Lu Bai pinched a Yellow Talisman between his fingers and muttered an incantation.
He had no choice. He had to act quickly.
[Alpha Strike] had a cooldown of thirty seconds. If Karasu Tengu kept attacking, Lu Bai wouldn't get another chance to use [Alpha Strike] anytime soon.
Fortunately, Karasu Tengu seemed not to have expected Lu Bai to have a trick like this. It cautiously maintained an ambiguous distance and didn't rush to attack.
It hadn't been hurt.
In fact, [Alpha Strike] wasn't a particularly strong ability. Each attack was basically as powerful as the user's ordinary attack.
It went without saying that if the user could control how each attack was performed, the ability wouldn't be only Gold level.
Lu Bai had chosen to keep the ability purely because he valued its brief period of invulnerability.
As his incantation neared its end, the Yellow Talisman in his hand floated into the air and shone with brilliant golden light.
The light was bright, yet not dazzling to look at.
Even without knowing what Lu Bai was about to do, the three anomalies present couldn't just stand by and watch.
The terrifying scarecrow, its face hidden beneath a hood, moved first.
It spread its two branch-like arms, rapidly extending them.
In the blink of an eye, they stretched more than ten meters.
Once they had extended far enough, the ends of its branch-like arms began to curve and gradually drew together, eventually forming a ring around the courtyard.
Karasu Tengu nimbly leaped onto one of the terrifying scarecrow's branch-like arms and crouched there, its katana held horizontally in front of it as it readied itself to strike.
Twist and Turn, whose exterior looked like a white plastic bag, began swaying as well, trying to disrupt Lu Bai's movements.
"Master Lu, what