From breaking the limits of archery to achieving martial arts godhood

"Father, Chen Xun seems to have seen me."

Chen Feng rushed home and immediately told his father what had happened that day.

"What happened? Explain yourself. How did he see you?"

Chen Ji quickly whispered a warning, his face grim.

However, Chen Ji breathed a sigh of relief after listening to Chen Feng's story.

He then slapped Chen Feng across the face and cursed, "You brat, you scared your old man to death! Can't you speak clearly?"

"You were a hundred meters away from Chen Xun at the time, and the bamboo forest was already dark. How could he possibly see your face? Do you think he's a martial artist?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Feng covered his cheek and immediately realized that it made sense.

Yes, at such a distance, Chen Xun was just an ordinary teenager; how could anyone see his face?

As long as they can't see his face, the other party won't suspect anything.

Thinking of this, Chen Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

"Father, should I continue to monitor him?"

Chen Feng asked.

"Forget it, don't go for the next few days, so as not to alert them."

Chen Ji shook his head in reply.

Therefore, the father and son temporarily ceased their surveillance of Chen Xun.

Chen Xun had planned to wait for the rabbit to come to him the next day, but found that the rabbit did not come, so he could only continue practicing archery.

After reaching a certain level of proficiency in archery, Chen Xun needed to shoot an arrow from fifty paces away and hit the target in order to gain one experience point.

Moreover, the target has changed from the size of a head to the size of a fist.

Fifty paces away, even with Chen Xun's eyesight, he could only see a target the size of a coin.

To an ordinary person, it would be impossible to see where the target is.

At the same time, for each point of progress in minor archery skills, 30 experience points are required.

In this way, even if Chen Xun practices archery diligently, he can only improve his archery skills by 4 to 5 points a day.

It will take at least twenty days to upgrade one's archery skills to the next level.

"That's not bad, as long as there's progress."

Chen Xun was quite content.

On the third day after Chen Xun's archery skills were partially mastered, his uncle Chen Wang came to find him.

"Chen Xun, so you were here! I've been looking for you everywhere."

Chen Wang found Chen Xun in the bamboo forest.

Chen Xun stopped practicing archery when Chen Wang approached.

"Uncle, what do you want to see me about?"

Looking at Chen Wang, Chen Xun asked with some confusion.

"Xiao Xun, have you forgotten? The Hunter Exam!"

Chen Wang quickly reminded him.

His reminder made Chen Xun immediately remember.

To be precise, it means that the relevant memories left behind by the predecessor were found.

It turns out that the number of hunters in Chenjia Village has always been fixed, totaling fifty people.

Each team consists of five hunters, and a team leader is chosen from among the five hunters.

Ten hunter squads make up one hunter brigade.

The hunter captain was not chosen from among the ten hunter squad leaders.

Instead, they were selected from among warriors skilled in archery.

Hunting is a dangerous job, and hunters often lose their lives due to various accidents.

Despite this, many people still want to become hunters.

The reason is simple: to make money.

An ordinary hunter can save an average of ten taels of silver a year, which is five or six times more than a farmer.

The mother in the previous life died of illness. At that time, the father in the previous life spent almost all of the family's savings to treat the illness, but still could not save her.

Over the next four years, the father saved another 33 taels of silver.

This shows that although hunting is dangerous, it is indeed profitable.

Therefore, once this position becomes vacant, it will attract the attention of many people.

But not everyone is qualified to be a hunter. First of all, you must be a good archer.

After all, a hunter's skills largely lie in his bow and arrow.

This hunter assessment tests archery skills.

Furthermore, only Chen Xun participated in the assessment.

Simply because he was a descendant of a dead hunter.

Chenjia Village offers hunters many preferential treatments.

One of the rules is that when a hunter dies, his descendants can inherit the hunter's position if they pass the hunter's test.

If you fail, the opportunity will fall into the hands of someone else.

For a fee of three qian of silver, or three hundred coins, one can register for the hunter assessment. Whoever stands out will become the new hunter.

Chen Xun's hunter assessment is tomorrow.

