After being enhanced by the third soul skill, the Black Jade Divine Grass had become far harder than rock, nearly rivaling steel. It possessed both the hardness of steel and the flexibility of a plant.
Seeing the fifteen Black Jade Divine Grass vines charging menacingly at him, Xue Qinghe remained calm and unruffled. Sacred soul power surged from his body, forming a sacred barrier around him like the White Tiger Barrier.
"First Soul Skill: Angel Assault!"
This was precisely his first soul skill. Not only could it attack using condensed sacred energy, but it could also turn that sacred energy into a defensive barrier.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Under Anna's control, the fifteen Black Jade Divine Grass vines surrounded Xue Qinghe, then transformed into pitch-black spears that repeatedly stabbed at the sacred barrier. Violent impacts rang out one after another without end.
Yet the sacred barrier was rock-solid. No matter how the Black Jade Divine Grass thrust against it, it did not budge in the slightest. There was not even a single crack on its surface.
Instead, as the Black Jade Divine Grass stabbed at the sacred barrier, the sacred energy clinging to the barrier caused Anna's Black Jade Divine Grass to rapidly wither, as though it had encountered concentrated sulfuric acid.
"How could this be?"
Feeling the Black Jade Divine Grass rapidly dissolving, little Anna furrowed her delicate brows and stared at Xue Qinghe in disbelief, muttering to herself.
"Why are Xue Qinghe's martial soul and soul power attributes both so strange? That energy feels just like..."
"Darkness! Right, it's extremely similar to Sister Zhu Zhuyun's Soul Bone Ability, Darkness Barrier! Within the Darkness Barrier, a soul master's soul power continuously dissolves, and the energy on that barrier does the same."
"And I can clearly feel that Xue Qinghe's martial