Bows and arrows were sacred to Eastern Wasteland people.
Breaking an arrow to swear was the most sacred oath of Eastern Wasteland people.
And when an Eastern Wasteland archer broke an arrow and threw it to another warrior's feet, it meant a fight to the death!
Not even the highest-ranking master Maguspriest or the king of Ten Sun Country had the right to stop a fight made with broken arrows.
Yi Ren was enraged, but he didn't lose his mind. Ji Hao was the commander-in-chief of the allied army now. He could never let Yi Di finish his speech and expose his bad intention towards Ji Hao.
The leaders of Ten Sun Country had made the decision that whoever killed Ji Hao would be the next king of Ten Sun Country. But he could only keep this in his heart, not in front of the others, not to mention in front of the army.
With Hao Tao's dark face, if Yi Di exposed Yi Ren's bad intention, Yi Ren didn't doubt that Hao Tao would punish him according to the military law. He would throw him to the guillotine and have a 'crack' in front of everyone.
Therefore, he broke the arrow, threw it to Yi Di, boosted up his power, and shouted with a resonant voice, "Yi Di, if you still remember your identity as an Eastern Wasteland man, if you still remember the noble bloodline of Ten Sun Country flowing in your veins, fight me!"
Letting out a long breath, Yi Ren smiled coldly and said, "This time, we will bet everything we have!"
Yi Di's face turned colder and colder. Looking at Yi Ren, he asked, "Everything we have?"
Yi Ren seriously nodded and said, "Warriors under our command, our personal properties, our territories in Ten Sun Country, including our unmarried women, our lives, our honor, everything!"
Thunderous wing-flapping noises could be heard. Iron feather black eagles and blood-eyed vultures rose from the city, screeching shrilly, straight into the sky. The enormous flock of birds hovered in the sky for a while, then slowly lined up behind Yi Ren and Yi Di.
Nearly a hundred Eastern Wasteland and Ten Sun Country elders and commanders rose into the sky. Strong gales roared behind them, transforming into enormous wings that supported them in the sky. They silently floated in the sky, coldly looking at Yi Ren and Yi Di.
A duel sworn by broken arrows was sacred. No eastern barbarian would disrupt a sacred duel between two warriors.
Yi Ren turned around and shouted harshly to the two-hundred-thousand blood-eyed vulture cavalrymen behind him, "I swear on the broken arrow, with the souls of my ancestors and the gods as my witness, if I die in the battle, you will follow Yi Di's lead, serve him faithfully, and never disobey him!"
The Blood Eyed Vulture Cavalrymen responded in unison, each pulling out an arrow from their quiver, snapping it into pieces before throwing it to the ground.
Yi Di turned around as well and said seriously to the steel-feathered eagle knight behind him, "I swear with the broken arrow. My ancestors' souls are above us, and the world is my witness. If I die in battle, you will also serve Yi Ren as your master. You will be at his beck and call. You cannot disobey him! "
The Iron Feathered Black Eagle Cavalrymen also pulled out an arrow from their quiver. Their faces twitched slightly, then they gnashed their teeth and broke the arrow in their hands, then threw the broken arrow to the ground while trembling.
The arrows broken by Yi Ren's warriors were ordinary arrows, so they didn't feel sad at all.
Yi Di's warriors had just distributed a large number of spell symbol arrows. Their quivers were filled with top-grade spell symbol arrows made by Ji Hao, without even a single ordinary arrow. Yi Di swore with the broken arrow, but the arrows they broke were such precious spell symbol arrows. Hearing this, Yi Di's warriors even had their internal organs trembling in pain.
"Yi Di, please!" Yi Ren raised the cicada falling bow, flashed across the water surface, and slid backward for over ten miles.
"Yi Ren, come!" Yi Di raised the thunder running bow. A hurricane suddenly rose around his body, rolled him up, and sent him straight up into the sky.
