"Where did such a fierce woman come from?" Nie Jingnian muttered quietly.
Zhao Ya didn’t speak, instead focusing intently on the woman’s swordplay.
The woman’s sword moves were extremely sharp, and her speed was so fast that even Zhao Ya sometimes could not see how she wielded her sword.
He could only see a flash of sword light, followed by the giant bat retreating with a scream.
Zhao Ya felt a tremor in his heart as he watched.
In the years he’s roamed the Jianghu, he has seen sword users before, like Fu Tingfang from Cyan Bamboo Ridge who used a sword.
But compared to this woman in front of him, the sword in Fu Tingfang’s hand was like a fire poker.
Even her subordinates, the black-clad fighters, all possessed the strength of the third realm.
Combined with the sharp and unparalleled sword moves, everything pointed to the fact that this woman’s background was unfathomable.
Zhao Ya slowly exhaled a breath.
No wonder he felt someone was behind him before coming to the Earth Cave.
But judging by the woman’s and her subordinates’ actions, they seemed to be targeting this giant bat.
If that were the case, then there was no conflict of interest.
Yet Zhao Ya still tightened the box in his arms and then said to Nie Jingnian beside him.
"Let’s rush out together when they are fully focused on dealing with this bat."
"Alright!"
But just at this moment, a sudden change occurred.
The giant bat, cornered, suddenly let out a roar.
The roar shook the Earth Cave, and even the dust on the stone walls began to fall.
Even Zhao Ya and Nie Jingnian, who were some distance away, felt deafened, and their Qi Blood shuddered in sync.
The black-clad fighters bore the brunt of the impact, with some of them spitting out blood from their mouths, and their tight net formation revealed a gap.
The giant bat seized the opportunity to charge out.
But at that moment, a sword light exploded.
The woman moved as fast as lightning, appearing right in front of the gap in the net formation and swung her sword down.
With a splatter, blood sprayed everywhere.
The giant bat howled in pain and retreated again, half of its wing severed by the woman’s strike.
But this only roused the bat’s ferocity.
It let out another roar, and the bats on the dome took flight, forming a black torrent charging towards the woman and the black-clad fighters.
The woman’s expression shifted slightly.
In order to capture the Giant-winged Blood Bat, she had planned meticulously in advance, but never expected that in such a short time, the Giant-winged Blood Bat had already produced so many offspring.
Though individually weak, their overwhelming numbers were daunting.
"Form up!"
The woman shouted, and the black-clad fighters immediately assumed positions, wielding giant nets, meeting the oncoming bats head-on.
The material of the nets was unknown, but the net ropes were extremely adhesive.
Bats that collided with them were stuck and could no longer move.
But again, the bats were so plentiful that the giant nets quickly became saturated with them.
"Abandon the nets, use swords!"
The woman commanded again, simultaneously brandishing her sword and charging into the swarm of bats.
The dark swarm engulfed her instantly, but moments later, sword lights exploded from within.
Each sword slash cut dozens of bats in half.
Nie Jingnian watched from the passage, dazzled.
He had never seen such formidable swordplay.
Just then, a wave of bats charged into the passage, crazily attacking the two of them.
By this time, the bats’ eyes had turned from pale red to a vivid crimson, indiscriminately attacking any living thing they saw.
At this point, there was nothing more to say, just one word.
Fight!
Zhao Ya unsheathed the Meteorite Iron Saber, executing the Gale Saber Technique, slaying dozens of bats in one encounter.
Nie Jingnian was no slouch either.
The Ren Yong Martial Arts Hall excelled in dual blades.
He drew his weapons, blades swirling like a storm, the blade light enveloping him, swiftly cutting down many bats.
Additionally, the woman’s and her subordinates’ relentless combat outside quickly diminished the bats’ numbers.
But then, the giant bat let out a sharp cry, giving birth to numerous black balls from its abdomen.
These black balls grew in the wind, quickly taking flight and transforming into bats.
"Holy crap, they can do that? Give birth on the fly?" Nie Jingnian couldn’t help but mutter sarcastically.
Zhao Ya found this guy appealing in many ways, except for his incessant chatter, commonly known as jabbering.
With the giant bat’s prolific birthing, the bat population in the stone hall surged again.
Moreover, these newly birthed bats were even more fearless.
The formation of black-clad fighters couldn’t withstand the pressure, forcing them to retreat repeatedly.
Though the woman fought valiantly, her individual strength couldn’t hold against the vast bat swarm.
But even in this situation, she remained unflustered.
"Retreat towards the passage."
She said, suddenly raising her sword to her brow, then swinging it with a light cry.
The brilliance of that sword light was dazzling, with immense power, instantly clearing the bat swarm before her.
But after executing that strike, the woman’s face turned pale, showing it took quite a toll on her.
The black-clad fighters seized the opportunity to escort the woman, retreating into the passage where Zhao Ya and Nie Jingnian were.
Upon meeting, the woman’s gaze swept over Zhao Ya and Nie Jingnian’s faces, and she calmly said,