Gu Qingfeng, Song Yiyan

Gu Qingfeng, Song Yiyan

Outside Maple City, the abandoned outpost exploded with a deafening boom. Its high walls collapsed, while the old fortresses were swept apart and destroyed by powerful sword light.

From within the smoke and dust, translucent phantom figures wreathed in ghostly fire emerged one after another.

They resembled lions and tigers, yet looked even more like the legendary Ink Jade Qilin!

"This body is truly weak. It can barely condense soul beasts of this level."

The middle-aged villager with ghostly light glowing in his eyes seemed dissatisfied with the Ink Jade Qilin that had appeared.

"It will have to do."

"What are these?!" Gu Qingfeng landed beside Song Yiyan and studied the translucent beast phantoms with a grave expression.

"They are neither formed from demon power nor some strange spell. They are actually condensed entirely from soul power!" Gu Qingfeng said in alarm.

It was his first time seeing soul power materialized into beastly bodies of such intensity.

The most troublesome thing about these soul beasts was that they did not attack the physical body, only the soul.

It now seemed that the villagers had collectively collapsed in silence because their souls had been scattered!

Sword light powerful enough to split mountains and shatter earth swept over them, yet it only slightly warped the soul beasts' bodies before they quickly stabilized again.

Their ordinary methods of combat, even sword force formed from near-perfect Innate Qi, could hardly affect these soul beasts.

Gu Qingfeng reacted swiftly. With a turn of his sword momentum, he struck directly at the strange middle-aged villager.

Soul beasts were difficult to kill, but the middle-aged villager's flesh-and-blood body might not be able to withstand his sword qi.

His sword techniques were exquisitely profound, and the sword in his hand possessed astonishing power for