A Thunderous Strike, Returning Laden (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Lin Yi restrained his aura and perception to the absolute limit, becoming like a lifeless rock, watching his target in silence.

His brain operated at high speed.

The enemy was in the light while he was in the dark; this was his greatest advantage.

The Yan Realm-perfect Tree Spirit possessed a vast, ocean-like vitality, a stable internal world, and immense World Power.

Even with his current foundation of thirty-one Star Domains and mastery over the Space-Time Law, a direct confrontation would make it impossible to end the battle quickly. Once locked in a stalemate, the commotion would inevitably alert the Deity Rank Tree Spirit that had intervened last time.

Therefore, he had to kill with a single strike, or at the very least, inflict a fatal wound within an extremely short window.

How could he achieve this?

Space-Time Stasis would be significantly diminished against a Yan Realm-perfect entity, as the opponent's World Power could largely negate suppression at the level of laws.

A brute-force assault would struggle to quickly breach its World Power defenses and that terrifying regenerative ability.

Weakness.

Lin Yi's gaze acted like a precision scanner, repeatedly examining the Tree Spirit's massive body until it finally locked onto the two sunken eye sockets in the creature's head, where two clusters of cyan-green soul fire burned silently.

The soul was always the core of any living being, and often its most vulnerable point.

For a life form like the Tree Spirit, its soul was deeply bound to the Law of Life and highly condensed, but this also meant that if one could use a stronger law to annihilate or strip it away, it might yield miraculous results.

Especially with the Space-Time Law.

Time could accelerate the decay and passage of its soul. Space could strip and sever it from