Chapter 84: White Eagle

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The barren mountain wasn’t high, and its slopes weren’t steep, but climbing a mountain was definitely not a good idea for a martial artist trapped in an encirclement of thousands.

Even an outsider like Xu Yan could see this, and Ghost King Gate and Paper Fan Gate saw it even more clearly.

“Chase!”

Seeing the opponent flee toward the barren mountain, Zhuo Shaoyu immediately sneered and ordered his subordinates. Ghost King Gate, relying on their numbers, rushed forward in a chaotic mass, nearly scattering Paper Fan Gate’s hundred or so people.

“Hmph!”

Xiao Meng knew that Grand Guardian harbored ill intentions, but he couldn’t really fight with Ghost King Gate. Verbal sparring was fine, but the two factions were originally allied. Moreover, if they really fought, Paper Fan Gate had brought too few people and couldn’t gain any advantage.

For a righteous faction five-meridian innate master, the two evil factions were risking everything. Even if they had to fill the gap with human lives, they would secure this enormous benefit.

Seeing the crowd surge toward the barren mountain, Xu Yan also walked up the mountain along another slope, scratching his head and muttering to himself, “Her tongue is so vicious, she doesn’t seem like a fool. Could she still have a backup plan?”

Pang Hongyue indeed had a backup plan. While climbing the mountain, this girl from Great Pu’s foremost righteous sect pulled out a bamboo flute from her chest and played while fleeing. Although her steps were somewhat unsteady, she still desperately rushed toward the mountaintop.

The clear sound of the bamboo flute carried far. Xu Yan was completely puzzled, thinking this person was in such good spirits before dying that she wanted to perform a death song. But when Xiao Meng and Zhuo Shaoyu heard the flute sound, their expressions changed simultaneously.

Not good!

As both men felt alarmed, a white dot in the blue sky was diving down.

It was an eagle—a snow-white male eagle!

Xu Yan, who was climbing the mountain and looking up to watch the excitement, was the first to spot it when the white eagle appeared in the sky. In Xu Yan’s left eye, that white eagle appeared extraordinarily majestic, with sharp eyes and blade-like talons. Its cry echoed across the wilderness.

“What a beautiful white eagle!”

Admiring the eagle’s imposing presence, Xu Yan only then realized that the white eagle was rushing toward the mountaintop. So the masked girl’s backup plan was this white eagle.

Sure enough, moments later, the masked person who had already escaped to the mountaintop leaped up as if to jump off a cliff. Before her body could fall, her hands grabbed the eagle’s talons. Despite being poisoned, suppressing the poison’s effects with five-meridian innate true qi wasn’t difficult.

“She’s from the Pang family!”

Among the guardians who had chased to the mountaintop, someone roared angrily. Zhuo Shaoyu’s expression was extremely grim, and that hypocrite Xiao Meng looked full of regret.

“Second brother!”

At Zhuo Shaoyu’s low call, Second Guardian Yang Ge reached back and removed his heavy crossbow. With a series of creaking sounds, the sharp crossbow bolt was already aimed at the figure that had just taken to the air.

Innate martial artists couldn’t fly. Once the person was rescued by the white eagle, Ghost King Gate and Paper Fan Gate’s people couldn’t catch up. But the heavy crossbow—this military weapon typically used in siege warfare—was the most effective means of striking airborne targets.

As long as they hadn’t flown too high, Yang Ge with his heavy crossbow would have a living target.

The sinister smile at the corner of his mouth revealed Second Guardian’s confidence. The opponent had only flown twenty or thirty zhang—at this distance, swords and blades were already ineffective, but it was the perfect killing range for a heavy crossbow.

Paper Fan Gate’s poison was extremely vicious. Although Pang Hongyue suppressed the poison’s effects with true qi, her limbs were still weak and powerless. Grabbing the eagle’s talons was already her limit. When she heard the crossbow string behind her, her heart immediately sank.

‘Damn!’

