"Whoosh!" An arrow transformed into a soaring phoenix in the void. Its cry shook the nine heavens, and with its wings beating, it raced after the Flying Cloud Chariot at astonishing speed, rapidly closing the distance between them.
Buzz—the protective immortal shield radiating from the Flying Cloud Chariot shuddered violently as the phoenix slammed into it.
"What a Phoenix Cry Arrow!" Lou Yikong's expression turned ugly. The faces of everyone aboard the Flying Cloud Chariot were equally grim. In terms of speed, the Flying Cloud Chariot was still slightly faster than the Crane-Wing Immortal Boat Cui Tianzheng had summoned behind them. However, Qi Hongzhu's Phoenix Cry Arrows were truly troublesome. When first loosed from the bowstring, they were not particularly fast, but after spreading their wings and flying through the void, they grew faster and faster. After building up power for a time, their might also reached its peak.
Although Qi Hongzhu had to expend an enormous amount of energy with every arrow she fired, the Flying Cloud Chariot could not withstand many more attacks. At this rate, after at most three arrows, even if the Flying Cloud Chariot did not collapse outright, its speed would inevitably plummet from the repeated damage. In the end, they still would not escape being surrounded and besieged.
To Lou Yikong, Lu Xiaotian, and the others, the situation before them was nothing short of a dead end. Unless other reinforcements arrived or some unexpected turn of events occurred, being caught by their pursuers and surrounded was unavoidable. Though Lou Yikong and Fu Lianyue each had means of protecting themselves, they had already expended a great deal of energy, and they were facing more than twice their number of enemies. The chances of escaping alive were not nonexistent, but they certainly were not great.
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