Zheng Yuci merely lowered her eyes. The small hexagons that appeared beside her automatically sliced the shadow hand to pieces. She turned toward Xu Huo, and the large hexagonal barrier behind her abruptly stopped. Then it shot past her, all of them heading straight for Xu Huo. At the same time, countless hexagonal portals appeared in the sky. Even without forming a sealed-off area, the hexagonal barriers could still crisscross back and forth, completely plowing up the whole district.
The hexagonal barriers, each larger than a person, flew wildly through the city. Now and then, as Xu Huo moved, they would reach places overgrown with Mutated Plants, sending leaves flying everywhere. In the chaotic view, Xu Huo used Mental Portals to rapidly change his position, but Zheng Yuci, still standing at Agor headquarters, kept her eyes fixed on him.
Of course, Xu Huo hadn't gone far either. The Manifestations he'd arranged with his mental power were all nearby. Losing a hand wasn't a problem; he'd have plenty more chances to strike.
However you looked at it, his level of Mental Evolution couldn't match Zheng Yuci's. So when creating his Manifestations, he'd used a little trick, hiding them in shadows—whether the shadows of buildings, of passing artifacts, or of the trenches gouged into the ground by the hexagons. Anywhere there was a shadow, his Manifestations could hide, because their forms were already closer to shadows.
Zheng Yuci hadn't changed position, but every so often she was attacked by Manifestations that suddenly emerged from underground or clung to the rubble of collapsing buildings. As time passed, the attacks evolved. At first, they came from elongated shadows in the distance. Soon, moving objects were being used, such as rocks sent flying by the hexagonal barriers. In the end, even leaves blowing through the