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"What!?"
The moment the Horned Dragon Staff struck Bu Luo Ke with immense force, his vision instantly went pitch black.
He cried out in shock, desperately attempting to activate a soul skill to defend himself, only to realize in horror that he could no longer channel his soul power at all. When light finally returned to Bu Luo Ke's vision, a sudden, searing agony flared in his abdomen.
For some reason, he found himself soaring through the air.
No...
I'm not flying. My body has been blasted away—shattered into two halves.
The realization dawned on Bu Luo Ke as his failing eyes caught one last glimpse of the world: his own mangled, bloody lower torso.
There were no traces of bone splinters left behind. It was as if, in a single microscopic instant, he had been frozen solid and then violently smashed into dust.
Bu Luo Ke finally understood how he died. Yet, even as his consciousness faded into death, he could not wrap his head around the truth. How could he, a soul master with an ice-attribute Martial Soul, end up frozen to death?
How could he, a mighty Soul Emperor, be killed in a single strike by a mere Soul Ancestor?
"Bu Luo Ke!"
The other three executives, who had been working together to parry Xiao Lin's fourth soul skill—the sweeping strikes of the Comet Star Strike—finally regained their vision. Pa Te screamed at the top of his lungs the moment he witnessed Bu Luo Ke's gruesome demise.
This primal scream instantly jolted Bei Te and Ang Shi out of their stupor.
"Impossible!"
As Bei Te and Ang Shi shrieked in disbelief, the trio was violently blasted back several hundred meters by the sheer force of Xiao Lin's Horned Dragon Staff.
The immense physical weight and destructive force of the Horned Dragon Staff left their palms completely numb. Ang Shi, being the weakest among them, felt his chest heave violently before coughing up a mouthful of fresh blood.
"This is impossible!"
Ang Shi gasped for air, his voice dripping with pure disbelief.
The moment they realized things had gone south, all three of them had immediately possessed their Martial Souls and unleashed soul skills to block the incoming attack. They weren't arrogant idiots like Bu Luo Ke.
Yet, even with their guards fully raised, they were still blown back over a hundred meters. The soul power within their bodies was thrown into absolute chaos, leaving them temporarily unable to execute any soul skills.
"What!?"
Suddenly, Pa Te stared at his own arm, his eyes wide with unadulterated horror.
Without him even realizing it, his arm had shattered into pieces in a fraction of a second. There was absolutely no sensation of pain—only a piercing, radiating cold bleeding from the stump of his shoulder, telling him the grim reality.
Just moments ago, his arm had been completely frozen through, shattering under the immense pressure of the clash because it couldn't withstand the force.
"How could something like this happen? I am an Agility-Attack System Soul Master with an ice-attribute Beast Martial Soul! A powerhouse at the Soul Emperor level!"
Pa Te trembled violently as he stared at his severed arm.
He still couldn't accept the reality that an ice-attribute Agility Soul Master like himself had been frozen solid by someone else.
Could it be Ultimate Ice?
Pa Te suddenly recalled a research paper regarding Ultimate Attributes published a few years ago by Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang.
Combined with the persistent rumors of a true overlord residing deep within the Far North. Pa Te was now completely certain that Xiao Lin was a soul master who possessed the Ultimate Ice attribute.
Witnessing Pa Te's pathetic state, Bei Te couldn't help but gasp.
He counted his lucky stars that he was a Control System Soul Master and had deployed his soul skills ahead of time to buffer against that monstrous staff externally.
Ang Shi shared a similar sentiment.
He was merely an Agility-Attack System Soul Master who excelled in sneak attacks, and his actual cultivation was only at the Soul King level. During the clash just now, he had deliberately held back and did not dare confront the attack head-on.
Otherwise, his fate would likely have been no different from Pa Te's.
While Ang Shi felt a lingering dread, bitterness welled up in his heart.
The urge to retreat had already taken root in his mind.
At that moment, Xiao Lin, having depleted more than half of the soul power in his body, had already deactivated his Tool Soul Avatar state. The massive consumption of soul power forced him to cancel the fusion of the Heart of Blazing Flames.
At this moment, his chest heaved violently, a gold and a blue flame spinning continuously within his chest cavity. After a few breaths, Xiao Lin stood up straight once more, his eyes blazing with an intense desire to fight.
However...
As Xiao Lin stared at the three men before him, a wave of shock rippled through his mind.
