Chapter 66

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Her heart was pounding and she forgot that her face was still covered, she just stood there gazing at him.

A dozen feet beyond that gatehouse was the waterway that led directly into the Mirror Lake outside the city. Yuan led the group of Restoration Army warriors to look around vigilantly as they slowly approached the place. Once back into the Mirror Lake, there would no longer be any power to trap the sharks!

Yuan escorted Qing Gang to the edge of the waterway and watched as the Restoration Army warriors plunged into the water, one after another. When the men were almost evacuated, he turned back to look at them, and loosened his grip on Qing Gang’s neck.

In that moment, Zhu Yan suddenly noticed that something was wrong – those artillery guns! Hardly anyone noticed the muzzles of the dozen or so artillery pieces moving silently as they marched along, adjusting their subtle angles and always aiming at the line of Restoration Army warriors.

A shivering chill rose up from within and she exclaimed, “Yuan! Watch out!”

Standing by the shore, Yuan heard the words coming out of nowhere and was stunned. He subconsciously raised his head to look over to catch sight of the masked young girl and couldn’t help but blurt out in shock, “Ah-Yan?”

However, the instant he got clear in sight, a dozen cannons suddenly ignited themselves without fire, simultaneously aiming at the surviving shark warriors and blasting out a fierce attack!

“No!” Zhu Yan gasped in dismay and rushed forward recklessly.

The cannon fire released the charge which spiraled out into the void with an arc. She jumped across and stepped in front of Yuan, propping herself on the ground with one hand and letting the spell fly out of her mouth. In that instant, perhaps because her heart was racing so fast, her voice outpaced the fire of the cannons! The land suddenly split open and huge trees rose from the ground, soaring and intertwining and growing all around them.

With a loud explosion, more than a dozen artillery projectiles simultaneously blasted in, emitting a deafening sound that made heaven and earth tremble. Such a massive force could have turned flesh and blood to ashes in an instant, yet those flying firebombs were stopped by all those gigantic trees that sprouted out from the earth in an instant!

Excellent! This time, at last, she was in time!

Zhu Yan breathed a sigh of relief as for the first time she managed to block an attack of such immense power with the Thousand Trees magic spell. All she felt was that the bones throughout her body were rattled to the point of raw pain, and her whole person was shaken to the core. She dejectedly let go of her interlaced fingers and released the knotted formation after withstanding the fierce blast, while the trees that had grown instantly also withered and faded immediately, returning to the earth and dissolving into oblivion.

Everything happened in an instant, as if it were just an illusion.

The moment the artillery attacked, Yuan quickly pulled Qing Gang over into his grasp and used him as a shield to block the blast. Although the artillery fire was stopped by the spell, Qing Gang, who took full brunt from the fire, was already badly wounded and fell unconscious. Yuan threw Qing Gang onto the ground and turned around, stunned, “It’s you?!”

From under the remaining ashes of the dead branches, a voice replied in a clear tone, “Yeah! It’s me!”

Zhu Yan stood up from the ground in a dusty heap, peeled away a handful of leaves and looked at him smiling; although her face was still covered with a cloth scarf, her eyes were as shining as the stars. Not caring about the pain in her body, she jumped out to check on Yuan and let out a long sigh of relief, “Great, you’re… you’re okay!”

Yuan, however, frowned without a trace of joy and scolded her in a low voice, “Are you crazy? Why would you come to a place like this!”

Being scolded at the first moment of their encounter, Zhu Yan felt a little aggrieved, “Wasn’t it because of you?”

Yuan looked at her then back at the Kongsang army behind her, “Aren’t you afraid of causing trouble to the Red Clan if you run around and show your face like this? You are a Princess of Kongsang, would you mind not acting so carelessly?!”

Originally full of enthusiasm and joy, Zhu Yan received the scolding from him head on, it was like a bucket of cold water poured down on her and the smile on her face got frozen; she could only sarcastically touch the cloth scarf covering her face and muttered, “It’s alright, I covered my face in time… they don’t know who I am!”

As if fearing that he would scold her further, she said impatiently, “Well, let’s get you out of here first!”

She glanced at the river, which was almost dyed red, and asked, “Is it by the water?”

“I don’t know, there’s still some fighting to be done.” Yuan whispered, “They’ve set up so many barriers in the river, they are heavily guarded, and there are grates of basalt iron over the entrance to the Mirror Lake, covered with very powerful seals – our men have so many injuries inside that there is no way to break through all these barriers.”

“Who says it’s impossible to break through? Watch me!” Zhu Yan snarled lowly as her hands joined and parted at first, and a radiant golden seal formed in her palm – however, just after she closed the seal, before she could release the spell, a sharp pain suddenly surged up to her heart, causing her to tremble in pain.

“What’s wrong?” Yuan couldn’t help but ask when he saw her face change color.

“I think… I think it’s the backlash from using the Thousand Trees spell earlier. It’s okay.” She barely stifled a sigh of pain, shook her head, glanced at the Primus army that had re-encircled towards them, took a deep breath, raised her hands and released the spell into the air; then with a quick downward stroke an instant later, the water surged up with a splash, as if being sucked up in the air by an unseen force, and jetted forward, condensing into a huge arrow in mid-air!

The Sunset Arrow. Using the earth as a bow and the sky as a target, it can pierce the sun and the moon from above and the yellow spring from below – one of the most powerful attacks of all the spells her Master had taught her, but today was the first time she ever used it.

“What do you say, awesome, right? Watch me!” She forced herself to hold back the sharp pain in her fingers and smiled at him with a raised eyebrow and pride in her eyes, “Break!”

