Blue Silver Spores! A Flying Soul Skill

"Scree-!"

The piercing cry was unbearably shrill. Blood welled from the Wasteland Giant Eagle's beak as it opened and closed, and its violent struggles only had the opposite effect, worsening its injuries.

Pfft!

Bones shattered and flesh tore as the distorted space ripped the Wasteland Giant Eagle's right wing apart midway down its length, scattering blood across the sky.

With its right wing severed,

the Wasteland Giant Eagle could no longer fly. Screaming, its momentum carried it into a dive toward the ground where Ye Qiu stood.

Boom!

The Wasteland Giant Eagle, its wingspan over eight meters wide, crashed heavily down onto Ye Qiu's head.

Amid the billowing dust, it passed straight through Ye Qiu, plowed a bloody furrow through the clearing, and slammed into a tree trunk nearby.

The Tomoe in Ye Qiu's right eye stopped spinning, and the blood-red color in his eye vanished in an instant.

In its place, Blue Silver Grass unfurled from his hand, and two purple Soul Rings lit up almost simultaneously.

First Soul Skill... Endless Life!

A green glow lit up Ye Qiu's body and quickly spread to the Blue Silver Grass. When his Second Soul Ring lit up, tiny flower buds sprouted from the grass in his hand, which became a whip and lashed toward the Wasteland Giant Eagle!

Swish-!

The whip-like Blue Silver Grass did not touch the Wasteland Giant Eagle. It merely flung out green spores that landed on the bird.

"Scree-!"

The Wasteland Giant Eagle shook its enormous head and let out a scream of pain. It had only just recovered from the impact and wanted to escape, but it was already too late.

The spores Ye Qiu had flung out had already begun to take effect!

Amid the Wasteland Giant Eagle's cries, the spores took root and sprouted in an instant, sinking their roots into its flesh. They constantly drew on the Soul Power within it, growing wildly and binding it tight!

"Mm~"

Ye Qiu smiled broadly as he watched the Wasteland Giant Eagle bound by Blue Silver Grass as thick as trees and felt the Soul Power gradually filling his body.

"As expected of a giant eagle, it really has a lot! This Soul Power... tsk, tsk!"

A bird with a broken wing, trapped by plants-

what other fate could await it? Only death!

Soon,

more and more spores fell from the Blue Silver Grass vines onto the Wasteland Giant Eagle.

Its Soul Power gradually ran dry,

and the first Blue Silver Grass to sprout had already eaten its fill!

Around the Wasteland Giant Eagle, several Blue Silver Grass plants that had taken root in the ground grew immensely thick and strong, like banana trees. They formed a cage, intent on strangling the eagle to death and turning it into nutrients.

This was the second Soul Skill Ye Qiu had obtained for his Blue Silver Grass from the five-thousand-year-old Ghost Vine,

Blue Silver Spores!

Anyone who came into contact with his Blue Silver Grass could be parasitized by Blue Silver Spores.

These spores fed on Soul Power, strengthening the Blue Silver Grass itself. They could also feed some Soul Power back to Ye Qiu, replenishing what he had spent.

If the Soul Power was completely devoured,

the Blue Silver Spores would next devour the life force of the Soul Master or Soul Beast!

Half a quarter of an hour passed,

and the Wasteland Giant Eagle had completely fallen silent. Its Soul Power was exhausted, and its flesh had withered away as it died!

Ye Qiu beckoned gently,

drawing a purple Soul Ring over to him.

Looking at the Blue Silver Grass plants that still stood beside the corpse like banana trees, Ye Qiu could not help feeling somewhat astonished.

He had not expected the life force of his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul to have become so vigorous...

The Soul Skill had already ended,

yet it had still left behind a small patch of greenery.

"This Sage Body really is impressive. Now I can rest easy."

Ye Qiu shifted his gaze from the Blue Silver trees back to the Soul Ring before him, a confident smile appearing on his face.

They're only ice and fire Immortal Herbs. What can they do to me?

An invisible vortex twisted and swallowed Ye Qiu's body.

In the clearing,

apart from the bloody furrow and the Blue Silver trees rooted in the Wasteland Giant Eagle's remains,

nothing else remained.

"..."

In the blink of an eye, night fell.

The night was especially dark. The bright moon in the sky had been veiled by black clouds, and in Sunset Forest, it was so dark one could not see one's own hand.

Dark clouds pressed down over Heaven Dou City, and rain was about to fall.

Inside the Kamui Dimension.

Ye Qiu had finished absorbing the third Soul Ring for his Blue Silver Grass.

His cultivation had finally been fully revealed:

level thirty-four!

Less than a month after graduating from Nuoding City, he had gone from a level-eleven Soul Master to a level-thirty-four Soul Elder!

Ye Qiu was overjoyed.

But what surprised him more than his cultivation was actually his third Soul Skill.

"This counts as a pleasant surprise too, I suppose?"

Ye Qiu sat cross-legged on the stone platform, looking at the third purple Soul Ring hanging around the flourishing Blue Silver Grass in his palm. With a thought...

His Third Soul Ring flashed with purple light.

Countless Blue Silver Grass fibers instantly grew from Ye Qiu's back, weaving themselves at top speed into a pair of sharp-edged wings.

The knitted wings gave a slight flap,

and Ye Qiu's body slowly rose into the air. He was flying.

At once,

he began soaring freely through the air.

"Haha!"

"I didn't expect to be able to fly so soon!"

"This is great! Great-flying really is the highest form of enjoying freedom!"

Ye Qiu darted back and forth between the many stone platforms,

as swift as wind and lightning.

This was the third Soul Skill of Ye Qiu's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul... Blue Silver Wings.

Bang!

All of a sudden,

Ye Qiu put aside his playful mood and steered the wings on his back hard into the stone wall.

The stone wall cracked on impact, a gash sliced into it!

Then the wings on his back grew again, extending dozens of sharp wooden spikes that stabbed toward the wall!

Pfft!

A series of gashes were instantly torn into the stone wall.

"Not bad, not bad!"

Ye Qiu hovered in the air with his arms folded,

feeling a bit like Doctor Octopus.

He looked at the cuts the feather blades and wooden spikes had left in the wall and nodded in satisfaction.

The Blue Silver Wings gave him a flying speed more than twice his speed on the ground. To weave this pair of wings, the toughness of his Blue Silver Grass had also increased considerably.

When necessary, this pair of Blue Silver Wings might also be used for defense.

More importantly,

they also gave him a way to attack enemies from the air.

For Soul Masters who could not fly, a Soul Master with the ability to fly

was simply a higher-dimensional strike!

Ye Qiu reached out and summoned his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, a hint of amusement in his eyes.

His Blue Silver Grass was looking more and more like a sapling.

After obtaining the Third Soul Ring, it had grown a little greener and rougher, looking so full of fibers that one could hardly chew through it.

Perhaps that was a sign that it had grown tougher!

"Time to keep taking medicine."

Murmuring to himself, Ye Qiu put away his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. A bloody light shone in his eyes, and his body became a vortex, vanishing from the Kamui Dimension.

Rumble!

Muffled thunder rolled through clouds as black as ink, and lightning flickered.

For an instant, all of Sunset Forest turned deathly pale,

and so did the Jade Phosphor Poison Formation shrouding the valley where the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well lay.

Ye Qiu appeared on the roof of the thatched hut. Lightning shone through the poison formation churning in the fierce wind and fell upon him,

illuminating his entire body.