Chapter 1380: Soul Stripping

Darkness, emptiness.

When Red Fang regained consciousness, she horrifiedly discovered she was already in a cage seemingly made of darkness.

Unable to move, unable to resist.

Everything around seemed nonexistent; immense pressure squeezed the rule power on her body, producing flickering light.

Where is this?!

No time to think further; the next second, a mass of shadow blacker than black seemed to rise from her head, projecting a huge shadow within her perception compressed to the extreme.

Just like a mouse backed into a corner, when she lowered her head, a kilometer‑long black shadow suddenly appeared beneath her feet.

She looked up in panic.

In an instant, she suddenly realized the darkness appearing above her head was the crimson giant eye that had mercilessly watched her before.

She actually seemed to have been dragged straight into hell!

Life Judgment!

Hum!

In the dark space, a white beam of light that suddenly descended from the black curtain pierced her like a laser.

In an instant, the agony of having life force forcibly sucked out made Red Fang howl in pain.

Its huge body, over a hundred meters, now forcibly locked, could only twitch in extreme agony.

Under this pain, it was as if someone were pulling marrow from her spine and cerebral fluid from her hindbrain; every moment, her sun‑vigorous life force was being rapidly drained.

No! No!!!

In extreme pain, the now‑conscious Red Fang suddenly realized she must resist!

It must be that her attempt to send a signal just now was discovered by this monster!

Trapped here, she will surely die!!

Trapped here, she will surely die!!

She struggled wildly.

Desperately activating her own rule power, Red Fang strained to circulate the rule force within her body, trying to break this dark cage.

In an instant, with all fire rules mobilized, clusters of sudden flames appeared, like the brief light of hope‑fire illuminating her whole body.

However, unknown if the suppressive force of this space is too terrifying, each time she struggled to burn away the power binding her, the flames she had just lit instantly went out.

Meanwhile.

Overlooking the Alien Species of the Fourth Stage dragged into the Judgment Space, Lin An remained expressionless, merely activating another ability of the Death God Set again.

A very tenacious Alien Species.

Compared to the Fourth Stage he just killed instantly, this Alien Species has stronger vitality and an even smaller 'gall'.

Exactly as Red Fang had thought, Lin An indeed decided to pull her into the Judgment Space the moment he sensed she was about to send a signal.

Soul Stripping!

The sword's point, as if a divine spirit judging sin.

In an instant, an unknown ripple flashed across the dark space.

Kia!!!!

A sharp scream, like countless souls shouting, rang out from the space and vanished instantly.

It seemed to be the special effect when Soul Stripping was activated; this sound suddenly drilled into Red Fang's eardrums, directly stunning her into a daze.

Like an impact of hundreds of millions of decibels, under the Soul Stripping blow, her scaly, ugly snake face had blood pouring from ears, eyes, mouth, and nostrils.

As if her brain tissue had been shattered, her constantly struggling, trembling body suddenly stiffened.

Dual attack.

After using the equipment skill twice at once, Lin An's mind steadied a little, and he began to devour everything of Red Fang.

Life Drain... Soul Stripping...

This was the first time in actual combat that he used the Death God Set's skill after completing the set; Lin An couldn't help but observe closely.

The effect was excellent, far stronger than he had imagined.

He had thought the set skill might not be very effective against a Fourth Stage, but now he saw the completed set skill actually exerted a suppressive force no less than that of rules.

Like sucking, Lin An felt streams of pure life force flowing from Red Fang's body into his own.

Sweet, restless.

From over‑supplementation, he even felt he couldn't absorb it all, as rich life force began to seep out from his body surface.

The full life force of a Fourth Stage being was enough to pull him back from a heavily injured state; now uninjured, he fundamentally had no need to replenish life force.

Wasted...

With a sigh, Lin An also realized he should figure out how to get a prop for storing life force.

The Death Seed cannot contain the power of a Fourth Stage; thinking that such situations will recur, a prop able to store life force would be no different than greatly increasing his survival odds when hunted.

