"Damn it..." Xiao Hua's expression changed drastically. This familiar shudder let him see the crisis barring his path and suddenly understand many things. "The Demon Emperors are truly too cunning! No wonder that during these past months of war against the Void cultivators, they only sent Devil Lords to fight and never showed themselves. It was not because they disdained fighting Dao Transformation cultivators! They feared the Demon Blade Shi in this Xiao's hand! They have lain in ambush here for months, waiting for this Xiao to show himself so they could kill this Xiao in one stroke and seize Shi together! Thus removing the final obstacle to their conquest of the Void..."
"But..." Xiao Hua was again somewhat puzzled. "How did they know this Xiao would definitely come to the southwest? Had this Xiao not understood divination and known that the Southwest frontier was danger within danger, prompting me to rush here, would they not have been waiting by a tree stump for a hare, only for it all to come to nothing?"
"Alas, divination brings success, and divination brings defeat!" Xiao Hua seemed to understand something more. It was just like Jiu Xia's expression when she saw Xiao Hua take out grain seeds in Million Meng Mountain all those years ago. His appearance here was both cause and effect! Cause and effect simply could not be clearly distinguished.
With that thought, Xiao Hua did not hesitate and was about to flee beneath the World Protecting Great Formation! Alas, "Wuwu..." A crazed wailing suddenly arose from nowhere. Directly beneath Xiao Hua, within the World Protecting Great Formation, countless thumb-sized bubbles abruptly surfaced amid layer after layer of crimson flames. The bubbles burst in an instant, and threads of silver-black demonic light shot out from within. The moment these demonic