22: Chapter 22 The Methods of the Soul Master

Gently placing Wang Dong upon the back of a Flash-Wing Firebird Flame Spirit, he had the Flame Spirit carry her away from the center of the battlefield quickly.

Having finished all this, Lin Yan abruptly locked his gaze onto Ma Xiaotao ahead.

After their brief clash just now, a completely irrational Ma Xiaotao had locked her eyes tightly onto him, leaving only the brutality and madness within her crimson pupils after being devoured by the evil fire.

The scarlet and pitch-black Phoenix evil fire around her suddenly surged, and the robust Soul Power of the Spirit Emperor level erupted completely without reservation, instantly scorching and pulverizing patches of Blue Silver Grass by the lakeside into nothingness.

Spirit released, complete integration!

Ma Xiaotao's body transformed into a stream of intertwined scarlet and black light, instantaneously lunging forward without warning, her Phoenix claws covered in raging evil fire carrying the force of a thousand jun, locking onto the vital point of Lin Yan's chest!

Lin Yan's expression was calm and solemn, his figure rapidly sliding sideways under his feet to dodge.

But settling Wang Dong just now had delayed him for a split second, allowing him only barely to dodge this gale-like claw.

The fierce claw wind brushed past the surface of the Flame Spirit Armor, instantly causing a piercing sonic boom to explode in the high sky behind him.

Giving Ma Xiaotao no chance to change her moves or catch her breath, Lin Yan's mind suddenly prompted, activating his first and second Spirit Ability simultaneously.

Over a hundred Flame Spirits appeared all at once, instantly weaving an airtight blazing net that surrounded and sealed her off from all directions regardless of Soul Power consumption, dragging Ma Xiaotao down tightly.

At the same time, his left hand shook with Soul Power slightly, and three silver shuttle-shaped Peak rank 5 spirit tools instantly hovered above his palm.

The instant Soul Power was precisely infused, light blue halos burst forth from the surface of the silver shuttles, drawing three intersecting arcs and shooting like lightning toward Ma Xiaotao, who was entangled by the blazing fire net.

Ma Xiaotao, whose sanity was frantic, was completely unprepared, and the three silver shuttles instantly and precisely hit her shoulders and the back of her neck.

The next second, the core array inside the spirit tool roared to life, and a piercing Ultimate Ice power surged out, instantly condensing into a fine and resilient ice net that tightly imprisoned Ma Xiaotao's upper body.

The piercing Ultimate Ice temporarily suppressed the raging and churning Phoenix evil fire, and a trace of clarity briefly flashed across the depths of Ma Xiaotao's pitch-black eyes.

But in a flash, she was once again devoured by the surging and violent evil fire, and the pitch-black Phoenix phantom behind her faintly solidified, gathering strength to erupt, ready to break free from the ice net's imprisonment at any moment.

Lin Yan did not dare to relax; this time, he had taken advantage of Ma Xiaotao losing her sanity and having zero defenses to trap her first. Once she broke free from her restraints at this moment, a tough battle would inevitably follow.

But fortunately, the battle right now was not unavoidable. As long as he could forcibly suppress Ma Xiaotao for a moment and make her quiet down completely for an instant, Lin Yan had the means to wake her up!

Seeing the ice net on Ma Xiaotao begin to crack inch by inch, the sharp glint in Lin Yan's eyes surged violently, and he clenched his right hand towards the Void Realm. A dark scarlet-gold tripod with three legs and two ears, engraved all over with intricate fire patterns, emerged mid-air.

The golden tripod's aura was deep and heavy; this was precisely the Major Achievement work of his current Soul Engineer level, a rank 6 spirit tool—the Fire-Suppressing Spirit-Sealing Tripod!

Although this golden tripod was considered his Medicine Cauldron, its suppression power was not weak at all!

"Suppress!"

With a low shout falling, Lin Yan poured his entire body's Soul Power into the tripod body without reservation, driving the core array with all his might.

Hum——!

The heavy tripod echo shook the lakeside, and the scarlet-gold tripod body wrapped in the majestic might of suppressing all things fell heavily with its tripod feet facing downward.

The surrounding Binding Flame Spirits instantly scattered and withdrew, and the giant tripod smashed down with momentum. Ma Xiaotao, who was still struggling frantically, was heavily suppressed to the ground by the giant tripod carrying the force of a thousand jun.

