On the deserted island.
Jiang Ning continued drawing his bow and firing arrows without pause.
With every arrow he shot, the arrowshaft stirred up wind and waves, while his Wind-Thunder Archery experience continued to rise.
A moment later.
Xie Xiaoj iu leaped from the small boat, lightly tapped the cliff face with her toes, and landed gracefully beside Jiang Ning.
"My lord!" Xie Xiaoj iu said.
Tw-
Jiang Ning once again released the arrow clutched in his hand.
The arrow tore through the air, suddenly kicking up a blast of air.
The long hair by Xie Xiaoj iu's ear was immediately swept up by the wind and plastered against her red lips.
"What brought you here so suddenly?" Jiang Ning asked.
Hearing this, Xie Xiaoj iu first used her little finger to hook the loose hair from her face behind her ear before speaking. "My lord, I have found the traces of the Black Mountain Army that you asked me to investigate."
"You found them?" Jiang Ning looked surprised, then asked again, "Where?"
As he spoke.
Another arrow appeared in his palm, and he nocked it before slowly drawing the string.
"North Qiu Mountain," Xie Xiaoj iu said.
North Qiu Mountain.
The moment he heard those three words, information about North Qiu Mountain surfaced in Jiang Ning's mind.
North Qiu Mountain lay ten li north of Luoshui County and connected to the Luo River.
The mountain range stretched for dozens of li, thick with towering ancient forests and inhabited by fierce beasts such as tigers, leopards, jackals, and wolves. It was truly a wilderness rarely touched by human footsteps.
"How reliable is the information?" Jiang Ning asked.
As he spoke.
He released the arrow drawn taut to its full length once more.
Tw-
The arrow shot through the air.
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