Chapter 56: Battling the Bat Swarm Alone
"Changqing, why don't you seem affected at all?"
Qi Hao noticed it as well and hurriedly asked Su Changqing.
"I'm merely enduring it by force."
Su Changqing answered, glancing sideways at him.
Hearing this, the others could not help feeling even more admiration for Su Changqing.
Yet Su Changqing stared solemnly at the bats filling the sky. He knew this could not go on, and silently drew his Azure Edge sword, as though he had made some decision.
Caution was Su Changqing's nature, but waiting helplessly for death was not.
"Wait here for a moment. I'll deal with these demon bats first."
The moment Su Changqing finished speaking, before the others could react, he had already flown beyond the range of the Six Harmonies Realm and unleashed a strike of the Gale Sword Technique.
At once, howling winds rose between heaven and earth, surging furiously toward the bat swarm. Sword Qi swept out like waves of icy blades. Countless bats were cleaved into halves and quarters, their lives snuffed out as they fell thickly from the sky. Their corpses piled upon the ground like a small mountain, while blackish-red blood became a river along the mountainside, flowing down toward the foot of the mountain in a scene of unbearable gore.
With a single strike, he had carved a passage through the bat swarm that filled the sky.
"Wait here. I'll lure these bats away!"
After leaving that instruction behind, Su Changqing shot through the passage he had opened and flew away.
"Junior Brother Changqing!"
Everyone cried out in alarm, watching in stunned silence as Su Changqing's figure rapidly vanished into the distance.
Even high-level Core Formation cultivators would likely be unable to withstand such an innumerable swarm of bats. They would eventually be