"Guard your minds!"
Smelling the faint, refreshing lotus fragrance, Mu Bai immediately warned Zhou Dekai and Mu Lan. He also remotely activated the brocade draped over Mu Lan's shoulders, lest her mind suffer an attack from the aftershocks.
Mu Bai's mental power was far from weak, so he immediately detected that the refreshing aura emanating from the green lotuses filling the sky was Zhou Detai's concealed mental attack. His mastery of mental power could truly be said to have reached the perfection of a furnace's pure-blue flame.
It would be discourteous not to return the favor! Seeing Zhou Detai employ the Green Duckweed Sword Art, Mu Bai immediately dotted the air with his Demonic Qi Longsword, blooming Ink Lotuses. Green and black met in midair, exploding like thunder with boom after boom, the roars ringing endlessly in their ears.
"You actually have the gall to use my Spirit Taming Sect's techniques!"
"Isn't turning a man's own methods against him simply exquisite?"
Mu Bai's taunt sent Zhou Detai into an uncontrollable rage. He swung his sword, pushing the Green Duckweed Sword Art further, shaking out a full thousand green lotuses that swept toward Mu Bai, blotting out heaven and earth. The corners of Mu Bai's mouth lifted in mockery, and he sprang from the ground, brandishing his Demonic Qi Longsword. The Ink Lotuses he conjured outnumbered the green ones, blasting through their canopy with a rumble. Then he swung his sword and lunged straight at Zhou Detai.
Unconcerned, Zhou Detai intended to break the onrushing Ink Lotuses with his sword. Before he could swing, however, the lotuses exploded one after another, their force exceeding thunderbolts. Caught off guard, Zhou Detai could only grit his teeth and defend himself in a panic. When the smoke and dust dispersed, several places on his