Chapter 2186

Crystal-clear water splashes flew everywhere. Su Xiao rushed into the shallow river with rapid steps. Baja dove down from the low sky like a hunting hawk, his two claws reaching forward to grab Amu's two horns.

The trees in the back rustled, and a man with blue skin all over, holding a longbow, rushed out. The loose green clothes didn't hinder his running; instead, they had a unique sense of beauty.

That's right, it was beauty. The blue-skinned humans of God's Kingdom, whether in their attire or their weapons, had a unique sense of beauty. At first glance, they were simple, but in reality, the details were very exquisite.

"Yi—yo!"

The blue-skinned man who rushed out of the trees let out a strange roar and leaped low. While in mid-air, he had already held the arrow and drawn the string, his gaze and the arrow forming a straight line, aiming at Baja, who was dozens of meters away.

Bang, bang!

The slender bowstring vibrated, and two slender sharp arrows broke through the air. The tail feathers at the end caused the arrows to rotate slowly, strengthening the stability of the arrows.

The arrows stirred up air currents in the air. One headed straight for Baja's skull, while the other predicted the trajectory of Baja's wing flapping.

Zzz—

The World Severing Line in Su Xiao's hand tightened, and Baja in mid-air suddenly shifted horizontally downward. The two arrows grazed past him narrowly from above.

Su Xiao's finger clicked, and the World Severing Line retracted. Without needing him to command, Baja tilted his wings and rushed into the dense forest on the left.

Leaves flew everywhere, and one after another, blue-skinned figures rushed out from the trees. As soon as they leaped out of the trees, they nocked arrows and shot.

Whoosh, whoosh...

Two arrows flew past Su Xiao, which caused his figure to pause. These two arrows were both predicting his dodging direction.

Pfft!

An arrow pierced into Su Xiao's lower back. The next moment, at least a dozen sharp arrows plunged into the river water near him.

A feeling of numbness came from Su Xiao's lower back, yet he didn't stop for a single step and continued to rush forward. This arrow completely ignored physical defense. Not only did it have terrifying base damage, but it could also stack damage-imprint effects. If hit by more than six to seven arrows in a short period, Su Xiao would definitely die.

Su Xiao choosing to take this arrow head-on was a very wise choice. If he had tried to dodge just now, he would have been hit by at least four arrows or more. Those dozens of blue-skinned humans were all predictive shooters; the more one dodged, the faster one died.

The sound of the wind whistled past his ears. Su Xiao rushed across the shallow river in a few steps and stepped onto the riverbed on the opposite bank, leaving deep footprints with every step.

Another strange roar came from behind, and the sense of crisis dropped significantly.

In front of the dense forest on the opposite bank of the river, Su Xiao stopped his steps, while those dozens of blue-skinned humans stood on the other side of the shallow river. They stood in a row, watching Su Xiao from afar.

"You, come from, Eastern Continent?"

A man wearing feather ornaments on his head, whose attire was clearly more ornate, spoke. His Sera language was a bit clumsy and stiff.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. After turning his head to look, he walked into the dense forest.

Before long, Baja, who had run in a different direction from Su Xiao, came to rendezvous. As for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, he had been following near Su Xiao from beginning to end.

Su Xiao grasped the arrow at his lower back, pulled it out with a frown, looked at the arrow in his hand, and tossed it aside casually.

The Apostle's Eye in mid-air descended. Just before entering the dense forest, Su Xiao detected the data of one of the enemies.

【Because Intelligence attribute crushes the enemy, 100% of the enemy's data has been obtained.】

Name: Withered Flower (Female)

Category: Tianba Tribe

Health Points: 100%

Source Power (Drown): 5072/5200 points

Hint: Source Power is divided into two major categories: Infiltrate and Drown.

Hint: Infiltrate is for melee, Drown is for ranged.

Strength: 125 (True attribute; due to the Tianba Tribe's racial defect/talent, Strength judgment is corrected by +17)

Agility: 145 (True attribute)

Stamina: 127 (True attribute)

Intelligence: 83

Charisma: 105 (True attribute)

Skill 1, Heavenly Tribe (Passive, lv. 59): Health Points +8300 points; body is extremely tough.

Skill 2, Archery Master (Basic Passive Ability, x): The Tianba Tribe are the darlings of the mountains and forests and are extremely diligent. Every Tianba tribesman begins bitter training before the age of 10 and takes pride in it.

Skill 3, Source Erosion (Passive, lv. 45): After reaching adulthood, the Tianba Tribe will drink "Source Water" to undergo a transformation. Their skin and blood turn blue, and they gain a stronger self-healing ability and will not be bewitched or controlled by mental-type abilities.

Skill 4, Drown (Exclusive Passive, lv. 37): After a ranged attack hits an enemy, it will deal an additional 270 points of damage that ignores physical defense and forms a damage-amplification effect, dealing a percentage of the enemy's maximum health limit, initially 2.7%.

Hint: The damage-amplification effect can stack up to 5 times, with the maximum effect being each attack dealing 16.7% of the enemy's maximum health limit.

Skill 5, Source Spread (Unique Active, lv. 3): This ability has been self-sealed and has a chance to be released when emotions fluctuate violently.

