Bidirectional Reversal!!

Bzzz—!

The emerald-green light bursting from Bulbasaur's body suddenly flashed! Space seemed to undergo a strange distortion and collapse!

The Illusion Demon Spider silk wrapped around it instantly lost its target!

The little green beast that had been struggling frantically just a second ago was pulled by that invisible force the next, turning into a streak of light and vanishing into thin air!

Only Lin Xia's solitary figure remained, completely dragged off the ground by that immense, irresistible suction!

Lin Xia saw the soul-rending pain and disbelieving plea that burst from Bulbasaur's eyes in the instant before it vanished. That gaze was like the sharpest blade, viciously piercing through the defenses around his cold, despairing heart.

At least... let you suffer a little less... I'm sorry... my partner...

Lin Xia slowly closed his stinging, burning eyes, allowing endless darkness and the nauseatingly fishy-sweet stench of strong acid and decay to completely envelop him.

Cold, viscous venomous saliva instantly covered Lin Xia's entire body. The terrifying burn of powerful acid penetrated his steward's robe, scraping across his skin like ten thousand red-hot knives, trying to break him down and dissolve him!

Lin Xia only felt his consciousness growing increasingly blurred, leaving behind nothing but unwillingness.

I finally got a second chance at life...

Inside the martial soul space.

The dim green light flickered weakly, like a candle guttering in the wind.

Bulbasaur anxiously spun and charged about within the limited space! It could clearly sense Lin Xia's bodily functions rapidly collapsing through their contract—the heartbeat was weak and on the verge of stopping, breathing was nearly cut off, and his meridians seemed to be dissolving inch by inch under powerful acid!

"Bulba—! Bulbasaur!!!"

Its desperate cry echoed through the empty martial soul space, only to be blocked by an invisible barrier.

Wrapped around its consciousness was a mental shackle even more terrifying than physical spider silk, preventing it from projecting its power outward to control his body!

It could only watch helplessly as Lin Xia's life force rapidly drained away.

Two minutes... no, perhaps not even one minute! Those horrifying digestive fluids and toxins would completely end Lin Xia's life!

It could not wait any longer!

Ordinary struggling could not shake these shackles.

A trace of madness ignited in Bulbasaur's scarlet eyes, accompanied by the bond it shared with Lin Xia, etched deep into its bones.

If ordinary methods were useless, then it would use an extraordinary method and stake everything on it!

It stopped its futile charging, suddenly lowered its body, and the seed bulb on its back erupted with unprecedented, dazzling emerald light, as though it were burning its life away!

That light pierced through the barrier of space and locked firmly onto the foreign toxins raging within Lin Xia's body.

"Bul—ba—!!!"

A resolute roar that pierced the soul exploded through the martial soul space!

First Soul Skill: Life Poison—activate! Bidirectional Reversal!

Convert every foreign toxin in Lin Xia's body that does not belong to Life Poison with all its strength!

Bulbasaur frantically infused the source power of its Life Poison into the depths of Lin Xia's meridians from afar. Rather than trying to disperse those terrible substances, it forcibly used them as nourishment, converting them into pure life energy!

The venom dissolving his flesh instantly became a sliver of life force forcibly sustaining him!

Lin Xia's nearly stopped heart suddenly beat once. His weak breathing regained a faint rhythm, and the speed at which his flesh was breaking down was forcibly halted, even reversed!

After doing this, Bulbasaur made use of the immense life energy that must exist within its own body!

It guided the remnants of Lin Xia's own Life Poison within him, following that subtle spiritual connection and its deepest perception of their contracted souls, then violently detonated it within the Illusion Demon Spider's stomach wall tissues and even the life force throughout its entire body!

It was not attacking the carapace, but the source of its living tissue—forcing that immense life force to transform and twist into... a toxin targeting the Illusion Demon Spider itself!

A silent yet brutal life-and-death tug-of-war across two battlefields began in an instant!

The Illusion Demon Spider's enormous body suddenly stiffened!

For the first time, a kind of... unbelievable confusion and pain appeared in those cold, terrifying dark-green compound eyes?

It was like a diner enjoying a feast suddenly being force-fed deadly poison!

It felt the corrosive venom and neurotoxins it had injected into its prey—venom capable of melting steel in an instant, venom it had taken such pride in—spiraling out of control!

Not only could they no longer continue dissolving that tiny human body, but they seemed to have been seized, devoured, stirred, and transformed by some invisible force into nutrients supporting its prey's life!

This was simply a desecration of its dignity as a predator!

What filled it with terror from the depths of its soul was that its vast life force was behaving like ice and snow cast into boiling water, violently fluctuating, weakening, and dissipating...

No, it was not simply dissipating—it was transforming!

Transforming into an unfamiliar toxin that made every organ in its body tremble and go numb, as though it were being pierced and burned by hundreds of millions of needles—the fact that part of its own body was "devouring" it in return!

"Hiss... Aaargh...!!!"

A shriek mixed with excruciating pain, fury, and incomprehension erupted from deep within the Illusion Demon Spider's mouthparts, resounding through the silent village!

It was no longer a low mental shriek, but a terrifying soundwave carrying physical vibrations!

Its enormous dark-purple body convulsed violently for the first time!

Its eight scythe-like legs kicked wildly against the ground, carving deep furrows!

The invisible spiderweb rippled intensely, and countless spiritual threads connected to the villagers snapped apart at once!

The stiffly standing villagers twitched and collapsed like puppets with severed strings, falling directly into unconscious sleep.

But the Illusion Demon Spider had no time to care about anything else.

Unimaginable agony came from inside its body, from an enemy it could not attack—that thing that should have been digested in its stomach sac!

Instinctively, it mobilized all its Soul Power, like a surging tide of inky purple, rushing madly toward its own stomach and meridians in an attempt to suppress the strange toxin that was wildly eroding its insides and tearing apart its life force!

Inside the martial soul space.

Bulbasaur was trembling violently as well!

Forcibly carrying out such a high-load, precise bidirectional conversion from afar had nearly drained every bit of its Soul Power and mental strength.

Every conversion was like dancing on a blade's edge. One misstep could cause the two out-of-control energies inside Lin Xia to explode, or completely drain Bulbasaur's own life force.

The emerald light flickered between bright and dim. Bulbasaur's small body heaved violently, and exhaustion hung in its scarlet eyes like heavy storm clouds. Yet its will to protect him remained as firm as stone.

Though Lin Xia's breathing was weak, it still existed, like an ember surviving in the wind, not yet completely extinguished.

At this moment, time became blurred and endless.

In the darkness, the tug-of-war never ceased.

It seemed as though several centuries had passed, yet it also seemed like only an instant.

Deep within Lin Xia's shattered consciousness, a tiny spark of fire flickered stubbornly.

It was not an illusion, but a stream of pure life force... faint yet endlessly flowing into the remnants of his body?

At the same time, a familiar, tyrannical source power of poison was fiercely spreading, eroding, and transforming everything around him with him at its center...

"Urgh..."