“Sir… please don’t!!” Bai Yishan screamed miserably as soon as the rain of arrows started falling, and he cowered behind the tombstone with dread and despondence in his heart.

But he soon came to realize that the arrows weren’t directed at him at all.

Instead, they were all aimed at Qin Ye.

“How dare you cause trouble at the First Academy of Cultivators. What gall.” Qin Ye chuckled and swung his demonhead saber rapidly, parrying each and every one of the arrows that were pouring down towards him!

Boom!

The air shone with a radiant light as the arrows were shattered one after the other, just like the dawn of the new moon.

A brilliant blade light burst through the canopy of arrows, shattering them as it shot straight towards Kamo no Tadayuki. Tadayuki recoiled with great surprise. He hadn’t expected the rain of arrows to be completely useless against Qin Ye altogether. Before he could react to the stark change in circumstances, several voices cried out with great urgency from the sides, “Protect the master!”

The tengu soldiers immediately turned around, revealing a shield that they wore on their backs. It was unclear what materials they were made out of, but each of them had a different human expression painted on it. With their great cry of urgency, all of them dashed like madmen towards Tadayuki and surrounded him, stacking...