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Looking at the heavily injured Ghost Tiger, Xie Yue did not relax his mind.
With a slight turn of his wrist, the Moon Blade flashed with a bright blade light. With the command "Gather," the dozen-plus blade-wielding figures from just moments ago moved simultaneously.
Emitting wisps of blood-red light, they instantly surged into Xie Yue's body. One could faintly see the dozen or more figures attaching themselves to him, causing the blood-red light on his body to surge dramatically.
Under the enhancement of these blood-colored figures, the energy fluctuations from Xie Yue's body were even more intense than before. The blood-red light became incredibly dense, and the Moon Blade emitted an even stronger blood-red glow, its razor-sharp aura greatly increasing.
Swinging the Moon Blades in unison, when the slash was executed, the blood-red light radiating from Xie Yue's body flowed into the blades like flowing water.
A blood-red blade Qi, larger and fiercer than the one released when using his third soul skill, formed a crescent shape and tore through the air, slashing toward the Ghost Tiger's true body.
If the crescent moon executed by the blade-wielding figures earlier was created using his third soul skill, Flame Moon, then this move was a combination of the Shadow Moon Slash and the crescent moon.
It was also the strongest attack Xie Yue could unleash at this moment.
A mournful tiger's roar rang out as the Ghost Tiger's neck was instantly slashed open across most of its width by the massive, elongated blade Qi. This Ghost Tiger, whose cultivation far surpassed that of the four of them, died on the spot.
Its body went limp and collapsed, devoid of any life.
After slaying the Ghost Tiger, Xie Yue did not waste any time.
A red light flashed on his body, and under the enhancement of Shadow Raid, he rapidly rushed toward Ling Xiao and Yan.
In the distance, Ling Xiao and Yan were jointly resisting the pack of Wasteland Wolves.
Suddenly, a red streak of light flashed from afar, resembling a human figure. Accompanied by it was a blood-red glow akin to a torrent. In the blink of an eye, the blood-red light manifested by the Charming Fox Domain enveloped the pack of Wasteland Wolves just as it had before.
Dozens of Wasteland Wolves fell into the Charming Fox Domain together.
Although the evil beasts in the Mystic Trace Canyon had mad and chaotic minds, they were not completely devoid of reason. Affected by the Charming Fox Domain at this moment, their perceptual abilities were heavily suppressed, and a sudden panic erupted within the wolf pack.
Seeing Xie Yue and Hu Liena arrive, Ling Xiao couldn't help but relax his expression; it seemed that the Ghost Tiger had been dealt with. After Hu Liena controlled the domain to open up a path for them, the two of them left the Charming Fox Domain.
Shortly after Ling Xiao and his companion stepped out of the Charming Fox Domain, Xie Yue communicated mentally with Hu Liena and instantly launched an offensive.
After Hu Liena activated the Charming Fox Domain, the blood-red light flickered and flowed continuously, creating a large number of illusions.
Even the strongest among these Wasteland Wolves with thousand-year cultivation could not compare to the previous Ghost Tiger, let alone their brutal and erratic minds, so naturally, they could not discern the illusions.
They immediately fell into the trap; some began pouncing on each other, while others wandered around aimlessly on the spot. Operating individually, they became a disorganized mob, entirely unable to execute their wolf pack tactics as they had before.
Xie Yue turned into a blurred shadow and struck the wolf pack.
With a swing of the Moon Blade, Xie Yue once again unleashed the Shadow Moon Slash. Over twenty blood-red, blade-wielding figures instantly charged out, rushing toward the pack of Wasteland Wolves like an army.
Affected by the illusions naturally stimulated by the Charming Fox Domain, the dozens of Wasteland Wolves, caught completely off guard in the face of Xie Yue's attack, suffered heavy injuries.
Wolf's blood splattered, dyeing large swaths of the rocky ground beneath them in patches of blood-red. Suddenly attacked, the dozens of Wasteland Wolves counterattacked one after another, biting and lunging at the blood-red figures beside them.
The scene instantly descended into chaos.
Under the cover of the Charming Fox Domain and the blood-red shadows transformed by the Shadow Moon Slash, Xie Yue, coordinating with Hu Liena's second soul skill, Shadow Raid, continuously launched attacks.
