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THE GOOD FOR NOTHING SEVENTH YOUNG LADY - Chapter 189
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Wan Li suddenly thought of an idea to play a trick on this little guy. That day in the gold-smelting weapon shop, this kid was pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger and that made him truly ashamed. He should return that humiliation back to him.
“Hey, you stop!” Wan Li immediately walked over to Shen Yanxiao.
Shen Yanxiao looked at the eyes of this familiar juvenile, she could not remember where she had seen him.
“I never thought you’re a student of our school.” Wan Li looked maliciously at Shen Yanxiao.
“Does it matter?” Shen Yanxiao still have no idea who the other person was and she calmly asked.
Wan Li smiled and said: “Say, didn’t you bought a good bow?”
Once the Purple Baron was mentioned, Shen Yanxiao immediately remembered the scene at the gold-smelting weapon shop. She also naturally recalled about some fool who had been chattering nonstop.
So what did this fool wanted for stopping her so suddenly?
“Why?” She had no time to listen to his nonsense right now. While the teaching of red class was boring, there were still many basic knowledge for her to study. She was eager to go to the shooting field to practice.
“Oh, I say that since you spent 3 million to buy a good bow, you should also take it out and use it. Just putting it at home won’t do.” Wan Li deliberately raised his voice.
And sure enough, because of the words, “spent 3 million to buy a good bow” this news about some local tyrant had put a halt to the footsteps of other students passing by. Full of curiosity, they looked at the inconspicuous appearance of Shen Yanxiao.
Shen Yanxiao threw a tepid looked at Wan Li. She clearly sense that this fool had no good intentions in calling her out.
“Such a good bow is not suitable to stay in the red class. How about this, since I kind of feel sorry for you I’ll give you a chance. This weekend, you can come and challenge me. If you win, you can jump directly from the red class to purple class, how’s that?” Wan Li said with some evil intentions.
The students at the sidelines were secretly speechless. Letting a red class student directly challenged a purple class student? Is this a joke?
Although every week there were many precedents of successful challenge, however, that’s only jumping to one higher level at most. It was too rare to directly jump from the lowest level to the most advanced level.
What’s even more rare was that such a challenge was actually made by a student of a purple class. This one clearly wanted to humiliate that little guy!
Almost no one believed that Shen Yanxiao would really accept this crazy invitation.
Among the students watching this good show, many of them are from the red class and they recognized Shen Yanxiao as their classmate who had just started to attend the class. They had no idea how this kid provoked a purple class student. One must know that whenever the students from red class saw the purple class students, they could only walk around and avoid them.
This guy’s luck was really bad to actually provoked that purple class student and be aimed at.
Wan Li’s arms crossed on his chest as he looked at Shen Yanxiao. He was quite certain that Shen Yanxiao would not accept his invitation. He wanted to tell him that no matter how rich he was, he’s still nothing but a trash. And that he had no qualification to show off in front of him. Here in the Holy Roland School, where students were measured by strength, he didn’t even deserve to lift his shoes.
Shen Yanxiao had never thought that the day when she’s just planning to buy a bow would actually poked a passer-by’s fragile heart. She didn’t understand why would this guy come to her and find trouble. But she was not someone who’ll always let herself be bullied.
Want to humiliate her? First weigh your own asset before you speak.
While everyone was mourning for Shen Yanxiao, this seemingly thin little boy suddenly hooked up his lips and slightly raised his chin: “I accept your invitation.”
Chapter 212: If you want to fight with me, then fight (1)
She actually agreed!
Everyone on the side was stunned. Almost no one dared to believe that Shen Yanxiao would took Wan Li’s provocation.
“This kid’s brain is not good. He’s definitely crazy. Wan Li is the most talented student in our term that even mentor Xie Yun had praised him, ah. He actually wants to challenge Wan Li? This is the funniest joke I’ve heard this year.”
Wan Li’s reputation among the new students was not small. Many people knew of his existence.
If Meng Yijun was the leader of the entire archer branch, then Wan Li could be said to be the leader of the freshmen in this new term.
Wan Li could even outshine the experts among the purple classes.
Not so long ago, Xie Yun had publicly praised the talent of Wan Li.
Who is Xie Yun? He was none other than the president of the archer branch and his strength was formidable.
In the entire archer branch, aside from Meng Yijun, Wan Li was the only one who had been praised by Xie Yun.
