As he laughed in disdain, he asked her "Now you want to end the fight just because you can't fight anymore. What happened to you creating the tool that will end the superiority of the Blood Skull sect?"
"I have yet to see this tool that you spoke of. This worm can't end the superiority of the Black Bones sect if only for the reason that it enhances itself, not the power of the host."
He might have said what he said to make fun of her, but what he said was the truth. An armament enhances every part of the cultivator and has an energy requirement that becomes lower the stronger the host becomes.
After all, it serves as the foundation of the cultivators of the Blood Skull sect, not an external item. The days of the armament being an external item had ended since they advanced to the third mortal coil.
It is not as if other sects haven't tried to create something similar to an armament. The Sword Sect even has the unity of man and sword, which enhances their attacking power.
Unfortunately, it still wasn't enough to match the power of an armament because the unity of man and sword could only enhance the attacking power of a sword. It couldn't improve speed and defense like an armament does.
This strange worm is even worse than the unity of man and sword because of its exorbitant energy requirements and the fact that it tries to kill its host whenever it is used. This is an irrefutable fact, so she didn't bother to argue with him about it.
However, she insisted that he let her go. After all, the alternative is death.
So she said, "Don't pressure me, or I will use something that will make you regret it."
Arthur didn't care about her threat at all. He sneered at her and said, "Feel free to do your worst."
Since he wasn't going to let her go, she decided to do her worst. Her worst is to activate the sliver of spiritual energy that her patriarch had bestowed upon her.
The sliver of spiritual energy was in the shape of a long blue fang on her arm. When it was activated, the blue fang materialized in the air above her and shot towards him like a giant dagger being thrown.
No matter how cocky he was, he didn't dare to withstand this attack head-on. So he quickly activated the sliver of spiritual energy in his possession, too. The one that he activated was the one that had the shape of a leaf.
The green leaf activated and separated from him. After the sliver of spiritual energy separated from him, he felt it commandeer the mana in his environment and use it to materialize and grow larger.
The green leaf grew larger and also grew other parts, like a stalk and some vines attached to the stalk. This made a giant plant appear above him.
The giant plant swept its vines around and smashed them into the flying giant fang. The two of them refused to budge and became locked in a stalemate for a while.
The clash of these two slivers of spiritual energy caused them to become faint and lose strength. In a few seconds at most, they would neutralize each other and disappear. But Arthur wasn't willing to wait for the outcome of the clash in a few seconds, and his enemy wasn't willing to wait either.
Actually, she was the one who made a move first. Her move was to turn and run immediately she saw that he had a sliver of spiritual energy too.
Once she saw that he had a sliver of spiritual energy, she knew that it was impossible for her to resort to killing him, so she chose to escape while Arthur was preoccupied. Unfortunately for her, Arthur wasn't willing to let her go, and worst still, he was very fast and was quickly gaining on her.
When she realized that she was truly going to die, she shouted, "Save me, now."
Her shout for help made Arthur stop chasing her immediately. He stopped to examine his surroundings in fear of being ambushed. The fact that neither he nor the formation breaker had noticed anyone nearby meant that if there was truly someone nearby, they would be dangerous.
But as he waited and watched, no one showed up to save her. All he saw was her running and widening the distance between them. This made him realize that he had tricked.
He became furious after he realized that he had been tricked. Then he began chasing her again.
This time, he also began to shoot at her in order to slow her down. He even used his magnetic field manipulation talent to pull her spear in an attempt to pull her back.
The truth of the matter was that there was truly someone else nearby. She wasn't the only one who had come to check out the disturbance of the rank 4 beast troubling the cultivation family.
This partner of hers possesses a beast that can allow him to hide from the perception of others as long as they are slow or immobile. This was why Arthur hadn't noticed them earlier.
According to their plan, this second person would stay hidden and only show themselves after it had been confirmed that their enemy had used up their sliver of spiritual energy.
If Arthur had allowed her to go earlier when she threatened to use her sliver of spiritual energy, it would have signified that he didn't have a sliver of spiritual energy to resist her trump card, so her hidden partner would have come out and joined them in ganging up on him.
But Arthur had used a sliver of spiritual energy, and from what her partner saw, he still possessed at least another sliver of spiritual energy. This was why they refused to show up, even though she called them to come and save her.