A silhouette flashed across the air behind Ji Hao. Hao Tao stood on the watchtower with a dark face and said, "Fighting in the army is a heavy crime!"
Without turning around, Ji Hao responded straightforwardly, "We have to respect the customs of Eastern Wasteland. If they want to fight, let them."
Pausing briefly, Ji Hao lowered his voice and continued, "Eastern Wasteland armies only need one leader. I was worrying about how to drive Yi Ren back to Pu Ban City … Since he jumped out and asked for death, then let him die."
Hao Tao's face twitched intensely.
Ji Hao's idea didn't conform to Hao Tao's principles at all. Nevertheless, Ji Hao's plan was in line with the current interests of the humankind, and was also in line with Si Wen Ming and Emperor Shun's plan. Hao Tao struggled for a while, then finally gave a silent sigh.
"Eastern Wasteland customs … Alright!" A long while later, Hao Tao murmured with a muffled voice.
Iron-feathered black eagles and blood-eyed vultures screamed. They rose into the sky, hovering in the air like two dark torrents. They screamed and taunted each other, shaking their wings and tearing the air apart. Feathers fell from the sky.
The feathers fell like snowflakes. Yi Ren abruptly cast a deep growl, then swung his longbow. The cicada-falling bow glowed faintly, then three-thousand arrows silently darted to Yi Di in the sky, glowing with a faint cyan-golden light. They looked like a golden gust of wind in late autumn.
The autumn wind was strong and cold, containing an inexhaustible power of killing that could wither everything in the world.
Yi Ren released this arrow. When it was still tens of miles away from Yi Di, the strong power of death contained in the arrow suffused the entire area. All of a sudden, countless dead fishes floated up from the water under Yi Ren's feet.
"Eastern Wasteland archery is indeed extraordinary!" Hao Tao's dark face twitched as he sighed sincerely.
"Cicada-Falling in the autumn wind, nothing more than this!" Ji Hao sneered. This arrow seemed to be extraordinary, but in fact, it only contained a slight trace of the power of the great Dao of withering everything in autumn. It was still far from the great Dao.
Ji Hao had a deep understanding of the great Dao of sun. Therefore, he despised this arrow.
"Sting!" High up in the air, Yi Di suddenly burst with a resonant growl. The 'sting arrow' of the twenty-four solar terms arrow taught by Yu Yu transformed into a thunderbolt, tearing the space apart and descending from the sky, along with a cyan-colored bolt of lightning.
A tremendous life-force struck straight at Yi Ren's head, completely opposite to the 'cicada-falling autumn wind'. The 'sting arrow' activated the thriving life-force of all living beings in the world. After a thunderous rumble, the life-force of the world was created, and all living beings rose up. The tremendous power released from the arrow immediately tore Yi Ren's arrow intent apart, and the three-thousand arrows were blown up.
Yi Ren screamed in pain. He flashed across the sky and swung his head down. A splendidly glowing 'wolf tooth' arrow pierced deeply into the spot between his eyebrows. Thin cyan-colored bolts of lightning sparkled on the arrow. Yi Ren's body wasn't harmed too badly, but his soul was already crushed by the sting arrow intent.
From the divine bow, to the arrows, to his overwhelming archery skills, Yi Ren's challenge was like a bubble on the water surface. With a slight poke, Yi Ren's challenge would shatter.
"I swear with my broken arrow!" Yi Di raised the thunder running bow high.
Two-hundred-thousand blood-eyed vultures stopped simultaneously. In the air, a large number of Eastern Wasteland archers kneeled down to Yi Di, shouting 'Master' loudly.
Among these two-hundred-thousand Eastern Wasteland archers, over six-thousand didn't kneel down. They pulled out their swords tied around their waists and swiftly beheaded themselves.
Blood splashed as six-thousand warriors fell from the sky and thudded into the water.
Their mounts screamed in pain, dove straight down from the sky, and broke their necks in the water.
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