Chapter 121: Deciphering the Second Soul Skill.
"I see."
Xuan Mo's eyes flashed with a gleambupon seeing this. After the previous attack, Xuan Mo already knew the weakness of Reid's soul skill.
The first, well-known weakness, was insufficient soul power. Maintaining this powerful soul skill required an incredible amount of soul power, so Reid couldn't hold out for long. If he simply wanted to win, he could simply stall for time.
However, after the previous battle, Xuan Mo knew that Barlot Reid was not only incredibly powerful but also exceptionally gifted, so he had already devised some strategies.
However, this would ultimately prevent him from exploiting the first weakness. Therefore, Xuan Mo targeted the second.
As for the second, based on Xuan Mo's observations and speculation, Reid's soul skill seemed invisible, only able to achieve indestructibility against physical attacks within a certain range.
Directly controlling the body with gravity, for example, was largely useless, but the special ability of devouring it could still be effective.
As for energy attacks, he would have to try it himself.
Meanwhile, Reid, having been forced back by Xuan Mo, took a few steps back. Although Xuan Mo's physical attacks had no effect on him in his Blood Shadow state, the impact still forced him back.
"My soul power has been devoured," Reid, transformed into a blood shadow, steadied himself and tightened his grip on the blood sword, a trace of surprise welling up in his heart.
Then, he looked at Xuan Mo with a look of alarm, "His soul skill is also peculiar. It can't be approached."
"Boom!"
At this moment, the rubble across the vast Soul Fighting Arena began to converge frantically. "Take my move! Earth Roll, Devouring Souls!"
A ferocious beast's maw, a full six meters tall, coalesced in the air above the Soul Fighting Arena. As soon as it took shape, Xuan Mo's third soul ring ignited once more, and purple ripples covered the stone mouth, making the gluttonous maw even more solid and heavy.
Seeing this, Reid, with his extensive combat experience, knew that he had to strike first.
"Swish..."
Reid, transformed into a bloody shadow, darted out, his blood-red sword raised, pointing directly at Xuan Mo behind the Taotie's maw.
But Xuan Mo wouldn't let him succeed. "You're not facing me now."
The next moment, facing Reid's onslaught, a flicker of deep fear flashed in Xuan Mo's eyes. Then, with a mighty wave of his hand, the massive Taotie's maw suddenly slammed down on Reid.
Reid didn't even try to dodge, not because he didn't want to, but because the other uses of "Heavy Rock Intention" locked onto Reid, leaving him with no escape.
"Oops!" Reid's face paled slightly.
The attack was too large for him; a single sword strike wouldn't have been enough.
Leaving behind a bloody afterimage, Reid charged head-on into the Taotie's maw, swinging his blood-red sword again and again.
Feeling the immense force radiating from the sword, Reid nearly lost his grip on the blood-red sword. Yet he continued to strike with all his might. As for why he didn't rely on his ability to transform into a blood shadow, it was because he was preoccupied with the danger. The force of this gluttonous maw was likely beyond Reid's ability to withstand.
After unleashing the two soul skills, Blood Sword and Blood Shadow, coupled with the constant use of spiritual energy in his sword swings, Reid's soul power had already been depleted by more than half. He feared that within a minute, his soul power would be nearly completely depleted.
"Bang!"
With the sword's gleam, the gluttonous maw shattered, scattering debris and turning into a cloud of dust. Smoke enveloped the entire fighting arena.
However, the two souls' battle clearly didn't stop.
"What's going on?!"
"That's right! This is unbearable to watch..."
The most exciting part was suddenly interrupted by the encroaching smoke, and the rest of the battle was impossible to watch. The audience was naturally displeased.
They began to curse loudly in the audience seats, seemingly undeterred.
Meanwhile, in the VIP seats...
"Uncle Gu, do you know what's going on in there?"
The middle-aged man, not annoyed by the scene, instead looked at the old man beside him and asked.
"Hiss! That kid actually..."
...
The smoke on the fighting arena gradually dissipated.
The vast fighting arena was now a patchwork of potholes. On the few patches of relatively safe ground, Xuan Mo and Reid, who had just emerged from his Blood Shadow state, stood facing each other.
Xuan Mo looked disheveled and dusty, but that was because the smoke had fallen on him. In reality, Xuan Mo was completely unharmed.
Look, Xuan Mo still had plenty of energy.
Reid, on the other hand, while seemingly unharmed, couldn't hold out for much longer. His condition was extremely poor, his spirit power was running low, and blood was even flowing from the corner of his mouth.
At this moment, not only had the red mist completely dissipated, revealing the true form of his spirit, but even the blood sword in Reid's hand had completely dissipated.
But his gaze remained fixed on Xuan Mo, "Junior brother, you're truly remarkable. You were able to detect it."
Xuan Mo smiled at this, but remained silent.
It turned out that the attack from the Taotie's maw had been a decoy. He hadn't expected it to inflict a serious injury, powerful as it was.
Xuan Mo's true attack lay hidden beneath the Taotie's maw.
Once Reid had broken through the maw, Xuan Mo quietly unleashed his fourth soul skill, using the smoke and dust to make the black flash vanish in an instant.
"Destroying Light!"
A beam of black light shot forth from Xuan Mo's mouth, bearing down on Reid. Whether Reid would be injured by the impact wasn't something Xuan Mo considered.
The moment Reid saw the beam, a voice echoed in his mind: "Don't block it with your Blood Shadow, or you'll die."
However, facing this situation, Reid had no time to dodge, so he quickly transformed his Blood Shadow into a blood mist, minimizing the damage from Xuan Mo's fourth soul skill.
But what Reid hadn't anticipated was that Xuan Mo had already made other preparations to prevent this attack.
The second form of the annihilating killing light, the annihilating black hole, suddenly appeared while Reid was still in the blood mist state.
Immediately afterwards, the third spirit ring illuminated, exerting a tremendous gravitational force on the annihilating black hole.
Suddenly, some of the blood mist was absorbed into it.
However, since this blood mist was made of human flesh and blood, not energy, it couldn't be completely consumed.
After absorbing some of the soul power contained within, Xuan Mo flung the annihilating black hole out. A wave of annihilating light suddenly exploded in the dust and mist, revealing Reid.
Although Reid still retained his martial spirit possession after the majority of his soul power was consumed, the red mist surrounding him had vanished, revealing his true form beneath the martial spirit.
Reid's face was as pale as a sheet of white paper, the veins in his skin bulging and prominent, and two sharp fangs jutted from his mouth.
Furthermore, his dark golden eyes shone with a crimson hue.
Xuan Mo's first reaction to this scene was, "Holy crap! This guy's spirit is a fucking vampire, isn't it?"
Of course, that was just Xuan Mo's thought. You have to remember, Douluo Continent didn't even have the concept of vampires, let alone spirits.
But then, the Ice and Fire Dragon King's voice suddenly echoed in Xuan Mo's mind, "I didn't expect this kid's spirit was that!"
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