From breaking the limits of archery to achieving martial arts godhood

With a "thump," the big black bear fell to the ground, kicking up a large number of fallen leaves.

Beside the large black bear, Chen Ye stood with disheveled clothes, holding a long knife, the blade dripping with blood, panting heavily.

During the battle with the black bear, Chen Ye was struck in the chest by the bear's sharp claws.

The immense force sent Chen Ye flying.

Fortunately, Chen Ye was an Iron Skin Realm martial artist with amazing defensive capabilities. He only had three shallow bloodstains on his chest. After spitting out some blood, he got up and continued fighting.

Otherwise, even the combined strength of the other four martial artists wouldn't be enough to suppress the raging power of this giant black bear.

And it was precisely in that moment, when the black bear was focused on knocking Chen Ye away and had no time to spare, that Chen Xun shot an arrow.

The arrow struck the black bear in the left eye.

The black bear, now blind in both eyes, truly lived up to its reputation as a blind bear, and at the same time, began its countdown to death.

A short while later, Chen Ye killed the big black bear with a knife.

"Go, pull out those two arrows. I want to see whose archery skills are so accurate."

Chen Ye gave instructions to the martial artists beside him.

The warrior quickly stepped forward and pulled the two arrows out of the black bear's eye sockets, revealing two shrunken bear eyes.

As he handed the arrow to Chen Ye, he whispered, "Boss, it was shot by the same person."

Chen Ye nodded, then looked at the arrow shaft, where the character "寻" (xún, meaning "to seek") was engraved.

"Chen Xun? That name sounds familiar."

Chen Ye thought about it carefully and quickly realized what was going on. He raised an eyebrow and said, "It's a little guy that Zhao Hu recruited."

"Unexpectedly, he actually struck gold."

Chen Ye smiled, but there wasn't much genuine joy in his smile.

He was in the patrol team and was a rival of Zhao Hu.

How could he possibly be happy when his competitor benefited, especially on his patrol's territory?

Which one is Chen Xun?

Chen Ye raised the two arrows in his hand and looked at the hunter team.

Then he saw Chen Xun, who was very young.

"He's really young."

Then Chen Ye came up to Chen Xun, patted him on the shoulder, and praised him, "You did a great job."

"Interested in joining our patrol team?"

Chen Ye extended an invitation.

Upon hearing this, the hunters around Chen Xun couldn't help but look at Chen Xun with envy.

Unlike the guards, the patrol team includes both martial artists and non-martial artists.

Moreover, the treatment after joining the patrol team is much better than that of a hunter.

Not only is it not dangerous, but the salary and benefits are also high.

Many people want to join the patrol team, but they don't have the opportunity.

However, after a moment of silence, Chen Xun firmly shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Lord Chen Ye, I am currently learning martial arts from Lord Chen Hu and cannot accept your invitation."

"Whoa!" The hunters around were the first to gasp in surprise upon hearing this.

They hadn't expected that Chen Xun would refuse Chen Ye's invitation.

"Kid, the boss invited you to join our patrol team because he thinks highly of you. Don't be ungrateful."

At this moment, a martial artist standing next to Chen Ye stepped forward, pointed at Chen Xun, and reprimanded him without any politeness.

Seeing this, Chen Ye did not stop him, his expression indifferent.

Although he had guessed that Chen Xun would reject him, the fact that Chen Xun was so decisive still made him feel a little embarrassed.

Despite being reprimanded by the martial artist, Chen Xun showed little embarrassment and remained calm.

He had an air of 'I'll let it slide' about him.

Finally, the martial artist scolded him a few more times, but seeing that Chen Xun neither blushed nor covered his face, as if he wasn't being scolded, the martial artist felt like he had punched cotton and gradually shut his mouth.

"Alright, since Brother Chen Xun looks down on our patrol team, then pretend I never said that."

When did I say I looked down on the patrol team?

Chen Xun's pupils contracted, and he was about to explain, but Chen Ye had already turned and left, not giving him a chance to explain at all.

"What a Chen Ye."

Chen Xun finally lost his composure and began to grit his teeth.

If this gets out, it's equivalent to offending the entire patrol team.

