Chen Mo swung his blade again and again as the rats swarmed before him, one slash following another.
Yet instead of decreasing, the rats only grew more numerous.
He had initially thought there would not be many rats, but he had never expected there to be so many. His Spiritual Sense swept over them, and the number of rats rushing toward him had already exceeded ten thousand.
As he swung his blade, Chen Mo wondered how so many rats had managed to survive. Especially at such a massive size—how much food would they need to consume? Yet when his Spiritual Sense scanned the area, he could not find anything that could serve as food for them. It was truly strange.
However, in a place like the Nine-story Tower, no matter how strange things were, it did not matter. Some of the methods used by great powers were not something a minor Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator like him could understand.
Still, continuously hacking away at rats was genuinely exhausting, and he could not kill them all. His Vajra Talismans had already been replaced twice, and the freshly replaced Vajra Talisman was about to fail again. It truly pained him.
Therefore, Chen Mo could only think of another way to wipe out all these rats at once.
He took out a Talisman, and with a draw of True Essence, it exploded between him and the rats.
The Explosive Talisman erupted, flames scattering in every direction. All the rats charging at him, as well as those clinging to his body and biting him, were burned to ashes. He himself was also struck by the shockwave of the Explosive Talisman, but with the Vajra Talisman protecting him, he was unharmed.
However, because of that explosion, the freshly replaced Vajra Talisman melted away in a