Chapter 174: Granny Bai's Gift
Tao Chengxin had developed a fear of puppets and instinctively moved farther away. "You still dare let it out? What if it starts swinging that knife around again?"
As if in response, the Wooden Puppet shuddered. Blades sprouted from its limbs, and its head twisted a hundred and eighty degrees to face her.
Seeing that it really was going to attack everyone indiscriminately, Xu Huo simply kicked it forward. The Wooden Puppet clattered several meters across the ground before reassembling itself. Then it spotted the Humanoid Root right in front of it, pulled two long blades from its body, and chased after it, swinging them wildly.
Running ahead, Tang Yuan casually smashed a bottle of Potion on the ground. Amidst billowing clouds of smoke, the Humanoid Root and the Wooden Puppet, both charging into the fog, were stuck fast to the ground!
But the Wooden Puppet could take itself apart. When it realized it couldn't move, it abandoned its feet and leaped forward, chopping away the root tendrils the Humanoid Root flung at it with a series of thuds!
The puppet wasn't human. It didn't need to react to the direction an attack came from; it just had to hack away at everything in front of it. The Humanoid Root wasn't very bright either. Though its tendrils knocked off some of the Wooden Puppet's body parts, it became listless once it realized there were no blood vessels to burrow into. It wasn't nearly as excited as it had been when fighting Tang Yuan.
The Humanoid Root's movements gradually slowed, and the Wooden Puppet grew shorter and shorter. In the end, all that remained was its head, half a shoulder, and half an arm. The Wooden Puppet hugged the round Humanoid Root and stuffed it beneath