"The situation really is looking grim..."
Lu Li and Black Star thought the same thing, each making their move to speed up the battle.
Though the two were perfectly in sync without needing to discuss it, the gap in their strength was simply too small.
Before Lu Li used the [Rule Changer] title, he could not catch the slippery Black Star at all;
Black Star, meanwhile, desperately tried to wear down Lu Li's stamina, only to find that goal impossibly far away.
The battle naturally fell into a stalemate.
Just as both sides were at a loss, Black Star's soul body suddenly trembled without warning.
It was a distant signal, an alarm he had secretly planted within Ilya!
"Is Ilya in danger?"
Black Star immediately halted his attack and focused his senses.
Once he confirmed that something had indeed happened on Overlord Star, he promptly decided to disengage.
Without giving Lu Li any warning, he activated a Talent Ability!
[Void Wanderer]!
Back then, Black Star had relied on this Talent Ability to fight all the powerful beings across the entire Extreme Domain alone!
During his earlier battle with Lu Li, he had also repeatedly activated [Void Wanderer], manipulating the surrounding space to temporarily separate deadly attacks or make himself vanish into hiding.
Short-range blinking did not place much demand on stamina.
But returning directly from an unexplored region to Overlord Star within the Extreme Domain, as he had done earlier, came with a certain cost.
Logically speaking, Black Star had just drunk a Greater Stamina Potion and then remained locked in combat with Lu Li for some time. He should not have immediately used long-distance teleportation.
But Ilya's safety did not allow him even half a second more to think!
"Where did he go?"
Lu Li, who had remained on