(There was something I had to attend to this morning, sorry.)
On the other side, Yu Zhong saw that the situation around the Skeleton War General was turning unfavorable, so he struck out amid the chaos and helped it resolve a crisis.
"Pfft!" The three blue skeletons' renewed slash completely shattered the lotus dharma throne. Su Qing was shaken and spat out a mouthful of black essence. With a whoosh, Su Qing vanished from where she stood, and the long blades wielded by the three blue skeletons struck empty air. By the time the three blue skeletons tried to search for Su Qing again, she had already disappeared among a densely packed swarm of Space-Eating Ghost Ants.
Having gained a chance to catch her breath, Su Qing sighed inwardly at the missed opportunity. If Yu Zhong hadn't come to its aid just now, then even if I couldn't have killed the Skeleton War General, I could at least have heavily wounded it and eliminated a major threat. Things would have been much easier afterward. Now that the Skeleton War General had suffered a crisis once, it would certainly be extremely cautious. It would probably be very difficult to find another opportunity like that.
Su Qing had only just thought this when two corpse blades suddenly blazed with light in the void. One became ten, ten became a hundred, and they slashed viciously toward the ant swarm shielding her. That fellow Yu Zhong was exceedingly cunning. He had not placed his hopes on killing Su Qing in one strike, nor did he know exactly where she was within the ant swarm's cover. Instead, he used this large-scale attack to force Su Qing to reveal herself. Even if he failed to achieve his true objective, killing some Space-Eating Ghost Ants in the