The Seventh Soul Ring on the fox lit up. "Seventh Soul Ring—Eight-Tailed Fox Avatar!"
Eight long fox tails grew out behind her, swaying back and forth.
Then her eyes began to turn a bewitching purple, flecked with strange glimmers.
The Abyss Tree Demon and Pegasus, who were charging toward the fox, could not help looking into her eyes.
The moment their gazes met hers, the Abyss Tree Demon felt his mind go dull.
Then he realized something was wrong with his body.
He looked down.
His shoulders had actually turned to stone.
That startled him so badly his whole body trembled.
"Not good! Pegasus, be careful! Don't look into her eyes!"
Unfortunately, compared with him, Pegasus was not so lucky. He had already fallen completely into the strange light in the fox's eyes.
The petrification spread rapidly downward from his shoulders, and soon his entire upper body had turned to stone.
Yet, bizarrely, his head was still perfectly intact.
Even more bizarrely, his lower body and legs were still running at full speed.
This was the fox's true power. Once she had activated her Martial Soul Avatar, she did not even need soul skills—her eyes carried the power of petrification on their own.
Anyone who met her gaze would turn into a pile of stubborn stone.
"It's over!"
When the Abyss Tree Demon saw Pegasus like this, he felt awful all over.
All this time, the fox had always looked soft and weak. When she had been trapped, let alone fight with anyone, she had never even argued.
So all the soul beasts had thought she was not very strong.
Yet none of them had ever imagined that all of it was merely her disguise.
Pegasus, a soul beast with a full eighty thousand years of cultivation, being instantly killed