When a person was unlucky, even taking a drink of water could chip their teeth on the cup. Clearly, Yin Kuang and the others seemed to have been abandoned by the goddess of fortune. They had first killed a scout squad leader suspected of being one of Gongsun Zan's White Horse Volunteers, offending Gongsun Zan in the process. Just as they were about to withdraw before things got worse, they heard a roar like a leopard's bellow and a tiger's howl—Zhang Fei, Zhang Yide, had arrived. This was far worse than merely chipping a tooth. They could lose their lives!
His voice shook the heavens, and hooves thundered like rolling thunder. A blurry silhouette emerged from the dense curtain of rain.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
Accompanied by a deafening roar, a man and horse leapt from the rain curtain and charged straight at them.
From the moment Zhang Fei's roar rang out to when man and horse charged before them, it had been as swift as lightning. Yet because of the distance, it had still taken three or four seconds. Though Yin Kuang and the others had been weakened by the Fifth Epoch world, those three or four seconds should still have been a long time for them. Logically, they should have been able to react during those long few seconds. But that was not the case. In those three or four seconds, not even Yin Kuang had made a proper response.
It was not that they did not want to. They simply could not!
As Zhang Fei's roar erupted, Yin Kuang and the others felt the space around them freeze solid. They seemed to have been sealed inside blocks of ice, their limbs stiff and hindered by immense resistance, utterly unable to move. They stood there like straw men, waiting