Immediately afterward, a somewhat unfamiliar yet faintly familiar gentle voice drifted into her ear:
"Don't be afraid. Focus your mind and carefully feel the Soul Power I'm sending you."
That voice seemed to possess some calming magic. Hu Liena instinctively felt that it was exceptionally trustworthy. Her originally tense mind abruptly settled at that moment.
She quickly composed herself and keenly sensed a strange, pure, vigorous Soul Power, gentle as spring rain, flowing into her body.
"Combine your Soul Power with your spiritual power and strike it along this path..."
The guidance came again beside her ear. Without the slightest hesitation, Hu Liena followed the lead of that Soul Power and gathered all her strength to fiercely bombard the fox shadow within her sea of consciousness!
Once, twice, three times!
Crash—!
Within Hu Liena's spiritual world, the remnant soul of the originally savage and violent Crimson Flame Charm Fox let out a mournful cry before shattering into countless dazzling motes of light, completely merging into her sea of consciousness.
The Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring had been completely subdued!
Amid the surging Soul Power swelling within her body, Hu Liena abruptly opened her eyes.
What entered her sight was not her two anxious-looking mentors, but a young man seated cross-legged nearby.
He rested his chin on his hand and leisurely waved at her with a smile.
Hu Liena's breath caught as she immediately recognized that face.
It was Yang Xing, whom she had met by chance five or six days ago while tracking down Fallen Soul Masters outside Spirit City!
"Y-You, Yang Xing?!" Hu Liena blurted out, her eyes full of astonishment.
"Hello." Yang Xing uttered a word she could not understand, then greeted her with a smile. "Long time no see, Hu Liena."
Hu Liena slowly exhaled a breath of stale