Along with Yucheng's taunt, four enormous wooden hands burst out from underground, reaching swiftly toward Apep with tremendous force.
[Wood Release: Hotei Technique]!
Apep's expression hardened, and it immediately swung its tail. Its mountainlike body possessed enough power to shake heaven and earth with even the slightest movement, let alone a furious sweep of its tail.
Apep's sweeping tail unleashed a deafening sonic boom. The next instant, at the moment of contact, its tail smashed all four wooden hands to pieces.
[Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence]!
This ninjutsu, which Yucheng had always used for planting forests, finally lived up to its reputation as an offensive technique.
Countless trees burst from the ground beneath Apep and instantly coiled around its draconic body. They grew vigorously as they voraciously absorbed the Dendro Elemental Energy within Apep, forming an exceptionally lush forest across its enormous body.
It had to be said that Apep truly deserved its title as the First Dendro Dragon. The Dendro Elemental Energy accumulated within its body over nearly ten thousand years was even more substantial than Lesser Lord Kusanali's own.
After Yucheng cast Deep Forest Emergence, he barely expended any more Chakra as the trees continued growing wildly on their own.
But Yucheng soon noticed something wrong. Even as the trees wrapped around Apep's body flourished, they began rapidly withering, their lives as fleeting as a flower that bloomed for a moment, before immediately merging into Apep's body.
Yucheng could sense that Deep Forest Emergence, which was supposed to absorb an opponent's energy, was instead being absorbed by Apep. Not only did it take in all the trees Yucheng had created, but it also absorbed all the Chakra used to cast Deep Forest Emergence.
Yucheng's expression grew grave at the sight. As expected of the First Dendro Dragon-it had