Chapter 60: Another Powerful Move! The Seventh-Ring Evil Soul Master Dies a Tragic Death!
The canopy of the Starry Sky Forest blocked out the sun, and the air was filled with the damp smell of decaying earth and a faint stench of blood.
"What exactly is going on?"
Liu Yuan frowned and leaped through the dense forest at full speed.
His chest rose and fell slightly, and the icy blue light of the Qilin Treasure Technique flickered beneath his feet, maintaining an extremely high speed.
Even so, the chilling feeling, like a venomous snake staring down one's spine, still lingers.
"Is he a perception-type evil spirit master? How can he know our direction so accurately?" Vina leaned on Liu Yuan's back, her expression extremely solemn.
Her mental energy continued to extend backward, only to discover that the other party was not searching through sight or aura, but rather tracking a deeper mark.
Liu Yuan did feel a sense of frustration.
They were clearly far apart before, and during his escape, he used his soul power to suppress all his and Vina's auras, even forcibly blocking out the smell of sweat.
However, the seventh-ring Soul Saint behind them was always able to accurately correct his position, like a nail that kept biting down on them.
Based on the current distance, they will be caught up by the other side in less than 45 minutes.
"Shall we give it another shot?" Vina's palms were sweaty as she looked at Liu Yuan's double pupils, her voice low.
As Liu Yuan weaved through the thorns, he decisively shook his head: "No way. The opponent is a seven-ring Soul Saint, while I am only level thirty-nine. There are three major ranks between us: Soul Master, Soul King, and Soul Emperor."
"The gap is too big to be bridged by fighting desperately. Moreover, we have no information whatsoever about his soul skill type or attack methods. If we make a rash move, we will only be throwing our lives away."
Liu Yuan freed one hand and lifted Vina up, continuing to run wildly through the forest: "Let's keep running for now, I'll try to think of something quickly, there must be something we've overlooked."
...
However, the aura behind them grew closer and closer, and that evil and violent pressure began to affect the surrounding soul beasts, startling flocks of birds into flight.
Hundreds of meters behind, the figure of the black-robed Soul Saint sped through the tree trunks, his eyes filled with cruelty.
He watched the increasingly thick red smoke at his fingertips and sneered repeatedly.
"You little beasts, trying to run away? Once I catch you, I'll skin you alive, tear your tendons out, and torture your souls in my soul banner for forty-nine days!"
The distance between the two sides continued to shrink in this battle of endurance, and the pursuit finally reached its final point.
Ahead appeared a towering ancient tree, large enough for ten people to encircle, with aerial roots hanging down like curtains.
Liu Yuan's figure flickered and disappeared behind the huge tree trunk.
Before that, Vina's figure had completely disappeared into the forest.
"call--"
With a flash of black shadow, the evil soul master Soul Saint landed steadily on a horizontal tree branch.
He looked down at the lifeless ancient tree, his disdain undisguised.
"Still trying to hide? Do you think you can? Under my blood curse tracking, you'll still glow even if you burrow into a crack in the ground."
The evil spirit master opened his withered, claw-like palm, and a cloud of dark mist quickly condensed in his palm, eventually solidifying into a sharp blade of energy.
He casually flicked his wrist downwards and forwards, and the black blade of air, accompanied by a piercing whistling sound, precisely sliced towards the tree trunk where Liu Yuan was hiding.
"Bang!"
Wood chips flew everywhere, and Liu Yuan was forced to slip out from behind the tree.
He was all alone at the moment, and his double pupils revealed a deep coldness.
The evil spirit master scanned his surroundings and discovered that Vina, who was usually inseparable from him, had vanished.
He stopped and asked coldly, "Where is the little princess? Where are you hiding her?"
Liu Yuan looked at him with an extremely sarcastic smile: "Judging from your reaction now, it's just as I guessed."
"Your tracking methods can only target me. Once I'm separated from her, you'll become blind."
The evil spirit master, his sore spot touched, blazed with murderous intent and demanded again, "I'll ask you one more time, where is the princess?"
