Chapter Thirteen: A Fight to the Death
Su Ming's eyes narrowed slightly as he couldn't help but think that the bowstring was actually made from the tendons of a fourth-grade demonic beast, and it could even increase his speed.
"Master, let's start with the basics. First, learn how to hold a bow." Su Ke took an ordinary bow from the weapon rack.
"There are three stances for archery: standing, crouching and jumping. "These three stances are basic," Su Qiu said as he demonstrated them. "In combat, various stances are all derived from these three basic shooting forms."
After several practices, Su Ming mastered these three basic shooting forms.
"The young master wants to achieve archery, must complete two major stages. One is the unity of man and arrow stage, one is the unity of heart and arrow stage." "The unity of man and arrow stage is to reach hand-to, eye-to, arrow-to, simultaneously hitting a hundred shots with a hundred hits."
"The unity of heart and arrow is built on the foundation of unity between man and arrow, it's a higher level, requiring both the heart and the arrow to be accurate. To reach this stage, one must focus their mind to aim accurately, and in an instant, draw the bow and hit the target with lightning speed." Su Qiu paused for a moment.
"At the most critical moment, the time left for you is only an instant, and it will not allow you to aim slowly. When your heart and arrow are united in one stage of practice, then you can be considered a master."
Su Ming nodded repeatedly.
Under Su Qi's guidance, Su Ming began to practice short-distance archery. Su Ming's learning ability shocked Su Qi, and after ten arrows, Su Ming could hit the target within a kilometer with 100% accuracy. This step took Su Qi three months initially, but Su Ming achieved it in less than an hour, which was simply worlds apart.
The stage of Man and Arrow as One was not challenging for Su Ming at all, because with the presence of the small spirit, Su Ming could achieve a hundred hits in a hundred shots, just like shooting targets with a sniper rifle. However, achieving Heart and Arrow as One was not that easy.
Heart arrow unification requires instant shooting, and the little elf's target lock requires time. Therefore, in this stage, Su Ming can only reach it by learning from Su Gui and his own continuous efforts and training.
When Su Ming was practicing archery, he found himself somewhat lacking in strength. After asking the little sprite, he actually got the answer to his own training. It seems that the little sprite is not omnipotent.
To improve his archery, Su Ming practiced body technique and archery together. He walked irregularly on the plum blossom stake while shooting arrows, and had to hit moving targets hundreds of meters away with every shot. His actions shocked Su Qi, who couldn't even do this himself. This was a case of dual use, and each one required high concentration to complete.
If Su Ming could achieve it, then when he reached the state of unity between his heart and arrow, his archery would be even more exceptional.
Day by day, Su Ming's archery skills were steadily improving, and at this point, he was infinitely close to becoming one with his arrow.
In these few days of training, Su Ming existed in the hearts of Su Han and Su Gui like a demon, they foresaw that Su Ming's future prospects would be boundless.
Su Ming uses the pace of Growing Type Battle Technique - Yun Zong Mei Ying's pace, and the sword technique is Wu Ming Jian Shi's famous technique Wu Ming Jian Pu, also known as Jian Thirteen. Wu Ming Jian Pu has a total of thirteen styles, with the last style being Wan Jian He Yi, which can be called Wu Gong Bu Po, killing all gods and demons.
At this time, Su Ming was only using the first move, and he couldn't infuse spiritual energy into his attack because the Nameless Sword Scripture was equivalent to a Purple Star Technique, which required divine spiritual energy to execute. However, Su Ming was only at the Mortal Heart Realm, and the spiritual energy in his body had not yet transformed into divine spiritual energy, so he could only use ordinary sword moves and couldn't bring out the true power of the Nameless Sword Scripture.
At this time, Su Ming's archery and swordsmanship had reached a bottleneck. To achieve the unity of Heart Arrow and Heart Sword, he must reach the Xiantian realm. Since Su Ming could only break through by killing demon beasts, he planned to ask his father to enter the Family Beast Platform.
"Dad, is there something on your mind? You've been frowning and looking worried for days, but you won't tell me when I ask." Su Ming asked with a furrowed brow as he saw Su Han gazing seriously into the distance.
"The Su clan has encountered a disaster." Su Han took a deep breath, suppressing the anger in his heart: "After our clan's strength weakened, many small tribes that depended on us declared independence. Larger tribes launched surprise attacks on us, and many herdsmen around us were slaughtered and robbed."
"A group of heartless bastards." Su Ming furiously shouted: "Why didn't the tribe leader dispatch tribal warriors to protect the surrounding herdsmen?"
"In the previous war, the tribe's strength was severely damaged, with only a few thousand warriors having combat effectiveness, and it was impossible to protect the entire Su tribe. The current Su tribe is no longer a large tribe of Tang's Western City Prefecture, but has fallen to a small tribe. The surrounding tribes all want to divide our Su tribe, in order to preserve the strength, the patriarch concentrated the tribal warriors on several important territories of the tribe, and with the current strength, they can only protect these few strongholds."
Su Han's angry tone was mixed with a hint of helplessness, his face filled with worry. He was now just the deputy leader of the Su family and was being ostracized, unable to leave his home as he waited for news. But what he got was one bad piece of news after another. This kind of life was the most painful for him.
"Dad, don't worry, I believe the Su clan will definitely get through this." Su Ming said with a smile.
"I hope so. If our tribe can't get through this time, I'll be the greatest sinner of the Su family." Su Han sighed and a hint of helplessness flashed in his eyes.
"Father, I want to slay the demonic beast and increase my combat strength." Su Ming changed the subject, bringing up what was on his mind.
Su Han initially wanted to refuse, because Su Ming was now only in the initial stage of the Mortal Realm. Although he had good swordsmanship and physical skills, the spiritual energy within his body was thin. If he were to support him in a battle against the demonic beasts, the demonic beasts in the Su family's beast house were all mid-stage or above, with strength reaching that of humans in the mid-Mortal Realm. Moreover, the demonic beasts had strong defenses, and generally, humans of the same stage were no match for them.
But from Su Ming's firm and determined eyes, Su Han saw confidence and perseverance, his heart moved, and he agreed to Su Ming.
Kun Shou Tai is the arena where Su family members fight against demons. Every once in a while, high-ranking family members go out to hunt and capture low-level demon beasts, which are then imprisoned in cages.
Su Ming followed Su Han to the Beast Cage Platform and looked around, a thousand-meter diameter of empty space, in the middle was a battle platform, surrounded by black iron chains, forming a dense iron chain net, like an iron cage. Dozens of meters away from the Beast Cage Platform were dozens of large iron cages, each with an iron mesh structure passage leading directly to the Beast Cage Platform.
"Is it outdoors?" Su Ming said with narrowed eyes.
"The iron chains on the Beast Cage Stage are made of mid-grade Xuan Iron, unless you reach Pre-Heavenly Completion, it's impossible to cut them off. Be careful in the upcoming battle." Su Han reminded from the side.
Su Ming nodded, he knew that once he stepped onto the Cage Fighting Stage, he would be engaged in a life and death struggle with the demonic beast, either to die or to win.
