Chapter 80

In the open space between the execution platform and the trapezoidal dais, soldiers lined both sides. Leading the charge was the famous White Wolf Camp of Muhuan City. Therefore, Buye did not rush in those two directions but instead turned his horse, Red Cloud, and charged back towards the execution platform.

In a moment, they reached the edge of the execution platform. Red Cloud leaped up with a light bound, maintaining its speed as it charged towards the people in the center of the platform.

At this moment, he had no intention of taking anyone away, for he himself was still in another danger.

Ever since he started talking to Lu Yu at the base of the trapezoidal dais, the cancer cells in his body had been restless, signaling a great danger lurking in the shadows. After a few words with Lu Yu, he had clearly identified the source of the danger: the sturdy, slightly dark-faced man originally sitting next to Lu Yu on the trapezoidal dais!

Needless to say, that man was Wei Xing, who had rushed from the Xuanwei Camp. He was not wearing armor but a light brocade robe, which made him look less like a soldier at first glance. However, his calm, unflinching gaze when looking at Buye betrayed him. At such a time, no one could look at Buye with such a gaze.

Though they did not speak, and their eye contact was minimal, they had tacitly agreed: if you don't move, I won't move.

Wei Xing could certainly remain still, but Buye could not, so he either stayed still or moved at his fastest.

As Buye turned his horse, Wei Xing stood up with a "whoosh" from his seat, not chasing after Buye but running to the left side of the trapezoidal dais.

Only then did one of his personal guards, standing below the dais, react, hurriedly taking out a large, black, non-metallic, non-wooden bow from his back and throwing it onto the dais.

As the black bow flew from the guard's hands, Red Cloud had already carried Buye over the heads of the crowd and landed on the other side of the execution platform.

Cloud Horse charged straight ahead without leaping over the crowd again. In fact, when the onlookers saw Buye turn his horse and charge back, they had already hurriedly moved to the sides. Although being trampled by Cloud Horse was not painful, no one wanted to experience it again.

When Red Cloud was ten meters from the front of the crowd, on the northern trapezoidal dais, Wei Xing extended his left hand and caught the black bow. At the same time, a quiver flew over, thrown by the guard right after the bow. Wei Xing's right hand fingers curled, and his right arm extended and retracted, drawing a black arrow from the flying quiver.

The quiver was still in the air when Wei Xing nocked the arrow, the bowstring "swoosh"ing as it was pulled taut, almost touching his face.

At this moment, Buye had just charged into the crowd, cutting through them like a wave.

However, he was not at all relaxed but even more tense!

The cancer cells in his body had completely erupted!

As he charged forward, Buye instinctively reached back with his right hand and drew the Moonzi sword with a "clang."

While drawing the sword, he twisted his body on the horse to see what was behind him. The crowd on both sides could not harm him, and there was no one in front, so the danger could only come from behind, from Wei Xing.

Just as Buye's right hand drew the sword and his right arm was still raised, he saw Wei Xing, who was at least fifty meters away on the trapezoidal dais, release the bowstring!

In that instant, if his eyes were not deceiving him, he must have seen something else!

Not only were all twelve stars on Wei Xing's body glowing, but his right arm seemed to contain a kind of energy that Buye had never seen in anyone else!

However, Buye had no time to think about it further.

"Bang!!!"

The bowstring made a dull "bang" sound, and then the black arrow vanished into thin air!

To most people, the black arrow had truly disappeared, but only those with eyesight above ten stars could see that it had not disappeared but was moving at an incredible speed!

When the black arrow reappeared, it was less than two meters behind Buye, as if it had teleported there!

Moreover, its speed was as fast as when it started, and the reason everyone could see it now was because Buye had also increased his speed. When Buye's right arm and sword burst into action, the large target was easy to catch, and thus the smaller, faster arrow had nowhere to hide.

The arrow was heading straight for Buye's neck. Would it pierce his neck, or would Buye cut it down with his sword?

A moment before, Buye had already activated the ten-star Heart Cloud, and as he swung his right arm down, he began to construct the third constellation at the fastest speed he could.

If he did not do so, he would definitely not block the arrow!

He knew better than anyone that his current speed was much slower than the black arrow. If he did not speed up, he would be like his previous opponents, who were slower than him and were defeated before they could even defend themselves.

The world around him did not change, but to Buye, who was highly focused, everything was happening in slow motion.

The deadly arrow gradually approached, and he was constructing the third constellation at the fastest speed.

There were twenty-one steps in total. The ninth step: the left lung lower star connected to the left lung upper star, forming a bridge... The thirteenth step: the right kidney lower star vibrated... The seventeenth step...

The twenty-first step! Completed!

At this moment, the tip of the one-meter-long black arrow was only one meter away from Buye!

The four-foot-long Moonzi sword in his hand was clearly too long; if he swung it, it would only hit the arrow's tail or even the air behind it!

The power of the third constellation surged through Buye's entire body, changing his aura and even his demeanor.

He made a quick decision, not changing the downward swing of his right arm but quickly pulling it inward.

"Clang!!!"

Buye struck the front of the arrow with the part of the Moonzi sword near the hilt!

At the moment of contact, the small black arrow seemed to contain the force of hundreds of pounds, not immediately deviating at a large angle but only slightly turning, almost grazing Buye's right shoulder.

"Whoosh!!!"

The black arrow shot directly into the ground, leaving only a one-inch-long black feather above the surface.

At the same moment, Buye returned to his normal state from the slow-motion-like state and quickly charged out of the crowd...

On the northern trapezoidal dais, Wei Xing held the bow in one hand, quietly watching Buye ride away, not saying a word, and no one dared to disturb him.

He squinted, surprised and moved by the fact that Buye had not yet deactivated the constellation in his body.

Actually, before coming, he had guessed that Buye must know the key to constructing constellations. Otherwise, how could he have killed three leaders of the Mang Mountain bandits with eight-star Heart Cloud strength and killed Lu Qi and others with ten-star strength?

So, what surprised him was not seeing the basic constellation in Buye's body but failing to kill him. As a four-star Abdomen Cloud strongman, he knew very well the gap between Heart Cloud and Abdomen Cloud. Although it was not a difference between heaven and earth, the appearance of "star power" in Abdomen Cloud had brought about a qualitative change. It was as if Heart Cloud awakeners were ten-year-old children compared to adult Abdomen Cloud awakeners.

Heart Cloud awakeners could only cultivate basic constellations, and although Wei Xing did not know how to do it, he was not unfamiliar with it. According to his knowledge, a basic constellation could not make up for the gap between Heart Cloud and Abdomen Cloud, even if it was just one star.

However, he had seen Buye block his arrow, which he had intended to be a sure kill, and on the battlefield, his Wulin Shadow Bow had even killed Abdomen Cloud strongmen!

Buye's speed was truly beyond his expectations.

Could it be...

Wei Xing felt he had found the crux of the matter!

Special Stars!

Only a significant increase in combat power from special stars could allow