Swish~
Although Lu Feng's sword momentum had been intercepted and failed to slit Evil Yin Grand Duke's throat in a single stroke, his upward thrust still slashed the latter's face, splitting open several disgusting patterns upon it.
Sizzle~
A sound like firewood cracking rang out.
Lu Feng's expression changed in alarm. He retreated repeatedly, evading as wariness filled his eyes.
At first, he had not known what exactly the patterns on Evil Yin Grand Duke's face were. But now, seeing streams of gray-black qi imbued with Soul Power leaking out, he finally recognized them.
Death Qi!
A dreadful aura refined from the bone marrow of dead corpses, capable of corrupting others' spiritual qi and eroding their life force!
Ordinarily, anyone would flee from such an aura in terror. Yet Evil Yin Grand Duke had actually absorbed and contained it, using a special method to gather it upon his face.
Though Lu Feng did not know why Evil Yin Grand Duke had done this, sensing strands of soul aura within that Death Qi, he could not help secretly guessing that Evil Yin Grand Duke had done more than merely extract Death Qi. He had likely also fused the residual Soul Power from corpses into it.
Thus forming the special "restriction" before him, one that could protect its host on its own.
Had it not been for that sudden eruption of Death Qi, Evil Yin Grand Duke would already have fallen beneath Lu Feng's sword momentum.
As expected of a Heaven Soul Realm Late Stage soulmaster. He was truly difficult to kill!
In truth, however, Lu Feng's guess was not entirely correct. Evil Yin Grand Duke had not simply extracted Death Qi and absorbed the shattered remnants of souls from the recently dead to form a special restriction. Instead, he had fused