"Kill!"
After a brief moment of stunned hesitation, the leading Demon Cultivator roared in fury, then charged at Xu Taiping together with the ten men behind him, all carrying blades.
Seen from above in the direction of the Heavenly Book Pavilion, Xu Taiping looked like a small tree amid a raging torrent before those dozen or so charging riders.
"Shing!"
But as a blade cry rang out, Xu Taiping, lightning flickering around him, left an afterimage where he stood and swept forward with a dazzling flash of blade light, severing the legs of the leading Demon Cultivator's horse with a single slash.
"Thud!"
Amid the horse's neighing, the Demon Cultivator leader fell to the ground on the spot.
"Swish!"
The instant he landed, a flash of blade light appeared in his pupils.
"Clang!"
At the critical moment, the Demon Cultivator drew the short blade at his waist and blocked that flash of blade light.
The force behind the strike, however, sent the Demon Cultivator staggering back several dozen feet.
Xu Taiping did not pursue him. Instead, he turned his blade and, with a swish, slashed at the legs of another Demon Cultivator's horse.
He had already realized that this squad of Demon Cultivators relied most heavily on their warhorses.
So he had to force them all off their horses first.
"Crackle!"
After activating the power of lightning flash, Xu Taiping moved so quickly that he kept leaving afterimages flickering with lightning in his wake.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
In what was almost only a few breaths, another six or seven horses had their legs severed, and the Demon Cultivators riding them fell with one thud after another.
"Swish!"
And whenever a Demon Cultivator fell, Xu Taiping would follow up with another slash. Some who failed to react were killed on the