Ink panel: Hunting the sun and surveying the sky from the bow.

Chapter 118: One of the brothers died, and the other was disabled

Shen Qing stared at the ink panel in his sight, lost in thought.

I didn't expect that after just obtaining the fifty-stone bow, my archery skills could make a breakthrough.

It's like giving me a pillow when I feel sleepy. It's just right.

Shen Qing chose to break through without any hesitation.

The information on the ink panel is refreshed synchronously.

[Skills: Archery (Great Mastery)]

[Progress: 3/400 points]

[Status: cannot be upgraded]

[Note: After continuous practice, your archery skills have improved day by day, and you have realized the talent of 'Eagle Eyes', which has greatly enhanced your perception and spatial construction ability, allowing you to overlook the overall situation like an eagle with sharp eyes.]

"Hawkeye?"

Before Shen Qing could come to his senses, his whole body suddenly shook.

Memories of practicing archery kept emerging in his mind.

He looked down at the heavy bow in his hand, and at this moment he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity and muscle memory, which became clearer and clearer.

After a while, wait for this strange feeling to pass.

Shen Qing tensed his arm muscles, hooked his little finger, and placed the black iron arrow on the string.

He stretched out his gibbon and drew his bow to the full moon.

The whole set of movements was as smooth as flowing water, as if he had practiced it thousands of times.

"Incredible." Shen Qing put down the bow and arrow, his eyes flashing with brilliance: "Just now I was a little unskilled in pulling this heavy bow, but I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye I could use it without any hesitation."

"And this Hawkeye..."

Shen Qing closed his eyes and suddenly opened them.

The skill 'Eagle Eye' is activated.

Suddenly, various scenes of the eastern part of the city emerged in his mind.

Mottled and quaint city walls, well-arranged low buildings, messy alleys, chimneys of varying heights...

These images are constantly combined and gradually become a bird's-eye view.

Shen Qing's consciousness moved and his perspective fell.

A certain place in the eastern part of the city kept zooming in, and finally stopped in a small courtyard.

One side of the courtyard wall has collapsed.

In the middle of the yard, a small figure stood there holding a bow and arrow.

Snapped!
Soon, the image that appeared in his mind burst like a bubble.

Shen Qing woke up as if from a dream, his face full of disbelief.

"This……"

The experience that the 'Eagle Eye' skill had just given him was truly too magical, giving him a powerful feeling of overlooking the entire situation.

"Based on my previous judgment, the effective shooting range of the heavy bow in my hand can reach a thousand steps away. If I use the 'Eagle Eye' skill in conjunction with the heavy bow in my hand, I can strike first. Wouldn't that mean I can kill gods and Buddhas?"

Shen Qing lowered his head and stared at the heavy bow in his hand, and quickly rejected this idea in his heart.

"That's not right. This world has the martial arts of immortals. People who have mastered martial arts have amazing defense. Fifty stones of lethality may not be enough to deal with them. And I guess I can't kill the monsters that appear with one arrow. But for others... it's enough."

"If one arrow doesn't work, just shoot a few more arrows. When your arm strength increases, you can try the 100-stone heavy bow, 1,000-stone bow, 10,000-stone bow... You'll eventually be able to shoot them all to death."

Shen Qing laughed, put his thoughts aside, then walked to the collapsed part of the courtyard wall and took out the arrows he had shot.

Arrows made of black iron are extremely hard.

After withstanding such great force, it still remains intact.

"It can be seen that Master Ruan did not cut corners for me. The bows and arrows he made are very solid."

After Shen Qing collected the bow and arrow, he turned and walked out of the yard.

Everyone in the shop had just witnessed his amazing arm strength, and when he appeared in the shop, everyone's eyes in the room couldn't help but fall on him.

Shen Qing didn't feel uncomfortable at all and took it calmly.

He walked up to Ruan Chengbao, took out a silver note and said with a smile: "Thank you, Master Ruan, I am very satisfied with this heavy bow. Here is the remaining 150 taels of money for the bow."

Now the Great Zhou already has silver bills in circulation, which can be withdrawn freely at money houses.

However, different money houses and different regions cannot accept payments, so there are certain limitations, but at least you don't have to carry a heavy bag of silver around everywhere.

Ruan Chengbao had no intention of refusing and accepted it generously. He pointed to the yard behind with his thumb and said, "Where's the rest?"

Shen Qing was not angry. He took out a purse containing about 15 taels of silver from his bosom and said, "This is to compensate for the courtyard wall and the money for casting arrows."

Ruan Chengbao took it, opened the purse, took a look, and found that there was no problem.

He pulled the two ends of the rope on the money bag, pulled it outwards to tighten it, and said, "If you want to beat other objects in the future, you can come to me. I am honest and fair."

"Master Ruan's craftsmanship is amazing. If I want to make other objects in the future, I will definitely come over."

Ruan Chengbao stuffed the purse into his arms, said no more, picked up the hammer and began to forge other iron blanks seriously.

Shen Qing turned around and left tactfully.

The girl standing in the kiln shop saw Shen Qing leave. She walked to Ruan Chengbao unwillingly, stamped her feet and said, "Dad...everyone is gone."

"I know."

Ruan Chengbao grabbed the almost hammered iron blank with tongs and put it into the water.

With a crackling sound, the water surface boiled and a cloud of white steam emerged.

The girl was a little confused.

Ruan Chengbao glanced at his daughter and said, "You are not suitable for him. I see that he can easily pull a fifty-stone heavy bow at such a young age. His arm strength alone is not that of an ordinary martial artist. He is at least at the Leather Forging Realm, and he may even be at the Qi Cultivation Realm." "What kind of woman does a master Wu want? Although we have some wealth, we are a small family after all, and he won't be interested in us. Dad will show you other handsome young men later."

