Xiao Hua put away the Sea-Overturning Seal and flew another dozen or so li. Within the range of this spell formation, nothing else changed!
"Looks like I can't keep moving forward rashly!" Though Xiao Hua's spirit soared to the heavens, facing the sword formations and spell formations laid down by sword cultivators and Daoist sects over tens of thousands of years still made his heart uneasy. "I'll wait until dawn tomorrow. Once this rain stops, I'll continue onward!"
With that thought, Xiao Hua looked around. Sweeping out his divine sense, he was about to descend and rest in a low-lying area. Yet just as he dropped several feet, his left arm suddenly jolted. The protective radiance around him was struck by a sharp force and instantly shattered; even his Taoist robe was sliced apart!
"This is..." Xiao Hua was startled and hurriedly inspected the area. Yet there was nothing unusual in the darkness. When he released his Buddhist consciousness, however, he sensed a thing over a foot long, shaped like a curved blade, emitting strange ripples!
"Spatial rift!!!" Xiao Hua suddenly realized what it was. He had seen such an extraordinarily dangerous thing in Mingxi before. He had not expected to encounter one again so soon after reaching the central fringe of the Sword Burial Grounds!
Xiao Hua hurriedly opened the Eye of Delusion Breaking. Sure enough, a thread-fine gray radiance hovered by his left arm, thin as a strand of hair!
"These Sword Burial Grounds are far too dangerous!" Xiao Hua could not help groaning again. After examining the area repeatedly with his Dharma eye, he finally descended. With a pat of his hand, he took out the Rabbit Spirit Talismans and placed them separately upon the snowfield. Just as Xiao Hua grabbed with his hand, about to activate