"Whoosh!"
Almost simultaneously, amid shrill sounds of cleaving air, a blade shadow formed from those thunderflame crane feathers appeared before nearly every cultivator present.
By the time the cultivators reacted, those blade shadows, radiating a terrifying aura of destruction and carrying fearsome blade force, had already slashed down at them.
In an instant, the cultivators had no choice but to turn the techniques they had prepared to attack Xu Taiping and his two companions against the blade shadows before them.
"Bang!"
Amid the thunderous crash, although the vast majority of the Upper Realm cultivators shattered the blade shadows of this strike, they had also depleted most of their true essence and qi and blood.
After all, the techniques they had just used to shatter the blade shadows were killing moves originally prepared to kill Xu Taiping and his two companions, into which they had poured almost all their true essence and qi and blood.
"Tok, tok, tok, tok..."
Just as the cultivators were reeling in shock, the crisp tapping of a wooden fish rang out again.
Immediately afterward, Dongfang Yuejian called out in her clear voice:
"Sword formation, open!"
At these words, she soared into the air and swept the Spring and Autumn Brush in her hand sharply across.
"Ring, ring, ring!..."
With almost every stroke of her brush, a streak of sword light shot out amid a ringing sword cry.
"Rumble!..."
Finally, as four Immortal Swords descended, an enormous Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation enveloped all hundred-odd Upper Realm cultivators.
In an instant, sword qi flew through the formation.
Although Dongfang Yuejian's Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation was manifested through the power of One Stroke Opens Heaven and possessed not even a ten-thousandth of the real formation's strength, these Upper Realm cultivators, whose cultivation and combat strength were restricted, could still be wounded