"Fellow Daoist Yu is right. To capture the bandits, first capture their king. Kill!" the Ghost King of the Cliff Shade roared. He had long since grown unaccustomed to fighting in this thunder domain. Charging into the rat swarm was more dangerous, but it was the only way to settle things once and for all. As long as they could kill the Rat King, the Qihuang Salivating Rat swarm might not immediately collapse, but without a leader, it would certainly descend into chaos.
A rat swarm unable to combine its strength would still possess considerable killing power, but to the assembled cultivators, the threat would drop by several levels.
One Mahayana and Tribulation Transcension cultivator after another struck, directly stirring up strange phenomena throughout this stretch of void.
Sword lotuses bloomed across the void. Though Lu Xiaotian had instructed Yu Xiaoqiao on when to advance and retreat and to preserve herself as much as possible, Yu Xiaoqiao had her own pride. She did not want to simply linger beneath Lu Xiaotian's wings, achieving nothing and serving only as a pretty vase. Although she had been delayed in the Spirit World for many years, and Lu Xiaotian's cultivation had now reached a level that could no longer be judged by ordinary standards, Yu Xiaoqiao still wanted to face the storms herself—to use the sword in her hand to cut through every thorn before her, and perhaps one day stand beside Lu Xiaotian against every danger.
Sword lotuses blossomed one after another through the void. Yu Xiaoqiao's figure vanished among them.
"I'll kill the Rat King. You only need to screen off the surroundings. Now is the perfect time to break the rat demon swarm." As soon as Yu Xiaoqiao finished speaking, she was already standing atop a sword lotus. In the