"Big brother, watch out!"
In a stretch of mountain forest before the Stone Fortress, Xu Taiping was surrounded by the Rat Swarm once again. He failed to dodge in time, and a giant rat nearly bit off the left half of his body, frightening the little girl behind him into a scream.
But just as the two siblings thought the giant rat was about to bite Xu Taiping in two, something strange happened.
With a crack, the giant rat's sharp fangs shattered on the spot, as though they had bitten into a block of iron.
Boom!
As the giant rat's teeth shattered, a pale blue halo suddenly appeared around Xu Taiping's shoulders. With a bang, the halo blasted apart the rat's jaws, which had been clamped tightly around his shoulder.
Just then, Xu Taiping finally had a hand free, and with a swish, the Thunder Soul Blade in his hand sliced off the giant rat's head.
The thunderflame covering the blade burned its calf-sized body to ashes in an instant.
The two siblings were dumbfounded.
Although the thunderflame Xu Taiping had formed using ordinary true fire and the Thunder Soul Blade was far weaker than the thunderflame he created by fusing the Great Sun Golden Flame with his own thunder origin power, it was more than enough to deal with these rat demons, which were only at the ordinary demon lord level.
But as he killed more and more giant rats, the power of thunder within the Thunder Soul Blade grew weaker and weaker, and the thunderflame faded along with it.
This was precisely one of the weaknesses of thunderflame formed by borrowing a treasure's power for the fusion.
"At this rate, after I kill another ten or so giant rats at most, the power of thunder inside the Thunder