Rustle...
A sharp whistling tore through the air.
Lin Xiaowan came back to her senses and looked ahead, only to see a dark cyan arrow buried straight into a tree trunk, with barely over ten centimeters of arrow shaft left exposed.
Out of the corner of her eye, she looked toward Lu Feng and Chu Youwei.
Though the two had already released the bowstring, their hands remained frozen halfway through the motion, still instinctively clasped tightly together.
"Cough~"
Lin Xiaowan gave a light cough without thinking, and only then did Lu Feng and Chu Youwei belatedly realize what had happened. They hastily let go of each other.
Their lapse was naturally not because Lu Feng had been reluctant to let go of that soft warmth in his hand.
It was because of the power of the arrow they had fired together.
It was far from satisfactory!
Chu Youwei felt the same. That arrow had fallen far short of what she had expected.
Though it had not consumed much Spiritual Qi, since it was only a probing attempt, the return was still vastly disproportionate to the effort.
Its speed was lacking, its force was lacking, and its might was even more woefully lacking!
Setting the bow and arrow aside, if two Earth Soul Realm cultivators joined forces, even a casual palm strike should have easily blasted apart that tree thick enough to require one person's arms to encircle it.
Yet when that power was used in archery, the resulting might was absurdly weak. If used against a person, it might not even be able to break through the protective Spiritual Qi Shield of a Five Elements Realm soulmaster.
An arrow like this could never hunt a Protruding Beak Vulture.
"Don't lose heart~" Though disappointed herself, Chu Youwei still comforted Lu Feng.