Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible.

Chapter 461 Teaching
Inside the lush forest, Xu Yue did not say much after hearing the request. He just clenched his right hand. As the heat waves rose, a gorgeous golden and red longbow soon appeared in his palm.

The longbow seemed to be condensed by flames all over, with fine feather-like golden-red streams of light always wrapped around the two sides of the slender recurve bow arms.

From a distance, it looks like a pair of phoenix wings spreading out to fly.

And in the center of the wing, a huge golden gem was shining brightly in the sun.

On both sides of the gem are two golden crescents shaped like phoenix beaks, facing outward and closing together. The tip of the crescents is inlaid with two tiny gems, one white and one black, and the surface of the crescent also emits a bright light.

Further out, there are large areas of intricate solar inscriptions spreading out, and wherever they pass, the entire bow is tightly wrapped and entangled, adding a sense of mysterious beauty to the longbow.

Each of the combined blade equipment in Xu Yue's body has different characteristics in appearance.

Among them, the magic sword Thousand Blades is evil and strange.

The Fang Tian Hua Ji is domineering.

The Baxia tower shield is heavy.

The Xiaoyun longbow is the most luxurious. If we simply talk about its appearance, it definitely deserves the first place.

Especially after Xu Yue reforged and upgraded the Xiaoyun longbow yesterday, it was promoted to dark purple quality. It can no longer be described as a pure weapon dedicated to killing. Now it is more like a beautiful and exquisite work of art.

Even the high elves, who were usually famous for their art and beauty, couldn't help but raise their slender sword-like eyebrows slightly when they saw the longbow in Xu Yue's hand.

"The bow is good."

As he finished speaking, Philwin raised his index finger and tapped lightly on the vine handrail beside him. Then, an emerald green hummingbird made entirely of vine branches and leaves quietly emerged from the handrail, and quickly flapped its wings and flew straight into the sky like an arrow. The exaggerated speed even left a very obvious long white mark in the air.

"Come on, shoot it!"

As he was speaking, in just a few breaths, the kingfisher in the sky had already flown to a very high and far place. Looking further ahead, there was only a faintly visible tiny black dot moving around at the end of the field of vision.

For ordinary people, it is extremely difficult to even see the target clearly, let alone shoot it at this distance.

But for Xu Yue who has overclocked vision, it is not a problem. As long as there is no obstacle, even without the assistance of aiming equipment, he can lock onto small targets more than ten kilometers away, or even farther away, with his naked eyes.

His eyes moved upwards, and as a hint of depth spread from the deepest part of his pupils, everything around him seemed to be slowed down.

Although the bullet time, which is 10 to 20 times slower, cannot reach the exaggerated level of stopping everything, it is enough to make the whole world clearer in Xu Yue's eyes.

The green leaves falling from the sky were descending inch by inch at a speed almost as slow as a turtle's. Next to them, a flying insect was leisurely flying over the fallen leaves, flapping its membranous wings slowly.

At the end of the field of vision, the small black dot that was wandering high in the dome began to rapidly enlarge and slow down, and soon in Xu Yue's eyes it turned back into the emerald green hummingbird made entirely of branches and leaves.

In the dense forest below, when the target was locked, the Xiaoyun longbow in his hand was quickly pulled open. As his arms exerted force, the slender bow arm gradually bent, and the densely packed Sun-Shining inscriptions on it began to light up synchronously.

The dazzling golden light flowed along the lit inscription patterns and gathered into the golden gem in the center of the bow arm. Then, as the light flowed, a slightly illusory golden arrow emerged by itself.

Due to the unique energy conversion characteristics of the Sun Inscription, the reforged Howling Cloud Longbow has achieved significant improvements in mana consumption, arrow refining speed, and energy arrow power.

And the effect of its reforging goes far beyond that. The golden crescent shape that resembles a phoenix's beak contains two special additional features.

One of them is the "Death Notice" feature he extracted from a sniper rifle. It can make the shot arrows automatically lock onto the target and track it until the arrow is destroyed and the person is killed. Otherwise, the fight will not stop until the person is dead.