And that was enough to prove the talent of Wan Li in the archer branch.
“Don’t be ridiculous. I can clearly see that this kid’s brain has not developed. Look at his small arms and legs. I’m afraid he’ll get exhausted just by pulling a bow.”.
“A red class student to challenge the purple class students is simply a miracle, ah!”
Everyone thought that Shen Yanxiao had a brain problem to actually accept the challenge of Wan Li. He was only a student of the red class so how could he dare to challenge a purple class student?
Everyone thought that Shen Yanxiao was crazy!
Wan Li was also somewhat surprised with Shen Yanxiao’s response, but immediately, he smiled.
There’s no route for him to heaven, he’ll charge straight into the gates of hell.
Did this kid really thought that spending a lot of money to buy a good bow could make him invincible? As an archer, how could Wan Li not see that Shen Yanxiao’s hands were smooth and there’s not even a trace of calluses? It is clear that this kid was not putting too much effort on archery. Archers that practice diligently would naturally have some calluses on their hands. Just by looking at his small arms and legs, the lower plate was bound to be unstable. How could he shoot a strong arrow with weak arms?
If it wasn’t because Shen Yanxiao was wearing an archer’s badge at this time, Wan Li would unlikely offer him a drill practice in archery even if you beat him to death.
Such a person actually dared to challenge him? He’s really overestimating himself.
But since he’s not afraid to be humiliated, he naturally didn’t mind helping him to humiliate himself more.
“Alright, this weekend I will wait for you in the shooting field. I hope you don’t go back on your words.” Wan Li didn’t put this little imp in his eyes. Although his talent was not comparable with Meng Yijun’s, but he was confident that among these new students, he couldn’t absolutely find another one who was more talented than him.
Otherwise Xie Yun would not have praised him in public.
Wan Li was secretly pleased with himself. He was so proud that he got praised by Xie Yun. But what he didn’t know was that the little imp that he despises so much was actually a genius that had been enrolled midway into the archer branch by Xie Yun himself.
Shen Yanxiao raised her eyebrows. Faced with the ridicule around her and the triumphant look of Wan Li, she looked at him straight in the eyes… so what?
“Make sure that you’ll show up on time.” Shen Yanxiao slightly smiled and recklessly walked past to the side of Wan Li.
This weekend, she would make him unable to laugh and instead he’ll cry to the point of being unsightly.
Shen Yanxiao did not directly went back to the dormitory but into the archer branch library to stay late at night. Only when the manager of the library had left did she then hurriedly head out.
But she didn’t go back to rest. Taking advantage of the dead of the night, she went into the shooting field of the archer branch.
The night had been deep and the students of the archer branch have already returned to rest. The yard that was designed to be spacious was dark and not even a single soul in sight.
Shen Yanxiao activated the light congealing crystals hanging above the shooting field, and then light once again enveloped the place.
Chapter 213: If you want to fight with me, then fight (2)
While holding the Purple Baron in her hands, Shen Yanxiao took an arrow from the arrow basket. She then steadied her body and took a deep breath before gently putting the arrow on the bowstring.
‘Good posture.’ Xiu commented as if he could clearly see Shen Yanxiao’s movements. After learning the basic lessons, Shen Yanxiao’s posture looked very standard. It was nothing like the stiffness she had last time in the division master’s place. In just one afternoon, she was able to turn from a layman to an archer that had the correct shooting posture. Just how strong was this talent.
There was a trace of smile in Shen Yanxiao’s mouth, looking at the target that was 100 meters away; she fiercely released the arrow from her hands.
The arrow flew straight onto the bull’s eye and then firmly nailed the center of the target.
This time, the arrow did not penetrate the target but was nailed to the target.
“Is it because of the arrow?” Shen Yanxiao saw that the result was different from before; she raised her eyebrow.
‘Although the gray spirit arrow is not the best arrow, but each of those arrow had a cast runes of the forging master. You’re using an ordinary arrow right now, the effect will naturally be different.’ Just like a strict tutor, Xiu removed the doubts in Shen Yanxiao’s heart.
There’s actually a difference? Looks like it was a good thing that she was able to extort those 300 gray spirit arrows from the division master the other day.
‘Being a real archer isn’t just as simply as hitting the bull’s eye. In the future, you may face magical beasts with thick coarse-skin or enemies that uses light shields and armors. I’m afraid you cannot break their defenses with this kind of strength.’ Appropriate encouragement was needed, but accurate cognition was equally important.
