Soul Body Thread

"What's your name?" Luo Ling couldn't help asking again.

"Hu Liena," Hu Liena answered cautiously.

It was confirmed. It really was Hu Liena!

Luo Ling no longer knew what to say.

To actually run into Hu Liena in the Soul Hunting Forest—this made no sense!

As the Saintess of Spirit Hall and Bibi Dong's disciple, Hu Liena should have been in Spirit City right now. Why was she here?

Luo Ling couldn't make sense of it no matter how hard he thought.

"Have you come up with a way to deal with the Crimson Flame Lion?" Hu Liena spoke up, interrupting Luo Ling's wild thoughts.

Luo Ling came back to his senses and cut off his speculation about Hu Liena.

The urgent matter was dealing with the trouble before them. Luo Ling shook his head and looked at the Crimson Flame Lion ahead.

Hu Liena's Second Soul Skill, Fox Charm, could control the Crimson Flame Lion for a brief time, but that was nowhere near enough for the two of them to escape.

Luo Ling frowned deeply and inadvertently looked toward the Raven Shadow Puppet beside him.

The Raven Shadow Puppet's First Soul Skill, Darkness Weaving, could not hold it for long either. As for his Second Martial Soul, the Soul of Desire...

He had no confidence in hypnotizing a thousand-year soul beast. The gap between them was simply too great.

Wait!

Thinking of the Soul of Desire, Luo Ling suddenly recalled the scene from Notting Academy, when the Raven Shadow Puppet and the Soul of Desire had fused.

It had been similar to a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, greatly increasing his strength. Even the Soul Skills seemed to have changed.

Luo Ling had only performed Martial Soul Fusion once and had yet to study it carefully.

But he could only give it a try now. There was no other way.

Taking a light breath, the Raven Shadow Puppet became ethereal, and its entire body slowly merged into Luo Ling's body.

At the same time, an eerie red light lit up in Luo Ling's eyes.

The aura of Soul Power around Luo Ling surged, actually reaching a level close to Hu Liena's.

Bathed in an aura of darkness, Luo Ling felt more comfortable than ever before, as though the entire world had become much clearer.

The pale yellow Soul Ring continued to pulse slowly, but Luo Ling could feel that the Darkness Thread had become completely different.

He stretched out his hand, and the originally dim Darkness Thread slowly turned ethereal, faintly glowing red.

If the previous Darkness Thread had been an invisible physical entity, then the current Darkness Thread had completely transformed into an ethereal soul body.

It was still invisible, yet even more impossible to grasp!

The instant the Darkness Thread completed its transformation, Luo Ling's vision changed drastically as well.

The world before him darkened. Within that dim world, the surrounding trees, the Crimson Flame Lion before him, and Hu Liena...

All of them had changed in Luo Ling's eyes.

Countless threads glowing with white light extended from them, stretching into the boundless depths of darkness.

"These are threads that point directly to the soul..." Luo Ling came to a slight realization.

He raised his hand, and red-glowing threads shot from it, intertwining with the other threads around him.

"Perhaps the Darkness Thread should now be called Soul Body Thread." Luo Ling muttered to himself as the Soul Body Thread in his hand wrapped around the white threads emanating from a nearby tree.

The red light gradually corroded them. When the white light was completely replaced by red, Luo Ling clearly felt that the tree's soul had fallen entirely under his control.

"What terrifying power..." His hands trembled slightly.

He had never imagined that Martial Soul Fusion would bring such a qualitative transformation to the Darkness Thread.

Those white-glowing Soul Body Threads were the source of other sentient creatures' souls.

In the state of Martial Soul Fusion, Luo Ling could see and manipulate them. Once the red light completely corroded those threads, Luo Ling would gain complete control over those sentient creatures' souls.

He could control them, use their own abilities, and make them fight for him.

Of course, this control was not without limits. Its consumption of Soul Power was astonishingly high.

Furthermore, during the corrosion process, he had to engage in a battle of Spiritual Power against the target's soul. One misstep could leave his own soul severely wounded.

But even with so many limitations, such an ability was terrifying enough!

"Roar!" A lion's roar snapped Luo Ling awake.

"Have you come up with a plan or not?" Hu Liena anxiously clutched Luo Ling's sleeve. The Crimson Flame Lion ahead was already preparing to attack again.

"How long can your Fox Charm control this lion?" Luo Ling came back to his senses and asked calmly.

"About three seconds."

"When I tell you to use your skill, cast Fox Charm on the Crimson Flame Lion." Luo Ling nodded.

Three seconds would be enough.

As a transmigrator, the strength of his soul and Spiritual Power had been high to begin with. Coupled with his Second Martial Soul Awakening and Martial Soul Fusion, his Spiritual Power was now no weaker than that of the Crimson Flame Lion before him.

As long as Hu Liena could control the Crimson Flame Lion's mind at the critical moment, Luo Ling was confident he could completely corrode its soul.

"Roar!" The Crimson Flame Lion let out another furious roar, then charged at Luo Ling.

Crimson flames condensed into fireballs in the air and came crashing down at Luo Ling alongside it.

Yet Luo Ling merely smiled calmly. He discovered that while releasing the Soul Body Thread, he could actually predict his opponent's thoughts to a certain extent.

The Crimson Flame Lion's attack path was completely laid bare before Luo Ling.

He leisurely dodged the Crimson Flame Lion's attack.

Ethereal Soul Body Threads shot out and wrapped around the Crimson Flame Lion's Soul Body Threads.

The bewitching red light corroded forward like poison clinging to the bone.

The Crimson Flame Lion let out a terrified roar, and its entire body froze.

When its Soul Body Threads were being corroded, the target would enter a state of sluggish thoughts and stiffened movement. Even if the soul corrosion failed, it was still an extremely domineering crowd-control skill.

"Use Fox Charm!" Luo Ling called out.

Hu Liena did not hesitate. Her eyes turned a seductive pink.

The Crimson Flame Lion's already sluggish body instantly came to a complete halt. Seizing the opportunity, Luo Ling fully took control of the Crimson Flame Lion's soul.

When the red light completely corroded the Crimson Flame Lion's Soul Body Threads, the gleam of soul light in its eyes went out, and its entire body collapsed onto the ground.

Looking at the Crimson Flame Lion on the ground, Luo Ling's face was pale. His Spiritual Power and Soul Power had almost been exhausted, and they were still draining away.

"Quick, kill it!" Luo Ling shouted with difficulty.

Hu Liena was no fool. She took a short sword from her Soul Tool and stabbed it into the Crimson Flame Lion's heart without hesitation.

With a mournful cry, the Crimson Flame Lion died completely.

Luo Ling panted heavily. As the Crimson Flame Lion died, he felt a trace of soul power merge into himself.

His Spiritual Power had actually increased.

"It... died just like that?" Hu Liena took several steps back in disbelief, then dropped onto the ground.

It all felt like a joke, but the purple Soul Ring gradually condensing before her left her no choice but to believe it.

In the shadows, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Bibi Dong silently watched everything unfold, shock visible in both their eyes.

Although they did not know how the Crimson Flame Lion had died, they had witnessed everything Luo Ling did.

"That was a Martial Soul Fusion Skill..." Bibi Dong slowly said, and the look she gave Luo Ling became incomparably fervent.