A powerful surge of aura, brimming with vitality, spread out from her.
At the same time, through the gaps in the Stone Fortress walls, they could see the thick vines suddenly lift all the massive rocks blocking its entrance.
It happened so fast that the giant rats surrounding the entrance did not even react.
But after freezing for only a breath or two, the giant rats began frantically squeezing into the Stone Fortress.
"Shing!..."
Almost at the very moment the first giant rat charged into the entrance passage, Xu Taiping, who had been building his blade force for a long time, abruptly drew his blade.
"Roaaar!..."
With a blade cry like a dragon roar, Xu Taiping merged with the long blade in his hand, transforming into a massive blade shadow flashing with lightning and flame that rushed through the Stone Fortress entrance with a boom.
Demon-Slaying Blade, Dragon-Slaying Form.
"Bang!"
Amid the thunderous impact, this Dragon-Slaying Form, infused with the power of thunderflame, shredded the first few giant rats to reach the entrance into a cloud of blood mist almost on contact.
Though thunderflame condensed through borrowed treasures fell far short of thunderflame condensed from a cultivator's own power.
It was more than enough to deal with these giant rats.
"Boom!..."
Once the blade shadow of the Dragon-Slaying Form burst out of the narrow passage, it immediately became a massive blade shadow over a hundred zhang long, lightning flashing and flames surging.
"Whoosh!"
Amid a piercing rush of wind, Xu Taiping drove the blade shadow in a sweeping slash across the swarm.
Then, with a boom, every giant rat before the Stone Fortress dissolved into blood mist beneath Xu Taiping's slash.
Even that blood mist was burned away by the Thunder Soul Blade's thunderflame in the blink of an eye,