Xu Taiping's original plan.
Had been to use the Form- and Shadow-Transposition divine ability Li Daoyan had taught him, together with the Chengying Sword's Heaven-Shrouding Divine Intent, to slip silently past the Dragon Clan divine general Cangyuan and the several hundred Dragon Cavalry behind him.
But he had never expected.
That Blade Ghost's blade challenge against Blade Emperor Yang Ben would cause such a commotion that it awakened the Dragon Clan divine general Cangyuan and all three hundred Dragon Cavalry behind him.
And so his plan was thrown into complete disarray.
Hearing Xu Taiping's complaint, Blade Ghost chuckled, showing not the slightest trace of guilt.
Then the corners of his mouth lifted slightly, and he ignored what Xu Taiping had just said entirely.
"I can help you fight your way out, but you must agree to one condition."
Although Xu Taiping was very reluctant, the situation clearly left him no room to bargain, so he answered inwardly:
"What condition? Let me hear it first, Senior Blade Ghost."
Blade Ghost rubbed his chin and gave it some serious thought before transmitting his voice into Xu Taiping's mind:
"After we enter the Wilderness, unless circumstances make it necessary otherwise, you must let me out for some air every day."
Xu Taiping's heart stirred at this.
The condition Blade Ghost had proposed could be either a major matter or a minor one.
It was major because, from the blade challenge against Blade Emperor Yang Ben just now, Xu Taiping had discovered that with Blade Ghost's terrifying divine soul power, once he took control of that Origin Beginning Clone, Xu Taiping's own divine soul would actually have great difficulty driving him out.
Forcing him out would inevitably cause some damage to his divine soul.
What worried him even more was that, with Blade Ghost's