"Boom!..."
With another deafening Qi Explosion, Gu Yu, who was charging toward the hundreds of sand bandits with his saber raised, suddenly split into countless clones as he struck.
Immediately afterward, those countless clones swung their sabers together, slashing at the sand bandits before them.
"Whoosh!..."
Amid the piercing whistle of air being cleaved, hundreds of dazzling streaks of saber light flared in unison.
At the same time, hundreds of trails of blood spurted from the sand bandits' necks, and heads fell to the ground one after another.
Looking at the heads strewn across the ground and the headless corpses still sitting on their horses, the old hunter suddenly collapsed to the ground and said in a trembling voice:
"They're... they're all dead..."
After Xu Taiping and the others calmly watched Gu Yu finish all this, Dongfang Yuejian called to him:
"Gu Yu, hurry up. We need to get moving."
Gu Yu immediately flickered, using the movement technique he had only recently begun practicing to appear behind Xu Taiping and the others.
When the old hunter heard that they were leaving, he suddenly scrambled to his feet and said:
"Benefactors, please! The Forbidden Grounds lie ahead. You mustn't venture in recklessly!"
Gu Yu glanced back at the old hunter and said:
"Go home, elder. We know the way!"
With that, he hurried to catch up with Xu Taiping and the others, and together they strode toward the volcano.
Upon discovering that they really did know the way, the old hunter said with a look of shock:
"Aside from us hunters of Fire Sand Town, there are... there are actually outsiders who know the paths through the Forbidden Grounds?"
At that thought, the old hunter's eyes suddenly lit up, his gaze filled with astonishment as he said:
"Could they... could they