The army continued to charge in, unfazed by the exploding elders and the shaking earth. Li Bai was finding their composure peculiar.
"Even in this situation, they're still charging in as planned? No changes to their formation whatsoever?"
Li Bai took a wider look and realized that there was no formation at all, just a jumbled chaotic mess of people. He was finding the attack more bizarre by the second.
"...or I could just be overthinking it. They could just not think of us, the Li clan, that highly... If so, then I will force them to think that!"
Meanwhile, one of the servants that were entrusted with Li Bai's safety just noticed that the child they were protecting was gone. He asked his fellow servant.
"W-where is young master Li Bai?"
When the whereabouts of Li Bai was called to attention, all of the servants in the vicinity panicked, even the ones that looked down on Li Bai! Even though he's trash, he was still the clan head's son! To lose him when they were assigned with the task of looking after him would be the same as losing their heads!
Bored in her room, Li Bao was looking for the opportunity to escape, but it was impossible, there were just too many servants surrounding her room. One of the servants looking for Li Bai asked a servant guarding Li Bao.
"Hey, have you seen the young master Li Bai? He's missing."
As soon as she heard that the young master was missing, the servant immediately informed the other servants surrounding Li Bao's room to help go look for him.
Li Bao overheard the conversation and took this opportunity to escape. She headed towards Li Bai's room, hoping to find him there, but realized that the servant said he was missing.
"Of course, he wouldn't be in his room."
The servants caught Li Bao, this time detaining her inside Li Bai's room.
.....
The army passed through all of the traps and arrived at the main defense, the cultivators. As soon as they did, the two sides engaged in a heated battle. Liu Gong and Li Fu were fighting each other.
Li Fu was still hesitant to hurt his friend Liu Gong, so he held back some of his power. After all, he knew that he had a higher cultivation level than Liu Gong.
Liu Gong, however, was not showing any signs of hesitation, instead seemingly giving it his all to fight Li Fu with the intent to kill.
Li Fu felt that there was something strange going on with his friend, but he didn't have the time to think about it and continued to defend himself against his friend.
Jin He was completely annihilating her opponents, not even breaking a sweat, not even standing! She was sitting leisurely on a chair she brought outside, fanning herself with her hand, all the while fanning the enemy too, knocking them back several meters.
Other than Jin He, everyone else was struggling with their opponents, fighting to the death. Both the Li clan's and the Liu clan's numbers were steadily decreasing.
Li Bai wasn't shooting with his [Dragon Arrow] Technique anymore, as it would cause casualties on both sides, the Li clan, and the Liu clan. Instead, he was using the [Bullseye Arrow] Technique to target the opponents precisely, even while far away like he was now, and the [Lightning Arrow] Technique to shoot arrows in succession as quickly as possible. This also added to the speed of the arrow.
Every time an arrow killed an enemy, the person that was battling said enemy would get surprised. Who was it that was targeting these enemies with extreme precision, not hitting him at all? What's more, there were multiple instances of this happening in one second, suggesting that there were multiple archers that could do this.
They wanted to glance at the elite archers but were too preoccupied fighting. What they didn't know was that there was only one person who was shooting all of those arrows, and it was the trash of the clan!
The rest of the archers couldn't shoot anymore as they didn't have high precision, unlike Li Bai. Instead, they went to help the army with martial arts. The traps have all been activated, with most ending up as duds. The whole of Liu clan's army has gotten through both the first and second lines of defenses.
After thinking, Li Bai also put his bow down and decided to help with melee attacks instead of ranged ones. He thought that he would do more damage if he attacked directly, not shooting arrows one by one.
The last of Li Bai's arrows hit their respective targets straight through the heart, surprising the ones who were fighting them.
Li Bai jumped down from the tall tower and ran towards the battle, passing by one of the panicking servants that are looking for him. The servant saw the young master rapidly walking towards the battle and immediately lifted him up and brought him back to his room, where Li Bao was.
"Oh, Bai didi, you were captured."
Li Bai saw his sister in his room and got confused. Why is she in my room?
Li Bao took the initiative to talk and spoke confidently, guessing her brother's thoughts.
"Didi, you may be wondering, why is your Bao jie-jie in your room?"
"Yes. I am wondering that."
Li Bai crossed his arms, raised one of his eyebrows, and stood in front of Li Bao while tapping his foot, implying his impatience. He exuded a superior smart aura as opposed to Li Bai's inferior stupid aura.
Li Bao got intimidated by his increasing presence. A sweat dripped through her back and she retreated a small bit.
Li Bai was getting more and more addle. What is she doing? He was not intimidating her on purpose, but rather, he was doing it out of habit. He always did this in his past lives.
Li Bao spoke timidly to not prolong this scary conversation any longer.
"Uh... well, you see... there's something I need help with..."
Li Bai was shocked. Was his sister still practicing the art of medicine making amidst all of the chaos outside? He underestimated his sister. What he didn't know was that he estimated her exactly before and now he's overestimating her. Li Bao actually just thought up an excuse for her to go to his room. She just wanted to talk to someone.
"Alright, jie-jie. What is the problem?"
"Ah, see, I'm getting perplexed. How do I control the fire?"
Wait, this topic? Didn't we already discuss this before? Li Bai was confused once again. Nonetheless, he still taught her again.
