The instant the final word fell, his right hand rose and swung out a slash.
At this moment, under the bright moonlight.
The crazed Thena's mind trembled, the skin all over her body aching as if facing a blade cutting into it. A strong warning sign enveloped her brain, and an illusion seemed to appear before her eyes. A blazing sun erupted with endless might within the desert night.
But immediately after, Thena realized that it was not a blazing sun at all.
Rather... it was that man's eyes.
The blazing gaze revealed when those eyelids, which had always been half-lowered and narrowed, opened.
Clang——
Within the deep night curtain, a bolt of lightning suddenly streaked across.
The long sound of a blade cry, like a dragon's roar, instantly resounded across the entire Gobi stone beach.
A sharp blade light cut through the pitch-black night curtain, the dazzling brilliance it released covering everything, like the dawn light tearing open the night. Wherever it passed, streams of air wildly collapsed, and the fierce wind rolling like a dragon cleaved out a thousand-meter ravine.
Thena did not even have time to react before her figure was drowned by the vast ocean of blade light.
"Thena——!!!"
A roar filled with fury exploded through the sky like thunder.
The next moment, dazzling golden light, amid a long howl that pierced clouds and broke through the air, dragged out a several-hundred-meter-long scorching airflow, pouncing straight toward Ichimaru Gin like a falling meteor.
For a moment, killing intent filled the sky.
Before that golden figure could approach, two scorching rays had already taken the lead.
Boom!
The air was seen constantly trembling, pushing out waves of air like the surface of the sea.
A subtle change appeared on Ichimaru Gin's face. The blade edge he had raised sharply turned downward, bringing along a thousand-meter-long blade light, slashing down like a silver-white galaxy waterfall, grandly splitting half the firmament apart!
Boom!!!
The waterfall-like blade light collided with the scorching rays, and the violent airflow that erupted instantly shook the void and heaven and earth.
Rolling rivers of air actually surged between heaven and earth. The tremendous sound of the two colliding shook the broken stones of the Gobi beach into flight. The vacuum region where the airflows had been emptied by the visible powerful shockwave in the previous moment instantly gathered streams of cloud currents like mad dragons pouring backward.
Within the increasingly intense fierce wind tornado, Ichimaru Gin tightly furrowed his brows and asked: "Wait, there should be some misunderstanding between us. You should also be an Eternal, right?"
But unfortunately, the other party did not listen to his explanation at all.
"Go die for me!!!"
That person floated in midair, his eyes like golden blazing suns, gathering terrifying energy.
Two scorching golden lasers cut through the sky. Wherever the terrifying high temperature passed, even the atmosphere seemed to boil.
Ichimaru Gin's brow twitched fiercely, and he directly used Shunpo to leave the spot.
Rumble!
The earth shook, and the sounds of thousands of airflow explosions resounded throughout the desert for a time.
The power of that laser was truly astonishing. It plowed ravines across the flat Gobi beach, raising clusters of mushroom clouds that exploded in the sky. Choking smoke, wrapped with intense scorching heat, spread out for who knew how many dozens of miles.
Shunpo! Shunpo! Shunpo!
Ichimaru Gin's figure appeared somewhat battered as he hurriedly dodged the lasers from the sky.
Even if his Shunpo speed was fast, it was impossible for it to be faster than eyesight. The golden lasers behind him pursued relentlessly, and under the rain-like laser bombardment, the Gobi beach had already turned into a scorching magma hell.
Finally, by a single step's difference, he failed to dodge in time and was hit head-on by a laser.
The violent airwaves fiercely trampled the ground, then rushed straight toward the sky for a full hundred meters, and the exploding cloud currents violently scattered.
The person floating in midair panted slightly and did not continue firing lasers. Just as he wanted to turn around to look for Thena, his entire spine faintly chilled, and an indescribable terror spread through his heart.
"Could it be... he still isn't dead?!"
That person turned back in astonishment and was shocked to discover a blue pillar of light rushing into the sky.
Boom!!!
A silent aura violently soared into the sky!
Smoke, dust, sand, and stones were blown away by the狂 wind, revealing Ichimaru Gin's figure. Those red eyes were completely opened, gathering killing intent and anger. His whole body released terrifying torrents of Reiatsu, suppressing the void for more than three hundred zhang like a heavenly river.
"Ban...kai!"
Even a Bodhisattva had three parts temper, let alone Ichimaru Gin was not a good-natured person.
Since you refused to listen to an explanation, then he would use an even simpler method, using strength to make you shut your mouth.
Ichimaru Gin drew back half a step, the short blade half-hidden at his waist and abdomen. As he raised his head, killing intent crossed the sky, his scarlet eyes piercing through the void like blades and swords: "Shoot to kill... Kamishini no Yari!!!"
Buzz——!
The sword was like a startled dragon, roaring angrily through the sky!
With one sword slash, faint light rippled. Its form could not be seen, yet it contained extreme sharpness.
It was one slash, yet also hundreds and thousands of slashes, before the sky full of blade-light afterimages were gathered back into one slash.
In only an instant, it had already dragged out a remnant scar several hundred zhang long above the sky. Its sharp sword intent lingered for a long time, as if it would remain for eternity. Merely looking at it caused stinging pain.
This sword truly seemed as if it wanted to cut heaven and earth apart!
Desert nomads far a thousand miles away were suddenly awakened by that sword light rising into the sky like a dragon. They stared blankly at that brilliance surpassing daylight and let out shocked cries, kneeling down in worship as if encountering a god.
As the vast sword light rose into the sky like a divine dragon, a figure fell from the sky.
That arrogant fellow spat out a mouthful of hot blood and rolled several times across the Gobi before barely stopping. Half his shoulder had already been torn apart by the sword light, presenting a bloody, mangled state.
Before he could get up, a short blade pointed straight at the space between his brows. Ichimaru Gin looked down at him from above, his eyes filled entirely with coldness.
"Wait..... wait..."
A weak voice filled with urgency sounded.
Ichimaru Gin and that person were both startled. Following the source of the voice, they looked over and saw Thena limping over: "Gin, don't kill him. He is Ikaris, Prime Eternal. This is all a misunderstanding."
"Mis..... misunderstanding?"
Ikaris's face darkened a little, as if he had thought of something, and his eyes moved slightly: "Could it be... Mahd Wy'ry?"
"That's right, it's Mahd Wy'ry." Thena bitterly nodded: "Earlier, he was trying to wake me up, but he did not injure any vital points, so you misunderstood, Ikaris."
"Mahd Wy'ry?"
Ichimaru Gin tilted his head slightly.
"Yes, Mahd Wy'ry."
Thena explained it to him.
Among some members of the Eternals, it was an incurable disease caused by the mind gradually collapsing under the heavy pressure of memories.
For Eternals who contracted this disease, the only way to cure it was to clear their memories, equivalent to a computer clearing all memory and allowing the entire person to start again. The side effect would make her become another person.
Thena had once refused Prime Ajak's treatment suggestion, and so for a thousand years, she had lived alone in the desert where human traces were hard to find.
Because only by staying in this kind of forbidden zone where no life ever set foot could she guarantee that when her Mahd Wy'ry flared up, she would not harm those innocent lives.
"If you don't mind, may I take a look?"
After listening to Thena's explanation, Ichimaru Gin pondered for a moment and said: "Listening to your description, Mahd Wy'ry should be related to the soul. I understand this area a little. Perhaps I may be able to help you."
His undercover agent's intuition told him that this Mahd Wy'ry was not that simple.