The Repelling Flame Ring, combined with the fiery domain created by the First Soul Skill: Infinite Fire Shadows, meant that once a Soul Master was blasted away, they would fall into a sea of flames. Even if they survived, they would be left severely injured.
Lia reacted the instant the flame ring appeared.
She did not retreat. Retreating would only let the flame ring catch up to her.
Nor did she attempt to withstand it head-on. That would have been suicide.
She chose a direction no one had expected.
Forward.
"Third Soul Skill: Flashflame Step."
Lia's figure suddenly blurred, transforming into a crimson streak of fire that charged straight at the expanding Repelling Flame Ring!
"Has she gone mad?!" someone in the stands cried out.
The repulsive force of the Repelling Flame Ring was absolute. Unless one's Soul Power greatly surpassed Huo Wu's, it was impossible to advance against the ring. Forcing one's way through would only result in being blasted back even more violently.
But in the next moment, everyone's eyes widened.
The streak of fire that Lia had become did not move straight ahead. The instant it touched the edge of the flame ring, it strangely veered to one side. Like water flowing around a rock, it slipped into the ring at an unbelievable angle!
No, it had not slipped in.
It had teleported.
Flashflame Step's true effect—short-range flame teleportation!
The firelight condensed once more into Lia's form within the flame ring. She was less than three meters from Huo Wu.
Huo Wu's pupils suddenly constricted.
She had not expected Lia to break the Repelling Flame Ring in such a way. Teleportation-type Soul Skills were exceedingly rare, much less a third Soul Skill possessed by a thirty-fourth-level Soul Elder.
But Huo Wu was, after all, one of the