Xiu wasn’t being stingy with his criticisms to Shen Yanxiao. For the true essence of being an archer wasn’t just about shooting; at the very least, shooting an arrow was only considered the most basic thing in being an archer, the true essence of an archer was actually the speed and strength of the arrow.
‘Even though you can rely on those arrows with runes, but if you want to be a top-notch archer, you have to rely on your own ability. After all, bows and arrows, in the end are merely an additional weapon. If you can make a strong blow with just using the most common bow and arrow then that would be better than having good weapons.’
“Strength.” Shen Yanxiao thought about it. Shooting an arrow was indeed the most basic thing. If she wants to stand out, then she needed to improve her strength.
Shen Yanxiao took another two arrows and put them on the string; her mouth had a touch of a smile.
“Then, how about this?”
Swoosh!
An arrow shot out!
While the first arrow was flying towards the target, Shen Yanxiao immediately used her spiritual power to lock onto the first arrow, and then shot another arrow that flew away like a lightning. The speed of the second arrow was more swift and it was accurately directed at the tail of the first arrow which had yet to reach the bull’s eye. The second arrow hit the first arrow causing the speed of the first arrow to suddenly boost. In the blink of an eye the first arrow had ran through the target!
After seeing how Shen Yanxiao shot the arrows, even Xiu couldn’t help but became slightly surprised.
Shooting two consecutive arrows with one arrow strengthening the power of the other one; it made the ordinary arrow to successfully ran through the target!
How accurate does a vision need in order to see an arrow flying rapidly? And how fast do both hands need to shoot another arrow at the tail of the first one before it reach the target?!
It would be very hard to find those kind of people in this world that possessed such an aberrant skills!
‘You have infused magic in the second arrow.’ Xiu quickly found the reason as to how she achieved such result.
For the first arrow, Shen Yanxiao had pulled the bowstring to the limit. It was almost impossible for the second arrow to surpass its speed but Shen Yanxiao did it.
Chapter 214: If you want to fight with me, then fight (3)
Locking the target with the use of spiritual power and infusing magic into the second arrow, adding to that the speed of Shen Yanxiao’s hands from practicing curse techniques. In the whole world, aside from Shen Yanxiao who had the talent of dual-cultivation, only the Magic Archer could accomplish such a tough skill!
But nowadays, in the whole Radiance Continent, even the Advanced Archers were rare, let alone the Magic Archers!
“What do you think?” Shen Yanxiao was very satisfied with her accomplishment. It was the first time that she had tried to blend magic and dou qi but the result was unexpectedly good.
“Not bad.” Xiu, for once in a lifetime, praised her.
Shen Yanxiao was new to the archer’s path, yet she already knew how to apply her warlock’s ability to archery. And this was based entirely from her own understanding and not from his guidance.
This little girl was actually quick-witted enough.
“Heh. I’ll make that guy called Wan Li look good this weekend.” Trying to humiliate her? She would let him see who was going to be humiliated.
There were still two or three days before the challenge. Shen Yanxiao continued to change her identity and ran in the two different branches. Everytime, Tang Nazhi tried to catch her but he didn’t succeed.
One evening, Tang Nazhi was laying on his bed and he looked at Shen Yanxiao who had finally returned before dark, he unpleasantly humphed at her.
“What have you been working on these days? How could I not see a glimpse of your shadow every afternoon?” He almost turned over the entire pharmaceutical branch but didn’t see any traces of this stinking brat. Tang Nazhi was extremely curious where he was hiding.
She was hiding in the archer branch! Shen Yanxiao couldn’t tell him that though.
“Nothing. Just wandering around the Black City to see if there are any suitable medicinal herbs.”
“Black City?” Tang Nazhi recalled that a few days ago, Shen Yanxiao had indeed asked him once about some things in the Black City, he actually didn’t think much of it though. But when the Black City was mentioned, he suddenly thought of a very interesting news.
“I couldn’t find your shadow all day, but I heard a very interesting news.”
“What is it?” Shen Yanxiao casually asked.
Tang Nazhi sat up and crossed his legs and then said: “It’s about the archer branch. The freshmen over there are quite dishonest. The number of recent challenges are also quite a lot. But this time, there’s a rumor about a freshman archer student who had ran to the Gold-smelting weapon shop of Black City and spent 3 million to buy a semi-finished bow.”
