"What is that?"
Xie Yue tried to draw in his Soul Power, but his chest felt as though a hole had been carved through it. All the power he poured into his Moon Blades went unanswered.
Hu Liena's consciousness was forcibly torn from the Fusion Core.
"It's inside our Martial Souls! It's draining my Soul Power! Break the fusion, now!"
"We can't!"
Xie Yue reached for a fallen Moon Blade. "If we break it now, the backlash will hit us."
"If we keep it up, we'll die! Brother, cut the connection!"
A crack split the red armor across Demon Charm's chest, and great clouds of mist poured out.
Tang San saw the change.
Batwing Reincarnation had failed to pierce its defenses, but the Eight Spider Lances' fragments had brought their mixed poison into contact with Demon Charm.
The poison had taken effect.
"Xie Yue, you've lost."
Tang San raised a hand and recalled his Blue Silver Grass. Vines slithered along the ground toward Demon Charm's legs.
"Shut up!"
Xie Yue forced his fingers around a Moon Blade and tried to unleash Full Moon again.
The moment Soul Power entered his Martial Soul, a dark red root followed its pathways and stabbed into its source.
The red glow faded from the Moon Blade, and its edge turned insubstantial.
"How could my Martial Soul..."
Xie Yue looked down at his hands.
The Moon Blades were the Martial Soul he had awakened as a child. After years of cultivation, they had long since become inseparable from his body.
But now he could no longer feel the Moon Blade on his right.
That part of its source was slipping away.
No matter how he drove his Soul Power, he could not stop it.
Hu Liena was in even worse shape.
Psychic Spores had lodged