Zhu Yan clasped her hands together and made a gesture on her chest like drawing a bow with a full moon, then she released her fingers and flicked them out halfway into the air with a whoosh, and the giant arrow made of water coalesced and whistled out, cutting through the void.

The arrow flew along the riverside, breaking through like a bolt from the sky! The iron fence that the Kongsang army had placed along the river shattered in an instant with a loud, earth-shattering sound!

However, in that moment Zhu Yan felt a sharp pain in her chest, as if an arrow had also pierced into her heart, so painful that she turned pale and was just about to say something when she violently spat out a mouthful of blood.

“Ah-Yan!” Yuan exclaimed in dismay, “What’s wrong?”

Knowing it was the force of the backlash, she took a deep breath, forcefully swallowing the blood in her throat, and shook her head, “It’s all fine.” Looking at the Primus troops surrounding them, she urged repeatedly, “Move!”

“Then you…” Yuan hesitated a little.

“I will break the rear!” She said abruptly, “Quickly!”

“…” Yuan hesitated briefly, but knew that the opportunity was fleeting, and when the Primus army regrouped, it would be difficult for everyone to survive, so without further hesitation, he waved his hand and ordered, “Everyone, retreat by the water immediately and return to Mirror Lake Camp!”

He ordered one of the warriors in the lead, the teenager saved by Zhu Yan from the pile of corpses, “Jian Lin, you will be responsible for leading everyone out!”

“Yes!” Although they were all seriously wounded and at the end of their lives, the Restoration Army soldiers were still well-trained and automatically lined up, with the lightly wounded helping the severely wounded to jump into the water.

“Stop them!” The Governor of Yecheng instantly rose to his feet and said in a strong voice, “Not a single one of them will be allowed to leave!”

However, where was the opportunity to do so? As soon as the Restoration Army leapt into the water, they were like fishes in the sea, instantly darting out along the waterway where the barrier had been removed, swimming a dozen feet away in the blink of an eye.

But when the Restoration Army was still a few feet away from the entrance to Mirror Lake, an invisible barrier suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and the lead soldier let out a shout of pain and plunged backwards, hitting his head and bleeding.

What was going on? Was there another magic seal ahead? Zhu Yan was stunned, unable to think carefully, and instantly sent out another Sunset Arrow, once again whistling along the river path. After this shot, the blood in her throat could no longer be held back and she spurted out onto the ground with a clear “plop”.

However, this time her Sunset Arrow was blocked by the invisible wall!

The arrow, which had gathered the power of heaven and earth and whistled forth, actually came to a sudden halt at the point where Yecheng’s Mirror Lake joined the river!

It was as if an invisible shield in the void prevented the sharp arrow from advancing half a step further, just resting in mid-air, trembling and unable to go any further.

What’s going on? Is that a spell that Master has set up?

Zhu Yan panicked at the thought that the Primus were already riding along the river and would soon catch up with the retreating Restoration Army soldiers at the mouth of the lake, so she didn’t bother further with any thoughts, she pointed her toes at the ground, closed and opened her hands like a curved bow, built up her strength, and shot two more arrows!

These two arrows whistled out fast and struck directly at the end of the previous one.

The three arrows stacked on top of each other, connecting with one another gaining a greater force than before. The tremendous power of the three stacked arrows finally caused the one in front of them that was held in place to move, advancing half a foot forward with difficulty!

“Clack” A soft sound rang out in the space, as if something shattered.

In the same instant, the invisible wall in front of the Restoration Army collapsed in a flash, and the long-stalled warriors swam out of the water like arrows, leaping into the vast Mirror Lake outside the city under the leadership of Jian Lin, before disappearing like drifting fishes into the vast waves of mist.

Jian Lin also jumped in next, and Yuan stood last in queue. He stopped and turned back to look at her, with a complex expression in his eyes.

“Get out of here!” Zhu Yan stood in the ruins, holding her breath stiffly, “Do not worry about me!”

Driven by an invisible force, the Sunset Arrows were retreating back by the minute, and she could only do her best to maintain the spell to keep this passage to the Mirror Lake from closing again – she wouldn’t be able to hold on much longer if he didn’t retreat soon!

However, the power in the void suddenly increased, squeezing from all directions, her body swayed and her face turned slightly white: this barrier was so powerful, could it… have been set up by the Master after all?

“Quickly, go!” She had a bad feeling in her heart and couldn’t help but shout.

However, with that single sound, she immediately deflated the last breath of vital energy she had managed to maintain. The Sunset Arrows, which were being slowly pushed back, shot backwards and whistled back at her with astonishing speed!

Zhu Yan was shocked, knowing that this was the power of the spell’s backlash, but she was caught off guard, and could only watch as the three sunset arrows linked head to tail flew in, piercing her forehead like a chain of pearls! She raised her hand and quickly formed a seal to resist, but as soon as she moved, a mouthful of fresh blood spat out from her mouth.

As the Sunset Arrows were about to pass through her skull, a bright beam of light suddenly swept past, striking like a bolt of thunder and cutting off the incoming attack – the reverberating Sunset Arrows turned into a golden glow and scattered with a bang!

“Yuan!” Zhu Yan caught a clear image of the savior and could not help but utter a gasp.

Yes, the one who had returned to save her life just in time was actually Yuan!

Yuan returned decisively, whirling around and rushing back into the war zone, drawing his sword and cutting down the three Sunset Arrows. The shark’s long aquamarine hair fluttered across the battlefield like the brightest banner, causing Zhu Yan to lose her mind for a moment.

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