Chapter 1300: The Chain Lock of the Sacred Beasts

Chapter 1300: The Chain Lock of the Sacred Beasts

The battle between both sides was at a stalemate, with one side holding steady while the other couldn’t land a hit.

If this dragged on, Lin Nuo thought he would definitely fall flat.

Changing strategies, he had Luo Xiaoxue defend while Su Kexin kept her eyes on Aike. The rest would focus fire on one demon beast, take it down, then shift to the next.

Theoretically sound.

Just that the firepower might not be enough.

After Ling Meng infused some Demon Soul Power, Lin Nuo’s self-healing ability improved, and his previous injuries were healing rapidly, though he still needed time to return to peak condition.

Lin Nuo didn’t dawdle; with the strategy change, he issued commands—five of them would both defend and attack, launching an all-out team fight and taking down one first.

It was still that sparrow beast, plus one more barrage of an empty divine skill, Starlit Charge, taking it out should be a piece of cake.

Of course, he’d start with a little misdirection, throwing Aike off by making him think their targets were the dragon beast, tiger beast, or earth turtle, then shift the target to the sparrow beast.

The girls got the hint and teamed up with Lin Nuo for a round of cooperation.

Lin Nuo first focused on the tiger beast, and everyone followed suit with seemingly flashy but minimally damaging Spirit Techniques, creating a facade of aggression.

Seeing Lin Nuo going for the tiger beast, Aike reacted immediately, but to his surprise, Su Kexin bravely stepped in to intercept him.

“I-I won’t let you pass!”

With a glimmer of golden light radiating from her, it was clear her energy was restricted in the Demon Realm, but the sinister environment couldn’t totally dim her brilliance.

Aike doubted Su Kexin’s strength; he couldn’t grasp her true capabilities yet.

Aside from her, he had identified everyone’s status—people like Ling Meng, Mu Yiting, and Luo Xiaoxue, he knew precisely what they were about.

But this Su Kexin was different.

Was she from the Sacred Realm?

That was merely an assumption based on her abilities. Currently, in the Sacred Realm, there were numerous speculations about her identity, yet none were conclusive, unlike Luo Xiaoxue, who was outright recognized as the princess of the Tian Du Kingdom.

And those whose backgrounds were unclear were usually the most formidable.

As for Lin Nuo, that kid came from the human realm, but his abilities were also suspicious; there were no reports in the Demon Realm about his soul transferring business.

However, Lin Nuo posed less of a threat than Su Kexin. The potential of Su Kexin was undetermined.

“You can’t stop me, little girl.”

Aike scoffed, summoning a swift wind technique, trying to sidestep Su Kexin.

“Your opponent is me!”

Su Kexin shouted, empowering herself with the wind technique, increasing her speed, and charging to intercept Aike.

Bang!

Su Kexin swung a sword, fierce enough to seem like it could decimate mountains, one swing aimed to rearrange the world.

Too bad she missed.

Su Kexin was fast with the wind technique, able to dart into battle in the blink of an eye, but she was just a tad too slow when swinging her sword—she struck nothing but air.

Aike then tried to get back at Lin Nuo. Lin Nuo sensed that Su Kexin was no match for Aike, but having the first swing miss? Really, what a flop. Hand over your protagonist card already!

Lin Nuo tugged at Aike’s attention, then let Qin Shili and the others engage, shifting their goal from the tiger beast to the sparrow beast.

The sparrow beast was baffled, merrily flying around and intending to protect the tiger beast, only to find all weapons pointing directly at it?

In addition, Lin Nuo seized the opportunity for a Starlit Charge, hitting the sparrow beast head-on.

Boom!

Under the concentrated fire, the sparrow beast took a solid hit; everyone went all-out, the sparrow beast’s attack might be high, but its defense didn’t compare to the others, even a divine grade could potentially be brought down.

However…

As the black smoke faded, although the sparrow beast was hurt, it was nowhere near the immediate obliteration Lin Nuo and the others had hoped for.

Did nobody think to go all-out and finish it off? They were quite a bit off from that.

Not scientific at all.

“Ha ha, your thoughts are good, but unfortunately, they are one entity.”

Aike laughed again, fully aware Lin Nuo was going for a concentrated attack. These four demonized sacred beasts had a built-in soul chain, which distributed the damage taken; when Lin Nuo focused on one, the damage got shared among the other three beasts.

And the one absorbing most of the damage was the earth turtle, it could soak up most of the hits, so no matter how Lin Nuo and the others bombarded, it mostly blasted into the turtle.

That turtle had thick skin and high defense; they could pound on it all day and still wouldn’t kill it.

The other three beasts dealt the main damage, and their impact was no joke.

Lin Nuo felt a headache coming on at this outrageous lineup.

So hitting the backline just meant the damage was absorbed by the tank?

So they had to wipe the entire opposing team instead of taking out one at a time.

What a mess.

Aike was quite good at playing mind games.

Could they do the same with a soul chain to absorb damage onto Luo Xiaoxue?

With a Great威天龙 backing her, she should hold up pretty well.

If that didn’t work, they could always transfer damage onto Su Kexin.

If this pulled off, wouldn’t Lin Nuo become invincible?

Goodness, why hadn’t he thought about this before?

But that was tough to achieve; after all, he and Luo Su were practically arch-nemeses, now miraculously turned companions.

“Lin Nuo, what brilliant strategy do you still have? Everything you’ve thought of won’t get you out alive, let alone make me concede here. It’s utter nonsense.”

Aike was exceedingly pleased with these four divine beasts; their synergy was simply invincible, capable of sweeping away anything in their path.

Even if you were capable, you couldn’t escape.

“So what? If you could kill, wouldn’t you have done it already? We can’t get away, but can you kill us? Don’t you have any reservations?”

Seizing the moment, Lin Nuo started trading barbs with Aike, looking for opportunities.

Both sides had that sly mindset; the banter was just a ruse for finding openings.

“Reservations? Not at all. Everything is already in the bag for me. This is merely to let you test their capabilities. If you can’t even deal with this little trick, how could I ever be named the sovereign of all realms?”

“You really believe what you’re saying? With your cautious approach, if you had the confidence to kill us, you wouldn’t be jabbering nonsense?”

Lin Nuo fired back; annihilating these four beasts was unrealistic. The earth turtle was too tough, and taking Aike down wasn’t easy either. He might end up binding himself with those demon beasts and have all the damage transferred to them.

This character was a real hodgepodge of chaos in this Demon Palace.

If he had such Demon Power back then, binding a bunch of cannon fodder, would Su Kexin take him down then?

It wasn’t impossible; he might still get taken out.

He needed to consider ways to break through the outer barrier and get out.

【Do you have a way?】

Suddenly, Lin Nuo sensed Ling Meng’s other personality’s soul; there wasn’t a clear voice, but Lin Nuo understood that she had an idea.

【Are you saying you could open a gap in the barrier? What’s the cost?】

Lin Nuo inquired, while Ling Meng’s soul side replied there was no cost, but Lin Nuo could read between the lines—she was lying.

【The cost is you, isn’t it?】