The rustling of bamboo leaves in the wind should have been drowned out by the fierce battle. Yet amid the earth-shaking din, that faint rustle carried with remarkable clarity to everyone's ears.
The Bamboo Forest and Mountains and Rivers painting unfurled. Within it, purple bamboo leaves shimmered with an enchanting radiance, their vibrant glow flowing with the light of life. Mountains, rivers, and bamboo forests stretched out from the painting. In the blink of an eye, the empty terrain where the wolf riders had once been able to charge freely grew rugged with hills and overrun with bamboo. The charging riders slowed, unable to find a way around the spreading forest no matter how they tried. In mere moments, the bamboo all around them seemed to grow denser.
Caught off guard, many wolf riders had already fallen into the forest one after another.
The forest in the painting seemed unusually vivid and full of life, the sight of it refreshing to the spirit. But beneath that lively appearance, the wolf riders surrounded by bamboo felt deeply uneasy.
"Awooo!" The wolf riders had an instinctive sense of danger. They each swung their wolf-tooth clubs and slashed forward with their halberds. The powerful wolves pulling the chariots spat yellow orbs from their mouths, cutting down and incinerating swathes of purple bamboo.
But the destroyed bamboo soon sprouted again at an astonishing pace, growing back into a forest that continued to spread toward the wolf riders.
It had taken only a brief moment from the time Lu Xiaotian brought out the Bamboo Forest and Mountains and Rivers painting to the moment it stopped the wolf riders. More and more of them were now trapped within the forest.
Against immortals or other demonic creatures, these wolf riders were unstoppable. Fearless, they crushed their opponents