"All Tianlan forces, heed my command!"
"Sword Pavilion disciples, form the Taixu Demon-Slaying Sword Formation and follow me to meet the devil tide head-on!"
"Formation Pavilion disciples, take over every formation node immediately! Repair and reinforce our defenses, whatever the cost!"
"Pill Pavilion and Artifact Pavilion disciples, spare no effort in treating the wounded and replenishing supplies!"
"All other divisions, follow Vice Alliance Leader Yuchenzi's unified command! Coordinate the defense and slaughter the demonic beasts!"
"This battle will decide Tianlan's survival. Every cultivator of our alliance must fight to the death!"
"Kill!"
As that single word left his lips, Sword Master Taixu pressed two fingers together like a sword and lightly swept them toward the surging devil tide!
"Shing..."
A terrifying sword intent, invisible and intangible yet seemingly capable of cleaving space and time, spread out like mercury spilling across the ground!
Wherever the sword intent passed, a layer seemed to peel away from space itself!
Thousands upon thousands of demonic beasts at the forefront, from lowly shadow demons to mighty giant strength demons, froze in unison!
Then, like sand sculptures scattered by the wind, they silently dissolved into the finest dust and vanished into oblivion!
One sword strike cleared a thousand miles of devil-infested territory!
Such was Sword Master Taixu's strength!
A sword cultivator at the peak of Spirit Transformation, only a single step from the Return to Void Realm!
"Form up!"
The tens of thousands of Great Void Sword Sect disciples who had accompanied him answered in unison. Instantly, they became streaks of light weaving through the sky, forming an enormous sword formation that covered nearly half the battlefield within a single breath!
Countless streams of sword qi crisscrossed like a giant meat grinder, crashing fearlessly into the devil tide and sweeping all before them!
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