Senior Brother Haoran and the others pulled the triggers of the divine crossbows. Several dusky-blue bolts, wrapped in sharp shrieks that tore through the air, shot toward the ninth-tier flying beast descending from the heavens from all directions.
The instant the dusky-blue arrow light tore through the sky, it seemed to dye the entire firmament into an icy-blue purgatory.
The colossal beast, whose wingspan reached several hundred zhang, was as majestic as a floating mountain, yet its movements were astonishingly nimble.
It merely flapped its membranous wings three times, but the Gang Wind it stirred up shredded the dusky-blue bolts into scattered sparks.
Yet it was ultimately half a beat too slow. A crossbow bolt etched with spirit patterns pierced through its left wing with pinpoint accuracy, blasting open a blood-filled hole several zhang across. Viscous beast blood poured down like a torrential rain.
But to a ninth-tier beast, such an injury was merely superficial. It let out a deafening roar, its enormous body still hurtling toward the Spirit Qi Barrier of the Defensive Array like a meteor.
"Rumble..."
As a world-shaking boom rang out, the enormous beast, with its wings spanning several hundred zhang, crashed violently into the Spirit Qi Barrier of the Defensive Array.
The already dim Spirit Qi Barrier shattered on impact, billions of points of light vanishing into the void like falling stars.
Fortunately, Senior Brother Haoran had made preparations long ago. The layers of Defensive Arrays surrounding the valley supported one another from advantageous positions.
Just after this beast shattered the first layer of defenses, it keenly sensed that a second wave of arrows was coming. It hurriedly flapped its injured wings and soared into the sky, narrowly avoiding the fatal barrage.
Senior Brother Haoran and the others had just fired their second volley and