"Break his Spider Spears first!"
Two Soul Saints charged out together, their blades sweeping low from either side, while the other three unleashed control soul skills. Black chains crisscrossed as they dropped from above.
Tang San flipped backward. The Eight Spider Lances stabbed into the rock wall, carrying him clear of the blades.
Blue Silver Grass wound around one Soul Saint's wrist in the same motion.
"Fourth soul skill, Blue Silver Prison!"
A mass of vines closed around the man, trapping him inside.
"You think this can hold me?"
The trapped Soul Saint released his soul power, snapping the Blue Silver Grass around his chest one strand after another. He swung his saber to break free, only to feel a sudden stabbing pain beneath his feet.
Dark golden roots concealed within the vines had already pierced his soles.
Ambrosial Arbor Root spread upward along his meridians. His soul power and blood had barely begun to resist before the parasitic law cut them off.
The Soul Saint opened his mouth, but only a short, breathy sound escaped his throat.
His saber fell from his hand.
His skin rapidly lost its color, and his powerful body shriveled. In an instant, half his robes hung empty.
His corpse toppled into the Blue Silver Grass.
The attackers all stopped.
"Old Qi?"
"Back away! There's something wrong with those vines!"
"What poison got him?"
Tang San landed on the ground. Looking at the dried corpse inside the Blue Silver Prison, his breathing faltered.
The Eight Spider Lances had not struck the man, and Blue Silver Grass itself could never drain a Soul Saint dry within a few breaths.
The only poison that had touched the vines came from the blood left by the Eight Spider Lances.
*Could the External Soul Bone have undergone another change