The mass of black smoke, after snatching the souls of all the believers, returned above the idol and formed a large vortex.
Blood beads floated out from the bodies of the dead believers and then flew into the vortex in mid-air.
In less than ten minutes, the corpses on the ground had become mummified.
Meanwhile, a blood ball the size of a human head slowly drifted in mid-air towards the chosen middle-aged man standing nearby.
After the middle-aged man absorbed the blood ball, his face flushed, and a more powerful aura emanated from him.
"It's exactly like the methods of demons in novels," Qin Shilei thought to himself. "It seems I can't let him keep absorbing."
"Move the idol, we're heading to the next gathering place."
Lyle ignored the tens of thousands of mummified corpses in the football field and ordered his subordinates to move the idol to the next location where believers were gathered.
Qin Shilei slowly landed at the rear of the crowd and, with a flash, entered a building nearby.
He summoned the phantom, restored his original appearance, and instantly teleported to Jima's side.
Dharma Manifestation!
One-Punch Man!
Seven Stars Falling Across the Sky!
Qin Shilei and the phantom, flanking Jima, attacked her with swords, each strike faster than the last.
A transparent shield, glowing with golden light, instantly appeared around Jima, protecting her completely.
Jima also knew she was in a life-or-death crisis. She clasped her hands together and anxiously called out to Shiva in a distant dimension in her heart.
"Attack!"
Not far away, Lyle shouted, calling his subordinates to charge at Qin Shilei.
He himself took two steps back, clasped his hands together, and began to murmur.
Catching a glimpse of this out of the corner of his eye, Qin Shilei's heart sank, and he knew it was bad.
With a thought, he summoned the Purple Beetle to cooperate and continue attacking Jima, while he himself turned and charged at Lyle.
Crack!
A sound like shattering glass rang out. Jima's outer shield was cleaved by the phantom's Seven Stars Falling Across the Sky.
Simultaneously, a powerful wave of energy emanated from Jima.
However, this energy solidified the moment it appeared.
Shiva, whose avatar had descended upon Jima, discovered with horror that he could no longer move his entire body.
The divine ability of Paralysis had finally taken effect on him.
Seizing the opportunity, the phantom and the Purple Beetle launched a frenzied assault on this avatar of Shiva.
Sharp sword energy relentlessly eroded the ice shield that constantly regenerated around Jima.
Some of the golden-ranked experts nearby attempted to attack Qin Shilei but were bisected by the rampant sword energy.
Terrified, those individuals turned and fled into the distance.
Lyle, under attack by Qin Shilei, also manifested a golden shield around himself.
By the time Qin Shilei finally shattered that shield, an aura even more powerful than Jima's appeared on Lyle.
"Damn it!"
He hadn't expected Lyle to be a divine child as well, and one with a better physique than Jima, capable of containing Shiva's even greater power.
He had been hiding his strength remarkably well.
An ice shield instantly appeared in front of Lyle, narrowly blocking a sword energy several meters long.
"Ah!"
With a scream, Jima was cut in half at the waist by the phantom.
As the Purple Beetle's sharp forelimbs swept across, Jima was further dismembered into several pieces.
One down!
"You dare!"
Shiva, whose avatar had descended upon Lyle, roared in fury.
Seeing that the avatar had successfully descended, Qin Shilei, with a thought, prepared to recall the Purple Beetle to his pet space.
"Chaos!"
At the same time, two cold words were uttered from Shiva's mouth.
Qin Shilei clearly saw the Purple Beetle pause for a moment, then vanish from his sight, returning to his pet space.
"What's going on?"
Had Shiva's Chaos not succeeded?
Lyle's face also showed a clear expression of confusion.
Could it be that because the Purple Beetle was fixed with absolute loyalty, it was unaffected by Chaos?
"Space Lock!" Lyle uttered four more words.
Qin Shilei's heart tightened. He had no time to ponder the Purple Beetle's issue.
He instantly teleported two hundred meters away.
"Huh!"
Lyle clearly hesitated.
After Qin Shilei teleported away, he had already commanded the phantom through his consciousness to go on a rampage.
The first target was the middle-aged man whose strength had been enhanced by Shiva.
With a single strike, "Mount Hua Splits," the middle-aged man, trembling with fear, gripped his long saber tightly and thrust it upwards to block.
Clang!
The long saber snapped in two.
The sharp sword energy was barely blocked by the naturally formed shield around him.
"Lord City Lord, save me!"
The middle-aged man turned and fled into the distance, shouting loudly.
However, Lyle didn't even glance at him, instead flashing away in pursuit of Qin Shilei.
The chase soon disappeared from everyone's sight.
The surrounding golden-ranked experts saw that Shiva's avatar was chasing Qin An King and had vanished.
Yet, the phantom summoned by Qin An King remained here.
Panic, fear, and helplessness surged into everyone's hearts, and they all turned to flee into the distance.
However, they were no match for the faster phantom.
The middle-aged man was the first to die, followed by one person every two seconds, with continuous casualties.
But after the fifth person died, a figure was rapidly flying towards them.
Another avatar of Shiva.
However, the aura emanating from this one was clearly weaker than that of Jima and Lyle; it was likely an avatar that had descended through the idol.
Just as the phantom was about to pursue another golden-ranked expert, a beam of white light shot towards him.
No matter how he dodged, the white light pursued him relentlessly, eventually hitting him accurately.
The phantom's speed was immediately reduced by more than half.
After using this ultimate sealing technique, the aura of Shiva's avatar weakened considerably.
However, it still easily shattered the phantom into pieces, causing it to disappear into the air.
Meanwhile, on Qin Shilei's side, he had planned to use the Lightning Release to blend into the crowd, then use the Formless Mask to change his appearance and escape.
He hadn't expected the other party's speed to be no slower than his, relentlessly pursuing him from behind.
"You can't escape. Stop and accept your death!" Shiva said fiercely as he chased.
He hated Qin Shilei to the bone.
Not only had he repeatedly annihilated his avatars, but he had also killed the two divine children he had painstakingly found.
Each death of an avatar required Shiva to spend decades or even centuries to recover.
Furthermore, the opponent's strength was increasing too rapidly. If not eliminated now, he would become a major threat in the future.
Teleport!
The moment Qin Shilei materialized from a room in a building, Shiva crashed through the wall and burst in.
"I told you, you can't escape."
Shiva pointed forward, "Seal!"
A white light shot from his hand.
Before Qin Shilei could teleport away again, the white light accurately struck his body.
"Uh!"
Shiva watched in horror as the white light reflected off Qin Shilei's body and shot into his own.
His aura instantly plummeted.
"Hahaha!" Qin Shilei laughed heartily. "You brought this upon yourself."
As he spoke, he darted towards the other party.
"Fire Manifestation!" Shiva struggled, emitting a flame.
However, this flame's power was only at the Silver realm level, completely incapable of harming Qin Shilei in the slightest.
A cold glint flashed, and Shiva's avatar was cleaved into several pieces, then blasted into charcoal by lightning.