With a single move, two arrows spun towards Jiang Wanxiang and Chen Dingye!
This confrontation was even more deathly quiet than the previous one!
Chen Dingye wielded a long sword to split the arrows apart.
Jiang Wanxiang held a long spear, and with a simple flick, the arrows were deflected. Jiang Wanxiang raised his hand to pat his forehead, letting out a loud laugh, saying, "Almost forgot, there’s someone even younger than us here, also wanting to chase this deer."
"Without arrows, I’ll also test your skills."
Jiang Wanxiang seemed to be in high spirits as he spurred his horse forward, his steed stepping on flames, almost like a blaze itself, galloping directly towards Li Guanyi, who with a flick of his hand, dispersed the Breaking Cloud Sky-shattering Bow, transforming it into the Fierce Tiger Sky Shouting Halberd.
With a twist of his hand, the battle halberd thrust forward.
The battle halberd clashed with Jiang Wanxiang’s weapon, making a crisp sound.
Chen Dingye sneered, grabbed a nearby horse spear, and charged forward. Gathering momentum, he slashed towards Jiang Wanxiang’s back, causing Jiang Wanxiang to sway, while the tail of his long spear thrust backward.
Around them, hundreds to thousands of people gathered to hunt the Divine Deer hurriedly retreated. Amidst waving banners, three riders galloped outward, though they were of royal blood, yet at this moment, they were performing martial prowess, the surrounding young scions of influential families and colonels loudly shouted, boosting the sovereign’s might.
Ji Zichang looked enviously at them, saying, "Truly formidable."
"The Emperor’s autumn hunt is originally the time for the Emperor to display his bravery, yet I am not as good as them."
The civil officials stood aside, Wen Lingjun wearing official attire with dark Qilin patterns, watched from afar, sighing as he shifted his gaze from Ji Zichang to the three galloping across the hunting grounds.
None of them worried, for Chen Dingye had the remaining elders from the Book Collection Pavilion of Chen Country; Ying Country’s Jiang Wanxiang had the World’s Number One Divine General Jiang Su, and Li Guanyi, though the Sword Madman was old, he had not yet died.
No need to fear anyone suddenly killing another.
This was merely a contest of skill, a battle of bravery.
Just like over a thousand years ago, before the era of the Red Emperor, during the age of dueling feudal lords, where some lords to showcase their martial prowess lifted cauldrons with strength, ultimately unable to bear it and were crushed to death.
In this chaotic world, the martial valor and grandness of a sovereign were the foundation of their standing.
To display might and power.
The autumn hunt was to remind future emperors of this point.
Never lose martial courage.
Feng Xiao said, "I just wonder who will emerge victorious."
He came to secretly sip imperial wine.
Wen Lingjun softly replied, "It doesn’t matter at all who wins or loses."
This merely tells the world—
Who among you has this courage, this boldness, who among the heroes can conquer the world?
Wen Lingjun looked at the last Red Emperor over there, sighing in his heart. Red Emperor Ji Zichang ought to have been the true protagonist of this autumn hunt, yet he had to watch as the other three did this.
The three competed in skill, without getting truly fierce, as if merely showing off martial prowess from here to there, while the Divine Deer was startled, these three, who had not used bows, pursued, with a thousand people behind cheering and shouting, like thunder.
The Divine Deer grew increasingly panicked in its flight.
Sight set ahead onto a cliff, where a waterfall descended from the sky, like snowy white silk cascading down, smashing into the blue stones, splashing water like countless pearls of white jade.
Jiang Wanxiang laughed, "Enough, enough, today is sufficient, come!"
"This last arrow, let us see, who can claim victory!"
He tossed away the weapon in his hand.
An officer of Ying Country naturally caught it for him, and Chen Dingye did the same.
The Fierce Tiger Sky Shouting Halberd in Li Guanyi’s hand transformed back into the Breaking Cloud Sky-shattering Bow, and the three of them simultaneously pulled their war bows, targeting that leaping Divine Deer, though it was just an autumn hunt, it represented a kind of Heavenly Mandate that could be proclaimed to the outside world.
Soldiers in the army needed something , as it was said, "The great trend is with me."
The people of the world needed this too.
Jiang Wanxiang and Chen Dingye looked at the final target of this venture, then all drew their bows, arrows aimed at the Divine Deer, the Divine Deer panicked and terrified, and everyone’s eyes fell on the bows and arrows in the three’s hands.
It was at this moment, Li Guanyi suddenly turned his bow, astonishingly setting over ten arrows on the Breaking Cloud Sky-shattering Bow at once!
He turned, arrows directly pointing at those scions of noble families.
In that instant, these people’s faces showed fear, confusion, disbelief.
Li Guanyi’s Primordial Spirit locked onto those marked for death by Ji Zichang.
The bowstring trembled with a resounding noise.
In an instant, over ten arrows were simultaneously released!
Blood fell, and from the Central State’s Red Emperor lineage, the heads of various branches of the royal family were killed, blood spilled rapidly on the ground, these dozen individuals fell from their horses, crashing to the ground, the blood of those raised in opulence soaked into the earth.
A scene of terror unfolded.
These people, of course, had their positions, they certainly had their roles in good and evil.
These people, of course, had their conscious realizations.
Li Guanyi also had his.
Come then, let us kill each other.
In that instant, the scent of blood flooded, all around people fell into dead silence, Gao Yingju turned ashen-faced.
This person truly dared to kill publicly!
Li Guanyi looked towards Ji Zichang over there.
Thus, the branches of the royal family no longer had those so-called uncles, uncles’ elder generations who could constrain Ji Zichang; Ji Zichang gave him thirty million taels of silver, so Li Guanyi gave him this final moment of unrestrained joy, without being restrained.