"Xiao... Xiao Hua??" True Lord Huode felt as though his entire body had sunk into a swamp, and the restriction grew ever more like solid stone. Not only was his physical body unable to move, even drawing in Primordial Qi had become difficult. When he heard the voice, though he did not turn back to look, True Lord Huode still cried out in shock as though he had seen a ghost. Enemies truly were fated to meet; he had never imagined he would encounter Xiao Hua here.
"True Person Xiao??" Likewise, three of the five mid-Nascent Soul stage cultivators showed astonishment, as though they had heard Xiao Hua's name before.
Xiao Hua was slightly surprised. He swept his gaze over them but paid them no heed, instead smiling at Zhai Xingzi. "What fine mutual affection. If you use your secret technique now, then Fairy Qiu will surely be left with 'this endless sorrow, stretching on without end' afterward."
"Fellow Daoist..." Zhai Xingzi's secret technique had naturally been blocked by Xiao Hua and could not be completed. Hearing Xiao Hua's words now, he did not know whether to laugh or cry. There were countless Daoist sect cultivators on Cangxian Continent, but who would dare speak to Zhai Xingzi like this?
"Buzz, buzz..." True Lord Huode dared not delay further. Flames blazed around his body as wave after wave of extraordinarily powerful fluctuations arose from him. Xiao Hua's restriction immediately began to collapse. As the restriction loosened, a slender crimson crystal thread flew from True Lord Huode's crown, shooting out like an arrow. Violent explosions erupted wherever the thin crystal threads passed, instantly opening a fiery path. True Lord Huode suddenly transformed into a rainbow and, in the blink of an eye, escaped Xiao Hua's confinement!
Watching True Lord Huode flee, Xiao