The old man surnamed Hu was bewildered.
The bandits surrounding him clearly felt like demonic cultivators who would stop at nothing, opening with nothing but vicious tricks.
How had they started using so many Righteous Path supernatural powers as the fight went on?
That sword strike had been filled with the upright power of heavenly lightning and wounded his body. Now this sudden sea of people was clearly an extremely advanced method of creating external incarnations!
Which school's successor could release so many doppelgangers with a Fourth Realm cultivation?
And these doppelgangers were all so strange. Every one attacked with a staff, yet carried scorching spirit fire and fierce sword qi. Every strike had enough power to threaten him!
He couldn't make sense of it!
Just who were these people?!
Having cultivated Heavenly Martial Demon-Suppressing Astral Qi, Zhao Xing'er already possessed tremendous killing power. It was just that, in her two battles since Astral Refining, one opponent had been a late Astral Realm demonic cultivator and the other an early Appearance Realm expert. Both had been above her realm, making her attacks seem less powerful.
In reality, against opponents of her own realm, with her spirit fire assisting and Yue Wen's sword qi empowering her, she could now kill an ordinary early Astral Realm cultivator with every swing!
The old man surnamed Hu had to endure eighty to a hundred blows from a staff that heavy.
It all happened in a flash. One downward staff strike followed another, each phantom disappearing only after completing its attack.
Star-Splitting Shadow-Sweeping!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
The two golden ropes before the old man surnamed Hu blossomed like lotuses, blocking attacks from every direction. But after blocking thirty to fifty strikes, they still revealed a gap, allowing a little spirit fire to splash through and