'Let's see after we go out if points can be exchanged for one…'

Suppressing the thought, Lin An turned to observe his other internal energies.

While simultaneously draining Red Fang's spirit energy and mental power, his energy reserves, which were more than half empty, were now rapidly filling up.

That is the effect of the Soul Stripping skill.

It drains mental power, spirit energy, and the most mysterious soul.

'Soul… what is it…'

Glancing at Red Fang, whose body surface was beginning to turn ashen, a flicker of doubt crossed Lin An's eyes.

Under the double drain, he absorbed the three major energy systems; he could also feel these three energies rapidly replenishing.

Even rule power was slowly recovering.

But as for soul power, he simply didn't feel anything special about it.

"Is it because my soul isn't damaged... or is it that this thing has no energy manifestation? I can't sense it at all?"

In his doubt, after repeatedly sensing, he found nothing, and Lin An had no choice but to stop thinking.

"The power of rules, however, can indeed be replenished..."

Focusing on the rule power that was most important to him, Lin An felt a faint joy.

Just like recovering spiritual energy, the rule power he extracted from Red Fang's body was very successful!

But unlike spiritual energy that can be used directly upon absorption, the extracted rule power is more like chaotic basic rules; after swallowing it into his body, he still needs to convert it himself into electromagnetic or eternal rules.

"The ratio is roughly... one to ten?"

"A lot is wasted, because the strength of the rules differs, so it gets consumed during conversion?"

He came to a vague conclusion.

After his initial clash with Green Fang, Lin An realized that the rules he mastered were far stronger than those of these alien species.

Like this fourth-stage alien species, the rules mastered by Red Fang are obviously related to fire, and this rule should be of an offensive attribute.

As for the other one...

Red Fang didn't have a chance to use it, or rather Lin An didn't intend to give her the opportunity to use it, so he didn't know what it was.

But no matter what, the rules mastered by Red Fang are obviously simple; even breaking through the Judgment space is impossible.

"So, if rules have ranks, then the rank of electromagnetic rules must be ten times stronger than ordinary rules? No... my electromagnetic rules aren't even in their infancy... a complete version of electromagnetic rules would inevitably be stronger than the current effect by millions, or even tens of billions of times!"

Unable to imagine or simulate that kind of intensity, Lin An felt a chill in his heart, once again realizing how correct it was for him to have mastered electromagnetic rules.

Although both are Fourth Stage, as a perfect being he could crush peers, but his actual combat strength is definitely not at this level!

He is no longer just crushing, but slaughtering!

Fellow Fourth Stage beings have no power to fight back before him!

This is the huge gap brought about by rule suppression!

However, Lin An also knows.

The battle ended quickly, but in reality it wasn't as easy as it looked.

In pursuit of a quick kill, including previous consumption... he is actually already in a state of fatigue.

In peak condition, any fellow Fourth Stage probably couldn't withstand a single sword strike from him!

But just now, if he didn't use the set skill, his remaining electromagnetic rules were already insufficient to instantly kill Red Fang.

The combined power of electromagnetic and eternal rules superimposed in spacetime is the greatest.

But if he lacks eternal rules, he can only be forced to fully utilize electromagnetic rules to strengthen his attacks.

When killing that fourth-stage alien species just now, that seemingly simple sword actually consumed a large amount of his rules and spiritual energy. Without time to absorb the power of the dying foe, he was also unable in a short time to instantly kill the Red Fang preparing to flee.

No, it should be said that if Red Fang chose to fight desperately, he would be injured.

The eternal body had long been exhausted; in a head‑on clash, he could only rely on his flesh to bluntly resist Red Fang's rule attacks.

"Hum"

Three seconds passed in an instant.

After Lin An walked out of the space, a huge gray‑white serpent body also silently fell toward the ground.

Smoke dissipated, clouds dispersed.

"Ding, killed a fourth‑stage alien species, gained 300 points reward..."

"Current total points:"