Seeing the powerful suction seize him like a strong, forceful hand, Xiao Hua felt a chill in his heart. Even if he unleashed his full cultivation and forcibly broke free of this suction, an even more formidable enemy still awaited him 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 believed Xiao Hua to be Taishi Zhanran. Now, seeing Xiao Hua forced step by step into a desperate corner excited Kong Hongwu even more than personally ambushing and killing him.
Yet Xiao Hua's next action 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 into the vortex!
"Eh? What trick is this bastard trying now?" The cautious Kong Hongwu was startled. He hurriedly activated the Clear Sight Technique to inspect him. After watching for a while, Kong Hongwu could not help sighing. "Alas, how could such an intelligent cultivator have entered the Daoist sect? If he had joined us Confucian cultivators, he might well have become a literary star someday!"
Indeed, although Xiao Hua was currently using the Lightning Evasion Technique, he was flying around the enormous vortex. The vortex's suction was certainly immense, yet as Xiao Hua flew, he naturally generated an outward force. This force was inherently part of the vortex itself, and thus it 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