Several bows were stacked on the floor. These bows were to be used as replacements in case one that was being used broke. Li Bai saw it and planned to help the archers in their endeavor to reduce the numbers of the enemy army.
He grabbed one of the bows and took out some arrows from his storage ring. The arrows that he took out were made of rare materials, even in the whole country. These arrows were one of the remnants of his treasures in the ring protected by Jin He from who knows what.
The arrows were made of the rare Black Scaled Serpent Bone. The Black Scaled Serpent was rare itself, and the chance of one having a bone was even lesser. Out of a thousand serpents, one was a Black Scaled Serpent, and out of a hundred of those, one had a bone. All in all, there was only a one out of a hundred thousand chance for a serpent to be black scaled and have a bone.
The Black Scaled Serpents were known for their hard scales, and even harder bones if they had them. Thus, these arrows were extremely valuable in the eyes of anyone in Backwater City. But in the eyes of Li Bai, it was nothing special, because, in his collection of arrows, the Black Scaled Serpent Bone Arrows were the weakest of the bunch.
Li Bai climbed up to a higher place. He, who has reached the peak of the Fifth Level Mark, had a higher level than anyone in the vicinity, except for Jin He, of course. The Black Scaled Serpent arrows pierced through the defenses of anyone with at most one level higher than the shooter. Adding to that Li Bai's expertise of archery from his previous lives, it was clear that this was going to be easy for him.
Li Bai planned to use some techniques that used some of his energy. He was going to use the [Dragon Arrow] Technique that he learned in one of his previous lives. This technique relied on brute force. He was also going to use the [Bullseye Arrow] Technique that relied on precision instead of strength unlike the previous one.
These two techniques were those in the higher ranks compared to others in the same branch. Li Bai didn't feel the need to use the highest ranked ones because after all, his opponents were just small fry that hasn't even reached the Heavenly Mark Realm.
Li Bai started drawing back the first arrow, stretching the bow to its very extent.
*SHA*
He let go, and a gust of wind blew from the pressure of the arrow passing through! The wind blew the archers close to Li Bai away, leaving them confused.
He used the [Dragon Arrow] Technique for testing out to see how strong this technique was. After all, he never really used it due to him having more powerful techniques. The gust of wind already exceeded Li Bai's expectations.
The arrow arrived at the rampaging army and struck one of the Liu clan's elders.
*BOOM*
This elder, once he got hit by the arrow, exploded! The pressure from the elder's explosion also knocked back many of the people around him.
All of the Li clansmen who witnessed this were shocked at this scene! At most, archery was regarded as one of the more useless arts, only serving to weaken the enemy. Now, this sight changed their perspective!
Li Fu was the most shocked. The elder that got exploded by the arrow was at least on par with him, a Fifth Level Mark 9-gems! To achieve that kind of result, one would have to be stronger than him, the clan head! Someone that strong was lurking about in his clan, he was quite afraid. At first, he suspected Jin He, but he saw her positioned at the front just like him, so it must not be her at all. Who was this mysterious archer?
Li Bai stayed calm throughout the situation. He expected the explosion of the elders to happen, but he didn't expect the ones around him to be affected as well. Maybe I've overestimated these Fifth Level Mark cultivators...
He shot the second of the arrows to another one of the Fifth Level Mark elders, but he used the [Bullseye Arrow] Technique instead. The arrow didn't blow a gust of wind like the previous one, but it was faster. It pierced through the target's heart, instantly killing him.
Comparing the two techniques, on this opponent, it was more beneficial to use the [Dragon Arrow] technique instead of the [Bullseye Arrow] technique because the enemy was high in numbers. The latter technique's specialty seems to be targeting the enemy's weak points with precision.
Unlike the first arrow, the second arrow didn't garner much attention, rather, it didn't get noticed at all! So this [Bullseye Arrow] technique was more suited to assassins whose targets were stronger than them. Li Bai decided to use the [Dragon Arrow] Technique for tackling this problematic army of elders.
The third arrow was shot.
*SHA*
The arrow landed on the ground, making the earth shake! This affected much more people than before. The horses panicked and ran away, leaving the elders on the ground.
Rejoicing, the Li clan looked for the unknown archer helping them. They looked at where the arrow came from. What they saw was a black figure, with the sun behind him.
Li Bai saw all of the people looking at him and got excited! His long-awaited fame was finally here! Once this war was finished, he would be rejoiced by the people, hailed as the hero who saved them! What he didn't know was that the people below couldn't see who he was at all. The sun was too bright for them to determine the identity of the figure.
Meanwhile, the army remained unfazed, even with all of their horses abandoning them. Liu Gong's expression remained unchanged, still very angry, like the rest of the army. All of them was extremely mad at something.
