"Rise!"
Li Jing gave a low shout. The blood streaming from his wrists evaporated into thin air before hitting the ground, turning into a bloody energy.
The bloody energy formed countless threads.
The bloody threads connected with the Ten Thousand Black Armored Army.
Their battle auras linked together, making ten thousand men act as one, allowing Li Jing to exert even better control over the large army.
Auras of bloody slaughter overflowed from the bodies of the ten thousand soldiers, converging in the air to form a gigantic phantom of a crane.
The crane opened its beak, raised its head to let out a silent, piercing cry, and then spread its wings to instantly soar into the sky.
It circled once above the Ten Thousand Black Armored Army, kicking up violent gales that scattered the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy from all directions.
It instantly dove down, spreading its talons toward Kui Mulang below in a classic hunting motion of a bird of prey.
"How... how... how could he possess such power?"
Kui Mulang looked up at the crane phantom with its spread wings blotting out the sky, a look of utter disbelief on his face.
At the same time, a sense of instinctive terror welled up in his heart. He understood that this attack was no illusion; it was power sufficient to threaten his life.
"No! You are merely a mortal, and there is no way I can lose!"
The glistening, massive steel saber in Kui Mulang's hand slashed wildly into the void several times, and then he let out a long roar toward the sky. His magic power converged in the void, forming a huge cyan wolf shadow.
"What is that?"
The twenty-seven stellar sovereigns who had come from Heaven to search for Kui Mulang looked at