I Can Gain One Skill Point Per Second

Chapter 916: Chapter 916: The Terrifying Combat Power of an Upper-Rank God

Unlike the slow growth speed of the tree roots.

Once Zacks got serious, the speed of his strikes was so fast it was hard for anyone to react.

Even Lin Yi failed to successfully use the [Light and Shadow Interweaving] skill to dodge Zacks’ attack.

By the time the information on his retina was transmitted to his brain, Lin Yi’s body had already been completely pierced through by tangible lightning that ran through all his limbs and bones, a sense of numbness surging over him like a raging storm, stripping him entirely of control over his body.

Xiyue and Ao Shu were in the same condition.

But this move was clearly lacking in power; with Ao Shu’s divine dragon bloodline, the effect on her was nowhere near as exaggerated. At this moment, the faintly visible pink scales on Ao Shu’s body fully emerged.

It was like an invisible energy net wrapping Ao Shu within.

This was unavoidable—no technique could have both speed and power at their peak. If Zacks wanted to quickly take down Lin Yi and the others before they could react, he had to sacrifice a certain amount of power.

See, this move couldn’t even break through Ao Shu’s defense.

"Yo, this little girl, I really underestimated her."

Zacks raised his brows and his figure surged forward at high speed.

Taking advantage of the fact that Ao Shu had yet to break free from the restraints of his electric net, Zacks rushed in at extreme speed and slammed his fist viciously into Ao Shu’s chest.

Bang!

A visible shockwave of air burst out from between Zacks’ fist and Ao Shu’s body.

Like an air cannon, it blasted Ao Shu’s body out like a shell, slamming her heavily into the ground.

This time, the force was clearly heavier than before.

With Ao Shu’s level of defense, it indeed wasn’t enough to cause any substantial damage.

But knocking Ao Shu out for a while was more than enough.

"I remember your name is Lin Yi, right? And the woman at your side is called Xiyue?"

This time, with no one else interfering, Zacks started strolling leisurely in front of Lin Yi.

He rubbed his chin, looking the two of them up and down with great interest.

He didn’t even begrudge the consumption of his Divine Power, shaping it into a protective shield that completely isolated the attacks of the Divine River Song.

The power of the Divine River Song had a lot to do with the strength of its user.

With Lin Yi’s current strength, he still couldn’t fully unleash the Divine River Song’s power.

Zacks blocking the attack with just a Divine Power Shield was nothing surprising.

"Daring to challenge all the Celestial Divine Beings and interfere with Divine Soldiers carrying out their duties—seems you’re that organization hiding in the shadows, secretly making moves on our resources."

"You know, the way you’ve stayed hidden so well all these years is honestly surprising. Your organization counts as a fairly successful one. That fluid-like weapon that was swirling around you just now, I thought it was only some simple External Divine Artifact, but I didn’t expect this."

"This thing is really something, huh. It doesn’t need your control at all, and even after I restrained your movements it could still attack me independently. I’m even more interested in it now—what’s going on?"

"Hey, the more I look at this thing, the more it looks like the Nether River of the Nine Netherworld."

"Don’t tell me you’ve actually claimed the Nether River of the Nine Netherworld for yourself? In that case your skill really isn’t small. However, what you absolutely shouldn’t have done is cause all Celestial Divine Beings to suffer so many losses."

"So many Divine Soldiers, all disappearing overnight. The higher-ups sent me to investigate, and I spent so long without figuring out what had actually happened."

With that, Zacks’ hand reached toward the Soul-Breaking Skill in Lin Yi’s grip.

A powerful undead aura surged madly into Zacks’ body the instant he touched the Soul-Breaking Skill, trying to interfere with the circulation of his Divine Power in this way.

Zacks didn’t care at first. With his Divine Power, though he couldn’t use the Soul-Breaking Skill, he could still immunize himself against its negative effects.

But in the next second, his expression suddenly brightened with realization.

He had long known that Lin Yi participated in the Nine Nether Transformations operation and played an extremely crucial role in it, but what Zacks hadn’t expected was that Lin Yi not only had the Heaven-piercing Mantra broadcast the disgrace of all Celestial Divine Beings throughout the Three Realms and Six Paths, he also took away all the corpses of the tens of thousands of Divine Soldiers.

To be precise, he turned them into his own.

When he went to the Nine Netherworld, nothing was left except devastation.

Aside from some severed limbs left behind by the Divine Soldiers, there wasn’t even a shadow of a person.

Even that terrifying Nine Nether River had completely dried up.

Back then, Zacks had been utterly baffled.

With nothing left in the Land of the Nine Netherworld, how was he supposed to investigate?

Other than the undead aura emanating from the severed limbs the Divine Soldiers had left behind, there had been no other clues.

Now he understood what had happened.

Wasn’t the undead aura erupting from the Soul-Breaking Skill exactly the same as what he had sensed from those Divine Soldiers?

"Heh, kid, I’ll give it to you—you really have some skill. You cleaned up that entire battlefield spotless, left me investigating in complete confusion. Come on, tell me, where did you take those Divine Soldiers?"

Lin Yi had never been someone spineless.

But if he opened his mouth to surrender, then there had to be a story behind it.

To better satisfy his curiosity, Zacks deliberately reduced the electric current coursing through Lin Yi, only restricting his movements without disturbing his thoughts.

"All right then, since you’re interested, I’ll tell you."

In the next instant, the Soul-Breaking Skill in Zacks’ hand suddenly erupted with gray light, slipped free of Zacks’ control, and slashed two gray arcs toward the sky.

One arc flew off into the distance, while the other struck the sky overhead.

The slash that hit above didn’t dissipate; instead, it forcibly tore open a rift overhead.

In the next instant, a surging undead aura poured out from within, accompanied by furious roars.

This, this is—!

Zacks was once again shocked by Lin Yi’s methods.

One Divine Soldier after another—or to be precise, Undead Divine Soldiers—leaped out from that spatial rift.

Their faces were completely bloodless, holding nothing but a craving for living beings.

Under Lin Yi’s control, Zacks became their sole target for venting their inner hunger.

The countless bright silver armors brought Zacks a shock no less than the impact his Flying Swords had brought to Ao Shu earlier.

This brat!

No wonder Zacks couldn’t clearly probe what had happened in the Nine Netherworld.

It was because among all Celestial Divine Beings there was only one Undead Monarch, Lin You.

And she had long since disappeared.

Now Zacks understood—this kid Lin Yi not only turned the Divine River of the Nine Netherworld into his own weapon, he also claimed the corpses of all the Divine Soldiers who took part in that incident.

Even having become undead, the aura the Divine Soldiers emanated was no weaker than before.

It was no exaggeration to say that Lin Yi now possessed an army composed of over ten thousand Divine Soldiers.

Zacks’ pupils darted rapidly, and in just a short while he fully locked onto the positions and movements of the Undead Divine Soldiers charging at the front, using his exquisite Body Skill to respond flawlessly.

Facing a host of over ten thousand, he didn’t unleash any wide-area offensive skills; relying solely on combat technique, he completely neutralized the enemy’s offensive.

Watching this scene, Lin Yi was shaken to his core.

Just what sort of monster was the man before him?