The rain poured down like a silver river pouring down, boundless and endless.
Amidst the torrential rain, a streak of platinum fire tore through the curtain of rain and sped past.
With each flap of its wings, the phoenix left a long trail of flames behind it.
The scorching heat evaporated the passing rain into rolling white waves of vapor.
Below, inside the cube-shaped birdcage, firmly held in the phoenix's sharp claws.
Zhao Dezheng's eyes shone as he kept staring at the receding mountains below, his face a mixture of excitement and focus.
Suddenly, Li Yu's gaze sharpened.
He seemed to have spotted something ahead, but made no move to react.
Even the phoenix beneath it did not slow down, continuing to speed through the air along its original trajectory.
A few breaths later.
"Li Yu! Look over there!!"
Inside the cube-shaped birdcage, Zhao Dezheng looked up in surprise, pointing to the horizon to his left.
In the depths of the sky, where thick rain clouds were churning, hundreds of crimson dots lit up one after another.
A dense array of streams of light covered everything from afar.
What followed was a piercing shriek tearing through the sky.
"It's a rain of arrows!"
The moment Zhao De noticed, he loudly reminded Li Yu.
Upon seeing the overwhelming number of them, Zhao Dezheng let out a strange cry and instantly shrank back:
"Holy crap! So many?!"
Faced with such a dense barrage of arrows, and with him huddled in a cramped space, he had almost no room to dodge or move.
Even if he wraps himself in layers of cubes to build a defense to protect himself, how many rounds can he withstand such a saturation attack at this scale and speed?
If these arrows were as powerful as the arrows Li Yu usually shoots...
Zhao Dezheng quickly estimated in his mind that even if he tried his best, he could barely block a dozen arrows, and that would be bad enough.
But what's coming at us is nearly a hundred of them!
If Li Yu hadn't helped, he might have been riddled with arrows along with his 'cage' before he even reached the gates of Changsheng Gate.
"Li Yu! Block it for me!"
Zhao Dezheng hurriedly called out again, this time with obvious urgency in his voice.
It wasn't that he was afraid of death; after all, from the moment he decided to follow Li Yu to venture into the Gate of Immortality, he had never valued his own life much.
He was simply unwilling to accept that he had inexplicably failed halfway to the Changshengmen headquarters.
That's so frustrating! So ridiculous!
Li Yu did not respond because he had "seen" the arrow rain earlier than Zhao Dezheng.
His gaze fell on the rapidly approaching red arrows.
As the rain of arrows drew closer, Li Yu was even more surprised to sense the familiar yet unfamiliar energy emanating from them.
This is definitely not as simple as just imitating energy.
The ability to fire so many arrows at such a rapid pace is remarkably similar to his "volley of ten thousand arrows".
The reason why Li Yu did not launch a counterattack against the "Arrow Master" or directly use all his strength to shoot him from a great distance was that...
It was because he wanted to see the archer in person, to know who the other party was, and how the other party obtained such similar abilities.
The rain of arrows arrived in an instant, but Li Yu remained unmoved.
After all, this was 'his' own arrow, how could it possibly hit himself?
Zhao Dezheng was filled with anxiety, but seeing the phoenix continue flying as if it didn't care, he forced himself not to say anything more.
Just as the rain of arrows was about to hit, Li Yu had a sudden thought.
The densely packed arrows seemed to suddenly lose their target, perfectly grazing past Li Yu, Feng Niao, and Zhao Dezheng.
A streak of red light brushed past me.
The nearest arrow came less than half a meter from the cube-shaped birdcage!
Zhao Dezheng could clearly see the eerie red light flowing across the arrow.
But it just didn't hit.
"That was close!!"
Zhao Dezheng couldn't help but marvel at Li Yu's incredible abilities.
Behind them, the numerous red arrows, having lost their target, seemed to have lost control and began to slide down with the torrential rain, carried by inertia.
The shimmering light illuminated the small town nestled among the mountains below.
The town's residents were startled by the eerie red light that suddenly appeared in the sky and the piercing shriek. They rushed out in terror and looked up at the sky.
Countless streams of light fell, like a meteor shower of apocalypse, crashing straight down towards their town.
Everyone in the town was stunned.
The shadow of death instantly enveloped the entire valley.
"Divine punishment?!"
"There's no escaping!"
"mom--!"
Cries and screams erupted instantly.
Several townspeople who had awakened their superpowers erected meager energy shields, attempting to resist with their pitiful abilities.
But faced with the barrage of death arrows raining down from the sky, it was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot—utterly insignificant.
The rain of arrows grew lower and lower, and despair gripped the throat of every resident of the town.
The breath of death was so close, it was suffocating.
The adults collapsed to the ground, tightly embracing their terrified children, closing their eyes, and awaiting the impending destruction.
Li Yu glanced down at it, not intending to pay any attention or care about the survival of the town.
Just as he was about to look up and leave, he was surprised to find...
From the town below, several thin golden threads suddenly extended out and instantly connected with his golden eyes.
Li Yu was also slightly taken aback. How could there be someone related to him in such a remote place?
It turned out that it happened at the very last moment when the townspeople were in despair.
Those children who usually squatted at the town entrance, fantasizing that one day they too could awaken powerful abilities and become heroes of Zhongzhou like the legendary Li Yu.
Faced with the terrifying yet dazzling sky of death, it uttered the purest of prayers:
"Li Yu will definitely come to save us!"
"Help us!"
"Li Yu—!"
That tender, trembling voice, filled with an utterly pure and pleading emotion, traveled along the silken thread straight into Li Yu's golden eyes.
High in the air, Li Yu, who had no intention of stopping, suddenly shuddered.
The phoenix seemed to sense the change in Li Yu's mood and slowed down.
Through the silk thread, Li Yu sensed the pure and fervent pleading emotions of the children below!
The emotion was pure and unadulterated, filled with trust and a call to him.
This means that those children genuinely believed from the bottom of their hearts that Li Yu, as a hero of Zhongzhou, would suddenly appear and save them no matter where he was.
The children were convinced that this "hero" only existed in stories and legends.
They will definitely hear it, and they will definitely come to save them.
Just as described in the newspaper, Li Yu would save the local people of Zhongzhou wherever he went.
It's not fantasy, it's not self-comfort.
It is a firm belief.
It is faith.
This unexpected "connection" caused a clear look of surprise to flash across Li Yu's eyes.
Because these children's faith in him was no less than that of the refugees in Cannes.
A very subtle change flashed in Li Yu's eyes.
Since he brought the refugees into Zhongzhou, this was the first time he had so clearly sensed this emotion of unconditional trust from an 'outsider'.
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