Chapter 9: The Bow and Arrow

"Although the Golden Dust Robe is a treasure, I can pierce it with a casual finger." Ji Yichuan looked at his son. "These are all external. In the future, you will achieve great success in the divine demon body refinement, and the strongest aspect of divine demons is their own body. What you need to do is to dig out your own potential as much as possible and unleash your own strength."

"Mm." Ji Ning nodded solemnly.

"With the divine demon body refinement, you will be stronger, faster, your eyes can see farther, your ears can hear more clearly, and even your body's recovery ability will be astonishing!" Ji Yichuan looked at his son. "To turn these into powerful strength..."

"First, you need weapons!" Ji Yichuan said. "If you are ten times stronger than your opponent, but he can shoot you dead with an arrow from afar, that is the power of weapons."

"Second, you must be skilled in using weapons. For example, a swordsman, even without any inner energy, as long as he reaches the second realm of swordsmanship, 'man and sword as one', can easily pierce the throat of an opponent with abundant inner energy who doesn't know how to use weapons. After all, even those with abundant inner energy cannot resist the sharpness of a sword!" Ji Yichuan said slowly.

Ji Ning naturally understood these principles.

A strong simpleton, encountering a skilled assassin with a short sword, would die in an instant!

A strong body is only one aspect; it is technique that determines how much can be unleashed. Like in the previous world's boxing, kickboxing, etc., the physical qualities of the top athletes are actually similar, and it depends more on technique, combat strategy, and other aspects.

"Tell me, what do you want to learn?" Ji Yichuan looked at his son.

"Ning'er, think carefully." Yuchi Xue also looked at her son.

They actually had long had plans for their son in their hearts... After all, in their view, their son was too young, and even if he was clever from childhood, how much could he understand? But they still asked their son, letting him understand that he should think for himself about everything, and then they would express their thoughts, letting him grasp the difference.

"I want to learn three things." Ji Ning suddenly spoke.

"First, I want to learn archery!" Ji Ning said.

He was taking the divine demon body refinement path, possessing astonishing eyesight and immense strength. Naturally, he should use a bow and arrow... Shooting an arrow with divine demon strength would definitely be supersonic, and its power would probably be far more terrifying than a heavy sniper rifle from his previous life. He could attack enemies from afar with an arrow, and according to his reading of books, learning archery wasn't too difficult.

"Second, I want to learn swordsmanship, dual swords!" Ji Ning said.

The Ji clan was most skilled in swordsmanship!

His father Ji Yichuan was even known as 'Drip Sword'. With such good resources, of course he had to learn swordsmanship!

"Dual swords?" Ji Yichuan frowned. "Go on."

"Third, I want to learn lightness skills and movement techniques, methods for escaping." Ji Ning said. "That's all."

When encountering a strong enemy, one must be able to escape!

Only with strong survival skills can one live longer. And living longer brings more possibilities.

Yuchi Xue smiled: "What Ning'er said covers the major aspects. But I think it's better for you to practice with a single sword... The entire Ji clan has no dual sword expert. Practicing swordsmanship requires focus; you must concentrate your mind on one sword to achieve great success."

"Your mother is right." Ji Yichuan also looked at his son.

"Father, mother, I have been able to multitask since childhood." Ji Ning looked up at his parents. He couldn't explain the matter of the 'Nuwa Painting', so he could only attribute it to being born with the ability to multitask.

"What!"

"Multitasking?"

Ji Yichuan and Yuchi Xue were greatly shocked.

"Do you know what multitasking means?" Ji Yichuan said in a low voice. "It's not simply dividing attention while doing things, but thinking about two things simultaneously in your mind without any interference."

"I really can multitask." Ji Ning quickly said.

"Then try it." Ji Yichuan's eyes shone with astonishing light. With a flip of his hand, he produced two gray-white stones. "Use these two stones to write on the ground. With your left hand, write your mother's name, and with your right hand, write my name, at the same time!"

"Yes, Father." Ji Ning nodded.

Ji Ning took the two gray-white stones, which felt somewhat like limestone from his previous life. He immediately began writing with one stone in each hand. The stones wrote very smoothly.

Swish! Swish!

His left and right hands wrote simultaneously with ease, both writing the ancient, complex pictographic characters of this world. On one side, he wrote 'Ji Yichuan', and on the other, 'Yuchi Xue'. The strokes were perfectly clear, effortless.

"Ning'er, you..." Yuchi Xue was stunned.

"This..." Ji Yichuan was also shocked.

"No wonder, no wonder you cultivated the 'Redmoon Diagram of Nine Heavens' so quickly." Ji Yichuan said slowly. "So my son's soul is strong enough to multitask!"

Ji Yichuan looked at his son as if he were a peerless uncut jade, excitedly: "I only achieved multitasking after years of cultivation. But I focused on a single sword from childhood... My mind was set, the path hard to change! But my son can multitask from childhood... This is a natural talent for dual swords. Two swords wielded as if by two people, making the enemy feel as if they are under attack by two opponents, and these two opponents are in sync, increasing strength tenfold!"

"Starting tomorrow, I will personally teach you swordsmanship!" Ji Yichuan looked at his son and said.