Seeing the attributes of the Tianba Tribe, Su Xiao even suspected that ten Tianba tribesmen with the Drown (ranged) attribute could surround and kill the Saint-Descendant King, Alexander.

The energy within the Tianba Tribe was Source Power. This energy had two attributes: Drown and Infiltrate. Drown was ranged—those who were chasing Su Xiao just now. As for the Infiltrate-attribute Tianba tribesmen, he hadn't encountered them yet, but they likely wouldn't be weak.

If it were a Tier 6 adventure team with a normal configuration, just entering God's Kingdom, they would be wiped out by these Tianba tribesmen; the tank in the front row simply couldn't withstand it.

As for blocking arrows with high-quality shields, don't dream about it. The tribesmen in the Tianba Tribe who mastered "Drown" all had Archery Master x. The precision of their arrows, their predictions, etc., were not things a shield could completely block.

Don't underestimate Master-level abilities. Su Xiao's previous Blade Master only reached x-level after being upgraded to lv. 50. In other words, the warriors in the Tianba Tribe all had Master-level abilities around lv. 50.

There were at least dozens of Tianba tribesmen chasing just now, and they all had the "Drown" attribute. As for those who didn't rush out, they should be some relatively weak Tianba tribesmen who didn't count as Tianba warriors—neither Drown (ranged) nor Infiltrate (melee).

More importantly, this was only a small area of God's Kingdom. Continuing deeper into God's Kingdom, he might encounter more Tianba tribesmen.

After pondering for a moment, Su Xiao decided to let Amu stand by near the rock wall he came from. The Tianba Tribe's Drown attribute simply countered him perfectly. Letting him block Xi near here was the best choice.

Amu didn't need to fight Xi; he just needed to wait here. Even if discovered by Xi, he would at most jump into the abyss. The possibility of Xi choosing to pursue was minimal, and besides, Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Baja would come to support soon.

Amu walked out of the dense forest and walked downstream along the shallow river.

Su Xiao waited in the dense forest for about half an hour before approaching the complex of buildings again.

Soon, Su Xiao returned to the vicinity of the complex of buildings. A gravel road led into the complex, and Su Xiao was currently leaning behind a tree, waiting for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang to return.

According to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's reconnaissance, over 200 Tianba tribesmen lived in this complex of buildings. They clearly didn't live here for long. Although the daily necessities they used weren't brand new, they were things made in the recent period, especially the clothes they wore—the embroidery on them was too exquisite. If one or two people were like this, it would be nothing, but if everyone was like this, it represented one thing.

Many Tianba tribesmen lived in God's Kingdom. They had large towns, and not every Tianba tribesman was good at fighting. More of them should be responsible for labor, thereby producing the necessities of life.

Su Xiao made a gesture to Baja. Baja, at this moment, transformed from the Overlord of the Sky into a long-distance runner on land. His pace was as awkward as it could be. With so many Drown-attribute Tianba tribesmen, how could he dare to fly? That would be fancy, spiral, jet-style suicide.

By checking the hints, Su Xiao learned that this complex of buildings was called "Front Guard Village," located on the edge of God's Kingdom, and its main role was to prevent the Sera Empire on the Eastern Continent from attacking.

Seeing this hint, Su Xiao thought of a possibility: the Tianba Tribe of God's Kingdom was guarding against the Sera Empire on the Eastern Continent.

In terms of combat power, the Tianba Tribe crushed the Sera Empire, but if the situation they knew had been tampered with, it would be different.

The Iron Feather King had once fought the Serpent of the Abyss, and the result was that the Serpent of the Abyss was defeated, but the Iron Feather King didn't kill the Serpent of the Abyss; instead, he made a pact with the other party.

For some reason, the Serpent of the Abyss didn't want the Tianba Tribe to leave God's Kingdom, so it told the Tianba Tribe that the Sera Empire on the Eastern Continent was already very powerful and could not be provoked rashly.

The unknown made the Tianba Tribe afraid to act rashly, so they set up defenses here to prevent anyone from climbing up from the abyss. For this, they even created black mist.

Su Xiao stood among the trees on a high slope, looking out at Front Guard Village. At this moment, 12 Tianba tribesmen were guarding the main entrance of Front Guard Village, and there were also groups of three or five Tianba tribesmen in other directions of the village.

Charging in was clearly not an option, but luring out a few Tianba tribesmen individually was no problem for Su Xiao to deal with.

"Baja."

"Hmm, I thought of it."

Baja nodded thoughtfully; in fact, he hadn't thought of anything.

Su Xiao and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang both shifted their gazes to look at Baja.

"Hahaha, haha, ha~"

Baja's smile gradually became solemn, and he pointed at himself with his wing.

"My space ability hasn't recovered yet. I forcibly used it twice last time dealing with Alexander, and I almost lost my life."

"Just go and taunt them."

"Then I'm going."

Baja walked with a vigorous pace, running among the shrubs. When he was still a few hundred meters away from Front Guard Village, he stopped his steps and focused his energy.

"Hey! You little bastards!"

Baja let out a sharp shout. Whatever taunt skills there were, those were all fake; his shout of "you little bastards" was the genuine taunt.