"First Soul Skill: Illumination!"
Xu Yu shouted, and four beams of defensive amplification light simultaneously fell on Qian Yuelong and the others who were charging at the forefront.
With his current soul power, he can only support three people at a time at most. Four people are still a bit of a stretch for him, especially Qian Yuelong, whose level is almost two realms higher than theirs. After releasing his soul skill, his face turned pale instantly, and he felt dizzy. Zhang Ping was quick to catch Xu Yu, who was leaning forward.
On the other side, Qian Yuelong's first soul ring lit up, and the azure lotus flame spread outward like surging waves. The scorching heat ignited the air and scorched the deep purple scales of the snakes. The lower-level Purple Scale Snake screamed and rolled on the ground, trying to use the slightly damp soil to extinguish the terrifying high-temperature flames on its body.
The Purple Scaled Serpents, whose cultivation level was over a thousand years, lunged forward with ferocious lines. Qian Yuelong and the others dodged the attack of a Purple Scaled Serpent with a cultivation level of nearly five thousand years. The venom that missed its target sizzled as it hit the ground.
As Xie Yue controlled his body to complete the spin in mid-air, the eerie patterns on his face deepened in color. He swung out two moon blades in his hands. The blood-red curved blades were like crescent moons or meat grinders running at high speed, slicing through the relatively weaker abdomen of the Purple Scale Serpent's back, leaving a bloody, deep gash.
A white shadow flashed, and Hu Liena, in her Martial Soul Possession form, kicked the purple-scaled snake blocking their path away with a powerful kick. Their perfect coordination cleared a way for Qian Yuelong.
Sun Chuantao, who was slightly slower than Xie Yue, was not idle either. He activated his first soul skill, Giant Blade, and the circular blade ring multiplied and grew larger, like a circle of thorns surrounding his body. Meat grinder number 2 dealt with the fish that had escaped the net.
The snakes were as numerous as locusts; after one batch fell, a new large swarm would quickly take their place.
"Bang! Bang!"
Qu Yuanyi, holding a Purple Scaled Serpent with three or four thousand years of cultivation in each hand, slammed its head into the ground, knocking it unconscious. Looking up at the Purple Scaled Serpent King, who had torn through the vine encirclement and was writhing with ferocity, his heart skipped a beat:
"careful!"
"roar--!"
Although blind, it could "see" the Purple Scale Serpent King opening its blood-red maw and lunging at the few human soul masters who posed a weak threat to it, thanks to the molecules it could detect with its forked tongue.
A ten-thousand-year-old soul beast is still just a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast.
The mutated Purple Scale Serpent King darted above Hu Liena in the blink of an eye.
"Nana!"
Xie Yue and Yan were greatly alarmed.
A massive shadow enveloped Hu Liena. Hu Liena raised her head, and the second yellow halo around her body flashed. A pale red light emerged from her body, and her eyes were veiled in a bewitching red light. Her fluffy fox tail swayed, as if swaying on the heart of a snake, causing the Purple Scale Serpent King, which had opened its blood-red maw, to pause briefly.
The next second, Hu Liena's face suddenly turned pale, and she choked on a mouthful of blood mist. Her dodging movement was stuck due to the backlash of the failed charm, and she lost her excellent opportunity to dodge. She could only watch helplessly as the Purple Scale Serpent King, who had regained his senses, angrily used his body as a weapon to strike her.
"Bang—!"
The scorching blue flames expanded into a semi-circular fire barrier, enveloping Hu Liena's body.
"Snap!"
The Purple Scale Serpent King's "self-sacrifice attack" slammed head-on into the flame barrier. After a crisp cracking sound, the translucent blue flame barrier was brutally torn apart from the outside like a curtain.
Hu Liena, falling due to inertia, landed in the center of the giant, miniature version of the Golden Lotus of the Floating World that suddenly bloomed beneath her. Qian Yuelong, who had come alone to the Purple Scale Serpent King, had a cold glint in her eyes. Five miniature Golden Lotuses of the Floating World, formed from condensed soul power, appeared around the Purple Scale Serpent King's head. The moment it raised its head, a terrifying explosion roared down.
"Sizzle!"
Dark purple snake blood splattered onto Qian Yuelong's delicate profile, and a piercing pain, like ants gnawing at her cheek, shot through her skin.
Qian Yuelong remained unfazed, her light purple pupils gleaming with a ghostly light as she stared intently at the thick smoke from the explosion. The Purple Scale Serpent King, whose head had been partially destroyed by her self-created soul skill attack, which had been powered by eighty percent of her soul power, revealing its throbbing, blood-soaked brain tissue, suddenly experienced a surge of its dormant spiritual power. Under the breathless gaze of everyone, it materialized into a cone-shaped spike and plunged it down fiercely into the blood-soaked brain tissue.
"roar--!!!"
A piercing, high-pitched scream echoed throughout the forest area.
The dying roar sent chills down the beast's spine, and it quickly moved to a more distant place, not daring to approach this spot again.
With the pain in his cheek gone, Qu Yuanyi stared in astonishment at Qian Yuelong, whose wound was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, while not forgetting to swat away the purple serpent that suddenly sprang up.
Hao Xuan glanced at the pitiful Purple Scale Serpent King, then at Qian Yuelong, who remained unfazed by the serpent's appearance, and felt a slight pain in the back of his head. He sighed inwardly.
If I'm not mistaken, the move that ended the life of the Purple Scale Serpent King was a materialized mental attack.
However, the fact that a Soul Master's spiritual power could reach such a level is astounding. He dares to say that even the titled Douluo on the continent probably don't have as high a spiritual power as Qian Yuelong, who is only at the Soul Master level.
The Holy Maiden of the Spirit Hall—her talent and abilities are truly terrifying. No wonder she was kept hidden from the higher-ups for so long, without a word leaking out. Now, it seems they intend to put this Holy Maiden on the mainland stage.
The stunned Purple Scaled Snake shook its head and stood up, its bean-sized eyes reflecting the lifeless and miserable appearance of the Snake King. The snake froze in place.
Within seconds, the agitated swarm of snakes ceased their frenzied attack.
They glanced at the menacing human soul masters, then at the dead snake king, and let out a hiss that was hard to tell whether it was resentment or something else.
It's like a signal.
Under the Snake King's command, the snakes, who had been bloodthirsty, regained their usual rationality and receded like a tide, leaving behind only a mess of battle.
Wei Ming, who was floating in the air, breathed a sigh of relief, deactivated his Martial Soul True Body and landed on the ground. He looked at Qian Yuelong approvingly and said, "The Purple Scale Serpent King is dead. Yuelong, there is no time to lose. Quickly absorb its soul ring."
The black spirit ring of the Purple Scale Serpent King slowly condensed above its corpse. If it is not absorbed after it is formed, it will dissipate in a few minutes, so we must hurry.
Qian Yuelong nodded, and with a slight thought, the remaining surviving vines that had been underground broke through the soil, stretching out thick, emerald-green branches that roughly encircled the body of the Purple Scale Serpent King, forming a circle around its corpse.
To prevent its corrosive snake blood from flowing onto Qian Yuelong while absorbing soul rings, the clever vines dug a sunken pit under the corpse of the Purple Scale Serpent King, with a raised platform in the middle, so that the snake blood would not affect Qian Yuelong.
Although she didn't intend to absorb the spirit ring on the ground
As encouragement, Qian Yuelong patted the vines that were swaying and begging for a reward, then leaped onto the thick main branch, sat cross-legged, entered a meditative state, and began to absorb the soul rings.
—A side note—
Hello, July!
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