Just as they began to break into the array, however, problems abruptly arose.
When Ye Lan, Bakal, and Niu Tian charged into the throng of phantom beasts composed of clothed staff-holding beasts and centaur warriors, they immediately triggered disturbances from the east and west.
The total number of phantom beasts, originally over a thousand and gathered in the plain to the south of the stele, instantly doubled to more than three thousand!
The presence of more than three thousand high-order True Text phantom beasts in this small area of eighty miles square immediately doubled the pressure on Shen Zhui and his group of four. The speed at which Ye Lan, Bakal, and Niu Tian were clearing the path was now akin to the crawl of tortoises!
"What the heck!" Ye Lan let out a strange yell as he split a centaur beast open with his golden mace, but it was immediately replaced by several more.
