Quick Travel to the Clouds

The black bear's rage was completely aroused, and several other hungry wolves also locked onto this moving target!

They ignored everyone else and chased after the injured Aigis with great ferocity!

Under the horrified gaze of everyone, and in the heart-wrenching and desperate eyes of the Second Princess Huang Yunli who was unable to save him, Aigis was completely dragged back to the edge of the jungle by the beast!

Inhuman screams, enough to freeze the soul, came from the dense forest that suddenly became like the entrance to the abyss, accompanied by teeth-grinding tearing and gnawing sounds!

The sound rang out twice and then stopped abruptly, as if it was completely swallowed by a bloody mouth.

The guards then roared and rushed forward to drive away the beast, but it was too late!

On the grassy area at the edge of the forest, only large, shocking pools of blood remained, a few tattered, brightly colored strips of cloth trampled into the mud, and... a small portion of a wrist, still twitching slightly, with a special animal tooth necklace...

Horrible!

The second princess, Huang Yunli, was as pale as paper, and she seemed to have lost all her strength in an instant. The overwhelming anger and deep sadness in her eyes solidified into a deadly coldness that was enough to freeze a person.

She stared at the dark forest that had swallowed Aigis, and even her breath carried the smell of pain and blood.

The guard who helped her delay for a moment with the "accidental stray arrow", and the figure that went unnoticed in the chaos... This was definitely not a simple accident!

This was an extremely vicious murder against her!

Her most cherished "treasure" was torn to pieces by the beast right before her eyes! Not even a complete body was left!

The surrounding camps were already in seething chaos—the roars of bandits, the clash of weapons, the screams of the dying, and the crackling of flames, all mixed together into a suffocating invisible web.

Yun Chu and her four-member team quickly retreated to the vicinity of her main tent. Although this place was relatively central, it was not absolutely safe.

Yun Chu stood in front of the tent door, his sharp eyes like a physical probe, scanning the chaos and darkness around him, taking in the howling of the wind outside the tent and the subtle movements inside.

At this moment, an extremely subtle, hair-raising "hissing" sound, like a ghostly whisper, rang out from the top of the tent and the cracks in the corners!

Almost at the same moment, several slender, swift black shadows clung to the edge of the shadows and shot out from different directions at speeds indistinguishable to the naked eye! Their target was Shen Ji, who was huddled in the corner!

That is definitely not an ordinary grass snake!

Its entire body was gray-black with fine ochre scales, and its triangular head and dark green vertical pupils shone with a cold and cruel luster in the dim light inside the tent—it was the "Dead Leaf Green" that was extremely poisonous and moved as fast as the wind!

"Be careful!" Gu Tingzhou screamed in shock. He was the closest to the scene and was so frightened that his hair stood on end!

Yun Chu, who was standing by the tent door, reacted faster than the sound of her warning! The moment Shen Ji screamed, she had already spun around and rushed into the tent!

She did not pounce directly at Shen Ji, but picked up the thick coarse cloth blanket that originally padded the saddle on the ground like a ghost, infused her internal energy into her wrist, and shook and rolled it violently!

“Whoosh—bang!”

A strong airflow was accompanied by a black arc!

A poisonous snake that had already flown into the air, less than a foot away from Shen Ji's ankle, was hit hard as if by an invisible iron whip. The snake's head made a crisp "snap" sound, and a ball of dirty blood burst out, hitting the ground hard!

The rolled-up blanket swept down two poisonous snakes that were following closely behind, and they fell to the ground and twisted and struggled.

But a cunning poisonous snake lurking in the corner avoided the sweep of the blanket and rushed towards Shen Ji's face again like a flash of lightning from a dead branch!

"Hmph!" Yun Chu's eyes became fierce, and he kicked sideways with his left foot like lightning. With a "bang", the heavy sole of his boot stepped on the venomous snake with incredible precision!

The crisp sound of bones breaking can be heard clearly!

A strange fishy smell filled the entire tent.

Shen Ji's face was as pale as paper, his body trembling uncontrollably, his eyes fixed on the three instantly dead snakes on the ground. Bai Mo and the other two gasped, realizing their vests were soaked with sweat.

At the moment when the poisonous snakes in the tent were cleared and everyone's minds relaxed a little -

"Bang!" A dull and heart-pounding crash suddenly penetrated the tent wall!

A black, heavy arrow with a triangular tip, accompanied by a sharp sound of breaking through the air, was nailed firmly on the inner edge of the tent door pillar where Yun Chu had just stood!

The arrow shaft vibrated rapidly due to the huge inertia, making a low buzzing sound!

The arrowhead penetrated deeply into the wood, and the three-edged armor-piercing arrowhead, shining with a cold gleam, almost completely penetrated the thick cowhide and hardwood of the pillar!

The force of the arrow was so fierce that if Yun Chu had not rushed in to deal with the poisonous snake in time, the arrow would have accurately hit her chest and abdomen!

The guards outside the tent seemed to have just sensed the source of danger and rushed towards the direction of the arrows, roaring: "Over there!"

Liu Rufeng rushed out to investigate and returned with a sullen expression, "The arrow was shot from the chaotic crowd, using a standard armor-piercing shaft... but we couldn't find the person who shot it! He vanished like a ghost!"

The look he gave Yun Chu was filled with a new layer of fear and chill – was this really just a stray arrow?!

Yun Chu walked to the sharp arrow that was nailed into the pillar, stretched out two fingers, and firmly pressed the still trembling arrow shaft, his eyes as cold as frozen black ice.

There was no marking on the arrow tail, but the triangular armor-piercing arrowhead was definitely not used by ordinary bandits or hunters.

It was heavy, fierce, and precise, and it was struck at the perfect time when everyone in the tent had just experienced a sneak attack by a venomous snake and must have been frightened and slightly relaxed!

Yun Chu raised his hand, channeling his inner strength, and silently pulled the fatal arrow from the stake. The arrow was cold, stained with fragments of wood fiber.

"The poisonous snake sneaked in from the gap..." Yun Chu picked up a small piece of broken scales of the poisonous snake, and her eyes as sharp as a hawk swept across the tent structure, "The armor-piercing arrow is just right..." She weighed the heavy arrow in her hand, and a cold, sarcastic arc appeared at the corner of her mouth.

She cast her gaze outside the tent, past the clamor of battle and the flames, as if piercing through the thick darkness, towards the heart of the camp, plunged into a dead silence and coldness due to Aigis's tragic death.

"It seems," she said in a low and calm voice, yet with a chilling insight, "this chaos is after prey far beyond just the panicked deer."

She threw the deadly arrow to the ground as if it were a useless piece of debris.

But her eyes were as firm as a rock - danger was lurking on every side, murderous intent was already revealed, and it was still unclear who the real hunter was.

The shouts and cries of killing gradually faded within the camp, but the smell of blood grew stronger. Empress Huang Yuqing's personal Iron Feather Guards charged into the battlefield like a black torrent, crushing the ferocious bandits in their wake.

Their sophisticated armor and precise coordination made them a world apart from the chaotic bandits.

The remaining bandits were either beheaded or captured alive, like flies being driven away.

In another corner of the camp, several palace servants who were old hunters were leading the effort to quickly clear out the hidden dangers of poisonous snakes.

The specially prepared powder was ignited, emitting a pungent but effective smoke that drove away the poisonous creatures lurking in the forest.