Fairy Hongxia had never expected the journey to Million Meng Mountain to be peaceful, and she had long prepared herself for bloodshed. Yet from Sword Blade Peak to Liuyun Lake was only a journey of several dozen days, and the sheer extent of the unusual unrest left her inexplicably alarmed. Though Xiao Hua and the mysterious Jiu Xia were by her side, her heart still trembled with fear.
Yes, just as Xiao Hua had seen before encountering Jiu Xia, the soul cultivators of Million Meng Mountain were riding soul beasts and battling the Huan Kingdom Sword Cultivators near Jianren Peak!
Although the scale of these battles could not compare to that between Daoist cultivators and sword cultivators, there were simply too many battlefields. Every battlefield held several thousand, even tens of thousands of combatants. Added together, Huan Kingdom had committed no small number of swordsmen!
Li Zongbao and Xiao Mao controlled the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat, weaving and dodging between these battlefields. From time to time, they were attacked by the sword cultivators' flying swords, and even by the soul cultivators' soul artifacts!
Fortunately, they had a fierce man like Xiao Hua aboard the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat. He easily blocked those flying swords and soul artifacts, shielding everyone as they flew toward Liuyun Lake.
After they had finally passed through the region where soul cultivators and sword cultivators clashed, new changes appeared upon the ice plains.
Earlier, Fairy Hongxia had flown in from the direction of Liuyun Lake. Although she had been in a great hurry, they remembered that beneath the flying boat there had only been desolate ridges and ice plains, with no Huan Kingdom swordsmen in sight. Yet now, countless figures moved below them. There were even crude wooden houses and sheds erected beside the ice lake.