Moreover, most of these swordsmen were Bright Sword, with only a small portion at the first or second grade of Illusory Sword. How could they possibly have come to hunt him down?
"This is strange! What are these swordsmen doing? I need to find someone to ask directions anyway, so I might as well go take a look!" Xiao Hua thought. His eyes rolled, and he withdrew the Lightning Evasion Technique of the Thunder Control Transformation, silently switching to wind evasion. He then employed the Demonic Realm Concealment Technique and approached the ambushing sword cultivators with extreme stealth.
But before he could fly near those swordsmen, he saw them suddenly flare with sword light all over their bodies. They flew out from their hiding places one after another, soaring into the sky like locusts blotting out the heavens!
"Damn it, there must be... tens of thousands of them, right?" Xiao Hua was somewhat dumbfounded. "Are they... fighting Dao Sect cultivators? Since when had Dao Sect cultivators advanced this far?"
When Xiao Hua arrived at the scene, he could not help but stand frozen in midair, staring straight ahead as he muttered, "Good heavens, why are there so many people? Whom... whom am I supposed to ask for directions???"
Indeed, just over a mile ahead of Xiao Hua lay a vast plain. Though the plain was blanketed in snow, it was already different from other parts of Huan Country. The snow had not frozen solid. Instead, it resembled the snow Xiao Hua had commonly seen before, somewhat like cotton wadding, piled loosely atop the earth. If one stepped on it, mud and snowflakes would certainly splash up; it was no longer the hard ice of Huan Country, solid as iron and stone!
Looking across the snowy plain, there were actually two