Soul Search

A vast force shoots at Xia Cha’s soul. Time path dao marks shine and block the move. Fang Yuan keeps instilling immortal essence until a gap opens and the search takes effect, then surrounding dao marks fill the gap and that area’s defense is even stronger than before. He judges it a rank seven soul search killer move, and that Xia Cha’s soul defense can resist it, recover, and counterattack. After he extracts the Southern Border captives’ souls from their bodies, Tie Qu Zhong, Shang Hu Zhang, and others give little trouble. Yang Ku, a rank seven soul path expert, resists soul search methods more strongly. Liu Hao has layers of Heavenly Court defensive methods on his soul. Fang Yuan soul searches both in the end. Xia Cha remains the hardest. He uses immortal formations to suppress the soul and modifies the move, pushing it to its limit. He can only search in the short window of each gap. Once that window closes, more time path dao marks cover it and defense rises further. The total dao marks on her soul do not increase, so a thicker gap means thinner coverage elsewhere and a better chance on the next attack. ^{ch. 1615}