The Fengling River raised huge waves several meters high, like towering mountains covering the sky, but they collapsed in an instant, and rushed towards the river bank with a force that covered the world.
A moment later, I felt the ground beneath my feet rumble under the impact of the huge waves, and my feet on the river bank seemed to be lifted up a few inches by the vibration of the ground. After the freezing cold river water hit my back like a rainstorm, I shuddered suddenly, simply carried Xiao Baitang on my shoulders, and ran towards the center of the ghost area.
As the second huge wave emptied out, I actually heard the neighing of war horses. When I looked back, I saw countless skeleton soldiers and horses rushing out from the huge waves of the Fengling River.
The vanguard of the ghost soldiers had already climbed onto the waves, raising their scimitars; the soldiers and horses that followed were still stepping out of the waves, one after another drawing their longbows. The sound of the taut bowstrings was like a sharp knife stabbing into my heart, causing waves of uncontrollable palpitations.
After the longbow in the ghost soldier's hand was drawn and then suddenly stopped, a huge crisis followed.
"Hurry up!" Long arrows are not like bullets that can only be shot in parallel. Once the ghost soldiers use projectiles, the area of several hundred meters will be covered by arrows as dense as a rainstorm. Even if we lie on the ground, we will not escape death. The only thing we can do now is to rush out of the range covered by the arrows.
Ye Jin shouted sternly: "Maozi, fly higher, don't die with us!"
After Maozi flew into the air, Ye Jin and I also started running as fast as we could. The dust raised by our feet almost created a dragon of earth on the ground.
But the roar of the surging waves behind us kept chasing us, the screams of skeleton horses were heard, and the sound of thousands of bows and crossbows firing at the same time was like a thunderbolt in the air.
I turned around, stretched out my left hand to grab Ye Jin, and pulled him in front of me. With my right hand, I threw Xiao Baitang, who was on my shoulder, to the ground, and opened my arms to pounce on the two of them.
"Call me!"
"Brother Wu Zhao!"
Ye Jin and Xiao Baitang wanted to turn over and press me underneath at the same time, but I pushed them back.
“Xuanming Ice Armor—” After I let out a roar-like roar, the Xuanming true energy surged out from behind me, forming a hollow semicircle, covering all three of us under the ice.
The arrows shot down from the air hit the ice layer one after another in an instant. As soon as the sound of arrows being deflected by the ice armor was heard, the second wave of arrows followed. When countless sharp arrows accurately shot at the ice armor, I could clearly feel the ice chips flying everywhere. The endless arrows pushed into the ice armor layer by layer, but I could only lie on the ground motionless - as long as I moved, the ice armor on my body would immediately collapse completely, and the three of us would immediately become dead souls under the arrows.
Just a moment later, the roaring waves, the sound of horse hooves, and the whistling arrows were approaching the ice layer at the same time. Now even if I wanted to take off the ice armor, it was too late. At this time, if I stood up, I would either be greeted by the ghost soldiers' scimitars or huge waves that could sweep away everything.
In the split second between life and death, countless thoughts raced through my mind, but I just couldn't see a glimmer of hope.
In a little while, maybe just a blink of an eye, we will be covered by the river...
At the critical moment, Ye Jin, who was pinned down by me, suddenly roared like a tiger and stood up from the ground. The Xuanming Ice Armor I was wearing could not withstand the powerful blow of Ye Jin's palms. I watched the ice dancing wildly around me, and the surrounding skeleton ghost soldiers were shattered one after another under the impact of the ice. After the gray bones and the broken ice collided in the air and fell into the water, Ye Jin actually lifted me and Xiao Baitang at the same time, standing in the waist-deep water and running out.
The ghost soldiers surrounding me did not seem to expect that Ye Jin could break through the formation violently while being surrounded by heavy troops. Just a moment of hesitation allowed Ye Jin to rush out of the formation from among thousands of troops.
Ye Jin carried the two of us at an incredibly fast speed. I could hardly see his feet landing on the ground. I could only see the tip of Ye Jin's toes touch the ground for a moment before he immediately lifted off the ground and rushed several meters in a row into the depths of the ghost realm.
The Fengling River, enraged by Ye Jin, suddenly surged up to several meters high, pressing down on our heads. The ghost soldiers in the waves also bent their bows in anger again, and shot arrows as dense as a rainstorm at us.
I felt the sky above my head suddenly darken, and the sound of the wind caused by the arrow covered an area of hundreds of meters. Ye Jin also suddenly accelerated at this time, as if shrinking the earth into an inch, and flew several meters away in one step.
In just a moment, countless arrows fell to the ground less than a meter away from us, covering the ground like weeds by the river.
Ye Jin’s speed is actually faster than the long arrow
Before I could even get over the shock in my heart, I heard Little White Sugar yelling, "It's about to hit us, stop now!"