Moreover, no one will speak up for him.

Chen Xun turned his head to look at the hunters around him.

Sure enough, these people kept their distance from him. Some of them, who had been chatting happily with him before, turned their heads away from Chen Xun, afraid that he would come after them.

Chen Li, who didn't get along with him, laughed heartily without any attempt to hide it.

"Kid, you think you can mess with me?"

"Don't think that just because you've gotten close to Chen Hu, I can't do anything to you."

Chen Ye turned his head to look at what was happening behind him, a sinister smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

Afterwards, everyone worked together to carry the carcass of the large black bear down the mountain.

Throughout the entire process, Chen Xun was excluded, as if he didn't exist.

Of course, his share of the profits will not be lost as a result.

This is the bottom line.

Although Chen Ye disliked Chen Xun, he made a great contribution to the bear hunt.

In the end, Chen Xun received eight-tenths of the profit.

If the distribution is reasonable, considering Chen Xun's achievement of blinding the black bear in both eyes, he should at least get 10% of the benefits, or even 12%, which would be reasonable.

Clearly, this is another instance of Chen Ye suppressing Chen Xun.

Upon learning this, Chen Xun remained silent for a while before immersing himself in cultivation.

"Chen Ye, very good, I'll remember you."

Chen Xun wrote down Chen Ye's name in a small notebook in his mind.

After the large black bear was sold, Chen Xun quickly received his eight-tenths share of the profits.

A total of 320 taels were sold, and Chen Xun received 25 taels and 6 mace of silver.

This was already the seventh day after the bear hunt.

In seven days, Chen Xun only did two things.

One option is to have a stronger bow custom-made.

The day after returning from the bear hunt, Chen Xun sought out the only bow maker in Chenjia Village.

After some haggling, Chen Xun commissioned a powerful bow with a draw weight of two stones for fifteen taels of silver.

An ordinary stone bow costs only three to five taels of silver.

Two stone bows cost several times more.

However, the bow maker's production speed was indeed fast. Just yesterday, Chen Xun received the newly made two-stone strong bow.

As soon as he got his hands on it, Chen Xun tried it out. With his current strength, he could pull it into a full moon shape, but it wouldn't last long. He would run out of energy after three attempts.

The range is easily over 120 paces.

With this bow, Chen Xun's archery skills improved significantly faster.

Archery (Mastery 11%)

The second is cultivation. Every day, I cultivate for a whole morning and then cultivate again until midnight.

Chen Xun made rapid progress during his intense training.

First, there was progress in stance training and breathing techniques.

【Bull Demon Stance Skill (95% Proficiency)】

【Bull Demon Breathing Technique (Proficiency 8%)】

The [Bull Demon Stance Skill] is about to break through to the minor completion level, and the [Bull Demon Breathing Method] has even broken through from the beginner level to the proficient level.

Chen Xun's rapid progress in stance training reduced the time it took him to condense a ball of qi and blood from one hour to fifty-five minutes.

If one can break through to the minor mastery level, the time could probably be shortened to less than fifty minutes.

The shorter the time, the more Qi and blood can be condensed each day, and the faster the body can be strengthened.

The rapid progress in breathing techniques shortened the time it took for Chen Xun to refine his qi and blood into qi and blood.

It originally required three cycles of the breathing technique to complete the tempering of qi and blood.

Now it only takes two passes.

Then there's the level of physical enhancement.

The right palm has been tempered and the skin can be felt to be much thicker than other parts of the body.

When struck with a stick, the right hand remained unharmed and felt nothing, while the left hand was bright red and burning with pain.

The difference is quite obvious.

This visible effect motivated Chen Xun to cultivate even more diligently.

As a result, Chen Xun consumed the amount of food for two people by himself.

"We're just 5% away from breaking through the Bull Demon Stance Technique. We'll pause archery training this afternoon."

Chen Xun changed his cultivation plan and continued to focus on practicing standing meditation at home in the afternoon.

As time passed and the sun began to set in the west, Chen Xun's body, which was in the midst of practicing standing meditation, trembled involuntarily.

The [Bull Demon Stance Skill] has been broken through.