"Your aunt sent me to check on how your archery practice is going."

Chen Wang said.

When Chen Xun first started practicing archery, Chen Wang came to him and gave him guidance.

However, Chen Wang's archery skills were mediocre, and the content of his instruction was the same as the instruction methods Chen Xun remembered from his father.

Therefore, Chen Xun politely declined his further guidance.

Actually, Chen Xun had another consideration: he had a cheat system, and his progress was too fast, which might scare Chen Wang and arouse his suspicion.

Now, upon hearing that Chen Wang had come to test his archery skills, Chen Xun displayed his proficient archery skills to deal with Chen Wang.

Even so, Chen Wang was still quite surprised.

"Xiao Xun, your archery skills are probably already on par with your uncle's."

Chen Wang sighed.

He then added, "However, you've only shot at a target. Hunting involves facing all sorts of moving animals, so you mustn't be arrogant and still need to work harder."

"Yes, Uncle, I understand."

Chen Xun quickly agreed.

Seeing this, Chen Wang nodded in satisfaction.

"By the way, Uncle, with my archery skills, would I be able to pass the hunter's exam?"

"Of course it can. If it still doesn't pass, then there must be something fishy going on. I will definitely make a scene in front of the elders and let them judge the matter."

Chen Wang patted his chest and replied.

"Uncle, could you tell me about the hunter's assessment?"

"Of course, it's no secret."

As Chen Wang spoke, Chen Xun nodded from time to time, a confident smile gradually appearing on his face.

It turns out that the hunter assessment has two stages.

The first challenge is running. If you can keep running for 15 minutes, you pass the challenge.

This is a test of physical strength. After all, hunters need to go into the mountains to hunt, and they need to trek through mountains and rivers. Sufficient physical strength is very important.

The second challenge is archery. If you hit the target six out of ten times within twenty paces, you pass the challenge.

It sounds easy, but if you haven't practiced archery for a year or two, you might not be able to pass.

At least for Chen Xun's predecessor, this hurdle was not easy.

Chen Wang did not stay in the bamboo forest for long before leaving.

After Chen Wang left, Chen Xun continued practicing archery.

When his archery skills reached 20% of the minor mastery level, he found that he needed to hit a fist-sized target from 50 paces away to gain experience points.

The difficulty has increased further.

At this point, even with Chen Xun's current archery skills, he couldn't hit the target 100% of the time; his hit rate was only 9 out of 10.

As a result, Chen Xun's breakthrough in archery skills will likely be delayed for some time.

The next morning, after having breakfast, Chen Xun did not immediately rush to the bamboo forest to practice archery, but instead went to the hunter assessment site.

It was a training ground enclosed by earthen walls, a place where hunters usually trained their archery skills and honed their physical abilities.

It also occasionally serves as a venue for hunter assessments.

After Chen Xun went inside, he saw two people.

The two men were a middle-aged man and a young man.

Upon seeing Chen Xun, the middle-aged man spoke first, "You're Chen Xun?"

"it's me."

Chen Xun nodded.

"Alright, I am the examiner for this hunter assessment, the captain of the third hunter squad, named Chen Li. Your father was a member of our third squad before he passed away."

"If you can pass the assessment, you can also join our third squad."

Chen Li said calmly.

Looking at this person, Chen Xun frowned slightly, then quickly regained his composure.

In his memory, this person had a strained relationship with his father, but Chen Xun didn't know the reason. Why would an adult tell a child about such things?

Now that Chen Li has become his examiner, it's anyone's guess whether he'll try to trip him up.

Then, another young man introduced himself.

His name is Chen Hai, and he is a staff member sent by the fort to conduct inspections.

This was because the fortress feared that the examiners and candidates would collude to deceive them.

This has happened many times before.

"Alright, let's begin the first stage of the assessment."

Chen Li said to Chen Xun, "You need to run five laps around this track within fifteen minutes without stopping, otherwise you will fail."

"Do you understand?"

"clear."

"Okay, let's begin."

Chen Xun then began to run under the watchful eyes of the two men.