Attrition Battle

2 meters long shaft with countless spiraling patterns, 1 meter long curved blade with sharp tips, all with a deep purple color that exuded an evil and ominous aura. Bai was holding a purple scythe. Concretely, it was Black's scythe that he took after Black's death at Slaughter City, her previous spirit.

"CRRRRRRRR!" Mayi's purple aura exploded as her body shivered, somehow the purple aura reacted with Bai's scythe.

Bai spun the scythe, holding it with both hands, the shaft over his back, with the blade down, prepared to reap.

Mayi kicked the ground, a big crater forming at her feet, instantly appearing in front of Bai. Thrusting her long claws towards Bai's neck.

"Crunch!" Bai ate a White Fudge Oreo, a white aura surrounding his body, increasing his spirit skills. At the same time, all his spirit rings shined, maximizing his attributes. Eleven different colored swords positioned in front of him, instantly being shattered by Mayi's claws. Nevertheless, it lowered Mayi's thrust' strength.

Bai spun his body, turning to his right side, changing the position of both hands while the blade met Mayi's claws.

"Crack!" cracks appeared all over the scythe, instantly showing its lower hardness respect Mayi's claws. The blade couldn't last, shattering to smithereens. Bai somersaulted using the already force of the spin plus Mayi's, safely landing 5 meters away, while Mayi's claws pierced across the wall.

Even with the blade completely broken, the scythe purple aura seemed to grow, condensing it at the tip of the shaft and reforging a new blade.

"Good" Bai sighed in relief. The truth was that it was Bai's bet. Bai had discovered that somehow Black's scythe had the property to absorb the ominous purple aura, even strengthening the scythe with it. He had proved with other ants, confirming that it would work, however, he had the doubts that it would work with Mayi, the one behind it all.

If Mayi was able to absorb from the scythe, instead of the contrary, Bai only though of healing Mayi would be Tang San's Seagod aura that could heal the Slaughter King of his madness. However, it would become extremely complicated, as the purple aura would run away from Sea God's aura, being protected by the black devouring aura. Bai would have needed to completely beat Mayi before it happened, Bai having already made up his mind of even burning his own spirit and life energy with his clan secret technique to face and win Mayi.

On the other hand, the scythe worked completely differently. Instead of destroying the vicious aura, it absorbed and strengthen itself. The purple aura wasn't afraid of it, quite the opposite, purple aura was constantly flowing from Mayi towards the scythe, like the scythe was its right place.

"CRRRRRRRRRRR!" Having failed the attack, Mayi seemed even madder. She dashed towards Bai, her mouth and mandibles opened pointing at him.

Bai could feel a great pressure over his body, attracting towards Mayi's mouth that seemed like a black hole. Black rings shined "Crunch!" "Crunch!" Bai ate two Double Stuff Oreo, plus a White Fudge Oreo. Moreover, Bai's head shined, an image of a third eye appearing at his forehead as he activated his skull spirit bone.

Bai could sense the time slowing down as his speed reaction increased, seeing the energy fluctuations around him, discovering the best path to escape from Mayi's pressure.

Bai's legs shined, a yellow and gray greaves appearing at his legs. He leaned the scythe's blade at the ground "ZIP!" With lightning and explosive speed, Bai jumped leaning his weight toward the scythe, impulsing with it to jump higher.

Just as Mayi's mouth was about to eat the scythe, the scythe disappeared, instantly appearing at Bai's hands who spun his body swinging the scythe whose blade pierced Mayi's back, pushing her towards the wall.

Since Bai used the scythe to absorb the purple aura extracted from Mei, Bai couldn't put the scythe in his storage, but somehow the scythe was linked to his Slaughter Domain, being able to keep it in his mind space, similar as to a spirit. As he didn't know if Mayi was capable of devouring it with her black aura, it was better not to try it.

"CRRRRRRRRRR!" shouted Mayi in fury, her armor was completely untouched while Bai's scythe was all cracked from the collision. However, it wasn't long before the purple aura around the scythe repaired the crack, becoming even stronger than before.

Mayi madly charged at Bai. Bai's body glowed with a gray color that focused over his scythe. "<All Sword: Slaughter>" His scythe and eleven swords were invaded by a strong dark aura. Thanks to Bai's torso bone, he could make anything in contact with him as if it was his own sword, perfectly conducting his Sword Intent. Bai thought that it was a useless skill as he already had his swords, but now he thought differently from it. The only problem was that the scythe couldn't be used to his Retaliation, Protection or Life intent, as they were repelled by it.

Mayi swung her claws, Bai efficiently using his swords to divert them to finally hit them with his scythe, Mayi's claws almost grazing him.

"CRRRRR!" Mayi started charging madly towards Bai, piercing, punching, and kicking with incredible speed and strength. Bai continued backstepping, controlling the distance while slowly absorbing Mayi's purple aura with his scythe, using his swords to protect him.

With each hit, Bai's swords broke and were instantly being replaced by new swords using his 5th skill. With each hit, Bai's scythe cracked and quickly reformed itself. At first, the scythe would shatter in contact with Mayi, but as it became stronger, the scythe would last more.

This was a one-sided battle where Bai defended from all Mayi's attacks while strengthening his scythe. Even if he wanted, Bai was unable to counterattack, his attack not strong enough to pierce Mayi's defense.

After two minutes, even though Bai's didn't receive any direct hit, he looked all hazard and panted loudly while the only difference of Mayi was a decrease of her purple aura. Mayi had a power equivalent to a limit douluo while Bai was only a spirit douluo. Thanks to using all his spirit bones, spirit skill of both spirits and sword arts, he could push his strength up to a super douluo's, enough to face Mayi who only attacked madly.

However, Bai wouldn't be able to last long. Keeping that strength was pushing Bai's body to the limit, the consumption of spirit, mental, and physical energy was immense, he was unable to even focus on healing his wounds, completely focused on keeping his full strength. This was a fight against time, an attrition battle. Would Bai resist until his scythe absorb Mayi's aura before reaching his limit? Bai was betting all his strength in this opportunity.

"Boooom!" Mayi punched Bai. Bai blocked it with the scythe's blade being pushed 10 meters. At the scythe only a little crack could be seen that quickly repaired itself. The purple around the scythe had grown a lot stronger while Mayi's aura had weakened.

Bai twisted his scythe reverse gripping it leaning over his back "Finally, it's time to fight" Bai smiled.