Myriad Bone Tremor

This seat?

Hearing this Evil Soul Master's self-proclamation, Ye An raised his head slightly.

What came into view was a man with long, disheveled hair. He was thin, with sunken cheekbones and an exceptionally pale face. More strangely, there was a small blood-red bat-shaped mark on his forehead, though it was impossible to tell whether it had been smeared on with blood or painted with dye.

"Heh heh heh, even sweeter blood... This seat can hardly wait!"

Having sensed that Ye An and Zhang Lexuan were Soul Masters, the Evil Soul Master didn't hesitate in the slightest. His Martial Soul possessed him in an instant. A massive blood-red wing appeared behind him, his face turned ashen white, and his nails grew long and razor-sharp.

Two yellow and three purple—five Soul Rings slowly rose from beneath his feet.

A five-ring Soul King-level Evil Soul Master?

Ye An and Zhang Lexuan exchanged a glance. Without needing any further communication, they immediately split apart and released their Martial Souls at the same time.

Their Soul Ring configurations, which surpassed the usual limits, instantly caught the Evil Soul Master's attention, causing his pupils to constrict sharply.

But when he noticed that they were only at the four-ring and three-ring levels, he relaxed. The corners of his lips curled into an even crueler smile. "Geniuses... This seat loves nothing more than slaughtering geniuses!"

"Only a genius's blood is worth tasting!"

As he spoke, the Evil Soul Master soared into the air, flapping his enormous wings as he pounced toward Zhang Lexuan first.

Although Ye An was only a three-ring Soul Master and appeared to be the weaker one, his configuration of two purple and one black Soul Ring filled the Evil Soul Master with apprehension. He chose Zhang Lexuan, who seemed easier to bully, as his first target.

The Evil Soul Master was incredibly fast. With a fierce flap of his blood-red wings, he became a dark crimson afterimage, his five fingers curled into claws. His long nails glimmered with an eerie scarlet light, and before he even reached Zhang Lexuan, a wave of sickly sweet stench rushed toward her.

Yet Zhang Lexuan remained completely calm. Her third Soul Ring flickered faintly, and a cool moonlight burst from her body, turning into a silver-white radiance.

Third Soul Skill, Moonlight Sky Thrust. First-stage effect: a 120 percent boost to all attributes!

Then, instead of retreating, Zhang Lexuan advanced to meet the Evil Soul Master head-on. Her first Soul Ring flickered as well.

Seeing this, the Evil Soul Master sneered.

A mere four-ring Soul Ancestor actually dared to clash head-on with a Soul King possessing fifty-five levels of soul power?

Who gave her the nerve?

At that moment, a sky full of bone spikes suddenly appeared overhead.

The sharp bone spikes covered an enormous area, raining down like droplets and vaguely sealing off every possible route of escape and advance for the Evil Soul Master.

The Evil Soul Master's pupils shrank sharply, and the contempt on his face instantly froze.

"Damn it!"

He couldn't help cursing under his breath. The enormous blood-red wings behind him abruptly folded together, wrapping around his body as a scarlet glow spread across their surface.

The fourth Soul Ring beneath his feet began to shine.

The bone spikes, gleaming with icy light, struck the Evil Soul Master's body with a series of wet thuds. Yet they seemed to fall into a pool of blood, vanishing in an instant, while faint wisps of smoke rose from his body.

At that very moment, Zhang Lexuan had already appeared before him.

Just as the Evil Soul Master spread open his wings, he saw Zhang Lexuan shrouded in silver-white radiance. A bright crescent moon seemed to appear in her palm, then transformed into a crescent blade that slashed upward toward the Evil Soul Master's chest and abdomen.

First Soul Skill, Moon Arc Slash!

Boom!

Accompanied by a dull, thunderous crash, the Evil Soul Master was sent flying backward.

Enhanced by her third Soul Skill, the Moon Arc Slash hadn't inflicted any substantial damage on him, but it still sent him uncontrollably hurtling backward.

A look of humiliation and anger immediately appeared on the Evil Soul Master's face, and his fifth Soul Ring quietly began to glow.

But Ye An's figure swiftly appeared behind him, and the sole black Soul Ring beneath his feet suddenly lit up with a deep radiance.

The instant their bodies came into contact, the Evil Soul Master's pupils contracted sharply.

The soul power within his body suddenly fell into chaos, and the fifth Soul Skill he had been preparing to unleash was forcibly interrupted!

How was this possible?!

The Evil Soul Master instinctively twisted his head around. When his gaze swept over Ye An's calm expression, an inexplicable panic rose in his heart.

But in the next instant, he saw a fist rapidly enlarging before his eyes.

A powerful impact crashed down, and the punch struck the Evil Soul Master directly.

This wasn't an ordinary punch. It was a self-created Soul Skill Ye An had developed based on the experience and advice of Du Busi and other Titled Douluo, combined with his own understanding of his Martial Soul.

By making his sternum and ribs vibrate at high frequencies, he transmitted the vibrations through the bones of his arms and into his fist. After striking an enemy, the physical impact of the fist was secondary. The truly lethal force was the high-frequency bone vibration wave, which could pass directly through flesh and shake the enemy's internal organs and every bone in their body, inflicting extremely severe damage.

Ye An had named this self-created Soul Skill Myriad Bone Tremor. However, this was his first time using it in actual combat after creating it, so... he wasn't entirely sure whether its effects would truly be as effective as he had envisioned.

But when Ye An saw blood continuously seeping from the Evil Soul Master's seven orifices, he finally relaxed inwardly.

Without making another move, the Evil Soul Master fell straight from the air and slammed heavily into the ground.

Yet when Ye An and Zhang Lexuan landed, they discovered that even after all that, the Evil Soul Master wasn't quite dead. He still had one last breath left.

Seeing this, Ye An didn't hesitate. He drew a bone blade from his body and ended the Evil Soul Master's sinful life with a single slash.

Killing soul beasts and killing people were entirely different matters.

Yet when Ye An killed the Evil Soul Master, he didn't feel the slightest discomfort.

Evil Soul Masters who cultivated through the lives of others could no longer truly be considered the same species as them. So... Ye An didn't feel the slightest guilt about killing an Evil Soul Master.

"Although this Evil Soul Master had five rings, he was somewhat weak. His Soul Ring configuration wasn't optimal either. If it had been another five-ring Evil Soul Master, we probably wouldn't have won so easily."