The scene flipped back to a dozen minutes earlier, on the mountain gate path.
Soul Fighting City's squad had already charged up, and the two sides were locked in battle. Only Yona Weiss and Yang Jingxue remained, facing each other from several dozen meters apart.
"You are... from the Yang Family... Yang Jingxue, the 'Burial Flower Divine Arrow'..." Yona Weiss confirmed.
He had never met her before, but the Soul Douluo circle was small, and he had heard of Yang Jingxue, this iconic figure of the Yang Family.
He had indeed considered before that someone might be left guarding the mountain gate, but he truly had not expected a peak Soul Douluo to be here.
Yona Weiss thought for a moment, then sent his voice over. "Yang Jingxue, as long as you let this old man leave, I guarantee I won't seek revenge on your Soul Fighting City. With your intelligence network, you should know that I don't get along with the main branch."
"Sounds pretty good. The question is whether you can escape from my hands." Yang Jingxue repeated what she had just said!
Yona Weiss continued, "This old man can even cooperate with Soul Fighting City. Whether it's luring out and killing Magic Sheep Sect soul masters outside, or helping you handle matters you can't conveniently show your faces for, all of it is possible!"
"Sounds pretty good. The question is whether you can escape from my hands." Yang Jingxue repeated what she had just said again!
Yona Weiss took a deep breath and said, "Yang Jingxue, you are not a Titled Douluo yet. This old man is also a High-level Soul Douluo. If we fight, even if this old man loses, I can still knock out a few of your teeth. I have no hope of breaking through to Titled Douluo in this life, but you're different. If you are unfortunately injured, it will definitely delay your hopes of breaking through."
"Sounds pretty good. The question is whether you can escape from my hands." Yang Jingxue repeated what she had just said for the third time!
Yona Weiss was furious. She was mocking him. He forced himself to calm down. It seemed making a move was unavoidable.
"Third Soul Skill—Dark Mist"
Yona Weiss's third soul ring instantly lit up, releasing a vast amount of dark black mist. With Yona Weiss at the center, it spread forward and enveloped Yang Jingxue. Everything was pitch-black, and visibility was less than two meters. This was an extremely excellent group control soul skill.
Although listening to the wind to determine position was a basic technique for advanced shooters, it was only an auxiliary visual technique over short distances. At this moment, the two were separated by several dozen meters, so listening to the wind to determine position was completely insufficient.
"Yang Jingxue, this old man's skill not only conceals the opponent's vision, but also causes hallucinations in the mist and rapidly consumes the opponent's Soul Power. As long as you don't move, we can call this..."
But before he had finished speaking, Yang Jingxue, within the mist, suddenly moved!
At that moment, under Yona Weiss's gaze, Yang Jingxue suddenly drew her Seven Absolute Bow. A Burial Flower Arrow was set against the bowstring. Then the string snapped forward, and that Burial Flower Arrow shot out with gorgeous Soul Power.
A Burial Flower Arrow had an arrowhead like a blooming plum blossom, allowing the arrow to spin rapidly through the air during flight and greatly increasing its penetrative power. Its six tails made the Burial Flower Arrow's trajectory as elusive as mist. This was a high-grade soul tool arrow specially forged by the Yang Family!
And the direction this arrow flew in was precisely toward Yona Weiss!
"Whoosh..." Almost in an instant, the arrow had arrived before Yona Weiss. Yona Weiss, who had still been speaking confidently, saw the incoming arrow, and the smile on his face vanished in a flash.
Then he hurriedly threw himself into a clumsy roll. But even though he reacted quickly, the arrow still grazed past his shoulder, leaving a long wound there!
"That's impossible!" As the arrow landed, Yona Weiss in the distance suddenly cried out.
At that moment, his face was blank with shock. Having completely lost his field of vision, he had never dreamed that Yang Jingxue would actually choose to attack.
And that arrow had actually hit him. Even if it was only a graze, the impact brought by that arrow was still far too terrifying, not at all inferior to a Ten Thousand Years Soul Skill.
This was the Blind Listening Technique, the most consummate ability of archers, the top technique of archers, a unique skill that only archers with extraordinary talent could master.
Yona Weiss was still badly shaken and utterly astonished, but there was nothing strange about it. When facing the world's number one bow-type martial soul, far too many people used soul skills similar to the earlier "Dark Mist" to obscure vision.
Legend had it that long ago, among the Yang Family's ancestors, there had been a sharpshooter soul master whose archery had reached perfection and whose talent was exceptionally high.
But he had lost both eyes because someone took revenge on him.
The enemy first used a mist-type soul skill to completely block his vision, then closed the distance and landed a critical strike that blinded him. He resolved to find a method to counter this type of soul skill.
But if an archer could not even see, how was he supposed to hit a target?
At first, many people thought he might never be able to shoot a bow again in this life. Yet no one had expected that in just one year, relying on his powerful talent and building on the foundation of listening to the wind to determine position, he mastered the Blind Listening Technique.
The so-called Blind Listening Technique meant that under circumstances where one had completely lost vision, one could rely solely on hearing to determine and lock onto the position of a distant target!
Before him, the Yang Family had always first used a rain of arrows to cover an area and identify the opponent's position before attacking. It was troublesome, exhausting, and not very efficient.
Today, the arrow Yang Jingxue shot told Yona Weiss that this soul skill of his was useless!
Because she, Yang Jingxue, knew the Blind Listening Technique!
One careless move, and he lost the initiative. Yona Weiss had only just dodged the first Burial Flower Arrow in a sorry state when the second and third arrows followed close behind. Every arrow aimed straight for his vitals, leaving him no time to activate a soul skill.
