The movement seemed casual, but in truth, he had fully unleashed the strongest technique at his disposal: the killing move from the first stage of the Deity Rank attack secret art, Space-Time Rift.
At Lin Yi's fingertip, a silver-gray fissure as fine as a strand of hair appeared silently, almost impossible to see with the naked eye.
This move was called "Space-Severing Slash."
It compressed and layered the slowing property of the Time Law with the cutting property of the Space Law in an instant, forming a space-time rift with tremendous penetrating power and stealth.
When it first appeared, the rift was only a few inches long. Yet in the very next moment, it cleaved through the space blade before him, then appeared directly in front of the Mother Locust's carapace, which was covered in runes of distorted space.
As a peak Ordinary Deity Rank beast from the Star Sea, the Mother Locust had an almost instinctive sense of danger.
The instant the space-time rift appeared, the light in its silver-vortex compound eyes surged.
Hiss!
A shrill cry, sharp enough to nearly tear the soul apart, burst from its hideous mouthparts.
Almost simultaneously, the Mother Locust whipped its enormous, translucent body to the right. Its six pairs of blade-like forelimbs slashed frantically behind it, trying to disrupt the surrounding space-time with Space Severing and buy itself a chance to dodge.
Its reaction speed had already reached the limit of what an Ordinary Deity could achieve.
Even so, it was half a beat too slow.
A silver-white flash swept past. A smooth, mirror-like cut began at the joint between the second pair of forelimbs on the Mother Locust's left side and its body, then slanted upward, precisely slicing through the base of its first translucent left wing.
Dark-silver blood mixed with