Wang Jinxi was driven back by a hammer blow from Tang Wulin, but the black fire in his eyes only burned fiercer.
He did not charge back immediately. Instead, he lowered his right arm, and the second Yellow Soul Ring beneath his feet quietly lit up.
Tang Wulin had already stepped forward, sweeping his Star-Sinking Hammer across to keep Wang Jinxi pinned down. Yet at that very instant, he suddenly felt that the enormous Bone Dragon Claw before him had become somewhat unreal.
The hammer's edge grazed the bone claw.
The heavy recoil he had expected never came.
It felt as though his hammer had struck a cloud of black mist, half solid and half illusory.
The bone claw slipped eerily out from under the Star-Sinking Hammer's pressure. The point of leverage Tang Wulin had seized seemed to vanish all at once. One side of Wang Jinxi's body also blurred, black vapor coiling around his bones as they shifted between solid and insubstantial. It lasted only an instant, but that was just enough to evade Tang Wulin's next strike.
At last, a faint smile appeared on Zhang Yangzi's face.
Of course Wang Jinxi knew more than simply meeting force with force.
His martial soul was the Bone Dragon King, a top-tier darkness-type martial soul.
In terms of martial soul quality alone, Wei Xiaofeng's Azure Shadow Snake was nowhere near its equal.
First Soul Skill, Bone Dragon Claw.
Second Soul Skill, Bone Soul Transformation.
Bone Soul Transformation allowed a portion of Wang Jinxi's body to shift from solid flesh into something resembling a spirit body for an extremely brief period. Though it lasted only a moment, and his current cultivation allowed him to transform at most a quarter of his body, that was already enough to prove lethal in close combat.