But at this moment, he had no other options. If he put away the Fire Dragon Chariot, he definitely couldn’t outrun the Wind Horse Beasts behind him on foot. These Wind Horse Beasts looked quite similar to purebred racehorses on Earth, but they always had six or seven streams of strange, differently colored auras swirling around their bodies.

Whenever they ran, the auras coiling around the Wind Horse Beasts would accelerate and spin, greatly lightening the burden on their bodies. With just a light touch of their four hooves on the ground, they could leap seven or eight meters in a single bound.

When the Crimson Flame Dragon Beast ran at full speed, a plume of fire would burst from its head and then spread along the mane on its neck and back, making it even more dazzling and impressive than the Wind Horse Beast.

Between these two exotic beasts, the Crimson Flame Dragon Beast was certainly much faster. However, with eight Crimson Flame Dragon Beasts still pulling a refined copper war chariot, their speed was about the same as the Wind Horse Beasts.

Every time Grace Walker threw a stone, he could feel a fierce wind blowing by, and the Fire Dragon Chariot’s speed definitely exceeded two hundred kilometers per hour.

One careless bandit soldier was struck in the left eye of his Wind Horse Beast by a stone thrown by Grace Walker, and the startled mount threw him to the ground. David Reed was furious and shouted, “Loose arrows! Shoot that child!”

The rebel king of Daliang had gathered his bandit soldiers from ordinary civilians. Although the people of the Central Plains dynasties had always valued martial prowess and most were skilled in martial arts, there were still few who could shoot arrows from a bow while galloping on a wild horse.

Among David Reed’s men, only four carried bows and arrows, and two of them had already been knocked down by Grace Walker.

When David Reed gave the order to shoot, the two remaining bandit soldiers each took up their bows, drawing them like crescent moons. Seeing this, Grace Walker shouted and immediately ducked under the driver’s seat of the Fire Dragon Chariot. The two bandits loosed their arrows, which whistled past Grace Walker’s head and struck the side of the chariot.

Clang! Clang! The two of them lacked the strength, and their bows and arrows were of ordinary quality, so they couldn’t pierce the refined copper body of the Fire Dragon Chariot. The long arrows simply fell to the ground.

Seizing the opportunity, Grace Walker hurled two stones, forcing the two bandits who were about to shoot a second time to dodge aside.

At this moment, the road ahead gradually leveled out, revealing an extremely wide official road. Grace Walker steered the Fire Dragon Chariot, racing wildly along the road. “Maomaocha, on this road, there’s a much higher chance of running into people. Whether it’s good luck or bad, it’s still better than being caught.”

Now, he actually started to miss his five corpse soldiers. He had left them hidden somewhere in the city, and with the corpse-controlling copper ring, he could only send commands at close range. Who knew how far they’d run by now—he couldn’t sense their presence at all.

“When you need cannon fodder, you find they’re not around. Truly, there’s nothing more frustrating in life than this!”

With the chaos of war, the official road was deserted. Grace Walker’s Fire Dragon Chariot and the sixty or seventy Wind Horse Beasts chasing behind him raced for over an hour without encountering a single living soul.

Pressed by the two archers among the bandits, Grace Walker no longer dared to raise his head. He could only close his eyes and blindly throw stones, so the threat was much less. David Reed, seeing that he was about to catch up to the Fire Dragon Chariot, was excited. His deputy, the bandit wielding the eight-foot red copper saber, suddenly shouted, pressed his hand on the Wind Horse Beast’s back, and leapt from his mount.

“Is this guy that eager to steal the credit?”

David Reed was displeased and also leapt from his horse, wanting to reach the Fire Dragon Chariot before his subordinate.

Although Grace Walker didn’t dare to stick his head out, he was always paying attention to the situation behind him. Suddenly seeing two dark figures soaring through the air, he was startled. Forgetting his fear of the archers, he quickly grabbed the Flame Beast Spear and swept it across, clashing first with the bandit’s eight-foot red copper saber, then with David Reed’s spear.

Both of them were much stronger than him, especially the bandit with the eight-foot red copper saber, whose strength was overwhelming. Grace Walker didn’t know how to borrow or redirect force, so after one hard clash, his hands were left numb from the shock.

David Reed was a bit weaker in strength, but his skill was higher. In midair, his spear trembled, sending out three spear flowers in quick succession. The bandit with the eight-foot red copper saber was forced back by Grace Walker, landing on the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust. David Reed, however, used a clever move to deflect the Flame Beast Spear and stepped onto the refined copper roof of the Fire Dragon Chariot.

This exchange happened in a flash. Grace Walker had no time to think, so he reversed the Flame Beast Spear and used it as a club. David Reed, unsteady on his feet, hurriedly rolled off the roof but managed to grab onto a protrusion on the side of the chariot.

“Damn, this bandit is too cunning! I can’t let him get on the chariot!”

Grace Walker swung the Flame Beast Spear wildly like a game of whack-a-mole, just wanting to smash down on David Reed. But now that he had something to brace against, David Reed’s spear technique was far superior to Grace Walker’s half-baked skills. If not for the fact that most of his body was hanging outside the chariot, forcing him to maintain his balance, and that one of his hands was injured, he could have broken through Grace Walker’s crude spearwork in just two or three moves and thrown him off the chariot.

Without anyone controlling it, the Fire Dragon Chariot’s speed immediately slowed down. Several bandits shouted loudly, having already ridden their Wind Horse Beasts to the front of the chariot.

At that moment, Grace Walker suddenly recalled the feeling he had outside Yanggu County, when he first opened his fourteenth acupoint and connected his first meridian. In this life-and-death moment, he was finally forced to unleash all his potential.