"Unity Blade!"
Almost at the same instant he drew his blade from its sheath, Xu Taiping used Overlord's Breath to drive the strike's blade force straight to its peak.
In an instant, driven by that abruptly surging blade force, the blade qi swirling around him suddenly merged into one, becoming a blade shadow dozens of zhang long that came crashing down.
"Swish!"
Amid a piercing rush through the air, a flash of blade light swept past. A bloody line suddenly appeared across the neck of the Chitie Barbarian Ox, which had only just turned its head, and its enormous head hit the ground with a thud.
"Whew..."
The instant the Chitie Barbarian Ox's head struck the ground, Xu Taiping could not help letting out a long breath, the taut string in his heart relaxing a little.
But immediately, he circulated the true essence within him once more, preparing to return to the slope with the Star-Transposing Step.
"Boom!..."
Yet almost at the same moment Xu Taiping stepped forward, a huge black shadow suddenly swooped down from the sky ahead, blocking his route back to the Dragon-Slaying Stele.
Left with no choice, Xu Taiping could only change direction.
"Boom!"
Amid a piercing rush through the air, Xu Taiping used the Star-Transposing Step to dodge sideways, flashing ten zhang away.
Almost simultaneously, that black shadow landed with a bang, bringing fierce gang winds with it.
Xu Taiping turned to look and discovered that it was actually a long-extinct Primordial Antiquity Beast-a Griffin.
However, the Griffin did not seem to have come for Xu Taiping.
Without even glancing at Xu Taiping, it seized the headless Savage Ox's carcass from the ground, then beat its wings with a boom and rose into the air once more.
The Griffin had come for the Savage Ox's