Lin Ye's Strength Has Grown Even Stronger! (Please Vote! QAQ)

"Whew~"

With the strength of her body combined with the boost from Soul Power, the force behind Lu Bing's fist did not reach a thousand jin, but it still exceeded five hundred. As she swung at high speed, her fist tore through the air with a sharp whistling sound.

The Day Students watching from around them all turned to look.

Lu Bing's lackeys shouted even louder. "Boss, show this arrogant Work-Study Student what you're capable of!"

Seeing that her fist was about to hit Lin Ye, Lu Bing's lips curled into a smug, confident sneer.

Just as Lu Bing thought she could easily knock Lin Ye down—

A hand suddenly shot out and seized her swinging fist. Then came Lin Ye's calm voice.

"Is this the strength you call that of a Soul Master?"

"What?!"

Feeling her fist being caught, Lu Bing's expression changed instantly.

She tried to pull her fist free, but no matter how hard she struggled, she could not break loose at all!

This... is such terrifying strength! Let me show you what real strength is!

Just as Lu Bing was panicking, a voice reached her ears. She instinctively looked up, only to see a fist rapidly growing larger before her eyes.

"Not good!"

Alarmed, Lu Bing had yet to react when Lin Ye's fist slammed into her face.

A tremendous force surged through the fist against her face. Lu Bing felt a burst of searing pain, then her entire body was sent flying. She crashed to the ground, rolled several times, and finally slammed heavily into a wall.

"Damn it! You bastard!"

Feeling the pain in her face, Lu Bing climbed to her feet, rage boiling in her heart. She could tell that her delicate face had already swollen up. "You think you're amazing just because you're a little stronger? I'm a Soul Master!"

As she spoke, Lu Bing let out an angry roar.

"Martial Soul Possession!"

With Lu Bing's shout, a snow-white fox phantom emerged from her body before instantly merging back into her.

After activating Martial Soul Possession, Lu Bing's body rapidly grew taller. Her eyes instantly turned into bright yellow beast pupils, a pair of fox ears emerged from her hair, snow-white fur grew over the backs of her hands, and ten sharp claws sprang from her fingers.

At the same time, a pale white ring slowly rose beneath Lu Bing's feet and encircled her body.

"Do you know the greatest difference between a Soul Scholar and a Soul Master? Compared to Soul Scholars, Soul Masters not only possess the ability to activate Martial Soul Possession, but they also have soul skills!"

"Although my Soul Ring is only the lowest-grade ten-year Soul Ring, the power of the Soul Ring combined with the strength of Martial Soul Possession is enough to multiply my strength several times!"

Having entered the Martial Soul Possession state, Lu Bing looked at Lin Ye, spread her clawed hands, and slowly clenched them into fists as she said coldly.

"Now, let me show you my greatest power—first soul skill, Demonic Fox Claw Strike!"

With a low cry, the white Soul Ring circling Lu Bing suddenly lit up.

Then, a strange power instantly flowed from the Soul Ring into Lu Bing's legs and claws.

Lu Bing moved, vanishing from where she stood in an instant.

Lu Bing's Martial Soul was called the Crescent Moon Fox. On the surface, it seemed no different from ordinary Crescent Moon Foxes and did not appear to be a Mutated Martial Soul in the conventional sense. But that was not the case. Lu Bing's Martial Soul truly was mutated; it merely had a rather unusual direction of mutation.

The Crescent Moon Fox, as its name suggested, was naturally a type of Soul Beast.

However, Crescent Moon Foxes were not powerful Soul Beasts. They were merely among the lowest-ranking Soul Beasts.

A Crescent Moon Fox less than a hundred years old was not even as strong as some fully grown wild beasts.

The reason Crescent Moon Foxes had the words "crescent moon" in their name was because they were foxes with extremely distinct sexual characteristics.

There was a moon-shaped mark on a Crescent Moon Fox's forehead. A male Crescent Moon Fox bore the mark of a Full Moon, while a female Crescent Moon Fox bore a crescent moon.

Generally speaking, after awakening a Crescent Moon Fox Martial Soul, the mark on its forehead would be determined by the Soul Master's gender.

But Lu Bing was an exception!

Although she was a man, the mark on her Crescent Moon Fox Martial Soul's forehead was a crescent moon.

Thus, Lu Bing had always been uncontrollably developing toward a feminine appearance under the influence of her Martial Soul.

