Water Flame Flower, Kill!

"Buzz, buzz~"

Li Yu raised his head, his gaze falling on the Emerald Crystal atop the vines.

The next moment, his pupils contracted.

A face slowly emerged upon the Emerald Crystal!

This was...

Humanoid Transformation?

No!

Li Yu immediately rejected that thought.

The crystal with the emerging face was undoubtedly the core of this Vine Soul Beast.

But it was absolutely impossible for this Vine Soul Beast to have reached the stage where it could undergo Humanoid Transformation.

That was something only a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could accomplish.

Not to mention that after a Humanoid Transformation, its physical form should be human. Even the strength it had displayed just now was far from that of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Although this Vine Soul Beast had entered the Ten Thousand Years level, it had only just entered it!

It should have belonged to the weakest batch of Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts.

Otherwise, with Li Yu's strength, he would not have been able to stall it for this long.

At this moment.

Faced with the Vine Soul Beast suddenly revealing its core, Li Yu was also at a loss.

Yet his mind remained highly tense. Something unusual was bound to be sinister. He did not believe that a Soul Beast that had reached the Ten Thousand Years level would do something meaningless.

And in the next moment.

He understood why the Vine Soul Beast had suddenly revealed its core!

Because...

Li Yu, who had been warily staring at the face on the Emerald Crystal, suddenly found his vision blurring!

When he came to his senses again, the emerald crystal had vanished. In its place was a gigantic face hundreds of meters tall!

Its two pupils resembled enormous lakes, and faint emerald flames burned within them, making it utterly terrifying!

"Human, submit, or... die!"

Suddenly, a voice like a decree from Heaven and Earth exploded in Li Yu's mind.

The blast left him completely dazed, and he instinctively moved to kneel before this godlike being.

But at that very instant, a faint golden glow suddenly lit up in his vacant eyes.

A voice seemed to resound from the depths of his heart—

If it has not reached Hundred Thousand Years, how can it speak human language?

If it has reached Hundred Thousand Years, why would it need to say such words?

Therefore.

It is all but an illusion!

The faint golden light in his eyes immediately became intense and blazing!

The instant he raised his head, the enormous face before him shattered!

The space before his eyes also cracked and collapsed!

Immediately after.

He returned once more to the middle of the forest's "Biochemical Battlefield."

The vines crowned with the Emerald Crystal were still "staring" at him. Hooked Snake and Ying Yu stood vigilantly on guard, while Dugu Yan hid behind Li Yu, sweat beading on her forehead as her body trembled.

Everything seemed unchanged.

But Li Yu's gaze suddenly turned razor-sharp.

He immediately noticed that the face on the Emerald Crystal was now somewhat distorted!

It seemed to be because he had broken through the Illusionary Realm it had created!

Thus, he did not hesitate in the slightest. He knew this might be the best opportunity to kill this Vine Soul Beast!

Therefore.

A scene that appeared somewhat abrupt to Dugu Yan unfolded.

Li Yu opened the right hand he had kept clenched ever since Bi Fang's Fire Feather Meteor had dissipated.

Within it, a transparent Elemental Cube appeared and gradually expanded.

Inside it was a rotating vortex.

More precisely, the vortex within had now become more like a funnel!

It consisted of two vortices, crimson above and Ice Blue below.

And just as Li Yu revealed it, crimson and Ice Blue rapidly blended together where the two funnels connected!

The Elemental Cube also became extremely unstable at that instant, as though it might explode at any moment.

Yet Li Yu's expression remained unchanged. With a slight movement of his mind, the restless Water Fire Two Elements calmed down, then obediently began to merge at high speed.

Originally.

Before attempting it, Li Yu had also believed that merging two elements would be difficult.

However, he had underestimated just how valuable 100% affinity with Water Fire Dual Elements was.

The two elements were like his left and right hands.

Unless he wanted them to, the chance of his two hands fighting was practically zero.

And so.

In just an instant, the fusion was complete!

The Elemental Cube still cracked and reassembled as before!

But this time, no strange beast was formed as it had been before.

What emerged after the reassembly was a Flame Flower!

Crimson and Ice Blue flowed across the Flame Flower, making it even more dazzling while also causing the aura it emitted to become even more terrifying!

The next moment.

The Flame Flower flew from his hand and drifted toward the Emerald Crystal!

At the same time, the distorted face on the Emerald Crystal finally "calmed" at that instant.

Then, it discovered in horror that a Flame Flower that filled it with fear had already pressed against its face!

Boom!

A terrifying explosion erupted the next moment!

A dazzling Flame Flower appeared in the sky, and the Soul Beasts within dozens of miles all raised their heads to look in its direction.

And at the center of the explosion.

Several full minutes passed before the lingering force finally dispersed completely.

Li Yu pulled Dugu Yan to her feet, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and then looked with some emotion at the Black Soul Ring slowly rising before them.

Judging by the result, this Vine Soul Beast had indeed reached the Ten Thousand Years level.

But its strength...

Li Yu did not think it could truly be considered a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast.

However...

That was also where this Vine Soul Beast's uniqueness lay.

It was a Plant-type Soul Beast, and among Vines, it was even the type of Soul Beast considered relatively powerful in attack.

Yet its primary ability was actually an Illusion Technique!

In other words, it was a Soul Beast of the Spiritual Power type.

That was also why the Vine Soul Beast had revealed its core in the end. According to Li Yu's analysis, its Illusion Technique likely had to be cast through "eye contact."

And that had happened to give Li Yu an opportunity to kill this Soul Beast!

Of course, the main credit still had to go to the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew he had consumed not long ago.

Had he not consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and greatly enhanced his Spiritual Power, he likely would not have had the chance to break free from the Illusionary Realm created by this Vine Soul Beast.

And he would have had even less chance to kill it!

He might not even have had the opportunity to use his Elemental Dissolution talent!

Unfortunately, all those "ifs" were meaningless, because Li Yu had it!

And the Black Soul Ring rising before him was the final result.

For a Soul Beast that mainly relied on Illusion Techniques, once its Illusion Technique had been broken, such an ending was almost inevitable.

"He actually... really killed it!"

Dugu Yan stared at everything in shock.

Li Yu had actually killed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast. It was something she had never expected!

This was a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast, an existence capable of contending with a Six Ring Soul Emperor!

But Li Yu...

"My dear sister, what realm are you actually at?"

Dugu Yan looked at Li Yu's back with emotion. At that moment, she felt she had never seen such a "cool" back in her life.

And in the next moment, her question was finally answered.

Li Yu stepped forward, and three Soul Rings rose one after another—

Purple! Purple! Purple!