Retrieving the Arrow

Zhi Buyi could not cast a technique with his left hand and a spell with his right, and neither could the Grand Empress Dowager.

When the Water Mirror Technique stopped, the Grand Empress Dowager had only the arrow she could sense.

She used the Heaven-Shaking Arrow's ability to seek out enemies to establish a basic position, and prepared to shoot her opponent dead in a single strike.

"Three, two, one!"

She counted silently in her heart.

When the countdown ended, the Grand Empress Dowager also channeled her Law Power.

A wisp of purple Law Power for controlling treasures from afar flashed into existence, then passed through the Palace of Peace and Happiness and plunged into the distant Yang Mausoleum.

When the Law Power arrived, it would deliver a strike with the full force of the Grand Empress Dowager, just as she had previously used the Heaven-Shaking Arrow to blast apart the tomb intruder.

But this time, she did not feel her target being blasted apart.

Instead, the Grand Empress Dowager sensed a surge of Law Power entering the Heaven-Shaking Arrow, directly contending with her for control.

"Go!"

The Grand Empress Dowager sent out another surge of Law Power, and a touch of fear appeared on her face.

Losing the Heaven-Shaking Arrow was not the most frightening possibility. What frightened her most was that her opponent might use her Law Power as a guide to lock onto her through the arrow.

Although great cultivators like the Immortal Court's freak Nezha, who could use the Heaven and Earth Bow and Heaven-Shaking Arrow to pierce through a thousand li of space, were rare in the world, certain top-tier great cultivators could indeed control treasures from dozens or hundreds of li away.

Chang'an City was far from the Yang Mausoleum; a galloping horse would