During the earlier battle, Pang Hongyue hadn’t paid much attention to what Yang Ge carried on his back. Only now did she realize with alarm that the opponent actually had such a terrifying weapon as a heavy crossbow. If facing it on the ground, Pang Hongyue could rely on her agile movement techniques and was confident she could avoid the crossbow’s shots. But now she was in mid-air with nowhere to borrow strength. If she let go, she would fall into the evil faction’s hands.

Pang Hongyue naturally knew what the consequences of being captured by the evil faction would be. So she would rather be shot dead by an arrow than fall alive into Ghost King Gate’s hands.

Closing her eyes, Pang Hongyue gripped the eagle’s talons tightly. Whether she could leave Qi Nation alive depended on fate.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

With fierce whistling sounds, the gleaming crossbow bolts shot out like lightning, heading straight for Pang Hongyue’s shoulders.

Not one arrow, but two fired simultaneously!

As long as they pierced her shoulders, even the strongest martial artist would lose strength and let go. Ghost King Gate wanted her alive—a dead righteous faction member wasn’t very useful to them. That’s why Yang Ge chose to fire both bolts simultaneously, aiming at the enemy’s shoulders. In his view, his archery skills that could pierce a willow leaf at a hundred paces would definitely hit the target this time.

The distance was perfect, and the opponent was in mid-air with no way to dodge. Unless she let go, she would have to take both arrows. Whether letting go or taking the arrows, the result would be falling down.

Second Guardian’s cunning didn’t affect his archery skills. However, Yang Ge didn’t hear that just as the crossbow bolts left the string, a low shout also came from the other side of the mountain slope.

“Twin Sparrows!”

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The flying stones from Xu Yan’s hands and the crossbow bolts from Yang Ge’s heavy crossbow flew out almost simultaneously, their speeds eerily identical. Less than a foot from Pang Hongyue’s shoulders, the flying stones and crossbow bolts finally met.

Two crisp explosive sounds appeared beside Pang Hongyue’s ears. Because they were so close, they made her ears ache. At the same time, those two deadly crossbow bolts were simultaneously deflected three feet away, flying past both sides of Pang Hongyue’s body. While deflecting the crossbow bolts, a small stone that had collided with a bolt grazed past Pang Hongyue’s shoulder.

Truly worthy of five-meridian innate cultivation—the stone that originally wouldn’t have hit Pang Hongyue, as it flew past her shoulder, this girl whom Xu Yan considered vicious suddenly opened her silver teeth and bit down on the stone that had saved her life. Then, under the unwilling gazes of thousands of evil faction members, she was carried far away by the white eagle.

Yang Ge was stunned when his strike missed, then immediately turned his gaze toward the other side of the mountain.

He had fired the crossbow bolts, so he saw most clearly that someone on the other mountain slope had thrown something that deflected his two crossbow bolts.

“Surround that area!” Yang Ge shouted with a furious expression. “Someone interfered with my heavy crossbow!”

At his shout, Zhuo Shaoyu became even more enraged, ordering all Ghost King Gate disciples to charge toward the mountain slope Yang Ge had indicated.

The righteous faction’s five-meridian innate master could no longer be pursued. Since someone had helped the righteous faction, they would capture this rescuer instead.

“Not only is her tongue vicious, but her mind is quite dull too. What family raised such a troublemaker…”

In the forest at the foot of the mountain, Xu Yan, who had just escaped down the mountain, was in great distress. Both his hands were numb and aching, but his feet were extremely fast.

He had no choice but to be fast—several thousand people were chasing him from behind.

If Xu Yan hadn’t used Twin Sparrows, the masked girl would probably have already fallen into the evil faction’s hands by now. He actually hadn’t intended to help—she was the villain who wanted to send him to be castrated. But somehow, when he saw Yang Ge fire the heavy crossbow, Xu Yan almost instinctively exerted force with both arms and directly used the second form of Flying Stone—Twin Sparrows.

Flying Locust would have been too late to intercept the crossbow bolts, but with Twin Sparrows deployed, Xu Yan’s arms were once again extremely numb and aching. However, this time using Twin Sparrows was much easier than last year.

Because the little Taoist had gradually grown up. The sixteen-year-old youth was at the peak of his vigor and vitality.