Thousands of students from the academy lined up on the grassland.
"What a coincidence, Brother Fang!" The young Duke greeted Fang Yun across Qiao Juze.
Fang Yun turned his head and saw the young duke with a seemingly kind smile on his face, and to the left of the young duke was Wei Yu, the person Fang Yun wanted to expel from the academy.
The Duke of Xiaoguo said, "Normally, when entering the Lingyan Pavilion, everyone stays in their own pavilion, which consumes too much talent. If we go to the Lingyan Pavilion together, we can save the talent of the Holy Temple. However, I did not inform Brother Fang in advance, so I hope Brother Fang will forgive me."
Fang Yun glanced at the young Duke, and said with a slightly cold smile: "Young Duke, there is no need to be so polite. You won't stay in Jingguo Academy for long. I may need your forgiveness in the future!"
"Then you have to pass the five pavilions first! Not only do you have to pass the five pavilions, but you also have to have more chips than Wei Yu!" The young duke still had a smile on his face, but his tone was even colder than Fang Yun's.
Wei Yu next to him said, "Young Duke, don't worry! I have had the ability to enter the upper residence for a long time. Maybe I can pass the sixth pavilion today and enter the upper residence directly then!"
"Stop talking nonsense, we'll see the outcome in the Lingyan Pavilion!" Fang Yun said.
Qiao Juze on the side said to Fang Yun, "We won't bother with them! You must know the content of the test in Lingyan Pavilion, but you may have overlooked some details. In the hunting pavilion, you will be given a quarter of an hour to practice. During this time, there will be geese flying by continuously. You just need to get familiar with the bow and arrow. The formal start will begin in a quarter of an hour. At that time, a hundred geese will fly by. The more you kill and the shorter the time, the higher the score will be."
Fang Yun said: "Among the candidates in the Lingyan Pavilion, who holds the record for the Hunting Pavilion?"
"Of course it was the Flying General Li Guang. However, he only got full marks in the Hunting Pavilion and the Imperial Horse Pavilion. His scores in other pavilions were mediocre, and he did not become one of the 'Top Ten Juren Lingyan Pavilion'. Among the Top Ten Juren Lingyan Pavilion, the only one who achieved full marks in hunting was Chen Shengqingzhi, while the others only got eight or nine marks."
Fang Yun said: "Half-Saint Chen Qingzhi is proficient in military tactics, how come his archery skills are so amazing?"
"It is said that he claimed that he was proficient in all military tactics and was a rare person of his generation. He was proficient in everything in military tactics. In the next Imperial Horse Pavilion, he also had ten full chips. He was only second to the Flying General Li Guang in terms of passing time. This is rare among scholars."
"I see."
At this moment, a strange sound suddenly came from the sky. Fang Yun looked forward and saw countless geese flying from the sky, covering the sky and seemed endless.
"You can try the bow and arrow. Don't waste time." After saying that, Qiao Juze walked to his own bow rack and took out a clip bow, which was most suitable for hunting or shooting birds.
Fang Yun's hand swept across many kinds of bows and finally chose a longbow. Compared with the clip bow or the horn bow used for horseback archery, the longbow requires greater strength and takes more time to fully draw.
Then Fang Yun looked at the types of arrows. There were ear-piercing arrows for shooting chain mail, crescent arrows for shooting ropes, and kerosene arrows. Fang Yun finally chose four types.
One is the normal cone arrow, which is balanced in all aspects, and the other is the heavy cone arrow, which has a longer arrowhead and shaft, making it heavier and more penetrating.
The third type is the whistling arrow, which makes a piercing sound during flight, and the fourth type is the half-feathered arrow. Because part of the feathers are cut, if used well, the arrow can fly in an arc, making it hard to defend against.
Fang Yun prepared more than a dozen arrows and walked forward with a longbow in hand.
When Qiao Juze saw that Fang Yun was actually using a longbow, he opened his mouth to say something, but finally closed his mouth, sighed softly, and continued to shoot with his own bow.
