As the sea froze over and large numbers of Soul Masters surged onto the ice to fight, Xiao Chen stopped bombarding everything with the Wither.
The ice was already fragile from the Guardians breaking through it. If he kept bombing indiscriminately, everyone would fall into the sea and become fish food.
The instant he stopped, Xiao Chen recalled the Wither. With a thought, his Martial Soul immediately possessed him. Dark, deathly black mist wreathed his body, and an aura that annihilated all things erupted outward.
He leaped from the ship, his figure flashing out like a phantom, and reached a Ten-Thousand-Year Guardian floundering on the ice in an instant.
Once again, zero-frame startup. Once again, he used Wither Head as a melee Soul Skill.
Pitch-black light gathered in Xiao Chen's palm. A small, condensed Wither Head wreathed in deathly black mist formed instantly, carrying overbearing destructive power as he pressed it straight onto the Guardian's head.
Boom!
A muffled explosion abruptly rang out, and pitch-black, destructive mist instantly swept through the surroundings.
This Guardian, equivalent to a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, did not even have a chance to struggle or resist before its body was destroyed by the explosion.
The next instant, something happened that shocked Xiao Chen.
Not a drop of blood flowed from the Guardian's ruined body, nor did it leave any remains. It soon turned into a thin cloud of white mist and dispersed in midair.
At the same time, a string of gleaming, yellow-and-green spherical energy bodies slowly appeared, floated up on their own, and entered Xiao Chen's body.
Warm, pure energy instantly washed through his limbs and bones, and the Soul Power within him quietly rose a little.
A flash of astonishment crossed Xiao Chen's eyes.
*Wasn't this... the Experience Orb that dropped after killing monsters