But just as he spoke.
With a deafening boom, the golden light barrier surrounding Xiahou Yu abruptly shattered.
At the sight, Heavenly Lord Shihu's heart sank, and he said:
"It's... it's over!"
Meanwhile, Xu Taiping, who had already heard Heavenly Lord Shihu's warning, brought another heavy slash down upon the crab phantom the demonic daoist had summoned.
"Bang!!!"
Amid the thunderous impact, the crab phantom formed from the demonic daoist's crab armor blightbone power shrank considerably under the slash.
But he still failed to cleave it apart.
Xu Taiping immediately frowned and said:
"It seems that unless I raise my blade force to the ultimate realm, I won't be able to break through this Crab-Demon Demonic Daoist's crab armor blightbone power!"
Meanwhile, the Crab-Demon Demonic Daoist, who already held the Spirit Bone Stele Fragment in his hand, burst into laughter.
"Not one of you will escape this place today!"
Seeing this, Matriarch Shihu once again called out a warning to Xu Taiping:
"Daoist Taiping, do not let him swallow that Spirit Bone Stele Fragment! Kill him at once!"
Xu Taiping naturally knew this.
He returned his blade to its sheath and drew a deep breath, saying:
"It seems I can't break through the ultimate realm one slash at a time. I can only try and see whether I can raise my blade force to the ultimate realm in one go."
Under normal circumstances.
There was only one way for Xu Taiping to elevate his mastery of blade force step by step to the ultimate realm.
That was to do as he had when raising his fist force.
Stack it higher, one punch after another.
But now, he clearly no longer had the time.
He had to raise his blade force from the forty thousand blades he could currently control at