"Rumble!"
This time, with several hundred more Blightbones joining in, their momentum abruptly surpassed what it had been before.
Yet Xu Taiping and the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage remained on the summit, doing nothing but passively holding their ground.
At the sight, the Blood Zen Dharma Master immediately said smugly:
"Junior Brother, just watch! The fighting strength of a mere Heaven Shocking Realm cultivator won't hold out for long!"
Xie Wangyan let out a long breath and said:
"It looks like we'll soon be able to sit back and reap the fisherman's reward."
As he spoke, amid rumbling that shook heaven and earth, the Blightbones Xu Taiping had scattered with a single strike gathered around and above that lone peak once again.
Just as the two waited for those several hundred Blightbones to deal Xu Taiping and his companions a fatal blow, the enormous True Dragon phantom image coiled around the gigantic thousand-armed Vajra phantom image suddenly raised its head once more and let out a deafening dragon roar.
Then they heard Xu Taiping shout:
"Halt!"
As he spoke, Xu Taiping's true body and the enormous Vajra Dharma Aspect enveloping the entire summit of the lone peak forcefully clenched all their upraised hands.
"Boom!"
Under Xie Wangyan's and the Blood Zen Dharma Master's astonished gazes, Xu Taiping and the Vajra Dharma Aspect clenched their fists in unison. With a muffled tremor that shook heaven and earth, both the Blightbones circling above the lone peak and those on the surrounding cliffs abruptly sank under the pressure.
Even the mountain itself shuddered violently.
Although each Blightbone ultimately steadied itself again through its own strength.
They all seemed frozen in place, utterly motionless.
"Whoosh!"
Just then, a fierce wind suddenly swept in with a howl.
At first, the two thought it was merely an