The Might of Two Martial Souls

Watching Li Qingyue, Leng Yaozhu frowned more deeply.

She had never seen such a strange form, nor did she know what it represented.

What deeper meaning did it hold?

But she could clearly sense that this Martial Soul was extraordinary.

She could even sense the immense power within it.

This was an exceptionally formidable Martial Soul.

The power it contained left even her somewhat shaken.

Under Leng Yaozhu's grave gaze, Li Qingyue slowly raised his hand.

But just as he prepared to draw the bowstring,

A Soul Ring, dark blue from end to end, slowly emerged around him.

Strange ripples circled the ring without pause.

At the sight of this sudden Soul Ring, not only Li Qingyue but even Leng Yaozhu froze.

She stared at the uncanny ring, a complicated look flashing through her eyes.

Clearly, its strange power had startled even her.

This Soul Ring was unlike any known kind.

If it was the legendary God-Given Soul Ring, it should have been orange-gold.

Not this eerie dark blue.

Yet as the dark-blue Soul Ring fully appeared,

Knowledge of the Reignbow Arbiter's first Soul Skill surfaced silently in Li Qingyue's mind.

His first Soul Skill was called Starhunt Mark.

It could not directly harm an enemy.

But once the mark struck someone, no means could erase it for seven days.

With the power available in this world, even a Limit Douluo could not erase a mark he placed on them.

To the Reignbow Arbiter, that ability might have been no more than an aid for hunting down prey.

To Li Qingyue right now, it was practically a lifesaver for escaping.

Once he marked someone, he could pinpoint their location.

If they were weak, he could hunt them down.

If they were strong, he could turn tail and run.

Excitement flashed through Li Qingyue's eyes.

But dark-blue armor had already enveloped his entire body.

Even his head was covered.

No one else could see a trace of his expression.

As Li Qingyue's first Soul Skill suddenly lit up,

Leng Yaozhu darted to one side.

Surprise showed in her eyes.

Yet when the Soul Skill fully activated, she felt nothing amiss.

What Leng Yaozhu did not know was that Starhunt Marks had silently appeared on both her and Na'er.

With the marks in place, Li Qingyue raised his hands again.

He gripped the dark-blue longbow tightly.

Starlight flowed across the bow.

He drew it sharply, and an eerie gleam shot forth.

A dark arrow pierced through the air in an instant, its dazzling starlight cutting across the sky.

The arrow was astonishingly fast.

It hurtled straight toward Leng Yaozhu.

Leng Yaozhu merely raised a hand, and a huge Fire Phoenix swept around her.

The dark arrow was crushed on the spot.

But as she looked at Li Qingyue and felt the force carried by that arrow, her eyes flickered.

"Your ordinary attacks deal quite a lot of damage."

"That shot was nearly as powerful as an attack from a typical two-ring or even three-ring Soul Master."

"Keep attacking me."

"I want to test the other aspects of your attack." As Leng Yaozhu spoke, scorching flames ignited across the Fire Phoenix.

Li Qingyue nodded earnestly.

He raised the bow and put strength into his fingers, loosing dark-blue feathered arrows one after another.

The arrows flew out like darting spirit snakes, streaking in every direction.

Li Qingyue knew nothing about archery.

But Leng Yaozhu had already been given a Starhunt Mark.

So no matter where the arrows flew, they curved back at strange, cunning angles and plunged straight toward her.

Leng Yaozhu swept a hand forward.

Phoenix Flame blazed across the sky, blocking every surge of power around her.

Yet her frown deepened.

These attacks possessed a simple but heaven-defying trait.

They ignored defense.

This was not an attack with some special ability to break through defenses.

It truly bypassed every defensive measure.

In other words, no matter what grade of Battle Armor an opponent wore, if one of these attacks struck, they would have to withstand it with their body alone.

More troublesome still, when the attacks struck flesh, they seemed to severely impair the body's ability to recover.

Because the gap in their strength was so vast, Leng Yaozhu could not feel the effect clearly.

But this Martial Soul's heaven-defying power had already shaken her to the core.

Li Qingyue, meanwhile, felt stifled.

He had fired six or seven arrows in succession, only for Leng Yaozhu to stop them all with casual ease.

He had known from the start that the difference in their strength was too great for his attacks to have any real effect.

Even so, the sight left him disheartened.

Seeing Li Qingyue standing motionless, Leng Yaozhu beckoned gently.

"It seems this Martial Soul of yours is quite unusual. It can generate its own Soul Ring."

"I still don't know what Martial Soul it is, but it's certainly special."

"Now show me your Fire Phoenix Martial Soul."

"Let me see what your Fire Phoenix Martial Soul is like."

As Leng Yaozhu finished speaking, her gaze settled on Li Qingyue and softened.

"Oh," Li Qingyue said quietly.

Then he raised his hand again.

The dark-blue armor vanished from his body in an instant, and a pair of enormous flaming wings unfurled behind him.

The flames were neither the usual gold nor the bright red of ordinary fire.

Instead, they glowed an unusual pale red.

Yet that seemingly gentle color radiated an ultimate heat without restraint.

Sensing the Phoenix Martial Soul's power, Leng Yaozhu's eyes began to flicker.

This Martial Soul, too, was astonishingly strong.

Even she could not help feeling shaken.

She had never seen a Phoenix Martial Soul like it.

The power within it made her expression grow increasingly complicated.

She could clearly sense that his Martial Soul was faintly stronger than her own.

She was, after all, a direct descendant of the Leng Family.

She was the foremost heir of her generation in the Leng Family.

Her Phoenix Martial Soul had long since reached the level of a Super Martial Soul.

Yet his Martial Soul could still suppress hers.

His pale-red flames might even have reached the level of Ultimate Fire.

At that thought, Leng Yaozhu's expression turned complicated.