Seeing the Light Beast reach the cave entrance, with the Heavenly Horse following close behind, Hawk Owl, struggling to rise from where it had fallen against the stone wall, no longer had time to use its divine abilities. Ao Shuai and the Mulu King could not catch up for the moment either. Prince Haitian, who had initially shown himself, seemed to have hidden away somewhere after realizing the situation had turned bad. It appeared that no demon or human remained who could stop the Light Beast and Xiao Hua from fleeing.
Yet Xiao Hua suddenly felt a warning stir in his heart. He looked in puzzlement at Hawk Owl, which still beat its wings but showed not the slightest urgency. Then he saw that not a single drop of water was flowing from the entrance where water had previously cascaded down like a waterfall, and he hurriedly shouted, "Senior, watch the entrance..."
Yes, Nine Heavens Superior had been tangling with the Light Beast all along. Then where was Clear Rain Superior, who had been with Nine Heavens Superior? Needless to say, he must have been lying in ambush at the entrance, waiting to strike the Light Beast!
Sure enough, Xiao Hua's voice had barely fallen when a rush of "crash, crash" sounded, and a stream of clear spring water flowed out from the entrance once more. The spring water looked crystalline, but the instant the Light Beast's radiance touched it, a sizzling sound erupted. The radiance that even black mist could not obscure was completely corroded away within that spring water!
The Light Beast was horrified and retreated at top speed as though it had seen a ghost!
Not only did clear spring water spray from the entrance through which the Light Beast had charged, but the other nine entrances