Let's tell two tales separately.
Let's set Xiao Zhun's battle aside for now and turn back to talk about Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai.
Double Xie's current predicament, described in a commonly-used phrase from the neighboring land of Japan, would be "絶体絶命の大危機" indeed.
Despite the fact that the few hundred swordsmen who had been blown to bits wouldn't likely catch up to Sun and Huang immediately, the latter also couldn't shake off the pursuers completely.
Thus, both parties were caught in a chase, separated by roughly several dozen meters... one running, the other in pursuit.
One side, unwilling to stop.
The other side, not daring to stop.
For Double Xie, their only path to survival was to find a way to lose the pursuers before running out of strength or hitting a dead-end, or they feared not even their complete corpses would remain.
But this "way" to escape wasn't so easily conceived.
