Chapter 19 - Ripping Apart the Hundred Eye Palm
Chapter 19: Ripping Apart the Hundred Eye Palm
The sound of conversation became distant along with their silhouettes venturing deeper into the thick forest. Watching them disappear completely, Chu Mu came out of cover, glanced in their direction one last time, and continued on his path towards the Jade Dew Grass.
To conserve energy, Chu Mu avoided fighting any soul pets he met while following the marks he left last time. After half an hour, Chu Mu finally found the Jade Dew Grass under several trees, with a Hundred Eye Palm beside it.
The Hundred Eye Palm was big and thick as if multiple banana leaves were piled together. On them were many eye-like patterns, realistic yet slightly scary.
“The leaves of this Hundred Eye Palm should have a Level Two skin layer, so the leaves will be very tough. Focus mainly on attacking its stem.” Chu Mu warned little Mo Xie quietly.
The clever little Mo Xie nodded, its silver eyes watching the Hundred Eye Palm intently.
Chu Mu had been feeding Mo Xie with purely Beast-type soul cores for the past two months, so Mo Xie’s teeth, claws, and limbs were now more powerful.
The Moonlight Fox’s main attack method was still with its claws. Its teeth were just supplementary, and the Moonlight Fox didn’t have any abilities involving teeth either.
“Let’s start!” Chu Mu climbed onto a branch nimbly and commanded little Mo Xie to attack the Hundred Eye Palm directly from above.
Little Mo Xie’s movements were, as always, agile. Climbing the twenty-meter-tall tree was like walking on flat ground. Upon running to the edge of a branch, it stomped hard and launched itself swiftly through the green leaves.
“Ceng!!” Sharp claws extended from its paws, slicing a few nearby leaves in half!
With a cold gleam, Mo Xie fell quickly. Charging up its claws, it nimbly evaded the big leaves of the Hundred Eye Palm and went straight for the stem!
Ripping Claw! Mo Xie was now very skilled at using Ripping Claw. Its movements finished in one swift motion and were both quick and violent.
However, the Hundred Eye Palm immediately lowered its shield-like leaves in defense, blocking Mo Xie’s attack and successfully protecting its fragile stem!
“Shua!!” Ripping Claw ripped open the Hundred Eye Palm’s leaf, leaving deep gouge marks on the shield-like leaf, extending from the middle all the way to the edge, oozing out a thick sap!
This Eighth Stage Hundred Eye Palm already had three shield-like leaves . Having one leaf hurt by Mo Xie, the Hundred Eye Palm didn’t falter, immediately spinning its stalk, causing its sharp leaves to become a deadly turbine!
“Tripetal Blade, Mo Xie, stay 5 meters away!” Chu Mu immediately commanded.
Mo Xie lightly landed. Bouncing immediately, it leaped twice more, spun around mid air, and landed, sliding a small distance while staring at the Hundred Eye Palm cool-headedly with its silver pupils.
“Huahuahuahua!!!”
The Hundred Eye Palm cast Tripetal Blade, causing its petals to spin quickly, creating chaotic turbulence and lifting any rubble nearby into the air.
With the spinning of the Hundred Eye Palm’s stalk, Tripetal Blade could extend to up to four meters. A tree within this range quickly fell with a thundering crash under the might of the petals.
The Tripetal Blade skill only lasted a moment. Sensing Mo Xie leaving its range, it stopped casting the ability.
“Now’s the time!” Chu Mu caught the opportunity perfectly, giving the command the moment that Tripetal Blade ended.
Receiving the command, Mo Xie dashed abruptly, fast as lightning and swift as the wind, with its claws extended while running in an unpredictable zig-zag pattern. Leaping, it cast Ripping Claw again!
“Shuashua!!!” Criss crossing, Mo Xie’s claws landed very accurately onto the Hundred Eye Palm’s stalk, cracking it distinctly!
“Be careful of its Hundred Eye Poison Needle!” Chu Mu glanced at the eye patterns on the half-bent Hundred Eye Palm, and immediately warned.
Sure enough, as the Palm was about to fall, the eyes on its three leaves suddenly opened, revealing rows upon rows of black needles!
The Hundred Eye Poison Needles locked onto Mo Xie, and the needles on the first leaf shot out, densely packed and sharp!
“Pupupupupu!!”
Mo Xie leaped back, and all the needles nailed the ground where it just stood, riddling the ground with thousands of holes!
The second leaf suddenly fired, and little Mo Xie was forced to dash up a tree, needles chasing closely after its tail, leaving a clean row of needles behind her!
“Gezhi”
The tree was very fragile. After being pierced by the needles, it immediately snapped, emitting a crisp noise before falling.
The third leaf had the most needles, and there was no cover for Mo Xie within 10 meters; it was completely exposed within the attack range of the needles!
“Pupupupupupu!!”
Hundreds of needles swept across like thundering hail, frenzily seeking to hit something!
“Moon Shadow.”
Mo Xie seemed to sit calmly, but a vague shadow started to appear on its body…...
All the poison needles flew threw the blurry shadows as if it were fog, encountering no resistance.
Moon Shadow was the Moonlight Fox’s evasive ability. Even without the moon, it could cast it, but its effects would be slightly reduced.
Of course, with good control, even without moonlight, Moon Shadow could easily avoid many strong attacks.
Little Mo Xie’s knew Moon Shadow since she was at the First Stage. Now that she mastered it, even without moonlight, dodging an ability like that was still no problem.
“Alright, finish it!” A confident smile appeared on Chu Mu’s face.
Little Mo Xie’s silhouette slowly became defined again. Crouching and dashing quickly, she slashed the Hundred Eye Palm’s stalk without any ability.
The body of the Palm was already bent. With the swipe of a claw, the stalk was finally ripped from its leaves, swatted down violently by Mo Xie.
Chu Mu jumped down from the tree. Looking at the corpse of the Hundred Eye Palm, he petted Mo Xie and smiled while he said, “You bring me the soul core while I dig out the Jade Dew Grass.”
moonfox's Thoughts5 Sep 2022
Kun:
Hundred Eyed Palm -> Hundred Eye Palm
The two mentions of Hundred Eye Poison Needles were as per the raws! Hence, while the technique naming does seem a little excessive, we shall stick to it!