(There’s one more Chapter before this.)
As soon as Misha appeared, He Yan spotted her and immediately recognized her identity. Suppressing Huangyan Lan with his war axe, He Yan forced her back more than ten meters and said gruffly, "Here come a few more idiots courting death!"
His gaze swept around Misha.
Despite his disdainful words, his expression was very serious. It wasn’t Misha he was wary of, but the two others that had been with her, especially Ji Xinghuo!
Huangyan Lan was already at the end of her tether, but when she saw Misha rushing over, she was overjoyed.
"Let’s work together and kill him!" Huangyan Lan shouted, "I’m willing to split the Red Emperor Blood Crystal with you."
Since he was too far away, He Yan’s perception couldn’t locate Ji Xinghuo. Hearing Huangyan Lan’s words, his rage flared.
"I’ll kill you, you True Dragon bastard first!"
He Yan cursed and teleported behind Huangyan Lan to attack again, but she had already been ambushed many times and was prepared, taking a chop from the war axe head-on and stabbing at He Yan’s heart with a great sword empowered with her mastered "Flame Dragon Power."
Huangyan Lan suddenly changed her fighting style, unconcerned with the energy consumed from the Dragon King Life Token, and burst into a frenzy.
The defensive power of a Dragon Warrior far exceeded He Yan’s.
To trade blow for blow, He Yan would definitely lose out in the short term.
He didn’t want to fight head-on, especially with another enemy at his side, so he immediately used Flash Step to retreat. However, Huangyan Lan charged at him desperately, trying to entangle him.
After a few exchanges, He Yan once again gained the upper hand.
By then, Misha had already rushed close.
Her pupils turned black and the tattoos on her face twisted as if coming alive. Her muscles swelled, and her skin turned metallic, as four amplifying abilities of the Sky Fury Green Blood Spear along with the Power of the Giant took effect. Her stature went into a frenzy again, growing over two meters tall!
A destructive aura emanated from her, which even He Yan, a Blood Warrior, could not underestimate.
A disciple of the Dragon of the End wouldn’t be much weaker than a disciple of the Red Emperor.
As she entered within thirty meters, her speed burst once again, charging at He Yan with the Sky Fury Green Blood Spear aimed straight at his head.
"Ignorant fool," He Yan said with a deep voice, a flash of black light in his eyes.
He then used Ghostly Reflection again.
In an instant, three pitch-black shadows appeared, one entangling Huangyan Lan, another appearing beneath Misha, and a third a few meters away, revealing Xia Qingyu’s figure.
Ghostly Reflection was also a method to search for the enemy’s tracks within range.
With no fourth shadow appearing, He Yan immediately knew Ji Xinghuo must still be at a distance, a habit of an archer in battle.
He chose to kill the two nearer ones first.
They were only Fourth Rank Evolvers. Killing them would definitely be easier than killing Huangyan Lan.
He Yan’s figure flashed, swapping places with the shadow behind Misha. His view shifted to Misha’s back, but as if unaware of the reflection, she continued her desperate charge forward, completely neglecting the danger behind her.
Just as He Yan thought this, he sensed danger, too late to teleport away.
An invisible, silent arrow struck He Yan’s face, exploding upon contact with the Blood-Drinking Fury Flame protective layer. Countless metal shards splattered across his face, with several piercing through the flames and into one of his eyes.
"Ah..." He Yan screamed in pain; his right eye was blinded.
"How is this possible!"
He Yan could not comprehend how the arrow, not particularly powerful and without any attached effects, could cause fragments to precisely harm his eye.
From a distance, more than two hundred meters away while remaining hidden, Ji Xinghuo shook his head.
That was the limit of what a silent arrow could achieve.
Being the most covert, silent arrows could be shot with the Invisible Stab to produce an arrow difficult to defend against. However, they could not carry other energies and were made of a material not much different from ordinary alloys. Only by pairing with the Wanxiang Star Pupil could it harm He Yan’s eye. If it had the lethality of a Capacitor Arrow, it would’ve killed He Yan in one shot.
But the Capacitor Arrow would’ve been too noisy and easily detected by the enemy, making it impossible to hit its mark.
He Yan, covering his eye, frantically teleported.
Still unaware of Ji Xinghuo’s location, he feared being hit again, ceaselessly using Instantaneous Movement and Flash Step, alternating his use of Star Power and physical energy.
He didn’t even dare to attack his opponents, nor did he dare to swap places with his other shadows.
Yet, Ji Xinghuo paid him no attention, rapidly drawing his bow three times.
Each shot was a silent arrow.
Each arrow pierced through the head of a shadow and scattered them. The reflections only had half the strength of their original, bore no abilities, lacked Blood-Drinking Fury Flame, and had only half the defensive power of the original. Although they were fast, they posed little threat in Ji Xinghuo’s eyes.
The three of them were relieved of danger and then, in tacit understanding, turned towards He Yan, who was buzzing around like a headless fly, beginning to encircle him for an attack.
Huangyan Lan and Misha led the charge with Xia Qingyu on one side.
Finally, He Yan stopped moving.
After dozens of consecutive teleports and Flash Steps, he was struggling to cope, breathing heavily. His intact left eye saw the three closing in, and he sneered as blood flowed from his right eye, making him appear terrifying. Swinging his war axe and blade, his figure vanished.
In the next instant, He Yan appeared beside Xia Qingyu, only two steps away, close enough to strike.
Xia Qingyu’s body bristled.
Suddenly, He Yan’s war axe diverted to block to the side, intercepting a shattered arrow, which exploded but caused no harm to him.