Yet just as Xiao Hua was pondering how to break this sword array, the five-colored curtain of swords suddenly cut off again. The entire night sky was left with only the sound of raindrops falling, pattering with a "whoosh, whoosh." The earlier buzzing sword cries vanished completely, as though they had never existed at all!
"Whew..." Xiao Hua let out a long breath. Holding the As-You-Wish Staff, he hovered in midair with some hesitation. The sword array had appeared abruptly and vanished just as abruptly, and its power had been exceedingly sharp. It seemed even more profound than the Seven Star Sword Array he could set up himself. Had the array not suddenly disappeared, breaking it would likely have taken some effort! If he had encountered such a formidable sword array the moment he entered the heart of the Sword Tomb, then deeper inside... there were likely even more broken sword arrays, and they would surely be even more powerful... Did he truly need to continue onward?
Just then, a fierce silver-white radiance suddenly flashed from the depths of the distant Sword Tomb, glaringly obvious in the pitch-black night. That silver light resembled a flying dragon, and also a savage tiger. It circled once in the distance before shooting into the sky, then swiftly plunged back down. Only after it disappeared once more into the darkness did a shriek like dragons soaring and tigers leaping reach Xiao Hua's ears!
That shriek was like a stone cast into a lake. With a "plop," the stone vanished, yet ripples spread across the water, one ring after another, slowly undulating over the entire surface, refusing to settle for a long while! The shriek soon faded away, but then, "Bzzzz~~~," sorrowful and impassioned sword cries were drawn forth by it, emerging one after another