Xuanwu emerged from the billowing smoke, lowering her head to examine her own body.

The current situation was indeed very strange. She had never remembered her body being in such a state before.

She stared at her arm, and the scene before her eyes felt quite bizarre.

Some thorns were wrapped around her arm, while other thorns had fallen into her arm. She silently stood there in confusion, as if she could no longer distinguish whether her pitch-black and vast forearm was concave or three-dimensional.

She reached out to touch it and discovered that she could indeed grasp her own forearm, but the thorns beside it had also indeed fallen into her arm.

Xuanwu felt somewhat confused. This confusion was not only in her consciousness, but also in her perception.

When numerous thorns pierced and cut into her body, she experienced a special kind of pain she had never felt before.

If she had to describe this pain with two words, it would be “distant.”

She felt that she was very distant from the pain, as if her skin had been stored in another city, yet the pain from that piece of skin had traversed the boundaries of time and space to drift into her mind.

Slow, dull, ethereal, distant.

Because this pain was so distant, her brain did not produce a rejection reaction to it. The pain no longer seemed terrifying, and her brain simply slowly and leisurely accepted it, allowing it to enter her consciousness.

“A very wonderful feeling… I don’t even need to activate Wangyou.”

Seeing that Xuanwu was completely unaffected by the attack, the faces of the people nearby naturally remained calm. This was an expected situation, and the plan had not gone awry.

If the first attack could cause Xuanwu to suffer a complete defeat, that would be something truly shocking to everyone.

All members of “Cat” stared intently at Xuanwu. They knew the worst situation would be if Xuanwu had already become angry and would kill everyone present without hesitation. However, when they looked at Xuanwu’s state, they discovered that she was merely filled with curiosity.

Luo Shiyi turned around to look at Song Qi on the high platform, seemingly waiting for him to give orders.

Song Qi pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly.

“Ha.” Luo Shiyi turned back to look at Xuanwu. “Xuanwu, how are we? Do we have some skill?”

“Yes.” Xuanwu nodded. “This feeling of slow pain all over my body is simply like Qinglong’s handiwork.”

“Dragon?” Luo Shiyi smiled. “You’re overestimating us. We’re at most a ‘Totoro,’ I’d say.”

Xuanwu ignored Luo Shiyi and raised her head as if looking at him. “Is there more to the offensive?”

“Don’t worry, there’s plenty more.”

“Good, very good, come and kill me…”

Just as everyone was preparing to launch the second round of attack, they witnessed an extremely bizarre scene.

Xuanwu’s entire right arm swayed twice, then fell directly to the ground.

The arm was like a black fish leaping out of a river, now bouncing and jumping on the ground.

Song Qi frowned as he looked at the severed arm on the ground, momentarily at a loss.

He knew that Xuanwu possessed “Immortality,” but could a “Divine Beast” with “Immortality” have an arm broken off by others…?

Could this joint attack be that powerful?

Su Shan furrowed her brow, a flash of light in her eyes, and quickly discovered the anomaly.

“I saw it… but I’m not quite sure if this counts as a ‘weakness.'” Su Shan said. “There’s a broken bone inserted at her shoulder. The arm and body are connected by being inserted together…”

“What…?” Song Qi was hearing such a rare situation for the first time, and his brain rapidly spun.

After all, no one had previously launched such a fierce offensive against Xuanwu. Could it be that Xuanwu’s limbs were all connected together like a doll?

But if this was truly the case, wouldn’t Xuanwu be as fragile as a glass doll, breaking at the slightest touch?

“No…” Song Qi said decisively. “If Xuanwu were truly this fragile, her combat power couldn’t possibly be as formidable as legend says.”

Xuanwu lowered her head and gently picked up her own arm, then inserted it back into her shoulder once more.

The bizarre scene left everyone present silent.

Regardless of whether she was actually a doll, she was indeed treating herself as one at this moment.

“No matter what, this should be our breakthrough point…”

After pondering for a few seconds, Song Qi curved his index finger into a hook, placed it in his mouth, and gently blew a strange whistle.

“Huh?” Ma Twelve was startled by the whistle. “What… Qi Ge, what kind of talk is this? You’re telling me this now?”

Song Qi didn’t answer, only blew the strange whistle again.

Ma Twelve: “Huh? What kind of talk is this! I don’t like hearing this, I object to this plan…”

“Ge ge ge.” Bai Jiu’s childish laughter came from another rooftop, looking absolutely delighted.

“Jiu Jie you…” The fifty-year-old-looking Ma Twelve shouted. “You all think this is fine? Son of a bitch, I’m this old, and I just ran all that way…”

Ma Twelve had previously fled with Luo Shiyi and Wu Thirteen leading Xuanwu along the way. Standing on the ground now, he quickly felt the gazes of all the “Cats” from all directions gathering on him, making his old face flush red.

“Ten, where’s Shi Ge? Shi Ge, say something…” Ma Twelve looked at Jiang Shi on the nearby rooftop as if looking at his last lifeline.

Jiang Shi simply stood in the corner of the rooftop and slowly crouched down. His small frame squatting in the corner of the rooftop made him look just like an ornamental beast on ancient roof beams.

He stared at Ma Twelve for a moment, then said with a serious expression: “A million troops besiege Xiangyang, no reinforcements outside, no provisions inside. When the city breaks one day, those who cry for their father will cry for their father, and those who cry for their mother will cry for…”

“Ah, fine, fine, fine!” Ma Twelve was completely out of options. “Shi Ge, stop talking, I understand. You’re all ganging up on me. I’ll go, alright?”

Then, as if making some kind of resolution, he turned around to look at Xuanwu seriously, then said with righteous determination: “Xuanwu… well, if someone stole your things… would you be angry?”

“Angry…?” Xuanwu seemed to seriously consider this question, then said, “You can steal anything from me, but you cannot steal my food. As long as it’s not food, I won’t be angry.”

“Good, that’s excellent… Forgive me!”

Ma Twelve laughed awkwardly, then immediately activated “Displacement.”

Xuanwu’s right arm suddenly separated from her body and flew far toward Ma Twelve.

Xuanwu tilted her head in confusion again, only to see Ma Twelve disappear with her flying arm directly into the streets below the numerous low buildings.

“Ah ah ah ah son of a bitch…” Despite Ma Twelve being the one who stole Xuanwu’s arm, he looked more terrified than anyone else.

His panicked, fleeing figure made Xuanwu feel that she had been deceived, yet also seemed like she hadn’t. So she could only stand there silently for a long time.

“Ge ge ge.” Bai Jiu couldn’t stop laughing. “Oh my, I’m dying of laughter.”