The virulent green light at the tip of Lin Zhaoyue's hairpin flared, not like fire, but like concentrated, decaying life.
As she uttered the incantation, "Wood Explosions" the energy didn't shoot outwards.
Instead, it pulsed downwards, through the saturated earth, a silent, devastating command.
The ground beneath the Viper Seduction Flower's thick, sinuous tail heaved.
Not a tremor, but a violent upheaval.
Mud, water, and tangled roots exploded upwards in a geyser of filth.
But it was the roots themselves, drawn by Lin Zhaoyue's Heavenly Timber technique, that were the true weapon.
Thick, gnarled swamp roots, saturated with Lin Zhaoyue's corrosive wood-element Qi, erupted inside the tail segment just below the impossibly beautiful bloom.
They didn't pierce; they detonated.
CRACK-BOOM!
The sound was muffled, wet, and sickeningly final.
