Qin Shi Lei carefully observed his surroundings in the room, finding no one monitoring him.
He immediately changed his appearance and headed for the city gate.
Upon exiting the city, he found a dense forest and summoned his Illusion. After waiting for over ten minutes, the Illusion's cooldown was almost complete.
Qin Shi Lei resumed his original appearance, drew his Serpent-Piercing Bow, and along with his Illusion, charged towards the city gate.
Boom boom boom!
Three consecutive arrows directly shattered the east city gate.
Then, he flew into the air and, together with his Illusion, indiscriminately destroyed the surrounding buildings.
A minute later, Qin Shi Lei used his lightning escape to arrive near the temple and, changing into the appearance of an ordinary Indian, closely watched the temple's movements.
Indeed, in less than three minutes, Tyler, Payne, and Shiva's phantom rapidly flew towards the east city gate.
Waiting patiently for two minutes, Qin Shi Lei teleported directly inside the temple, summoned the Vajra, and ordered, "Demolish this place for me!"
He himself activated his Dharma Body state, transforming into a small giant, and swung his sword towards the tall, gilded statue in the main hall.
With a swing of his sword, the statue emitted a golden light, stubbornly blocking the sharp sword energy.
"How dare you blaspheme Lord Shiva, kill them!"
Some of the believers in the main hall drew their weapons and attacked Qin Shi Lei, while others clasped their hands together and chanted scriptures.
"Let's see how many of my swords you can withstand."
Qin Shi Lei's Juque Sword transformed into a series of afterimages, relentlessly striking the statue before him.
The Vajra, wielding its vajra staff, smashed and pulverized the surrounding divine officials into minced meat, and shattered the smaller statues nearby.
Boom boom boom!
Under Qin Shi Lei's powerful assault, the golden light outside the statue melted at a visible rate.
Bang!
The statue was finally split in half.
At this moment, a black mist suddenly emerged from the center of the cracked statue.
Annihilation Thunder!
Qin Shi Lei was startled and immediately began forming hand seals.
Furious heavenly thunder poured down like a waterfall towards the black mist and the broken statue.
Under the bombardment of heavenly thunder, the statue instantly turned into countless fragments.
The black mist also began to dissipate rapidly.
However, it quickly condensed together, revealing Shiva's phantom with six arms.
"Chaos!" Shiva uttered two words as soon as he appeared.
The moment he spoke, the Vajra, who was smashing and demolishing nearby, instantly had its eyes turn bloodshot. With a roar, it turned and lunged at Qin Shi Lei.
Qin Shi Lei's mind raced as he prepared to recall the Vajra to his pet space.
Unexpectedly, he received a system notification that greatly surprised him: "Pet Vajra is currently in a state of chaos and cannot be temporarily recalled to the pet space."
Damn it, he had always been wary of pets rebelling, as Tyler had warned, but he had still fallen for it, and furthermore, he couldn't even resolve it by recalling his pet.
"Fire Manifests!" Shiva softly uttered two more words.
Instantly, a ball of flames enveloped Qin Shi Lei.
At the same time, the Vajra's fierce strike came down heavily.
Teleport!
The spell had been cast, but Qin Shi Lei's figure remained in place.
At this moment, the vajra staff was less than ten centimeters from his head.
Qin Shi Lei rolled on the ground, narrowly dodging the Vajra's powerful blow.
"Haha, this space has been sealed by me, so don't even think about escaping." Shiva laughed.
The Vajra's attacks were not a significant threat to Qin Shi Lei, but the flames around his body were a major problem.
Qin Shi Lei could only form an energy shield around his body with his Yuan Qi, but his Yuan Qi was being consumed at an extremely fast rate.
If he didn't extinguish the flames soon, his Yuan Qi would be depleted in less than ten minutes, and he would be burned to ashes.
"Did Tyler and the others lie to me? Why were the statues destroyed, many believers in the temple killed, and Shiva himself lured away? Why can he reappear here?"
While dodging the Vajra's attacks, Qin Shi Lei glanced at the shattered statues and then carefully observed Shiva.
Something was wrong. This Shiva was indeed affected.
At least his body was not as solid as when he first appeared.
Furthermore, it seemed as if his aura was weakening with the passage of time.
No wonder, after casting two skills, he had been watching the Vajra attack without making another move himself.
His power was probably being continuously consumed without the statue.
Then it was a matter of who could outlast whom.
Qin Shi Lei took out a scroll, unrolled it, and activated it on himself.
Instantly, a large mass of ice appeared outside his body, which was then quickly melted into steam by the flames.
The flames were not extinguished, but they were significantly weakened.
As long as it was effective, that was enough.
Qin Shi Lei continuously took out scrolls, activated them, and threw them onto himself, while leading the Vajra around the entire temple.
The confused Vajra roared and smashed everything indiscriminately.
Qin Shi Lei remained unharmed, but the entire temple was reduced to ruins, and the believers within met their demise.
Seeing that the flames could not kill Qin Shi Lei in a short period, and the Vajra could not harm him, Shiva's heart hardened, and he quickly formed a hand seal.
Seal!
Qin Shi Lei, who was running quickly, suddenly felt a wave of weakness wash over him, causing him to stumble and almost fall.
At the same time, a rapid whistling sound came from behind him.
Boom!
Qin Shi Lei was sent flying dozens of meters like a cannonball by a strike from the Vajra, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Before he could recover, a massive shadow instantly blocked the sunlight above him.
A golden staff once again descended heavily towards his head.
Damn it, you wretched Vajra, are you trying to betray your master? I will beat you soundly later.
With his strength now less than a tenth of what it was, if Qin Shi Lei were to be hit by this strike again, he would likely be half-dead at best.
Suddenly, a phantom appeared in front of Qin Shi Lei and blocked the Vajra's strike with its sword.
The Illusion immediately activated its Dharma Body attribute and then, with several sword strikes, defeated the Vajra.
While Qin Shi Lei continued to use scrolls of water and ice attributes to try and extinguish the flames on his body, he took the opportunity to glance at Shiva.
At this moment, Shiva had become even more transparent than the Illusion, seeming as though he could be scattered by the wind at any moment.
Qin Shi Lei controlled his Illusion to furiously beat the Vajra while advancing towards Shiva.
"Earth Spike!"
Shiva clearly saw through the Illusion's intentions and uttered two more words, his target being Qin Shi Lei, who lay on the ground.
Qin Shi Lei was directly impaled by the earth spike and sent flying into the air, then slammed back onto the ground.
He spat out another mouthful of blood.
Fortunately, the Dragon Scale Armor's defense was astonishing, preventing him from being impaled by the earth spikes.
Shiva's form had become even weaker, but he disregarded it, and spoke again, "Seal!"
With that, he disappeared into the air like a bubble.
Qin Shi Lei had finally managed to extinguish the flames on his body using the scrolls, and his mind turned to his Illusion.
He found that although the Illusion's strength had also weakened, it still possessed half of its power, which was enough to subdue the Vajra.
Just then, he noticed two figures rapidly flying towards them from a distance.
It was Tyler and Payne, who had returned.