Zhang Xiaohua used the little mirror to draw Abbess Jinggang's attention, intending to retreat at once once the flying sword pierced her back. Unfortunately, he had not expected her to have defenses close to her body as well. That strike failed to achieve anything, forcing him to switch back to his original move on the spur of the moment. In that delay, he lost the initiative and could not fully escape the range of the crashing water wave. What shocked Zhang Xiaohua even more was that Abbess Jinggang was a formidable opponent too. Seeing that things could not be done, she actually resolved to perish together with him. She utterly ignored Dreamchaser as it pierced into the back of her neck, instead spitting out a mouthful of blood essence and desperately driving the Galana Plate.
At that moment, the towering water wave grew even larger, and the force contained within it became ever greater. Zhang Xiaohua instinctively felt that if this wave struck him, would it not smash him into a pulp?
But the water wave was already before him. It was too late to flee again; neither the Flying Technique nor the Art of Earth Evasion would be of any use. Left with no choice, Zhang Xiaohua raised the little mirror and desperately poured all the true qi in his body into it... The little mirror did not change at all under the infusion of true qi. Yet when the water wave formed from Innate True Water reached within roughly three inches of it, a pale blue radiance suddenly rose. That radiance was similar in color to the water wave. As it appeared, an immense suction force emerged from the little mirror, dragging in the true qi Zhang Xiaohua had poured into it. Nor was that all—the entire little