The second is the [Explosion] feature he extracted from a certain ring, which can make the arrow explode directly after hitting the target, causing the target to penetrate + internal detonation with double damage.
With the two combined, even someone who has no knowledge of archery can easily unleash terrifying lethality when holding this longbow, not to mention Xu Yue who is a master of archery himself.

Therefore, before waiting for the longbow to be fully pulled to the full moon and the Burning Sun Arrow to be completely formed, Xu Yue decisively released the taut bowstring in his hand, and then a beam of golden light shot out at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye.

The stream of light cuts across the sky, in a breath? Or even shorter!
In short, the long golden mark that remained in the field of vision had not yet dissipated, and a ball of flaming fire had exploded high in the sky. At the same time, the flying vine kingfisher also disappeared inside the fireball.

On the other side, seeing that the target he threw out was successfully shot by Xu Yue, Philwen on the recliner remained neither sad nor happy. He just raised his hand and knocked on the armrest beside him. Soon, several vine kingfishers flew out one after another and each ran to completely different directions.

"continue."

As soon as he finished speaking, the high-pitched sound of arrows breaking through the air rang out again, and continuous streams of light shot up into the sky. After a while, balls of brilliant fire exploded one after another in different parts of the dome, and even the clouds in the sky were reflected in golden red.

Even if the speed of the Vine Kingfisher increased again, in the face of the faster and more trackable Scorching Sun Arrows, no matter how nimble and swift its movements were, it could not avoid being sniped one by one by Xu Yue.

Three, five, eight...the flying kingfishers were shot one by one in a steady and cold manner.

And when there was only the last one left, the golden light transformed from the Scorching Sun Arrow had just touched the target's body surface when it was cut in half by a green branch flying from nowhere.

Wait, tree branches?!

Xu Yue's face froze when he reacted. Thanks to the time-delay effect brought by the overclocked vision, he saw very clearly the whole process of the ordinary branch with a few green leaves quietly flying out from the side and cutting his energy arrow in half quite easily.

Even after being cut off, the arrow, which should have exploded on the spot, did not show any abnormality. Instead, it fell straight down from the sky like an ordinary broken arrow.

"A... branch."

Muttering something in a low voice, Xu Yue put down the longbow in his hand in a daze, and turned to look sideways at the high elf who had stood up straight beside him at some point.

"how did you do that?"

As early as when he finished reading Philwen Yefeng's life story, Xu Yue knew that the other party's archery skills must be far better than his.

But after actually seeing the other party's move, he was shocked to realize that he couldn't even understand how the other party could achieve such a level.

Using an ordinary tree branch that was shot later to accurately cut off his energy arrow with multiple properties, and at the same time prevent the broken arrow from exploding, this technical ability is truly terrifying when you think about it carefully.

Not to mention how the relatively fragile material of the tree branches could withstand the tremendous pressure brought by the rapid movement, the mere fact of interrupting the arrow's two major properties, [explosion] and [death], at the same time was beyond Xu Yue's understanding.

What's more, with his perception, within a range of less than three meters, he didn't even know when the other party shot out the branch. This concealment ability that can perfectly shield perception can be said to kill people invisibly. No wonder the other party was able to carry out as many as 206 assassination missions behind enemy lines.

On the other side, after hearing Xu Yue's question, Philwen tossed the crude longbow made of vines in his hand and said nonchalantly:

"This is not difficult. For a qualified archery master, the bow and arrow in his hand are never the most important determining factors."

As he was speaking, a green shadow fell from the sky. It was the only surviving vine kingfisher, with half of the severed Scorching Sun Arrow still dangling from its beak.

Looking closely, Xu Yue could still sense a faint chill from the cross section of the arrow.

Letting the kingfisher land on his left shoulder, Philven raised his hand to take the half arrow from the bird's beak. After a casual look, he crushed it into countless light points. "Extreme speed, lock, burst, scorch, armor-piercing, and a little bit of crisis weakening effect. As I said before, the bow is good, but... the archery skills are average."

Faced with the high elf's slightly sarcastic comment, Xu Yue did not open his mouth to refute. Compared with the other party, his archery skills were indeed poor, which was an indisputable fact.

