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The pup swept its gaze across all directions, sighing at the restraints that limited its mana. The Flower King's attacks were fierce, but it could dodge them—it could even destroy the Flower King directly without the influence of the poison. However, the creator of the formation had anticipated the arrival of someone with strong mana and had calculated for this, ensuring that destroying the Flower King was not an option for passing through the formation successfully.
The reason it didn't dodge was that it couldn't. Although each lash of the Flower King's sharp knives and iron whips was imbued with spells, she was a puppet, hence bound by a puppet's calculating mechanism. The pup had already sensed her attack pattern earlier—every strike or lash was meant to hit whoever tried to break the formation. If it dodged, the attacks would focus on Zhui Feng, Lin Suqing, or Banban. In any case, one of them would be hit.
