As expected, the Azure Wind Spirit Bird noticed nothing. It kept attacking Nangong Ao with soul power, forcing him back step by step and leaving him in a sorry state. The bird grew fiercer as the battle wore on, utterly unaware that the poison was seeping ever deeper.
The Azure Wind Spirit Bird spread its wings and flew into the sky. Flames blazed brighter, wind and fire swirling around it as azure light gradually spread across its entire body. A dazzling azure radiance appeared overhead, its whole body seeming to turn into light, as though a second, azure sun had appeared.
Soul beasts also had skills, which could be called soul skills-innate soul skills. But even ten-thousand-year soul beasts generally possessed only one. This was the Azure Wind Spirit Bird's innate soul skill, Azure Wind Radiance. As the azure radiance spread throughout its body, its physical resistance, speed, and attack power all rose dramatically. Its repeated advantages had convinced it that the human before it amounted to little, and it intended to unleash its strongest skill to end the battle in one stroke.
The soul skill activated, and the Azure Wind Spirit Bird, now like a blazing azure sun, swooped down. It flashed toward Nangong Ao like a comet crashing into the earth.
"Storm Annihilation!" Faced with the Azure Wind Spirit Bird's sudden attack, Nangong Ao's expression was far from pleasant. The bird's use of its soul skill had indeed accelerated the poison's circulation, and it would soon spread throughout its body. However, Azure Wind Radiance had also raised its physical resistance to the limit. The poison clearly could not affect it for now.
Facing this attack, Nangong Ao could only meet it head-on. His sixth soul ring erupted with brilliant light again, and soul power gathered over his martial