Qing Lin's eyes did not contain the powerful soul of some snake-shaped magical beast, but merely a remnant soul. Xiao Yan had inspected her several times, yet this thing had concealed itself behind other fragments of soul each time. Only now, when even those remnants were gone, had Xiao Yan detected it.
"Come out!"
Dou Qi surged through Xiao Yan as the black vortex abruptly expanded, its pull becoming increasingly terrifying.
A phantom snake-shaped magical beast was dragged out. The serpentine shadow was nearly thirty meters long and entirely black. It occasionally flicked out a blood-red tongue, while its enormous snake eyes brimmed with cold savagery. A fierce aura coiled around its body.
Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes. "A vicious soul comparable to a Dou Zong?"
"Hiss!" A piercing shriek flooded Xiao Yan's ears as the snake-shaped magical beast charged straight down at him, its destructive force extraordinary.
"Hmph!" Xiao Yan snorted. A gigantic hand seal wreathed in pale white Heavenly Flames formed in midair.
Emperor Seal Art, Mountain Opening Seal!
The instant the snake-shaped magical beast collided with the energy palm seal, it was frozen solid by the pale white flames. Before Xiao Yan could rejoice, a burst of chilling power erupted from within the enormous block of ice. The ice shattered piece by piece, and the fragments instead shot at Xiao Yan like an icy rainstorm.
Xiao Yan raised his right arm, and a pitch-black vortex appeared in midair. Within it lay an endless void with no end in sight. When the snake-shaped vicious soul unleashed its chilling power, it actually managed to barely resist the vortex's devouring force.
"Swallow it!"
Xiao Yan roared, and the vortex's devouring power intensified by another thirty percent. The deadlock between the snake-shaped magical beast and the vortex was broken, and the