Chapter 290 If escaping works

Chahan, a Deva within the Imperial Guard, nodded and said:

"Everything is ready. Two hundred thousand slaves can be sacrificed at any time!"

He pointed into the distance toward a valley where a dense mass of terrified slaves were being penned in like pigs and sheep.

Among them were commoners abducted from the Great Jin Dynasty, traitorous officials who had once betrayed the Northern Mang royal family, and people from remote small tribes.

Now, they were about to become sacrifices for the sun-shooting divine bow, used to trigger the bow's power to shoot and kill Yan Chu.

Imperial Court guards kept watch outside the valley.

Many Longevity Cult followers were inscribing sacrificial Formations around the valley; with a single command from the Khan, the sacrificial Formation would be activated.

Luan Di Tianye nodded indifferently.

If these people weren't enough, then those within the Imperial Court would be required.

A large-scale sacrificial Formation had already been laid beneath the Imperial Court.

The original plan was that if one day an irresistible enemy came to Northern Mang, the entire imperial city would be sacrificed to take the opponent down with them.

It had to be said that the ancestors of the Luan Di Clan possessed great foresight.

They had long anticipated such a possibility and buried the great Formation beneath the Imperial Court in advance.

It was just that this Formation was a bit of a waste of people...

But there was no other way. A powerful enemy capable of threatening the survival of Northern Mang would surely be at the true pinnacle of this world; without such an extraordinary method, they likely wouldn't be able to kill them.

Just as these thoughts were turning in Luan Di Tianye's mind,

Suddenly, an aura appeared ahead.

He abruptly looked up, his hateful gaze glaring coldly toward the source.

"The Fire Demon is here!!"

Someone cried out in alarm. Seeing Yan Chu on a hillside ahead, everyone felt a chill down their spines as fear took root in their hearts.

As people who had personally experienced that recent battle, they understood Yan Chu's strength better than anyone.

Even the Great Khan was no match for him; killing other Devas was as easy as a flick of the wrist.

The two sides were already existing on two different levels.

Everyone couldn't help but retreat, unconsciously wanting to distance themselves from him.

"Yan Chu! You dare chase me to the Northern Mang Imperial Court? Today, this Khan shall ensure you have no grave to call your own!"

With a WHOOSH, Luan Di Tianye raised the sun-shooting divine bow before him.

Ordinary people couldn't even reach the top of the two-meter-tall giant bow.

But Luan Di Tianye's height suddenly surged, growing to over ten feet tall.

After opening the Physical Body Divine Treasury, physical power became inexhaustible, and changing one's physical form was a simple matter.

Yan Chu stood on the hillside, perfectly composed.

He first examined the Chilie Mountain before him from a close distance.

Although he hadn't entered it, just being near allowed him to feel a concentration of Heaven and Earth Origin Qi far higher than elsewhere.

Around the divine mountain grew all sorts of precious medicinal herbs. The people of the Imperial Court had established several herb gardens, and the continuous rows of tents were for the housing of those who cultivated and protected them.

He wondered what the interior of the Blessed Land would look like.

Yan Chu didn't exactly yearn for it; he was purely curious.

These thoughts flashed by as he looked at Luan Di Tianye and sneered,

"A defeated general dares to speak of bravery!"

"Do you think that by holding a bow, you can escape your certain death?"

"I'm telling you! I'm claiming your life today. Even the sun-shooting divine bow can't save you—I said so!"

BOOM!

The moment Yan Chu finished speaking, patterns on the black giant bow in Luan Di Tianye's hand instantly lit up. Fiery red light erupted from the patterns, forming layers of fire clouds around the bow's body.

However, these fire clouds lacked any heat; instead, they radiated a bone-chilling coldness.

Extreme Yang gives birth to Yin; extreme fire contains ice!

The sun-shooting divine bow was crafted from the trunk of an Extreme Yang Tree within the Chilie Mountain Blessed Land, while the bowstring was made from the refined tendons of a North Sea Ice Flood Dragon. Extreme Yin was contained within Extreme Yang; raging fire and cold ice were fused together.

Once an arrow was fired, it would inevitably freeze the target first before shattering them with the most explosive flames.

Yan Chu's arrogant words had already incited the wrath of the sun-shooting divine bow's True Spirit, which was now impatient to shoot him down.

Luan Di Tianye was overjoyed at the sight.

The sun-shooting divine bow was a National Guardian Divine Artifact worshipped by Northern Mang, something even the Eagle God Incarnation was extremely wary of.

Every time they requested the bow, they had to be incredibly respectful.

Yan Chu dared to be so disrespectful to the divine bow; since the bow was enraged, the arrow it fired would surely far exceed previous ones.

SHUA!

Luan Di Tianye raised the bow and pulled the string. A thick, fiery red arrow condensed on the bow, formed from the ample energy absorbed within the Blessed Land.

"Yan Chu! Watch the arrow!!"

Luan Di Tianye's eyes nearly split from rage as he roared furiously.

Yan Chu narrowed his eyes, standing ready.

TWANG!!

The violent sound of the string was like a thunderclap. The thick, fiery red arrow shot out like lightning, reaching Yan Chu's eyes in an instant—so fast he almost didn't have time to react.

However, Yan Chu had already escaped into the wind the moment Luan Di Tianye let go.

The arrow's glow exploded the afterimage left behind, then it directly curved, changing from its original straight path to shoot upward toward a cloud hundreds of meters in the sky.

Yan Chu was seen leaping out from the cloud, then he vanished again in a flash.

But the arrow's glow arrived later yet struck first, directly predicting his position and forcing him out of the wind.

"Hahahaha!!!!"

Luan Di Tianye laughed wildly and wantonly.

"If running worked, what would we need the divine bow for?"

"Once targeted by the divine bow, even if you run to the ends of the earth, you will be struck by the arrow's light. Any movement techniques or hiding arts are completely useless!"

In the distance, Yan Chu passed over a mountain peak, then suddenly made a turn and flew directly upward.

The arrow's glow, which was inches away, didn't have time to turn and slammed into the peak with a BOOM, causing mountain rocks to explode and tumble.

Then, that arrow's glow didn't seem to lose much power as it continued to follow his figure closely.

This time, its speed actually surged again; he could no longer evade it with just the Nine Heavens Profound Wind movement technique.

Seeing this, the Northern Mang crowd was first startled, then overjoyed, rejoicing at the miraculous power of the sun-shooting divine arrow.

As expected of a peerless divine bow!

From the looks of it, it seemed a second arrow wasn't needed at all; one arrow would be enough to take Yan Chu's life!

"Phew..."

Seeing that he couldn't evade it, Yan Chu simply turned around, extended two fingers, and pointed them directly at the incoming arrow's glow.

BANG!

The moment the arrow's glow touched his fingertips, it exploded with a BANG.

The sound of the explosion was extremely muffled.

First, an aura of extreme cold froze the Void Realm. One could clearly see that ten miles of space had turned into transparent ice crystals, with white silk-like cracks appearing in space.

Immediately after, an explosive heat rose from within the frozen space, no weaker than the Nine Yang Great Thunderbolt released by Yan Chu.

Only this time, he was the one enduring it.

A double heaven of ice and fire!

The two destructive energies complemented each other, filled with a heart-palpitating power that made the Northern Mang crowd tremble with fear even from such a distance.

"Hahahaha! He's dead for sure!!"

Luan Di Tianye laughed loudly, ecstatic.

Being hit head-on by the sun-shooting divine arrow, even someone at the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown level could not resist and would surely suffer a Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering.

Behind him, everyone in Northern Mang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Except for Xiao Wendao, the Deva of the Xiao Clan.