After glancing at the impassioned band of pirates, Hou Niao felt he had experienced enough. In the end, he could not escape the constraints of Law Power. Experience was one thing; this was, after all, a battlefield where two sides contested victory.
He waited briefly. Just as Qian Changqing cast a fire spell and sent Fire Crows swooping in to attack, he seized the opening. Instead of continuing to circle the perimeter, he led with his Flying Sword, and his entire figure vanished from the sky.
Qian Changqing had never relaxed his vigilance toward this Sword Cultivator. With Yu Kuohai's cautionary example before him, how could he be careless?
Just as he was about to react, he immediately sensed the difference in the power carried by this Flying Sword. Its force had varied before, but this time it had doubled, with the might of Sword Intent mixed in.
Knowing his opponent was changing tactics, he instinctively increased the power of his Spellcraft as well. His previous spell had been a fire spell, so, naturally, faced with this sudden change, he instinctively used an earth spell. His Clear Wind Protective Formation simultaneously shifted its five-element inclination toward earth.
This was why his protective formation could enhance his Spellcraft. The Clear Wind Formation was an all-purpose formation that rejected none of the five elements. When he cast fire spells, it leaned toward a fire formation; when he cast earth spells, it inclined toward an earth formation.
Why did he have to respond with an earth spell? This was no arbitrary choice. First, earth spells offered the sturdiest defense. Second, in the generative cycle of the five elements, fire generated earth, allowing him to borrow some power from his previous fire spell. It saved effort and made his response faster.
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