His fingers and palms danced as Black Venerable formed hand seals, circulating his spirit essence through the most orthodox Spirit Tamer arts. Wisps of black mist rose like dragons and serpents, swiftly merging into heaven and earth.
At some point, black afterimages had silently appeared amid the wind and snow filling the sky.
They seemed to be ice condensed from black vapor, shaped into sword blades and moving through the air at high speed.
These ice swords were extraordinarily fast and possessed formidable power. Often, a single pass sent a demonfolk warrior falling, forever dead in these mountain woods.
Black Venerable's divine sense was powerful, allowing him to control the black ice swords over an immense area. Before long, he had killed more than half the enemy.
Only then did the experts among the demonfolk tribe finally react.
"Hululoola!"
Three Earth Rank Experts shouted in an unknown language, seemingly trying to contact their subordinates.
Yet after a round of shouting, they received only scattered responses. One of them immediately leaped up onto a peak more than a hundred zhang high.
From that commanding height, he could take in the terrain for several li around. The deaths of a five-man squad caught his attention, and his figure flickered as he swiftly flew toward them.
Black Venerable sensed his movements with his divine sense. Knowing that sword wounds were utterly different from the injuries those demons could inflict, he decisively struck to kill before the warrior could land.
Shrrrip!
Sharp edges swept past, spraying blood through the forest.
The Earth Rank demonfolk expert was gravely wounded in an instant.
But he seemed to have encountered some extraordinary fortune in the past, for his vitality was astonishingly tenacious. Even after Black Venerable's deliberate killing assault, he did not die on the spot. Instead,