With a resounding clang!
A hole was forcibly blasted through the wall. Swept along by sword qi, the two shot out like cannonballs!
Earth and stone formed into a solid wall, forcibly blocking Zhou You's blade. Yet the force could not be fully canceled out. Charles was sent flying sideways in an instant, only for the soil to gently catch and hold him moments later.
He raised his head and looked into the distance.
Zhou You was standing atop one of the courtyard pillars, sword in hand, gazing down at Charles.
At some point, the rain had already stopped.
Moonlight spilled down from the heavens. With the wildly laughing Blood Moon behind him, the upright figure stood silhouetted against it all...
The glare was so blinding that Charles could barely keep his eyes open.
He stared at the man high above him, laughing as he spread his arms wide.
"That's right, just like this, just like this... Only this can make me feel the gap between us. Only this can make me feel what it means to be alive..."
The next instant, countless stone spikes formed into a dense forest, engulfing the pillar in an instant.
Yet just before the spell took shape, Zhou You had already lightly flipped away, drifting out of the area as though he weighed nothing.
Then, the bowstrings rang out.
More than a dozen spell-infused arrows came flying in succession, returned to Charles in kind!
Flames, thunder, and evil-cleaving silver light erupted all at once, yet in the blink of an eye, they all vanished without a trace.
Charles waved a hand.
The aura of Wu Earth flooded the entire area, even suppressing the transformations of the Five Elements. Even the surrounding objects crumbled and changed beneath that near-tangible power, turning into dust that filled