Doesn't a Martial Soul Affect One's Personality?

A few minutes later, the battlefield fell into deathly silence.

The wind had already died down, and fallen leaves drifted onto the bloodstained grass.

Watching the Lord of Soul Beasts use such brutally cruel methods, Li Jinsheng unconsciously took half a step back.

I haven't even applied any buffs yet! Those Wind Baboons were slaughtered before they even had time to suffer!

Gu Yue flicked away the surrounding flames, looked at Li Jinsheng, and chuckled. "Let's keep moving forward!"

Seeing that cruel smile, Li Jinsheng's body trembled involuntarily. He replied awkwardly, "...Okay!"

"I didn't expect the soul beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform to have no sense of pain!"

"That's hard to say. What if the ones you fight do?"

"Didn't you say yourself that your enemies don't feel pain?"

"Only the ones I fight don't!"

The two chatted as they headed deeper into the forest. Sunlight streamed through gaps in the leaves, scattering mottled patches of light across their figures as they walked one behind the other.

As they continued forward, a rustling sound suddenly came from the bushes ahead.

The two immediately stopped, and then a tall figure appeared in their sight.

It was a massive bear standing three meters tall, its entire body covered in tawny fur. Its paws were especially huge, and its eyes gleamed a bright yellow.

The moment it saw Li Jinsheng, it pounced without hesitation. In its eyes, Li Jinsheng was a slab of pork belly brimming with rich life force.

Seeing this through the soul guide screen, Xiao Yu immediately said to the staff, "A thousand-year soul beast—it's a Thousand Year Crystal Bear. Quickly warn the two of them to teleport out!"

The staff understood at once and quickly operated the console to notify them.

Zi Ji looked at the soul beast on the screen and knew its strength very well.

A Thousand Year Crystal Bear.

This was an exceptionally rare soul beast, one that had seldom appeared even in ancient times.

The Thousand Year Crystal Bear and the Terrorclaw Bear belonged to the same species and emerged through mutation. However, it was a weakened mutation. After mutating, its strength was far inferior to that of a Terrorclaw Bear.

Yet it possessed a special ability: any opponent struck by it would undergo crystallization. After being attacked again, they would be shattered directly.

Only powerful Soul Power could resist the crystallization, and only by swiftly cutting away the struck area could one avoid injury.

However, the Crystal Bear also had a weakness: it could only fight in close combat and had no long-range attack capabilities whatsoever.

But even after receiving the retreat order, Li Jinsheng fled without the slightest panic. "A hero never flees in the face of battle!"

The First Soul Ring beneath his feet lit up, and an emerald green beam flew out from his Element orb.

First Soul Skill, Sense Deprivation: Vision Deprivation!

The Thousand Year Crystal Bear's vision went black. It pounced straight into empty air and crashed directly into a large tree.

After steadying itself, it shook its head from side to side, but its vision remained completely dark.

"Roar!"

It let out a roar, trying to break free from the blinding control, but it was ultimately like an ant trying to shake a tree.

Gu Yue also made her move at this moment. Fireballs shot out like a rapid-fire cannon, striking the bear's body with a series of crackles and explosions that burst into fiery red sparks.

Sparks flew everywhere and ignited the surrounding grass, yet they failed to ignite the bear's fur. There was not even the slightest scorch mark.

"Such thick hide!"

Li Jinsheng did not approach. Instead, he silently kept Gu Yue protected in front of him.

As soon as his Soul Skill's cooldown ended, a second emerald green beam shot from his hand and once again entered the bear's body.

Sense Stripping: Touch Stripping!

The Thousand Year Crystal Bear's body suddenly stiffened, its huge paw hanging in midair as though it had suddenly forgotten what it was supposed to do.

Now, it could neither see nor feel. Its entire world was nearly void.

Its ears twitched constantly; it could still hear the wind around it. Its nose twitched as well; it could still smell scents.

Gu Yue frowned tightly and slashed out cyan Wind Blades from her fingertips. They struck the thick fur but caused not the slightest damage.

The gale carried tongues of flame up along the Thousand-Year Crystal Bear's arm. Its tawny fur crackled, releasing a foul odor.

The Thousand-Year Crystal Bear's nose twitched as it caught the smell of burning, yet it could not feel any pain. Anxious, it spun in place, its massive rear sweeping down small trees as crystal powder scattered everywhere.

"What's wrong with this Crystal Bear? What kind of Soul Skill is that?" Gu Yue noticed that something was off about Li Jinsheng's Soul Skill. The first control had made the Crystal Bear miss its pounce, while the second had directly erased its desire to attack.

"Sense Deprivation. The first time, I deprived it of vision. The second time, I deprived it of touch." Li Jinsheng's voice was somewhat weak, but it reached Gu Yue's ears clearly.

The girl finally understood why Li Jinsheng had said that his enemies did not feel pain. They truly could not feel pain! So this guy wasn't an idiot after all.

"Strip all five senses from this stupid bear, then we'll figure out how to break its defense!" Gu Yue said directly.

"Even if you hadn't said so, I would've done it!" Li Jinsheng waited for his Soul Skill's cooldown to recover again. His Soul Ring flashed, and a third emerald green beam shot out.

Sense Stripping: Smell Stripping!

The Thousand-Year Crystal Bear's awareness of and control over its body diminished once more. The smells around it vanished, and the nose it had always been so proud of, the one it used to find food, had failed.

At that moment, it let out an unprecedented howl.

But with nothing but darkness before its eyes, all it could do was use its roars to frighten off weaker Soul Beasts and rage helplessly!

"Keep stripping them away!"

"Don't rush me. I can't cast it continuously on the same target."

"Got it. But isn't your Martial Soul life-elemental? Why is your First Soul Skill a control skill?"

"No idea! Maybe I'm just exceptionally gifted!"

Hearing that, Gu Yue fell silent. As the fifth jade-green light entered the Thousand-Year Crystal Bear's body, it instantly lost all control over itself. It could no longer sense any changes in the outside world, and its body collapsed limply to the ground.

It had become meat on the chopping block, ready to be slaughtered.

Gu Yue roughly guessed that once all five senses were completely stripped away, the target would lose all control of its body. Her gaze drifted toward Li Jinsheng. This was a thousand-year Soul Beast, yet after all this time, it had not broken free of even a single layer of control?!

She needed to find a human to test it on and get some feedback on the effect.

"What do we do now? Can you kill it?" Li Jinsheng kept swinging his axe, but it did nothing when it struck the Thousand-Year Crystal Bear's neck.

Maybe he was simply too weak.

Gu Yue began trying various attacks, but with only one-ring strength on the surface, she simply could not break through such thick defenses.

Li Jinsheng was getting tired. He planted the axe in the ground and said, "Watch this. Let's use this instead!"

He bent down and took out a civilian Soul Tool even more terrifying than a Fire Axe from the Soul Tool at his waist.

It was a production tool—a Chainsaw!

As the Chainsaw appeared, Xiao Yu, who was watching through the surveillance feed, gradually realized that Li Jinsheng might have a somewhat cruel personality. Who the hell carried a Chainsaw for self-defense?!

Didn't they say Martial Souls could influence a person's personality?

No matter how he looked at it, a life-elemental Martial Soul should have guided someone toward a gentler disposition.

When he looked back at the surveillance feed and saw those brutal methods, he no longer knew how he was supposed to educate Li Jinsheng.