Outside the Vermilion Bird Gate, everything was ever-changing and deceptive. The two who fought life and death just ten breaths ago had already forgotten each other's whereabouts and intentions.
Mrs. Lu and Lin Chaoqing lost their memories and could only act on instinct.
Over a dozen Imperial Guards, each carrying longbows, leapt from the watchtower, quickly running along the street rooftops, picking angles to shoot at the three hidden under the eaves.
The Imperial Guards first spotted Lin Chaoqing. As the feathered arrows whistled towards him, Lin Chaoqing flicked up a straw coat from the ground with his toe and spun it in his hand, so all the incoming arrows were caught within it.
The spinning straw coat was like a black hole, swallowing all the arrows, and then the arrows shot out from this black hole, killing most of the Imperial Guards on the roof ridge.
