Absolute Resonance

a dozen light arrows that screamed forward, filling the air with hawk cries.
Each one flew straight and true towards the absinthe puppet's vital points.

Every single one was blocked, only shaking the absinthe puppet slightly.
More energy vortexes bloomed across the surface of its armor to negate the light arrows.

Occasionally, an arrow found its way through the bolstered defenses, but these did not deal too much damage, especially not to a puppet that did not feel pain.
It muscled onwards through Li Luo's arrow storm.

Li Luo took a quick look around to assess their situation.
Qin Zhulu didn't seem to be faring too well himself, although he was definitely keeping his absinthe puppet busy.
As for Xin Fu and Lu Qing'er's side, the situation was a bit worse.
Even with numbers, the absinthe puppet was smacking its way through them.
It didn't seem like they would last too much longer.

The puppet was closing in on him, but Li Luo couldn't resist.
He looked further over to Ye Qiuding's side.

Two figures were fighting well, keeping level with their opponents.
Ye Qiuding was evenly matched with his, trading blows in a good exchange.
That was to be expected—Ye Qiuding was a Second Changing.
With his other skills and weapons, he would definitely be able to match up to a Third Changing advanced absinthe puppet.

Ye Qiuding was the one who would swing the battle for them.

Time was running out.

While Li Luo thought, his hands were still busy, sending a constant barrage of arrows towards the absinthe puppet.

It responded accordingly, its armor blooming with energy vortexes that blocked the arrows.

This was not a useless endeavor, because Li Luo was marking out the weak points on the puppet's armor.
Strictly speaking, they were not weak points, but rather bands on the armor where the energy vortexes spawned a little slower.

“Right hip…” Li Luo muttered to himself.
He understood that he had to take his shot now.
Time didn't permit much dawdling, and Ye Qiuding was going to win his fight soon as well.

“Whew.”

He sucked in a deep breath to steady himself, a look of determination creeping into his eyes.

He would only have this one shot.

“ROAR!”

Just then, the ground shook as his own opponent roared.
The halberd swung around in a fury to whip up a green cyclone that bore down on Li Luo's position.

He hurriedly raised his hand, calling up his water resonant power to form defensive whirlpools.

“Whirlpool Barrier.”

Swish, crash!

The green cyclone smashed through them as though they were brittle cones of glass.
Li Luo held up his bow as his last defense.

CRACK!

Li Luo was sent flying, his sleeves completely ripped up by the force of the attack.
A trickle of blood stained his forearm.

Li Luo ignored it, instead taking advantage of the distance to draw his bow again.

Dual resonances activated!

Seven resonant bubbles popped!

Weng!

Within him, his resonant power ratcheted up again and again, condensing on his bow.
The arrow's wings of light spread wider and wider.

He breathed out halfway, then released his finger.

The scream of the hawk announced his attack.
High up, the Violet Vibrance mentors watched him.

Li Luo's arrow punched far above his cultivation class.

But as Duke experts, they could tell immediately…
Li Luo's attack was not going to be enough.