The Vine Entanglement technique mainly used wood-element spiritual energy and real vines forced into growth. Yi Jue's modification first trapped the enemy with astral energy, then simulated and conjured vines, and only afterward used forced-grown vines to bind the enemy. It involved a transition from the illusory to the real.
This transition from illusion to reality demanded extremely precise control over spiritual energy. At the very least, one needed to reach the Emergence from Dust High Stage to wield it proficiently. Yet only such a change could achieve the rapid casting Yi Jue sought.
Thus, Azure Wood Cage could be called an upgraded version of Vine Entanglement, though the changes were truly considerable. Steel Bone had treated it as an ordinary wood-element technique and defended against it by conventional means, only to suffer a hidden loss through carelessness.
But how could Steel Bone be an easy opponent? Seeing that the technique had little effect on him, he flicked his hand and formed another Earth Binding, hurling it at the Jade Spore Skyworm again—it had forcibly broken free from the previous Earth Binding, so he struck it once more, looking as though he intended to eliminate it first.
A cold smile touched Yi Jue's lips as she controlled the changing vines. "Imprisonment!"
She possessed an Imprisonment technique, but it involved spatial laws. With her Nascent Soul cultivation, she simply could not grasp many spatial laws. Controlling a Golden Core was not a problem, but against Steel Bone, who was also at Peak Nascent Soul, she could only have a chance of success by casting it at close range.
The vines binding Steel Bone were currently transitioning from illusion to reality, bringing them extremely close to him.
A sinister smile appeared on Steel Bone's lips. White light flashed from between his brows.