"BOOM-!!!"
In the blink of an eye, accompanied by an ear-splitting Qi Explosion, Blade Ghost's figure abruptly towered a hundred zhang tall.
The cloak draped over him suddenly billowed backward.
A vast, surging pressure swept outward like a tsunami.
"SHING!"
Then Blade Ghost abruptly raised an equally enormous Bone Blade and, with a boom, slashed toward the mountain bandits' battle formation ahead.
"Boom...!"
Amid an ear-splitting roar as it tore through the air, a blade shadow over a hundred zhang long cleaved heavily into the battle formation.
"BANG!!!"
Then, beneath the horrified gazes of Gu Changming, Xiao Moji, and the others, that single slash actually tore a breach straight through the formation of three or four hundred mountain bandits.
"Boom...!"
The bodies of the mountain bandit evil ghosts beneath the blade shadow exploded into nothingness.
Although mountain bandits killed by outsiders could revive, the time before they revived was enough for Xu Taiping and the others to break out of the formation.
However, after delivering that slash, Blade Ghost had also exhausted all the power he had gained from absorbing several hundred Soulfire Stones.
Thus, as his figure dissipated, he sent Xu Taiping a voice transmission:
"Taiping! Go!"
Xu Taiping immediately shouted to Gu Changming:
"Gu Changming! You can act now!"
Gu Changming, who had remained hidden in the shadows without making a move, unleashed all his magic power without hesitation.
"BOOM!"
Amid another Qi Explosion, Gu Changming, who had merged with a black crow, abruptly grew several hundred times larger.
Then the Dark Raven, whose outspread wings spanned over a hundred zhang, suddenly wheeled around, wrapping Xu Taiping and the other two, along with the twenty-odd Three Paths Village soldiers, in its wings.
"BOOM!!"
Amid a tremendous explosive roar, the Dark Raven flew over a thousand zhang in the