Chapter 2187

Baha's shout was full of momentum, but it didn't run away slowly when it turned to flee.

Whoosh—

A whistling sound of wind attacked, and an arrow pierced into the ground near Baha. With a 'Bang!', grass clippings and mud splashed everywhere.

Baha's taunting was very successful; it had lured out more than 40 of the 63 Tianba warriors from the Front Guard Village.

An hour later, Baha lay on the ground, panting heavily. It had been flying at an ultra-low altitude in the forest until now to shake off those Tianba, and it had nearly been dragged down during the process.

"I don't believe it."

Baha leaped up from the grass and strode toward the Front Guard Village again.

Three hours later, after Baha's multiple probes, it concluded that those Tianba would ensure at least 20 people were deployed every time they moved out, and they advanced and retreated in an orderly fashion.

In the end, those Tianba simply ignored Baha, and besides, they couldn't understand Baha's taunts at all.

Even, two Tianba had set a trap, preparing to catch Baha and stew it.

"It's completely useless. I feel like those guys are walking me like a dog."

Baha was so tired it was nearly collapsed; testing the waters on the edge of death was truly too stimulating.

Su Xiao looked at the Front Guard Village in the distance. The Tianba were indeed an intelligent race, but they gave people a feeling of being fierce yet solemn.

The Tianba were not like the rumors in the Sera Empire, which claimed they were filthy monsters from the abyss, pitch-black all over, and reeking of a foul stench.

The buildings constructed by the Tianba and the handicrafts they produced completely crushed the Sera Empire; as for the Northern Alliance, it couldn't be compared to the Tianba at all.

Xi would arrive here before long, but it was clearly not the time to act rashly now. The God Kingdom was a Tier 6 to Tier 7 area; running around blindly here would only lead to a dead end.

According to Bubu Wang's reconnaissance, behind the Front Guard Village was a vast forest with a small path paved with gravel inside. Judging from the traces there, people frequently walked on that path; it should be for transporting supplies to the Front Guard Village.

Su Xiao decided not to fight to the death with the Tianba at the Front Guard Village. The reason he wanted to clear this nearby area was to wait for Xi to arrive and then eliminate her here.

But the current situation was that the Tianba of the Front Guard Village were far harder to deal with than Xi.

Moreover, Su Xiao had already roughly deduced the situation of the God Kingdom. Even if he killed all the Tianba in the Front Guard Village, he wouldn't be able to pacify this area; it was more likely to attract more Tianba, and at that time, he still wouldn't achieve his goal.

That was why Su Xiao was not prepared to continue fighting to the death with the Tianba inside the Front Guard Village, even though the reward for killing Tianba should not be low.

Su Xiao even suspected that even a Tier 7 Qiyuezhe would need to form a small group to attack the Front Guard Village head-on.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao picked up Baha from the ground and contacted Amu, telling it to come and rendezvous.

Soon, Baha arrived. Just as Su Xiao was preparing to bypass the Front Guard Village and head into the forest behind it, a loud noise suddenly erupted from within the Front Guard Village.

"Ahahaha..."

A manic and bewitching female laughter came, and a woman wearing tattered clothes with long hair reaching her waist leaped up.

Boom—!

Lightning struck down from the sky, wrapping around the war scythe in the woman's hand.

Thud—

After a muffled sound, the lightning spread throughout the Front Guard Village, climbing onto the pavilions one by one, and finally swept over the Tianba at the edge of the Front Guard Village, shocking them into a fit of shivering.

Iweier stood on a gable roof, the large tiles beneath her feet shattering. She was a female madman when fighting, disregarding everything to kill her enemies.

Suddenly, the crazy smile on Iweier's face froze; a pair of angry eyes were glaring at her.

A Tianba wearing a feathered ornament slightly raised his head, electric arcs flickering on his body, which made his face twitch twice, and black smoke rose from his beloved feathered ornament.

This Tianba very carefully took off the feathered ornament on his head; a gem the size of a rice grain at the end of the ornament fell off, rolling far away after hitting the ground.

At this moment, the air went quiet.

"Fuga!!"

The Tianba holding the feathered ornament roared, and longbows were pulled open one after another.

Bang, bang, bang...

Densely packed arrows shot toward Iweier. The war scythe in Iweier's hand spun, shattering all the incoming arrows in front of her, but were the Tianba that easy to deal with? If so, Su Xiao wouldn't have needed to make a strategic retreat.

Puchi!

An arrow embedded into Iweier's spine. Before she could even dodge, three more arrows embedded into her thigh and lower abdomen—all of them were predictive shots.

As a big boss, Iweier's health points plummeted sharply!

In a one-on-one fight, no Tianba was Iweier's match, but if it were a group fight and Iweier chose to confront them head-on, it would definitely be a dead end.

Unbeatable in a one-on-one, unsolvable in a group fight—this was the Tianba. The Source Power (Drowning) they mastered was specifically used to deal with enemies who were strong individually.

In just 30 seconds, Iweier stopped laughing wildly. She moved between the pavilions with almost ghostly speed. It was fortunate that Iweier had a combination of lightning + wind forms; otherwise, she would already be a corpse.

Arrows pierced the air, and angry Tianba leaped between the second-story pavilions, nocking arrows and pulling bows while still in mid-air.

