Above the ice.
Aside from the lone desolate island, there was nothing but boundless ice and snow.
Gales swept across heaven and earth as heavy snow fluttered down from overhead.
Watching the Wind God Envoy close in like a phantom, Jiang Ning loosed another arrow.
The arrow left the string and was still in midair.
Another refined iron arrow appeared in his hand.
Then he nocked it and drew the bow once more. As the bow reached full draw, Wind-Thunder Force surged into the arrow, and the storm power swirling around him flowed into it as well. Faint lightning gradually began to flicker.
On the other side.
Facing the arrow speeding straight toward him, the Wind God Envoy did not dare let down his guard in the slightest.
He had just seen with his own eyes what had happened to the Star Protector after being careless.
Taking it head-on with his fist, he had been shot beneath the ice by a single arrow and had yet to surface.
With that lesson before him, how could he dare be careless?
The next moment.
Facing the terrifying archery that summoned wind and thunder with a single arrow, the Wind God Envoy thrust both hands forward again.
His vast inner breath transformed into ceaseless waves, offsetting the terrifying kinetic force carried by the arrow.
An instant later.
The arrow's force weakened. With a flick of both hands, he sent it grazing past his body, and it shot straight into the ice.
Rumble—
With a deafening boom, the thousand-jin ice layer was hurled more than ten feet into the air by the lake water, while the splashing water shot as high as a hundred feet.
Bright blue light flashed beneath his feet as well.
That single arrow had forced him back a full hundred