Seeing that powerful suction seize him like a strong, forceful hand, Xiao Hua felt a chill run through his heart. Even if he forced his way free with all his cultivation, an even more formidable enemy was waiting ahead. Today... was a dead end!
Kong Hongwu had clearly anticipated this long ago. A faint smile hung on his lips as he watched Xiao Hua from afar, eager to see how Xiao Hua would escape this predicament. This was a trap he had prepared from the moment he first saw Xiao Hua, though at the time he had thought Xiao Hua was Taishi Zhanran. Now, watching Xiao Hua being driven step by step into a desperate corner excited Kong Hongwu even more than personally ambushing and killing him.
Yet Xiao Hua's next move left Kong Hongwu utterly baffled!
For Xiao Hua seemed to have thought of something. He suddenly turned sideways and actually activated his flight technique, flying straight into the vortex!
"Eh? What trick is this bastard playing now?" The cautious Kong Hongwu was startled. He hurriedly activated the Clear Sight Technique to inspect him. After watching for a moment, Kong Hongwu could not help sighing. "Alas, such an intelligent cultivator—how did he end up entering the Daoist path? If he had joined us Confucian cultivators, he might one day have become a Literary Star!"
Indeed, although Xiao Hua was currently using the Lightning Evasion Technique, he was circling the enormous vortex as he flew. The vortex's suction was immense, but Xiao Hua's flight naturally generated an outward force. That force was inherently part of the vortex itself, and thus could effectively resist the suction that Xiao Hua could not otherwise contend against.
Though Kong Hongwu was impressed and could not help praising Xiao Hua, he did not know that