Moving to dodge the branches extending out towards him with the Drifting Cloud Steps again, Xuan Hao found that different from before, there were no restrictions in place. Allowing him to freely dodge the withering branches trying to catch him.
The problem was, while he could easily dodge the branches trying to catch him, he couldn't attack, as the second he reappeared, the withered branches would be at his side. Forcing him to once again dodge with the Drifting Cloud Steps.
He did attempt to move farther away, but soon enough discovered that the roots of the withered tree towering above the desert stretched across an area close to a hundred kilometers around the tree itself.
