The fire blanket had originally been damaged, and Xiao Hua had never reforged it. He brought it out now only in hopes that it could block the galloping torrent! Naturally, Xiao Hua placed no great hopes on the fire blanket. With a flick of his backhand, he took out the fire bottle he had never used before. Though his heart ached terribly for the Innate True Fire and other things within, he could no longer care about that now. He left only a small portion in his space for emergencies and sent out all the rest.
He even clutched several battered magical artifacts in his hand, ready to toss them out at the first opening!
Just as Xiao Hua had expected, when the fire blanket blocked the passage, it was like a scrap of rag. With a rumble, it was smashed apart by the current. Yet at the instant it broke, the flames within the blanket and the remaining spell formations blocked the current again! Crackle, crackle... The strange sound was like an old farmer in the countryside chopping firewood. The flames truly held back the current for several breaths. In those few breaths, Xiao Hua darted another ten feet or so forward.
"Damn it, forget Lightning Escape—even if I could use something like the Flowing Cloud Movement Technique, I wouldn't be in such a wretched state!" Xiao Hua practically wanted to die! This flying speed, slower than a snail's crawl, was dragging him step by step into the abyss of death.
Where the current passed, there was naturally the fire bottle. Seeing it vanish into the current in an instant, performing even worse than the fire blanket, Xiao Hua's heart went cold. He was just about to throw out the magical artifacts in his hand.
Boom... A tremendous blast,