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From time to time, the young girl would unleash her soul skills.
Building upon her already blistering pace, her speed would instantly erupt to a whole new level, making her look like a passing shadow. Not only did her speed increase drastically, but the power behind her dual-claw strikes amplified significantly as well.
With a flash of purple claw phantoms, she tore apart a rope composed of black mist.
Unfortunately, there were simply too many of them, making it impossible to destroy them all at once. After tangling for a while, the situation showed no signs of improvement. Bu Le was, after all, stronger in terms of cultivation.
As he channeled more soul power, the black mist grew increasingly dense, transforming into streaks of black ropes that resembled a nest of dark vipers slithering and wrapping toward the girl's body—a sight that was rather hair-raising.
A look of sheer resolve flashed through her eyes.
Accompanied by the release of a yellow soul ring that pulsed with intense energy fluctuations, the girl's speed suddenly skyrocketed, far surpassing any moment prior. Her entire body radiated a dark purple soul power glow.
Paired with that terrifying velocity, she transformed completely into a spectral phantom.
Like a bolt of lightning, she sliced through the dark night in a split second, leaving behind over a dozen intersecting streaks of dark purple spectral light. In the span of a single breath, she unleashed at least a dozen claw strikes.
The sky-covering claw marks combined with her lightning-fast figure to form trails of residual energy, making the entire area resemble a chaotic, complex web. The speed at this exact instant was so blinding that it completely exceeded the visual limits of the human eye.
Even though Bu Le was a four-ring Soul Ancestor, he actually failed to react in time. Furthermore, every single claw strike was exceptionally precise. The black mist ropes formed by Bu Le's soul skill were instantly shredded to pieces, immediately clearing up a large expanse of the sky.
Evidently, this soul skill should be the girl's second soul skill, and it was also her strongest offensive method at the moment. By utilizing her extreme speed, she could instantly burst forth with a massive amount of tearing attacks.
Although each individual strike was only slightly stronger than the attack power of her first soul skill, the sheer quantity was immense. It was equivalent to the simultaneous eruption of at least a dozen consecutive casts of her first soul skill in a single instant.
Without proper preparation, this was enough to heavily injure the vast majority of two-ring Soul Grandmasters, and it posed no small threat even to three-ring Soul Elders.
However, because the speed erupted during the release of this soul skill was too fast—far exceeding the standard of a Battle Soul Master in the Soul Grandmaster realm—it placed an immense burden on her body.
This surge of speed could only be utilized for attacks during the activation of the soul skill itself; it could not be used to accelerate a retreat, nor could it easily be applied to other combat techniques.
Looking at it from another perspective, though, if she could thoroughly master the speed and striking points of this soul skill through continuous practice, she could concentrate all the tearing attacks erupted in that single instant onto one exact point.
Breaking a surface via a single concentrated point would undoubtedly increase its lethality exponentially. Even when facing an opponent whose cultivation was far superior to her own, she would stand a chance at heavily wounding them.
Unfortunately, while the girl appeared to have mastered the basic application of this soul skill, she had not yet reached that advanced level. Otherwise, she could have completely switched her target of attack.
By catching him off guard, she might have been able to directly wound Bu Le—a Soul Ancestor—and defeat a stronger foe as a weaker cultivator.
Seeing that his attacks were almost entirely dismantled by the young girl despite his cultivation being vastly superior to hers, even a lowlife like Bu Le instantly felt as though he had been humiliated.
Flushed with shame and anger, he snarled, "Damn it, I really underestimated you. But, little beauty, do you truly think I have no ways to deal with you?"
He rapidly circulated his soul power.
Soon after, a purple thousand-year soul ring manifested from his body and began to spin rapidly.
The extremely bizarre, bowl-shaped martial soul above his head shot forward like a streak of light. As it drew near the girl, it suddenly unleashed a massive deluge of black mist, quickly surging forward to envelop her.
Seeing the black mist sweeping toward her, the girl lightly tapped the ground with her toes, dodging past several streaks of spectral light as she swiftly retreated in an attempt to evade it. Unfortunately, just as she fell back, Bu Le's bizarre martial soul flashed and flew directly above her.
The opening of the bowl faced downward as it plunged, suddenly expanding to a colossal size. Like two massive lids, they clamped down from the left and right, trapping the girl directly inside while simultaneously discharging a massive amount of black mist within.
Enveloped by this bizarre black mist, the girl instantly felt as though her body was mired in a massive glob of viscous glue. Her speed was visibly hindered, and her body became increasingly difficult to move.
At this rate, it wouldn't be long before she lost all ability to move entirely.
Her heart sank.
Left with no choice, she unleashed her second soul skill once more, attempting to tear her way out. However, even though she activated her second soul skill, her speed still could not pick up much, and the power of the skill was drastically weakened.
The claw blades gleaming with dark purple light at the tips of her fingers scraped against the bowl-shaped martial soul, but it only felt incredibly resilient and pliable, completely resisting her attempts to shred it apart.
"Hahahahaha! My little beauty, I've finally caught you! Hehehehehe..."
Seeing that his trick had worked like a charm just as it always did, Bu Le let out a wretched laugh. His third soul skill not only allowed his martial soul to coordinate with the black mist for defense, but it could also directly trap an enemy inside.
As long as the opponent failed to break free, it wouldn't be long before they were completely enveloped by the black mist, bound tightly like a festive rice dumpling.
At that point, they would be left entirely at his mercy, allowing him to do whatever he pleased. In the past, many low-ranking female Soul Masters had been captured by him in this exact manner for his own twisted pleasure.
In his eyes, this time would be no exception.
Right now, trapped inside Bu Le's martial soul, the young girl clad in dark purple leather attire had indeed lost the strength to move after her failed attempt to break free, just as he had anticipated.
The dense black mist resembled a human-sized sack, wrapping her up entirely and leaving only her beautiful face exposed. Yet, even though she was currently a captive, the girl's eyes remained ice-cold.
She glared at him intensely without a single shred of fear, making one couldn't help but admire her courage.
"Hehehe..."
Seeing that this young girl with a fiery figure was finally in his grasp, Bu Le couldn't restrain his wretched laughter.
His heart instantly felt as though a cat was scratching at it.
After all, the quality of his catch this time was far beyond anything he had encountered before; even if he added ten of his past victims together, they still couldn't compare to the girl standing before him.
"Separate."
Bu Le pointed his finger and channeled his martial soul.
The two bowl-shaped martial souls, which had grown quite massive, immediately split apart and returned to the air above his head, reverting to how they had looked at the very beginning.
However, even though the martial souls had been recalled by Bu Le, the restraint formed by the layer of black mist enveloping the girl's body did not change in the slightest. It still wrapped her up completely below the neck, rendering her motionless.
"Hehehehe, don't worry, little beauty. There's no rush. First, let big brother appreciate your figure."
Bu Le laughed wantonly.
At the same time, the index finger of his right hand flicked back and forth continuously. Under his control, the dense layer of black mist suddenly began to fluctuate up and down, ultimately transforming into several black ropes that tightly bound the girl.
Each rope was several centimeters thick, formed from extremely concentrated black mist. Aside from her legs being tightly bound several times over, the girl's arms were also pinned securely against her waist.
Bu Le's eyes instantly widened so far that his eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets, and he swallowed hard. That curvaceous, fiery figure almost caused the Bu Le in front of her to erupt with a nosebleed.
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