This time, it was a probing attack. The number of Nine Nether Nether Soldiers who had mastered multiple Impact Arrows and could deploy Buddha Kingdom Worlds had not only increased considerably, but the soldiers skilled in multiple Impact Arrows had also made clear progress in their archery. For example, they could now fire many more consecutive arrows, and some had even mastered Impact Arrows formed from six arrowheads—in other words, Five Consecutive Arrow Strikes. Their skill with this technique was already not far behind Chi Xue and the others'.
Of course, the Nine Nether Nether Soldiers had mastered only Death Nether Qi, so they still couldn't use Explosive Impact Arrows. And single-energy Impact Arrows were still somewhat weaker than Explosive Impact Arrows.
Even so, the Nine Nether Nether Soldiers' overall strength—and especially their attack power—had risen by a wide margin. Naturally, that put much greater pressure on Chi Xue and the others.
Yet after judging the situation, Chi Xue and the others weren't worried. If anything, they felt relieved. They knew that relying on archery and Buddha Kingdom Worlds alone wasn't enough to threaten them. That wasn't just because their own archery had improved considerably over the years. More importantly, Ling Tian's avatar had led many cultivators in setting up several additional formations. Chi Xue and the others were confident that every formation they lost would take several Nine Nether Nether Soldiers with it. That would make the pressure on them lighter and lighter, until they could withstand this probing attack without all their formations being destroyed. In other words, they were confident they wouldn't have to abandon the formations and be driven into circling the Demon God Forbidden Ground with the Nine Nether Nether Soldiers.
With that much confidence, Chi Xue and the others had nothing to worry about.