556 White Foxes (1/2)
”Arrows ready! Arrows ready!”
Dozens of archers drew their bows in the formation and loosed their arrows in unison.
”Swish! Swish!”
The arrows moved along a curved path in the air gracefully, much like the shape of Death's scythe, and flew towards the white tiger steadily.
”Roar! Roar!”
The white tiger gave a ferocious roar as it jumped several yards away.
The rain of arrows covered a large area. Even though there was much friendly fire, many of the arrows landed on the white tiger's body.
”Ding! Ding! Dang! Dang!”
Metallic rings reverberated through the air as the arrows impacted the white light surrounding the white tiger's body and fell to the ground.
Even so, the white light flickered and looked as if it was fading.
Beasts could prey on humans but humans could kill beasts too!
Numerous soldiers sprang forth as the army officers called for a charge.
”Roar! Roar!”
The white tiger was a murderous creature and pounced on a chariot which shattered under its weight. It swept its tail, harder than any whip in the world, and let it crash into a Shang soldier.
The ferociousness displayed by the white tiger stunned the Shang soldiers, who were previously fearless fighters.
The white tiger sensed their vulnerability and pounced on a foot soldier. With its prey firmly in its grasp, the white tiger began to feed.
The screams of the Shang soldier filled the air. Meng Kuo's eyes widened as he witnessed the ghastly sight.
”Demonic beast! I must kill you!”
In a flash, Meng Kuo was in command of a chariot and drove it towards the frontlines.
”It's just a little demon which might not even have achieved full spiritual awareness…”
Fang Yuan shook his head. A spiritually intelligent creature would have run away by now. On the contrary, this white tiger was becoming more aggressive even though the protective white light around its body was dimming. It obviously had a death wish.
”Watch my arrows!”
Meng Kuo roared as his arrows assailed the white light surrounding the tiger.
He had discharged three arrows from his bow in one shot.
”Ding!”
The first and second arrows broke upon contact with the white light. The third arrow, however, was the straw that broke the camel's back. The white light offered no resistance as the arrow popped the eye of the tiger.
Poof!
There was a burst of blood.
The white tiger roared in pain and ran towards Meng Kuo in a fit of madness. Its remaining eye was filled with a crazed rage.
”Hei Zhong...the white tiger is yours to handle!”
Fang Yuan waved the sword in his hand and gave an order to Hei Zhong.
”Yes, master!”
Hei Zhong gave a battle cry and rushed over on foot with his trusty battleaxe.
He was just in time, for Meng Kuo had been knocked off his chariot by the white tiger and was about to get torn apart.
”Hey! Don't even think about hurting him, beast!”
Hei Zhong swung his axe up into the air and brought it down onto the tiger.
”Roar! Roar!”
The axe managed to cut into the front paws of the white tiger and blood was spilt. The tiger shrank away in pain and Hei Zhong took the opportunity to pull Meng Kuo to safety.
”Hmph!”
As Hei Zhong retreated, he exhaled a cloud of white mist. The white mist enveloped the white tiger and distracted it from Hei Zhong's ensuing attack.
Even though the large tiger was a demonic beast, it was at a loss as to what to do in the face of this seemingly divine technique.
”Loose the arrows!”
A severe voice rang out from behind and triggered a torrential hail of arrows.
A dark gleam joined the trajectory of the arrows and shot towards the white tiger. Whether it was by chance or not, Hei Zhong was in its path too!
”A flying sword!”
Hei Zhong turned around and was startled to see a smiling youth. It was the recovered Gentleman Jiu!
Gentleman Jiu had been humiliated by Hei Zhong and was saved by good fortune. Now, he was ready to avenge his honour by killing Hei Zhong. He was prepared to disguise the murder as collateral damage sustained in killing the white tiger!
”Swish!”
Another dark gleam flew overhead.
This was another flying sword and it was actually able to knock Gentleman Jiu's flying sword to the ground despite having been launched later.
This other flying sword's path of flight remained unchanged and approached Gentleman Jiu at an alarming speed.
”How do you also know the flying sword technique?”
Gentleman Jiu was stunned. The person who had launched the other flying sword was more skilful than he was. He could only fall backwards in a clumsy attempt to escape it.
The sword sank into the ground less than a foot away from Gentleman Jiu. It would have killed him if he had not taken one more step backwards.
”It's that Jie!”
He shot an uncertain look over at Fang Yuan and felt a seething hatred.
'Hmph! He doesn't know what is good for him!'
Fang Yuan could not be bothered to say anything.
He knew that his move would cause Gentleman Jiu to hate him but he would never take it lying down if a subordinate of his was being attacked.
No matter what Hei Zhong had done previously, he was Fang Yuan's slave now. How could Fang Yuan let anyone kill him?
Fang Yuan was perfectly fine with Gentleman Jiu hating him.
If Gentleman Jiu wanted to cross Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan would kill him without regard to his status.
Fang Yuan would kill even the Shang King if he made things difficult for Fang Yuan.
”Roar! Roar!”
The commotion with the flying swords happened in a flash and many of the soldiers were not aware of it.
Most of them kept their attention on the white tiger.