Time-Space Grip, Time-Space Miniaturization

As he nocked the long arrow and looked at its sleek, streamlined form, Chen Ye raised his hand and released the bowstring.

A long arrow shot out instantly.

Compared to the Space Arrow, which could traverse space, the Time Arrow was even more bizarre.

The arrow flew out and appeared before the lizard the very next second.

It pierced through the lizard's head, spraying blood everywhere.

A ten-year soul beast, caught off guard, died instantly beneath that arrow.

As the lizard died, Chen Ye pushed off the tree with one step and landed on the ground.

Looking at the pale white soul ring that appeared before him, he slightly raised his eyes, hesitation flickering in his gaze.

He did not know what attribute this lizard possessed.

Among ten-year soul beasts, this lizard did not seem particularly strong.

Of course, that was not entirely accurate. The ease of the hunt also had much to do with how powerful and bizarre his martial soul was.

Thus, when facing ten-year soul beasts, he did not find them as troublesome as ordinary soul masters without soul rings would.

This gave Chen Ye some confidence. Perhaps he could choose a powerful hundred-year soul beast.

But as Chen Ye pondered, he subconsciously touched the soul ring that had appeared.

The next second, under Chen Ye's astonished gaze, the soul ring directly merged into his body.

Normally, one had to actively absorb a soul ring for it to merge.

Yet this ten-year soul ring fused with Chen Ye in an instant.

Sensing the changes within his body, the phantom of the Space-Time Dragon martial soul appeared behind Chen Ye.

The enormous energy-form dragon lay there silently.

The power of time and space continuously spread around it, then kept expanding.

Feeling such powerful energy fluctuations, Chen Ye's eyes flickered.

Before he could understand what was happening, the soul ring had already fused with him effortlessly.

Looking at the white soul ring that had appeared around him, Chen Ye's expression became somewhat blank.

A rough description of the soul skill began to surface in his mind.

His soul skill had two modes.

One involved using the Space-Time Dragon's power. In that case, the soul skill's effects would be greatly enhanced, but soul power would also be consumed faster.

The other involved using only the power of time or space. The two powers would be separated and would not produce a fusion effect, but soul power would be consumed more slowly.

Under normal circumstances, this soul skill could be called Time-Space Grip.

In terms of space, it manifested as short-range displacement—in other words, a teleportation ability that could be used consecutively.

In terms of time, it could slow down or accelerate the flow of time in the surroundings.

Even at a glance, this soul skill was already incredibly overpowered.

But if it was executed with the Space-Time Dragon's power, the effects of both aspects could be greatly enhanced.

It would also cause the surrounding space to undergo a temporal collapse, accelerating that collapse and forming a peculiar semi-domain ability.

Chen Ye's first impression of this ability was that it was strong.

His second impression was that it was absurdly strong.

With the powers of time and space separated, and counting the enhancement granted by the Space-Time Dragon martial soul, it had three forms from the outset, each one exceptionally powerful.

But that was not the most important thing.

The most important thing was that Chen Ye could clearly sense that, compared to its initial state, his skill could be improved.

This was what Chen Ye found hardest to understand.

Normally, once a soul master absorbed a soul ring, it became permanently fixed. Yet that did not seem to be the case for him.

Chen Ye looked around. Three ten-year soul beasts nearby were already rushing toward him.

Clearly, these soul beasts had targeted him in an instant.

They were three monstrous wolves, each two meters long with two heads. They rapidly closed in on Chen Ye, their entirely green pupils staring at him greedily.

Chen Ye looked back at them.

He raised his hand, and a longsword condensed from spatial power appeared in his grasp.

The next second, his first soul ring lit up. He casually clenched his hand forward.

Then, at the instant the three wolves were about to surround him from three directions, his figure suddenly vanished.

When he reappeared, he was already behind one of the wolves.

The Space Sword in his hand slashed down fiercely. Space was cut apart, and the wolf's head was severed in an instant.

The next second, a soul ring appeared above the corpse of the dead two-headed wolf.

But Chen Ye did not stop. He reached into the void once more, and with a clenched hand, his figure vanished again.

When he reappeared, he was beside another two-headed wolf.

Just like the previous one, he casually killed it with a single slash.

In less than five seconds, all three ten-year two-headed wolves had been completely slain.

Looking at the corpses of the three two-headed wolves, Chen Ye frowned.

Three soul rings slowly rose from their bodies, then drifted before Chen Ye without pausing.

At the sight of the soul rings, Chen Ye's first reaction was nervousness.

But under his gaze, the three soul rings calmly entered his body.

His originally pale white soul ring instantly turned deep white, and even a faint trace of yellow began to appear within it.

Seeing that this ability truly worked, Chen Ye raised his brows, surprise in his eyes.

Under normal circumstances, there was no way in this era to increase a soul ring's age.

Ten thousand years later, it could only be done by obtaining a powerful soul spirit in advance.

Only in the era twenty thousand years later could one use certain special methods to increase the age of one's soul rings, raising what had originally been a destined hundred-year soul ring into a thousand-year soul ring.

Yet it seemed that Chen Ye himself could achieve the same effect here.

He did not need to carry out massive hunts. He only needed to kill enough soul beasts of the same rank to increase his soul ring's age.

As he sensed his soul skill's effects beginning to strengthen, the original teleportation limit of around five meters increased to seven meters.

Chen Ye stared intently at the ordinary ten-year soul beasts and hundred-year soul beasts wandering nearby.

The next second, he calmly raised his hand, and his figure shot forward in an instant.

Against these ordinary ten-year soul beasts, even slightly stronger ones, Chen Ye had already grasped roughly the right techniques.

These ten-year soul beasts were not weak. This was even more so for his current body.

But with the aid of the Space Sword, space and time cycled back and forth.

Not only could he teleport to evade most ten-year soul beasts' attacks, he could also use the power of time within Time-Space Grip to slow the flow of time around him, reduce the soul beasts' speed, and then forcefully cut them down.

With the combined enhancement of time and space, he hunted these soul beasts exceptionally quickly and smoothly.

Especially after slowing time, even when he encountered some powerful ten-year soul beasts—

Even soul beasts that had reached seventy or eighty years of cultivation still had no ability whatsoever to resist his attacks.

In less than twenty minutes, Chen Ye had killed nearly all the soul beasts in this large section of the Soul Hunting Forest.

Without stopping in the slightest, he swiftly headed toward the more outlying areas.