Meanwhile, Dong Ling and Chun Xu's battle reached a crescendo. Chased across the ice pit's walls, Chun Xu split into two sword doppelgangers, deftly avoiding any contact with Dong Ling's Frigid Sword Dance. With each salvo, the ice-cold crescent moons seemed to get closer to their target, yet each assault ended in a miss, some narrower than others, but misses all the same. In that double flying sword form, Chun Xu could not only space out Dong Ling's strikes but also use the tiniest gaps to escape the brunt of her sword dance.