In the dark forest, a cold wind rustled through the trees.
Three pitch-black tentacles pierced Luo Xuege firmly through both shoulders and his heart, holding him in midair, while purple blotches covered large swaths of his skin.
By now, his former arrogance, brutality, and overbearing swagger were long gone.
In their place were fear that sank into his very marrow and endless despair.
His vitality drained away like flowing sand. He could barely sense his martial soul anymore. The torment of watching helplessly as his strength dissipated and his body crumbled was far worse than the agony of his flesh.
With unhurried steps, Xiao Chen slowly approached Luo Xuege, who hung in midair.
Every step seemed to land on Luo Xuege's heart as it teetered on the brink of collapse, plunging this Evil Soul Master, who had killed countless people, into panic.
Xiao Chen stopped before Luo Xuege, calmly studying his wretched, nearly broken state without a ripple in his heart, preparing to turn him into a Wither Skeleton using his Fourth Soul Skill.
Xiao Chen's Fourth Soul Skill was called Wither Conversion, and it, too, was based on the Wither's traits in Minecraft. In Minecraft's Bedrock Edition, the Wither would summon three to four Wither Skeletons to assist it in battle when its health fell to half.
His soul skill's effect was to summon four Wither Skeletons, which could fight for him once he trained them, or to turn other creatures into Wither Skeletons.
As long as a target had been thoroughly eroded by Wither Power and lost the ability to resist, he could forcibly transform them into his own Wither Skeleton through his Fourth Soul Skill.
Most importantly, a Wither Skeleton converted from a living being would not lose the cultivation or combat abilities the target possessed in