Chapter 169: Archery Competition

In front of the tall and spacious hall sat the officials who presided over the archery examination. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The attendants of the Ministry of Rites, the priest of the country, the national teacher, the heavenly master, the lecturer of the Tai Academy, these heavyweights, and the rest of the people present with serious faces or calm expressions are not party members, but also practitioners with high realms.

These cultivators can be regarded as half of the prosperous Tang Kingdom.

It stands to reason that with their cultivation, they don't need protection at all. However, in order to show His Majesty's thirst for talent, and to show the prominent status of everyone present, Chang Yuankai, the general of the Zuo Yulin Army, was ordered to lead troops to escort him.

Students who passed the Jinglun exam stood in two columns according to the left and right of men and women, nervously waiting for the start of the competition to be announced.

According to the previous Qingyun List exam rules, in addition to the vitality test and the Jinglun exam were held in Tai Academy, the archery exam was set in Furong Garden, and the kendo assessment was set in Leyouyuan.

Seeing that everyone had been in order, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites nodded slightly, and the invigilator who had been waiting for the order for a long time stood up solemnly, presented the bow and arrow used in the exam, and was checked by a special person.

Targets have been placed in the far reaches of the square, and the first round of testing is to select the life median rate.

Practitioners are not as familiar with bows and arrows as crossbowmen in the army, but they are much more powerful and aware of their surroundings. Therefore, the arrangement of the target is twice as far as the shooting technique of the military department.

Despite this, there are still many candidates who are eliminated and reluctant to walk out of the examination room.

Tuiji's name is in front, earlier than Zhuo Zangfeng. The little monk's archery skills have improved a lot in the exchange with him, and he has sharpened his spear in battle, and he has practiced hard before the exam, and he still achieved good results.

Yan Beichun was born in the military camp, and he was already good at bows and arrows, and after shooting ten arrows in one round, the arrows hit the bull's-eye.

Cui Shuji was quite satisfied.

Gu Haitang sent arrows quickly, and each arrow passed through the target, which impressed the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

Wei Moran from the World Sword Alliance also performed well, and then the youngest teenager in the Qingyun List was even more extraordinary, and in the shortest possible time, he was like a series of arrows, and he won a round of applause.

Even the cultivators who were sitting behind Monk Twist and Ye Mufeng nodded secretly in admiration.

This young man suddenly appeared in the examination room, like a black lightning, his fast and incoherent arrow time, and the incomparably accurate hit rate were all surprising.

The examiner loudly confirmed the boy's name, and when he heard the voice of the official of the Ministry of Rites without the slightest emotion, he felt like waking up from a dream.

The boy's name is Bu Shixian, and he is a child of the Bu family in Jiangbei.

Legend has it that the Bu family is rich and rivals the country, and his elder brother Bu Shishu is the best among the younger generation of cultivators.

Bu Shi showed beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and his voice was very low, and he looked extremely ordinary at first glance, but he relied on his amazing archery skills to let the people present see his extraordinary cultivation.

"Not arrogant, not extravagant, humble and simple, worthy of being a child of the step family!"

This is what those practitioners say about him.

Maybe it was deliberate, or maybe it was too much of a coincidence, Zhuo Zangfeng and Zhang Jinxuan arranged to appear at the end.

For all the people who have placed bets outside the court, and for the harem concubines who sit in Zixiao Pavilion to drink wine and laugh, for these people, these two should be the ultimate battle.

Everyone is waiting for this exciting moment.

Zhang Jinxuan walked over under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes, saluted the examiner, and then took the bow and arrow for the exclusive use of the students.

Ten arrows per person, and the score is based on the speed and accuracy of the arrow.

A beautiful concubine on Zixiao Pavilion suddenly covered her chest and chuckled, "Alas, I don't dare to look at it, where is my two hundred taels of gold." ”

A princess sitting next to her smiled: "This is obviously Your Majesty letting us win money, and Zhang Jin's archery skills are more than enough to deal with that kid." ”

Zhang Jin's crossbow was expressionless, he was very familiar with the standard bow and arrow in the Tang Army, and holding it in his hand at this time was like Lu Ban picking up his own axe.

So he didn't have to test the bowstring tension at all.

Whether it's a hard bow or a soft bow, he can roughly estimate the range of the bow with just one glance. This is the same as the sword master looking at the sword, which requires deep accumulation and excellent discernment ability.

Zhang Jin held the bow in his hand, and the thin armor on his body was shining brightly.

The ordinary hard bow instantly came to life in the young man's hand, and Zhang Jin's crossbow slowly walked into the middle of the field and put the arrow on the bowstring.

Everyone looked nervously, only to see that this cold young man had put five feather arrows on the bowstring at once.

This move surprised everyone.

Although a cultivator can rely on his vitality to control the flight of feather arrows, a young man in the seven-rank martial arts realm is indeed a bit unbelievable.

The miraculous archery, as well as the many factors that affect the flight of the feather arrows between the fields, plus the support of vitality, cannot be completed without it.

The crowd outside the examination room was in an uproar, and the officers and soldiers maintaining order outside the Furong Garden could not be restrained for a while.

The examiners in the room, as well as many cultivators, were silent.

Those harem beauties on Zixiao Pavilion were even reluctant to blink their eyes.

Zhuo Zangfeng's highest record was to shoot three feather arrows at a time, and Zhang Jin's crossbow turned out to be two more than him.

He stood on one side, squinting slightly as he watched the iron man in the army stand calmly, slightly flustered in his heart.

Zhang Jin's crossbow looked at eye level, and he didn't see aiming, the horse squatted forward, and the moment the bow was raised, the five feathered arrows had already been shot out of the string.

"What a fast arrow!"

The national teacher monk twisted and the heavenly master Ye Mufeng secretly praised.

The five feather arrows walked side by side in mid-air, and when they flew to the target, they suddenly separated and dispersed smoothly, and the five targets were all penetrated in an instant.

The feather arrow castrated quickly, penetrated the target, and directly hit the Tai Academy Star Master's Yuan Qi Great Array before suddenly falling.

Five of the ten targets were fired.

If you count from the first one, the singular targets are all run through, that is, the targets in the positions of one, three, five, seven, and nine. Even-numbered targets, on the other hand, do not have a single arrow.

The crowd outside the stadium shouted hello!

Zhang Jin was calm and calm, and did not wait for the first shot of the feather arrow to fall on the target, and the second time he took five arrows, and quickly sent them out.

The first five arrows reach almost the same moment as the five arrows behind, with the slight difference that the last five arrows spread out and go straight to the even-numbered target, which is the target located at two, four, six, eight, and ten.

The ten feather arrows slammed into the Yuan Qi Great Array almost at the same moment, a little faster than the exclamations of everyone outside the arena.

Cui Shuji, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, looked at Zhang Jinxuan excitedly, and was speechless for a while.

Other cultivators were also shocked, even a high-level cultivator might not be able to do such an archery technique, but it was too shocking to give it to a teenager in the army!

Lord Xue Huairen, the Priest of the Kingdom, glanced at Zhuo Zangfeng with a little deep meaning, and then saw a trace of appreciation in Heavenly Master Ye Mufeng's eyes.

Without waiting for everyone to finish being shocked, the young man who was at the bottom of the line slowly stepped forward and picked up his bow and arrow.

Maybe it was a hot day, maybe he was really nervous, and he was obviously trying to calm himself down, but Zhuo Zangfeng still found that cold sweat was oozing from the palm of his hand holding the arched back. (To be continued.) )