Among the thousands of students in the audience, not a single one used longbows, most of them used pistol bows.
When the young Duke and Wei Yu saw Fang Yun holding a longbow, they smiled at each other and suddenly drew their bows and shot together. However, they did not shoot the geese in front of them, but the two geese in front of Fang Yun.
Two mournful cries of wild geese were heard, and arrows carrying the two geese fell and landed in front of Fang Yun.
"Brother Fang, how are my and Wei Yu's archery skills? I wonder how long you practiced archery when you were in Ji County?" The young duke said with a smile.
Fang Yun seemed not to have seen the two provocative arrows, nor did he hear the words of the young duke. He picked up the bow and arrow and practiced silently.
Qiao Juze had been observing Fang Yun and found that Fang Yun ignored the young duke and nodded slightly. He feared that the most important thing about entering Lingyan Pavilion was losing control of his emotions. As long as he was not moved by external things, he could achieve better results.
Fang Yun first used the whistling arrow. Once the whistling arrow flew out, it immediately made a sharp sound, and the surrounding geese immediately became briefly in chaos. Some geese retreated, some accelerated, and some moved to the sides.
Others would never use whistling arrows in a hunting pavilion, because this kind of arrow would scare the wild geese and make it more difficult to hit them.
Many people felt puzzled and ignored Fang Yun, while some people lowered their heads in thought.
The young duke and his companions were puzzled at first, but when they found that Fang Yun's arrows were shot in a random pattern and he couldn't even hit the wild geese, they felt relieved. Now was not the time to play around, but to get familiar with the bow and arrow and the wild geese. Fang Yun couldn't be so stupid as to not know this, and it must be because of his poor archery skills that he behaved like this.
Unlike others, Fang Yun would think for a moment before shooting each whistling arrow. After shooting more than twenty arrows, he began to shoot with heavy conical arrows.
Heavy cone arrows are different from ordinary arrows in all aspects, so whether it is the bow drawing time, flying speed, flying trajectory, etc., they are different from ordinary arrows. Fang Yun actually shot three arrows in a row.
"Nothing special! Even your archery in the six arts of a gentleman is so poor, yet you still boast that you can surpass me. You are so shameless!" After saying this, Wei Yu looked at Fang Yun with disdain, and ignored Fang Yun again, concentrating on practicing archery.
The young Duke observed silently for a while and found that Fang Yun had actually practiced archery before, but he was unfamiliar with using the heavy conical arrows and his archery skills were obviously not very good. He then stopped paying attention to Fang Yun and concentrated on practicing archery.
This Lingyan Pavilion only takes place once a month. It is of great benefit to future growth and does not allow for distraction.
But Qiao Juze on the side was often distracted. As a student who was loyal to Jing Kingdom, he really couldn't let go of Fang Yun.
After trying more than a dozen arrows, Fang Yun finally shot a wild goose, but he hit its wing.
Qiao Juze said hurriedly: "Don't worry, Lord Wen. This is a good sign."
The young duke who was standing nearby heard the sound and turned to look at the wild goose that had fallen to the ground. The wild goose was actually still alive, flapping its wings on the ground. Although it was still considered a hit according to the rules, the fact that a scholar could not even kill a wild goose during hunting was simply an insult to scholars.
The young Duke smiled lightly, not even bothering to laugh at Fang Yun. He concentrated on practicing.
Next, Qiao Juze, who supported Fang Yun, was a little overwhelmed because Fang Yun's archery skills were so poor that his arrows either hit the wings or the tail, and one arrow even hit the beak of a wild goose, knocking it unconscious.
By the time Fang Yun took out half the arrow, there were twelve wild geese on the ground, but ten of them were still alive and kicking, and only two were shot dead by one arrow!
Qiao Juze suppressed his disappointment, hoping that Fang Yun's half-feathered arrow could turn decay into magic.
