325: Chapter 214: Fireworks Everywhere (Please Subscribe) 325: Chapter 214: Fireworks Everywhere (Please Subscribe) “I’ll go ashore first!”
As soon as Ji Qianqian said this, she walked straight into the cabin and picked up her two arrow quivers.
Each contained sixty rune heavy arrows, some bought by Chu Xisheng and the others seized from the Jinyi Guards.
Then her figure turned into a cloud of smoke and drifted ashore.
As a shooter, space was of utmost importance.
Only by keeping her distance from others could she shoot arrows at ease.
—Actually, having a sufficiently strong expert act as her shield would also work.
However, Sikong Xin, a former gold medal assassin, was skilled in offense rather than defense.
Chu Xisheng wasn’t the type to excel in defense, either.
The trump card he hid was indeed powerful, but that was a meat shield Chu Xisheng had prepared for himself, plus he still had to protect the dozens of the Zuo Family.
Of course, the most important point was that Ji Qianqian didn’t want to be restricted on the boat.
Under Chu Xisheng’s watch, she had a strength comparable to a Fourth Grade Upper, yet she couldn’t make full use of it.
So, heading ashore was better.
The hillside terrain by the southern riverbank was complex, the jungle dense, and it was easy to hide.
What happened inside was difficult to detect from the outside.
Chu Xisheng didn’t stop her, because the ‘Vengeance’ word in blood red had already appeared on the status bar in his field of view.
—Your “Vengeful Blade Intent” has temporarily elevated to high-level intensity.
Chu Xisheng’s eyes narrowed slightly, “Everyone, retreat to the second layer at the rear to hide, and do not delay.”
There was a room there, and when the boat had passed through Liyang County, Chu Xisheng had specially asked the Zuo Family to reinforce it with iron plates, making it exceptionally sturdy.
While speaking, he put his hand on his blade and strode towards the bow, looking at the two approaching warships from afar.
“I am Zhang Ming from the Heavenly Jinyi Guards, escorting a criminal official.
Whose forces do you belong to, and what are your intentions?”
Chu Xisheng’s voice boomed like thunder, spreading across the river surface.
However, the two warships gave no response, continuing to charge downstream, one on the left and one on the right, barreling towards them.
Chu Xisheng frowned slightly and drew out a sliver of his Xunfeng Thunder Blade from his waist.
If he initiated an attack on the warships, it would certainly leave trouble for later.
An accusation of attacking the court’s warships could put him and Zuo Tianlu in an extremely disadvantageous position.
However, Chu Xisheng couldn’t just watch the two ships collide.
After all, there were more than twenty Zuo Family members aboard.
Especially Zuo Qingyun’s mother, who must not come into contact with water.
But just as Chu Xisheng was about to act, Zuo Tianlu stepped out from the cabin.
“Little Chu, don’t worry, let them collide!”
He held Dharma Seals in his hands, his robe fluttering without wind, covered in a green spirit light,
Zuo Tianlu walked to the front deck, and with a heavy stomp of his right foot, the entire boat was covered in green spirit light.
Chu Xisheng couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.
He sensed the boat becoming extremely sturdy, the gaps and joints in the wooden planks sprouted tiny buds, filling and bonding more tightly together.
Moreover, countless wooden vines appeared on the surface of the boat, intertwining with each other like a net covering the entire body of the boat.
The gaps in this vine net were only about the thickness of a pinky finger, and they also climbed upwards, forming a vine wall on the deck.
Chu Xisheng was startled for a moment, then looked at Zuo Ya.
The wood element Magic of the Left Prefecture Governor was indeed amazing, where was the weakness?
Zuo Qingyun was also surprised, glancing at Zuo Tianlu in utter astonishment.
Zuo Tianlu had formed another Dharma Seal by then.
Two streams of green Qi, like ribbons, emerged from his body and connected Chu Xisheng and Sikong Xin.
Zuo Tianlu spoke with a hint of helplessness, “I am not skilled in combat; I only have a few auxiliary Magics that I can use competently.
This Magic of mine is called ‘Taiyin Divine Power,’ which can greatly increase your strength and toughen your muscles and bones.”
He knew Chu Xisheng’s weakness was insufficient Qi power and frail muscles and bones.
Otherwise, with Chu Xisheng’s Sword Speed, he could contend head-on with a Sixth Grade Lower expert.
Sikong Xin was the same; as a former assassin, she had concentrated on stealth and speed, her strength not being overly powerful.
Her use of the Big Spear was based primarily on skill rather than brute force.
Chu Xisheng slightly closed his eyes, feeling the effects.
His physical strength had increased by at least more than double.
As for the effect on strengthening his bones and muscles, Chu Xisheng could not yet feel it.
By now, those two warships had approached to less than thirty feet away.
It was funny to say, but those two ships ignored his words and rudely charged onward.
Yet when their ship was strengthened with Magic, the warships panicked and swiftly turned their rudders to avoid collision, each veering left and right.
As the three ships barely skimmed past each other on the river, hundreds of arrows burst forth from the two warships.
Most of the arrow barrage was blocked by the vine net,
Yet the might of the twenty Four-Arm Bed Crossbows on the warships was overwhelming, the Heavy Arrows as thick as a baby’s arm easily tearing through the vine net.
Luckily, Zuo Tianlu had specially reinforced the stern, creating a total of seven layers of vine net to withstand the barrage.
By the time those thick Heavy Arrows had penetrated the net, their power was spent, leaving only shallow pits on the iron plates.
Chu Xisheng, after dodging two Heavy Arrows, drew his Xunfeng Thunder Blade halfway from his waist.
His Vengeful Blade Intent instantly covered a thirty-foot radius around the river.
The Navy soldiers on those warships immediately showed expressions of agony.
The officers were better off; their higher cultivation allowed them to resist the impact of Chu Xisheng’s Sword Intent.
But the Ninth Grade soldiers and the lesser-cultivated ship workers and laborers, bled from their seven orifices on the spot.