When Ye Jin held us both under his armpits, he had no time to care about our directions. I was held by him with my head behind me and my feet in front of me, while Xiao Baitang was in the opposite position to me, and his eyes were looking in the same direction as Ye Jin.
When she said that they were about to collide, it only meant that Ye Jin was about to rush to a certain building.
Doesn’t Ye Jin know how to turn
As soon as this thought flashed through my mind, a crystal green fire suddenly broke out in front of my eyes. I just saw that the buildings in the ghost domain would explode into fluorescent lights before disappearing, just like ghosts disintegrating. Is Ye Jin leading us into a certain building
Before I could confirm whether my judgment was correct, the phosphorescent flames in front of me began to increase. Was Ye Jin leading us to rush through the buildings? Since he could crash through the buildings without getting hurt, what should I worry about
However, my relief lasted only less than half a minute before my feet suddenly hit something. The huge force from my feet knocked me out from under Ye Jin's arms, and I rolled on the ground for several rounds before stopping.
The Fengling River, which was chasing us just now, suddenly stopped about a hundred meters away from us, slowly rolling up the waves, blocking my sight. The skeleton ghost soldiers that were rampant just now also disappeared without a trace in an instant, leaving only a skeleton that looked like a general still standing on the water, pointing the scimitar in his hand behind me.
The person over there is Ye Jin. Is he telling Ye Jin that sooner or later he will have to pay the price for his provocation
When I turned to look at Ye Jin, I couldn't help but shudder.
"Ye Jin, Xiao..." I just called out once, and the tone of my voice changed.
I saw Ye Jin standing outside a round castle wall. I just bumped into that wall and was thrown out. If Ye Jin couldn't stop, wouldn't Xiao Baitang's head have hit the wall? With Ye Jin's speed...
I managed to calm myself down, and only breathed a sigh of relief after I walked a few steps to Ye Jin's side. Although Ye Jin rushed to the wall, he stopped in time, and Xiao Baitang's head only missed the wall by a finger's width. Both of them were so scared that their faces turned pale, and they stood there motionless as if they were frozen. It was not until I walked over to call for help that they came back to their senses one by one.
Ye Jin's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and he sat down on the ground as if he was exhausted.
When I went to see Fengling River again, there was no trace of the ghost general. But I still didn't dare to stay by the river. Even though the river was still a hundred meters away from me, I didn't dare to stay for a moment. I reached out and pulled Ye Jin up, carried him on my back, and walked away around the city wall.
Xiao Baitang couldn't help but ask: "Brother Ye Jin, what happened to you just now? You seemed... a little out of control..."
Ye Jin said: "I don't know why, but there seems to be a power in my body that I can't control. Sometimes it suddenly pops up and helps me get through the difficulties."
Xiao Baitang was surprised and asked, "Then you will never be killed?"
"I used to think so too." Ye Jin sighed, "It was because of this foolish thought that I lost a life and death brother. Back then, I relied on this power in my body to force my way into the opponent's camp, but it didn't react at all when it should have. But by then I was already surrounded..."
"At that time, I was stabbed more than ten times in a row. I was dizzy and about to collapse, but that kind of strength still did not appear. When I thought I was finished, my brother rushed into the enemy group and rescued me, but he stayed there forever."
Ye Jin didn't seem to want to talk about the past anymore: "Let me put it this way! Even I don't know when and why the power in me will appear. This time we can only count as having saved our lives."
I said in a deep voice: "How many times has the power in you appeared?"
"Three times!" Ye Jin said, "The situation was different each time, and it was beyond my control. If I hadn't run out of energy this time, Xiao Baitang and I would have been smashed into pieces..."
"Not bad!" Xiao Baitang stuck out his tongue as if he was still frightened.
Ye Jin said: "The most annoying thing is that after that kind of power appears, my whole body will be exhausted, and it will take at least an hour to recover..."
When Ye Jin was talking to me, I had already circled the circular castle. The Fengling River had completely surrounded the castle like a moat, which meant that the castle was the only building left in the ghost domain.
If Duan Yunfei and Lin Jingyuan were alive, they must be in the castle. But this castle has no gate, did they climb over the top of the city wall to enter the castle
I looked up at the castle wall. It was at least ten meters from here to the top of the castle. I couldn't climb up without tools, and Ye Jin had already lost his fighting ability. In this strange and unpredictable place, I didn't know what would happen at any time. If something unexpected happened when I climbed over the castle wall, I wouldn't be able to take care of both of them at the same time.
I had no choice but to put Ye Jin down. But before I could light a cigarette, I heard a strange noise coming from the city wall.
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Thanks to Doudou and Lin Jingyuan for the reward! (To be continued)