Previously, the enemy had been in the shadows and Jiang Chen in the light.
But now, Jiang Chen was in the shadows and the enemy in the light!
Jiang Chen deployed “Boulder’s Heart” and tried his utmost to adjust his mentality to the level of being impervious to desires and passions. He even held his breath.
Even so, the heart of Jiang Chen’s palms still sweated vaguely.
“If it wasn’t for the opponents revealing their flaws with their words this time, I would likely be a corpse by now.” Jiang Chen’s heart still palpitated with fright.
It was obvious that the Duke of Soaring Dragon had truly gone to great efforts this time, and had actually hired four true qi master killers.
Even if they hadn’t tried the trick of torturing themselves to win his confidence and surrounded him on all sides, they would’ve had at least a seventy to eighty percent chance of slaughtering him.
“The only thing to find fault in, is that these killers were too cautious and wanted to be assured of their success too much.” Jiang Chen could understand how things stood from their perspective.
After all, this wasn’t the outside world – it was the Boundless Catacombs. It was an endless night – an underground world – that extended in all directions, and had a complicated terrain.
Once the ambush failed, and the target escaped, it would be exceedingly difficult to capture him within the Boundless Catacombs.
The opponents had overly sought to be assured of their success, but had instead given Jiang Chen the chance to snatch his life from the jaws of death.
However, Jiang Chen didn’t relax his guard. He had schemed and gotten rid of two out of four of the true qi master killers, but two remained. One was skilled at close quarters combat, and the other at ambush. It looked like their strength would be even stronger than the two that had died.
Jiang Chen was nine meridians true qi now, and with his knowledge of strong methods, he wouldn’t be at a disadvantage even he directly confronted a true qi master.
But to face off against two at the same time, and for them to both be cold blooded killers, was still a very big risk for Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen might not’ve been afraid of close quarters combat, but it was impossible to guard against that archer with surprising facilities.
If it hadn’t been for the protection of the soft armor against that arrow just now, Jiang Chen’s corpse likely would have long since been found on the scene. Even so, the strong true qi had still caused a certain degree of injury to him.
Jiang Chen’s back leaned lightly against the rock wall and his Ear of the Zephyr was turned up to the maximum.
The sound of water dripping from the crag wall… the sound of bubbles arising in the marsh… all sorts of movement from underground creatures in the ground below – various minute sounds all travelled into his ears.
Whoosh!
A strong sound pierced through the air without any warning, and suddenly violently attacked Jiang Chen’s location.
Another arrow!
And it was very accurate as it made its way straight towards Jiang Chen’s hiding place.
It was as if the arrow would pierce through gold and shatter rock – it had an imposing manner as if the true qi was burning.
It directly came piercing through, flying through the rock wall.
“He’s discovered me?” Jiang Chen was startled as his body slightly wavered in that crucial moment.
It was a good thing there was a wall of rock in between. Although this arrow had an unparalleled momentum, but piercing through a wall of rock still offered a layer of obstruction, and its speed slightly slowed down that tiny bit.
Jiang Chen evaded it in this tiny beat of decreased speed!
The strong true qi pierced through the rock wall, and brought with it the arrow to the wall on the other side, sinking into the wall from the tip to the tops of the fletching!
When the arrowhead shot into the opposite wall, it emitted an ear piercing humming throb, shaking the rock wall and sending rock dust flying everywhere, the wall cracking open like a spider web.
“Such strong true qi!”
Jiang Chen was awed. The true qi carried by this arrow was absolutely not something that a true qi master of ten meridians true qi would possess.
“An eleven meridians true qi master?” Jiang Chen became more and more shocked. This Duke of Soaring Dragon had spared no expense, and had hired even an eleven meridians true qi master?
There was a marked level of difference between the existences ten meridians true qi and eleven meridians true qi.
Within all of the Eastern Kingdom, the number of eleven meridians true qi masters probably didn’t exceed 20!
No time allotted for Jiang Chen’s musing, the arrows broke through the air with unparallelled dominance like shooting stars. Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Three continuous currents of exceedingly strong arrow auras all shot towards the rock wall that Jiang Chen was hidden behind.
“Damn it, an eleven meridians true qi master alright. If I can discover him, he can also discover me!”