Demoralized
Hao Xuan was keeping a close eye on each one of them and realized he had been found out the moment she was about to speak up.
He moved faster than any of them could react and they only heard the words after it was already too late.
"Fifth step to sweep the Eight Directions!"
"!!!"
"Huh?"
She blinked and found Hao Xuan standing a stone throws away from her, in front of each one of them. There was a copy of Hao Xuan across each of the figures hovering in the sky.
"STOP HIM-"
Both the female and male figures shouted simultaneously while attacking the Hao Xuan that was in front of them, managing to 'kill' it just in time.
But many of the others weren't nearly as fast as them.
The moment his blade left the sheath more than three hundred heads were silently separated from their respective bodies while the remaining hundred or so managed to defend against it in the nick of time.