What on earth were the Martial Souls of these three guys!?
The frail old man was completely covered from head to toe in a protective armor of blue ice crystals. White fur could be seen poking out from the gaps of the armor, making it impossible to discern his exact Martial Soul.
The normal-looking old man held the shattered remnants of some unknown plant in his hands. Yet, in an instant, those plant fragments reassembled, morphing back into a verdant, snake-like vine.
As for the middle-aged man, Xiao Lin could only catch a fleeting glimpse of faint white fur on his body. Every time the middle-aged man took a breath, he would actually vanish from sight.
Three bizarre Martial Souls.
Fortunately, one of them had his combat strength severely reduced.
Xiao Lin frowned slightly.
Gripping the Horned Dragon Staff tightly, he began to step forward, slowly walking toward the trio. In the next instant, a cloak of golden flames erupted across Xiao Lin's body.
Because he had previously activated his Tool Soul Avatar, Xiao Lin had refrained from using this move to conserve his energy. But now, with the Tool Soul Avatar deactivated, Xiao Lin could finally unleash his peak combat strength in his normal state.
"Hey, hey, hey... this kid looks terrifyingly fierce!"
Pa Te gave a cold laugh.
In the next moment, a pair of ice-crystal arms regenerated from his severed stumps.
Pa Te figured that even if it was Ultimate Ice, it would be impossible to defeat him again through solid blocks of ice, so he sneered at Xiao Lin a few more times. The white-streaked beard poking out from his ice-crystal armor bristled aggressively.
It was only now, watching Pa Te's arms regenerate into a pair of frozen palms resembling the hooves of a possessed Soul Beast, that Xiao Lin finally realized what Pa Te's Martial Soul was.
The Snow-Armored Steed—a horse-type Soul Beast renowned for its powerful defense and high mobility. It was said that when charging, it could condense ice spikes and ice spheres around its body to execute devastating ramming attacks.
However, since this guy's arms were now artificially formed from ice, his combat strength was severely crippled. Xiao Lin wasn't overly worried about him.
"He really did startle this old man a bit. He's even more ruthless than I was in my youth."
Bei Te frowned, though his tone carried a hint of ease.
Even though it was a plant-type Tool Martial Soul, it gave Xiao Lin the illusion that it was completely immune to ice and fire. However, hearing Bei Te's confident tone, Xiao Lin also understood what the old man in the middle possessed.
This was a plant-type Martial Soul that feared neither ice nor fire, originating from a Soul Beast found in the Frost-Snow Forests of the Far North, named the Guardian Snake Vine.
It wasn't truly immune to ice and fire, though.
It was simply because it grew in the extreme environment of the Far North, driving its roots deep underground to absorb the moisture within the earth. This moisture was naturally freezing, granting the plant-type Martial Soul an innate resistance to cold.
Because its body absorbed a massive amount of chilly moisture, it naturally didn't fear ordinary fire either. Furthermore, because the Martial Soul possessed the traits of a snake, it excelled at binding and entangling opponents.
The old man in the middle was a Control System Soul Master.
However, seeing how brimming with confidence the old man was, Xiao Lin figured he probably didn't know the true terror of Ultimate Ice and Fire yet. Xiao Lin quietly prepared himself to launch another sneak attack on him.
The advantage was his!
As for the last guy, Xiao Lin still couldn't figure out what his Martial Soul was for the time being. The moment Xiao Lin started approaching them that middle-aged man had completely cloaked himself and vanished.
"Xiao Lin, I'm here to help you!"
Just then, Tang Ni arrived in the nick of time.
She dashed in from Xiao Lin's flank, bathed in a brilliant golden radiance. She appeared right at his side like a golden-armored god of war.
"Are there only two enemies left?"
Tang Ni scanned the area, spotting only a halved corpse and two standing soul masters, asking bluntly.
"There's one more who went invisible," Xiao Lin replied with a faint smile.
With Tang Ni by his side, he had full confidence that they could beat a Soul Emperor to death.
"Invisible?"
"Leave the invisible one to us!"
At that moment, the Shi brothers arrived at the scene with their Black Turtle Shields deployed around them, shielding Ye Lingling securely in the center.
"I didn't expect you to actually pull it off, Captain Xiao Lin."
Ye Lingling offered a soft smile as she summoned her Nine-Hearted Begonia Martial Soul.
Protected by the Shi brothers, their defense was practically an iron fortress.
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