"So that was it."
Xu Taiping nodded slightly, then gave the Demon Cultivator a faint smile.
"All right, you can run. I won't attack before you leave the valley."
The Demon Cultivator hesitated at those words, but finally turned around, half believing and half doubting. Once he realized Xu Taiping truly seemed to have no intention of attacking, he broke into a headlong sprint.
But just as he was about to leave the valley, Xu Taiping touched the ring Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland had bestowed on him and took out a stiff bow and a feathered arrow engraved with Breakwind Runes.
He had picked these up along the way when he had gone to the Heavenly Book Pavilion to get his blade.
Then he nocked the arrow, drew the bow, and released his fingers.
Whoosh!
With an ear-piercing crack through the air, a feathered arrow streaked from Xu Taiping's hand, shooting straight toward the fleeing Demon Cultivator.
Bang!
In a single breath, the feathered arrow pierced straight through the Demon Cultivator's skull. The Fierce Wind Talisman engraved on its tip blasted his entire head apart.
Although the bow in his hand did not even qualify as a magic artifact, it would have ranked among the finest bows in the mundane world.
Coupled with his peak Martial General blood qi and the Piercing Willow Arrow archery he had once practiced, killing an enemy from a hundred zhang away was effortless.
"Good thing my archery hasn't slipped either."
Xu Taiping put away the bow, his face full of nostalgia.
Both the Seven-Kill Blade he had just used and this Piercing Willow Arrow archery had been life-saving arts when he first entered Qingxuan.
The Piercing Willow Arrow in particular-without it to hunt wild game back then, Xu Taiping might have gone hungry.