Xuelian VS Mu Yu and Lie Shang
“Close quarters,” stated Mu Yu.
“I know,” Lie Shang responded.
Both of them confirmed Xuelian’s body movements were clumsy whenever she started swinging trees at them and limited her field of movement. In addition, there was a vacant two square metres around her while active for she needed to ensure there was enough space to cast her control spell. Just as importantly, she underestimated Mu Yu and Lie Shang’s manoeuvrability.
“I’ll take the front,” Mu Yu asserted.
“Got it.”
“You two think splitting up to run will stop me from killing you? Humans.”
Once Xuelian sent her trees in opposing directions, Mu Yu cast a formation, expanding its surface area. He slipped Shadow Splitter Sword into the void and lightened his body mass. His black and white eyes switched to green formations, changing the nature of his bloodlust energy. Standing at the centre of his eight trigrams diagram, he drew up a golden formation in front of him. As the branches closed in, he finished turning it white – Contiguous Horizon Formation.
With his defence resolved, Mu Yu launched the counterattack, beginning with firing Shadow Splitter Sword from the void. The golden formation imbued within the qi current empowered the sword to cut through the trees. Once it was close enough, he cast Appose Horizon Formation.
“You might have surprised me, but it’s not enough to hurt me!”
Xuelian built a big hand from branches to catch Shadow Splitter Sword. Mu Yu teleported while cloning Shadow Splitter Sword to slip past the hand. Xuelian vaulted up before Mu Yu could acquire his target and the spawned more wooden hands to keep Mu Yu away.
“My hands went through the swords?!”
By the time Xuelian realised it, a Shadow Splitter Sword was a mere two centimetres away from the right side of her head. She retracted her head into her body, avoiding her head rolling through the forest at the last second.
“You just cut my hair!” brayed Xuelian, now bald.
In the meantime, Lie Shang bridged the gap at top speed, utilising Dustfallen Stance to bounce from tree to tree before the branches that sprouted could catch him. Encroaching from behind, Lie Shang strove to take Xuelian’s right arm.
Xuelian pivoted onto her side and summoned a branch from her feet behind her. Carrying the momentum through, she turned to bind Lie Shang.
“Don’t take your eyes off your opponent.”
Xuelian jerked her head to her left, surprised to discover she misjudged Lie Shang’s position. Unable to react in time, Lie Shang harvested her left arm, reducing it to loose bark. Livid, Xuelian swung a haymaker with her remaining arm. She suddenly felt her arm was exceptionally light as she started to sweep it across. Upon glancing to her right arm, she saw Mu Yu’s sword already coming out the order side of her arm.
Lie Shang immediately took aim at Xuelian’s waist, while Mu Yu searched for her head. Xuelian commanded a tree trunk below to gobble her up, saving her from dismemberment. The duo’s attack bounced straight off the metal-like trunk. Meanwhile, the trunk grew vertically without paying heed to them. Nonetheless, the duo pursued it into the sky.
“Her body isn’t as sturdy as the trees she controls,” Mu Yu informed.
“Way ahead of you.”
“You two think you’re tough now?!” Xuelian expanded the circumference of the tree trunk whilst sprouting red lotuses along it. The red lotus that bloomed atop the tree had a width of a hundred metres. She reformatted the flower petals to create a wood demon made from said petals. “You will pay with your lives for destroying my favourite body!”
“Damn, she has a fetish for youth, yet she sounds older than Old White Beard, whose lived for ages,” Xiaoshuai commented.
“I was addled why she wouldn’t reveal her real body, but now I know,” Lie Shang remarked.
Xuelian ripped her new arms up, sundering the earth and spawning thick branches from underground.
“All she’s done is turn the forest into a freaky forest and turned herself into something resembling a tower with branches growing out of her.”
The plethora of branches shrouding the sky changed the blue dome red.
“Mu Yu, she seems markedly superior to you at controlling trees,” Xiaoshuai commented.
“That’s because I’ve never tried creating something so eerie.”
As a branch swept across, Mu Yu teleported to the ground. “Can’t guard against branches a blasted hundred metres thick. Damn it. Get lost. Is fatigue not a thing to her? What’s with this deft movement? Lie Shang, left.”
Mu Yu’s advance required high-level control over his body as the varying thickness of the branches influenced his rhythm.
“You want to fight in the pocket? Fine by me!”
Although Xuelian caught Mu Yu’s ankle, he calmly summoned Shadow Splitter Sword from his void. Though Xuelian did not break a sweat thwarting the sword aimed at her head, it granted Mu Yu enough time to get his leg out and retreat.
“Let’s see how tough you are without your sword.” Xuelian stuffed Shadow Splitter Sword in a scabbard of flower petals and jammed it into a solid tree branch. “Look at you desperately running. Why don’t you just yield?”
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