The chaos in the front courtyard finally drew the attention of those in the back courtyard.
Xu Taiping, who had moved to another spot to draw his bow and nock an arrow, saw the Purple-Robed Maiden stop torturing Huang Que and whisper a few words to the old men beside her.
Afterward, only one of the three old men remained beside the girl. The other two took all the remaining disciples in the courtyard outside.
Seeing this, Xu Taiping relaxed his bowstring, took out a Qi-Gathering Pill, and stuffed it into his mouth. Then he replaced the ordinary dark iron arrow in his hand with the Divine Arrow Wind Earl and drew his bow again.
This time, his target was still not the Purple-Robed Maiden in the back courtyard, but the elder carrying a spear, whose cultivation was in the Mystic Understanding Realm.
Whoosh!
Without the slightest hesitation, Xu Taiping loosed his arrow. It shot straight toward the spear-wielding elder in a perfectly straight line.
Bang!
At the last moment, the elder clearly sensed the danger. He raised his spear and thrust it at Wind Earl.
But Wind Earl was the fastest of the three Divine Arrows. Moreover, Xu Taiping had deliberately used ordinary dark iron arrows earlier to mislead them, so by the time the elder thrust his spear, it was already too late.
With a boom, the spear-wielding elder's protective true essence and the armor he wore were pierced together.
They bought him only a sliver of time to move his vital areas out of the way, leaving Wind Earl to pierce his shoulder instead.
Even so, the fierce gang wind on the Wind Earl Arrow still slashed bloody gashes across the Mystic Understanding Realm elder's body.
The Purple-Robed Maiden in the back courtyard had remained calm when