After he shouted that warning, Qing Xue could not spare any more thought for the others. As he was sure that he and Bai Ruyi were the targets of this attack, all he could do was hope that the people waiting in ambush ahead wouldn’t want to dispose of the witnesses as well. If that was the case, there was a far greater chance for the others to get out of this unscathed. On the other hand, if he and Bai Ruyi hesitated, their deaths would only become all the more certain. As they rode, he had instructed Bai Ruyi to keep his head down while watching their backs for more arrows. Meanwhile, Qing Xue had stared vigilantly ahead, trying to see if the person who’d fired the arrow that killed the foreign soldier was still there. The purpose of that first move must have been to scare them into