The Three-Eyed Magic Sheep Martial Soul was not known for speed. He had just dodged one arrow when a different golden Burial Flower Arrow flashed past. Its speed surpassed the previous arrows, and it shot straight toward his chest. He could not dodge in time, so he could only shift his body slightly to the side. The arrow pierced through his shoulder blade, sending blood spraying and dragging out a trail of droplets.
This was precisely Yang Jingxue's "Third Soul Skill—Golden Radiance," attaching Metal Attribute Soul Power to the Burial Flower Arrow, making its Void Break speed even faster and its penetration even stronger, mixed into the rain of arrows as an attack.
After being shot down by the arrow, he instead avoided the next two or three arrows that followed, giving him time to activate a soul skill.
"Fifth Soul Skill—Myriad Transformations Corrosion"
Yona Weiss released a cloud of dark green smoke. This soul skill could rapidly corrode its target, continuously dealing shadow damage to enemies, and it had an especially powerful corrosive effect against metal-type objects.
Using it now to deal with arrows was barely making do. It rapidly corroded some of the arrows chasing after him, buying him a little time.
Suddenly, he seemed to realize something. He held his breath, lowered his voice to the minimum, and moved position with extremely light motions.
For a moment, Yang Jingxue could not find him, and several of her arrows missed. After all, the Dark Mist was still present. Just now, she had been attacking through the mist with the Blind Listening Technique. Just as Yang Jingxue was about to use a rain of arrows to probe his location...
The chance could not be lost; the moment would not come again!
"Eighth Soul Skill—Magic Sheep Divine Light"
Yona Weiss activated the soul skill he kept as his trump card. This soul skill, like Wilbur Weiss's Skull Soul Skill, could cause the opponent to fall briefly into fear, making their thoughts halt, their body stiffen, and leaving them unable to move, only the effect was even more pronounced.
Moreover, it also came with tremendous Soul Power damage, because Yona Weiss's Soul Power far surpassed that of the skull bone. As long as it hit Yang Jingxue, he would be able to turn the tables from the brink.
Unfortunately, his soul skill exposed his position.
Because it was a divine-light-type soul skill, though it could not compare to Yang Jingxue's arrow, its speed was still extremely fast. Judging from its powerful fluctuations, the soul skill's damage was very high and its range very wide.
As the fluctuations and sound of Yona Weiss's soul skill came, Yang Jingxue had two choices:
First, she could use her family's Seven Absolute Steps, avoid Yona Weiss's soul skill, and then snipe him. But she would lose Yona Weiss's position again. Although she could also dodge while shooting, that would only be an ordinary attack and could not achieve a one-shot kill.
Second, she could unleash her ultimate move first, then dodge or defend after loosing the arrow. But there would be a time gap, and a rushed evasion or defense would weaken the effect. In other words, it might end in both sides suffering heavy losses, or even mutual destruction.
In that split second, they saw—
"Sixth Soul Skill—Sudden Wind, Seventh Soul Skill—Reverse Thunder, Myriad Fusion Art, Wind Lightning Sky Dance!" (PS: That's not a typo, it really is the Seventh Soul Skill.)
Myriad Fusion Art was a secret technique of the Yang Family. The Yang Family inheritance could not only split attacks apart, but also fuse them together.
The moment Yang Jingxue drew the bowstring, the Burial Flower Arrow on the string changed as well.
Countless whirlwinds and bolts of lightning gathered from all directions onto the Burial Flower Arrow, instantly turning this Burial Flower Arrow into a Wind Whirlwind Lightning Burial Flower Arrow!
The sound of wind and thunder resounded through the clouds. Wherever it passed, everything turned to dust, and mountain rocks exploded.
Fast! So fast! Incredibly fast!
This arrow was too fast. As an Agility Attack Type long-range soul master, Yang Jingxue not only had fast hands and loosed arrows quickly, but the arrow's own flight speed was also extremely fast.
Now, with the wind-and-thunder dual attributes added to the Wind Whirlwind Lightning Burial Flower Arrow, its speed had been pushed to an unimaginable degree.
In all martial arts under heaven, only speed was unbreakable. Arrows were the same!
The Wind Whirlwind Lightning Burial Flower Arrow flew almost with afterimages to Yona Weiss's face. Before Yona Weiss's eyes could even make out the arrow, he felt a flash before him, and then the terrifying Wind Whirlwind Lightning Burial Flower Arrow had already slammed into his chest.
"Sixth Soul Skill—Dark Canopy!"
Yona Weiss instinctively unleashed that soul skill, wanting to use the canopy to slow it down and dodge. Unfortunately, it was too late!
Unlike before, when his shoulder blade had been pierced through by a single arrow, the moment Yang Jingxue's arrow reached his chest, the swirling wind and lightning exploded with a boom. The whirlwind burst into over a hundred tiny wind blades that pierced through his body, leaving him drenched in blood with wounds deep enough to show bone. Countless bolts of lightning instantly spread through his whole body, paralyzing him completely. At the same time, the Burial Flower Arrow broke through his chest and stabbed into his heart.
Almost no one could see the entire process clearly. They only heard Yang Jingxue's bowstring snap back, and Yona Weiss was sent flying backward. By the time he hit the ground, he was already a corpse!
Crushing!
This was true crushing dominance. This was an absolute gap in Spirit and strength. Among those of the same rank, almost no one could withstand this arrow, let alone a mere soul master with the Seventh Grade Spirit, Three-Eyed Magic Sheep.
Overwhelming power—nothing more, nothing less!
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