Victory Through Battle

"Ultimately, it's the fist that does the talking!"

Xu Yuan chuckled softly. His left foot remained still while his right stepped half a pace back, his body turning slightly to shield Bi Qiong completely behind him.

Facing the three golden wind blades that tore toward him, he neither dodged nor retreated. He spread the five fingers of his right hand and pressed forward through the air.

Brilliant green light flared in his palm. Countless fine yet resilient vine phantoms instantly intertwined and flickered, forming a green wooden shield before him, its edges etched with profound patterns.

"Puff!"

The three incomparably sharp golden wind blades struck the wooden shield with dull thuds. Green light flickered violently over the shield as large patches of vine phantoms on its surface were severed. Yet the wind blades' power was whittled away layer by layer, until they finally collapsed into chaotic currents of air less than a foot from Xu Yuan's palm.

Almost at the same instant the wooden shield blocked the wind blades, Xu Yuan turned his pressing right hand and pointed a finger to the side.

"Green Radiance Finger!"

A colossal green phantom finger, formed entirely from pure Yin Wood true essence and more than ten feet in size, descended from the air and struck directly against the enormous stone fist!

"Crack!"

A teeth-grating sound of shattering rang out. The moment the giant green finger descended, the incomparably solid rock seemed as though it had been weathered and eroded for a thousand years, bursting into powder with a bang.

From Bai Jin making his move to Xu Yuan raising one hand to form a shield against the wind blades and breaking the stone fist with a single finger, it had all happened in the span of a spark.

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