Facing Lin Qi's question, Lan Ling and Lan Mei merely remained silent. Lan Ling muttered an incantation under her breath, strange ripples of energy continuously surging through the surroundings; meanwhile, Lan Mei slowly drew a strangely shaped blue crystal sword filled with an evil, uncanny beauty, wearing the sort of arrogant smile that made people itch to give him a vicious beating.
Its blade was thin, its body no wider than a finger and covered in strange, uneven patterns like dragon scales. At five feet long, the transparent blue sword looked like a long, slender needle. Anyone who saw this peculiar weapon would have no doubt that it possessed terrifying piercing power and lethality.
Lin Qi said nothing. He merely lightly pointed at Lan Mei. Bilibili was the first to charge toward him. With a slight flap of the huge fleshy wings behind him, thousands of afterimages abruptly rippled through the seawater around his body. The overwhelming swarm of afterimages brought a muffled roar, like countless abyssal volcanoes erupting at once, black-red magma flying across the sky as faint streaks of cold light flickered rapidly amidst the flames.
Lan Ling raised her hands and lightly tapped with a finger. Just as Bilibili had rushed behind Lan Mei and was about to drive a dagger into the muscles of his backside, a palm-sized, thin crystal shield suddenly appeared before him. The blue crystal shield, seemingly as thin as a cicada's wing, took Bilibili's strike head-on. With a crisp ring, Bilibili was jolted several steps back. Not a single scratch appeared on the shield, while the tip of Bilibili's dagger had instead been shaken into a tiny sesame-seed-sized chip.
"My dagger!" Bilibili's eyes widened as he stared blankly at the damaged dagger in his hand. This was a pair of High-God artifact-grade