Shen Yanxiao was about to pour a glass of water, but upon hearing the news of Tang Nazhi, her hands couldn’t help but stop.
It was really embarrassing! That extravagant student seemed to be her!!!
“It is said that the boy was a student from the red class of the archer branch, and he had challenged a purple class student this weekend.” There were constant challenges happening in every branch, but a red class student challenging a purple class student? This kind of crazy thing was rarely seen. Except maybe from Cao Xu’s team, that group of hapless eggs, no other person would even think about it.
“And then?” Shen Yanxiao was calmly waiting for his next words.
“Are you interested in going to the archer branch tomorrow afternoon? I’d like to see what kind of bow is worth 3 million gold coins.” Tang Nazhi rubbed his chin. Three million, what a luxury!
Shen Yanxiao’s mouth slightly twitched. She’s going to see what? She was the main cast of the show that he was going to watch, okay!
No matter how much Tang Nazhi persuaded her, Shen Yanxiao just kept on putting on an expression that said : “I’m not interested in it but please do go if you’d like to.”
Chapter 215: One-sided (1)
Tang Nazhi didn’t force Shen Jue to go. Don’t be fooled by this kid’s weak structure, it may looked like he’s someone who’s easily influenced but actually this boy was not at all easy to control. He’s actually someone who’ll do whatever he wants stubbornly to death. If he didn’t want to do it then even if you break your tongue persuading him, it was still useless.
…
The next afternoon, after classes in the archer branch was dismissed, the students didn’t followed their own routine of grabbing their meal as usual. They instead walked in groups towards the shooting field.
As the last day of the week, every practice field of each branches staged a variety of challenges. The teenagers who lived a boring life everyday and were fond of finding thrill would always go into the practice field at this time to watch the various one-on-one battles.
The shooting field of the archer branch was packed with people. Most of them came to see the great show. Only 10 students were actual participants of different challenges.
Wan Li had been waiting in the shooting field and he was surrounded by a group of archer students in the first grade.
“Wan Li, do you really need to accept the challenge of that trash?” The news that Wan Li was taking part in a challenge this weekend had long been spread throughout the first grade students. Everyone was mourning for the ignorant challenger.
Wan Li had a proud face and he said rather arrogantly: “Since he wishes it, why won’t I give him a chance?”
“But how could he be your opponent?” In the entire grade, one couldn’t find someone who could be on par with Wan Li. Although Wan Li was arrogant, he really had some strength.
“I heard that mentor Xie Yun will also come today.” Another student quietly said.
The other students looked at Wan Li with envious eyes at once.
“Mentor Xie Yun really values you, ah. Knowing that you’re going to participate in a challenge, he actually came to personally watch.”
As the president of the archer branch, Xiu Yun hardly comes to watch the challenges between students. However, today was an exception, everyone had thought that it was all because of Wan Li.
“The last time that Senior Meng Yijun took part in a challenge, mentor Xie Yun didn’t come to watch. Wan Li, your reputation is really big.”
Wan Li proudly stick out his chest. He really had no idea that Xie Yun would come. But now that he knew, he’d surely put on a good performance. His only fear was that the opponent’s strength would be too bad and that would not give him a chance to show off his skills. Wan Li began to feel distressed. How could he humiliate that boy named Xiao Yan and at the same time extend the time of their battle so that he can have a good performance in front of Xie Yun?
Not long after, just like those students had said, Xie Yun arrived at the shooting field. The moment he had entered the shooting field, the whole place turned dead silent and all eyes were casted on him.
The youths who were ready to go to war were also obediently standing at the side.
If Ouyang Huanyu was said to be the idol of the whole magician branch of Holy Roland School, then Xie Yun was the god in the minds of every archer students.
Wan Li was in high spirits as he smilingly walked towards Xie Yun and respectfully said: “Mentor Xie Yun, you came.”
Xie Yun nodded and then absent-mindedly looked at the students in the shooting field.
He heard from the other mentors yesterday that a few days ago, the little guy he had stuffed into the red class had incredibly challenged Wan Li of the purple class and that really surprised him.
He had some impressions of Wan Li. Even though the temperament of this youth was impetuous, but his talent was pretty good.
