Seeing Lin Yue looking at her with disgust, Chen Xi slowly said, "Then I'll kill you and bring back the Lin Yue from before."
As soon as the words left her mouth, water burst behind her, propelling Chen Xi into a brief, low-altitude flight.
After temporarily breaking through to Third Rank, the force of the water's propulsion was enough to let her reach a speed similar to a peregrine falcon taking off.
With only sixty percent of her magic left, continuing to wear Lin Yue down wasn't a wise move. She had to fight at close range, stack Lamentation to seven layers, and kill Lin Yue in one fell swoop.
The two were only a dozen meters apart. Propelled by the water, Chen Xi was nearly upon Lin Yue before she could even blink.
"Hmph." She sneered, manipulating threads into layers of thick shields while forming shadow armor over her body.
Looking at the barrier rising before her, Chen Xi swung wildly at it.
Since she needed to break through at a single point, she stopped unleashing waves of sword qi and instead switched to concentrated, linear sword qi.
The linear sword qi sliced through the thread shields like a knife through tofu. But Lin Yue, who had been hiding behind them, had already finished putting on her armor.
Clad in shadow armor, her body became more agile.
Lin Yue pushed off with her feet and leaped high into the air like a spring, dodging Chen Xi's attack.
Seeing that familiar armor, Chen Xi's heart sank.
When she had faced Qianqi Weiming before, the armor's evasion function had been barely effective. But now, the one fighting Lin Yue was her.
Seeing Lin Yue pull away, Chen Xi used the Water Flow Booster again.
The next second, the distance between them,