"Shing, shing, shing, shing!..."
As this slash fell, the Blade Shadows blanketing heaven and earth drew from their sheaths in unison like soldiers receiving an order. They converged into blades nearly as tall as mountains and, with ear-piercing shrieks and thunderous booms, swept out from the peaks and gorges, slashing at the Cloud-Swallowing Python one after another.
Wumei and Jin Hezhi, who controlled the Cloud-Swallowing Python, tried to resist, but in the blink of an eye, those Blade Shadows hacked the Eight-Branched Cloud-Swallowing Python into chunks of flesh.
Even those chunks of flesh were devoured as they fell by the Blade Shadows growing like wild grass across the ground.
"You want to kill me?! Xu Taiping, now that you've lost your Spirit Bone, your cultivation is certain to stagnate. If you dare leave Qingxuan, our Faceless Tower will take your head!"
Having reverted to Divine Soul form, Wumei used his bonded flying sword to fend off the endlessly slashing Blade Shadows while trying to threaten Xu Taiping.
"Xu Taiping, so what if you kill me? I'm already a true demon. In sixty years at most, the Nine Abysses will bring me back to life. I am immortal."
"You, on the other hand, will fade into the crowd within ten years without your Spirit Bone!"
"A former genius, turned into a cripple by my own hand! How satisfying! How satisfying!"
Jin Hezhi laughed wildly, hysterically.
But just then, Xu Taiping's icy voice rang inside his mind-
"I am a Mortal Bone."
These words struck Jin Hezhi like a thunderbolt. He shook his head, his voice filled with disbelief.
"No, impossible, you aren't..."
"Shing-!"
Before Jin Hezhi could finish, a blade cry rang out, mingled with a crane's call and a dragon's roar.
Under Xu Taiping's control, all the Blade Shadows between