What he needs now is to learn and improve, not to engage in meaningless arguments.

"Please advise."

The purpose of the advanced mirror is to teach techniques, so there is no possibility for Philwen to refuse. He glanced at Xu Yue who was looking respectful opposite him, and he twitched the corner of his mouth slightly before continuing to speak.

"Do you know what the biggest difference is between a bow and an arrow and the magical muskets made by those goblins?"

After saying that, without waiting for Xu Yue's reply, Philwen's slightly rising tone sounded again.

"It's secrecy and control, especially the latter. It makes the bow and arrow in my hand truly breathe and have life, instead of being just a dead object without any change like the goblin musket."

"The kinetic energy of a musket is gunpowder, machinery, and magic energy, and these are inanimate objects that have been completely limited since they were produced. Therefore, the lethality of a musket is constant, the rate of fire is constant, and even the trajectory is constant. This constancy ensures the accuracy and universality of the musket, but it also limits the opponent's ability to make further progress."

"But the bow and arrow are different. Everything about it is controlled by the operator."

"When firing a musket, you only need to pull the small trigger, and everything that follows will be controlled by the musket itself. But for a bow and arrow, I can control all its changes, including its power, speed, killing range, brutality and concealment..."

Perhaps he felt that the simple explanation was not obvious enough, so while speaking, Philwen casually broke off an ordinary branch from the side, and while continuing to explain, he slowly drew the bow with the branch in his hand.

Obviously, the vine longbow in his hand looked extremely simple and loose, but the moment the bowstring was pulled, Xu Yue inexplicably had a strange illusion that the whole world was collapsing inward with the longbow as the center.

"look carefully."

"Swift!"

Before he finished his words, a beam of green light suddenly penetrated Xu Yue's field of vision, and instantly penetrated ten thousand meters away at an exaggerated speed that even his overclocked vision could not lock onto. When he finally reacted, the green light that shot out from the front had already disappeared. Only the numerous tiny round holes in the forest not far away showed that the green light just now was not an illusion.

Staring at the thumb-sized round hole in front of him, Xu Yue's expression was solemn. This arrow far exceeded his nerve reflex speed. In other words, if the arrow was aimed at him, he would most likely not even have the chance to dodge.

What was terrifying was not just the speed. What was more important was that the arrow did not make any sound. Even the sound of breaking through the air that should have occurred when moving at high speed was not heard. It was as if what was shot out was not an arrow, but a high-energy laser that could destroy everything silently.

"dexterity!"

Without paying attention to Xu Yue's reaction beside him, after the first arrow was shot, Philwen immediately pulled the second arrow in his hand.

Unlike the previous green light that was so fast that it was almost impossible to see clearly, the speed of this arrow was relatively "normal", so Xu Yue could clearly observe that after flying a hundred meters away, the branch wrapped in the invisible wind extremely smoothly deflected its own flight arc and began to circle around the open space where the two were.

Wherever the arrows passed, towering trees hit by them fell down one after another, and bursts of roars suddenly sounded all around.

"Traverse!"

The third arrow whistled loudly, piercing through the clouds and splitting the rocks. At the end of the arrow, there appeared an extremely obvious cone-shaped white mist. It was the magnificent sonic boom cloud formed after the arrow broke through the sound barrier, also known as the Mach cone.

With the appearance of the Mach cone, the sharp whistling sound in the air suddenly became more deafening. At the same time, the fierce hurricane was driven by the arrow that could tear through the sound waves. At this time, it was like a white spear more than ten meters long. Wherever the tip of the spear pointed, the earth rolled, the grass and trees were destroyed, and soon a straight road more than a hundred meters wide was plowed out in the dense forest.

"Destroyed!"

The fourth arrow, unlike the previous ones with great momentum, seemed ordinary when it was first shot, but when the arrow landed, it seemed that endless sharp wind blades gushed out in an instant, and the area within a radius of nearly a thousand meters was covered by countless messy wind blades, turning it into a huge open-air meat grinder.
For a while, shrieks and roars were heard one after another. No matter whether it was solid rocks, flexible plants, or the misty clouds in the sky, they were all gradually cut into nothingness by the fine wind blades. After dozens of seconds, the raging storm slowly dissipated, and in its place there was only a bottomless thousand-meter-deep pit.

