Lightning doesn't choose its targets, striking anyone who comes within range.
Everyone was retreating, and the members of the Peacock Clan also wanted to retreat. However, their young clan leader insisted that they carry the unconscious and possibly dead female demons from the ground, and he himself picked up the Imperial Consort.
But Hei Ling and his followers did not want to let them leave; they ordered their archers to draw their bows and arrows, ready to shoot anyone who stepped out of the Palace's bounds.
Such an action caused a trace of despair to appear on the face of the Peacock Clan leader, Kong Lan.
They might not be able to leave, likely to be scattered to the winds by the Tribulation Thunder.
"I'm sorry, everyone," Kong Lan said with a bitter smile as he held the Imperial Consort close, "It looks like we might have to die here together."
