Yimi clashed with the lightning and fire, wielding his blood blade with keen awareness.
Bai Ye approached from behind, and Yimi immediately detected his movement. He swung his blood blade, aiming for the lightning Bai Ye had transformed into.
With a boom!
A violent collision occurred once more.
The moment the blood blade descended, the ground shattered, and a slash mark over ten meters long suddenly appeared.
Simultaneously, the lightning arc Bai Ye had become exploded outwards, scattering in all directions before quickly re-aggregating into Bai Ye's form.
Bai Ye looked at Yimi and said, "Two questions. First, do you represent the Rhine Corporation or the androids? Second, what was your reason for shooting Li Chengjie?"
Bai Ye was curious about Yimi's mission.
As it stood, Bai Ye definitely represented the androids of the slums. If Yimi attacked him, it was likely he had received a hidden mission from the Rhine Corporation.
However, there was a contradiction.
Although Li Chengjie was in the group, he was a spy, a mole for the Rhine Corporation, yet Yimi had shot him.
Therefore, Yimi did not represent the Rhine Corporation?
Then he could only represent the androids.
In that case, there was a possibility for Bai Ye and Yimi to cooperate!
This was why Bai Ye asked the questions, wanting to clarify these doubts.
However, Yimi clearly had no intention of answering, instead directly swinging his blood blade at Bai Ye.
Such a reaction…
Fine, Bai Ye was not entirely surprised.
If someone was fighting and suddenly asked about his mission, Bai Ye wouldn't tell them either.
The Steel Slime wriggled rapidly again, quickly transforming into the Shadow Battle Axe and colliding with Yimi's blood blade.
With a clang!
The weapons met, emitting a crisp, ringing sound.
The two began to exert their strength against each other, each aiming to overpower the other. Surprisingly, their strength was evenly matched.
Bai Ye was somewhat astonished. Yimi's physical attributes were indeed impressive; he wasn't much inferior to Bai Ye.
Frankly, Bai Ye didn't think much of Yimi.
After all, although Yimi was a top-tier expert in his past life, he was only that.
If the experts who participated in the final central region war were divided into tiers, Yimi belonged to the first tier, but Bai Ye was clearly one of the few at the apex of the pyramid, surpassing the first tier.
Therefore, based on his past life's impression, Bai Ye really had no need to take Yimi seriously.
But the strength Yimi was currently displaying slightly exceeded Bai Ye's estimation.
"Blood Freeze Path!" Yimi suddenly grunted, "Absolute Zero Blood Spear!"
The blood droplets floating in the air suddenly made a "crackling" sound, rapidly freezing into a blood-red ice spear, which then shot directly towards Bai Ye's face.
Bai Ye's reaction was incredibly fast. Seeing the blood spear form, he sharply twisted his waist backward, adopting an "iron bridge" pose.
In the next instant, a cold glint flashed. The frozen blood spear grazed past Bai Ye's nose, narrowly avoided by him.
After dodging the spear, Bai Ye flicked his toes, kicking Yimi's wrist and forcing him back. He then flipped up, interlocking his hands.
Thunder Beast (releases a beast-like lightning entity with physical attack effects, targeting ground attacks and defense).
Sizzle!
Large currents of electricity emerged from Bai Ye's body, brilliant electrical sparks flickering and then condensing into a ferocious thunder beast that lunged at Yimi.
Yimi, unhurried, retreated while continuously slashing forward with his blood blade, engaging the thunder beast in combat.
However, the thunder beast was more ferocious than Yimi had imagined. Not only did it attack relentlessly, but the most critical point was that it was immune to the blood blade's slashes.
Its body was repeatedly shattered by the blood blade, only to heal itself.
There was indeed damage; with continuous slashes, the thunder beast's body would eventually dissipate into electrical arcs.
The thunder beast's characteristic was similar to how Bai Ye used his Rumble-Rumble Fruit to elementalize his body. It could negate physical attacks, but Yimi's Blood Flowing Style was clearly not a physical attack.
Therefore, as long as the attacks continued, the thunder beast wouldn't last.
But Bai Ye knew this, and Yimi didn't. He only knew that the thunder beast seemed unaffected by his attacks.
"Blood Freeze Technique, Ice Peak!"
Yimi, while contemplating a counter-strategy, fiercely slashed his blood blade forward.
A large amount of blood surged forward and froze, resembling a small blood-red mountain.
But the mountain could not stop the thunder beast's advance.
Rumble!
The thunder beast crashed directly forward, and then, large arcs of electricity began to spread.
As the electrical arcs spread, the blood-red mountain emitted "crackling" sounds, and large cracks appeared.
Then…
The thunder beast shattered the blood-red mountain and continued its charge towards Yimi.
Within the broken blood-red ice, the thunder beast thrashed its claws and fangs, appearing particularly ferocious.
Bang!
Yimi was directly hit by the thunder beast, sent flying high into the air, tumbling seven or eight meters backward before crashing heavily onto the ground.
Bai Ye walked towards Yimi with his hands in his pockets and said, "I advise you to answer honestly. It would be better for everyone!"
Yimi ignored Bai Ye's words, gritting his teeth as he got up from the ground. He felt a sweetness in his throat and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Yimi did not waste the blood. He raised his blood blade and swept it forward, transforming the blood into sharp, blood-red spikes that shot towards Bai Ye.
Bai Ye shrugged and raised his right hand!
*Snap!*
Bai Ye snapped his fingers with a crisp sound.
In the next instant, a large golden light screen materialized behind Bai Ye.
Within the golden light screen, numerous golden vortexes appeared, each containing different weapons.
Gate of Babylon!
Are your blood spikes as numerous as my weapons?
Bai Ye sneered and waved his hand forward. Immediately, dense weapons shot forward.
Boom, boom, boom…
The incoming blood spikes were instantly submerged in golden radiance, and then countless weapons continuously bombarded Yimi's surroundings.
The sound of the ground shattering rang out incessantly, a continuous barrage. Dust billowed into the sky, and rocks flew through the air!
When the dust settled, the ground was densely covered in rings of large craters. Within each ring of craters, a weapon was plunged, and the entire ground had sunken by half a meter.
Yimi was at the center of the collapsed ground. He had managed to block the attack, but his appearance was rather tragic. His clothes were torn, and blood was flowing from his arms and waist.
A blood blade was stuck in the ground, propping Yimi up, preventing him from collapsing.