Next comes the fifth arrow, the sixth arrow, the seventh arrow...

Philwen used the most intuitive way to show Xu Yue just how powerful a simple bow and arrow made of vines and branches could be in his hands, and how many completely different and terrifying changes it could produce.

"recovery!"

As the last arrow was shot, the vine longbow in Philwen's hand turned into powder and scattered, while the flying arrow scattered large patches of emerald green light along the way.

As we passed by, we saw green sprouts emerging from the soil under the catalysis of the light spots, and began to grow rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. After a few minutes, the devastated and devastated land was turned into a lush green again.

After the demonstration, Philven first glanced at the lush green forest around him with satisfaction, then glanced at Xu Yue who was thinking beside him, and said slowly:

"For those goblin musketeers, the muskets in their hands are above all else, because the power of the guns comes from the guns themselves. All they have to do is aim and pull the trigger. This is slavery, not skill."

"The premise of a technique is control, but it cannot be relied upon. For me, a good bow and arrow is certainly icing on the cake, but even if I am given an ordinary branch, I can still shoot down a strong enemy, because my strength comes from every inch of flesh and blood in my body, from the skills I have honed over the years, and from all my understanding of the element of wind over the past four hundred years. In short, it definitely does not come from the bow and arrow in my hand."

Hearing this, Xu Yue lowered his eyes and glanced at the green powder at his feet that had not yet dissipated. The other party had proved to him through practice that this theory was true.

Noticing the fluctuation in Xu Yue's eyes, Philwen, who was explaining, patted the longbow powder remaining between his fingers, then raised his hand and pointed at the gorgeous longbow in Xu Yue's hand.

"So you understand why I said the bow is good, but your archery skills are average. The arrows you shot at the kingfisher before were almost the same in speed and power. You relied more on the powerful characteristics of this longbow rather than your own skills. If that's all, then what's the difference between you and those goblin musketeers who can only pull the trigger?"

"For a qualified skilled warrior, the so-called weapon is only a carrier for displaying his skills. It is always secondary. If you put the cart before the horse, then are you controlling the weapon, or is the weapon enslaving you?"

Philwen's tone was not loud, but at this moment it was like Huang Zhong's Dalu, which shocked Xu Yue so much that his whole body froze. Thanks to the profession of the Lord of Weapons, he could almost infinitely improve the quality and effect of the weapons in his body, and even quickly master the related technical abilities in one fell swoop.

But because of this, sometimes he tends to rely too much on the powerful effects of the weapons in his body, especially after awakening the ability to transfer characteristics brought by "Eat Blade", piling a large number of various characteristics on the combined blade equipment has become one of his backup plans.

Of course, this is not to say that this plan is bad, but if this trend is allowed to grow wildly, then in the end, will he, the lord of all soldiers, be able to command all soldiers from a high position, or will he be gradually enslaved by all soldiers due to his endless desire to improve his weapons?
To give the simplest example, the reason why Pangu Axe was able to create the world is not only due to its own power, but more importantly, the person who held it was called Pangu.

Similarly, the reason why Chi You was called the Lord of War was that the weapons in his hands were certainly important, but the most crucial thing was his invincible combat power.

If someone else holds these weapons, that person will definitely not be able to become another master of weapons. Even if Chi You loses these weapons, it will not change the fact that he is the god of war.

Just from the ability of 'eating blades', it is clear what kind of attitude Chi You holds towards the weapons in his hands.

After figuring this out, Xu Yue first bowed sincerely to Philwen opposite him, then he took the Xiaoyun longbow in his hand back into his body, took out some metal and melted it with flames into a white iron bow with no special features.

"Thank you for your guidance, teacher. What should I learn next?"

Hearing this, Philwen's lips curled up into an undisguised smile, and a simple longbow made entirely of vines appeared in his hand.

"Very good, then let's start with the most basic ones: hold, buckle, lift, raise, place, aim, and spread."

(End of this chapter)