Chapter 785: Chapter 625: The Dragon and the Cat

“What exactly is filling your head?”

Roger just couldn’t understand Uma’s thinking.

“So, with your current strength, can you interfere with or control its body?”

“I’m afraid not.”

“That creature is very strong; its power must come from its tails. You need to at least sever one of its tails for me to have a chance,”

Uma replied.

Though the exchange between the two seemed slow, in the depths of their hearts it was but a momentary thought.

The next moment, Roger made up his mind.

“Find a way to help me chop off one of its tails.”

Roger’s voice reached the ears of Sword Master Fu Niu.

Frowning, the Sword Master Fu Niu didn’t ask any questions; his impression of Roger had completely changed over the course of their journey.

Deep inside, he had come to regard Roger as a peer, a powerhouse on the same level as himself.

“I can only try.”

“Seize the opportunity!”

With that, Sword Master Fu Niu roared and charged forward with long strides.

[Shake Mountain]

With each step he took, the entire hall shook, and though his pace seemed slow, the power contained within him soared exponentially.

His bloodline power roiled. Although Sword Master Fu Niu still maintained his human form, the aura about him had completely transformed into that of another creature.

The Atlas Great Bear!

The Nine-tailed Fox was swift, but each leap took the brunt of Sword Master Fu Niu’s impact. It all looked simple, but it required one’s self to completely sync with the earth and consequently capture the enemy’s every move.

Continuously pressured by Sword Master Fu Niu, the Nine-tailed Fox grew increasingly agitated, first contracting into a ball, then in the next moment its tails fanned out behind it like a blooming flower.

Its body spun rapidly, transforming its power. The pristine Nine-tailed Fox spun rapidly, but this time its tails grew larger and larger.

Its shape enveloped in shadow, like a cloud swelling inexorably.

Then, the cloud compressed downward, and a massive claw descended from the sky.

The Nine-tailed Fox’s body had swollen to four or five times its original size compared to just a moment ago.

This was no fox anymore; it was more like a truck.

Boom!

Its forepaw was as large as a round table, the sharp claws gleamed with a cold light, capable of cleaving Sword Master Fu Niu into several pieces with a single strike if it could pierce his defense.

Sword Master Fu Niu grasped the hilt of his greatsword, muscles across his body tensed as he swung the sword from below, adopting a Sky Lifting stance to meet the attack head-on!

Simultaneously, Roger also leaped forward.

As the Nine-tailed Fox’s forepaw collided with Sword Master Fu Niu, Roger thrust forward the Sword of Destiny he held in his hands.

The angle wasn’t tricky, the sharp blade aimed straight for the Nine-tailed Fox’s forehead.

“Rise!”

Sword Master Fu Niu bellowed, his foot shattering the stone tiles beneath and sinking into the ground, transmitting his power outward, causing the earth and stones around to roll, and he alone withstood the attack.

Swish!

The flash of the sword, at the very instant Sword Master Fu Niu’s and the Nine-tailed Fox’s powers clashed, the Sword of Destiny pierced the Nine-tailed Fox’s forehead.

But at that moment, a mocking gleam of human intelligence flashed through the orange eyes of the Nine-tailed Fox.

Thump!

Its colossal body suddenly burst apart.

One by one, the tails emerged behind it. Seeing this, Roger wasn’t panicked; instead, he wore a slight smile.

[Alder Sword Seal]

No strange power shrouded the space; what was hit was merely an afterimage, but Roger intensified the force in his hands.

Then, something marvelous happened. The wild power didn’t dissipate but was conducted forward through a bizarre medium.

And finally, it exploded!

Swish!

Blood splattered.

Roger’s strike was decisive, the force transmitted perfectly aimed at the base of the Nine-tailed Fox’s tail, one of its white tails flew high as it was severed.

The Nine-tailed Fox shrieked in agony.

For it, the loss was not merely a tail but the corresponding wholeness; it was a fatal blow.

Because a shadow had merged with the darkness beneath it and seeped into its body through the wound at the severed tail.

Instantly, the raging Nine-tailed Fox fell silent.

The next moment, it let out a piercing howl, its body swelled, the remaining eight tails appeared in succession, but not long after, the rage on its body gradually subsided.

Meanwhile, a new tail began to grow from the stub of the severed tail.

Unlike the other eight tails, the new one was as black as night.

The Nine-tailed Fox convulsed and collapsed to the ground.

Not far away, Sword Master Fu Niu looked puzzled. He just couldn’t understand what Roger had done to the fox to make it end up like this.

He would have understood if Roger had killed the Nine-tailed Fox with a single sword stroke.

But now, how could a new tail grow from the wound?

He was finding it harder and harder to see through this young man before him; a few months ago, he was criticizing and instructing him.

In the manner of a senior, dispensing advice and pointing out flaws.

But now, the actual combat powers of the two were almost equal, and in some ways, he was actually the one at a disadvantage.

“Uma?”

Roger called from the bottom of his heart.

The body of the Nine-tailed Fox shrank, but this time it only retained the black tail at its rear, which then spread from the tail to the rest of the body, gradually transforming all of it into black.

“Uma?” Roger stepped forward and called out tentatively again.

“What is this creature after all?”

“I need to adjust properly; its form is not just that of a fox,” Uma struggled to her feet.

Whoosh!

A thought flashed through his mind, and in the next instant, the shrunken Uma had landed on Roger’s shoulder.