Xi He took one glance at Chang'e, whose tears had yet to dry, and immediately realized that this avatar had developed mortal feelings. She flew into a rage and locked her deep inside Guanghan Palace, layer upon layer of restrictions spreading over it like an iron net. Although this avatar had been born from her origin, she possessed her own consciousness, her own joys and sorrows. Even if her true body perished, she could carry the remnants of her True Spirit and reforge herself, ascending to godhood once more.
By the time Hou Yi rode the earth dragon into the Lunar Star domain, Xi He was already standing there with her hands behind her back. Before he could even land, a sky full of sunfire thunderbolts came crashing down upon him! With a casual wave of her delicate hand, the power of the blazing sun billions of miles away answered her summons. Golden flames surged through her palm, compressing and taking shape in an instant, forming one crimson, perfectly round sunfire thunderbolt after another, each containing blooming golden-lotus flames. Carrying the might to scorch the heavens, they thundered toward Hou Yi's head.
Although Hou Yi had lost the Sun-Shooting Bow and Sunset Arrows, he wore another divine bow at his waist. Its powerful arrows were inferior to the clan's supreme treasures, but they were still rare treasures, no weaker than ordinary Acquired Spiritual Treasures. His five fingers suddenly spread wide. Witch Power boiled around him like molten gold, and with a sharp shout, two golden and yellow streams of energy burst from his dantian. The yellow energy condensed into arrow shafts, while the golden energy formed arrowheads. Cold light blazed as three-foot-long, razor-sharp arrows took shape in the blink of an eye and shot toward the sky full of firebolts.