While I was chanting a curse, the system said I was Xiao Yan?

Shen Er accelerated to its maximum speed the instant Hua Yu raised his hand, so fast that even Tian Yan could only catch a blurry outline.

It doesn't move in a straight line, but rather in an irregular, unpredictable high-speed motion, using the surrounding trees and rocks to make each launch unpredictable in terms of its next landing point.

The tree roots that sprouted from the ground were chasing him.

There were so many tree roots that they surged in from all directions, from underfoot, from the sides, and from above. The vines hanging down from the top of the tree wall were like living snakes, lashing out in Shen'er's direction.

Shen'er's body weaved through the gaps between the tree roots and vines, moving left, right, up, and down, never stopping for a moment, never ceasing to move.

The Heavenly Reversal Blade in his hand transformed into a dark light. Wherever the blade passed, tree roots were severed, vines were cut open, and a liquid resembling tree sap gushed from the cuts, tracing arcs in the air.

The severed tree roots began to regrow the moment they hit the ground, sprouting new, finer roots from the break and spreading like countless tiny snakes in the direction of the tree.

At the same time, more tree roots emerged from the ground!

Seven thick, spiky tree roots burst forth from the ground simultaneously, blocking all of Shen'er's angles of evasion from different directions.

Shen Er's lips twitched slightly.

His right hand grabbed an invisible 'plane' in the air, and his body shifted two meters laterally the instant he landed, avoiding the encirclement of the seven tree roots.

At the same time, a brief gap appeared between him and Hua Yu.

The next instant, Shen Er appeared to Hua Yu's left.

His body was suspended in mid-air, his left foot on a tree root protruding from the ground, his right knee bent, and he crouched like a cheetah. His right hand raised the Heavenly Reversal Blade from bottom to top, the tip of the blade aimed straight at Hua Yu's left rib.

No cursed spirit has an absolute weakness. Although the cursed spirit in front of him is humanoid, it doesn't mean that this is a weakness. However, Shen'er's intuition tells him that this is its weakest point in defense!

A flash of light.

Sparks flew the moment Tian Ni Hao touched Hua Yu's skin, as if he had hit steel!

Although Hana's defense was very strong, the Tennis Hoko, aided by immense force, still managed to cut into Hana's left rib, with the entire blade penetrating her.

Tianyan saw dark purple liquid gushing out from the wound!

Then Shen Er began to exert force laterally, trying to widen the wound!

Hua Yu did not scream.

It simply raised its thick arm and slammed it towards Shen'er.

The punch struck the air, but the air made a loud 'bang', as if something had been compressed to its limit and then exploded.

The airflow in that area became turbulent for a moment, and several tree roots that had grown out of the ground were scattered and flew everywhere by the force.

Even now, he's no longer there.

He tried to cut through the flower's body, but when that didn't work, he tapped the tree root with his right foot and launched himself backward at such a speed that he left only a blurry afterimage in the air.

The very next second after he was launched, Hua Yu's left palm struck the spot where he had just been crouching.

Even when it fell to the ground, the liquid on the Heavenly Reversal Blade dripped onto the ground, bursting into purple flowers.

He glanced at the edge of the Heavenly Reversal Blade, where there was a tiny nick, and his lips twitched.

"It's really hard!" he said, his voice not loud, but Tianyan heard it clearly.

The Heavenly Reverse Blade is a very powerful weapon, but that's only when it's used as a special attack weapon. Otherwise, its ability as a dagger is just average.

It is neither particularly hard nor very sharp, and it is at a disadvantage against a cursed spirit like Hua Yu, which has extremely strong defensive capabilities.

Tianyan also saw that the attack just now only left a five-centimeter-long wound on Huayu's body.

Five centimeters is about the same as being bitten by a mosquito for a monster that is over two meters tall.

Moreover, the wound had already healed. From the moment Hua Yu threw the punch to the moment the wound healed, it was only two seconds.

Superior-grade cursed spirits are not ordinary cursed spirits. They basically all have regenerative abilities. Although they cannot compare to those monsters that have touched the threshold of "immortality", ordinary wounds are not even a problem for them.

Hua Yu stomped his foot on the ground, and dozens of jet-black seeds with sharp teeth burst out of the ground, bouncing everywhere and leaving trails that filled the entire space.

The seeds scattered in the air, like a sudden blizzard, sweeping across the sky and drifting towards Tianyan.

They were very fast, and Tianyan couldn't dodge them in time, so he hit several seeds.

The seeds did not bounce off the bone armor on his arm the moment they touched it; instead, they stuck to it.

They bit into Tianyan's bone armor, and fine, root-like threads poured out of their mouths, instantly piercing his skin along the gaps in the bone armor.

Once those threads pierce the skin, they begin to grow deep into the muscles, spread into the blood vessels, and erode the bones.

Tianyan felt not pain, but a sensation of being swallowed up from within by something.

Feeling the intense depletion of his magical power, he looked down at his left arm.

Those seeds bloomed into strange flowers, white flowers that were turning red at a visible speed. Starting from the tips of the petals, the red spread like ink towards the center of the flower, and with each step it spread, the feeling of being swallowed up became more intense.

Pink flames surged from Tianyan's left palm.

He pressed the flame to his left arm, and the pink fire flared up the moment it touched the seeds and flowers, engulfing them, burning and destroying them.

The flowers struggled for a few seconds in the pink flames before they began to wither, their petals curling, turning black, and falling off, revealing the skin underneath pierced with tiny holes.

The silk threads had been burned through by the powder fire.

Tianyan shook his left arm to confirm that the flowers had been completely burned. Pink flames surged from his palm, covering his entire body with a thin layer of flame barrier.

Whenever the seeds in the air attack, they are first hit by pink fire. Since these seeds are entirely products of cursed power, they are burned to ashes before they even come into contact with the heavenly flames!

Some seeds, tinged with a bit of pink fire, flew around and ignited other seeds, instantly filling the entire forest with pink flames.

Hana summoned a vine to block the flying flaming seed. Seeing that the two opponents had easily broken through her moves, Hana felt a bit troubled.

One is too fast, so it's hard to hit him or stop him from getting close. The other keeps setting things on fire. They're both troublesome guys!

Thinking of this, it decided not to delay any longer. As it leaped toward Lu Suo's location, it threw a huge wooden nail with a flower on it in front of the two people.

The instant the wooden pegs hit the ground, the rubble, the exposed soil and fallen leaves, the broken tree roots—everything—in that instant sprouted colorful little flowers.