Chapter 263: Sacred Heart Imprint Protection! Withering and Flourishing Imprisonment Domain!
Not long after, the faint blue glow across the training ground slowly faded away.
As the leader of the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Ye Lingling had also completed the test of the second core effect.
[Sacred Heart Ancient Tree Second Effect: Sacred Heart Imprint Protection]
This effect could place an exclusive Sacred Heart Imprint on any allied target.
Once the imprint was activated, all damage received by the target would be transferred through Blue Silver Grass's life connection directly onto the trunk of the Sacred Heart Ancient Tree.
The Ancient Tree's endless vitality would bear the full burden.
In other words, as long as the Sacred Heart Ancient Tree did not collapse, a target marked with the imprint would not suffer any substantial damage.
At the same time, the imprint would grant the target an exclusive shield.
The shield's strength was equivalent to ten times the combined soul power of the two fusion soul masters.
The moment the shield shattered, a tide of life would instantly erupt.
This tide could immediately restore the target's vitality and soul power.
At this point, all two Martial Soul Fusion Skill effects that Ye Lingling could release while acting as the leader had been fully tested.
The two effects under her control encompassed the three core abilities of ultimate recovery, domain-wide purification, and absolute protection.
It could be said that they were all top-tier support effects capable of directly pushing the team's survival limit to its maximum.
With these two fusion skills in play, even a team pushed into a hopeless situation could instantly reverse the tide and establish an unshakable foundation for victory.
Next,
It was Lin Qingmo's turn to lead the Martial Soul Fusion Skill and unlock another layer of the Sacred Heart Ancient Tree's abilities.
"Teacher Erlong, Old Poison, we're not done yet. Try this one too."
After transmitting his voice, Lin Qingmo's thoughts moved.
The Blue Silver Grass that had blanketed the entire training ground and had previously seemed gentle and harmless instantly shed its soft glow, becoming sharp and imposing.
"Whoosh!"
Beneath the ground, countless thick Blue Silver Grass roots violently burst through the surface!
Cold blue light shimmered along the surface of countless sturdy vines, like chains forged from refined steel.
With piercing sounds cutting through the air, they swept across the entire field in an instant.
They did not spread chaotically.
Instead, they precisely locked onto only Liu Erlong and Dugu Bo.
"A control effect?"
Liu Erlong and Dugu Bo's expressions changed simultaneously.
Having survived countless battles, both immediately sensed something ominous.
As those vines wrapped around their bodies, they not only carried a terrifying restraining force but also contained a strange power capable of devouring vitality.
Their previously smooth-flowing soul power instantly felt as if it had sunk into thick mud, becoming sluggish beyond compare.
Even the circulation of blood and vitality within their bodies had become frozen by that power, causing an overwhelming stiffness to spread throughout their bodies.
"Wh... what kind of control effect is this?"
Liu Erlong cried out in disbelief, her face filled with shock.
"It can directly lock down my soul power circulation?"
"Even this old man's soul power has become sluggish!"
Dugu Bo also discarded all thoughts of joking around, his face turning solemn and shocked.
"These vines not only possess incredible physical toughness; they can actually absorb vitality and directly seal soul power nodes? This isn't ordinary Blue Silver Grass Entanglement at all!"
"Interesting. Let this old man see whether these vines can really hold me down!"
Dugu Bo laughed loudly as the aura of a Titled Douluo erupted from his body.
On the other side, Liu Erlong also released her Fire Dragon Martial Soul at the same time.
Only after both of them exerted even greater strength did they completely break free from Blue Silver Grass's restraints.
[Sacred Heart Ancient Tree Third Effect: Withering and Flourishing Imprisonment Domain]
The Blue Silver Grass spreading across the entire battlefield formed the absolute domain of this imprisonment technique.
Countless roots lurking underground would instantly burst forth.
They transformed into countless sturdy vines, accurately locking onto every enemy target.
Unlike ordinary Blue Silver Grass, which relied solely on brute-force physical entanglement, this imprisonment covered an absolute three-layer restraint of physical body, soul power, and life force.
The vines carried the Sacred Heart Ancient Tree's core life perception ability and could accurately capture the flow path of a target's soul power, directly piercing into their meridians and soul power nodes.
It could completely lock down the target's soul power circulation and seal all soul skill releases.
It could even directly freeze the flow of blood and vitality inside the target's body, stripping away the ability to resist at its root.
Once restrained, the target would completely lose all resistance, becoming lambs awaiting slaughter without even the chance to self-destruct.
After all, self-destruction required detonating one's own soul power.
But if soul power had been completely locked down, it would be impossible to mobilize it, let alone detonate it.
Based on the previous test, both Liu Erlong and Dugu Bo already had a rough understanding.
This imprisonment effect could easily restrain Soul Emperors and below.
Giving them absolutely no chance to break free.
Even Soul Saint-level experts would need to exert themselves fully just to barely escape.
And as Lin Qingmo and Ye Lingling's soul power ranks continued to increase, the Martial Soul Fusion Skill's power would keep skyrocketing.
If they eventually became Soul Emperors or Soul Saints, even Soul Douluo or perhaps even Titled Douluo-level experts might face certain death from this imprisonment technique.
"The control effect is very strong."
Lin Qingmo was extremely satisfied with this effect.
But he knew very clearly that this move only became a true killing weapon when paired with the fourth effect.
Lin Qingmo's thoughts shifted.
The vines that had just been shattered by the two of them surged forward once more.
This time, they were faster and stronger.
In an instant, the vines wrapped around Liu Erlong and Dugu Bo again.
At the same time, Lin Qingmo activated both the third and fourth effects together: Sacred Heart Ancient Tree Fourth Effect—Vitality Deprivation Judgment!
The instant the vines wrapped around them,
Liu Erlong and Dugu Bo sharply sensed that, beyond the imprisonment effect, their soul power and vitality were being forcefully extracted through the vines at an accelerating rate.
The speed was terrifying!
"Hm?!"
Dugu Bo's expression changed as he frantically circulated his soul power, trying to resist the extraction.
But the harder he resisted, the faster the vines drained him.
The soul power within his body surged toward the vines like floodwaters released from a broken dam.
Liu Erlong experienced the same thing.
An uncontrollable feeling of weakness spread through her entire body.
What shocked them even more was that half of the extracted soul power and vitality merged directly into the vines.
This made the vines become even tougher, and their restraining force grew stronger.
Creating a perfect snowball effect.
The more they drained, the stronger the imprisonment became.
The stronger the imprisonment became, the easier the draining became.
Meanwhile, the other half of the energy traveled through Blue Silver Grass's life network and fed back into the Sacred Heart Ancient Tree.
The soul power Lin Qingmo and Ye Lingling had just consumed during testing instantly returned to full.
Liu Erlong widened her eyes.
"Their condition returned to a peak state again? Wh... what kind of absurd skill is this?!"
"It can directly drain our soul power and vitality? And then use it for yourselves?"
"That's ridiculous! You're basically bandits!"
Dugu Bo stared blankly in shock.
That brief moment alone had drained nearly ten percent of his soul power.
"Using this old man's soul power to replenish yourselves? And it gets stronger the more it drains?"
End of Chapter
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