Lin Yi hadn't expected the Heart-Devouring Wolves' hearing to be so sharp. He had ended the battle as quickly as possible, but he had still alerted the Heart-Devouring Wolves inside the den.
"Green Mountain, what do we do now?"
Having witnessed Lin Yi's strength, Gu Chenghu and Gu Man both tacitly looked toward him, as though they had begun to regard him as their pillar.
"We can't run, but that doesn't mean we can't fight..."
Lin Yi frowned, then raised the Bear-Tendon Great Bow, nocked a refined iron arrow, drew it to full strength, and aimed ahead.
The Heart-Devouring wolf pack moved quickly. Upon noticing activity outside the valley, aside from a handful of adult wolves left behind to guard the den, most of the adult wolves charged out.
From afar, Lin Yi saw a dense mass of reddish-brown eyes rushing toward them.
Gu Man's expression immediately turned grim. "Not good. There are at least forty Heart-Devouring Wolves..."
"Don't panic. It's not that many..."
Lin Yi chuckled and poured in a small amount of Qi-Blood before the arrow in his hand shot forth.
In the darkness, the first Heart-Devouring Wolf was instantly pierced through by the arrow, then turned into a flash of light and became two Drops.
This sight brought the charging wolf pack to a halt and left Gu Chenghu and Gu Man staring in disbelief.
"Green Mountain, when did your archery become this powerful?"
"Captain Lin, have you been secretly practicing archery behind our backs?"
Lin Yi did not answer. Instead, he focused and fired a second arrow.
The arrow streaked across the night sky like lightning. Half of it precisely plunged into a Heart-Devouring Wolf's eyeball, instantly killing it.
At this, a howl rose from the wolf pack. All the Heart-Devouring Wolves scattered, crawling low as