Chapter 19: External Spirit Bone, Heavenly Spider Claw

The mutated Shadow Demon Spider, with three thousand years of cultivation, possessed combat strength comparable to that of an ordinary ten-thousand-year soul beast. Yet, unfortunately for it, it faced Zhang Lexuan, a top-tier seventh-ring Soul Saint from the inner academy of Shrek Academy.

It wasn’t that the spider didn’t want to unleash its powerful innate soul skill to resist desperately; it simply couldn’t exert any of its strength under the overwhelming suppression of Zhang Lexuan’s absolute power.

Zhang Lexuan’s temperament was calm and steady—she wouldn’t be as reckless as Elder Xuan.

Such a perfect soul ring, suitable for Ye Xixuan, would not be allowed even the slightest chance of escape. The first priority was to minimize any uncertainty.

“Xixuan, prepare to absorb the soul ring.”

“Oh.” Hearing Zhang Lexuan’s reminder, Ye Xixuan gradually came back to his senses.

Seeing the gentle smile in Zhang Lexuan’s eyes, he quickly dispelled all distractions. His right hand condensed the Shadow Spear, and step by step, he approached the Shadow Demon Spider.

Under Zhang Lexuan’s suppression of his martial soul, the Shadow Demon Spider had long lost the ability to resist. Its eight small eyes were filled with a hateful light.

Ye Xixuan raised his right hand holding the Shadow Spear, then forcefully stabbed one of the spider’s eyes, directly shattering the nerves in its head.

After a violent tremor, the spider’s body stiffened completely. A faint purple light began to appear above its corpse, gradually condensing into a bright and magnificent purple soul ring.

A fierce aura radiated around the soul ring, bringing waves of spiritual pressure that seemed to slightly distort the surrounding space.

Although soul shock only appears with ten-thousand-year soul rings, the soul grudges of every soul beast linger after death. The stronger the soul beast, the more intense its posthumous soul grudge.

Upon close contact with the Shadow Demon Spider’s soul grudge, Ye Xixuan once again felt a tremor within his martial soul, and a sudden understanding dawned on him.

“So that’s it…”

In the past two years, he had interacted with Ma Xiaotao. Like Tang Ya, the evil energy within Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul could also stir his own martial soul.

Judging from the current situation, it seemed that no matter whether it was evil energy or grudges of thought, such resentment would trigger this kind of tremor in his martial soul.

Ye Xixuan had tried before; his martial soul could only sense these evil energies and thoughts. But now, he had a strong premonition that after absorbing the second soul ring, things might change—perhaps even before a breakthrough.

Seeing Ye Xixuan hesitate, Zhang Lexuan walked closer and asked with concern, “How is it? Xixuan, are you confident you can absorb this soul ring?”

“Don’t worry, Sister Lexuan. It should be no problem.” Ye Xixuan nodded firmly. Under Zhang Lexuan’s watchful gaze, he sat cross-legged and used his soul power to activate the Shadow Demon Spider’s soul ring.

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