Liu Yuan snorted coldly, and the crimson light in his double pupils began to flash: "You should worry about yourself first, lest you accidentally capsize in a ditch."
"You won't talk? Then you can die first! Once I catch you, I'll naturally have a way to find out where she is by searching her soul!"
Enraged to the extreme, the evil spirit master transformed into a twisted black shadow, leaving an afterimage in his original position before instantly flashing in front of Liu Yuan.
His five fingers were like knives, wrapped in black death energy, slicing across with extreme ruthlessness.
"Pfft!"
Blood splattered.
Although Liu Yuan tried his best to dodge, due to the huge difference in soul power, his right arm was cleanly severed by the opponent's attack.
"Go to hell!"
Despite the excruciating pain, Liu Yuanqiang narrowed his left eye and fired a red laser beam at close range toward the evil spirit master's face.
"A trivial skill!"
The evil spirit master let out a disdainful laugh, leaning back slightly. In the instant the beam of light grazed his cheek, he even had the leisure to give Liu Yuan a mocking look.
In his view, the shot was wildly off target, a miscalculation caused by fear.
However, the next second, in a dark patch of grass about fifty meters behind the evil spirit master, something unexpected happened.
The red laser beam struck precisely the large, circular object covered with a thick layer of dead leaves.
"Hiss—Roar!"
A deafening roar, filled with violence and poison, suddenly erupted.
The once peaceful ground suddenly cracked open, and a huge, black, venomous spider with strange red patterns on its back burst out of the ground.
That was a Death Spider King with a cultivation level of 100,000 years.
Because it was in a weakened state after laying eggs, it was originally in a deep sleep here, but Liu Yuan's sudden laser eye shot hit a crack in its carapace.
This was an absolutely intolerable provocation for the tyrannical forest overlord.
The Death Spider King's dense compound eyes instantly locked onto the evil soul master with the strongest aura. As for Liu Yuan, who had lost an arm, he was nothing more than an insignificant vassal in its perception.
"Whoosh!"
The Death Spider King's spear-like claws, carrying a green poisonous mist, instantly tore through the air and stabbed towards the direction where the Evil Soul Master and Liu Yuan were located.
The evil spirit master's expression changed drastically; the terrifying pressure at this level made his scalp tingle.
"A 100,000-year-old soul beast? Damn it!"
He wanted to retreat and escape, but unexpectedly, at that very moment, Liu Yuan's arm, which had been broken off and lay on the ground, regrew back in just a few breaths thanks to the terrifying self-healing power of his immortal body.
At this moment, Liu Yuan unleashed all the remaining soul power in his body. Instead of fleeing, he went berserk and, the instant the evil soul master turned around, tightly embraced him from behind.
"Are you crazy? Do you want to die with me?" The evil spirit master was terrified and struggled desperately, only to find that Liu Yuan's strength was astonishing.
As Liu Yuan felt the rapidly enlarging shadow of death behind him, a cold smile curled at the corner of his lips: "It's you who will die, not me."
"Pfft!"
A muffled thud.
The Death Spider King's enormous claws pierced through Liu Yuan and the Evil Soul Master's bodies as easily as piercing tofu.
Black, corrosive venom gushed in along the claws.
The seven-ring Soul Saint evil soul master let out a short and desperate scream. His entire body shattered instantly in the face of the absolute power of the 100,000-year-old soul beast, and his soul was completely corroded by the poison at that moment.
Liu Yuan's body was also pierced through a huge bloody hole, and he hung heavily on the spider's claws.
The Death Spider King seemed disgusted by the stench of evil soul masters emanating from the two humans. It shook its claws, as if shaking off the garbage clinging to its body, and flung Liu Yuan and the mangled corpse away.
Then, the giant beast let out a venting roar, completely ignoring the two "ants" it considered doomed, and turned to crawl back into its nest to continue sleeping.
The forest returned to silence.
That evil spirit master is beyond dead.
But Liu Yuan lay in a pool of blood, and due to the frenzied operation of his immortal body, his wounds were being repaired at a speed visible to the naked eye.
They recovered quickly.
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