From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword

Ordinary Superpower Users would be instantly killed by a Shadow Demon, without even having a chance to react.

Therefore, when Sona controlled the water flow to attack Helmer, Helmer transformed into a shadow circling around at incredible speeds, almost unaffected by the resistance of seawater.

This is another characteristic of Shadow Demons; due to the unique body structure of Shadow Demons, composed of both material and energy structures.

This makes their body mass very low, reducing resistance caused by air and seawater alike.

However, this Great Demon of the Shadow Race, Helmer, clearly has other abilities to reduce medium resistance, making him astonishingly fast when flying through the seawater.

There was no way for Sona's controlled water flow to catch up with Helmer's speed.

If it were on land, Lu Heng might be able to compare speeds with him, but in the seawater, it's completely impossible.

Lu Heng doesn't have the ability to reduce seawater resistance, and as humans are organic life forms, completely ignoring seawater resistance requires a very high level of skill.

Thus, Lu Heng can only be on guard near Sona, ready to respond to Helmer's attacks at any time.

An equilibrium was slowly reached as Su Muyu, Xie Shi'en, Liu Haiyang, and others arrived, collaborating with the Sea Demon Clan guards to stabilize the situation and match the Shadow Demon team evenly.

Helmer attempted several times to attack the Sea God Statue but was blocked by Sona's water curtain each time.

Helmer was aware that if he continued to drag on, once the priests and elders of the Sea Demon Clan returned, the number of Shadow Demons under his command would be insufficient to contend against the entire Sea Demon Clan.

His initial plan was to launch a surprise attack on the Vasqi Temple, destroy the Sea God Statue in one strike, seize the Divine Energy, and quickly retreat.

However, the High Priest of the Sea Demon Clan returned too swiftly.

With Sona and the Heart of the Tides, he couldn't destroy the Sea God Statue at all.

After a brief deliberation, Helmer realized that the mission couldn't succeed this time, requiring an immediate retreat; otherwise, if surrounded by the returning priests of the Sea Demon Clan, he might be safe, but the other Shadow Demons certainly couldn't escape.

Therefore, after a few more attempts, Helmer decisively chose to give up, turned around to withdraw from the Vasqi Temple, and ordered the Shadow Demons to retreat.

This Shadow Demon team came quickly and retreated swiftly.

However, this time their departure wasn't as smooth.

Xie Shi'en had earlier released his Spiritual Field, blocking the front entrance of the Vasqi Temple.

Any Shadow Demons inside the temple had to break through his Spiritual Field if they wanted to escape.

When Helmer led his team out, Xie Shi'en had no hesitation and allowed Helmer to leave.

He knew clearly that given his Spiritual Field's strength, trying to stop the Great Demon of the Shadow Race was too difficult.

Instead of wasting spiritual power on Helmer, it's better to let him leave and block the other Shadow Demons.

Thus, when the Great Demon Helmer rushed out of the temple, he faced almost no obstruction, flying out like a Shadow Arrow.

However, the Shadow Demons behind, while rushing out of the temple, were trapped by the Spiritual Field, their forms frozen in mid-air.

Four or five Shadow Demons wriggled and twisted frantically within the Spiritual Field, their surface Shadow Energy contorting into various forms, trying every means to break free but failed.

Naturally, intercepting this many Shadow Demons at once placed great pressure on Xie Shi'en; even draining his spiritual power wouldn't sustain it for long.

So, once the Shadow Demons were intercepted by the Spiritual Field, Lin Zeyu, Liu Haiyang, and others immediately launched attacks to quickly slaughter the Shadow Demons trapped within.

In an instant, the dozen or so Shadow Demons rushing out of the temple were reduced to three or four.

These three or four, under fierce fire attack, struggled despite being heavily injured but couldn't break free.

Observing most of his Shadow Demons being smashed, Helmer roared angrily and turned back to attack Xie Shi'en.

Xie Shi'en hurriedly defended, and the Spiritual Field disappeared accordingly.

Finally, three Shadow Demons escaped the confines of the Spiritual Field and fled.