Chapter 216: One-sided (2)
Although Xiao Yan’s talents were extraordinary, she was still a newbie in the Archer Branch. Not even a week had past since she came to the archer branch yet she dared to challenge another student! Xie Yun really wanted to grab that stinking brat and beat her up for acting so recklessly. Even if her talent was extraordinary, that student Wan Li had undergone archery training this past few years even before she entered Holy Roland School. Challenging others out of nowhere was really just…
If it wasn’t for Xiao Yan, this stinking brat had said that she was going to stay off-campus, Xie Yun was afraid that he had long beaten her to death in the dorm earlier and had already pried open the kid’s head to see exactly what was going on in her mind.
After looking around, Xie Yun still wasn’t able to find the figure of Shen Yanxiao in the crowd. Wan Li, who stood at the side, was actually very prudent in giving his greetings to him, but he was nevertheless indifferent and didn’t pay him any attention.
As time passed, other challengers had already began their competition. Still, the figure of Shen Yanxiao couldn’t be seen in the entire shooting field.
Wan Li’s expression wasn’t good. Before, he didn’t care about whether Shen Yanxiao would show up or not as the result would be the same anyway. However, now that Xie Yun had came to participate, he wanted Shen Yanxiao to quickly come so that he could end her magnanimously, while showing off his own elegance.
“That brat must be thinking of running away because he’s afraid, right?” Wan Li clenched his teeth and somewhat anxiously looked towards the entrance.
The others students present also had the same train of thought. They had also heard about the freshman who wasn’t afraid of death. He was only a student of the red class but actually had the courage to challenge the elite purple class. In addition, it was also rumoured that he bought a bow worth of 3 million gold coins. This rumor really made the group of teenagers very eager to see the appearance of Shen Yanxiao.
Just when everyone thought that Shen Yanxiao was too afraid to show up, a petite figure unhurriedly appeared at the entrance of the shooting field.
Her thin body was wrapped under the red robe and behind her back hung a dark purple bow. The huge bow and her petite figure formed a sharp contrast. There were a lot of people who wondered, if that bow were to be hung upright on its rack, would it stand even taller than the one who was holding it?
“You’re finally here.” Wan Li breathed out a sigh of relief, eyes flashing a fierce look.
Very good, he would take advantage of this idiot and show off in front of Xie Yun! He would let everyone know that he was the strongest among the new students!
Xie Yun finally saw the naive little kid. Looking at the calm expression on Shen Yanxiao’s face, he secretly wiped away his cold sweat.
This boy looked really calm. Do he have any idea what he was about to face?
Xie Yun was very worried. He thought that Shen Yanxiao was overestimating herself and that once she knew that her talent paled in comparison to Wan Li’s, it would make such a huge blow and directly destroy the youth’s self-confidence.
But now that both sides had arrived at the shooting field, even Xie Yun had no reason to stop the competition.
He could only secretly pray that the little kid’s mental endurance would be strong enough that she wouldn’t be discouraged by the failure.
It could be said that among all the people present, no one believes that Shen Yanxiao would win over Wan Li.
The same was true even for Xie Yun who acknowledged the talent of Shen Yanxiao.
How could he match him with such a large disparity in strength?
Meanwhile, in some shady corner, four animals in cahoots had fixed their attention to a certain small figure and began their shameless discussion.
Chapter 217: One-sided (3)
“Ah, how tiny.” Tang Nazhi held the melon seeds in one hand while he used the other to stuff them into his mouth. He didn’t think in the least that a pharmacist student like him appearing at the archer branch to watch their competition was somewhat odd.
“It looks like he’s about the same age as Shen Jue.” A certain animal who had slipped in from the priest branch stared at the little guy and said.
“Their size is also similar.” Yang Xi narrowed his eyes.
“Yang Xi, don’t you have a challenge today? Why are you here?” Tang Nazhi threw a baffled look at Yang Xi who had arrived a bit earlier than himself. Even though he sat at the top of the knight branch, the hot-blooded youths of the knight branch were quite terrible. Almost regularly, Yang Xi would appear in a battle.
“It’s over.” Yang Xi shrugged.
Tang Nazhi was speechless and he turned to look at the sky. Judging by the time Yang Xi had come over here, he had beaten his opponent for no more than three minutes…
“Apart from the countenance, this little fellow also resembles our little Jue.” Qi Xia leaned against the wall in a graceful manner, thoughtfully looking at the seemingly familiar petite figure.
