Douluo Continent has a system, but I don't want to use it.

Chapter 18 Willow Leaf Flying Knife

"Caw! Caw!" A crow was cawing merrily in the tree. Fang Tian suddenly felt mocked, though it was just his imagination.

Fang Tian picked up a willow-leaf throwing knife and threw it at the crow. He quickly threw all twenty knives. The crow stood on the tree and stared at Fang Tian, ​​who was embarrassed.

Fang Tian rubbed his forehead, turned around, and went straight home for dinner. "Eating is the most important thing, nothing else matters!"

After eating and drinking his fill, Fang Tian continued to ponder the challenge of mastering the willow-leaf throwing knife. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him: the reason his throwing knives had hit a bottleneck was perhaps due to a problem with accuracy—something he had never considered before. And accuracy was paramount in throwing knives.

So how do you train your accuracy?

How about we shrink the target by half, make it half a meter, and try that first?

Fang Tian acted on his idea immediately, making a half-meter target and continuing to practice throwing knives. With the target shrunk so much, the accuracy of his willow-leaf throwing dropped to less than fifty percent. Frustrated, Fang Tian could only work hard to improve his accuracy little by little.

In a cycle of constantly improving accuracy, shrinking the target, and then improving accuracy again, three months quickly passed. When the target was reduced to ten centimeters in size, and Fang Tian increased his accuracy to 100%, the display finally changed.

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Willow Leaf Flying Knife (Entering the Inner Chamber 1/5000)

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As expected, accuracy is extremely important for throwing knives. After all, throwing knives are small, and if they don't hit vital points, they won't cause much damage.

Seeing that his willow-leaf throwing knife skills had reached a basic level, Fang Tian didn't continue to shrink the target. Instead, he focused on improving his proficiency with a 100% hit rate. Sure enough, as Fang Tian predicted, his proficiency with the willow-leaf throwing knife hit a plateau again after three days.

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Willow Leaf Flying Knife (Entering the Inner Chamber 4999/5000)

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Fang Tian resumed his previous process of improving accuracy: shrinking the target, increasing accuracy, then shrinking the target again, and increasing accuracy again. However, this time Fang Tian didn't dare to drastically reduce the size of the target as before, but instead shrank it centimeter by centimeter.

In this cycle, Fang Tian gradually shrunk the target to the size of a human eye, which was simply unbelievable.

Since only one throwing knife could be placed on each target at a time, Fang Tian simply made twenty targets and erected them. By this time, the twenty throwing knives that Fang Tian had originally selected were almost all ruined.

Fang Tian can now hit targets as small as his eyes with a 10-meter accuracy within a range. Therefore, the fact that the Willow Leaf Throwing Knife is still stuck at the beginner level is definitely not a matter of accuracy. That is to say, the Willow Leaf Throwing Knife has encountered the same problem as the Nine Palaces Knife Step—the body and the knife are not yet in harmony.

This requires slow and careful refinement. Fang Tian decided to first master one of the throwing knives. Once he had mastered one, the others wouldn't be far behind.

Fang Tian began the daily process of nurturing his throwing knife with his soul power. Each time, he would nurture it in his hand for half a minute, then throw it with the accumulated momentum, hitting the target. Afterward, Fang Tian would remove the knife from the target and continue the process. He diligently linked the knife-throwing technique with the soul power circulation of the Meridian Technique.

It did have an effect. By the time three months had almost passed, Fang Tian had mastered the three major moves of the Willow Leaf Flying Knife. He could easily mobilize his soul power each time he activated it, which increased the speed of the Willow Leaf Flying Knife by more than two times. However, it only worked on the one flying knife that had been nurtured for a long time. The other flying knives remained unchanged.

It can't be said to be the same as before, since the three moves of throwing willow leaf knives can already mobilize soul power, but the soul power cannot enter the new knives.

Do we have to nurture each throwing knife individually?

That's not difficult. My own goose-feather saber weighs two pounds, and it only took me two months to nurture it. Two hundred throwing knives only weigh two pounds in total, and all the throwing knives I currently have don't even add up to two hundred. It will only take me two months at most!

The key is that you can't use the newly crafted throwing knife immediately; it needs to be nurtured first.

In Douluo Continent, there are metals that can be directly infused with soul power, but they are all precious metals, and it would be too wasteful to use them to forge disposable throwing knives.

Sigh! I can't think of a solution for now, so I can only use the most rudimentary method: spending time nurturing the throwing knives little by little. I can only nurture a maximum of 1200 throwing knives per year, so it seems I'll have to try to conserve them as much as possible from now on.

Actually, ten copper soul coins for a throwing knife is really not cheap. If Fang's parents knew that their son threw out ten copper soul coins and then didn't want them, they would probably give him a good beating.

Three days later, Fang Tian finally found a way to quickly refine the willow leaf throwing knives: he used his own blood to refine them.

As long as you get your own blood on the flying knife while refining it, and then start inputting soul power from the blood-stained area, you can quickly refine the flying knife. It seems that some unknown change occurs between the soul power and the blood.

Once you practice throwing knives with a blood sacrifice, you'll be able to control them like an extension of your arm, and it seems like a connection has formed between you and the knife, allowing you to sense the knives within a certain distance.

The amount of blood used for the blood sacrifice is not much; about five milliliters of blood is enough to sacrifice one hundred throwing knives, and it only takes two hours to sacrifice one hundred throwing knives.

By practicing with 100 throwing knives every day, and then practicing every other day, you can produce 1,500 throwing knives in a month, which is more than enough.

In case of emergency, a temporary ritual can be performed.

Fang Tian used all the remaining willow-leaf throwing knives in a blood sacrifice, and the feeling of launching the knives again was completely different.

Fang Tian opened the panel to take a look.

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Willow Leaf Throwing Knife (Masterful Skill 3/30000)

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The willow leaf throwing knife has indeed advanced; now I can quickly level up my proficiency.

Three months later, without neglecting his practice of other skills and techniques, Fang Tian raised his proficiency in the Willow Leaf Flying Knife to the pinnacle.

During a break from his meditation practice that day, while he was resting with his eyes closed, his father suddenly approached him and said he had something to discuss.

This is a once-in-a-century event. Normally, Fang's parents would never let him worry about trivial matters in order to focus on his cultivation.

Given Fang's father's current status in the village, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he could command a large following. How could he have run into trouble today?

"Dad, don't worry, tell me what's wrong?" Fang Tian brought his father a chair and poured him a cup of tea.

"It's nothing serious, just about raising rabbits. Weasels have been getting increasingly rampant in the village lately, and almost every household has had their rabbits killed or dragged away. It's causing a lot of unrest," Mr. Fang explained the whole story.

Fang Tian was also somewhat troubled. Weasels are swift and cunning, making them difficult to kill and drive away.

We can't use medicine yet, otherwise it might harm the rabbit.

Judging from Dad's expression, he must have already tried the conventional method of reinforcing the rabbit hutch.

"Goose!" A sudden thought flashed through Fang Tian's mind.

Fang Tian had overheard in his previous life that rabbit hutches usually kept a few geese. Weasels, on the other hand, would get their paws rotten if they stepped in goose droppings, so they generally avoided places where there were geese.

Fang Tian told his father about this method and asked everyone to try it out first.

(End of this chapter)