Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

Liu Nian's gaze was fixed on Lie Lin, ignoring the surrounding melee.

There were more snake-men than expected, and people kept jumping down through the gap in the ceiling, their colorful scales blending together under the pale light.

Although the players of the Divine Dragon Guild have an advantage in individual combat strength, the opponent's numerical advantage is gradually eroding the gap.

We must deal with Riftscale as soon as possible. Once Riftscale is killed, the other snake-men will be much easier to handle!

Liu Nian made a move.

【The Curtain of Eternal Night】!

Darkness enveloped the surroundings, and the Scalebreaker activated its blink.

The scales reacted extremely quickly, changing position immediately!

However, the moment Liu Nian got close, he released [Sleeplessness]!

An invisible mark appeared on Lie Lin's body. For the next twenty seconds, once per second, he could teleport behind Lie Lin and bite her tightly!

Rift Scales clearly sensed something as well. She flicked her tail and retreated rapidly, sliding towards a side path on the left.

Liu Nian's figure vanished from his original spot and reappeared behind Lie Lin in the next second.

A fist wrapped in golden light smashed through Riftscale's head!

However, the headless body of the opponent did not hinder their escape at all!

Her snake tail lashed out at Liu Nian, clearly not to cause him much harm, but to use the reaction force to accelerate forward!

As they advanced, the scales split into several illusions!

The CD for the Myriad Manifestations had already been set to full speed, and Liu Nian's two clones appeared, each choosing an illusion and rushing towards it!

The illusions exploded one by one. When the last illusion was also shattered, the figure of Lie Lin appeared in an open space. His head had already been restored to its original state, which amazed Liu Nian.

"You really are a tough opponent!" Lie Lin said with a strange smile.

"Not running anymore?" Liu Nian asked.

Rifty Scales' voice echoed through the passage: "You know what, Liu Nian, I didn't actually want to kill you!"

"Kill me? You think you can?"

Liu Nian flashed in front of Lie Lin and threw a punch.

The upper half of the scaled creature was gone, but it quickly regenerated and returned to normal!

"Don't you want to know why I came here?" she asked.

"I don't want to." Liu Nian said, throwing another punch.

Rift Scale's body exploded and then reformed, and her smile began to become forced.

"I really don't want to fight you." She quickened her pace. "I lured you in just to use your fighting ability to help me hold off those cave monsters on the lowest level and prevent them from interfering with me."

"What about Reinhardt?"

"You... you actually knew he was there too? Oh! I see, so you killed him before? But he cursed at me for no reason... Looks like you have some amazing transformation item!" Rift Scale said, then added, "Actually, his role is the same as yours, to restrain the monsters in the middle layer for me. Of course, he also restrains you."

Do you think I'd believe that?

"Really!" Riftscale's voice rose a few decibels. "I've fought you before, I know your strength. Reinhard couldn't do anything to you! Instead, you killed him! Doesn't this prove I was right? If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have arranged for a fool like Reinhard to do it!"

"You don't need to stall for time anymore." Liu Nian cracked his knuckles. "One punch from here, and I'm ready to send you on your way!"

Lie Lin, panting, stared at Liu Nian with his vertical pupils, and suddenly laughed.

"Don't you really want to know why I came here?"

"Whatever your reasons, it's mine now!"

"Hahahaha—" Riftscale laughed so hard he bent over, his snake tail slapping the ground. "You're so funny. But—"

Her smile suddenly vanished, and a strange light flashed in her vertical pupils.

"I've got what I wanted."

As soon as she finished speaking, her body began to melt, flowing down from the top like a candle, turning into a pool of dark red blood.

The pool of blood writhed on the ground for a few seconds before rapidly evaporating, turning into a crimson mist that dissipated into the air.

Liu Nian frowned.

Ran?

This method of melting into blood was a high-level escape skill he had never seen before. Rift Scale had clearly prepared an escape route long ago; the previous conversation was merely a delaying tactic.

Liu Nian remained calm. He called out in the channel, "Wu Zhan, Wang Mian, Kal'tsit, what's the situation on your end?"

"No problem! We're crushing them!"

"Since you left, boss, the snake people have multiplied, and the situation isn't good. Dozens of brothers have already died!"

This is the battlefield of the heavens; dying here will instantly halve your level!

In other words, dying once means all the work you've done during this time has been for nothing!

However, since they have already successfully advanced, they will not fall back into the competition area after death.

"Whoa! Rift Scale has appeared! Wait, something's not right, this... why is it a guy?"

"What?" Upon hearing this, Liu Nian immediately activated the Boundary Breaker.

The reason he wasn't afraid of Rift Scale's obvious diversionary tactic was that with the Boundary Breaker present, he could return to provide support at any time!

A flash of light, and he appeared in the center of the battlefield.

The sight before him made his heart sink.

There are more snake-men than before.

People kept jumping down through the gap in the ceiling, their writhing figures densely packed, almost filling the entire passageway.

The Divine Dragon Guild's formation had been compressed to more than ten meters. The Divine Dragonborn players in the front row were covered in wounds, the mage group in the back row had almost no mana, and the bees in the healing group had turned pale and their wings were flapping much slower.

"Where's Morse?" Liu Nian asked.

"Over there!" Yun Xiangrong pointed to the left side of the battlefield.

Morse was standing on a pile of mechanical wreckage, holding a metal pipe he had picked up from the ground, fighting a tall snake-man!

The snake-man was covered in dark red scales and looked extremely similar to the one with the split scales, but it was a male!

He was larger, with darker scales, and his attacks were more sweeping and powerful, a completely different fighting style from the previous females!

Liu Nian's pupils contracted slightly. Before he could think further, a sharp hiss came from the passage behind him. He turned around and saw the female Riftscale swimming out from the depths of the passage.

Two split scales?

One was on the battlefield, the other had just come out of the passage.

Liu Nian looked to the left, then to the right, somewhat confused about what was going on with this guy. Could it be some kind of clone?

Actually, snake people are oviparous.

Sometimes, two snakes will hatch from one egg.

This is not uncommon, just as it is not unusual for eggs to have two yolks.

These snake-people are far more closely connected than human twins!

The same is true of the Rift Scales. Both the male and female Rift Scales are called Rift Scales, and the innate skills they possess are even stronger than the bond between Liu Nian and Shi Ri, the two kings!

"Does 'split scales' mean schizophrenia?" Liu Nian muttered under his breath.