Thorn Whips Shatter the Greatsword

He realized that he simply could not break through.

Yao Zi controlled several long whips, lashing at him relentlessly from all directions and keeping him firmly more than ten meters away.

Every time he tried to charge forward, the dense shadows of the whips forced him back.

Even the greatsword attacks he was most proud of could not sever those long whips.

He had clearly stacked three spirit skills. With a single slash, he could split mountains and shatter rocks.

Yet every time his blade struck a whip, it left only a shallow crack, utterly unable to cut through it.

Even stranger, the cracks he made healed at a visible rate.

Of course, he did not know that these long whips were not ordinary thorns, but formed from several Dragon Mark Thorns fused together.

Each stroke of his sword could only sever one of them, not several at once. Yao Zi, meanwhile, only needed to expend a little Soul Power to reconnect the severed portions.

To outsiders, it seemed as though his sword strikes had done no damage to the whips at all.

That was what made Yao Zi so terrifying.

The Greatsword Soul King grew more frantic as the battle continued, and his attacks became increasingly ferocious. But his physical strength was limited, and so was his Soul Power. He could not sustain such violent attacks for long.

Yao Zi, on the other hand, continued to improve in battle.

At first, she had merely controlled the whips through brute force, striking one after another. Though fierce, it consumed a great deal of energy. But as the battle continued, she gradually grasped more refined ways to use them.

She began using the flexibility of the whips to deflect force, no longer meeting her opponent head-on. When his sword came slashing