A black rabbit, over a thousand meters tall, appeared out of thin air, clutching a pitch-black metal rod carved all over with images of countless suns, moons, stars, flowers, birds, fish, and insects. Every hair on its body stood erect like a hedgehog's spines. With one heavy swing, it shattered the void before it and directly swallowed Yan Zhe's long spear into the broken space.
The metal rod in the rabbit's hands was swept by the searing heat of the black spear, instantly turning red-hot. Yellow flames several meters high even surged from its surface. Yet the rabbit gripped the metal rod tightly with both hands, allowing the flames to burn the fur on its hands with crackling pops, while its body suffered no harm whatsoever.
Yan Zhe stared in shock. A rabbit—a rabbit that used a stick-like weapon! It gave Yan Zhe a rather unpleasant association. But unlike the rabbit Yan Zhe knew, this one was black, and it wielded a metal rod rather than a pestle thick at one end and thin at the other for pounding medicine.
The crescent-shaped radiance Green Moon Empress had unleashed, brimming with the aura of withering, decay, and death, tore through the void and silently arrived before the rabbit. The rabbit was cunning as well. It keenly judged how troublesome Green Moon Empress's attack was, swiftly took a step back, then grabbed an osmanthus tree root thousands of meters long and wielded it like a long whip, lashing it toward the crescent-shaped radiance.
Trailing a streak of blue light, the osmanthus tree root, containing immense life energy, struck fiercely against Green Moon Empress's attack. The aura of life collided with the aura of life's withering and decay. Like light and darkness that could not coexist, the two powers began violently clashing and