The Complete Machine

Xi He's alarm bells immediately went off.

It knew that Jing Su's weapons locked onto targets with extreme precision and would keep pursuing them until the energy supporting the weapon ran out or it exploded.

Xi He activated the flight function in its body and shot away in an instant.

But Long Xingxue flung out the shorter of her paired whips, firmly locking it around Xi He's right ankle.

She dragged it back again.

Xi He inwardly cursed. Unable to break free, it saw the shell rapidly flying toward it.

After weighing its options, Xi He activated its body-detachment procedure, discarded its ankle, and then fled at top speed.

It weaved around the weapons Long Xingxue had fired and quickly reached a raised mound of earth. It knew it could only use the mound as cover and make the weapon explode there.

Otherwise, Long Xingxue might wear away half of its energy reserves.

Xi He swiftly burrowed into the ground and detached the sole of its left foot at the ankle.

It transferred all of its parameters to that ankle through the system. The weapon's tracking relied on its data.

Just as the weapon was about to reach it, Xi He quickly tunneled to the right, leaving the foot where it was.

With a boom, the weapon exploded in the mound of dirt not far from Xi He.

Buffered by the soil, Xi He's body did not suffer much damage.

It had merely lost both feet.

It could remain in flight mode the entire time.

Fighting in the air would even give it a greater advantage.

Long Xingxue soon arrived and saw Xi He emerge from the ground.

She knew it would not be so easy to deal with Xi He, but she had not expected it to disregard everything