The Wind-Riding Array Patterns carved into the ten-thousand-year lightning-struck wood pushed its speed to the limit.
Withered Wood was horrified. His late Core Formation true essence surged wildly, forming three thick shields of wooden vines before him.
"Break!" Song Qiuya shouted.
The Azure Battle Puppet gripped its sword with both hands and brought it down hard without using a single spell, relying purely on the immense weight of the Taiyi essence gold and its early Nascent Soul power source.
Crack!
The three wooden vine shields were sliced apart as though made of paper.
The heavy sword slammed into the Black-Armor Puppet's chest.
Bang!
Withered Wood flew back a hundred meters and crashed into the earth, plowing a deep furrow through the ground. Half the defensive array patterns on the black armor's chest were destroyed outright.
On the other side, although the battle puppet controlled by Li Xiaoyue moved slowly, Violet Frost's attacks struck its azure shell and produced only a few sparks.
The ice spikes Violet Frost unleashed could not even scratch the paint on the Taiyi essence gold.
Li Xiaoyue steeled herself and made her battle puppet spread its arms, grab Violet Frost's Black-Armor Puppet in a brutally forceful embrace, then wrench it up as though uprooting a willow and slam it into the ground.
Dead silence fell over the entire field.
Withered Wood crawled out of the muddy pit. His mechanical face betrayed no expression, but his voice was full of frustration. "Master... this is just bullying. They're using supreme-grade materials for everything. These two Core Formation junk heaps of ours can't even breach their defenses."
Violet Frost lay on the ground and simply played dead.
They were utterly outclassed in combat power and materials alike.
All that bullshit about combat experience did not amount to so much