After a volley of arrows, the caravan descended into chaos, suffering grievous losses.
Jiang Feng, the caravan's leader, scrambled up from the ground in a bedraggled state and helped Shen Xiaohe to her feet.
Fortunately, he had promptly circulated his divine power and summoned his alloy scale armor, using it to block the arrow rain that had pierced through his Divine Flame Shield.
Though the arrows had failed to tear through his alloy scale armor, their tremendous force had still knocked him and Shen Xiaohe off the Azure Ox's back and sent them crashing to the ground.
Since Shen Xiaohe had been behind him, she was merely disheveled and had not been injured.
The Azure Ox was not so fortunate. Several arrows tore through its beast armor and buried themselves in its flesh.
Fortunately, it was thick-skinned and tough-fleshed; a few arrows were not enough to take its life.
Putting away his alloy scale armor, Jiang Feng turned back to look at the caravan in utter disarray.
With just that single volley of arrows, more than half of the Great Wind Caravan's clan-soldier guards at the very front had already fallen!
"It must be the bandits!"
"We're dead!"
The survivors had been frightened senseless by that wave of arrows, and the scene became exceptionally chaotic.
"Don't panic!" Jiang Feng roared.
At that moment, a burst of disorderly shouting came from beyond the thick smoke.
"They're here!" Jiang Feng's heart sank. Through his senses, he could see ragtag bandits charging excitedly toward the caravan!
These bandits were around the fifth or sixth level of the Divine Power Realm, and their equipment varied wildly in quality. But at this moment, against a caravan whose formation had already been thrown into chaos, their killing power was terrifying.
Jiang Feng sighed inwardly. This Slande