Helmer didn't linger much; he knew this mission had failed. Though filled with rage, withdrawing immediately was the right choice.

He let out an angry roar at Xie Shi'en and the others, then turned and flew toward the sea surface.

In reality.

This Great Demon of the Shadow Race's surprise attack plan didn't have any fundamental issues; he even had an ace up his sleeve.

Initially, he didn't use his fastest speed to fly, but halfway he crafted illusions to cloak himself from Su Muyu's perception before speeding toward the Sea Demon Clan territory for a surprise attack.

His action was initially successful; he had already punctured several holes in the Sea God Statue. Had he a bit more time, he could have drained all the Divine Energy from the statue and then casually retreated.

However, the High Priest of the Sea Demon Clan returned too quickly, thereby disrupting his plan.

With his plan failed, he had no choice but to retreat and whether to proceed with the next step can be decided based on the circumstances.

He sprinted upward, flying out of the water.

After leaving the ocean, his movements were freer.

In this world, no creature could catch up with him, except for one person.

Lu Heng was already waiting on the sea surface, and at the instant he emerged, unleashing the long-prepared Sound Explosion Sword.

Clang!

A single slash.

The sword light was as cold as an awn, swift as thunder.

The Great Demon Helmer had just emerged from the water when he was greeted with an attack, and the assault came so swiftly that mere flight speed couldn't dodge it.

He immediately deployed the Shadow Flash ability, appearing thirty meters away.

After evading this slash, Helmer spun around and roared in fury.

Lu Heng wielded his sword followed by a flash, performing Void Flash, closing in quickly and unleashing the Wind Dragon Breathless Slash.

The wind dragon launched violently, roaring upward, instantly enveloping Helmer.

Helmer was sliced by the wind blades and couldn't escape the wind eye formed by the wind dragon; he could only resort to another Shadow Flash, appearing thirty meters away again.

He was very angry, didn't expect to be forced into a double flash by a Human Recruiter.

This was his life-saving card, something he wouldn't use readily.

With the Shadow Demon's flying speed and double flash evasion ability, he was confident that there was no creature in this world that could hold him down.

Including even the Human Recruiter before him.

Helmer was confident that if he wanted to escape, by simply turning and flying away, this Human Recruiter definitely couldn't catch up.

However, the next moment, a shocking scene unfolded.

Lu Heng activated [Void Flash] again, followed by a flash, appearing beside Helmer, simultaneously flipping his palm to reveal a fist-sized Treasure Bead, and tossed it out.

The moment the Treasure Bead appeared, the surrounding space began to distort.

Helmer keenly sensed the spatial changes, knowing that this bead must be a treasure of the Space Department.

There are no low-level treasures in the Space Department.

Whatever type of this Space Department Treasure Bead it was, it certainly posed a great threat.

Normally, even if an opponent had a treasure from the Space Department, they wouldn't be able to harm him.

Because at the moment of spatial distortion, he could trigger a Shadow Flash to escape the area of spatial distortion.

However, when he instinctively tried to activate his Shadow Flash ability, there was no response from the Source Material Energy inside him, as he had already exhausted the double flash.

His Shadow Flash was also a Source Material Ability, which had been endowed with Divine Effect, allowing for two flashes.

Amongst the opponents he had faced before, none had ever been able to keep up with his double flash.

Though there was a Follow-flash Skill opponent indeed, none could follow his double flash twice.

But now, he was facing an opponent who could follow him twice.

Moreover, this opponent forced out his two Shadow Flashes and then threw out a Space Department Treasure Bead.

He felt a thread of danger looming, bursting out all of his Shadow Energy trying to escape the spatial distortion area.

However, it was too late.

At the very moment of spatial distortion, the surrounding space collapsed inward, forming a confined space.

This was precisely the effect of the [Space Confinement Treasure].

Helmer burst with Shadow Energy, charging directly into the enclosed space.

This [Space Confinement Treasure] belonged to the Great Arcanist Augustus of the Elf Clan; Lu Heng had once been trapped by this treasure.

Now, Helmer was trapped.