Rumble...!!
In mere moments, the great army abruptly changed direction like a vast, surging river, swallowing the ghost horde charging in from its flank in a single "gulp."
Boom-!!
Amid the thunderous crash, an opening was broken through the flank of the military formation.
In an instant, sixteen banner bearers led more than ten thousand phantom soldiers of the Demon-Slaying Army in a mighty charge toward the Medicine Garden.
After turning the military formation, Blade Ghost immediately called out to Xu Taiping:
"Taiping, what exactly is going on?"
Boom--!
Before Xu Taiping could answer, a thunderous crash suddenly erupted behind the military formation.
The next moment, an enormous blood mirror appeared in the sky behind them as though materializing out of thin air, and a shaft of bloody light struck down from it.
The bloody light struck precisely where Xu Taiping and the others had originally planned to turn.
For a moment, everyone's hair stood on end.
The bald Daoist Fengzhu said gravely:
"Those three Blood Garments saw through our intentions!"
As he spoke, everyone turned their eyes toward Xu Taiping.
Clearly, had it not been for Xu Taiping's sudden command just now, they would probably already have been enveloped in the blood mirror's light.
Then, a bloody battle with an uncertain outcome would have been inevitable.
With no time to explain, Xu Taiping immediately dismissed the Demon-Slaying Army's phantom soldiers and shot through the air with the Wind-Thunder Step.
Boom...!!
Without needing any word from Xu Taiping, Blade Ghost, Xuanbei, Fengzhu, Bai Yu, and Ping'an all shot through the air with him.
And the direction they charged in was none other than where the three Blood Garments stood.
Clearly, all seven had realized that the one tea-brewing interval after Mirror Ghost's missed strike was the perfect opportunity for Xu