Jiang Chen lay prone on a Golden-Winged Sword Bird, not using his True Qi at all. Instead, he was recovering from his injuries and restoring his true essence by refining the medicinal power of the Divine Show Creation Pill and the Blue Sea Pill.
The desperate slash he had made earlier had consumed too much of his True Qi, pushing his meridians and physical body beyond their limits.
With the help of these two pills, Jiang Chen's injuries finally recovered considerably.
He knew that Yu Jie had not made a move, not because he didn't want to, but because he was also injured. The injuries within his body made him hesitant, afraid to use his full strength.
If not for Xu Zhen's cry for help, Yu Jie would probably have continued to stall.
However, Jiang Chen wasn't going to give Yu Jie another chance to delay.
Lying on the back of the Golden-Winged Sword Bird, although he was refining the medicinal power of the pills, he was actually also formulating a battle plan. He knew that even though the Eight Wilds Spirit-Gathering Array was powerful, he had only just learned it on the spot, and could only bring out the most superficial aspects of the formation.
If it weren't for the overwhelming numbers of the Golden-Winged Sword Birds, he, Jiang Chen, wouldn't have had any advantage against two Spirit Realm experts.
Therefore, Jiang Chen didn't want to let things drag on, fearing a night of endless troubles.
Of the two Spirit Realm experts, one had to be eliminated first. He couldn't let them coordinate an attack from within and without.
If he had had ten days or half a month to practice the *Eight Wilds Spirit-Gathering Array*, controlling this number of Golden-Winged Sword Birds against Yu Jie and Xu Zhen would have been more than enough.
But a formation learned on the spot, if the enemy attacked fiercely, might easily develop flaws.
Slaying a Spirit Realm expert sounded extremely unbelievable. If any other martial artist in the Eastern Kingdom had such a thought, they would surely be out of their mind.
However, Jiang Chen was different from others.
He had this confidence, and he had the cards to back it up.
The first target he aimed to kill was not Yu Jie, but Xu Zhen.
It was clear that Xu Zhen's cultivation base was a notch below Yu Jie's. Furthermore, Xu Zhen was currently trapped in the core of the array, facing wave after wave of attacks, already flustered.
Jiang Chen thought to himself, relying on his own attacks alone, he was still a bit short of killing Xu Zhen. However, making Xu Zhen lose his focus was more than enough.
When Yu Jie's Autumn Water Sword began to gather momentum, Jiang Chen suddenly straightened his body, and the divine bow he had prepared was instantly drawn.
The arrow flew like a meteor!
Whoosh! It shot straight towards Xu Zhen, who was inside the array!
At this moment, Xu Zhen was already having a miserable time. He had never imagined that he would encounter a crisis in a mundane kingdom, and a fatal one at that.
Before leaving the sect, Xu Zhen had set out with the mentality of showing off and trampling on others in the secular kingdom. He felt that as a sect disciple in a secular kingdom, he should be able to crush everything, to sweep it all away.
But the situation before him now made him deeply regretful. He really regretted it. Why did he have to wade into this muddy water? Why did he come to this damned place with Yu Jie?
Just to curry favor with a future genius?
“Brother Yu, if you don't make a move soon, I won't be able to hold on!” Xu Zhen, now disregarding the dignity of a sect disciple, shouted for help.
At that very moment, a terrifying sound of an object tearing through the air echoed in his ears!
“A sneak attack?” Xu Zhen was already struggling to cope, utterly disheveled. The waves of attacks had kept him constantly on the defensive.
Although he heard the sound of the incoming projectile, he knew very well that if he altered his evasive rhythm in the slightest, he would be ground down by the relentless onslaught of attacks.
He had no choice but to grit his teeth, slightly twist his body, and brace himself to withstand this arrow.
Xu Zhen knew that the sound of the incoming attack must be an arrow shot by Jiang Chen. When he had fought Jiang Chen one-on-one before, he had destroyed Jiang Chen's arrows.
But at this very moment, Xu Zhen was tragically without even the time to dodge.
Bang!
A resounding arrow struck Xu Zhen in the back.
Much of the powerful True Qi was neutralized by his spirit armor. However, a small portion still poured into his body, causing Xu Zhen's internal organs to tremble incessantly.
“What? Another one?” Just as Xu Zhen was breathing a sigh of relief, he suddenly realized that the sound of the tearing air hadn't stopped.
Another arrow, with the same rhythm, the same arc, the same trajectory!
“Not good!” Xu Zhen suddenly understood. Jiang Chen's chain arrows were controlled with such exquisite skill! The second arrow was perfectly hidden behind the first in terms of sight, sound, and feel, catching even an expert like Xu Zhen off guard.
Just as Xu Zhen realized the danger, the second arrow had already struck.
At the same spot, it landed another solid hit.
Although the defense of the spirit armor was formidable, the destructive power of two consecutive attacks on the same spot was naturally different.
Xu Zhen gasped sharply, the attack of True Qi entering his body almost making him want to vomit on the spot.
Although this attack could not be fatal, it caused his physical body to suffer immense pain in an instant.
In that instant of pause, a beam of golden light descended, blasting into Xu Zhen's chest.
Bang!
An even more terrifying strike finally hit him, unable to be avoided.
Xu Zhen spat out a mouthful of blood, his eyes blazing red. His chain blade danced wildly as he roared frenziedly: “Kill me? You feathered beasts, ant-like creatures, think you can kill a Spirit Realm expert like me?”
“Die! Yin-Yang Lotus, Myriad Void Slashes!”
Xu Zhen’s chain blade whirled like a madman. Clearly, he had suddenly been provoked into a death-defying state of mind. Although he had been hit in the chest, it ignited his battle lust.
Seeing this, Jiang Chen was not alarmed but rather secretly pleased.
If this were a one-on-one battle, Xu Zhen's ferocious counterattack might have been intimidating and awe-inspiring.