopped. Slowly calming down, all three collapsed onto the ground, utterly exhausted. Ryuseki and Ryuu Mufei had spent their all and now lacked the strength to deal with the berserk Lin Yingbin, who likewise lay slumped aside, his life or death uncertain.

Right at that moment, Meisha appeared.

"Ryuseki... Ryuu Mufei... Lin Yingbin, what are you three doing?" As she spoke, Meisha looked around in considerable astonishment. The entire street looked as though it had been battered by a hurricane, resembling the set of a disaster film.

Meisha's abrupt question immediately threw Ryuseki and Ryuu Mufei into a panic. Looking over at Lin Yingbin, who had originally been slumped on the ground with his life status unknown, his eyes suddenly snapped wide open at the sound of Meisha's shout, emitting an eerie green glow. Like an activated robot, Lin Yingbin sat up, tilting his head toward Meisha.

Meisha felt puzzled yet failed to sense the danger hurtling toward her. In the next second, Ryuseki, Ryuu Mufei, and Lin Yingbin all charged at her simultaneously.

"Eh?"

Meisha didn't understand why the three of them were charging at her all at once, nor did she know which of them harbored malice in this chaos.

"Get away, run!" Ryuseki shouted desperately.

Meisha didn't know why Ryuseki shouted like that, nor did she know what on earth was happening, but she chose to trust him. She spun around like lightning, preparing to flee; she knew that for this place to turn into such a ghost town, something dangerous must have happened.

"Got it!" She whirled around and ran, but she hadn't even gone two steps when an unsettling sound echoed from behind.

In a flash, that figure reached Meisha's back first. Then, swirling with airflow like a steel blade, a high-raised hand swung down toward Meisha—yet that figure blocked it.

Lin Yingbin's hand thrust forward like a steel blade. Meisha turned around in a hurry to look, then let out a terrified scream, staring blankly at the scene unfolding before her.

Blood suddenly spurted like a fountain. Terrified by the sight, Meisha covered her mouth with both hands and watched him fall—the person who had taken the blow meant for her went down.

"Ryuu Mufei!" Ryuseki stared in disbelief at Ryuu Mufei lunging behind him.

Lin Yingbin's hand pierced through Ryuu Mufei's waist like a steel blade. Ryuu Mufei curved the corners of his mouth and smiled.

Yet at that exact moment, the green light in Lin Yingbin's eyes suddenly vanished, and he collapsed to the ground.

At that moment, Ryuseki had originally intended to rush to the front and use his body to block the attack, but he never expected Ryuu Mufei to shield his back, getting struck by Lin Yingbin before he could even use his psychokinesis.

Only then did Meisha snap out of her daze and hurriedly ask, "What on earth is going on here?"

"I don't know, but we have to save them right now!"