...

The next morning.

The dense world energy made the world misty. Ji Ning had been brought to the training ground by his father.

"Ji Ning." Ji Yichuan looked at his son and pointed to a bearded man in leather armor beside him. "This is the best archer of our Ji clan's West Mansion, 'Meng Yu'. His archery is superb. Meng Yu, let this little one see what you can do."

"Yes." Meng Yu respectfully acknowledged.

Ji Yichuan walked directly to the four stone millstones placed ahead, each weighing several hundred jin. He casually grabbed one millstone and hurled it into the distance with a whoosh, then grabbed another and threw it. In the blink of an eye, all four millstones flew whistling into the distance.

The four millstones, each weighing several hundred jin, flew through the air one after another like four cannonballs, quickly becoming black dots in the sky.

"Ha!" The bearded Meng Yu suddenly produced a large dark black bow in his hand, and even grabbed four arrows. He drew the bowstring.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The four arrows flashed with silver light, vanished in an instant, and caught up with the four millstones that had become black dots. Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! The four black dots completely disappeared.

Ji Ning watched, dumbfounded.

He was stunned for a long time...

"Father threw a several-hundred-jin millstone one or two kilometers away? Like a cannonball!" Ji Ning was inwardly shocked. "Meng Yu's arrows, in the blink of an eye, in less than a second, reached one or two kilometers away. Strictly calculating the speed... the arrow must be at least two thousand meters per second."

"Legend has it that the great god Hou Yi once shot nine arrows in succession, killing nine golden crows." Meng Yu laughed heartily. "Young master, this is just a minor skill."

"Master Meng Yu, when the millstones shatter and fall, won't they hit anyone?" Ji Ning suddenly thought to ask.

Ji Yichuan shook his head: "Ji Ning, your master Meng Yu is already a Xiantian lifeform. He infuses his arrows with true essence, and when they hit the millstones, they turn them into powder that drifts down gently... How could they hit anyone?"

Ji Ning was secretly amazed.

Impressive.

"From today on, every morning you will practice archery with your master Meng Yu for one hour." Ji Yichuan said. "Consider it your morning training. Meng Yu, I'll trouble you."

"Being able to teach the young master is my honor." Meng Yu laughed heartily.

Ji Yichuan nodded and turned to leave.

The entire training ground was quiet, with only Meng Yu and Ji Ning, not a single servant.

"Young master." Meng Yu looked at Ji Ning. "For an archer, the bow and arrow are very important. An arrow consists of three parts: the arrowhead, the shaft, and the fletching. A bow mainly consists of the bow body and the bowstring. Arrows can be mass-produced, but bows are valuable!"

"There are two types of bows."

"The first type consists of an elastic bow body and a tough bowstring. When drawing the bow, the bow body bends... storing energy through the bow body's elasticity to generate force. This is the most common and relatively ordinary type, easy to make, and ordinary archers usually use such bows."

"The second type consists of a sturdy bow body and an elastic bowstring. When drawing the bow, the bow body remains stable like a frame, while the bowstring stretches to store energy and generate astonishing elastic force. For example, this bow in my hand!"

Meng Yu handed the large dark black bow to Ji Ning.

Ji Ning reached out and took the ancient-looking large bow, feeling its weight. The bow must have weighed over a hundred jin. He examined it carefully. The bow body was made of a dark black metal, very glossy. The bowstring was about finger-thick, tinged with blue, and a faint, fierce aura seemed to surround it.

"The bow body is made of Wind-Thunder Iron, extremely tough. The bowstring is even more precious... made from a section of the sinew of a Flood Dragon demon, possessing astonishing elasticity. Even if I were ten times stronger, I couldn't break this bow." Meng Yu laughed. "I named it the Thunder Dragon Bow."

Ji Ning's eyes lit up as he listened. The sinew of a Flood Dragon demon as the bowstring?

"Come, let's start with the stance." Meng Yu flipped his hand and produced an ordinary bow.

"Standing shooting stance, crouching shooting stance, reverse shooting stance, jumping shooting stance, and running shooting stance!" Meng Yu looked at Ji Ning. "Young master's archery training is divided into two stages: the foundation stage and the heart-arrow stage."

"In the foundation stage, you must achieve 'hand to, eye to, arrow to' with the five basic stances, hitting the target every time without fail, before moving to the next stage."

"The heart-arrow stage does not require specific stances, only 'heart to, arrow to'. Don't use your eyes; that's too slow. You must rely on your heart! Draw and shoot in an instant, hitting the target like lightning. In critical moments, the key opportunity is just a flash; you won't have time to aim slowly. When you master the heart-arrow stage, you will have graduated."

Ji Ning nodded as he listened.

Then he began to learn the correct stances under Meng Yu's guidance.

"Straighten your waist! Keep your left arm straight!"

"Hold that position with the bowstring drawn, stay still!"

"Eyes! Eyes! Are you blind?"

Once the serious teaching began, Meng Yu started roaring. Ji Ning, a blank slate, was 'yelled at' repeatedly. He could only endure and learn slowly.

A tall building rises from the ground; even a master archer once stumbled as a beginner.