It was a sword condensed from Holy Sacred Fire. It could enhance its user, especially greatly boosting attack power. The Holy Sword could be held as a weapon for sustained combat, vastly increasing both lethality and offensive strength.
It could also be used as Qian Renxue was using it now, transforming into a giant sword over ten meters long and slashing down upon the enemy with tremendous power.
It could even increase the purification and dissolution effects of angel Soul Power by three hundred percent. An ordinary Soul Master struck by it would have their Soul Power drastically dissolved; even if they did not die, they would lose a layer of skin!
Thus, having obtained this fifth soul skill, Qian Renxue's strength had greatly increased.
"Wretched beast! This sword will send you to hell!" Qian Renxue slashed down.
"Riiip!"
The Man Faced Demon Spider struggled madly, but by the time it broke free of Angel Free Will's restraints, it was already too late.
Qian Renxue's sword had already cleaved it in two.
She withdrew her power and landed, standing there with a proud expression. That stance was nothing short of a thunderous pose, utterly dashing.
A smile curled across Qian Renxue's lips as she looked toward Lin Ye. "Mine is over. Now it's your turn."
"Heh." Lin Ye smiled confidently. "Alright, then let's go."
He quickly rushed toward his own target.
Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue followed behind him.
An hour later, Lin Ye stood before his target as well—a twenty-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider.
Qian Daoliu similarly set up a Soul Power barrier, creating a five-hundred-meter Battle Space.
"Angel Holy Sword!" Lin Ye released his martial soul, and the flashy configuration of soul rings beneath his feet emerged: yellow, purple, purple, black—four rings in total.
"Come on, beast!"
"First Soul Skill, Angel Sword Domain!"
The enhancement skill activated, and Lin Ye's aura and strength surged.
Yet this Man Faced Demon Spider did not charge at him immediately like the one Qian Renxue had faced. Instead, it narrowed its eyes slightly, revealing an evil gaze.
It crawled slowly across the tree, like a high-level predator carefully observing its prey.
"This is bad. This Man Faced Demon Spider may be harder to deal with than the one Xiaoxue killed." Qian Daoliu frowned.
Qian Renxue was puzzled. "What's different about it? Aren't they both twenty-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spiders?"
"Look closely at its behavior. It is clearly more sinister and cunning."
Qian Renxue's expression changed slightly. "It really is."
What set humans apart from soul beasts was their greater intelligence. Humans better understood how to use techniques, the environment, weaknesses, and advantages to develop battle strategies and fighting styles more favorable to themselves.
Even after soul beasts reached ten thousand years and gained intelligence, they were still inferior to humans in this regard.
They were easily impulsive and easily provoked, causing them to lose their composure and expose more weaknesses and openings.
Lin Ye sensed it too. The Man Faced Demon Spider before him was not as frenzied and reckless as the one Qian Renxue had faced. It was smarter and calmer!
"Interesting." Lin Ye suddenly became a little excited.
The spider's narrowed eyes became mere slits, yet its gaze seemed to be smiling.
The next second, it suddenly vanished from where it stood.
This was not teleportation, but invisibility!
Once Man Faced Demon Spiders reached ten thousand years, they could learn an invisibility skill. Not only could they hide their bodies, but they could conceal their auras as well. This meant that even enemies with sufficiently powerful spiritual power would struggle to detect them.
But as long as it moved, there would be flaws to find.
As it happened, Lin Ye's first soul skill did not merely enhance his strength. It also enhanced his five senses—sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell!
And this Man Faced Demon Spider seemed to have slaughtered quite a few soul beasts recently, carrying a thick stench of blood.
Lin Ye smelled it when it approached.
The surroundings were utterly quiet. The Man Faced Demon Spider made no sound at all, but Lin Ye could sense it moving around him!
"Riiip!"
Suddenly, it appeared five meters to Lin Ye's left.
It bared its entire row of disgusting, jagged fangs, its face narrowed as an obvious wicked grin spread across it.
Then, it vanished once again.
It continued appearing and disappearing like that, deliberately trying to scare Lin Ye several times.
"Heh, are you toying with me?" Lin Ye sneered.
If it were someone who could neither see nor sense where it was, unable to know when the enemy might suddenly appear and attack—and with the enemy occasionally showing itself just to taunt them—
that would indeed be a severe test of one's mental fortitude.
Perhaps before the demon spider even attacked, they would already lose their composure, panic, and become unable to stay calm.
And once a person panicked and lost control, they would be even less likely to detect the enemy's presence.
The Man Faced Demon Spider was making its prey feel fear, forcing its prey to break through its own psychological defenses.
That way, it could better toy with and cruelly slaughter its prey, satisfying its twisted desire to kill.
Lin Ye stood perfectly calm where he was. He sensed that the Man Faced Demon Spider had already climbed onto the large tree beside him.
Right above his head!
With a playful and malicious gaze, it stared at Lin Ye as its ugly spider face slowly crept closer.
It intended to press its face in front of Lin Ye, suddenly reveal itself and scare him half to death, then brutally torture and kill him.
Little did it know that Lin Ye knew its position like the back of his hand!
"Heh, you really are a high-level predator! But truly high-level predators often appear in the form of prey!" Lin Ye pretended not to know and remained standing where he was.
He pretended that he had noticed nothing, like prey that could be easily devoured.
Seeing this, the Man Faced Demon Spider's wicked grin widened as it continued drawing closer.
But at that very moment, Lin Ye suddenly spun around without warning, thrusting his sword fiercely behind him!
Splat!
"Riiip—aaah!" The demon spider howled in pain, its body appearing once more.
Lin Ye's sword had pierced straight through one of its eyes. "You think I couldn't find you? The bloody stench on you is too strong! You think you can toy with me? You're courting death!"
Splat!
Lin Ye violently raised his sword, blinding the three eyes behind it in a single slash as well.
Then he pulled back and widened the distance.
"Riiip! (Human! I will leave you without a whole corpse!)" The Man Faced Demon Spider charged at him madly and viciously.
"Heh, already angry? Looks like you've never suffered much in all your years of living!"
Lin Ye sneered, charging at the demon spider with sword in hand.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Lin Ye evaded seven fierce thrusts from the demon spider's legs, then slid forward on one knee and slashed viciously across the human face on its lower abdomen.
This demon spider reacted extremely quickly, instantly turning and thrusting one of its spear-like legs at him.
"Sun True Fire!"
Countless flames gathered, enhancing Lin Ye's attack power as he met it head-on with a sword strike.
Bang!
The sharp, hard spider leg collided head-on with Lin Ye's sword.
The two sides clashed in a direct contest of strength.
With the support of Sun True Fire, the power and force of Lin Ye's ordinary sword strike were already no weaker than the Clear Sky Hammer, famed for having the most domineering frontal power.
"Get lost!"
The demon spider had one of its legs cut off by the sword.
The two sides fought fiercely for ten exchanges!
It instantly spat out a huge spiderweb, then immediately pounced forward.
This was a double attack!
This demon spider truly was intelligent!
But Lin Ye also happened to be able to unleash a double attack instantly. "Second Soul Skill, Angel Twin Slash!"
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