Chapter 9 The Thread of the Spirit
"What's your name?" Luo Ling couldn't help but ask again.

"Hu Liena." Hu Liena answered carefully.

It’s confirmed, it’s actually Hu Liena!

Luo Ling didn't know what to say anymore.

It’s unscientific that I can meet Hu Liena in the Soul Hunting Forest!

As the Holy Maiden of the Spirit Hall and Bibi Dong's disciple, Hu Liena should be in the Spirit City now. How come she is here?

Luo Ling was puzzled!
"Have you thought of a strategy to deal with the Red Flame Lion?" Hu Liena interrupted Luo Ling's wild thoughts.

Luo Ling came back to his senses and stopped guessing about Hu Liena.

The most urgent task now is to solve the current trouble. Luo Ling shook his head and looked at the red flame lion in front of him.

Hu Liena's second soul skill, Fox Charm, can control the Red Flame Lion for a short period of time, but this time is not enough for the two to escape.

Luo Ling frowned and inadvertently glanced at the Crow Shadow Puppet beside him.

The first spirit skill of the Crow Shadow Puppet, Dark Weaving, could not be controlled for too long, as for the second spirit, Soul of Desire.

He didn't have the confidence to hypnotize a thousand-year-old soul beast, the gap between the two was too big.

and many more!

Thinking of the Soul of Desire, Luo Ling suddenly recalled the scene when the Crow Shadow Puppet and the Soul of Desire merged at Notting College.

Similar to the martial soul fusion technique, it will greatly enhance the strength, and it seems that even the soul skills will change.

Luo Ling had only performed the fusion of martial souls once, and he had not studied it in detail.

But now I can only try it, there is no other way.

After taking a deep breath, the Crow Shadow Puppet became illusory, and then its entire body slowly merged into Luo Ling's body.

At the same time, an evil red light appeared in Luo Ling's eyes.

The soul power aura on Luo Ling's body surged and reached a level almost similar to Hu Liena's.

Bathed in the atmosphere of darkness, Luo Ling felt more comfortable than ever before, as if the world had become much clearer.

The pale yellow soul ring was still moving slowly, but Luo Ling could feel that the dark thread had become completely different.

He stretched out his hand, and the originally gray dark thread slowly became illusory and emitted a faint red light.

If the dark threads before were invisible entities, then the dark threads now have completely turned into illusory spirits.

Still invisible, even becoming elusive!

The moment the dark thread completed its transformation, Luo Ling's vision also became drastically different.

The world before my eyes became dim. In this dim world, there were the trees all around me, the red-flaming lion in front of me, and Hu Liena.

These things have changed in Luo Ling's eyes.

Countless threads glowing white spread out from their bodies, extending into the boundless depths of darkness.

"This is a thread that points directly to the soul..." Luo Ling understood slightly.

He stretched out his hand, and a glowing red thread popped out from his hand and intertwined with other threads around it.

"Perhaps the dark thread should now be called the spirit thread." Luo Ling muttered to himself, and the spirit thread in his hand was wrapped around the white light thread emitted by the tree next to him.

The red light gradually encroached on it, and when the white light was completely replaced by the red light, Luo Ling clearly felt that the soul of the tree had been completely controlled by him.

"What a terrifying power..." His hands trembled slightly.

He had never expected that the dark thread would undergo such a qualitative change after the fusion of his martial souls.

Those spiritual threads emitting white light belong to the soul origins of other intelligent creatures.

In the state of martial soul fusion, Luo Ling could see them and control them. When the red light completely eroded these threads, Luo Ling completely controlled the souls of these intelligent creatures.

Luo Ling can control them and use their own abilities to make them fight for him. Of course, this kind of control is not without limits, and its consumption of soul power has reached an extremely alarming level.

Moreover, during the erosion process, one needs to engage in mental confrontation with the opponent's soul, and if one is not careful, one's own soul may be seriously injured.

But even with many limitations, such ability is terrifying enough!

"Roar!" A lion's roar woke Luo Ling up.

"Have you thought of a solution?" Hu Liena anxiously grabbed the corner of Luo Ling's clothes. The red flame lion in front was ready to attack again.

"How long can your fox spirit control this lion?" Luo Ling came back to his senses and asked calmly.

"About three seconds."

"When I ask you to use a skill later, release the Fox Charm on the Red Flame Lion." Luo Ling nodded.

Three seconds is enough.

As a time traveler, his soul and mental strength is already very high. Coupled with the second awakening and fusion of his martial soul, his mental strength is now no less than that of the red flame lion in front of him.

As long as Hu Liena can control the spirit of the Red Flame Lion at the critical moment, Luo Ling is confident that he can completely erode the Red Flame Lion's soul.

"Roar!" The red flame lion roared again and then rushed towards Luo Ling.

The red flames condensed into a fireball in the air and smashed towards Luo Ling.

But Luo Ling smiled calmly. He found that when he released the spiritual line, he could easily predict the other party's thoughts.

Luo Ling saw through the Red Flame Lion's attack path completely.

He dodged the attack of the red flame lion leisurely.

The illusory spirit thread shot out and entangled with the spirit thread of the red flame lion.

The eerie red light corroded away like a cancer.

The red flame lion let out a terrified roar and its entire body came to a halt.

When eroding the spirit line, the target will fall into a state of slow thinking and physical stagnation. Even if the erosion of the soul fails, this is still an extremely domineering control skill.

"Use Fox Charm!" Luo Ling's voice rang out.

Hu Liena didn't hesitate and her eyes turned into a charming pink.

The Red Flame Lion's already slow body suddenly stopped, and Luo Ling took advantage of the opportunity to completely control the Red Flame Lion's soul.

When the red light completely eroded the spiritual body of the Red Flame Lion, the soul light in the Red Flame Lion's eyes went out, and his entire body crawled on the ground.

Looking at the red flame lion on the ground, Luo Ling's face turned pale. His mental strength and soul power were almost exhausted, and were still disappearing.

"Kill it quickly!" Luo Ling shouted with difficulty.

Seeing this, Hu Liena was not a fool. She took out a dagger from her soul guide and stabbed it into the heart of the Red Flame Lion without hesitation.

With a mournful cry, the red flame lion died completely.

Luo Ling gasped for breath. With the death of the Red Flame Lion, he felt a trace of soul power merging into himself.

His mental strength actually improved.

“Just like that... dead?” Hu Liena took a few steps back in disbelief and sat down on the ground.

Everything seemed like a joke, but the gradually condensing purple soul ring forced her to believe it.

……

In the dark, Ju Douluo and Bibi Dong watched all this quietly, with a hint of horror in their eyes.

Although they didn't know how the red-flame lion died, they saw everything Luo Ling did.

"That is a martial soul fusion technique..." Bibi Dong spoke slowly, and her eyes looking at Luo Ling became extremely eager.

(End of this chapter)