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These Imperial Guards were at least third-grade, with the strongest already at first-grade. They were the elite among elite troops. From one glance, I could tell there were at least three thousand of them—these were the Great Ghost Emperor's Imperial Guards. And now, with the Ghost Emperors Luo Feng, Baodu, and Bozhong leading the charge, joined by the mountain ghosts and guard commanders from their three mountains, they surged toward us in one furious swarm.
Naturally, I was utterly depressed. With such overwhelming numbers, they weren't opponents I could handle by chopping them up like vegetables. Yet a shrill laugh suddenly shattered the battlefield's silence.
At that moment, Jinnu's ferocious smile shone like frost and bitter snow. I was no stranger to that kind of grin, the sort one showed toward ants. In the next instant, Jinnu ignored the three green-robed figures who were about to pursue her and used the Shrinking Earth technique to dart straight into the Imperial Guard formation!
"Spirit-Absorbing Art!" With a whoosh, a layer of blazing, multicolored flames erupted all over her body. This energy was like firework flames that could cling to energy, forcibly reverse it, and borrow residual energy of any attribute. Thus, whenever she killed someone, the rainbow flames would surge wildly in an instant!
The strength and amount she absorbed depended on the victim's power and the force they had left when they vanished. Jinnu possessed the heaven-defying Spirit-Absorbing Art and was naturally exceptionally skilled at this. After smashing one Imperial Guard to pieces at top speed, she became unstoppable. Raising her long sword horizontally, she needed no fancy moves at all. She simply shook out all the Dao force she had absorbed, and in an instant, a large swath of Imperial Guards was annihilated by that terrifying attack. As