The key was that my Blood Cloud Coffin had nowhere left to flee. It had originally been across the sea, but now the sound of explosions rang out without end, like a string of firecrackers going off one after another. It even looked like I was walking straight into an ambush from every direction!
My face went ashen with fright. During the pursuit beneath the sea, the sect disciples tracking me on the surface had already gone far away. Once they saw Lu Dingtian's signal flares, they only needed to turn back and cut me off!
Watching countless signal sword-blossoms bloom across the sky, I was overcome by helplessness this time as well. I found a place with the fewest sword-blossoms and ordered Wang Yan to flee in that direction.
As for Lu Dingtian, I couldn't count on defeating him or anything like that. The encirclement was still huge, after all. If I hesitated any longer, it would be like pulling a net closed—the opening would only grow tighter.
I raced onward, cold sweat pouring down like rain. Granny Sun had gotten me into terrible trouble this time. I had actually been surrounded by an entire sect. Who knew whether I could escape?
After running several li, I took out several Soul Urns and drew a great formation on the Blood Cloud Coffin, summoning all the ghosts back. As for that enormous black fish, it was too far away, and I had already lost contact with it.
Once the ghosts of the Household returned to their places one by one, I finally relaxed. Seeing many places ahead where the sword-blossoms were especially sparse, I didn't head that way. Those places were obviously the most likely to conceal danger. By contrast, areas with a moderate number of sword-blossoms should be the