"Hah!" Xia Xing Yue let out a cry as she extended her ice domain to freeze a bunch of vines and branches, entombing entire swathes of wood in ice. Around her, her teammates formed a circle of blades that cut down everything that approached her, determined to protect her to their last breath.
The guys had joined up with her, adding their swords and techniques to the girls' and forming a wide space where the wood couldn't reach us. Relying on overlapping fields of fire, we drew more of the wood appendages toward us while destroying or burning or cutting them. More of the branches wilted off or combusted, unable to withstand our ferocious onslaught.
However, I was aware that we were essentially expending large amounts of qi to maintain our territory. Compared to the mass of wood writhing all around us, our area was a tiny sphere of violent energies surrounded on all sides by nothing but wood bent on crushing us.
