"Y-you... your fighting strength... how could you still..."
E Piao glanced at his slowly separating body, then murmured in disbelief.
Clearly, E Piao had never expected Xu Taiping and the more than fifty thousand soldiers of the Demon-Slaying Army to retain such terrifying fighting strength without any pills to replenish them.
Xu Taiping said nothing. Right before E Piao's eyes, he simply put another demon seed into his mouth and began chewing expressionlessly.
At the sight, E Piao froze, then cried out in horror:
"You! You've cultivated the nine cauldrons physique too?!"
The nine cauldrons physique had once been every demon cultivator's nightmare. E Piao could not possibly have been unaware of it.
Without so much as glancing at E Piao, Xu Taiping raised the Water-Cutting Blade, his gaze cold, and said:
"Demon-Slaying Army, heed my command!"
"Follow me! Slay demons! Charge their formation!"
At his command, the vast Demon-Slaying Army swept straight through Demonic General E Piao and the phantom image of the Dark Raven battle intent like a flying sword cleaving through the air, then slammed into the hundred-thousand-strong E Piao Army behind them.
Boom-!
Amid another tremendous crash, the hundred-thousand-strong E Piao Army, bereft of its commander E Piao, had its formation broken almost the instant the sound rang out.
The sight left all four commanders-in-chief speechless.
Only after a long silence did Huo Xuan speak:
"Lei Huo was right. We humans of Shangqing have finally found that Demon-Slaying Blade!"
Just then, Xu Taiping's voice rang out again:
"Demon-Slaying Army, heed my command!"
"Continue marching at full speed!"
As he spoke, the Demon-Slaying Army, which had only just scattered the E Piao Army, merely gathered the demon seeds nearby before once again roaring toward Qifei Grotto with the force of wind and thunder.
The four commanders-in-chief before