The Goddess murmured an incantation, and a whirlwind instantly swept out from behind her toward Zhong Baiye and the others.
The whirlwind did not look particularly powerful. It could not even kill a crow: one was accidentally swept into it but managed to escape without so much as a scratch.
Yet the sight of that whirlwind made goosebumps rise all over Lei Zhen. Even she had little confidence in facing it.
As for Zhong Baiye, his strength had not fully recovered, but he knew this Goddess was far from ordinary. He was better off avoiding that whirlwind if he could.
To avoid burdening Lei Zhen, he took Lei Ying and moved away from the battlefield.
But the whirlwind seemed to have eyes. While Zhong Baiye and the others remained still, it moved at little more than a walking pace.
The moment they moved, however, its speed increased countless times over, and it swept toward Zhong Baiye with overwhelming force.
Seeing this, Lei Zhen could no longer afford to hesitate. She hurriedly stepped in front of Lei Ying and slashed at the whirlwind with Dream One-Slash.
Lei Zhen's slash successfully cut the whirlwind in two.
But rather than stopping, the two halves grew even fiercer, attacking Zhong Baiye and Lei Zhen at greater speed.
At the last moment, Zhong Baiye only had time to pull Lei Ying into his arms. Lei Zhen was too far away; it was already too late to reach her.
The whirlwind did not appear very powerful, but who could have imagined that its attack targeted the soul itself?
The crow from earlier had looked perfectly fine, but its soul had actually suffered irreparable damage. In plain terms, the crow had been reduced to an idiot.
Protected by her fully formed Electro puppet, Lei Zhen had some