Xiao Hua's heart trembled with unease. He wanted to hide behind the ice blocks and evade the ice worms' attack, but suddenly sensed a scorching aura above his head. When he looked up, he was greatly startled. Of the several red flying insects that had been in front of the ice worms just now, one had somehow flown above him!
The red flying insect's black-and-red eyes stared straight at Xiao Hua. Though Xiao Hua could not meet its gaze as he would a person's, he knew that the insect had likely discovered him. Immediately afterward, a buzzing reached his ears. When Xiao Hua turned to look, a swarm of ice worms was flying toward the hollow where he stood.
Xiao Hua suddenly understood. It had to be the heat emitted by this nameless flying insect that had drawn the ice worms over. But... was this unknown insect also an ice worm? Li Xiaowen had not seemed to mention it.
Though Xiao Hua's mind raced, he did not dare slow his actions. He had just seen what happened when an ice worm struck Fu Shu, and even cultivators at the Qi Cultivation fourth layer such as Li Xiaowen feared them terribly. He certainly did not dare let the ice worms get close. His eyes swept around, and he activated his magic power, his body shooting rapidly to one side. At this moment, he dared not hold anything back; his flying speed was even a few degrees faster than that of an eleventh layer of Qi Cultivation cultivator!
Xiao Hua was unnoticed when still, but the instant he moved, the ice worms discovered him. Some of the ice worms that had originally been flying toward the red insect split off and chased after Xiao Hua. Yet this took only a moment. As