On a high slope in the distance, just as Su Xiao was observing Iweier through binoculars, four figures caught his eye. The silver long hair of one of them made Su Xiao's eyebrows twitch—it was Xi who had arrived. Her entrance method indeed surprised Su Xiao a little.

Xi did not arrive using the teleportation array in the God's Gift Hall; she had no time to enter the abyss. She had forcibly teleported here by locking onto a spatial coordinate through her teammate's ability.

Xi successfully shook off Iweier's pursuit and arrived at the God Kingdom, which made her gloomy mood much better, but after seeing the Tianba, her mood immediately turned bad again.

"Xi, you can't blame me for this. This is the only 'spatial rift' nearby, and we escaped quietly, so there's absolutely no problem. I said so."

The happy cute girl, Mitang, blinked at Xi. Xi didn't speak, only lightening her footsteps to avoid being detected by the Tianba.

"Yi—you!"

A strange roar came, and upon hearing it, Xi's body stiffened.

A Tianba wearing a dark green long robe with wide sleeves was looking down at Xi from a high position. This was a female Tianba; she sat by the eaves, one leg dangling naturally, sizing Xi up.

"Xi, I'll handle this!"

Mitang took a deep breath, signaling Xi, Old Wolf, and Kangba to step back and let her, the professional, handle it. After all, her Charisma attribute was as high as 93 points; perhaps the enemy would find her more pleasing to the eye.

"This, lady?"

Mitang was a bit unconfident; after all, the Tianba had light blue skin and wore ornaments on their ears.

The female Tianba smiled. She gripped the hilt of the blade hanging at her lower back. This blade was a full 1.2 meters long, with no handguard, a slightly long hilt, a tassel tied to the end, and fine patterns on the blade edge.

Zing—

The long blade left its sheath. The female Tianba's Source Power attribute was 'Qin'. Compared to the long-range 'Drowning', the 'Qin' tendency for melee combat in Source Power was even rarer.

"You guys better handle this after all."

Mitang stepped back self-consciously, and Kangba stepped forward.

Without seeing the female Tianba make any move, she had already leaped down from the roof, her movements light and graceful.

Clang—clang!

Two slashes, one fast and one slow, both struck Kangba's tower shield. Kangba stepped back half a step and spat out a large mouthful of blood with a 'Wah!'.

"Run quickly!"

Bang, bang, bang!

Three arrows attacked. One pierced Kangba's neck, one pierced in from his side ribs, and the last one penetrated his forearm.

The female Tianba appeared behind Kangba like a dancing butterfly, no one knew when. Just as she was about to decapitate Kangba with one slash, she suddenly showed a pained expression and fell to the ground with a 'thump', but she leaped up from the ground in an instant, her movements light and elegant.

Do not think her slashing power is light because of this; every one of her slashes is heavy and powerful, and the speed is unpredictable. Her slashes cannot be captured by perception; one needs rich combat experience to engage with her.

If this female Tianba could engage with Su Xiao, she would definitely order the other clansmen to back off; after all, the opportunity to engage with a Blade Master was very rare.

The female Tianba falling down just now was because Old Wolf had acted. What was a bit strange was that Xi had not acted the entire time.

It wasn't that she didn't want to act, but that she had been the one blocking during the pursuit by Iweier.

The moment the female Tianba leaped backward, dozens of arrows attacked from behind her, flying past both sides of her body, and one arrow even grazed her hair.

Seeing these arrows, Xi's pupils contracted rapidly. She had long since lost her resurrection ability; now she only had one life, and if she died, she would lose everything.

A burly figure blocked in front of Xi; he not only blocked for Xi but also for Mitang and Old Wolf.

"Xi, farewell."

The taciturn Kangba spoke. At this moment, he had transformed into a giant over four meters tall, and the tower shield in his hand was a full five meters high and over three meters wide.

Arrow after arrow nailed into the tower shield. After hard-tanking twelve arrows, the metal tower shield shattered with a boom.

Arrows penetrated Kangba's body, instantly pinning him like a hedgehog. In reality, Kangba had already died when he took the fifth slash. Source Power (Qin) was much more terrifying than 'Drowning'.

Qin could allow Source Power to forcibly invade the enemy's body along the enemy's weapon through the clash of weapons, causing the enemy to enter a brief state of weakness. This state of weakness could be stacked, and in the end, it would lead to complete exhaustion, with vitality draining away at an extremely fast speed.

Five arrows, and a Tier 6 main tank was insta-killed. To be able to become Xi's teammate, Kangba was definitely not weak.

The wall of the pavilion behind them shattered, and Kangba's corpse lay among the rubble. Xi, Mitang, and Old Wolf stood inside the pavilion; the furnishings here were very simple—a low wooden table and a few screens.

Xi pulled the arrow out of her arm. She already understood why Kangba had died. The God Kingdom was far more dangerous than she had imagined; this was simply not a place she should have come to.

"Mitang, don't tell me your ability hasn't recovered yet. If that's the case, we're all going to die here."

Old Wolf remained in his usual lazy manner.

"Of course... it has recovered. Kangba didn't sacrifice himself in vain; he bought me a very precious 2 seconds. Stand steady, we're leaving."

Mitang pressed her hands together with a 'clap', and the surrounding light distorted.

"Thank you, Kangba."

Mitang's voice dissipated. More than a dozen Tianba rushed into the pavilion, and upon confirming that there was no one left inside, they turned and left to pursue Iweier.