However, Jie Tian was not an ordinary being after all. Although the array had surprised him somewhat, he did not panic.
The moment he saw the barrier formation, he had already begun to channel the power of barriers.
His palms spread open and he thrust them forward.
The power of barriers intertwined in an instant, and a barrier shield rapidly formed.
It expanded quickly, not only blocking the space in front of him but also pushing forward on its own.
This barrier shield was meant to clash head-on with the sky-full of arrows.
At first, the barrier shield actually deflected quite a few arrows, but the arrows were far too powerful. Soon, the barrier shield was covered in cracks…
The clash lasted no more than a snap of the fingers. With a thunderous boom, the barrier shield shattered into countless fragments that drifted through the void.
The barrier shield had completely collapsed!!!
But Jie Tian still did not panic.
He had never truly relied on this barrier shield to stop all those arrows.
So at this moment, two spears, each a hundred meters long, had already appeared in his hands. They were not ordinary barrier spears—they were barrier formations in the shape of spears.
As the barrier spears swept through the air, spear energy surged out, capable of shattering the arrows to pieces upon impact.
The shattered barrier shield had only been a means to buy time to set up his formations.
The barrier spears in his hands were his true answer to the arrows.
But there were simply too many arrows. Even with the spear formations in hand, the situation was still very unfavorable for Jie Tian.
At that moment, Little Fisher stood rooted to the spot, watching the arrows that moved in perfect order like a vast army, ceaselessly pressing toward Jie Tian.
A look of amazement surfaced in her beautiful eyes.
"Is this Big Brother's method?"
"No wonder even my brother acknowledged him."
Little Fisher had no intention of striking again, because she knew that even if she exhausted every last ounce of power in her starlight array, she could never unleash an assault more ferocious than Chu Feng's formation.
Whose way the scales of victory would ultimately tip toward depended entirely on how Chu Feng's formation performed.
As time passed, Little Fisher's confidence in the formation only grew, because the arrows were drawing ever closer to Jie Tian.
This… was exactly Chu Feng's intention.
Little Fisher turned her gaze toward Chu Feng in the distance. Watching him as he likewise stared intently at the battle, a trace of heartache welled up in her beautiful eyes.
"Still…"
"In a place like that, growing to this level all on his own… how much suffering has Big Brother endured?"
…
Little Fisher had achieved what she had today only through countless hardships as well.
Talent was important, but even with talent, one could not accomplish great things without effort.
Yet suffering came in many forms. Her hardships were merely those of cultivation. After all, sheltered by her family as she was, her life was never truly in danger.
But Chu Feng was different. He had truly clawed his way up from nothing, one step at a time, all on his own, to reach where he stood today.
Boom—
Boom—
Two more piercing booms rang out, and Little Fisher once again turned her attention to the battlefield.
The barrier arrows and Jie Tian's spear energy clashed again and again, sending out ripple after ripple like dazzling barrier fireworks.
Though dangerous, there was a peculiar beauty to it all.
…
But from Jie Tian's perspective, those ever-approaching ripples were anything but good news.
There were simply too many barrier arrows. No matter how fast Jie Tian swung his spears, the arrows continued to close in.
"Lord Jie Tian, can you handle this?"
As the arrows drew nearer, a voice came from Jie Tian's left shoulder.
It was the thin old man's voice.
Just as Chu Feng had predicted, these traitors were indeed concealed on Jie Tian's person. It was the power of their formations that had bolstered his combat strength.
But faced with the increasingly overwhelming assault, the thin old man and the others were growing worried.
If Jie Tian fell, they would die too.
"Hah…"
To the question, Jie Tian simply let out a cold laugh, too dismissive to even bother answering.
Although Little Fisher's assault had genuinely caught him off guard and was closing in on him, there were precious few arrows left.