Xiao Hua hurriedly put away the sword gourd. Without time to deal with the Soaring Flood Dragon Scissors, he had Dragon Vein Xiao Hua activate the national artifact, the Mountain River Seal, using it to block the two dragon-shaped tails that had not yet been suppressed before him. The self-destruction of the fifth-grade Yuan force Star Lord had already arrived!
Rumble... The entire defensive array shook heaven and earth once more. Everything—mountains and rivers within more than a dozen miles—was reduced to nothingness. Wave after wave of air currents surged into the sky and spread in every direction. At the heart of those shockwaves, Xiao Hua could no longer withstand them. His dragon-shaped qi was blasted into fragments, layer after layer of earthen shields were torn apart, clusters of protective golden light were snuffed out in an instant, until at last even his golden body was ripped to pieces. The radiance of Xiao Hua's fleshly body vanished completely, and he drifted through the air like a fallen leaf carried along by the current...
Only after the time it took to eat a meal did the area covered by the defensive array slowly settle. ~~~~ The defensive array originally controlled by Jing Mu An had been one of the Twenty-Eight Star Arrays, covering dozens of miles. As a fifth-grade Yuan force Confucian cultivator, Jing Mu An's cultivation had been equivalent to that of a Daoist Dividing Spirit cultivator. His self-destruction could likely have reached a hundred miles, perhaps even several hundred. Yet in order to kill Xiao Hua, Jing Mu An had deliberately contained the scope of the explosion. Within the several dozen miles covered by the array, only the dozen or so miles where Xiao Hua and Jing Mu An had fought had been utterly erased. The damage elsewhere varied