Yun Ye and the others had guessed correctly.
The strike Xu Taiping had just used to slay the White-Robed Ghost King was indeed an entirely new blade technique he had created by combining the first layer of his blade domain with the Crane-Listening Stance.
"If I were to incorporate the second layer of the blade domain, especially alongside Mountain Spirit Power, the Chaotic Cicada Stance should still be more suitable... particularly the Chaotic Cicada Stance that retained the Cicada Cry Form's advantage of gathering stances."
"But at my current cultivation realm, I have to borrow the power of Azure Dragon Battle Intent and those two pills to execute this move."
He picked up the sealed object, the white robe, from the ground and murmured another sentence to himself.
During those three years of arduous training within Blade Ghost's blade domain, his progress in blade techniques and blade domains had outpaced even that of his physique.
"Thud! Thud, thud! Thud, thud, thud!..."
Just as Xu Taiping was about to return to the Azure Dragon Armor battle formation, the ground beneath his feet suddenly began to shake violently.
He looked up.
Directly ahead of them, roughly seven or eight li away, an enormous ghost creature whose body nearly spanned heaven and earth was leading at least seven or eight hundred ghost creatures whose bodies and physiques were only slightly inferior to its own. With heavy yet wind-swift strides, they charged toward them like a hurtling mountain.
"The second wave of Ghost Armor troops assembled in the Snow Domain has arrived too. The tallest one should be their commander."
At the sight, Xu Taiping immediately realized what was happening and swiftly retreated into the Azure Dragon Armor battle formation.
"Form ranks!"
The instant Xu Taiping returned to the formation, Gu Qingcheng gave the