The hard skull could not resist for even a moment, as the Black Sun drilled into it as smoothly as a hot knife through butter.
The Black Sun pierced through the skull, penetrating deep into the Exploding Flame Giant Bear's brain.
"Sss~!"
As the Black Sun delved deeper, the Exploding Flame Giant Bear's wail abruptly ceased.
However, the sound of boiling water reached his ears.
Immediately afterward, blood-colored steam erupted simultaneously from various openings in its head.
The high-temperature Black Sun instantly evaporated the flesh and blood it touched inside.
Under the high pressure and temperature within the skull, the blood-colored steam, carrying extremely high heat, shot out from the head's orifices.
"Woo woo!"
As the steam erupted, it even produced a sound like the whistle of a steam train.
As the steam blew past, the first thing that assaulted the nostrils was an intensely nauseating bloody smell, but in an instant, the fragrant aroma of cooked meat replaced it.
This ejection process did not last long.
Suddenly, black flames burst from the openings.
"Bang."
Accompanied by a tremendous roar, a large amount of Dark Flame spewed out from the Exploding Flame Giant Bear's head.
The Black Sun, which had flown dozens of meters, could no longer maintain its highly condensed form.
As its cohesion loosened slightly, the vast energy concentrated within the Black Sun erupted in an instant, causing secondary damage.
A black pillar of fire shot into the sky, the thick pillar of fire touching the pool of water beside it.
When the Dark Flame touched the water, it produced a massive amount of water vapor.
A white mushroom cloud rose rapidly.
The white mist scattered, completely blurring the vision of the three, leaving them able to see only a vast expanse of white.
"Xiao Yi!" Su Ling'er called out anxiously.
The sound of the explosion and the evaporation of water vapor disrupted her hearing.
Quan Yi's sudden disappearance from sight made Su Ling'er feel somewhat flustered.
"Mother, I'm here. I'm fine."
Quan Yi's voice came from the sky at this moment.
As the white mist dissipated slightly, Su Ling'er quickly looked up and soon found Quan Yi's figure.
The two were very close, so Su Ling'er was able to find Quan Yi quickly.
At this moment, Quan Yi was suspended in the air.
His lower body maintained the shape of flames. However, the original crimson flames had turned pure black.
Unlike the crimson flames, the Dark Flame was not very conspicuous. Especially in the shade of the trees, Quan Yi's lower body seemed to disappear into thin air.
After Quan Yi responded to his mother, he focused his gaze on the location of the Exploding Flame Giant Bear.
Through the white mist, Quan Yi saw a crystal-clear purple halo above the bear's body.
"Hoo~!"
Suspended in mid-air, Quan Yi breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the purple light.
A one-hit kill.
Black Sun was the strongest Fire-attribute Soul Skill that Quan Yi could currently use.
The small fireball contained all the skills he had mastered.
Soul Skill, Soul Bone Skill, and flame compression technology were all condensed together.
Its power far exceeded Quan Yi's imagination.
However, the Black Sun's flying speed wasn't very fast. If Quan Yue hadn't firmly controlled the Exploding Flame Giant Bear, the Exploding Flame Giant Bear's extremely fast Scorching Ray would have easily shattered the Black Sun.
After a while, the white mist completely dissipated, beginning to reveal the true scene to the three of them.
"Is this hell?" Su Ling'er murmured softly, looking at the scene before her.
In the once vibrant forest and lake landscape, black flames spread wantonly.
The originally bright forest, affected by the black flames, dimmed several shades.
The previous explosion caused Dark Flame to splatter everywhere. The Dark Flame sparks, with their strong adhesive properties, spread along the stones even when attached to them.
And these were just stones. The sparks that had attached to the large trees had already burned tens of meters high trees to ashes and were beginning to spread to the surrounding areas.
"Xiao Yi, quickly put the fire away," Su Ling'er reminded him.
Quan Yi looked down and saw that the fire was tending to spread.
"Oh, okay."
Quan Yi propelled himself towards the spreading fire with the flames from his lower body.
He extended his hands outward, approaching the burning flames.
At this moment, Quan Yi's flying speed was more than twice as fast as before.
The scattered flames flew towards Quan Yi's hands.
The flame sparks finally converged into a small ball of fire, hovering in Quan Yi's hand.
Fortunately, every Fire-attribute Soul Master could control their own flames; otherwise, extinguishing Quan Yi's Dark Flame wouldn't be so easy.
If it wasn't extinguished as quickly as possible, it could potentially cause a terrifying forest fire.
"Pa."
With a grip of his hand, the flames gathered in his hand were reabsorbed into Quan Yi's body.
After doing all this, Quan Yi began to descend slowly.
"Good job. If we let the fire spread, we ourselves would be in danger," Su Ling'er said consolingly.
Quan Yi nodded, agreeing with her in his heart.
"Let's go, let's go see what the situation is."
Su Ling'er and Quan Yi walked towards the Exploding Flame Giant Bear.
"Si~!"
Approaching the Exploding Flame Giant Bear, Quan Yi finally saw his masterpiece.
The originally thick head was now just bare white bones, the flesh and hair attached to the skull completely reduced to ashes in the explosion.
Looking at the tragic end of the Exploding Flame Giant Bear, Quan Yi couldn't help but feel a little creeped out.
"What kind of Soul Skill did I create?"
Quan Yue, who was controlling the Giant Spirit Grip from a distance, also walked to the front of the corpse.
Quan Yue discovered that the Giant Spirit Grip pressing on the Exploding Flame Giant Bear's head had also melted away for the most part, becoming precarious.
It could withstand the Exploding Flame Giant Bear's Scorching Ray, but it couldn't withstand Quan Yi's flames.
It was evident that in terms of flame power, Quan Yi's Dark Flame surpassed the Exploding Flame Giant Bear's.
"Can you tell the age?" Quan Yue asked.
Fire Spirit Body.
Quan Yi flew into the sky, quickly circling the Exploding Flame Giant Bear's corpse to observe.
"The age of the Exploding Flame Giant Bear can be determined by the length of its body. Its length is about seventeen meters. And most ten thousand year ones are over twenty meters. This should be a Soul Beast of more than seven thousand years."
Returning to the ground, Quan Yi analyzed the approximate age of the Exploding Flame Giant Bear based on the observed information.
"That's good, you recover first. Ling'er and I will protect you."
Quan Yi nodded gently, then sat cross-legged, entered Meditation, and began to recover his Soul Power.
The Black Sun from just now had consumed a huge amount of Quan Yi's Soul Power.
Although Quan Yi was confident, he still had to be cautious when facing a Soul Ring that was over seven thousand years old.
Su Ling'er and Quan Yue carefully guarded their surroundings, protecting Quan Yi with all their might.
The commotion just now was so great that it might attract some Soul Beasts.
However, half an hour passed, and no other Soul Beasts approached them.
Quan Yi opened his eyes.
"Are you ready?" Quan Yue asked.
"Ready."
Quan Yi stretched out his right hand, and the purple Soul Ring, guided by the Blazing Sun Gauntlets, slowly descended.
At close range, Quan Yi could feel the surging energy.
However, his eyes were firm. Whether he could achieve a ten-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring depended on this.
Quan Yi stretched his right hand into the Soul Ring, and the purple Soul Ring was like a constricting steel ring, firmly set on the Blazing Sun Gauntlets.
In an instant, vast and scorching energy, following the Martial Soul, charged wildly into Quan Yi's meridians.
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