Everyone hastily activated their Shifting Technique and began to retreat from the vicinity of the stone gate, wishing desperately they could tap into all their True Yuan for an insane burst of speed.
Behind them was a vast swath of dark shadows sweeping across the snowy ground, with each leap covering a distance of over ten meters. The overall posture was agile and nimble, yet the movements were rigid and mechanical, as if the figures were puppets being jerked about on strings from above.
If there had been only a single Iron Corpse, the group might have relied on their numerical advantage for a fight; but now, with the numbers entirely reversed, a single human faced the challenge of combating three Iron Corpses... No risk assessment was needed to know that certain death was the only outcome.
As they fled, Yan Yu silently dropped to the rear of the main force and exchanged a nod with Liu Longtao at his side.