High-level martial arts: Invincibility starts with basic archery.

Chapter 255 They're all a bunch of useless trash! (Please subscribe)

"Tell me, what exactly happened?"

Yan Ming glanced at the group of people expressionlessly, his eyes looking at them as if they were crawling insects.

"Say what you just said again," Fang Yun said. "If it's different from what you said before, you'll be in big trouble."

"Yes, yes, yes."

The group exchanged glances, nodded quickly, and recounted the whole story again, like beans spilling from a bamboo tube.

After they finished speaking, Yan Junwei and Tian Guo exchanged a glance, both with a hint of anticipation in their eyes.

Just as expected, they met the city lord in person.

I should be able to get some rewards, right? Like top-grade Qi and Blood Pills, something that only martial artists at the Transformation Realm are qualified to obtain in this trading company.

For the city lord, giving each person only one bottle is rather stingy. At least two or three bottles per person would be appropriate.

It would be even better if there were some other things.

Bai Hong's heart was pounding like fifteen buckets of water being drawn up and down.

He really didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing, but once you're in the world, you're not in control of your own destiny.

I just hope that the city lord of Anshan City will let him leave safely later.

As for the two or three people who came from the merchant guild, their faces were deathly pale, their heads were bowed, and they dared not make a sound.

After all, they were completely unaware that Lu Yang had gotten into trouble within the association.

He will definitely be charged with dereliction of duty.

Of course, if they discover the murderer, their fate will probably be the same as those corpses on the ground.

Thinking about it that way, it would have been better if we hadn't discovered it at all.

Yan Ming frowned deeply after hearing this.

Just as Fang Yun had said before, except with many more details.

In summary, the reason why Guan Dehua hurriedly led his men out of the city early yesterday morning was most likely because he received a phone call from Song Hailong informing him of his brother's death, and thus rushed out to seek revenge.

The two went to Chenjia Village together.

As a result, dozens of people carrying guns and cannons, fully armed, along with several martial artists at the Qi Refining Realm, and even a C-level Awakener, all disappeared without a trace.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Thinking of this, he suddenly burst into laughter.

Yan Junwei, Tian Guo, and the others were so frightened they almost collapsed to the ground.

What's so funny? Shouldn't he be furious?

"Useless! A complete bunch of useless trash! So many people, and they can't even handle a small village!"

Yan Ming's smile vanished, a fierce glint appearing in his eyes as he stared at the group and said, "And you lot, you're all a bunch of trash! I've raised you for so many years, giving you pills that even the Martial Arts Association can't get, and this is how you repay me?"

Yan Junwei, Tian Guo, and the others were stunned. Before they could react, a ball of raging fire suddenly rose up on their bodies. Almost instantly, the flames engulfed them, and excruciating pain surged over them like a tidal wave.

"Ah! Spare me! Spare me!"

"Lord City Lord!"

"Spare me!"

The men let out heart-wrenching screams as they begged for mercy.

Yan Junwei and Tian Guo were even more incredulous.

They thought that by reporting such important information, they would surely receive a reward from the city lord.

As a result, the other party was not only unmoved, but also treated them as useless trash.

Yan Ming's lips curled up slightly, seemingly enjoying the scene before him.

Fang Yun, standing to the side, acted as if he hadn't seen anything, his expression remaining unchanged.

A dozen seconds later, the men were charred and collapsed on the ground, billowing thick smoke.

"Brother Yan, what's next?"

Fang Yun then spoke up and asked.

"Go find Meng Xue."

Yan Ming said in an icy tone, "Let's see where that piece of trash Guan Dehua died, and who has the audacity to slap me in the face."

"Um."

Upon hearing this, Fang Yun followed.

Undeniably, this matter is indeed shrouded in mystery.

However, the truth could not be hidden from that person's eyes.

I just hope that Guan Dehua is still alive.

……

【Divine Archery Technique: Beginner Level (0%), Characteristics: Strength of an Ox Level 1, Focus of the Mind Level 1】

Looking at the two unlocked features, Chen Fan smiled.

Two hundred and forty experience points, well worth the money.

Not only does strength increase by 100 points with each level up, but mental attribute also increases by 30%.

Keep in mind that his current mental attribute is close to 300,000 points.

Even a 10% increase, let alone a 30% improvement, is still quite considerable.

"The Divine Arrow is at its peak, with a level 5 Divine trait. If all that's added up, its mental power exceeds one million?"

Chen Fan's eyes lit up.

With a million points of mental energy, even with the distance of the Celestial-Human Sensing maximized, one can maintain the connection for more than ten seconds.

For that reason alone, he felt that learning this archery technique was worthwhile.

"Keep going, there will definitely be even stronger features to come."

Chen Fan added 480 experience points.

The mental power in his mind grew even stronger once more.

【Divine Archery Technique: Slightly Proficient (0%), Characteristics: Strength of an Ox Level 2, Focus of the Mind Level 2】

No new features were unlocked.

With a thought, Chen Fan consumed nearly a thousand experience points again, and this time, a new memory appeared in his mind.