“This fellow isn’t as good-looking as my family’s little Jue!” Tang Nazhi unhesitatingly remarked.
Qi Xia gave him a supercilious look. The only difference between Shen Jue and the little archer in front of them was that the archer was a little darker in colour and had freckles on his face. Nevertheless, they have the same kind of appearance that would be forgotten easily in the crowd.
“Say, why didn’t little Jue come?” Qi Xia swept a glance at Tang Nazhi. As the one who was in the same dormitory as Shen Jue, it was an unforgivable thing not to bring Shen Jue over.
Tang Nazhi immediately showed a bitter face and said: “I would’ve liked it if he came, too. But I have no idea what that kid has been doing these past few days. Every day, after lunch, there’ll be no traces of him. He’s being mysterious.”
Qi Xia just raised his eyebrows and didn’t say anything else. But his eyes were flashing with interest.
“Being unoccupied is also being idle. How about we make a bet?” Qi Xia looked at the other three animals.
“What bet?” The trio asked.
Qi Xia slightly raised his chin, pointing to Shen Yanxiao who had walked in front of Wan Li, and then he said: “Let’s bet who has the greater odds of winning, the student from the red class or the one from the purple class.”
“Are you sure?” Tang Nazhi was in a high spirits.
“En.”
“Come on, grandpa! I haven’t done this for a long time. I’m itching to make a bet very much.” Tang Nazhi was immediately ready to start the bet.
And because his voice was slightly louder, the other students had noticed the existence of the four animals. When they found out that the four guys didn’t belong to the archer branch, but appeared in the archer branch’s shooting field and started a bet, everyone’s jaw almost fell off.
These four people, do they even have any shame, trying to peep? And not even one of them was from the archer branch, then who were these people that were bustling with noise?
They despised these kinds of people, but when they heard that a bet was about to take place, those students who loved gambling immediately felt an intolerable itch. Knowing that the bet would revolve around Wan Li and Shen Yanxiao, all the students were boiling with excitement.
Was this even a bet? They could already guess who was going to win even if they used their toes to think!
The result of this bet was so obvious. Were they rushing to send them their money?
Some students who did not intend to participate at first, heard the contents of the bet, and immediately brandished their purses, asking to join the gamble.
Chapter 218: The Start of the Challenge (1)
Almost all of the people had put their bets for Wan Li’s victory and only the four animals who had started the gambling had silently put theirs for Shen Yanxiao.
Under the gaze of the crowd, Shen Yanxiao stood in front of Wan Li, and her petite figure looked so fragile being next to him.
Such a sharp contrast, it made most people abandon all hope for Shen Yanxiao’s victory.
“You really dared to come.” Wan Li raised his head arrogantly, looking down at the opponent in front of him with disdain.
“Why won’t I?” Shen Yanxiao slightly smiled before taking off the Purple Baron on her back. She then raised her eyebrow and looked at Wan Li who was full of confidence and then said: “Stop with the nonsense. Just tell me how the challenge would be played out.”
This kid, his death was near at hand but he’s still so insolent! Wan Li saw the unperturbed expression of Shen Yanxiao, just like a calm water, and he almost spit out blood from being depressed.
“It’s simple. There will be three rounds! Fixed target, Moving target and a Showdown. If you win two games, you’ll win.” Wan Li secretly sneered, he’s afraid that this boy didn’t know the rules of the challenge. Truly, ignorant was fearless.
“I understand.” Shen Yanxiao believed that she understood the three types of the match.
“Very well.” Wan Li sneered and nodded. He then turned to look at Xie Yun and his proud face had been replaced with respect.
“Mentor Xie Yun, today, I was forced to accept the challenge of this classmate. But I’d like this to be a fair competition, so I’d like to ask you to be the referee.” Wan Li’s mind had started to scheme. As long as Xie Yun promised to be their referee for this challenge, he would surely see the end of the three matches before he could leave. And that ensured that he would have enough time to demonstrate his talents in front of Xie Yun.
For the so-called “forced” of Wan Li, Shen Yanxiao sneered at him in her heart. How come the only thing she remembered that day was that this idiot was the one who had forcefully blocked her path? Did she invited herself to challenge him? And also, was she tough enough to challenge him?