He transformed into a silver and red shadow, continuously flashing unpredictably between the wolf pack and the blade-wielding blood shadows. Every flash of the silver blade light left at least one deep, elongated blade mark on a Wasteland Wolf.
The entire process exuded a sense of coldness and cruelty, and the blade light gradually turned into the color of blood. Before long, the wolf pack's numbers were drastically reduced, suffering heavy losses as their total dwindled to half of what it was before.
The ground was littered with corpses, and dark red wolf blood flowed continuously, thick with the stench of blood.
If Xie Yue had not already experienced battles in the Soul Hunting Forest and his hands had not already been stained with blood, he likely would have lost his mental composure and fallen into a state of panic in the face of the current scene, unable to even hold his blade tightly.
Moreover, Hu Liena—who had merged into the Charming Fox mask through her martial soul in a rather peculiar manner—felt extremely relieved.
She still felt slightly uncomfortable with such bloody scenes, and if she were to manifest externally at this moment, she feared she would find it hard to stomach.
It was obvious that although Hu Liena possessed the strongest spiritual power among the four of them, she was also the most protected by Bibi Dong and was therefore inferior to the other three in terms of mental fortitude.
Presumably, Bibi Dong understood this as well, which is why she made the resolute decision to let Hu Liena enter a dangerous and perilous region like the Mystic Trace Canyon to undergo training, hoping it would allow her to grow tremendously.
As her disciple, although Bibi Dong wanted to protect Hu Liena as much as possible, she also hoped that Hu Liena could truly grow and become an expert rather than a flower in a greenhouse.
After a bout of brutal slaughter, the pack of Wasteland Wolves suffered heavy casualties, dwindling down to only twenty or thirty. Xie Yue and Hu Liena communicated telepathically, instantly understanding each other's intentions.
Xie Yue let out a low murmur, "Disperse."
The blade-wielding figures that had been engaging the wolf pack retreated in all directions, ceasing their entanglement with the Wasteland Wolves.
At the same time, just as Xie Yue controlled the figures manifested by the Shadow Moon Slash.
A strong spiritual fluctuation suddenly emanated from the Charming Fox mask on his face. Purple light lit up in its eyes, resembling the scene when Hu Liena executed her first soul skill, Charming Heart.
However, it was not entirely the same.
As the purple light shone in the eyes of the Charming Fox mask, the blood-red light permeating the space within the Charming Fox Domain flickered continuously, and wisps of blood-red light poured into the silver-white mask.
Within those purple-glowing eyes, wisps of blood-red light suddenly emerged.
The blending of the purple and blood-red colors made the eyes of the Charming Fox mask appear even more eerie. Stared at by this pair of eerie eyes, the remaining Wasteland Wolves actually came to a sudden halt, their expressions dazed.
Unlike before, when they were bewildered by the illusions naturally emitted by the Charming Fox Domain, at this moment, their minds were deeply immersed in a certain type of illusion, causing their bodies and minds to become sluggish and revealing a massive opening.
This mental control method, which was similar to her first soul skill, Charming Heart, but with obvious differences, was Hu Liena's self-created soul skill, Demonic Charm. In terms of mental control, it was even more powerful than her first soul skill, Charming Heart.
Furthermore, unlike ordinary soul skills that rely primarily on soul power boosted by the martial soul's original power after activation, Hu Liena's Demonic Charm takes the soul power amplified by the Charming Fox martial soul and combines it with the power of the Charming Fox Domain as its core.
Not only was it more difficult to create but compared to self-created soul skills that rely on only a single high-level power source, it might was greater. This was one of the core results of Hu Liena's cultivation and learning over the years.
Hu Liena followed a dual-fusion cultivation path, focusing primarily on the Spirit Control type and secondarily on the Agility Attack type.
Previously, she had mostly exhibited fire-attribute abilities and soul skills, heavily reflected the Agility Attack type path, and rarely used spiritual-type abilities other than her first soul skill.
The reason was not that Hu Liena had abandoned her main cultivation path and achieved nothing in the spiritual attributes of the Charming Fox martial soul.
Rather, it was because her self-created soul skill, Demonic Charm, which she modeled after her first soul skill, Charming Heart, could not be executed merely by activating the Charming Fox martial soul.
It also required the cooperation of the Charming Fox Domain's power. Therefore, it could only be used after executing the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Charm Moon.
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