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Suddenly, a silver-white figure tinged with fiery red flashed past Ling Xiao, overtaking him to pursue the Man-Faced Demon Spider.
It was Hu Liena.
At this moment, Hu Liena had activated her second soul skill, Shadow Raid. However, she did not manifest any illusory clones, choosing instead to focus the skill purely on augmenting her own speed.
The effect was remarkable; it didn't take long for her to catch up to Ling Xiao and steadily close the gap between her and the demon spider. Agility-Attack System Soul Masters emphasize attack power and speed.
Regarding offense, they often only become truly formidable in the later stages of cultivation, appearing merely "decent" in the early phases. Speed, however, has always been their absolute forte.
Hu Liena was cultivating the Dual-Fusion Stream. One could call her a Control System Soul Master, but she was equally an Agility-Attack System Soul Master.
To better integrate her second attribute and develop her agility path, her second and third soul rings had both been absorbed from fire-attribute soul beasts, and their effects leaned heavily toward the Agility-Attack style.
It could be said that at her current three-ring Soul Elder level, her agility-based capabilities actually surpassed her mental control skills. Already naturally swift, Hu Liena's speed skyrocketed after using Shadow Raid.
Meanwhile, the Man-Faced Demon Spider was severely wounded and reduced to only four legs. It had previously managed to stay ahead of Ling Xiao only because he, as a Power-Attack System Soul Master, lacked speed.
Now, facing Hu Liena's pursuit, it was about to be overtaken.
Suddenly, the Man-Faced Demon Spider kicked off with its four legs, twisting its entire body to make a sharp, instantaneous turn toward the flank.
As it veered off, it mobilized its soul power; with a flash of purple light, a massive spiderweb over ten meters in diameter hurtled toward Hu Liena.
"Trying to stop me? In your dreams!"
Hu Liena did not dodge.
Instead, she circulated her soul power and drove her martial soul, activating her third soul ring.
A purple thousand-year soul ring emerged, rotating slowly around her body. Under the state of martial soul possession, a powerful surge of soul power erupted from Hu Liena.
Her Charming Fox form suddenly opened its maw, and a terrifying torrent of crimson flames spewed forth like a flood, sweeping forward. It resembled a fire dragon surging toward the incoming purple web.
This was Hu Liena's third soul skill: Charming Fox Fire.
The blistering flames collided with the purple web, immediately triggering a violent agitation of soul power.
The toxic energy within the web and the fire-attribute power of the Charming Fox Fire clashed relentlessly, creating a swirling mass of purple-red energy in the air.
As she channeled her third soul skill, Hu Liena did not slow down. She continued to spit out large quantities of fire, feeding the vortex in the air while maintaining her pursuit of the spider.
Even the web blocking her path was pushed backward by the overwhelming thermal force of the Charming Fox Fire. The purple web did not last long before being reduced to ash.
After all, this third soul skill was currently one of Hu Liena's strongest offensive powers. Furthermore, elements like fire and ice naturally possessed a degree of restraint against poison-attribute energy.
The webs spat by spider-type soul beasts were particularly vulnerable to fire; they usually relied on the toxic soul power infused within to resist, but once that soul power was exhausted, they were easily incinerated.
Having destroyed the web, Hu Liena retracted the Charming Fox Fire and pushed her speed even further. After racing like this for several thousand meters, she finally closed the distance to within twenty meters.
Wary that the Man-Faced Demon Spider might pull more tricks, Hu Liena struck first.
She chose not to use her Charming Heart skill to control it, as the demon spider's cultivation was significantly higher than hers, and among high-level soul beasts, the Man-Faced Demon Spider possessed respectable mental strength.
Though her Charming Fox martial soul was a mental attribute, it had only evolved to the Three-Tail level, leaving it at the peak of the mid-tier rank. She didn't have absolute certainty in her ability to control it mentally.
If a mental control skill failed against an opponent with higher mental strength, it was easy to suffer a backlash, and she wasn't willing to take that risk. Hu Liena activated the origin power of her Charming Fox martial soul.
The eyes of her possessed fox form suddenly burst with a brilliant red light.
A spark of fire ignited within her pupils, radiating an incredibly concentrated fire-attribute aura. In the next instant, two crimson beams of light shot out from her eyes.
They moved so fast they were nearly a blur, leaving two fiery energy trails in the air.
"Fire Pupil: Flame Beam!"
The beams, radiating intense fire energy, instantly struck the legs of the fleeing Man-Faced Demon Spider. Upon contact, the condensed fire energy blasted two bloody holes directly through its legs, and scorching flames erupted from within the wounds.
The spider's legs immediately caught fire, and the high-temperature combustion forced the creature to shriek in agony.
The Man-Faced Demon Spider had already lost four legs; now that its remaining four were damaged by Hu Liena's fire power, its speed plummeted.
Seeing her attack succeed, a satisfied smile played on Hu Liena's lips—though to the demon spider, it was no different from a smile from the Reaper himself.
"Flame Tail Lock!"
With a soft incantation, Hu Liena drove her martial soul.
The three silver-white long tails of her Charming Fox form rapidly extended toward the spider. Driven by soul power, they elongated at high speed, with crimson flames rising from them like three chains of burning fire.
The flaming tails were incredibly fast, reaching the Man-Faced Demon Spider in just a few breaths. Even as the spider exerted every ounce of strength to keep running, it was a step too slow.
The three flaming tails wrapped and constricted, instantly binding the entire spider.
Although the creature was covered in poison and its soul power was highly toxic, the high-temperature flames on Hu Liena's tails were enough to isolate the venom temporarily.
In fact, given the spider's currently weakened state, the flames began to dissolve its toxic power, leaving it to be continuously scorched by the intense heat.
If the Man-Faced Demon Spider had been at full strength, it could have used its eight spear-like legs to pierce the fox tails and inject venom into her martial soul.
Hu Liena would have been forced to divert her power to suppress the toxin, and if she failed to contain it, she would have suffered greatly.
However, it was now severely wounded, and its leg power was greatly diminished, making it impossible to break free from the Flame Tail Lock.
Hu Liena pushed her martial soul further.
Her three tails exerted force simultaneously, completely locking the Man-Faced Demon Spider in place and lifting it high into the air.
The beast was now entirely in her grasp.
Under a massive infusion of fire-attribute soul power, the light on the three tails flared up, and raging fires ignited. Each fox tail was over ten meters long; combined with the blistering heat, they were as imposing as a giant fire dragon ascending to the sky.
The Man-Faced Demon Spider suffered the agony of being burned alive, though its internal soul power and external defense allowed it to resist for a short time without dying instantly.
However, Hu Liena's methods did not end there.
"Fox Flame Blast!"
Starting from the base of the tails, the crimson fire surged like a tide toward the sections of the tails binding the spider.
The flames there became blindingly intense, resembling a massive ball of fire.
Then, with a thunderous boom, the fire energy exploded entirely. It no longer just scorched with heat but released its full power in a single instant, further amplifying the lethality.
A shocking mushroom cloud of flame manifested; the air was saturated with fire-attribute essence, appearing to be scorched itself. The explosive nature of the fire attribute was displayed to the fullest.
The fire that had been gathering on the long tails was already formidable—no weaker than the flames produced by her third soul skill, Charming Fox Fire. Now that it had all erupted at once, the Man-Faced Demon Spider suffered another devastating blow.
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