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 been suppressed before him. The self-destruction of the fifth-grade Yuan force Star Lord had already struck!
Rumble... The entire defensive array shook with mountains quaking and earth trembling once more. Within a dozen miles, every mountain and river was reduced to nothingness. Wave upon wave of air surged into the sky and spread in all directions. At the center of the shockwaves, Xiao Hua could no longer hold out. His dragon-shaped qi was blasted into fragments, earthen shields of defense were ripped apart one after another, clusters of protective golden light were extinguished in an instant, until finally even his golden body was torn into pieces. The radiance of Xiao Hua's fleshly body was utterly snuffed out, and he drifted through the air like a fallen leaf borne along by the current...
Only after the time it took to finish a meal did the area occupied by the defensive array gradually settle. The defensive array once controlled by Jing Mu An had been one of the Twenty-Eight Star Array, covering several dozen miles. As a fifth-grade Yuan force Confucian cultivator, Jing Mu An's cultivation was equivalent to that of a Daoist Dividing Spirit cultivator. His self-destruction could likely have reached a hundred, perhaps even several hundred miles. Yet in order to kill Xiao Hua, Jing Mu An had deliberately controlled its range. Within the several dozen miles covered by the defensive array, only the dozen-odd miles where Xiao Hua and Jing Mu An had fought had been wiped away; the damage elsewhere varied according to distance.
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