"What? Scared?"
"Fellow Daoist, I really don't know what you were thinking, following these two good-for-nothings. Don't you know these two are the publicly acknowledged useless duo of the Three Cities Alliance?"
Seeing Eastern Deity fall silent, Sword Maniac shifted his gaze to Ye Lin.
Ye Lin merely smiled without saying a word.
"It seems you're in trouble."
Ye Lin said softly, then looked at Dark Night, who was being suppressed by Sword Maniac.
"What?"
Before Sword Maniac understood what Ye Lin meant, he felt the ground beneath his feet tremble. Looking down, he saw Dark Night, whom he had just suppressed, tear apart the Long Sword he had condensed with both hands.
Dark Night slowly rose to his feet, his eyes shrouded in crimson light as an unprecedentedly violent aura erupted from his body.
The blood-red patterns on his body gradually turned blackish-purple.
"The Dark Night Dragon Clan's innate divine ability, Void Deification?"
Watching Dark Night's transformation, Sword Maniac rapidly retreated, then stared at him with a solemn expression.
Void Deification was an innate divine ability of the Dark Night Dragon Clan. Once activated, their bloodline would swiftly revert to its ancestral state, and their strength would grow without limit. The longer it lasted, the greater the increase in combat power.
Until they were utterly exhausted.
"Die!"
Dark Night let out a low roar. Like a humanoid tyrannosaur, he charged at Sword Maniac at blistering speed—several times faster than before.
This made Sword Maniac completely cast aside the contempt in his heart.
"Now this is a worthy opponent. Sword, come!"
Sword Maniac laughed heartily and raised a hand. In an instant, sword cries rang through heaven and earth as countless streams of Sword Qi gathered at his fingertips.
"Go."
Sword Maniac pointed forward, and ripples spread across the space