"You are quite punctual and not late. In half a minute, it will be three quarters after noon!" Cai Yingwu glanced at Yan Liqiang with emotionless eyes, and his cold voice came with the wind and snow, "I almost thought you didn't dare to come. If that's the case, I will be very disappointed!"
Yan Liqiang's eyes also passed over Cai Yingwu's dark face and the dark red horn python bow on his back, then he looked up at the sky and muttered to himself, "It's so fast, in another two years and nine months, it will be September of the seventeenth year of Yuanping in the Han Empire..."
Yan Liqiang was in a very calm mood at the moment. Before the duel came, what he was thinking about in his mind was not this duel, but the heavenly tribulation that would happen two years and nine months later. Yan Liqiang felt that he had been very fast and worked very hard, but time was still slipping away day by day. It has been almost a year and seven months since he knew that the heavenly tribulation was coming. During this period of more than a year, he seemed to have done a lot of things, but looking back, he seemed to have done nothing. The time for the arrival of the heavenly tribulation was getting closer and closer, and the time left for him to prepare was getting less and less. At least for now, Yan Liqiang felt that his preparations had not yet fully met his requirements, so he had to race against time and clear away all those who stood in his way—Cai Yingwu in front of him was one of them.
"What did you say..." Because the two sides were quite far away from each other, Cai Yingwu did not hear clearly Yan Liqiang's emotional muttering just now, and asked with a frown.
"I didn't say anything!" Yan Liqiang once again fixed his gaze on Cai Yingwu's face, and said earnestly, "I mean, it's not too late for you to decide to give up now. There has never been any deep hatred or personal grudges between the two of us. Outsiders don't know the reasons for the conflict between the Transportation Office and the Manufacturing Bureau, but you must know it. In that situation, although I killed Shi Zhiyu, I had no choice. This was not a grudge between the martial arts world, but more like a confrontation between two armies. He worked for Jiang Tianhua to seize my property, and the final result was a life-and-death struggle. We both took the path of Kyudo, and it's not easy for us to get to where we are today on this path. We should use our skills and useful bodies in more useful places!"
"Hahaha..." Cai Yingwu laughed wildly, looking at Yan Liqiang with disdain, "You are just a yellow-haired boy, relying on luck to compete with me here, and now you still want to show off your eloquence in front of me to save your life, it's ridiculous, I took action today just to seek justice for my Feitian Sect disciple, since you took the life of my Feitian Sect disciple, then you have to keep your life today, so that we are even."
Yan Liqiang looked at Cai Yingwu, shook his head, and laughed. His smile and eyes were full of pity...
"What are you laughing at?" Cai Yingwu asked in a cold voice. There was already a hint of murderous intent in his voice that was difficult to conceal.
"In recent years, has your archery skills not made any progress? No matter what you try, your archery skills are only at the sixth level?" Yan Liqiang asked calmly.
Just this simple sentence made Cai Yingwu's face change immediately. In an instant, he looked at Yan Liqiang fiercely...
“You don’t need to wonder how I know this. I knew it the moment I received the challenge from your Feitian Sect. Although you advanced to the fifth level of Kyudo very early, your current Kyudo practice is at most the sixth level. It’s impossible for you to go any further!” Yan Liqiang still looked at the elder of Feitian Sect with pity in his eyes, and said generously, “A real man should seek fame, fortune and honor from the straight path, and never seek them by taking crooked paths. With your Kyudo skills, if you want wealth, fame and fortune, the battlefield is the best place for you. But you committed yourself to Feitian Sect, bearing the title of Yunzhou’s Arrow. Instead of defending your country and killing the enemy, you don’t protect the people. Your Kyudo skills are actually superfluous. The way of heaven is to reduce the excess and make up for the deficiency. What’s the use of your superfluous skills? "It is absolutely impossible for you to reach the seventh level of the bow path. If you do, it would be unfair. Moreover, in the end, all cultivation is about cultivating one's mind, especially in the bow path. The bow path is straight and not curved. Once an arrow is shot, it is natural to move forward bravely. There is no turning back. For a little benefit of Jiang Tianhua, you have come up with such a duel in such a way that you want to be a whore and also want to build a memorial archway. With your mind, you will never go further in the bow path in your life. The sixth level is already the end of your bow path! Although you are the elder of Feitianmen and the title of Yunzhou's number one bow master, in my opinion, you are just a poor creature who has climbed to the bow path by chance..."
