"Bang! Bang, bang!"
Within the vast bamboo sea of Hemu Spirit Fields.
A Blood Demon Ant with an ant's body and a human face was madly hacking at the giant bamboo in the grove with the Precepts Knife in its hand.
"Bang!"
With another mighty chop, it cut down another giant bamboo.
After cutting down this Giant Bamboo, it did not continue chopping the others.
Instead, it began searching carefully through the grove, as though selecting a bamboo stalk.
Clack!
At last, its footsteps halted before a bamboo stalk bearing a long, slender blood mark.
After reaching out and running its hand up and down the bamboo, the Blood Demon Ant's eyes abruptly turned blood-red. It raised its Precepts Knife once more and slashed fiercely at the stalk.
"Shing...!"
But the instant the Blood Demon Ant raised its blade, a snowbright blade light suddenly flew out of the bamboo it had chosen.
Bang!!
Amid a collision that rang with the sound of shattering metal and stone, that snowbright blade light actually sent the Blood Demon Ant flying with a single slash.
A slender figure emerged behind the blade light.
It was none other than Xu Taiping.
Boom!
The moment his toes touched the ground, Xu Taiping shot toward the Blood Demon Ant like wind and thunder, carrying a dazzling streak of lightning.
But the Blood Demon Ant reacted extremely quickly. With a tap of its toes, it too transformed into a streak of bloody light and charged at Xu Taiping.
"Bang! Bang, bang, bang...!"
In the blink of an eye, the long blades in their hands had clashed at least dozens of times.
By the end, their blades moved too quickly to see. Only the afterimages of their figures could be seen colliding repeatedly within the bamboo grove, then dispersing.