Fiancée Stolen by MC, I Trip Them up-Chapter 275 - 177: The Scholarly Kong Family!

When the gate-keeping mystical beast of the Golden Palace showed unusual behavior, the only one who knew the inside story, the Real Miaoyin, was leading people to firmly defend the Inner Imperial Palace.

Outside the palace gates stood thousands of young people in an orderly formation, wearing various types of attire.

Some of those young people were dressed in scholarly long robes, some wore armor, some were in coarse linen garments, and some were half-naked.

Despite their different attires, they all shared a common trait— their facial expressions.

These young people were mostly around twenty years old, with the eldest not exceeding forty.

At an age typically brimming with vitality and energy, they instead appeared with lifeless expressions, their faces stiff and numb, their movements rigid and mechanical.

They looked less like real people and more like puppets.

Real Miaoyin wore a purple Daoist robe, with a hair-binding golden crown atop her head, a silver threaded duster in her left hand, and a purple gold jade ruyi in her right.

She stood at the center of the city tower.

On her left stood the stoic Daoists of Xuanzhen Temple, on her right were variously expressed, frenetically eyed Zhao Royal relatives.

At that moment, a red Mingdi Bird swiftly flew in from afar.

Buzz!

From within the crowd outside the city gates came the sound of a bow being drawn.

An iron arrow tore through the void, accompanied by a whistling scream, shooting rapidly towards the Mingdi Bird.

Hearing the commotion below, the red Mingdi Bird glanced down, its tiny bean-sized eyes revealing a distinctly disdainful look.

Buzz!

At that moment, another iron arrow was shot forth.

This arrow was even faster, shooting forward and hitting the tail of the previous arrow.

The first arrow accelerated instantly.

The red Mingdi Bird knew its stuff.

Upon seeing this, it hastily retracted its mocking expression and started flapping its wings desperately.

This archery technique, Meteor Chasing the Moon!

Each arrow was fiercer and faster than the last.

The highest level involved nine consecutive arrows, known as "Nine Stars Chasing the Moon."

Legend has it that after nine accelerations, the speed of the first arrow could exceed ten times the speed of sound.

Even Great Cultivators at Tier Nine Saint King Realm couldn't evade it!

Upon seeing someone outside the city using "Meteor Chasing the Moon," a Daoist near Real Miaoyin stepped forward and said, "Sect Leader, 'Meteor Chasing the Moon' is among the 'Six Arts of the Gentleman' claimed by the Kong Family as their exclusive archery skills. The one targeting your Mingdi Bird is likely a direct descendant of the Kong family!"

Real Miaoyin nodded slightly.

Well-read, she was not unfamiliar with the Kong Family's "Meteor Chasing the Moon."

After seeing the speed and power of those two arrows, she immediately determined that the Kong Family descendant had only mastered up to the fourth arrow of "Meteor Chasing the Moon," far from the highest level of "Nine Stars Chasing the Moon."

However, this level of "Meteor Chasing the Moon" could already kill ordinary Mingdi Birds.

Buzz! Buzz!

Two more iron arrows shot out from the crowd.

Then, as Real Miaoyin predicted, after the fourth arrow, that person secretly had no ability to shoot any more arrows.

The first arrow, accelerated by three iron arrows, had already exceeded the speed of sound.

The red Mingdi Bird was extremely experienced.

After hearing the bowstring pull four times below, it suddenly folded its wings and then stopped mid-air in a manner defying logic.

If Zhao Yi were here, seeing the red Mingdi Bird's extreme maneuvers, he would certainly exclaim that Newton's coffin lid couldn't stay put.

The red Mingdi Bird's maneuvers had two difficult points.

The first was stopping abruptly from extreme speed.

The second was hovering in mid-air without moving its wings.

The red Mingdi Bird's actions directly overturned two basic classic physical laws.

Inertia, gravity.

If Zhao Yi knew how impressive this bird was, he definitely wouldn't have agreed to part with it so easily when Real Miaoyin tricked it from him.

The next moment!

The black iron arrow shot past three inches in front of the red Mingdi Bird.

If it hadn't braked urgently just now, it would have been pierced at this moment.

Whoosh!

It wasn't until this moment that the breaking sound of the iron arrow arrived belatedly.

After confirming there was no danger, the red Mingdi Bird flapped its wings a few times, turning into a streak of light as it flew towards Real Miaoyin standing on the city wall.

Real Miaoyin quickly reached out her left hand to catch the Mingdi Bird, while taking out prepared dried fruits from the brocade bag at her waist and offering them to the Mingdi Bird.

Perching on Real Miaoyin's hand, the Mingdi Bird collapsed, evidently exhausted from the previous extreme maneuvers, far from as effortless as it appeared.

Watching the Mingdi Bird nestled in her palm eating dried fruits, Real Miaoyin's eyes were full of awe.

Real Miaoyin finally understood the value in the saying, "Zhao Yi's products are guaranteed to be high-quality."

The red Mingdi Bird had been following Real Miaoyin for some time.

Though she knew the bird was unusual, it typically only delivered messages, revealing no special qualities.

Not until today, when Real Miaoyin saw it effortlessly counter the Kong Family's renowned "Meteor Chasing the Moon" did she truly realize what a treasure she had acquired.

"Had I known, I would have gone to the Little World to get struck by lightning too!"

Real Miaoyin thought of how Zhao Yi previously mentioned he would use all treasures in his vault to repay the ancestors of the Zhao family and the Great Xia Dynasty's Imperial Guard for enduring the lightning in the Little World, and couldn't help but drool.

Zhao Yi's Treasure Vault was a forbidden area of the Crown Prince's Mansion, and even Real Miaoyin hadn't been inside.

Many, including Real Miaoyin, had traded good things with Zhao Yi.

Though Zhao Yi complained each time, he never refused.

Given this, one can imagine how many treasures Zhao Yi accumulated over the years to create a vault.

Though the red Mingdi Bird was special, it surely wouldn't rank high within Zhao Yi's Treasure Vault.

Zhao Yi was someone who kept his promises.

Since he promised to give away all items within the Treasure Vault, he would hold nothing back.

As long as one survived the lightning tribulation in the Little World, the rewards from Zhao Yi would be astonishing.

"Little one, are you full yet?"

Real Miaoyin looked at the Mingdi Bird on her left hand, using the jade ruyi in her right hand to gently smooth the tuft of hair on its head ruffled by the wind.

"Once you're full, tell me what you saw in the Kong Family. I'm in a hurry to raid the Crown Prince's Mansion for good stuff; time is of the essence!"

As Real Miaoyin spoke, her peripheral vision swept over the combat puppets outside the palace gates.

These people besieged the imperial city without fighting, retreating, or surrendering, leaving one to wonder what the idiots from the Kong Family under control of the combat puppet "spirits" were plotting.

After eating a few dried fruits, the Mingdi Bird regained some strength.

Upon hearing Real Miaoyin's words, it immediately chirped away.

"They're waiting for the Undead Legion outside the city to breach the gates?"

Upon hearing the Mingdi Bird's message, Real Miaoyin turned her head to look in the direction of the South City Gate of Shengjing City.

The Undead Zombie Dragon had already reached the city gate.

The City Defense Army's Anti-Air Array was fully activated, forcing the Undead Dragon Race to land a hundred zhang (about 330 feet) away from the city wall, now advancing under immense pressure to besiege the city!

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