"Let's go."
Lu Chen lifted his long saber and charged with Luo Yun toward the defensive line where Gu Chenfeng stood.
Ghostly silhouettes crowded the way, countless Demon Wraiths trampling over corpses as they poured into the encampment. Lu Chen cleared the path ahead. Every stroke of his saber sent out a crimson-gold blade light, tearing the Demon Wraiths lunging at him in half.
Despite his injuries, Luo Yun's strikes remained fierce.
He followed close behind Lu Chen, striking repeatedly with both palms and blasting away the Demon Wraiths trying to surround them from the sides. With saber and palms, the two carved a bloody path through the ghost tide.
The wooden wall ahead had collapsed completely.
Drenched in blood, Gu Chenfeng stood alone in the center of the breach, Demon Wraith corpses piled at his feet. Sharp claws had ripped open his left shoulder, and a wound deep enough to expose bone scored his right leg, yet his saber hand remained steady as bedrock.
Five Organ-Nourishing Realm Demon Wraiths surrounded him.
Two Blood-Armored Ghosts attacked from the front, while three Heart-Eater Ghosts flickered constantly around him. Whenever Gu Chenfeng swung his saber to drive back the Blood-Armored Ghosts, a Heart-Eater Ghost would spring from his blind spot and leave another wound on his body.
One Heart-Eater Ghost suddenly skimmed swiftly along the ground.
It slipped beneath Gu Chenfeng's blade light, five sharp claws aimed straight at his abdomen. Pinned down by the two Blood-Armored Ghosts, Gu Chenfeng had no time to bring his saber back.
Screee!
A piercing cry suddenly rang across the battlefield.
Crimson-gold radiance lit up the space before Gu Chenfeng.
A Three-Legged Golden Crow formed from blade light soared over the ghost tide, trailing roaring flames through the air, and slammed into the Heart-Eater Ghost.
Boom!