# 1025
Chapter 1026: Sinking into the Earth's Core
From the perspective of realm and aura alone, Andre's realm had already reached the peak of the "Klein" level, and Lin Qiye could also sense an Outer God气息 from him. If he had to guess, this was likely an agent of an Outer God.
Judging from the ability to manipulate earth so effortlessly just now, the deity this person served should be related to the earth...
Was it Geb, the Egyptian god of earth, or Gaia, the Olympian goddess of earth?
With 【White Slash】, Ame-no-Murakumo, and numerous God's Ruins at his disposal, Lin Qiye would not be at a disadvantage even against an ordinary "Klein" level expert. However, against this peak-level Klein agent of an Outer God, he found himself somewhat outmatched.
Andre also seemed to have noticed Lin Qiye's realm shortcoming. He directly activated his God's Ruins and launched a storm-like barrage of attacks.
Dozens of earth-and-stone serpents raged through the wind and snow, grazing past Lin Qiye's form and striking the surrounding mountain faces one after another, gouging out ferocious cracks across their surfaces.
In an instant, the earth shook and mountains trembled.
Lin Qiye relied on his terrifying dynamic vision and agility to barely preserve himself amid the encirclement of earth serpents. But his gaze remained fixed on the诡异的 eye beneath Andre's feet, and his heart sank.
He had no idea what that eye's ability was, but it seemed to have a space-sealing effect. Under that pupil's gaze, neither 【Night's Twinkle】 nor 【White Slash】's void entry could be used.
If this continued, he would sooner or later be knocked from the sky by the surrounding earth serpents. And with feet planted on the ground before an agent of an earth god—that was extremely dangerous.
Lin Qiye took a deep breath, raised his hand, and beckoned. The Ame-no-Murakumo, already eroded by night, flew toward him at incredible speed.
Sword light flashed. The several earth serpents surrounding Lin Qiye had their bodies instantly sliced open. Amid the sky full of stone rain, he gripped the sword in one hand and the blade in the other, directly charging downward toward Andre.
Since he had lost his highly mobile space-based abilities, he had to break free from ranged combat, or he would eventually be worn down by the endless earth serpents.
Andre's eyes narrowed. Instead of commanding the earth serpents to intercept Lin Qiye who wielded Ame-no-Murakumo, he stepped back and fell backward into the earth eye beneath him.
Bang—!
His body landed on the white of the earth eye and melted into it like snow and ice. Then the enormous eyeball snapped shut, turned into a wisp of light, and dove into the ground, vanishing without a trace.
Since he knew Lin Qiye held the legendary Ame-no-Murakumo capable of cutting through anything, Andre naturally wasn't foolish enough to engage in close combat with it. After all, being slashed by that sword would leave wounds that couldn't heal—that was no laughing matter.
The凌厉 sword light pierced the earth, instantly carving a smooth缺口 through the ground. But apart from endless rubble and dust, there was no trace of Andre within Lin Qiye's spiritual perception range.
His brow furrowed slightly.
At the same time, roughly two kilometers away on another snowy mountain peak, a诡异 eye suddenly opened from within the rock strata!
Within the pitch-black eye, the scarlet pupil instantly locked onto the distant Lin Qiye. Andre's figure slowly emerged from it, coldly smiling as he pointed a finger toward Lin Qiye from afar.
A powerful sense of crisis surged in Lin Qiye's heart!
Without a moment's hesitation, he pulled the Ame-no-Murakumo from the earth and transformed into a streak of night, rapidly ascending toward the sky.
The instant he moved, the earth beneath him suddenly behaved like liquid,诡异地翻腾起来. Wave after wave of surging liquid mud rose hundreds of meters in mere breaths, moving faster than Lin Qiye's upward escape. It was like a rising iron curtain of earth, connecting seamlessly above Lin Qiye's head.
The liquid earth continued to churn like ocean waves. This hundreds-of-meters-tall earth prison encased Lin Qiye's body, and under the挤压 of the liquid earth, it rapidly sank toward the earth's core.
One hundred meters underground. Three hundred meters underground. Five hundred meters underground. One thousand meters underground...
Watching the earth prison gradually approach the core, a smile curved Andre's lips. He waved his hand once more, and the churning liquid ground came to a halt, transforming back into barren earth.
No signs of battle. No instantly sealed sky. No churning earth sea... This lifeless ground was like a man-eating beast. After swallowing Lin Qiye's body, it wiped the blood from its lips and quietly潜伏 back.
He took a step forward, about to head toward the entrance of Kunlun Ruins, when his peripheral vision swept across the ground and his footsteps suddenly halted.
"An... An... An... An..."
诡异的呢喃声 drifted from the void, lingering in his ears.
On the snow-covered ground, a broken branch suddenly stood upright on its own, like a pencil gripped by invisible hand, rapidly drawing a enormous circle on the white snow.
The moment the broken branch connected the line's beginning and end within the snow, a figure wrapped in a深红色斗篷 appeared凭空 at the circle's center. Several narrow surgical knives弹射而出, striking toward Andre's throat with惊人的速度!
Andre's pupils contracted slightly!
This scene was simply too诡异. The呢喃 from the void, the branch drawing a circle by itself, the enemy appearing out of thin air... This sudden attack method left him somewhat unprepared.
Fortunately, Andre's own combat experience was extremely rich. Even though those surgical knives were already before his face, he quickly reacted, barely dodging the surgical knife blades by shifting his body.
Meanwhile, An Qingyu, standing calmly at the circle's center, pushed up her black-framed glasses.
The invisible threads connected to the surgical knife ends tightened instantly, changing all the surgical knives' trajectories. The凌厉刀芒如雪花般 cut across Andre's body, opening several narrow blood marks across the skin of his arms and chest.
Andre cried out in pain and retreated, escaping the surgical knives' attack range. Just as he was about to take action, on the distant snowy mountain, a figure浑身缭绕着煞气的黑色身影 rushed down at incredible speed!
"Hehehehe..."
The figure's feet slammed against the ground, directly leaping fearlessly down from the snowy mountain like a cannonball, crashing onto the distant ground. Massive rock fragments混杂着雪花崩向天空, and a森然刀光混杂着狞笑 flashed toward Andre's face in an instant!