I Can Merge Techniques-Chapter 110 - 98: Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill Breaks Limit, Trait: Pursuit
’Just a few more adjustments and a bit more practice, and I should be able to break through.’
"Hold on..." Zhao Tianxing followed him out. "Something doesn’t feel right!"
"I was using Moon Eclipse Arrows, but he still managed to dodge them or break them..."
"How long have you even been practicing archery? How could you pierce his body with a single shot?"
When Chu Fan had loosed his arrow, Zhao Tianxing had already turned to flee, so he hadn’t seen Chu Fan use a Moon Eclipse Arrow.
"It’s quite simple, really..."
Chu Fan walked to the courtyard gate before turning around. "First, my Qi Blood Power is much stronger than yours."
"Second, my Black Kite Arrows are forged from refined iron a hundred times over. Holding one feels like gripping a miniature iron pestle."
"Even an expert with formidable Qi Blood would have a hard time stopping it."
He took a Black Kite Arrow from his Quiver and tossed it to Zhao Tianxing.
Zhao Tianxing caught the Black Kite Arrow. It truly felt like he was holding a miniature iron pestle.
"What a fine arrow!" he couldn’t help but exclaim.
Chu Fan said, "You, on the other hand, are using Purple Bamboo Arrows. They’re light, which is good for long-range and rapid-fire shots, but for someone in the Blood Refining Realm trying to deal with an expert in the Bone Tempering Realm, they’re just not enough."
"That makes sense!" Zhao Tianxing nodded. "By the way, how much did you say those Black Kite Arrows cost? I’d like to buy some for myself."
Chu Fan held up two fingers. "Two taels of silver."
"That’s like shooting pure silver!" Zhao Tianxing exclaimed in disbelief.
He had several thousand taels of silver now, but the idea of using arrows that cost two taels apiece was still hard for him to swallow.
He remembered the old days when he was just a Hunter. How much silver could he possibly save after working himself to the bone all year?
’And now I’m supposed to be shooting silver...’
Two taels per arrow!
Chu Fan waved his hand, not saying another word, and headed out of the Seven Stars Gang headquarters.
Zhao Tianxing didn’t chase after him, simply toying with the Black Kite Arrow in his hand.
With the same Bengyue Bow, the difference between using a Purple Bamboo Arrow and a Black Kite Arrow was indeed enormous.
’These arrows are meant for dealing with experts!’
’I’d better stock up on some!’
...
After leaving the Seven Stars Gang, Chu Fan bought a few griddle cakes, a roast chicken, and filled a waterskin before heading to the woods outside the Seven Stars Gang Sub-Branch.
[Skill: Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill (Perfection) 1201/1500]
[Skill: Moon Eclipse Arrow (Great Success) Progress: (469/600) (Trait: None)]
His Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill was nearing the limit of the Perfection realm.
Meanwhile, his Moon Eclipse Arrow was also approaching Perfection.
’The Moon Eclipse Arrow is more difficult; there’s no way I can break through to Perfection today.’
’However, Breaking the Limit on the Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill today shouldn’t be a problem.’
’Even though the Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill is just a Basic Archery Skill, it should reveal a pleasantly surprising Trait after I Break its Limit!’
Chu Fan strode into the woods.
He took a deep breath of the fresh air.
’The feeling of spring...’
’The season when animals... make friends, has arrived.’
He placed the lotus-leaf-wrapped griddle cakes, roast chicken, and waterskin at the base of a large tree, just about to start his archery practice.
Just then, he saw two familiar figures emerge from the depths of the woods.
It was the brother and sister pair, Li Qingxue and Li Xingxuan!
"Senior Sister!" Chu Fan greeted politely.
Li Qingxue gave a slight nod in acknowledgment.
"It’s you!" Li Xingxuan’s eyes went wide with anger when he saw him. "Sis, he’s the jerk I was telling you about!" 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
’Jerk?’
Chu Fan raised an eyebrow. "Who’re you calling a jerk, you little brat who hasn’t even grown all his hair in?"
"You son of a..." Li Xingxuan gritted his teeth.
But before he could finish speaking, Li Qingxue smacked him across the face, a blow so sharp it brought tears to his eyes.
Li Qingxue said coldly, "You deserve to be hit for having such a foul mouth."
"..." Li Xingxuan shot a timid glance at his sister, then, fuming, he stomped over to Chu Fan. "I only lost to you last time because I was careless! We’re fighting again today!"
"Get lost," Chu Fan said. "Don’t interrupt my practice."
"Oh, practicing archery, are we?" Li Xingxuan circled Chu Fan. "You could practice anything in the world, but you chose to practice being a scumbag!"
Chu Fan turned, gave Li Xingxuan a silent look, and sighed. "You’re really that eager for a beating?"
Li Xingxuan grinned, took a step back, and fell into the opening stance of the Twelve Forms Fist. "We’ll see who’s beating whom!"
But Chu Fan didn’t move, only saying blandly, "Fighting like this is boring."
Li Xingxuan paused. "Then how do we make it interesting?"
Chu Fan said, "We each put up one hundred taels of silver. Winner take all."
Li Qingxue covered her forehead with her hand.
Although she found it hard to believe that Chu Fan, who had only been training for a little over two months, could defeat Xingxuan, who had been training for several years.
But that rascal Chu Fan never fought a battle he wasn’t prepared for and always had a way of surprising people.
He had used this same trick against Jiang Yuanfan and his group, and no one had believed he could win then, either.
In the end, he had emptied their coin purses in just a few moves.
Later, when he fought Ling Feng, she had ended up losing three hundred taels to her second uncle because of him.
"Hahahahaha!"
Li Xingxuan burst out laughing. "So you think you’ve got me all figured out? You really think you can take one hundred taels of silver from me, huh?"
"As you wish!" he said, pulling a silver note from his robes. He waved it in front of Chu Fan before placing it on the grass to the side.
’Noble Family Members really are on another level,’ Chu Fan thought. ’He’s only thirteen or fourteen, yet he can pull out a one-hundred-tael silver note more readily than I could pull out one mace of silver back in the day.’
Chu Fan smiled and took out a silver note of his own, placing it on top of Li Xingxuan’s.
Li Xingxuan took a deep breath, once again assuming the opening stance of the Twelve Forms Fist, and crooked a finger at Chu Fan.
WHOOSH!
The instant his finger moved, Chu Fan had already closed the distance, appearing right in front of him with an incredibly bizarre movement!
’How is he so fast! That’s not a Body Technique from the Twelve Forms Fist!’ Li Xingxuan was startled and immediately executed the Bear Form Mountain Collision, trying to send Chu Fan flying.
But Chu Fan sidestepped the attack with ease, drove a fist into his abdomen, and then, as Li Xingxuan cried out, grabbed his arm. With a great WHOOSH, he swung him around like a sack of grain and slammed him heavily onto the ground!
THUD!
One punch, one throw.
The pain was so intense that tears and snot streamed down Li Xingxuan’s face.
He lay on the ground, whimpering, unable to get up for a long time, and started to question his entire existence.
