"Don't move!"
As blood surged out, Zhang Xing actually found time to turn and shout a warning to several people in the ranks.
White Diamond, who had been charging ahead, froze. Before he could react, Pang Diamond and the others behind him dragged him back.
Before this, Bai Yousi had already taken the lead and flown out of the grand formation with her sword. Though she heard the shout behind her, it did not stop her from sweeping her longsword and soaring straight up, plainly intending to draw the Wind-Swallowing Lord's attention directly above him. Liu Wenzhou also turned a deaf ear and followed close behind... This immediately made the others realize that Zhang Xing had not been shouting at them, so they stopped hesitating and poured out of the formation, rushing toward the Wind-Swallowing Lord's enormous body on the ice ahead.
At this point, the fighting immediately became positional warfare.
Only the Great Grandmaster Sun Siyuan remained in the rear with most of the White-Stepping Cavalry to maintain the formation, while Niu He stayed still, holding the threads that connected him to everyone who had gone out.
Zhang Xing personally brought up the rear with his curved saber. When he looked up, however, he froze on the spot just like those who had come out before him... There was no helping it. Though the enormous creature overhead had just finished a lifesaving roar that bordered on a divine ability and was now weakening, his sheer size still produced an extraordinary commotion. To the mortals standing on the ice, his rough breathing alone seemed like thunder, and a mere twist of his body seemed to turn heaven and earth upside down.
It would have been strange if a normal person had not frozen at such a sight.
Yet beyond that,