Although Feng Ye was inside the vortex, where he could not see his own hand in front of his face, he had prepared thoroughly. In the brief instant Xiao Yan appeared, his soul power had already pursued him like maggots clinging to bone.
Yet at that very moment, even though Feng Ye could no longer sense any threat directly ahead, an unsettling sense of danger stirred faintly in his heart.
"Hm?"
There was nothing wrong with his perception. Three long soul needles had already shot out from Xiao Yan. The instant they faced each other, Feng Ye had unleashed his signature blue-black ice crystals, intent on continuing his assault on Xiao Yan. What Xiao Yan had prepared for him, however, was the Shadow Piercing Needle, a move he had been plotting for some time.
Feng Ye's soul was indeed no weaker than Xiao Yan's, but his earlier precautions against Xiao Yan had already consumed some of his strength. Their direct, head-on clash of souls had depleted him further. Now that the Shadow Piercing Needles had arrived, evading them would not be so easy.
Bzz-
Boom-
"Aah!"
Three utterly different sounds rang out in succession. Xiao Yan knew he had to go all out against an opponent like this, so he had fired all three Shadow Piercing Needles together. Feng Ye detected the first immediately and annihilated it with a counterforce of soul power. The second nearly reached his head, but the explosive force of the ice crystals he released blasted it apart.
The third Shadow Piercing Needle, however, which Xiao Yan had deliberately slowed down, arrived at the moment when it was hardest to guard against. In the end, it successfully pierced into Feng Ye's head.
Extremely fine yet razor-sharp soul threads exploded inside Feng Ye's head, subjecting him to