Thousand-Jun—one jun being thirty catties—ant a single arrow shot forth with the force of thirty thousand catties. If a simultaneous volley of fifty such arrows struck even a master of the Five Realms Inner Strength like Yang Luochen, death would be certain.
Who could have expected that tonight, Yang Luochen would not be in his own courtyard? Instead, he was with the three Shopkeepers at Store Manager Qin Sifan’s residence. This also ant that the Divine Force Crossbows prepared for Second Shopkeeper Zhang Yuanhai’s and Third Shopkeeper Cao Shouxiong’s courtyards missed their primary targets. It wasn’t a complete miss, however. From the sounds of it, Third Shopkeeper Cao Shouxiong’s disciple Lan Fuxi was hit and was almost certainly dood.
Yet, not a single Shopkeeper had died, and Yang Luochen was unhard, which ant Xie Qingfeng’s calculations were completely off. Although news of a death had co from dicine King Hall’s Hundred Herbs Courtyard—a Fourth Realm master had perished—the fact that twenty Divine Force Crossbows firing at once had only killed a single Fourth Realm expert fell far short of Xie Qingfeng’s expectations.
After firing the arrows in its channel, the Divine Force Crossbow takes four or five breaths at the quickest to reload...
Xie Qingfeng looked towards the Divine Crossbown from Firewood Iron Shop in other directions, his mind calm. Fortunately, I have a backup plan.
Before setting out, he had told his n that if the first wave didn’t achieve maximum effect, they should wait until Yang Luochen was fully exposed, then concentrate all twenty Divine Force Crossbows on him alone.
Once dicine King Hall’s most formidable guardian master was dead, the rest would be easy. As the fourth-ranked expert in the city, supported by the shop’s Divine Force Crossbown and other masters, achieving a clean sweep would require little effort.
One breath... Two breaths...
As Xie Qingfeng ntally counted the reloading ti for the Divine Force Crossbows, a sharp sound of sothing tearing through the air suddenly ca from dicine King Hall!
WHOOSH!
Shockingly, a Sky-Piercing Arrow shot from Chen Ku’s courtyard traversed five li, directly striking the Divine Force Crossbowman aiming at Chen Ku’s residence.
What? Chen Ku wasn’t killed either! And he possesses such an Archery Technique? Xie Qingfeng wondered.
It turned out that as soon as Chen Ku’s long howl had roused everyone in the hall and alerted them to the enemy, he had unhesitatingly retrieved the Purple-Gold Heavenly Wolf Bow from his Storage Bag.
Through Night Vision and Golden Eyes Hundred Li, he instantly spotted the locations of all twenty crossbown beyond the ruined walls.
Without a mont’s delay, he drew his bow and nocked an arrow!
He effortlessly drew the five-thousand-catty bow to a full moon, employing the Sky Eagle Eight Arrows and Heart-Piercing Demon Bow Force.
The Divine Crossbowman squatting on the eaves was still reloading a bolt. He heard the WHOOSH, looked up, and saw an arrow, like a shooting star, suddenly appear before his eyes, magnifying in an instant.
Then, his world turned blood-red.
Tumbling from the eaves with the Divine Force Crossbow, he was shot dead on the spot.
This man!!
Before Xie Qingfeng could react, Chen Ku, having killed the Divine Force Crossbowman targeting his courtyard with a single arrow, shouted thunderously towards the Guardian Hall, "Instructor Chai, the Divine Force Crossbown are five li away! I’ll report their positions! Let’s work together and eliminate them first!"
As he spoke, he drew his bow and nocked another arrow, aiming at another Divine Force Crossbowman. He suddenly released the bowstring, and the arrow streaked forth like a shooting star while he simultaneously called out a series of locations, "Three crossbown five li away, due north in the Zi direction! Four crossbown four li away, east in the Chen direction! Two each in the Wei, Shen, You, and Xu directions..."
The Guardian Hall had also collapsed under the assault, with over twenty guards killed or wounded, yet Chai Bao was unscathed. As an archer of dicine King Hall, he naturally possessed a sharper reaction to the sound of arrows cutting through the air than others. Thus, he had dodged all the arrows at the first sign of danger.
