Having learned from his previous experience, Zaun unleashed his full power with Sunflower Illusion, dodging each of the vines that swept towards him.
For some reason, he felt that this vine attack had a much larger opening than the last one.
Shi Kun's face darkened. With his cultivation level, how could he not see this? However, at this moment, he did not reveal anything.
Wind God Leg!
His feet became afterimages, and his speed suddenly increased significantly. This skill consumed a lot of energy, so Shi Kun would only use it when he found a suitable opportunity.
Hearing the whooshing sound behind him, Zu An knew something was wrong and hurriedly dodged to the side, but it was too late. Shi Kun's longsword had already pierced his back.
"Huh?" The scene he had imagined, where he would be pierced through the chest with a single sword strike, did not occur. Instead, he felt immense resistance coming from the tip of the sword. This guy was actually wearing precious armor!
Shi Kun never expected that this poor fellow would have a protective armor on him, so much so that his sword, which was originally enough to pierce the chest, only went in an inch. When he tried to increase the force, the other party had already taken the opportunity to dodge.
With a cold snort, Shi Kun thought to himself, "Now that I've caught up with you, do you think you can escape?"
Now, with the Wind God Leg technique at his disposal, he's even faster than Zu An by a factor of two. Add to that the difference in their cultivation levels, and the fact that his opponent is carrying someone and has thrown away his sword, if he still can't handle this, he might as well buy a block of tofu and smash his head against it.
He thrust his sword toward Zu An's foot; once Zu An's Achilles tendon was severed, his strange agility would be rendered useless.
Just then, Zuan suddenly flicked his sleeve behind him, and a streak of dark light shot out.
Shi Kun instantly recognized it as a hidden weapon launched from a sleeve dart; one of his men seemed to have a similar mechanism.
However, he didn't care at all. Such a hidden arrow was only a threat to low-level cultivators. For someone like him, it probably couldn't even break through his protective energy.
So he ignored the hidden arrow and continued to stab the other man's foot with his sword.
Just as the sword tip was about to pierce the other's ankle, he suddenly shuddered. It turned out that the hidden arrow had directly broken through his protective energy and pierced into his shoulder socket. Although it was blocked by the soft armor on his body and did not penetrate too deeply, a strange chill spread from the wound, causing him to shiver involuntarily.
"What is this? Is the arrow poisoned?" Shi Kun was horrified and hurriedly began to circulate his vital energy to block the evil energy within his body.
Just then, Zuan suddenly turned around and stabbed at his wrist with an extremely strange move. At this moment, a black dagger appeared in his hand.
"Young master, be careful!" Xue'er had witnessed the power of this dagger before and hurriedly warned him.
Having just suffered a loss by overconfidently using his vital energy to withstand the opponent's hidden arrow, Shi Kun dared not use his body to take this sword strike head-on again. The dagger was pitch black and looked very strange.
He simply abandoned his sword, and then several wind blades shot out, striking him.
With a muffled groan, a faint mist of blood dissipated. Zu An was clearly seriously injured. After being blocked by the wind blade, it was too late for him to injure his opponent with this sword. He couldn't help but feel sorry for him.
His hidden arrows were seized from Jia Zhengjing and his group, but he replaced the ordinary arrows with arrows fired by the zombie army that he had previously picked up.
Fortunately, the hidden arrow mechanism was relatively simple. He cut off the front half of the zombie army's arrow, which fit perfectly inside, so that Shi Kun suffered a great loss just now.
Unfortunately, we failed to kill him!
Noticing that Qiao Xueying and two other fourth-rank officials were chasing after him, Zu An dared not linger any longer and turned to run again.
Shi Kun stood still, hurriedly took out a healing and detoxifying medicine and swallowed it. He then used his Yuan Power to expel the evil energy that had invaded his body. He removed the strange arrow from his chest and his expression changed slightly: "What kind of arrow is this? It is so powerful."
However, he didn't have time to think too much at this moment. Zu'an had already run far away, so he hurriedly called his men to continue chasing after him.
After a long chase, Zu'an finally arrived at the foot of the same mountain range. Seeing that Shi Kun and the others were still hot on his heels, he gritted his teeth and headed straight for the stone gate.
Chu Chuyan was held in his arms the whole time, looking closely at the blood-stained clothes on his chest, listening to his rapid heartbeat and his heavy, disordered breathing. Her originally lifeless eyes gained a hint of something indescribable.
She used to have a special status and outstanding cultivation. She was the one who protected others from a high position, and no one else had to protect her. But now, in her most helpless state, she was being protected in this man's arms. He could have escaped on his own, but he never abandoned me, this burden.
"madness……"
He silently gave himself an evaluation, and then slowly closed his eyes.
Zuan was naturally unaware of the thoughts of the beauty in his arms. He ran to the stone gate with a worried expression. He was initially worried that he wouldn't be able to get in, but whether it was the effect of the Phoenix Nirvana Sutra that made him stronger or something else, this time when he pushed the huge stone gate, he actually managed to push open a gap big enough for a person to pass through.
Looking at the dark and gloomy cave entrance, he gritted his teeth, picked up Chu Chuyan, and disappeared into the darkness.
Before long, Shi Kun and the others caught up. Looking at the strange gate and the chilling aura emanating from it, their expressions changed slightly: "What is this place?"
"Hmph, if someone surnamed Zu can get in, why shouldn't we? Chase after him!" Shi Kun waved his hand and jumped in first. He had invested too much in today's matter, and he was unwilling to give up at this time.
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