Hampered

At the same time, Soul Rings rose from beneath Ye Yu's feet—two yellow and one purple, representing her three-ring strength.

Her third Soul Ring was glowing a bright purple. Clearly, what Ye Yu had unleashed was her third Soul Skill, and currently her only thousand-year Soul Skill: Dark Gold Dreadclaw.

Ye Chen was not surprised by the Soul Rings of the girl before him. After all, she was not a special existence like him, Wang Dong'er, or Huo Yuhao. Given her talent, the optimal Soul Ring configuration was perfectly normal.

What truly surprised Ye Chen was that Ye Yu had used her strongest move right from the start.

This gave him a direct understanding of Ye Yu's strength. According to the information Elder Yi had previously given him, Ye Yu's first two Soul Skills were both self-enhancement types—one for offense and the other for defense.

These abilities were somewhat similar to the White Bone Vajra Transformation of the White Bone Martial Soul and Bei Bei's Wrath of Thunder. In other words, she only had one true offensive Soul Skill.

Still, that was enough. Although every swing of Dark Gold Dreadclaw, enhanced by her first and second Soul Skills, consumed an extremely terrifying amount of Soul Power, as long as she still had Soul Power, she could use this technique without limit.

If Ye Yu's control had been a little more precise, she might truly have forced Ye Chen to use methods beyond the agreed limits.

At that moment, Ye Chen's mind raced as he considered how to deal with what came next.

According to the agreement, although he had suppressed his cultivation to three rings and could not use the abilities of his Second Martial Soul, his methods did not end there.

Leaving aside the Tang Sect's Secret Arts, which