Senior Brother Yan still seemed unable to pull himself out of the negative mindset caused by losing the sword duel. He was genuinely stunned for a moment when the giant beast lunged at him, but relying on his instincts, he immediately dodged.
I let out a sigh of relief and hurriedly sent him a voice transmission: "Senior Brother Yan, these ghost beasts gather ghostly energy with a single thought to fill their bodies with power. They need to vent some of that energy before they can truly perish and become a wisp of thought! They're essentially spiritual entities! You have to use laws to destroy their ability to condense energy!"
"Mm." Senior Brother Yan knew I was considering his dignity, and had more or less recovered his proper strength. He darted left and right along the routes where the monsters converged.
However, the giant beast's shrill roar just now had attracted even more ghost beasts. They were not quite blotting out the sky and covering the earth yet, but the dense beast hordes kept gathering, and because these ghost beasts were formed from thoughts, birds and beasts of every color and shape appeared like carp crossing a river. For a moment, both Senior Brother Yan and I felt utterly helpless.
Boom!
Just as Senior Brother Yan and I were killing without end, Senior Brother Hai's control over the formation proved formidable. The constantly falling sun-thunder soon struck the ghost beasts charging toward the central area, throwing the clustered beast hordes into chaos. Many scattered and fled, and Senior Brother Yan and I simultaneously changed our methods for defeating the enemy.
These ghost beasts normally had an obvious target: they all charged toward Abandoning Maiden and Thought Lock. Yet as soon as one of their wounded kind was among them, they