Atop the Spirit Tamer Great Wall, the night wind swept embers from the wasteland over the battlements.
Surprise flickered in Mo Shiyu's beautiful eyes when she heard Haotian's words.
She instinctively looked at Xia Yuan, only to find his emerald-green eyes perfectly calm. Clearly, this came as no surprise to him.
"Independent Manifestation?"
Mo Shiyu softly repeated the skill's name, her delicate brows drawing together as she considered its meaning.
As one of Great Xia's foremost Contract Spirit Masters, she quickly guessed what the skill entailed.
Haotian grinned, golden light flowing faintly around him.
He held out a hand, and golden runes slowly gathered in his palm.
They finally formed a clear skill description that floated in midair for all three of them to read.
[Skill name: Independent Manifestation] [Skill effect: Discards the symbiotic shackles binding a Contract Spirit to its Contract Spirit Master, allowing the Contract Spirit to leave its master and exist independently.] [The Contract Spirit can absorb spiritual energy from the world to replenish energy expended in battle, no longer constrained by its Contract Spirit Master's spiritual power reserves.] [Cost: The Contract Spirit must bear its own spiritual power expenditure. If its spiritual power runs dry, it will fall into a seven-day slumber.]
He dismissed the runes in his palm and swept his gaze over Xia Yuan and Mo Shiyu.
"For weak Contract Spirits, this might be nothing more than trading one disaster for another."
"Without a Contract Spirit Master supplying spiritual power, they wouldn't last long before dissipating on their own."
Haotian's lips curved into a smile. "But for Contract Spirits at our level, it's actually a good thing..."
Mo Shiyu's eyes widened slightly as she instantly understood how terrifying this skill was.
A Contract Spirit Master was a Contract Spirit's Achilles' heel.
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