For a normal boy, this was an eternal pain in Lu Bing's heart!

Naturally, this matter had become a thorn in Lu Bing's heart. Whenever anyone mistook her for a girl, no matter how good her mood was, she could not help but fly into a rage.

Yet Lin Ye had not only called Lu Bing a girl, but had also scorned the Soul Master identity she took pride in, and even punched her in the face just now.

These were all things Lu Bing could not tolerate!

Therefore, against Lin Ye, Lu Bing finally used her full strength.

She not only activated Martial Soul Possession, but also used a soul skill, all to teach Lin Ye a lesson! Lu Bing's Crescent Moon Fox Martial Soul was merely a low-level Soul Beast. In terms of strength, a Crescent Moon Fox less than a hundred years old might not even be able to defeat an ordinary person.

However, as Martial Souls, the boosts Beast Martial Souls gave Soul Masters did not come from the Soul Beasts' original strength, but from the enhancement of the Soul Masters' physical qualities!

Generally speaking, ordinary wild beast Martial Souls provided the weakest enhancement to a Soul Master's physical qualities. The weaker the beast, the lower the enhancement. Soul Beasts, on the other hand, granted greater boosts to a Soul Master's physical qualities.

However, that was not always the case.

Although the Crescent Moon Fox was a Soul Beast, as one of the lowest-level Soul Beasts, the boost it provided to a Soul Master's physical qualities was actually inferior to that of some powerful wild beasts.

It was like the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.

Although Blue Silver Grass also counted as a Soul Beast, the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul could only be considered the most useless Trash Martial Soul. Forget comparing it to Beast Martial Souls like cats or dogs—it was inferior even to tool Martial Souls like wooden sticks and sickles! Still, while the Crescent Moon Fox Martial Soul was not particularly powerful, it could double a Soul Master's physical qualities, and its boost to speed reached an astonishing twofold increase.

Lu Bing's first soul skill, Demonic Fox Claw Strike, increased speed by thirty percent and attack penetration by thirty percent.

After activating this soul skill, Lu Bing's speed increased by another thirty percent on top of Martial Soul Possession, reaching nearly four times her speed without Martial Soul Possession.

Almost the instant she activated her soul skill, moving at four times her normal speed, Lu Bing flashed forward and instantly turned into an afterimage before arriving in front of Lin Ye. Her sharp fox claws then slashed fiercely toward him.

An ordinary person—even some Soul Masters—would have found it difficult to evade such a swift attack.

But Lin Ye was clearly not among them.

With the keen eyesight honed through cultivating the Nine Swords of Dugu, combined with the enhancement of Nine Yang True Qi, Lu Bing's speed was fast, but Lin Ye still noticed it instantly.

As Lu Bing swung her claws and the sharp fox claws were about to strike him, Lin Ye activated the Phoenix Dance Six Illusions movement technique. His body instantly burst forth with speed no inferior to Lu Bing's, allowing him to dodge the attack.

At the same time, he clenched his right hand into a fist and struck again, instantly hitting Lu Bing and sending her staggering backward.

But Lin Ye's attack was not over yet.

"Is that all you've got? Is this the strength you call that of a Soul Master?"

Activating the Phoenix Dance Six Illusions, Lin Ye moved again and swiftly charged at Lu Bing once more.

With the movement technique of Phoenix Dance Six Illusions and the keen eyesight gained from cultivating the Nine Swords of Dugu, Lin Ye used his hands as swords and continuously attacked Lu Bing.

But after her first strike failed, Lu Bing's Soul Ring entered its cooldown period. She was no longer Lin Ye's match and could only retreat miserably under his attacks.

Seeing Lu Bing gradually fall into a disadvantage in her battle with Lin Ye, everyone around them was stunned.

"No way! Is this freshman really going to defeat Senior Lu Bing, a Soul Master?"

"I knew Boss could do it!"

On the first floor, the children of Dormitory Seven cheered excitedly.

Xiao Wu also excitedly joined them, constantly waving her arms and dancing around.

However, Wang Sheng, whose cultivation was already very close to that of a Soul Master and who had begun learning about the gap between Soul Scholars and Soul Masters, wore an utterly incredulous expression.

Tang San, standing nearby, saw the movement technique Lin Ye displayed was even faster than when he had fought Tang San, and he could not help sighing.

"Lin Ye's strength has grown even stronger!"