"The River God is here!"
Just as Ye Qianfan and the others escaped the Pavilion Office, he spotted a group of torch-bearing people approaching the village entrance in the distance.
Leading them was none other than the Hall Master of the Heavenly River Cult!
"I was wondering why the River God wasn't following the corpses to Lower River Village. So someone lured it away!" The Hall Master stared at the blazing Pavilion Office. "What's going on inside the Pavilion Office? Is that River Demon behind this?"
"That should be it." A cultist wearing a tall, ice-cream-cone-shaped hat stood beside the Hall Master. "The Divination Compass points right into the Pavilion Office. The River Demon is probably inside!"
"Hurry! Nothing must happen to the River Demon, or the Divine Descent Ritual we've spent so long preparing will go down the drain!"
The Hall Master looked frantic.
But before they could reach the entrance to the Pavilion Office, an enormous fireball burst out of it.
And the thing kept charging straight toward the Heavenly River Cult members!
The sudden turn of events gave the Hall Master and the others a terrible fright. The Hall Master hurriedly shouted, "Stop it!"
"Hurry and stop it! It's a Fire Demon!"
"Yes, Hall Master!"
Three cultists hurriedly stepped forward and moved to nock their arrows in unison.
Each drew a strange-looking arrow from behind his back. The arrows looked as though they were made from fish bones, with transparent pouches the size of ping-pong balls dangling from their tail ends. There was no telling what was inside!
"Fire!"
At the Hall Master's command, all three released their bowstrings at once.
The three fishbone arrows struck the Fire Demon simultaneously. A moment later, the transparent pouches seemed to explode the instant they touched the flames!
Boom!!
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