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"Fifth Soul Skill: Crane Shadow Nine Heavens!"
With a sharp cry, she gave her jade-lustrous crane wings a sudden beat.
The nine most radiant feathers abruptly detached from her body. The instant each feather broke free, it absorbed the stray light element in the air, swiftly taking shape amid flowing radiance.
In the blink of an eye, nine crane-shadow clones appeared, almost indistinguishable from Chu Youwei herself and formed entirely of pure light energy.
They were no mere illusions. The edges of their feathers gleamed with a tangible, cutting sharpness as they swooped around Chu Youwei.
More wondrous still, as the clones took shape, Chu Youwei's true body grew indistinct. Her position shifted silently among these Light Clones like a phantom as she darted and dodged.
The hurricane's cutting blades and the lightning serpents' lunges all struck empty air, or merely shattered a Light Clone switched into place at the last instant, bursting it into dazzling motes.
Even when a lightning serpent occasionally swept across her true body, the clones' ability to shift between substance and illusion negated most of the energy drag imposed by the lightning armor.
With this supreme footwork of shifting among clones and switching between substance and illusion, Chu Youwei forced open a path to survival and opportunities to counterattack within the deadly Hurricane Thunder Domain.
With the intervention of Xiao Yi's greater power, the stalemate broke once again.
Both had suffered minor injuries-raging energy had grazed Chu Youwei, leaving scorch marks on her pristine feather robes; Lei En's enormous dragon wings also bore gashes torn by sharp crane claws, and several dim, light-scorched marks remained on his flowing lightning armor.
But both keenly sensed the overall change in the battlefield. They swiftly drew back, tacitly disengaging from the