Chapter 294 - Chapter 294: Chapter 263 Tie_1 (2/2)

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The eight magical arms on his back were forcefully propelled forward. He wanted to rip open an exit and break free.

“Huh? What’s happening?”

The white butterflies that should be easily crushed only retreated a little before neutralizing his attack.

Xu Mu incredulously launched attack after attack, but his attacks became weaker with each attempt. It felt as if an invisible entity was continuously weakening his strikes.

“Idiot! You haven’t noticed yet?!”

Looking at Xu Mu, who seemed to struggle like a trapped animal, Lu Kui showed a gleeful smile.

“It’s silk threads!”

Li Youlan glanced at Wang Yongan, unclear whether he had just learned this, or if he had mastered it long ago but had never shown it in front of her.

Xu Mu too realized that something was off, as the butterflies did not seem to be launching an attack on him; rather, they were fluttering around him.

Xu Mu extended his right hand to pull at the empty space, meeting with some resistance. Drawing his hand back, he found himself staring at fine transparent threads, thinner than silkworm’s filaments and countless times more tenuous, which even his divine intent could not sense. Had there not been so many of them accumulated, he might not have been able to see them even up close.

The strength of each individual thread was extremely weak; even when they wrapped around him, he couldn’t sense them.

But these threads stuck to his body, making each subsequent thread stronger and stronger.

Now, he felt as if he were trapped in an invisible giant cocoon; with time, the threads on his body increased, as did their resistance.

Until ultimately, he would become akin to an insect stuck in glue.

Wang Yongan crossed his arms and smirked. In his eyes, he’d already won.

No matter how Xu Mu struggled or evaded, if he attacked, these white butterflies, like fly maggots, incessantly swirled around him, spitting silk, until he was thoroughly trapped with all hope of resistance gone.

“Can’t he really lose like this?”

A frown wrinkled Qiao Qianqian’s brow, unaware that Wang Yongan had such a peculiar attack style. If she had known, she could have warned Xu Mu.

Seeing that there was no way to escape, Xu Mu simply gave up dodging and let the butterflies weave silk around him like building a snowman.

“Your highness, should you not interfere?” Qiao Qianqian suggested to Li Youlan.

If things continued this way, Xu Mu would lose in a very embarrassing way.

“Friend Xu, why don’t we call it a day?” Li Youlan suggested with a slight frown on her face.

She had assumed Xu Mu had some unknown trump cards, but he seemed to have given up. Such limited strength might call for a replacement, although she had no fondness for Wang Yongan.

“At your command, your highness.” Xu Mu chuckled as he looked over at Wang Yongan, “How about we agree on it being a draw?”

“…”

Everyone was speechless and wholly unprepared for Xu Mu’s thick-skinned response.

“Hehe!”

Wang Yongan laughed in fury.

“A draw? You’re really… Blargh!”

Before he could finish his sentence, he spat out a mouthful of blood. At the same time, he lost control of the spiritual power in his body and started falling uncontrollably. Luckily, Li Youlan reacted in time and had Elder Jin catch him. Otherwise, falling to the ground might have caused damage to the surrounding flowers and grasses.

On the other hand, Xu Mu turned into a wisp of blue smoke and escaped from the barrage of butterflies, effortlessly. Then, he activated the Space Grasp Skill, instantly annihilating the majority of the white butterflies. The remaining ones were caught as he planned to research them after returning.

After adjusting his robe, Xu Mu turned towards Wang Yongan, held by Elder Jin and said cheerfully, “I said it was a tie, and I will not renege. There’s no need for you to get so worked up, friend!”

“You… Blargh!”

Upon hearing Xu Mu’s words, Wang Yongan was so furious that he spat out another mouthful of blood.

What on earth just happened?

Why did Wang Yongan fall all of a sudden?

This sudden turnaround left everyone shocked and unable to react.

“Let’s get out of here before the patrol team spots us!”

Li Youlan smiled faintly and turned into an escape light to fly to the ground towards the Inviting Moon Platform. One after the other, the others turned into escape lights and followed.

“Friend Xu, when exactly did you poison him?”