Given that the gap in Soul Power was not overwhelming, forcibly prying into the secrets hidden within someone's Divine Soul was naturally impossible.
But Lu Ye had other plans.
With them standing within arm's reach and Dao Force surging around him, Lu Ye's eyes abruptly turned blood-red, countless incomparably profound patterns appearing within them.
Manyu's struggle faltered slightly. Everything in his field of vision vanished, leaving only those blood-colored pupils.
Everything around him warped and shifted. The pair of blood-red pupils rapidly drew together, then merged.
They seemed like a blood moon, yet also like an enormous crimson eye, hanging high in the sky and gazing coldly down upon all beneath it.
Blood Eye Dao Pattern!
This Dao Pattern possessed an immensely powerful hallucinatory effect. Displayed with Lu Ye's current cultivation, even a Uniting Dao cultivator like Manyu found it difficult to resist.
Beneath that blood moon, Manyu felt the surroundings become utterly empty. He seemed infinitesimal, his heart trembling as terror and unease rose within him.
At the very instant his mind nearly lost its guard, Lu Ye constructed another Dao Pattern.
Soul Control!
This was a type of Divine Pattern that required Soul Power to activate. Its primary purpose was to forcibly plant an imprint within another's Divine Sea and bring them under one's command.
Against an ordinary Uniting Dao cultivator, under the Soul Control Dao Pattern, they would likely have no room left to resist.
Yet Manyu's foundations ran deep. Although the Soul Control Divine Soul had been successfully constructed, Lu Ye could clearly sense signs of instability in the Dao Pattern. Manyu was struggling and resisting fiercely.
And throughout this process, his Divine Soul was suffering immense damage.
Lu Ye immediately understood that this Dao Pattern was insufficient to subdue a powerhouse like Manyu. In the