After the iron blank cooled down, Ruan Chengbao knocked off the iron filings on it and threw them into the fire to continue calcining.

He looked at the gradually red-hot iron block and said to himself, "The most important thing for a person is to know himself."

The girl bit her lip, her eyes were misty, and she murmured in silence.

……

Now in Taiping County, people die almost every day inside and outside the city. Since Shen Qing moved to Taiping County, there have been several fights and killings.

Even though he killed so many people, no one in the county government bothered him.

He gradually understood that the county government here basically turned a blind eye to murders.

So he became much bolder.

Shen Qing, who had killed someone in the street before, was walking on the street again with a bow and arrow on his back, without any fear on his face.

However, some people on the street, seeing his tall and mighty appearance and the dark longbow on his back, knew that he was not easy to mess with, so they all avoided him.

"Junior Brother Shen?"

When Shen Qing was passing by a restaurant, he suddenly heard someone calling him.

He hurriedly stopped and looked in the direction of the sound, and finally saw Xiao Zhi's figure at the door of a small restaurant.

"Senior Brother Xiao?"

Shen Qing looked up at the restaurant, Xilailou.

He knew that Xiao Zhi was a cook, so this must be where he worked.

Xiao Zhi said in surprise: "You are still here?"

"what happened?"

Shen Qing was a little confused.

"I just received news that a senior brother of Linfeng Hall had an accident, and many fellow brothers have gone there."

Shen Qing was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and clasped his hands together and said, "Thank you, Senior Brother Xiao, for telling me. I'll go back and check it out."

"If anything happens, tell me immediately. I'll be there as soon as I finish cooking today..."

Before Xiao Zhi finished speaking, he saw Shen Qing running away along the main street and quickly disappearing in the crowd.
After about a cup of tea, Shen Qing arrived at Shengshifang.

There were many people gathered at the entrance of Linfeng Hall in front, making a lot of noise.

People continued to gather towards Linfeng Hall.

Shen Qing walked to the Linfeng Hall, grabbed a man and asked, "What happened inside?"

The man whose shoulders were grabbed by Shen Qing frowned, feeling unhappy and ready to get angry.

When he turned around and saw Shen Qing's burly figure, he muttered twice, and his frown immediately relaxed. He smiled and said, "I don't know. I heard that two of Li Linfeng's direct disciples went to strangle the tiger monster and something went wrong. Something serious happened."

"Second Senior Brother Niu Daping, Third Senior Brother Dong Zizhuang? Are they in trouble?"

Shen Qing's heart moved, and he quickly squeezed through the crowd, walked to the door, and knocked on it.

Ah Fu squeezed out half of his brain to take a look, and when he saw it was Shen Qing, he immediately let him in.

boom.

After Shen Qing came in, Ah Fu hurriedly closed the door, as if he was worried that other people would squeeze in.

"Is the Master in there?"

"They're all here."

"What happened?"

Ah Fu hesitated, sighed deeply and said, "Ah... go and see for yourself."

Upon hearing this, Shen Qing said no more and walked towards the main hall in a hurry.

Walked to the main hall of Linfeng Hall.

Bursts of crying sounds were heard from inside, and outside a group of new and old disciples of Linfeng Hall were surrounding them, forming quite a large formation.

Shen Qing walked forward and saw a corpse lying in the middle of the hall. It was his second senior brother Niu Daping.

Half of his body was missing, and his face was covered in blood. White bones and attached pink fascia were vaguely visible at the broken parts.

The family of the second senior brother Niu Daping had already rushed over after hearing the news and were lying on his body, crying bitterly.

Standing aside, the third senior brother Dong Zizhuang, who went to fight the tiger together, was not in a much better condition at this time.

His face was as pale as paper and his whole body was shaking, as if he had lost his soul.

The right eye socket was also empty, with the eyeball missing.

It seemed that many of the brothers’ families had come to the back of the house, and they were constantly crying out in pain.

The entire Linfeng Hall seemed as if the sky had fallen.

People from Linfeng Hall, such as Li Lingchan, who were rarely seen in the past, were now gathered in the hall, looking unhappy.

Snapped!
Li Linfeng slammed the table and stood up, saying, "You, the Weiwu Division, need to give me an explanation."

In the hall, a minor official in black clothes lowered his posture quickly, clasped his fists and said respectfully, "Master Li, please calm down. This time, the tiger demon was too cunning and the ghosts around him were too difficult to deal with. That's why we suffered such heavy losses and caused our two junior brothers to get into trouble."

Li Linfeng said angrily, "Not only the two of them, but all the other outer and inner disciples in our courtyard have no survivors. I have already inquired about other five sects, and none of them suffered as heavy losses as mine. Are you, the Weiwu Division, deliberately targeting my disciples?"

"Master Li, you really misunderstood. This was purely an accident. We were divided into several teams, each with its own division of labor. This time, our brothers and sisters in the Linfeng Hall were unlucky and accidentally encountered a tiger monster. When we went to support them, it was already too late."

The black-robed clerk was very sincere, and after saying this, he became even more humble: "This time our county magistrate also knows that the hall master has suffered heavy losses, so he has made an exception for us. If we send some more disciples to eliminate the tiger monster, all expenses will be borne by our yamen, and those who have made contributions will be given military status."

After saying this, the clerk in black clothes raised his head and looked at Li Linfeng cautiously, as if he was worried that some words in his words would displease him.

(End of this chapter)