Immediately afterward, with a blade cry like a crane's call, Xu Taiping seemed to merge with the long blade in his hand, turning into a dazzling streak of blade light that charged into the Rat Swarm ahead.
Boom!
In a mere instant, that streak of blade light cut an opening through the Rat Swarm ahead.
At the sight, the boy's eyes lit up. He immediately understood Xu Taiping's intention and darted forward with his younger sister on his back, rushing into the opening the blade had cut through the Rat Swarm.
Swish!
Just as the Rat Swarm was about to close the opening again, Xu Taiping unleashed another slash amid a blade cry like a crane's call.
An opening promptly appeared in another part of the Rat Swarm.
The boy hurried after him.
After that, no matter how quickly the Rat Swarm closed in, the long blade in Xu Taiping's hand always carved an opening for the two siblings.
Eventually, blade cries like the calls of cranes began ringing incessantly throughout the mountain forest.
As Xu Taiping's slashes grew faster and faster, and the killing aura around him grew more intense, the gaze of the boy sheltering behind him gradually changed from the joy of surviving a calamity to an indescribable awe.
Especially when he saw Xu Taiping continue to swing his blade through sheer perseverance, cutting down giant rat after giant rat despite having exhausted his true essence, his blood qi power weakening little by little, and his burly physique gradually fading, that awe in his heart grew ever stronger.
Thud!
After slaying an unknown number of giant rats, Xu Taiping finally failed to keep pace with a step, and a giant rat slammed hard into his chest.
Having now returned to the physique of an ordinary martial artist,