Cai Yingwu's face was completely ferocious. He looked at Yan Liqiang with red eyes, grinning with gnashing teeth, and took the horn python bow on his back in his hand, "Youngster, stop talking nonsense. Don't think that you can shake me just because you heard these fallacies from somewhere. Today in Tianchi, I will kill you. It's useless for you to say anything. Let's see how many arrows you can withstand under my bow today. Take out your bow. Now that everyone is watching, I will kill you with one arrow. If you haven't taken out your bow yet, others will say that I am attacking you by surprise and bullying you..."
Yan Liqiang smiled and flipped his hand to pick up the bow bag on his back. It was a huge bow bag, much bigger than any bow bag Yan Liqiang had carried before. The upper corner of the bow bag was nearly two feet higher than Yan Liqiang's head, while the lower corner of the bow bag was almost level with Yan Liqiang's hanging hands.
Yan Liqiang shook it and took out a horn python bow from the huge bow bag.
This is a huge, black horn python bow. The spiral black bow has a black glow that looks both mysterious and simple. In that glow, there are circles of golden spiral patterns. Compared with the horn python bow in Cai Yingwu's hand, the bow of this horn python is a whole circle larger.
"Impossible..." When Cai Yingwu saw the horn python bow that Yan Liqiang took out of the bow bag, he screamed like a woman who was molested, and his whole face changed. As a master of archery, his ability to identify horn python bows is naturally outstanding. How strong a horn python bow is can be seen from the patterns on the horn python bow. As soon as Cai Yingwu saw the patterns and styles on the horn python bow in Yan Liqiang's hand, he immediately came to a conclusion that made him feel incredible. What Yan Liqiang was holding was a super strong bow of 100 stones. From childhood to now, Cai Yingwu has never seen a person who can use a bow of 100 stones. Because of this, when he saw that the horn python bow in Yan Liqiang's hand was actually a rare 100-stone strong bow, Cai Yingwu screamed.
"I'll give you one last chance. If you admit defeat now and declare your withdrawal from Feitian Sect, I'll spare your life, considering that it's not easy for you to practice Kyudo till today!" Yan Liqiang looked at Cai Yingwu and said calmly...
"Impossible, impossible, you can't possibly shoot a bow weighing 100 dan..." Cai Yingwu stared blankly at the horn python bow in Yan Liqiang's hand for a moment, then he stared into Yan Liqiang's eyes with a look of understanding on his face, "You must be trying to trick me, you must be trying to trick me, there are not many bows weighing 100 dan, but there are some. The emperor asked someone to bring this bow to you, just to make me back down, to scare me, to trick me in this duel, right..."
"You can try it and you will know..." Yan Liqiang smiled, "As a master of archery, you should know what such a strong bow made of white stone means in my hand. You have one chance to shoot the bow, you can bet that I am bluffing you, you can kill me with one arrow, or I can kill you..."
In the eyes of those archery masters, the reason why the Hundred Stone Bow is so terrifying is because of its power. If a person can pull the Hundred Stone Bow to its full strength and aim at the target with the bow and arrow, even if that person has only the first level of archery cultivation, the power he exerts is enough to scare anyone, because the power of the bow is so great and the speed of the arrow shot is so fast that it is completely unreasonable and can completely ignore the differences in cultivation realms and levels. All flesh and blood bodies are as fragile as paper in the face of such power and speed.
Looking at the calm expression on Yan Liqiang's face, and then looking at the horn python bow in Yan Liqiang's hand, I felt a little cold sweat on my back...
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"What are they doing? Why aren't they fighting yet? What are they talking about..." On the bank of Tianchi Lake, the onlookers who were expecting the two men to fight each other could not hear what they were talking about because they were too far away. They just saw the two men standing still after taking out their bows. They didn't know what they were doing, and they were all confused...
(End of this chapter)