Mere Woman

"Hm?"

Seeing Hun Qing's actions, Phoenix's brows suddenly drew together as she immediately noticed a highly repulsive sinister aura surging out from Hun Qing's body.

Yao Chen, some distance away, felt the sinister aura rising from Hun Qing and her expression abruptly changed.

This aura... was exactly the same as the one she had previously noticed within those fierce beasts' souls!

(Could this guy...)

Yao Chen guessed something, and her expression instantly turned incomparably grim.

But Phoenix did not care about that. Having sensed danger, she flashed above Hun Qing, raised her hand, and slashed downward. Feeling that something was terribly wrong, Yao Chen shouted sharply.

"Stop!"

However, it was already too late.

The instant Yao Chen spoke, Phoenix had mercilessly split Hun Qing in two. The next second, a chilling murky aura emerged from Hun Qing's divided corpse and coiled around Phoenix's arm as if it were alive. Phoenix's eyes narrowed as she swiftly retreated, flinging the murky aura from her arm.

After briefly sensing it, Phoenix was shocked to discover that merely from that instant of contact, her soul had already been slightly contaminated by the murky aura. A small portion of the soul in her arm was no longer under her control!

What was this thing?!

Phoenix was alarmed. Seeing that the murky aura invading her still showed signs of spreading, she decisively severed the contaminated portion of her soul and separated it from her body. Fortunately, the contaminated part was not extensive, and Phoenix did not suffer any serious damage from doing so.

Phoenix then turned her gaze back to Hun Qing's corpse, and her pupils abruptly shrank. Before her very eyes, Hun Qing's body, which she had split in two, sank into the barbaric earth. In an instant, two strange blood-red formations appeared in the