The Black Nails slowed abruptly in midflight.
The fine ripples of air torn open by their tips were clearly visible. Pitch-black venom hung from their ends, just three feet from Qian Renxue. Limitless stretched those three feet into an endless distance. No matter how the Soul Douluo urged them on, the Black Nails could only inch forward.
Bai Jin stood before Qian Renxue and gently raised his right hand.
"Azure Blue."
Dozens of Black Nails changed direction at once and crashed toward the center. Metal shrieked as every nail was crushed into a fist-sized iron ball, the blood poison trapped inside with them.
The Soul Douluo atop the coffin lid stamped his foot.
His Seventh Soul Ring lit up, and the gray-white stone coffin swelled. Agonized faces surfaced across it. Eight heavy chains shot from beneath the coffin, reaching for Bai Jin's limbs and Qian Renxue behind him.
Bai Jin did not retreat.
Qian Renxue was at the most critical stage of absorbing the Soul Ring. Red energy poured through the meridians from the top of her head, while the Holy Radiance Sky Falcon's lingering, violent will rampaged through her Sea of Consciousness. She could not move, and Bai Jin had no intention of going more than three steps from her.
Nine Soul Rings rose beneath his feet.
The instant the last two red rings spread outward, every loose stone inside the mountain froze in midair. Two waves of Ferocious Beast-level pressure bore down on the coffin's Martial Soul Avatar. Its twisted faces looked as though invisible hands had seized their throats, and their screams stopped dead.
The Soul Douluo's expression changed. "Level ninety-four?"
"Outdated information is dangerous."
A ruthless glint flashed through the Soul Douluo's eyes, and his Eighth Soul Ring flared.
"Nether Coffin Soul-Locking!"
Gray-white mist burst from