"Watch out below!!"
Han Chuan already had his saber drawn. Holding it across his body, he cleaved apart a wind blade hurtling toward him.
But there were too many wind blades. He could defend one side, while the Demon Suppression Guards on the other sides were forced to retreat again and again. One took a wind blade to the shoulder and grunted, blood spattering onto the yellow sand before the wind instantly swept it away.
Yang Xiao stood where he was and raised a hand, palm facing down.
He drew out the moisture remaining beneath the ground, condensing it into two pale-blue streams at his sides.
The streams twisted and swam through the windblown sand, coiling around him like two living snakes and smashing the incoming wind blades one by one.
The wind blades struck the streams with hissing sounds, dissolving into white mist.
Within the curtain of sand, a Sand Crystal Rat used its sand-burrowing ability as cover to lunge at Yang Xiao's feet, its bladed claws reaching straight for his throat.
Yang Xiao did not even lift his eyelids.
At some point, the Army-Breaking Spear had appeared in his hand. He casually thrust its tip forward.
The spear's radiance pierced the curtain of sand and struck the Sand Crystal Rat squarely in the chest, impaling its torso.
The Sand Crystal Rat stiffened in midair before it could even scream, then was kicked away.
One thrust, one kill.
Yang Xiao lifted his spear and lightly tapped its tip against the sand. Another Sand Crystal Rat had barely poked its head out before the spear's radiance pinned it dead to the ground.
His attacks were not fast. They could even be called casual.
Yet every thrust was terrifyingly precise, the spear's radiance piercing the swirling yellow sand to strike the