Fireballs poured along the blade as countless fine strands of Sword Qi erupted, shooting densely in every direction and crushing the entire thicket beneath them!
Sword Qi crisscrossed the air, blanketing all the demonic plants around her.
Piercing snaps rang out one after another. Countless stalks of Sawtooth Grass shattered and withered, their spirit-devouring aura utterly dispersed by the Sword Qi.
The countless fireballs behind the blade followed close behind, burning every severed stem and leaf.
Seeing this, Chi Li and Mingyue immediately followed suit.
In mere breaths, the dense, endless tide of Spirit-Devouring Grass that had been sweeping toward her collapsed and withered, becoming a carpet of broken stems and ruined leaves. The rank scent of vegetation mingled with the fumes of poisonous grass, filling the forest.
The immediate danger had passed.
Jiang Lu landed steadily. Just as she put away her spirit sword, a sharp, prickling numbness suddenly spread through her forearm. She instinctively struck behind her.
Swish, swish-
Fire flashed, reducing those few stems to nothing.
A few stray stalks of Sawtooth Grass had slipped through a gap in her protective barrier the instant she landed, slashing viciously across the outside of her left arm.
The sharp grass blades had sliced open her sleeve, revealing a shallow bloody scratch. A faint blue-black tint surrounded the tiny wound. Traces of paralytic poison had already seeped into her flesh and were slowly spreading along her meridians.
A moment later, a weak, aching sensation spread up her arm to her shoulder. Her left arm instantly grew heavy and sluggish, and the circulation of her spiritual power became slightly obstructed, nowhere near as fluid as before.
She immediately swallowed a Detox Pill and sat cross-legged, her brows faintly furrowed.
"Master!" The spirit beasts hurried over, bringing their little heads close to