Enlightenment of the Intercepting Sword Technique, the Heavenly Screen Rises Again to Reveal a Swarm Disaster!

[Intercepting Sword Technique: Your understanding of the meridians has reached a transcendent level. Now, your swordsmanship can sever the flow of a target's Soul Power.]

[Equilibrium: You can now attempt to use multiple different attributes at once, but for now, you can only fuse two.]

"Hey, hey~"

Ye Xiao groggily came to his senses and saw a small, pale hand waving back and forth in front of him.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Don't tell me you've gotten stronger again?"

Ye Guyi looked at Ye Xiao with a strange expression.

She knew that look all too well. Every time Ye Xiao had zoned out before, he had come up with something new!

Slap, slap, slap!

Ye Xiao did not respond. He simply used his small hands to slap Wu Qingyao's delicate, shapely body several times in succession.

As he patted her, the residual fire-attribute Soul Power inside Wu Qingyao's body mysteriously subsided!

Now the Snow Empress could move more freely, without having to be as careful as before!

"Is this your comprehension ability?"

"Truly terrifying..."

The Snow Empress glanced impassively at Ye Xiao, who had moved his little hands only a few times before growing so weak that he was gasping for breath.

A hint of amazement slipped into her eyes despite herself. This miraculous technique had truly opened her eyes!

"A rather useless ability. I could sever this lady's Soul Power only because she was completely defenseless against me."

"Otherwise, at my current level, I could sever the Soul Power of a level thirty Soul Elder at most."

"But as far as I'm concerned, beating up a puny Soul Elder is effortless anyway."

"Still... I could try using this ability on captives."

Ye Xiao shook his head hard. Those few movements had depleted quite a bit more of his spiritual power.

It seemed he needed to get a cultivation method for improving his spiritual power too.

"Oh, you poor thing!"

Ye Guyi, a Soul Grandmaster who still had some way to go before reaching level thirty, gave Ye Xiao a resentful look.

"Could you teach me how to sever Soul Power?"

Seeing Wu Qingyao's condition improve, the Snow Empress turned back.

She pursed her pink lips and spoke somewhat awkwardly.

If she was bound to fight Di Tian in the future, then learning this move might let her catch him off guard!

"No problem. If you want to learn, I'll teach you~"

Ye Xiao shrugged and spoke without concern.

"Thank you."

The Snow Empress nodded reservedly, her gaze softening a little more as she looked at Ye Xiao.

"It's nothing. I just got lucky."

"For you, this method should be no more than a little trick. It's nothing special."

Ye Xiao smiled and waved his hand modestly.

To someone like the Snow Empress, who stood virtually at the pinnacle of the continent, his Intercepting Sword Technique really was just a little trick.

"Hmm..."

The Snow Empress gave Ye Xiao a long look.

So a method that could amaze her was just a little trick, was it?!

Although the Snow Empress did not know much about human ways, she was not stupid.

She could tell that Ye Xiao's words were not simply modesty. There seemed to be some strange meaning hidden in them.

"Hehe~"

The Snow Empress might not have understood, but Ye Guyi could certainly tell that Ye Xiao was humblebragging.

She folded her arms and rolled her eyes at Ye Xiao with a chuckle.

"Hm?"

Just then, Ye Xiao suddenly raised an eyebrow.

He sensed that the strand of sword Qi he had given the Ice Empress was gone.

That meant the Ice Empress had probably already clashed with Ye Yulin!

"How is this possible..."

Blood spilled from the corner of Ye Yulin's mouth as he stared in disbelief at the giant pincer piercing his body.

He could not understand how the Ice Empress had managed to make the Soul Power inside him sluggish!

Because of that, he had not even managed to bring out his Soul Tools!

"No... it wasn't Soul Power... it was the Cloud Sword Art!"

"There's poison in the sword art!"

Ye Yulin stared fixedly at the Ice Empress's expressionless face. He finally understood why he had died so easily at her hands!

His aptitude was not poor, and because of that, he had easily cultivated the Cloud Sword Art to an extremely high level.

But he had never imagined that the Ice Empress would have the means to exploit the Cloud Sword Art's weakness!

Moreover, precisely because he had cultivated it to such a high level, the sharpness attribute added by the Cloud Sword Art had spread to a fifth of his Soul Power.

Thus, when the Ice Empress triggered the hidden measure Ye Xiao had left behind, the Soul Power inside him had grown sluggish for an instant.

But for someone like him, with high attack and low defense, being slowed for an instant was no different from courting death!

No... it wasn't the Ice Empress... it was Ye...

Ye Yulin's eyes remained wide as his breath finally faded.

"Isn't that kid too sneaky?"

The Ice Empress dissolved her ice pincer, her expression somewhat grave.

She could figure out what Ye Yulin had realized as well.

Neither she nor the Snow Empress had cultivated the Cloud Sword Art passed down through the heavenly screen, however, because the attribute it added was completely useless to their Ultimate Ice attribute.

"But since he showed it in front of me, that means he at least wasn't planning to use a trick like this to control Xue'er and me."

As the Ice Empress pondered, she disposed of the body and erased the traces, collecting Ye Yulin's treasures and the like while she was at it.

"I can give these documents and things to Ye Xiao. He learns quickly."

"These Soul Tools..."

The Ice Empress suddenly fell silent. Although the Soul Tools were inactive, she could still faintly sense the threat they posed.

If Ye Yulin had unleashed his full firepower, she would have had to expend some effort at the very least, and might even have been injured.

"Humans..."

The Ice Empress's gaze grew increasingly complicated.

Ye Xiao, that sneaky little bastard, and Ye Yulin's Soul Tools were silently changing the way she thought.

Humans truly are beings blessed by the heavens.

The Ice Empress took a deep breath and decided not to dwell on it.

She had originally wanted to visit a human city for fun, but now it seemed she had better hurry off as soon as she had rescued the person!

"Hm? Who's speaking?!"

The Ice Empress had just been about to continue on her way when her expression suddenly froze.

An ethereal voice suddenly rang out in her head!

A complete map of Mingdu in the Sun Moon Empire and a guard duty manual had also appeared!

The Plane Consciousness?

The Ice Empress stopped, her gaze distant. She quickly identified the source of the voice.

The Plane Consciousness... was the Plane Consciousness of the Douluo Continent actually intervening in this matter of her own accord?

Or was the Plane Consciousness actually trying to curry favor with Ye Xiao?

The Ice Empress shook her head. These things were still too difficult for her to think through.

In that case, once she returned to the Far North, she would leave the thinking to the Snow Empress and that sneaky little bastard!

And just as the Ice Empress decided to continue on to Mingdu,

the heavenly screen descended once more!

But this time, the heavenly screen did not begin with Ye Xiao. Instead, it showed a spring of ice and fire wreathed in poisonous fog.

Within the poisonous fog, several insects could dimly be seen opening their terrifying mouthparts and sucking in great gulps of the spring water and the fog!

As they sucked, their bodies underwent strange changes!

In a short time, their numbers had soared to several thousand!

Then the heavenly screen fell silent once again.