[You sprang up, your figure shooting like an arrow loosed from its bow toward the dense forest on the valley's eastern side.]
[Your boot tips lightly touched the grass, and the Blue Silver Grass vines beneath you sprang up of their own accord, like countless palms giving your soles a gentle push; with their support, your darting movements grew faster still.]
[Your robes snapped in the morning wind, trailing a dark afterimage; the fresh scent of vegetation rushed into your face, mingled with the smell of earth and morning dew.]
[Your toes touched down lightly in turn, your figure rising and falling like a swallow over the sea of grass, and within a few bounds, you had neared the forest's edge.]
[Behind you, Qian Renxue beat her wings fiercely, a golden streak tearing through the morning mist as she pursued.]
[She approached with tremendous speed.]
[With "Angel Wings" unleashed to their fullest, every beat of her two pairs of pure white wings stirred violent gusts, pressing all the Blue Silver Grass along her path flat against the ground, its blades resembling rolling waves.]
[In the blink of an eye, she had closed to within a few dozen feet of you-]
[Qian Renxue's gaze turned cold, golden radiance surged from the holy sword in her hand, and she slashed from the air!]
[A crescent of golden sword light flew from the blade, skimming the grass tips as it whistled toward your back.]
[Wherever it passed, grass blades flew and earth churned.]
[Without looking back, you turned your ankle slightly. Just before the sword light touched you, your toes tapped a protruding gray rock, and your body made an uncanny turn, light as willow fluff.]
[The sword light skimmed the hem of your robes and cleaved an ancient tree ahead in two