The ultimate imprisonment power instantly locked down her limbs and figure, and the raging, restless Phoenix evil fire also suddenly stagnated, freezing her entire person in place, unable to move even an inch.

Seizing the fleeting opportunity, Lin Yan instantly closed in close, lit up his first spirit ring, condensed an Emperor Flame Seed in his palm, and struck it directly with a palm into Ma Xiaotao's lower abdomen at the Dantian.

The moment the child fire entered her body, it erupted with a tyrannical devouring force. The raging Phoenix evil fire within Ma Xiaotao's body was like encountering its natural nemesis, entirely guided, devoured, and swept away by the Emperor Flame Seed.

Accompanied by the dissipation of the evil fire within her body, the madness and hostility in the depths of Ma Xiaotao's eyes faded layer by layer, and her scattered gaze gradually became clear and limpid.

Having completely recovered her sanity, Ma Xiaotao recalled the scene of losing control and being suppressed just now, and looking up at Lin Yan who was overlooking her from above, a strong sense of humiliation and unwillingness instantly surged into the bottom of her heart.

She was actually suppressed so easily by Lin Yan, a mere Spirit Elder?

Although this was because she had lost her sanity and hadn't even used a single Spirit Ability.

Yet the more it was like this, the more unconvinced she felt in her heart. If she were in a sober state, she believed she would never lose to Lin Yan!

"Awake?"

"Lin Yan, don't be so smug! If it were a normal battle, I would definitely not lose to you!"

Seeing that Ma Xiaotao's first sentence was this, Lin Yan's expression turned cold, and he asked in an unfriendly tone: "Do you know what you just did?"

"Hm?"

"Isn't it just injuring a person? Didn't he not die?"

Looking at Ma Xiaotao's appearance of having no guilt and treating life with indifference, Lin Yan reached out and ruthlessly pinched her cheeks, looking left and right, feeling relieved instead in his heart.

Previously, he had no good feelings towards Ma Xiaotao because of the descriptions in the novels of his past life.

In the original work, Ma Xiaotao first completely disregarded Xu Sanshi's feelings and forcibly compelled the other party to resolve the evil fire for her; and after the evil fire went berserk and accidentally injured Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, she still showed not a shred of apology.

At the same time, learning in the Late Stage that Huo Yuhao possessed Ultimate Ice, she even ignored the huge gap in cultivation between both parties and forcefully compelled the other party to help her suppress the evil fire.

Furthermore, knowing full well that her Cultivate easily triggered evil fire rampages and harmed the innocent, she still did not know how to restrain herself, transferring the risks of her own hidden dangers onto others. Coupled with her many double-standard behavioral styles in the Late Stage, all these various actions had always given him an extremely poor perception of Ma Xiaotao.

However, considering that this was a real World after all, Lin Yan held the idea of seeing is believing, and before witnessing it with his own eyes, he did not easily jump to conclusions about Ma Xiaotao.

But seeing Ma Xiaotao's virtue with his own eyes today, the trace of good feeling left in Lin Yan's heart for her also completely vanished into thin air.

Dropping Ma Xiaotao's face, Lin Yan shook his hands with disgust.

Ignoring Ma Xiaotao's look of full humiliation and surging anger, Lin Yan spoke in an indifferent tone: "I don't care how willfully you act on normal days, but today you lost control and injured people, and you even bumped into my hands, so you must give an explanation."

"Just right, Principal Yan Shaozhe asked me to come find you just now, so you will come with me on a trip!"

As his voice fell, the golden tripod suppressing Ma Xiaotao took the lead to soar into the air and fly back.

Immediately following, accompanied by a muffled grunt from Ma Xiaotao, the three silver shuttles piercing into her body carrying traces of crimson blood also all turned back and landed back in Lin Yan's hands.

Seeing that the restraints on her body were completely gone, Ma Xiaotao was about to make a move and cause trouble again immediately.

But Lin Yan had long been on guard. With a thought, the Emperor Flame Seed still remaining within her Dantian instantly erupted with a tyrannical and scorching power of devouring and refining.

"Ah——"

Accompanied by Ma Xiaotao's scream, at the same time, a scarlet chain flew out from Lin Yan's palm, interlacing and winding to tie her up with quite a bit of Binding art.

"Be honest. If you dare to make a move again, I can't guarantee whether the fire in your body will lose control and refine you."