The three immediately rushed toward the Clear Summer Courtyard, where they found Zhu Wukui and Zhu Wuxin desperately holding off the Wolf Bandits, with Zhu Wuneng sheltered behind them.
Zhu Wukui's burly frame stood like a sturdy stone tower. His Stone Armor Boar martial soul possessed him, and yellow light shimmered over his body.
Enveloped in that light, his body grew a thick, horny covering, while a layer of yellow stone armor surfaced over his skin, resembling rare ore dug from the depths of the earth. He had clearly unleashed his first soul skill-Earth Armor.
The Zhu Family's Stone Armor Boar enjoyed some renown on the continent as one of its best-known defensive martial souls.
Zhu Wukui held firm at the front, shielding his younger brother and sister from wind and rain. Soul power spilled from his Earthflow Fist, blending offense into defense as he blocked the rotating assaults of more than a dozen Wolf Bandits.
Zhu Wuxin resembled a female warrior clad in magnificent battle armor, swinging her Nine-Toothed Rake and supporting him from the side. Her rake rang with crisp clashes against the Wolf Bandits' attacks, as though playing a symphony of battle.
Her figure danced through the fight, every attack carrying merciless resolve. Each swing seemed to dance out a proclamation of death, smashing viciously into the ground and sending shattered stones flying. Her movements held no flourishes, only the purest offense and defense.
Zhu Wuneng stood protected behind them, gripping a Nine-Toothed Rake forged from refined iron. Ding Dang had made it especially for him so she could teach him the Ding Family's inherited martial techniques.
The Zhu Family had no tradition of weapon-based combat, but Little Wuneng had yet to awaken his martial soul. Who knew? He might awaken a Nine-Toothed Rake.
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