Ye Wuqing also made his move, attacking in a way no one had expected. He flung out the leaf held between his fingers.
As he threw it, his second soul ring lit up.
Yet after he threw that seemingly dazzling Golden Leaf, it showed no power whatsoever. Strangest of all, it landed quite far from Bei Bei, as though he had missed.
"Ding-" The Golden Leaf struck the ground with a crisp chime. Then it actually bounced up, its original golden color suddenly turning reddish gold. Its speed abruptly tripled from when it had first been thrown, and it shot straight toward Bei Bei.
However, this Golden Leaf did not strike Bei Bei.
A threadlike gleam of gold flashed and vanished, appearing with unerring precision directly in the bouncing Golden Leaf's path.
The two collided. The Golden Leaf first stalled briefly, then a violent explosion thundered out, scattering a cloud of reddish-gold flames in every direction.
Your Golden Leaf Martial Soul sure is badass, but our Tang Sect has fucking Dragon Whisker Needles we still haven't used up after ten thousand years.
Well, that really was no exaggeration. The piece of hair crystal Tang San had gotten from Flender's general store back then alone had contained nearly a thousand.
Besides, only people from the Tang Sect knew how to use these things; other factions did not. Crack open a few dozen pieces of hair crystal, and their stockpile of Dragon Whisker Needles would reach hundreds of thousands, not to mention that they could be retrieved and reused.
Viewed that way, the Dragon Whisker Needles Bei Bei used really might have been the very same model from the same batch extracted from that piece of hair crystal Tang San had cracked open in the love hotel back then.
Of course, hair