Xie Yun glanced at Wan Li, and then looked at Shen Yanxiao. His heart hesitated for a moment before he said: “Alright. But keep in mind that this is but a mere small competition; you must bear in mind when to stop. Make sure to not hurt each other.” Since he couldn’t put a halt in the match anymore, he could only rely on his own existence to let Wan Li exercised some restraint. As for the little thoughts of Wan Li, how could the sharp-witted Xie Yun not see what he was thinking?
“Mentor Xie Yun actually promised Wan Li to be their referee, God!!! The weight of Wan Li in mentor Xie Yun’s heart is really…” The students on the sidelines were incomparably amazed with the compliance of Xie Yun. Although there had been people before who had asked mentor Xie Yun to be their referee, but they just got ignored.
Today, not only did Xie Yun unexpectedly come to the shooting field, but also boldly agreed to become a referee. This was simply unbelievable.
How talented they need to be to move Xie Yun? Ah!
Now, everyone was very aware of how highly Xie Yun valued Wan Li, otherwise, he would not repeatedly make exceptions for him.
There was no thrill about this match at all, it’s all about Wan Li’s personal show.
Everyone wiped away their cold sweat for Shen Yanxiao. She should have challenged those who were not as good as Wan Li. Because Wan Li was the talent that mentor Xie Yun fancied, ah.
“Thank you, mentor.” Wan Li respectfully gave his thanks then he turned to look at Shen Yanxiao in an extremely arrogant manner.
“What are you waiting for? We can start now.”
Shen Yanxiao’s tranquil mouth slightly hooked up into a brilliant smile, her clear eyes gleamed with a bad light.
“Sure, we can… let’s start then.”
Chapter 219: The Start of the Challenge (2)
The first round was the Fixed target. As the name implied, it was played out with a stationary target. The instruction was that Wan Li and Shen Yanxiao needed to shoot 10 arrows on the target that was 100 meters away. Whoever had the most arrow nailed to the bullseye would be the winner.
This was the game that the students of the Archer Branch were most familiar with. Every weekdays, they would always practice with a fixed target and it’s not worth watching as it was only focused on the accuracy of the two people.
Even the students of the red class could hit the bullseye five or six times out of ten arrows, what’s more for the other classes? The hit rate of the purple class students were of course far higher than the others. They could hit the bullseye at least nine times or higher.
Wan Li and Shen Yan Xiao stood at their respective positions. Wan Li was holding a wooden bow that he had bought in the Gold-smelting weapon shop a few days ago. The bow was decorated with a rank 5 magic nucleus. Although it’s not the best but it was still considered a good bow.
Shen Yanxiao held the Purple Baron in her hands and compared to Wan Li’s magnificent bow, the Purple Baron’s inconspicuous appearance almost made the others not to pay any attention to its existence.
But due to the “3 million” rumors, a lot of students were focused on the Purple Baron. Everyone could not believe that the legendary bow was incredibly built with that kind of wood. Not only did it look dull, but its body was also bare that not even a single shadow of a magic nucleus could be seen.
This was clearly a piece of semi-finished product that had not yet been fitted with a magic nucleus.
The students find it hard to believe that Shen Yanxiao had actually took out such a semi-finished product to participate in the challenge. Isn’t that a joke?
A weapon inlaid with a magic nucleus and a weapon without a magic nucleus, whether it be power or ability, surely the gap would be great. Otherwise, the magic nucleus wouldn’t be priced so expensively.
Regardless of how much the bow was sold, without the magic nucleus, it couldn’t be compared with other weapons.
Everyone thought that Shen Yanxiao was making her own situation worse. Anyway, there’s even no way for her to win. Even if she had taken out a much better bow and not that semi-finished product, it still wouldn’t make any difference.
Wan Li glanced at Shen Yanxiao. He took the lead by picking up his longbow and then putting an arrow on the string. He breathed and concentrated for a moment before shooting the arrow towards the target that was 100 meters away.
The arrow rapidly flew away like a lightning bolt and in a blink of an eye it struck the bullseye!
“Beautiful!” The students in the Archer Branch couldn’t help but sigh endlessly, that movement and accuracy were perfect and without blemish. Wan Li’s movements could serve as a teaching material for the other students of the Archer Branch.
Even Xie Yun couldn’t find anything lacking with Wan Li’s movements.
Everyone exclaimed in admiration.
Wan Li, in quick succession shot out four arrows and all of them hit the center of the target. These four arrows almost touched each other and all of them were nailed inside the red dot.
