Just as Xu Taiping and the others stared in horror, the dozens of ghost creatures ahead had already slammed one after another into the slender black shadows.
"Bang! Bang, bang, bang, bang...!"
Amid the succession of thunderous collisions, several of the slender Yin God shadows were even battered until their forms began to disperse.
At that moment, although the face of the Man-Faced Shadow in the center still faced Xu Taiping, a slender arm had extended from its shadowy body, its pale palm spread toward the ghost creatures behind it.
Then the Man-Faced Shadow spoke again, still slowly:
"Anni... hilate..."
The instant its words fell, a single boom rang out, and all those dozens of ghost creatures were annihilated into ashes.
The sight left both Xu Taiping and Old Daoist Huang frozen in place.
They had guessed that the Man-Faced Shadow would be powerful, but never expected it to be powerful to such an extent.
Before Xu Taiping and the others could recover, the Man-Faced Shadow slowly spoke again:
"Make a deal... Xu Taiping..."
Hearing his own name spoken by this Yin God once again, Xu Taiping felt his scalp prickle.
He summoned his courage and asked:
"H-how do you know my name?"
After a brief silence, the Man-Faced Shadow finally spoke slowly again:
"A woman, a woman who called herself your sis... sister, asked this old man... to make... to make this deal with you."
At these words, Xu Taiping's heart jolted, and he said:
"Sister Lingyue?!"
Beside him, Ping'an also said excitedly:
"It must be Sister Lingyue!"
Old Daoist Huang took a deep breath and said:
"I was wondering why Fairy Lingyue had clearly come here once, yet never told you about these beings in the information she left."
"So she intended to leave this matter for you