X-Dragon Era

But now things are different. With her deepened perception and understanding of the soul, Yi Luo Xiang's Soul Impact abilities, combined with Soul Lash and Soul Severing, have increased in power many times over. They're no longer just a nuisance like before. Now, opponents of the same level can hardly withstand a single hit.

After much reflection and organization, she realized that while Soul Impact doesn't physically harm people, it can make one's mind go blank in an instant, briefly sending them into an uncontrollable state. It's worth mentioning that Soul Impact is an area-of-effect attack, not just against a single person, but against all targets within a certain region! It belongs to the Soul System's AoE capabilities.

Regarding Soul Lash, it is a targeted attack on the opponent's soul. Although it won't cause the enemy to lose consciousness or their mind to go blank, it does make the opponent's soul unable to control their body. Under the intense, soul-deep agony, the opponent's body will become rigid, completely unable to move.

Finally, there is Soul Severing, which does not cause mental blankness or stiffness, but directly cuts the opponent's soul, inflicting direct damage to the soul, and could even crush the opponent's soul, resulting in instant death.

By forgoing immobilization, Soul Severing gains incredibly high damage, a direct attack on the soul that causes excruciating, life-draining pain!

It's worth mentioning that although Soul Severing has lost the ability to immobilize, the moment it hits, the excruciating pain that reaches the depths of the soul can interrupt any of the opponent's actions. No matter the movement they want to make or their attempt to unleash a powerful technique, it will inevitably be disrupted. Once hit by Soul Severing, one can do nothing but clutch their head in agony.

Next is Yan Qingying, whose transformation is also significant. Previously, Yan Qingying prioritized the creation of illusions and the transformation between illusion and reality. However, after this battle, she astutely realized that relying solely on illusions is not sufficient to defeat opponents. Without substantial destructive power, facing opponents like the Ice Dragon Ka Ka, illusions are utterly ineffective.

Therefore, Yan Qingying first enhanced the destructive power of her spiritual toxin. Once poisoned, it produces a spiritual virus that continuously erodes the mind. This toxin won't immediately take your life, but it will rapidly consume your spirit, quickly leading to mental exhaustion, and an untimely death! But then again, even if you want to cure it, there isn't much that can be done.

This spiritual toxin is activated by spiritual power and directly affects the mind. It is not biological but is a unique creation from Yan Qingying's understanding and perception of the spirit, with no antidote. One can only wait for it to dissipate slowly.

If one escapes immediately after being poisoned by the spiritual toxin, the problem is not serious and recovery is swift. Although incurable, the spiritual virus can only act for a short time, about forty-five seconds. For every increase in Yan Qingying's strength, the duration of its effect extends by one second.

However, if one gets entangled in a fierce battle with Yan Qingying, it's over. One bombarded continuously with spiritual toxin attacks, even if far stronger than Yan Qingying, would still suffer from mental exhaustion due to the toxin and meet their demise.

Besides the spiritual toxin, Yan Qingying has significantly revamped Fear Ripple. Before… Fear Ripple could only incite fear in the opponent, and its effect was not significant. Its feature was its long duration—once released, the opponent would maintain a prolonged sense of fear towards Yan Qingying!

After the modifications, Yan Qingying turned Fear Ripple into Fear Impact, a bomb-like spiritual shock mixed with the power of fear that blasts into the opponent's spiritual field. Once hit with this move, the mind is instantly scattered, and under the influence of the fearful force, the person enters a chaotic state of fear!

I dare not exaggerate, but even now, with my current Purple Crystal One Star strength, if hit by Yan Qingying's Fear Impact, who is only at Crystal Five Star level, I would instantly lose control and thrash about for about three seconds like a swarm of flies before regaining composure. This illustrates just how terrifying Fear Impact can be.

Of course, the reform of Fear Impact has its drawbacks; its effective range has shrunk from tens of thousands of meters to only within a hundred meters. After all… being an impact, the further the distance, the lesser the effect. The closer the distance, the more significant the impact.

Yan Qingying has tested it. Even when surrounded by the One Hundred and Eight Stellar War Generals, a single Fear Impact would cause them all to lose control and frantically scatter for two to three seconds before regaining their bearings.

Next is Ming Xuan. Compared to the two girls, Ming Xuan has taken an opposite approach to development. Both girls have refined and improved their combat techniques, striving for perfection. In contrast, Ming Xuan has abandoned all his combat techniques and abilities. With Five-Colored Divine Light in hand, he doesn't need any combat skills. The philosophy of "no technique is superior to technique," and with Five-Colored Divine Light, he can handle any adversary with ease.

By now, Ming Xuan has invested all his energy in the cultivation of Five-Colored Divine Light. Everything else has been discarded. Why need any combat techniques when you understand Five-Colored Divine Light?

As for Xin Yun, he too has completed his reorganization of combat techniques and abilities. Thunderbolt, along with merging and dispersing, as well as Soaring Clouds and Mist, Calling Wind, and the future Summoning Rain—aside from Thunderbolt, there are hardly any offensive techniques. If we must include one more, perhaps Amber can be added as a control-based technique. But as for Dragon Breath, Water Balls, Invisibility, these can hardly be counted as combat techniques.

So far, after so much cultivation, everyone has finally embarked on their own unique paths. Although it's uncertain what the future holds, at least for now, compared with a year ago, everyone's strength has increased by more than double! (To be continued, for more details, please visit www.qidian.com. More chapters are available, support the author, support genuine reading!)