Lin Yi had suppressed his aura and perception to the utmost, sitting motionless like a lifeless rock as he watched his target.
His mind raced.
The enemy was in the open, while he remained concealed. That was his greatest advantage.
The life force of a Tree Spirit at the peak of the Yan Realm was as vast as the sea. Its inner world was stable, and its World Power immense.
In a head-on clash, even with his current foundation of thirty-one Star Domains and mastery of both the Space-Time Law and the Law of Life, there was no way he could finish the fight quickly. If the battle became a stalemate, the commotion would inevitably alert the Deity Rank Tree Spirit that had attacked last time.
So he had to kill it with a single strike—or at least inflict a fatal wound in the shortest possible time.
How could he do that?
Space-Time Stasis would be far less effective against an opponent at the peak of the Yan Realm. The enemy's World Power could greatly counteract suppression at the level of laws.
A direct assault would make it difficult to break through its World Power defenses and terrifying regenerative abilities quickly.
"Weakness."
Lin Yi's gaze swept over the Tree Spirit's massive body like a precision scanner, again and again, until it finally settled on the two hollow sockets in its head. Within them, two blue-green flames of spiritual power burned quietly.
The soul was always the core of a living being, and often its most vulnerable part.
For a life-form like a Tree Spirit, its soul was deeply bound to the Law of Life and highly condensed. But that also meant that a stronger force of law, used to annihilate or sever it, might have devastating results.
Especially the Space-Time