On the other hand, Shen Yanxiao didn’t move and just waited. Finally, the ten arrows had been shot and hit the bullseye, concluding Wan Li’s performance with a perfect result.
Satisfied with his own results, Wan Li looked at Shen Yanxiao but found out that she still hadn’t made any shot and was just holding her bow while watching at the side.
“What? Are you afraid?” Wan Li sneered. Yesterday, he had heard some news regarding Shen Yanxiao from the other students.It hadn’t even been a week since this little devil went to the Archer Branch. For this kind of person, don’t mention about hitting the bullseye, landing an arrow on the target was already good enough.
Shen Yanxiao raised her eyebrows. She grabbed the Purple Baron with her left hand while her right grabbed a pile of arrows in the arrow basket, and then put it all on her bowstring to shoot.
“What is that kid trying to do?” Everyone looked surprised at Shen Yanxiao’s inexplicable move, they couldn’t completely understand what she was doing…
Chapter 220: The Start of the Challenge (3)
“Ten arrows!? He’s really not planning to shoot that many at once is he? That’s crazy!”
Even if you couldn’t win, you should not abandon yourself to such a point!!!
Almost no one understood what Shen Yanxiao’s really planning at this moment, even Xie Yun was in a cold sweat when he saw this.
Constant voices of mockery could be heard everywhere, but Shen Yan Xiao turned a deaf ear to all of them. She was quietly ignoring all insults and disturbances in the surroundings so she could concentrate on the bow and the arrows in her hands. The dull Purple Baron emitted a faint purple glow all of a sudden, and from the center of the bow projected a light as equally dazzling as the gleam of the bow. A silvery glow flew towards the target but the only thing they heard was a whistling sound in the air.
Then, the second silvery light flashed with more amazing speed chasing the first flying arrow.
Third, fourth, fifth…
The dazzling silvery lights had flew away almost at the same time. The short time of releasing the arrows one after another made people unable to react, they could only see ten silvery lights flying at an extremely fast speed in an orderly passion. Then these originally separated silvery lights had merged in the moment they were near the bullseye!
Thunk!
Thunk!
Thunk!
…
Ten crisp sounds almost at the same time resounded throughout the shooting field.
All the people present were unaware of what had happened. It was not until the last sound fell that people hesitated to look at the target.
On the bullseye 100 meters away, 19 arrows had actually appeared out of thin air!
They lined up directly at the center and split up in two!
“How come there are nineteen arrows …” People were very puzzled. Before, they had clearly seen the hands of Shen Yan Xiao holding only ten arrows. How in the blink of an eye, there were even more than nine arrows on the target ?
Wan Li astonishingly looked at the center of Shen Yanxiao’s target. The arrows were at the bullseye, that meant their accuracy were comparable!
How can this be!
“You cheated!!” Wan Li immediately glared at Shen Yan Xiao. It’s clearly a match of 10 arrows, but nineteen feather arrows had unexpectedly appeared on the target. Clearly, Shen Yanxiao had cheated!
Shen Yanxiao raised an eyebrow then arrogantly glanced at the angered Wan Li, and then sneered: “Idiot.”
“You!” Wan Li was really angry. He just wanted to rush up and argue with this stinking brat, but Xie Yun opened his mouth at that moment.
“He didn’t cheat, he only used ten arrows.” Xie Yun’s face looked a bit weird, his eyes directly skipped the figure of Wan Li to looked at Shen Yanxiao.
The moment he saw the target, he also had a trace of doubt. But after carefully looking, he finally understood.
“But!” Wan Li wanted to say something, but immediately got interrupted by Xie Yun: “Don’t say anymore, just let people take a look at Xiao Yan’s target to understand.”
As soon as Xie Yun’s voice landed on the ground and with a meaningful glance from him, one of the student immediately ran towards the location of the target. Afterwards, he carried Shen Yanxiao’s target back.
But the student’s face was not very good looking.
The target was placed in front of the crowd, and when everyone saw the 19 arrows on the bullseye, they gasped at the same time.
The nineteen arrows were simply nine arrows that had been split through the middle, leaving only one complete arrow at the center of the target, while the remaining eighteen arrows were evenly divided at the sides of the intact arrow.
Shen Yanxiao didn’t cheat, she just used some skills to turn the original ten arrows into nineteen, and this skill was enough to make the whole Archer Branch boiling!