At the same time, in the other corners of the Training Ground, more saplings broke through the soil and rapidly grew, and the life force and wood-element energy permeating the space became richer and richer.
Li Jue frowned, his figure not stopping as his blade light turned again, sweeping toward another lush, green place. Wherever the blade light passed, trees and vines snapped one after another, but Qinghe's true body still could not be seen.
She had merged with this rapidly growing forest, everywhere at once, yet nowhere to be found.
This was precisely the most troublesome part of the Qinghe Spirit Wood Body paired with the Wood Element Domain. As long as she was given time, she could turn the entire Training Ground into her own Home Ground, with endless grasses and trees serving as her eyes and ears, her weapons, and her barriers.
To defeat her, one had to find her true body and kill her in a single strike before the domain fully unfolded and the Divine Trees towered into the sky. Otherwise, one would be dragged into a war of attrition, facing endless attacks and recovery from the grasses and trees.
Li Jue clearly understood this as well. He drove his movement technique to its limit, his entire body turning into an unpredictable streak of black blade light that madly shuttled and slashed through the Training Ground.
Streak after streak of sharp, pitch-black blade qi crisscrossed, mincing the newly grown trees and vines into fragments. Every slash he made contained blade intent that could cut through everything; ordinary wood-element defenses before him were like paper paste.
However, Qinghe's movement technique seemed even more bizarre.
She truly was the spirit of the forest, her figure flickering in and out among the dense grasses and trees. At times