With a rumble, more than a dozen Fireball Talismans exploded beneath Xiao Hua, erupting into a sheet of flames. Drawn by the firelight of the Fireball Talismans, most of the swarming ice worms actually abandoned Xiao Hua and flew toward the bottom of the valley... Taking the opportunity, Xiao Hua flew some distance away. With a flick of his hand, he tossed out several more Immobilization Talismans, trapping the last few so-called Fire Mushroom Worms and sending them tumbling into the valley one after another. Then, while the iron was hot, Xiao Hua flung out several Fireball Talismans, surrounding the few remaining ice worms. With several booming explosions, quite a number of them were destroyed.
Such a huge commotion from Xiao Hua naturally caught Fu Shu and the others' attention. Seeing the flames on Xiao Hua's side, they had the same thought he did. They circulated their spiritual power and activated their Flight Talismans, using Fireball Talismans and other fire-element talismans to drive away the ice worms as they struggled to fly out of the valley. The farther they got from this place, the safer they would be.
Xiao Hua gazed coldly at the valley floor. He took another Flight Talisman from his space and stuck it onto himself, just as he was about to activate it, when a black shadow shot up from the valley with a whoosh, flames and black smoke still rising from its body. When the shadow flew near Xiao Hua, he saw it clearly. It was a cultivator around the seventh layer of Qi Cultivation, short and fat. His formerly neat daoist robe had been badly scorched, while his once-plump face and thick brows were now a sorry sight: one eyebrow was gone altogether, and only half of the other remained! The cultivator stopped in