If Xiang Qingcheng hadn't decisively abandoned defense and switched to an all-out attack just now, her immortal essence would never have held out for long. Once it was depleted, she still would have met the same fate: being torn apart by the wind blades.
But the attacks of the azure humanoid wind puppet came one after another without the slightest pause. Even though Xiang Qingcheng realized she had to change her strategy, switching from defense to offense seemed to take only a thought. Putting it into practice, however, was fraught with danger. The slightest hesitation would still have left her torn apart by the wind blades.
Even with Xiang Qingcheng's decisiveness, she had nearly been cut in two by the wind blade that struck her waist.
Her body was badly wounded, and her robes were stained with blood, yet Xiang Qingcheng's expression remained unchanged. Once she formed a talisman domain with the twelve jade talismans, the azure humanoid wind puppet was suppressed by it. Both its attacks and its movement speed slowed considerably, falling within a range she could more or less handle.
The azure humanoid wind puppet remained ferocious, its azure long blade slashing without pause as its figure split into more than a dozen copies. Each one looked exactly like the original, and they continued to swarm Xiang Qingcheng.
A talisman image appeared behind Xiang Qingcheng, and she darted straight into it. She was now like a celestial maiden in a painting, able to leap out of the image at any moment. Yet in the real world, she seemed separated from it by a thin veil. The azure humanoid wind puppet's attacks came one after another, but when they struck the image, they seemed to meet no resistance, as though they couldn't quite land. Perhaps they still dealt