【Divine Archery Technique: Mastery (0%), Characteristics: Strength of an Ox Level 3, Focus Level 3, Tracking Arrow Level 1】

"A tracking arrow?"

Chen Fan was a little surprised.

【Tracking Arrow: Active skill, consumes 1000 True Qi and 500 Spirit. After activation, a single arrow can sense the enemy's presence and track them. The number of Tracking Arrows increases by one for each skill level.】

Chen Fan watched for a while and found it quite interesting.

This characteristic does not improve the power of the arrow.

Moreover, at level 1, only one tracking arrow can be fired. Even if the archery technique is perfected, only three arrows can be fired at the same time.

The advantage is that this arrow has eyes; it can track, it can curve, and it can hit the opponent from all sorts of unbelievable angles.

But using this kind of arrow is rather impractical.

If it could be combined with the Sun-Shooting Arrow or the Flaming Arrow, then it would be a different story.

The effect is equivalent to that of a guided missile.

"I wonder if any more special features can be unlocked later?" Chen Fan wondered to himself.

His intuition told him that it should exist.

Looking at the three characteristics that have been unlocked, none of them seem to be the essence of this archery technique.

After consuming nearly 6,000 experience points again, the [Divine Arrow Technique] finally reached the perfect level.

【Divine Arrow Technique: Perfected (Cannot be upgraded), Traits: Strength of an Ox Level 5, Focus Level 5, Tracking Arrow Level 3, Divine Arrow Level 1】

【Divine Arrow: Active skill. After activation, it consumes at least 10,000 points of mental energy, materializing mental energy into an arrow. Upon hitting the opponent, it inflicts double the mental damage to the opponent's soul. The damage doubles for each level the skill is upgraded.】

After reading it, Chen Fan took a deep breath.

This divine arrow doesn't actually require any arrows.

To be precise, it doesn't require real arrows, because it can materialize the mental energy in the practitioner's mind into arrows, just like sword beams and blade energy. However, it's easy to see that the former is much more difficult than the latter.

That alone makes it very sophisticated.

Of course, it is also very practical.

First, there's the power: double the mental damage. That means an arrow he condenses using 10,000 points of mental energy will deal 20,000 points of mental damage to his opponent.

In comparison, the Soul-Destroying Finger, which also attacks the opponent's soul, can only cause one-fold mental damage.

Secondly, the attack ranges are too far apart.

Soul-Destroying Finger has an attack range of about 100 meters; the further the distance, the lower the damage.

The attack range of the Divine Arrow depends on the distance of the bow and arrow in hand; the farther the bow and arrow travels, the larger the attack range of the Divine Arrow.

If we add the "Sun-Shooting Archery Technique," where the arrow shoots across the sky, the distance doubles again.

As for whether these two characteristics can be used in combination, Chen Fan felt there shouldn't be much of a problem.

Because an arrow that is a manifestation of spiritual power is still an arrow.

Of course, just in case, he'll go out and try it out later.

At this point, all three archery techniques had been elevated to the perfect level.

Even though the bow in his hand was the same one as before, his combat power had more than doubled.

If he encounters a Firescale Boar again, he has several ways to kill it.

Of course, before that, there is another important issue: internal energy.

This is similar to the mana bar in a game; if you don't have enough mana, you can't use even the most powerful skills.

Chen Fan glanced at his experience points; he still had over 32 left.

"I still have plenty of experience points. I'll learn a few pill recipes first, so that I won't run out of experience points later when other martial arts take up too much of my experience points."

He currently possesses four True Qi Pill recipes: two that can be used to refine high-grade True Qi Pills, one that can be used to refine top-grade True Qi Pills, and one that can be used to refine heaven-grade True Qi Pills.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Fan decided to start with the one with the lowest appearance rate of high-grade True Qi Pills, proceeding from easy to difficult.

After all four alchemy techniques have been raised to the perfect level, they will be fused together.

"I wonder how it will turn out."

A look of anticipation appeared in Chen Fan's eyes, and then he focused his attention on the skill bar.

[True Qi Pill Alchemy (Gu Jun): Completely clueless (0%)]

He added some experience points, and his proficiency increased by one four-hundredth.

"So tall?"

Chen Fan opened his eyes wide in surprise.

The recipe for the top-grade Qi and Blood Pill from the Awakeners Association only requires 150 experience points to enter the beginner level.

The True Qi Pill alchemy technique requires 400 points to even begin, which is more than twice the amount required for the Blood Qi Pill!

"This isn't good?"

He looked at the other three alchemy techniques, especially the one that could refine Heavenly Grade Qi and Blood Pills.

Do you need at least a thousand experience points to even begin?

Even the all-powerful Awakeners Association might not have anyone who could master this alchemy technique to perfection and thus refine a Heaven-grade True Qi Pill.

He composed himself and added all the remaining three hundred or so experience points to the account.

A flash of inspiration struck me.

[True Qi Pill: Beginner Level (0%), Characteristics: Level 1, Low Grade]

Similar to the beginner's guide to Qi and Blood Pill alchemy, it unlocked the same two characteristics.

However, the probabilities may be very different.

Chen Fan took a deep breath and pressed the button.

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(End of this chapter)