Currently hiding in the shadows behind a wall, still shocked by the Divine Force Crossbow bolts embedded in the ground around him, he suddenly heard Chen Ku’s two successive calls. The first warned of the enemy attack, identifying them as from Firewood Iron Shop; the second imdiately reported the positions of Firewood Iron Shop’s crossbown.
Instantly, Chai Bao didn’t waste ti pondering how Chen Ku knew the precise locations of the Firewood Iron Shop’s crossbown. He instinctively trusted the young man, earmarked as the shop’s True Seedling, and nimbly rolled towards where his Eagle-Pulling Bow hung. Looking up at several elevated vantage points outside dicine King Hall, he indeed spotted three crossbown on a rooftop in the northern Zi direction. Without a mont’s hesitation, he drew his bow and fired three arrows in a triangular formation!
He was a Fourth Realm master archer, the city’s ninth-ranked expert, wielding his great achievent level Sky Eagle Archery thod and Heart-Piercing Demon Bow Force!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The fired arrows, like cannonballs, were several tis more devastatingly powerful than the bolts from a Divine Force Crossbow!
They instantly struck the three crossbown. The Heart-Piercing Demon Bow Force embedded in the arrows caused their chests to explode, killing them on the spot!
anwhile, Yang Luochen had also heard Chen Ku’s voice and witnessed him kill a crossbowman. He felt both shocked and delighted. He was shocked and angered that Chai Bao, that rascal, had secretly taught his disciple everything while openly refusing to take on new pupils. His delight stemd from seeing Chen Ku’s Sky Eagle Eight Arrows and Heart-Piercing Demon Bow Force fully unleashing their Minor Achievent level power.
He then saw Chai Bao take down three more crossbown with three arrows and roared with delight, "Well done!"
At that mont, using the positions Chen Ku reported, he also imdiately located Xie Qingfeng himself, perched on a rooftop five li away, though he was just a small black dot in the distance.
Yang Luochen swiftly returned to Jinshi Academy, grabbed his Water-Fire Dragon Head Staff, and charged towards Xie Qingfeng, roaring, "Xie boy! I’ve found you! Tonight, it won’t be your Firewood Iron Shop annihilating my dicine King Hall, but dicine King Hall wiping out your Firewood Iron Shop!"
On the distant rooftop, Xie Qingfeng’s expression changed drastically, his face paling in shock as he saw four of his twenty Divine Force Crossbown die within a re two breaths. His gaze locked onto Chen Ku’s courtyard, and he commanded sharply, "Xie Qi, hurry! Kill that boy!"
He had already considered Chen Ku a significant threat, even assigning two Divine Force Crossbown specifically to deal with him. He hadn’t expected that a simultaneous volley from two Divine Force Crossbows would not only fail to kill Chen Ku silently but would allow him to react, use his superb Archery Technique to instantly kill one of the crossbown, and even reveal all their positions to Chai Bao, the city’s ninth-ranked expert and Divine Archer.
In an instant, his formidable assault group, the Divine Force Crossbown, had lost one-fifth of its strength. More importantly, now that their positions were exposed, Yang Luochen and Chai Bao knew from which directions to expect attacks and how to evade them.
It was all because of Chen Ku!
With just a few words and a single arrow, Chen Ku had reduced the ninety percent chance of success for his surprise attack—his plan to completely annihilate dicine King Hall tonight—by a staggering thirty to forty percent!
"Quick! Xie Qi, take your n and storm in! Kill Chen Ku first!" Xie Qingfeng urged.
"Understood!"
Xie Qi, one of the four Fourth Realm Experts from the Xie Family who had been lying in wait two or three li from dicine King Hall, sprang into action. Employing his movent technique, he lunged straight toward Chen Ku’s small courtyard.
Firewood Iron Shop had a total of four Fourth Realm Experts. Two of them were the Xie father and son; the other two were the elderly guardian Hong Tingshan and this Xie Qi. He was an adopted son Xie Wenyuan had taken in years ago and was Firewood Iron Shop’s most trusted assassin.
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