Chapter Seventy-Three: Splitting the Wind and Rain
Shi Zhiyi and Yi Ning County Lord rode south for three days, and they were already a distance of 14500 miles away from Feng'an City, but Shi Zhiyi's face did not see any joy, but became more and more serious.
They avoided the cities and villages, walked day and night, and on the first day, they did not encounter any troops of the Beigong family. But from the next day, small groups of cavalry appeared along the way, apparently searching for someone, and although the two of them cautiously avoided it, they delayed some of their hurry.
Early in the morning of the third day, a small group of cavalry finally spotted the two of them, and the first encounter took place. The four ordinary sergeants who had not yet reached the transcendent realm naturally could not be Shi Zhiyi's opponents, but after easily eliminating the enemy, Shi Zhiyi knew in his heart that their whereabouts had been exposed.
The Beigong family is using this kind of scattered method to search them in the area where they may appear, once a certain node of this big net is broken, then the Beigong family will soon be able to confirm their specific location, and a large number of pursuers will probably arrive soon.
Shi Zhiyi's goal was to go all the way south, escape from the border of Yongzhou from the south, enter the wild forest to completely get rid of the pursuers, and then come out from the east side of the wild forest, in the direction adjacent to Liangzhou.
Liangzhou is an area controlled by the imperial Yu family, and here, the threat to them from the Beigong family almost no longer exists, and they can calmly choose to continue to sneak until they return to Kyoto, or directly reveal Yu Yiling's identity as the county lord and recruit the local royal army to escort them.
However, the premise of this plan is that they can safely enter the wild forest, and then safely cross half of the wild forest until they enter Liangzhou.
At present, they are still seven or eight hundred miles away from the border between Yongzhou and the Wild Forest, if the journey is safe, then this is just a two-day trip for the two, but if the Beigong family continues to deploy troops in front to intercept it, then it will not be so simple for them to successfully enter the Wild Forest.
Sure enough, only half a day after the first encounter, Shi Zhiyi and the others encountered two cavalry squads in a row, although there were only three or four people each time, which did not pose any threat to Shi Zhiyi at all, but his location was becoming clearer and clearer for Beigong Zhao.
Of course, this kind of encounter is not completely beneficial to Shi Zhiyi, at least every time they kill the other party, they will always have the opportunity to change horses - the original horses of the two came from the Yingqiong Wei Feng'an branch and the trophies in that abandoned village, although they can also be called sturdy divine horses, but after two or three days of galloping in a row, they are also exhausted and may fall down at any time. With these mounts sponsored by the second-tier rangers of the Beigong family, the two finally don't have to worry about the horsepower under their crotches.
At dusk, when Shi Zhiyi and Lord Yi Ning crossed a hill again, the sky suddenly became overcast, and a light rain began to fall. The midsummer heat was washed away by the rain, and the two of them, who had been a little groggy from the scorching sun, woke up.
The rain is like a curtain, pulling up transparent curtains between heaven and earth, covering a vast field in front of you layer by layer, and you can't really see the scenery in the distance.
Suddenly, a sharp sound of breaking the air was like a roar from far to near, instantly penetrating countless rain curtains, shooting straight towards Shi Zhiyi's front door!
With a flash of light, the moon reflecting the sword came out, blocking this meteor-like arrow, and bursting out a cloud of scattered true yuan, Shi Zhiyi's tiger's mouth was also numb by this powerful arrow, his upper body trembled, and he almost fell off the horse.
However, this arrow was only the beginning, and the other party's arrows were shot one after another, and the sound of piercing the rain curtain was connected back and forth, forming a long and poignant scream.
Shi Zhiyi tried his best to block the opponent's five arrows in a row, and when the last arrow came, he finally couldn't support it, turned sideways and was forced off the horse, with his body strength that had just experienced a surge, he actually had a feeling of detachment after resisting the opponent's five arrows, and the strength of the comer could be seen.
Perhaps it was this kind of bead archery technique that was also a heavy pressure on the other party, and after six arrows, the terrible sound of breaking the air stopped, and the heaven and earth fell into a terrible silence again.
This silence did not last long, and after a few breaths, a pure black horse broke through the rain from the heavy curtain in the distance and appeared in Shi Zhiyi's field of vision. On the back of the horse, a knight in full iron armor held a split-air halberd in his backhand, the tip of the halberd pointed obliquely to the ground, and countless rain strands flowed down the halberd's body, and in the cold light of the halberd tip, it seemed to be frozen into ice particles, and one by one fell into the splash of the horse's hooves.
This black steed should have a trace of thin divine beast blood in its body, not only is it more than half a head taller than the common war horse, the muscles on its body bulge like a dragon, and the position of its forehead is faintly a fist high, like a single horn ready to break out of the body at any time, and the original abnormal war horse is like a demon horse running from the Nine Hells.
Shi Zhiyi turned over and got on the horse, and there was an extra black spear made of unknown material in his hand. The rain fell on the spear, as if it had been swallowed, leaving no traces, and the spear itself was also like having magical power, Shi Zhiyi's county lord behind him just glanced at it curiously, and felt that his eyes seemed to be firmly locked by this spear, and it was difficult to look away for a while.
This spear is also one of the more than 100 pieces of weapon armor collected in the Demon Emperor's matching ring space, a god-level low-grade weapon-Soul Eater Gun. This spear is not from the human race, but the trophy obtained from the battle between Shi Xuanlai, the ancestor of the Shi family, and the demon race, and it is the personal weapon of Leng Liyuan, the head of the Demon Emperor Guard Legion.
Previously, Shi Zhiyi didn't feel that there was anything outstanding about this spear, because he had never paid attention to it. But since he absorbed the essence blood of the giant dragon Bai Chen's whole body, when his mind entered the bronze ring space, he could always vaguely feel the call from this spear, so this time against the enemy, he took it out.
The ironclad knight saw Shi Zhiyi turn over and get on his horse again as if he was fine, and a trace of surprise flashed in his heart. The news passed down above shows that this young man should only be sixteen or seventeen years old, at most he is only the peak of cultivation of the marrow, and he can hard-catch his archery technique at the bottom of the box-Sky Falcon Shaking Mountain, and he did not die on the spot but just fell off the horse, which has already surprised him, and now it seems that this young man is unharmed, and the six arrows just now do not seem to have any effect on him.
The Iron Knight knew the power of his six arrows. Even if it is a martial artist in the Cold Window Realm, he does not dare to say that he is sure to be able to escape from his arrow, because the power carried on this arrow is far beyond the range that ordinary Cold Window Realm martial artists can bear. Even if the enemy is able to see through the trajectory of the feathered arrow, he will be numbed by the tremendous impact and die from the subsequent arrow.