Fang Yun pulled the longbow to its full extent, and the half-feathered arrow flew out in an arc, finally hitting the eye of a wild goose with incredible accuracy.
"Great!" Qiao Juze almost burst into tears. If Fang Yun's archery skills were always this good, it would be no problem for him to pass the first pavilion in six moves.
But Fang Yun said, "What's good about that? I was aiming at the wild goose next to it."
Qiao Juze's smile froze on his face, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Fang Yun, tell me the truth. How good are your archery skills?" Qiao Juze asked helplessly, even desperate enough to call Fang Yun's name directly.
"It's okay. It should be no problem to shoot a bird or something." Fang Yun said.
"Okay." Qiao Juze was completely in no mood for hunting.
Fang Yun mastered the half-feather arrow very quickly. Finally, after Qiao Juze found that Fang Yun had hit three arrows in a row, he stopped using the half-feather arrow and muttered quietly, "Could it be that they all hit because they missed the target?"
Fang Yun then used an ordinary cone arrow and shot three times in a row, each time hitting the goose's chest and abdomen. It was extremely accurate, but now no one was paying attention to him, not even Qiao Juze.
After shooting three ordinary arrows, Fang Yun nodded with satisfaction.
A quarter of an hour passed quickly, the geese in the sky disappeared, and the bodies of the geese on the ground also disappeared, and new black spots flew from the sky.
Fang Yun looked carefully and found that these new geese were different from the previous ones.
The new geese flew in a slightly neat rectangular formation. At first glance, they looked like adjacent but non-touching grids, and their flying speeds varied.
The geese directly in front of Fang Yun were flying slower, while the geese flying towards the two Jinshi on both sides were flying much faster.
When the Jinshi on both sides began to draw their bows and shoot arrows, the wild geese in front of Fang Yun and the other candidates had not yet arrived.
The Jinshi candidates were drawing their bows and shooting frantically, while Fang Yun, like many other Juren candidates, was waiting silently.
Fang Yun observed the scholars who were shooting arrows and found that many of them could shoot two arrows at the same time, but their hit rate was much lower. Many of the two arrows they shot could only hit one. No one could shoot three arrows at the same time. It was not because these scholars were not good at it, but because the structure of the bow and arrow and human fingers meant that it was difficult to shoot two arrows. Shooting more arrows at the same time would inevitably affect the accuracy and strength, which was not worth the effort.
When the scholars on both sides had shot and killed more than half of the geese, the geese in front of Fang Yun finally flew closer. Fang Yun suddenly pulled the bowstring to its full extent and shot arrows. Then he shot arrows continuously at a speed far exceeding that of all the scholars. He shot ten arrows in one breath, and each arrow hit the goose's belly.
During this time, the fastest Jinshi could only shoot eight arrows.
Afterwards, Fang Yun suddenly took out a whistling arrow and an ordinary conical arrow and put them on the bow at the same time. Without any hesitation, he pulled the bow to its full length and shot. The shooting speed was no different from before.
After shooting two arrows, Fang Yun quickly glanced at the geese in the sky, and then once again put two arrows on the bow, one was a heavy cone arrow and the other was an ordinary cone arrow.
When Fang Yun put two arrows on the bow, the piercing sound of whistling arrows was heard. People nearby immediately frowned. Those with good concentration did not even look at it, while some people with poor concentration or those who were concerned about Fang Yun took a look.
These people wanted to take a quick look and then continue shooting, but anyone who saw this scene could not turn their necks.
Then two arrows were seen flying at the same time, the ordinary arrow hit a wild goose, and the whistling arrow also hit one at the same time.
Almost at the same time, two more arrows flew out. After the new ordinary arrow hit a goose, the heavy cone arrow penetrated a goose that was frightened by the whistling arrow and flew slower, then passed through the body and accurately pierced the neck of the second goose.
“Kill two birds with one stone!”
"No, it's one bow and three eagles!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Yun shot another ordinary arrow and a heavy cone arrow, and three more geese fell. (To be continued...)