As Ali Gujin fell, the entire Black Wind Bandits team suddenly became panicked...
Yan Liqiang, who had shot the arrow, quickly hid himself under a huge rock not far away. Through a small gap under the rock, he watched the chaotic situation of the Black Wind Bandits.
The entire rhythm of the Black Wind Bandits' attack was disrupted. The Black Wind Bandits who had rushed towards Huijiaji turned back, and those Black Wind Bandits who were originally fighting with Liang Yiji and his men also retreated.
All the Black Wind Bandits, like hornets in a smashed hornet's nest, began to search everywhere frantically, but none of them knew where the arrow came from.
In the darkness, Yan Liqiang shot an arrow from 500 meters away and then there was no movement. This made the Black Wind Bandits go crazy.
When shooting that arrow, Yan Liqiang was aiming at Aligujin's neck, because even if Aligujin was riding on a horse, his neck was still turning. After being shot, it was difficult for other Black Wind Bandits to judge where the arrow came from by the position of the arrow on his neck. In order not to expose his position, Yan Liqiang also controlled the power of the arrow and did not draw the bow fully. He only needed to pierce Aligujin's neck and throat. What he wanted was Aligujin's life. If the bow was fully drawn, the arrow would not only pierce Aligujin's neck, but also hit the person behind Aligujin. In this way, once the two people who were shot by the arrow fell down, the remaining Black Wind Bandits, as long as they were smart, would easily judge and lock the direction of his arrow. If this large group of Black Wind Bandits really rushed over to seek revenge, he would be in danger.
Yan Liqiang had even carefully considered his hiding place after shooting the arrow. He had to be able to avoid the view from the sky, so he hid himself under a huge rock.
Facts have proved that Yan Liqiang's consideration is correct and very necessary.
Just when Yan Liqiang had just hidden himself, a group of hundreds of Black Wind Bandits shouted strangely and rushed to the foot of the mountain under the rocks where Yan Liqiang was on their rhinoceros horses. They were only fifty or sixty meters away from where Yan Liqiang was, and they began to search the mountain.
Several Black Wind Bandits even threw their torches towards the rocks where Yan Liqiang was, illuminating the area. The nearest torch fell among the rocks more than 20 meters away from Yan Liqiang, burning with a crackling sound.
Because they did not have an accurate target, the large group of Black Wind Bandits searched the rocky edge area at the foot of the mountain for a while and then left.
Yan Liqiang still did not move, because he saw through the gap that the owl that was originally resting on a big tree in Huijiaji, after seeing the chaos in the Black Wind Bandits' team, flapped its wings and flew up, and began to fly towards the Black Wind Bandits.
The owl first flew over the chaotic Black Wind Bandits and circled around, then began to wander around. When Yan Liqiang saw the owl flying towards the hill where he was, he withdrew his gaze and hid under the huge rock, not moving a single movement.
As if to see the things on the ground more clearly, the owl flew very low, only a few dozen meters above the ground. Yan Liqiang, hiding under a huge rock, held his breath and concentrated. Although he could not see the owl, he could hear the sound of the owl's wings flapping in the night wind.
It was two full minutes before Yan Liqiang could no longer hear the sound of the owl flapping its wings. Then Yan Liqiang waited for a while. After about five or six minutes, he quietly poked his head out from under the boulder and looked up at the sky.
The sky is empty
Sure enough, the owl was no longer on the hill, but had flown to somewhere else.
Yan Liqiang climbed out from under the boulder and looked into the distance. He found that the owl had flown to the top of another hill more than 2,000 meters away and was circling around. With the faint light of the stars and the moon in the sky and the wide view of the wilderness sky, Yan Liqiang could still easily see the trace of the owl with his eyesight.
More than ten minutes later, the frenzied Black Wind Bandits wandered around and couldn't find any trace of Yan Liqiang, so they extinguished their torches one by one and retreated with Aligujin's body. In just a moment, they disappeared behind a hillside in the distance.
However, the owl was still circling in the sky and did not leave immediately. After circling for more than ten minutes and finding nothing, it flew towards a forest in the distance.
Seeing that the owl finally left, Yan Liqiang also stood up from the rocks, frowned, and looked in the direction the owl left. Yan Liqiang hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, spread his feet, and chased towards the place where the owl disappeared.
From the moment he discovered the owl, with Yan Liqiang's skills in archery, he had several chances to easily kill the owl. The reason why Yan Liqiang kept the owl was that he wanted to see what was behind the owl.
The feeling of being spied on in the dark was really uncomfortable. These days, Yan Liqiang always felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at him and Sun Bingchen's team like a leech. Now that he had caught a clue, Yan Liqiang certainly wanted to get to the bottom of the matter.
The owl's eyes were not on its back, so naturally it could not see that behind it, on the ground, there was a person running quickly, following its trail.
In this run, Yan Liqiang used all his strength and almost ran at his maximum speed. He used the footwork and advantages of the Nine Palaces Wind Shadow Step that could increase speed to the extreme.
The clothes and shoes that were already soaked were blown by the night wind while he was running, and the feeling was so refreshing. At the beginning, Yan Liqiang could still feel a little cold, but slowly, as his body began to heat up, the wet clothes on him were just like being put in a dryer. They were blown by the wind and baked by him, and they actually began to dry up slowly.
But even though Yan Liqiang was chasing him relentlessly on the ground, the owl flying in the sky was still slowly getting further and further away from Yan Liqiang.
2,000 meters... 3,000 meters... 4,000 meters... 5,000 meters... 6,000 meters... 7,000 meters...
Yan Liqiang ran for a full half hour until his legs were about to break and his lungs felt like they were about to explode. He had never run so hard in his life, but in the end, the owl kept getting smaller and smaller in his sight, and the distance between him and it finally became a black dot, looming in the sky.
Just when Yan Liqiang felt that he was about to lose the owl and had to give up, the black dot finally came into his sight and fell behind a hill in the distance.
Yan Liqiang could only grit his teeth and continue rushing towards the hill in his sight.
Then, a thought suddenly popped up in his mind - he wondered if practicing Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing after running so hard this time could strengthen his legs and improve his running ability
This idea made Yan Liqiang excited for a moment, but now was not the time to test whether this idea would work. Yan Liqiang set his sights on the goal ahead and continued to rush forward.
Yan Liqiang was running hard alone, but a few green lights in the wilderness discovered Yan Liqiang while he was running and quietly surrounded him.
While running, Yan Liqiang took off his horn python bow and put an arrow on it...
"Fuck you..."
Yan Liqiang cursed and the arrows flew out like lightning. The two green lights closest to him let out a wail and were shot away in an instant by Yan Liqiang, falling to the ground. The other green lights were also startled at the same time and flew away in all directions, not daring to come closer again.
The clothes on Yan Liqiang were first dried by his body temperature, and then soaked by his sweat. When Yan Liqiang felt his legs becoming as soft as noodles and his lungs felt like they were stuffed with several pieces of red-hot charcoal, Yan Liqiang finally ran to the hill where the owl landed...
(End of this chapter)