When Lin Yi's Soul Power and spiritual power touched the pitch-black Soul Ring, entwined with gray and dark-red patterns, the expected surge of violent energy, like a mountain flood bursting loose, did not come at once.
Instead, he felt something exceedingly eerie, cold, and slippery, as if countless icy tentacles lined with barbs were silently creeping up along the connection of Soul Power, trying to burrow into his meridians, erode his soul, and devour everything with insatiable greed.
This was the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Soul Ring's nature—not a brute-force collision, but insidious infiltration and domineering devouring!
An ordinary Soul Master, caught off guard, might have their Soul Power and spirit instantly eroded and weakened by this strange devouring force—or even have it turn against them.
But Lin Yi had been prepared. With the support of his Wisdom Skull and the million-year origin power of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, his spiritual power had long since been tempered into something incomparably tough. And at the level of his soul, the Ice Phoenix Martial Soul lay hidden, guarding him.
Though this devouring force was powerful, it was like crashing into the sturdiest dam. It could advance no further.
"Hmph!" Lin Yi sneered inwardly. The Ice Dragon Martial Soul's extreme cold and proud dragon soul were fully roused! As if provoked by a lowly evil creature, the Ice Dragon's power roared with fury inside him!
A far purer and more domineering extreme cold, imbued with righteous might, burst from the depths of Lin Yi's soul and surged back against the strange devouring force invading him!
Ssszzzz—!
It was like cold water poured into boiling oil. The Ice Dragon's righteous, extreme cold and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's evil devouring power clashed fiercely and annihilated each other within Lin Yi!
That