"This beast is draining our blood essence! If this continues, we'll be defeated without even fighting!" Xu Yi said.
"It is merely a vile beast. How dare it run wild!"
With a soft utterance from Bi Yue, that cold gleam reappeared and shot toward the Blood Bat's gaping maw.
That cold gleam was a handleless curved blade, shaped like a new moon, quite fitting for its owner's name.
Song Wen also summoned the Mountain-Crushing Mace. It swelled to a hundred zhang in size and smashed toward the Blood Bat with the force of wind and thunder.
The Blood Bat raised its sharp claws again, blocking the cold gleam.
Yet the Mountain-Crushing Mace seized the opportunity and struck heavily across its back.
The Blood Bat's back instantly split open, flesh and skin torn apart as blood gushed forth. Its body plummeted straight toward the ground.
Xu Yi's flying sword had seized the timing perfectly, streaking in like a startled swan.
Just as the Blood Bat was about to perish beneath the sword light, three piercing cries suddenly exploded from the distant night sky.
The three cries blended together like raging waves, yet also like countless fine needles stabbing directly into everyone's sea of consciousness.
"Ah—"
Xu Yi cried out in pain, and the spiritual power around his body instantly fell into chaos.
His flying sword's spiritual radiance dimmed as well, drifting away like a fallen leaf.
"Slash!"
Yuan Wu was unwilling to let this Essence-Eroding Blood Bat escape. With a sharp shout, a long saber abruptly appeared.
The saber light fell, cleaving the Essence-Eroding Blood Bat in two and splitting its body in half.
However, three Essence-Eroding Blood Bats came hurtling over from afar.
Perhaps having witnessed the death of one of their kind, the three Blood Bats' cries became even