"Shing!"
Just then, a Blade Cry rang out as Xu Taiping drew his saber.
Almost the instant he drew it, the chest of the Eight Heroes Valley bandit nearest him split open.
Before another bandit beside him could react, his neck was severed with a swish of the blade.
Only then did the bandits finally see that what had severed his neck was the saber in Xu Taiping's hand.
"Swish!"
But in just the blink of an eye, another two bandits were cut in half at the waist.
In an instant, an overwhelming terror welled up in the bandits' hearts.
They wanted to flee.
But the bald bandit leading them roared:
"Anyone who dares desert will have his entire family slaughtered by me!"
Hearing this, the bandits, who had been about to scatter in fear, took up their sabers again and charged at Xu Taiping.
"Swish!"
But Xu Taiping merely cast them an icy glance, and his ghostlike movement carried him and his saber through the bandits like a streak of light.
"Thud!"
By the time Xu Taiping came to a standstill again, seven or eight bandits toppled stiffly to the ground together.
"Die!"
"Slash!"
The bandit standing directly before Xu Taiping had only just raised his saber when, to his surprise, Xu Taiping's blade slashed diagonally through his neck.
His body was cleaved in two.
In the end, of the sixteen bandits, only the bald man remained standing where he was, his lips trembling as he tried to say something.
"Y-you, you..."
"Swish!"
But Xu Taiping gave him no chance. Without any warning, the saber in his hand sliced through the man's neck.
Then that bald head hit the ground with a thud.
Watching from behind, Gu Yu could not help drawing a deep breath before murmuring:
"They're clearly