A strange radiance emanated from the scepter held by the Merman King.
This light was invisible to the naked eye, yet it affected everything around it.
Like an unseen gale, faintly accompanied by roars, it swept across everything in its vicinity.
Boom!
The light swept over a clone.
Lin Yu, inhabiting the clone's consciousness, immediately felt a brief pause, a sense of disjointed connection.
"It can actually affect my consciousness!"
Lin Yu was astonished. His ability to link consciousness was a talent inherent to his clones; even soul attacks couldn't harm his consciousness. Yet, this strange light could directly damage it.
This must be a high-level power!
The Merman King exclaimed in shock, "Why haven't you fainted?"
"Eighth-tier humans shouldn't be able to withstand the Sea God's Wrath!"
He was greatly alarmed. Ever since he inherited the throne, holding the Sea God's Scepter, he had few equals in the sea.
Upon arriving on land, he was almost invincible. Yet here, he encountered a formidable opponent.
A mere few thousand eighth-tier humans could withstand the Sea God's Wrath? This was illogical!
Lin Yu paid him no mind and used his Sumeru Buddha Steps to flash away to a distance.
Concurrently.
Lin Fan's puppets also began to move.
These puppets varied in form, but all were beast-like, and at first glance, one couldn't tell they were puppets.
The puppets blended in with the sea beasts, secretly transferring the humans trapped in the illusion elsewhere.
This maneuver was highly concealed, and the merman race did not notice.
They had focused all their attention on the clones.
In their view, the clones' abilities were too bizarre; not only were their skills identical, but they were also immune to the Sea God's Wrath.
This was the first time the Merman King felt a flicker of panic.
Without the Sea God's Scepter, his strength would still be considerable, but only at the level of a peak ninth-tier expert, nowhere near his current power.
"Kill!"
"Roar!"
After creating distance and confronting each other for a moment, they charged again.
In close combat, Lin Yu's clones suffered a significant disadvantage; the mermen's physical bodies were incredibly strong.
The armor and weapons he condensed using the "Myriad Treasures Condensing Art" were only at the sixth-tier. Without the energy attached, they couldn't even penetrate their defenses.
Lin Yu observed this and knew he had to finish the battle quickly.
At this moment, the Merman King raised his scepter once more.
"Heavenly Kingdom's Light!"
Boom!
The invisible light swept through again.
This time, Lin Yu's consciousness was plunged into an illusion.
He looked around at the familiar surroundings, finding himself in his home on Earth.
No!
I transmigrated; this isn't real!
Instantly, he realized the problem.
"Withdraw consciousness!" he silently chanted.
The next moment, his consciousness broke free from the illusion, and outside the battlefield, Lin Yu's main body opened his eyes.
He was slightly alarmed, finding it incredible that this power could affect his consciousness. He resolved to reduce his use of consciousness-attaching abilities in the future.
Meanwhile, on the battlefield, Lin Yu's clones were completely unaffected.
The Heavenly Kingdom's Light could trap living beings in illusions, but Lin Yu's clones had no souls; they were a more unique existence, rendering the light ineffective.
The Merman King's face turned ashen, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He muttered to himself, "Impossible, impossible! This isn't real!"
"Kill them!" Lin Yu ignored him and commanded.
The clones, upon receiving the order, looked up at the mermen in unison.
"Merge!" Lin Yu silently chanted.
The next moment!
White light illuminated an area of a thousand meters. The mermen, seeing this, were greatly alarmed and retreated with trepidation.
They had no idea what this was, and they cautiously withdrew from the area.
After a while, the white light dispersed. The thousands of clones in their original positions vanished, replaced by two colossal beings.
"Four-Faced Buddha!"
"Three-Headed Six-Armed Boy!"
On the left was a hundred-meter-tall giant Buddha with four faces, each representing the poisons of emotion: greed, anger, ignorance, and jealousy.
Beneath each face was a pair of arms of different colors, each holding a different weapon.
On the right stood a three-headed, six-armed child, even taller, reaching one hundred and twenty meters. The eyes of his three heads opened, surveying all directions, and his six arms each held a treasure.
The two colossal beings suddenly appeared in their original positions, looking down at the merman race below.
This terrified the mermen greatly.
"What is going on? Where did those humans go? What are these things?"
"The humans are gone, and these have appeared. Did they sacrifice themselves to summon these two giants?"
"Incredible, such terrifying humans."
"My King, please order the execution of these two monsters."
The Merman King, gazing at the two colossal beings, felt his heart churn.
Having been thwarted twice by the Sea God's Scepter, he lacked confidence and felt quite apprehensive.
He pondered for a moment and, seeing the unfavorable situation, took a step back and roared, "Kill them!"
"Roar!"
"Kill!"
The Four-Faced Buddha surged forward.
Lin Yu dared not attach his consciousness to them further, but he could control them remotely.
He issued the command to attack, and the Four-Faced Buddha took a step forward, its four faces opening their mouths wide.
Finally, they condensed four colors of flame power.
The Four Fires of Greed, Anger, Ignorance, and Jealousy!
Go!
The next moment, the energy transformed into flames of four different colors, rushing towards the charging merman race in a boundless sea of fire.
The mermen, just as they rushed forward, were met head-on by the flames.
Boom!
They used their skills to defend, but soon discovered their mistake.
These flames, seemingly tangible, were in reality intangible. Upon contact, they ignited the four emotions of greed, anger, ignorance, and jealousy, causing the flames of delusion to rise, burning them alive with emotional fire.
This was a power that acted upon emotions, a strength naturally awakened after using the new combination technique.
Previously, after merging, his clones only possessed their form, not the characteristics and powers of the merged components.
But now it was different. As long as he merged, his clones could awaken some special powers.
For example, the pure Yang sword energy of the Pure Yang Sword Immortal, or the Four Fires of Greed, Anger, Ignorance, and Jealousy of the Four-Faced Buddha.
At this moment, seeing his people engulfed by the emotional fire, the Merman King roared in anger.
"Sea God's Kingdom!"
Boom!
This time, it was not a power affecting the mind, but seawater imbued with a trace of divine power.
The seawater surged forward, colliding fiercely with the emotional fire.
Ultimately, they were evenly matched and vanished simultaneously.
Seeing this, the Merman King breathed a sigh of relief. He pointed at the clones and shouted, "From whence do you come?"
The clones' sole objective was to kill them!
The clones' indifference ignited the Merman King's fury.
"Kill, kill, kill! Kill them for me!" He had become frantic.
Boom!
This time, tens of millions of sea creatures also joined the fray, using their skills to attack the clones in unison.
The scale was immense, but he was not a target.
With a blink, he left his original position, causing their skills to miss.
"Kill!"
Roar!
Sea beasts and mermen of seventh-tier and above began a war of attrition.
The Four-Faced Buddha sat cross-legged in the void, its eight arms fending off enemies from all directions.
Seeing that they could no longer hold on, the hitherto silent Three-Headed Six-Armed Boy moved.
He opened his eyes, and on the brow of each of his three heads, a vertical eye opened.
As the vertical eyes opened, the void trembled!
Lin Yu, from a distance, exclaimed in shock, "This... it can actually trigger such skills, incredible!"
At this moment, Lin Yu's mouth hung open in astonishment as he felt the terror of this skill.
As the three vertical eyes opened, the Three-Headed Six-Armed Child's three mouths also opened, spitting out three sentences with a three-second interval between each.
"Human Eye, I can manipulate the desires of the world!"
"Earth Eye, I can manipulate the weapons of the world!"
"Heavenly Eye: I can observe the nine heavens and ten earths, causing the three souls to return to heaven and the six spirits to enter reincarnation!"