In this chaotic world of vying for power, I can become stronger by marrying a wife.

"it is good."

Su Ming uttered a single word.

He slowly took the powerful bow he had made from behind his back.

The bow is huge, with a simple and even somewhat rough design. It is made of an unknown type of black wood and animal sinew, and is completely different from the longbows used in the military.

"Pfft—"

Someone in the crowd burst into laughter first, followed by a chorus of boisterous laughter.

"What is this? A fire poker?"

"That's hilarious! They think they can pierce an Iron Rhinoceros Shield with something like that?"

Liu Tao's smile deepened; he could almost see Su Ming kneeling and begging for mercy.

Su Ming ignored the mockery around him.

He drew an arrow from his quiver.

It was a jet-black armor-piercing arrow with a triangular arrowhead that gleamed with a chilling light.

He did not nock an arrow immediately, but instead closed his eyes.

The whole world seemed to stand still at that moment.

Wind speed, humidity, the wood grain of the shield a hundred paces away, even the trajectory of a speck of dust behind the shield, all appeared clearly in his mind.

[Ding! Sharpshooter skill activated!]

[Dragon vein power infused, arrow power +100%!]

next second.

Su Ming opened his eyes, drew his bow, nocked an arrow, and released it.

The movements were executed in one fluid motion, at an extreme speed.

All that was heard was a "whoosh," as if the space itself was being torn apart by the bowstring.

A streak of black light arrived in an instant.

"puff--!"

A dull thud as flesh was struck.

A hundred paces away, a fist-sized hole was clearly visible in the center of the thick iron rhinoceros shield.

The arrow pierced through his body and embedded itself deeply in the earthen wall of the target behind him, leaving only a trembling fletching.

The entire room fell silent.

Everyone's laughter caught in their throats, and their expressions froze.

The broken knife in the one-eyed man's hand clattered to the ground.

The burly man who was blocking Su Ming's way almost knelt down.

The smile on Liu Tao's face seemed frozen, appearing incredibly comical and stiff.

"An arrow..." he murmured to himself, unable to believe his eyes.

Su Ming ignored him and slowly drew out the second arrow.

He drew the bow again.

He arched his back and groaned in unbearable pain.

"Buzz—!"

The second arrow was released.

This time, the arrow was even faster, leaving a faint afterimage in the air.

"puff!"

Another muffled sound.

Everyone stared intently at the shield.

The second arrow pierced precisely through the hole created by the first arrow, and then...

"Bang!"

A loud bang.

The first arrow, which was deeply embedded in the earthen wall, was split in two by the second arrow and blasted into a shower of wood chips!

"hiss--!"

A collective gasp of astonishment filled the entire vanguard battalion.

If the first arrow was awe-inspiring, then the second arrow was a miracle!

The arrow behind chases the arrow in front, and the arrow breaks the arrow!

Is this even a human being capable of?!

Liu Tao's face had turned from white to green, his lips were trembling, and he couldn't utter a single word.

He lost.

They lost miserably.

Su Ming slowly lowered the bow and looked at him calmly.

"Your waist tag."

Liu Tao trembled and instinctively gripped the token at his waist. It was a symbol of his power, something his uncle had gone to great lengths to obtain for him.

"I……"

Just then.

"Gah—"

A loud bird song came from high above.

A black eagle is circling hundreds of meters in the sky, looking down at the earth.

The soldiers of the vanguard battalion instinctively looked up.

"What a huge eagle!"

"It must be at least three hundred paces high, right?"

In that instant, Su Ming moved.

He didn't look at Liu Tao, but instead raised his head and looked at the small black dot in the sky.

He drew his third arrow.

Then, he slowly drew the massive bow into a full moon.

A visible current of energy began to gather around him, coiling around the jet-black arrow.

Everyone in the room held their breath.

They didn't know what Su Ming was going to do, but a tremor that came from their very soul made them not even dare to blink.

Liu Tao forgot to think and stared blankly at the figure drawing a bow towards the sky.

At this moment, Su Ming seemed to have become one with heaven and earth.

He is the bow, and the bow is him.

"He...he's going to shoot down the eagle in the sky?" a soldier said in a dreamlike voice.

crazy.

Everyone thought he was crazy.

That's hundreds of meters in the air! Let alone hitting it, even the strongest crossbow in the army might not be able to reach that height!

A very faint smile appeared on Su-Ming's lips.

He released the bowstring.

"collapse--!"

An unprecedentedly loud bang made everyone's eardrums buzz.

That golden stream of light, like a needle born against the heavens, fiercely pierced the sky.

The entire vanguard battalion, numbering several hundred, now resembled wooden sculptures with their necks tilted back.

Time seemed to stretch out.

They could clearly see the arrow tear through the airflow, its golden internal energy trailing a brilliant trajectory, precisely catching up with the black dot soaring in the wind.

No sound.

Everyone was deaf until the arrow hit them.

next moment.

High in the sky, the once arrogant eagle suddenly stiffened.

Immediately afterwards, a muffled "thud" sounded, as if it came from the farthest horizon.

A cloud of blood mist exploded in the sky.

A few scattered black feathers, mixed with drops of blood, began to drift down slowly and weakly.

Corpse?

nonexistent.

The eagle was shot to pieces by Su Ming's arrow!

"Gulp."

Someone swallowed hard, their voice booming like a drumbeat in the deathly silent camp.

"thump!"

The burly man with a fierce face who had previously blocked Su Ming's way suddenly went weak and he was the first to kneel down.

As he watched Su Ming's retreating figure, his eyes no longer held provocation, but rather a godlike fear and fanaticism.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Kneeling is contagious.

One, two, ten, a hundred...

The entire vanguard battalion of thugs, these desperate criminals, these fearless tough guys, all knelt down on the ground like harvested wheat.

The way they looked at Su Ming had completely changed.

If the first arrow piercing the iron rhinoceros shield was awe-inspiring.

The second arrow pierced the first arrow, which was unbelievable.

So this third arrow, which shattered the birds flying three hundred paces above the ground, was...

miracle!

This is a power that no ordinary person could possess!

This is the descent of the God of Archery!

"God... God..." the one-eyed man muttered to himself, his lips trembling.

"Master Su... is a god descended to earth..."

Someone in the crowd shouted first.

"Master Su!"

"Master Su, the Divine Archer!"

The shouts went from sporadic to unified, eventually merging into a powerful wave that soared into the sky.

At the eye of the storm, Liu Tao's face had long since lost all color, leaving only a deathly pallor.

He stared blankly at the blood-red feathers falling from the sky, then looked at the soldiers kneeling all around him, and finally his gaze fell on the man holding a large bow, whose posture was as upright as a pine tree.

Fear, like countless cold hands, gripped his heart.

He had calculated everything; he thought he had the whole situation under control; he thought Su Ming was just a country bumpkin who got lucky.

Only now did he realize that he had provoked not just one person.