"Buzz..."
Li Yu raised his head, his eyes fixed on the green crystal on the vine.
The next moment, his pupils contracted.
He watched as a face slowly began to emerge from the green crystal!
Is this... a transformation?
No!
Li Yu quickly rejected this idea.
It was certain that the green crystal showing the face was the core of the vine soul beast.
But if the vine soul beast had reached the stage of transformation, that was utterly impossible.
Only a hundred-thousand-year soul beast could do that.
Not to mention, after transformation, its form should be humanoid, and the strength it had just exhibited was far from the power of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
This vine soul beast had just entered the ten-thousand-year tier, and it was only at the weakest level among them!
Otherwise, Li Yu wouldn't have been able to hold out this long with his own strength.
At this moment, staring at the core of the vine soul beast that suddenly appeared, Li Yu was also puzzled.
But his mind was highly alert. Something unusual was happening, and he did not believe that a ten-thousand-year soul beast would do anything meaningless.
The next moment, he realized why the vine soul beast had revealed its core!
Because as Li Yu was staring vigilantly at the face on the green crystal, his vision suddenly blurred!
When he regained his focus, the green crystal was no longer there. In its place was a massive face, at least a hundred feet tall!
Its two pupils resembled giant lakes, burning with eerie green flames, looking terrifying in the extreme!
"Human, submit, or... die!"
Suddenly, a voice, as if a command from heaven itself, exploded in Li Yu mind.
He was stunned, and instinctively, he was about to kneel before this godlike existence.
But in that instant, a faint golden glow appeared in his confused eyes.
A voice echoed deep within his soul:
"Before a hundred thousand years, how can we speak human language?
If it reaches a hundred thousand years, why speak human language?"
Thus.
"Everything is an illusion!"
At that moment, the faint golden light in his eyes became intense and blazing!
As he raised his head, the enormous face in front of him shattered!
The space before him also cracked and collapsed!
The next moment.
He found himself back in the "biochemical battlefield" of the forest.
The vine with the green crystal on its tip was still "staring" at him. Hook Snake and Ying Yu stood on alert, with Dugu Yan hiding behind Li Yu, sweating and trembling slightly.
Everything seemed the same.
But Li Yu eyes suddenly sharpened.
He immediately noticed that the face on the green crystal had twisted!
It seemed that he had broken through the illusion it created!
So, without hesitation, he knew this might be the best chance to kill the vine soul beast!
And thus, the somewhat abrupt scene in Dugu Yan eyes unfolded.
Li Yu opened his right hand, which he had kept clenched since using Bi Fang "Fire Feather Meteor."
A transparent Elemental Cube appeared in his hand, growing from small to large.
Inside it, the swirling vortex.
To be precise, the vortex inside now resembled a funnel!
It consisted of two whirlpools, one red and one ice blue.
As Li Yu revealed it, the two funnels connected, and the fire red and ice blue quickly merged!
At that moment, the Elemental Cube became extremely unstable, as though it would explode in the next instant.
But Li Yu expression remained unchanged, and with a slight mental command, the "restless" water and fire elements settled down and quickly fused.
Originally, before the attempt, Li Yu thought that fusing the two elements would be difficult.
However, he had underestimated the value of a 100% affinity with both water and fire elements.
The two elements were like his left hand and right hand.
As long as he didn't want them to fight, the possibility of them clashing was almost zero.
Thus.
In just a moment, the fusion was complete!
The Elemental Cube cracked and reorganized!
But this time, unlike before, no strange beast was created.
Instead, what emerged was a blazing flower!
The fire red and ice blue flowed on the flame flower, making it more dazzling, and the aura it emitted became even more terrifying!
The next moment.
The flame flower shot out toward the green crystal!
At the same time, the twisted face on the green crystal finally "calmed" down.
It then realized with horror that the terrifying flame flower was already pressing against its face!
Boom!
A terrifying explosion occurred in the next instant!
A beautiful flame flower appeared in the sky, and soul beasts within a radius of several miles all lifted their heads to look at the direction of the flame flower.
At the explosion center.
Minutes passed before the residual shockwaves dissipated completely.
Li Yu stood up, pulling Dugu Yan with him. He swap the blood at the corner of his mouth and looked up at the slowly rising black soul ring with some emotion.
From the outcome, this vine soul beast had indeed reached the ten-thousand-year level.
But in terms of strength, Li Yu felt it couldn't be counted as a true ten-thousand-year soul beast.
However.
This was the special nature of the vine soul beast.
A plant-type soul beast, particularly a vine, is usually a soul beast with relatively strong attack power.
But its primary ability was illusion!
This was also why the vine soul beast had revealed its core. According to Li Yu analysis, its illusion ability likely required "eye contact."
And this was exactly what gave Li Yu the chance to kill it!
Of course, the main credit still belonged to the recently consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which greatly enhanced his spiritual power.
Had he not taken Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, he likely would not have had the chance to break free from the illusion created by the vine soul beast.
And he certainly wouldn't have had the chance to kill it!
He wouldn't even have been able to use his Elemental Dissolution ability!
But fortunately, none of these "what-ifs" mattered because Li Yu had it!
And the black soul ring that rose before him was the final result.
A soul beast that relied on illusions, after its illusion was broken, ended up with such a conclusion. It was almost inevitable.
"Unbelievable... you really killed it!"
Dugu Yan, standing aside, was stunned, watching everything unfold.
Li Yu had really killed a ten-thousand-year soul beast, something she never could have predicted!
This was a ten-thousand-year soul beast, an existence capable of contending with a six-ring Soul Emperor!
But Li Yu...
"My good sister, what realm are you at?!"
Dugu Yan looked at Li Yu back with some admiration. At that moment, she felt she had never seen such a "cool" back.
And in the next moment, her doubts were finally answered.
Li Yu took a step forward, and three soul rings rose in order—
Purple! Purple! Purple!