Water dripped. The cave was damp and misty. Mu Bai edged slowly inward along the wall, sending out his Divine Sense to probe the scene deeper inside from afar.
After only a few steps, an unusual sight abruptly appeared within Mu Bai's Divine Sense. Examining it carefully, he found a mass of figures hanging upside down along the rock walls, their black wings hunched around them.
He had entered a bat cave. The Fox-Faced Bats inside were enormous, packed together in a terrifying mass.
The instant Mu Bai's Divine Sense touched them, the exceptionally alert Fox-Faced Bats erupted into squeaks and glided toward the spot where he hugged the wall. One startled look revealed that they all had faces like foxes.
Mu Bai swept his arm and immediately summoned an earthen wall before him. Thuds rang out as it blocked the swarm's suicidal collisions. The densely packed Fox-Faced Bats resembled a vast black cloud, crashing against the wall one after another. Within a few breaths, the wall was on the verge of collapse.
He could not sit and wait for death. Mu Bai thrust out a palm, sending a roaring flame of essence surging higher in the wind. It became a tongue of fire that swept toward the fearless swarm. Amid piercing squeaks and shrieks, the bats instantly fell into chaos. Many Fox-Faced Bats caught fire and plummeted to the ground like falling stars.
"It really works!"
By now, Mu Bai wielded Essence Power with practiced ease, certainly more naturally than he did Soul Power or mental power, as effortlessly as moving his own fingers.
No wonder that during the Immortal-Origin War, even with the myriad races of the Origin Realm united in purpose, they had still failed to resist the Immortal Race's invasion from the Immortal Realm. Heaven had