You guys go quickly, I'll cover your retreat!

This action, while appearing understated, actually fully unleashed the strongest technique he could currently muster: the killing blow from the first stage of the Deity Rank offensive secret art, Space-Time Rift.

At Lin Yi's fingertip, a silver-gray fissure, as thin as a hair and nearly impossible to perceive with the naked eye, quietly emerged.

This move was named "Space-Severing Slash."

It compressed and superimposed the slowing properties of the Time Law with the cutting properties of the Space Law in an instant, forming a space-time rift with immense penetrating power and stealth.

The rift was only an inch long when it first appeared, but it instantly severed the space blade before it and materialized directly in front of the Locust Queen's carapace, which was covered in distorted spatial runes.

As a peak Ordinary Deity-level Star Sea beast, the Locust Queen possessed an almost instinctual intuition for danger.

The moment the space-time rift appeared, the light within its compound eyes, which resembled silver vortices, flared violently.

Hiss!

A shriek, sharp enough to nearly tear the soul apart, erupted from its hideous mouthparts.

Almost simultaneously, the Locust Queen's massive, translucent body whipped to the right, its six blade-like forelimbs slashing backward frantically in an attempt to disrupt the surrounding space-time through Space Severing and buy itself a chance to dodge.

Its reaction speed had reached the absolute limit of what an Ordinary Deity could achieve.

However, it was still half a beat too slow.

As a silver-white glimmer flashed by, a smooth, mirror-like cut extended diagonally upward from the junction where the Locust Queen's second left forelimb met its body, precisely slicing through the base of its first left translucent wing.

Dark silver blood, mixed with spatial energy, gushed from the wound like a fountain.

The Locust Queen's second and third left