Xiao Hua's Earth Evasion Talismans had a time limit. Before long, seeing the glow around him flicker repeatedly, Xiao Hua hurriedly slapped another Earth Evasion Talisman onto himself and fled elsewhere... After doing this many times, the Earth Evasion Talismans in Xiao Hua's space had been completely used up! Xiao Hua looked anxiously at the pitch-black earth overhead, not knowing what to do. Though he could not see the azure eagle aboveground, its divine sense had never left his side. He had fled for a long time, yet that divine sense clung to him like maggots to bone—impossible to shake off!
"What should I do?" Xiao Hua swept his hand and took out the last Earth Evasion Talisman. Once he used this one, he could only obediently be squeezed out of the ground, exposed stark naked beneath the azure eagle's sharp claws and massive wings. Facing an azure eagle at the Foundation Establishment stage, Xiao Hua... was like an unarmed infant!
Just then, with a series of "squeaks," the rat that had been lying on his back all along flew up from behind him and floated in the air before his eyes!
"Ah, I was so busy fleeing that I forgot—the rat was the azure eagle's... prey. I was merely a 'fish caught in the calamity'!" The sight of the rat suddenly made Xiao Hua realize.
The rat seemed to have regained a little vitality. Its eyes were opened wide as it stared at Xiao Hua from every angle.
"Brother..." Xiao Hua said, "I don't know where you came from, but... just run for your own life. Why drag this poor Daoist into it? Even if this poor Daoist cultivated for another ten years, I still fear I would not be that azure eagle's match! If you truly mean well,