Xu Chunniang looked at Bai Zhan, her tone calm. "It seems your understanding of the Law of Strength is still at a very superficial level."
Bai Zhan gritted his teeth unwillingly. After steadying himself, he swung the Mountain Splitting Axe again and launched another attack.
Yet the force capable of flattening an entire mountaintop was swallowed by the ripples spreading around Xu Chunniang's body when it fell upon her.
Bai Zhan's attacks came faster and faster as he desperately sought to achieve something, but he felt as powerless as though his fists were striking cotton. At last, a trace of panic rose in his heart.
No, he could not possibly lose to a human!
A ruthless glint flashed through Bai Zhan's eyes. He lightly wiped his palm across the axe blade, and blood immediately seeped out, staining its edge.
Empowered by his beastfolk bloodline, the Mountain Splitting Axe gleamed with a vivid red light, its might increasing severalfold.
When the axe blade struck the ripples around Xu Chunniang again, it finally severed several of them.
Xu Chunniang raised an eyebrow slightly. From the blood on the axe blade, she sensed the aura of the Law of Breaking.
Unfortunately, Bai Zhan only had a half-baked understanding of the Law of Breaking and did not know how to make use of this power at all.
With a thought, she summoned a wisp of the Law of Standing and began restoring the ripples around her.
As the saying went, without breaking, there could be no standing. The Law of Breaking was actually easy to deal with; she merely needed to use the Law of Standing to restore the damaged areas.
Very soon, the protective ripples were restored to their original state, and the Mountain Splitting Axe could no longer shake them in the