Thinking that tomorrow he would begin actual combat archery practice, Lan Ling felt a slight excitement in his heart.
At this moment, a knocking sound came from outside the room.
“Who is it?” Ye Jing Yu raised her willow-leaf eyebrows and said coldly.
“Sister-in-law, it is me, Little Eagle.” From outside came a man’s voice, which vaguely belonged to that sleazy customer from earlier.
Sister-in-law? Lan Ling immediately looked at Ye Jing Yu with full confusion.
Ye Jing Yu’s gorgeous face turned red, then she said coldly, “If you dare call me sister-in-law one more time, I will pull out your tongue.”
“Alright, I will not call you that, Sister Ye…” The man called Little Eagle said, “Big Brother has also come. He is out hunting right now. I am injured, so I am staying alone in the inn. Tomorrow I will take you to find Big Brother, okay?”
Where was he injured? He was still energetic enough to call for a woman. It was obvious he was afraid of death and hiding in the city.
“No need. I do not want to see him.” Ye Jing Yu said coldly, “Besides, I have no relationship with him.”
“Sister-in-law, oh no, Sister Ye, Big Brother really has nothing to do with that woman Xiao Tian. It was that woman who insisted on clinging to him.” Little Eagle said, “Moreover, even if you have objections towards Big Brother, you cannot put a green hat on him, and with such a pretty but useless pretty boy.”
“Get lost. If you dare say one more word, I will cut off your tongue right now.” Ye Jing Yu casually picked up a cup and threw it directly.
“Bang!” The door was immediately smashed through with a hole, and the man called Little Eagle fled in panic.
Ye Jing Yu saw that Lan Ling was now looking at her with surprised eyes, so she said coldly, “What are you looking at? I have no relationship whatsoever with that man.”
Lan Ling nodded, but he did not believe it in his heart. Then he looked at Ye Jing Yu’s eyebrows, which were gathered and not dispersed, and then at her thighs, which were clamped tightly. She should still be a virgin.
“If you keep looking, I will dig out your eyes. I really do not know how many filthy thoughts you men have in your heads.” Ye Jing Yu said. Then she lay down directly, turned her side to Lan Ling, closed her eyes and said, “Go to sleep. We will cross the border at first light tomorrow.”
Lan Ling also lay down, but his heart was like overgrown grass and he could not sleep. The atmosphere here was too debauched. Even now he could still hear those wild and soul-stirring sounds. And Ye Jing Yu lying beside him had such a voluptuous figure, especially when she lay on her side with her body arched. The curves were simply explosive.
Although Lan Ling was very devoted and pure in love, he was still a man with vigorous hormones.
“If you look again, I guarantee you will regret it.” Ye Jing Yu seemed to have eyes on her back.
Lan Ling quickly turned his back to her and stopped looking at Ye Jing Yu’s voluptuous back view, but although his eyes could not see, the image in his mind became even clearer.
“Alas, what a sin.” Lan Ling thought secretly, “All the virgins in the world are committing sins.”
……
The next day, before dawn, Ye Jing Yu got up to wash and rinse.
The inn had finally quietened down, and it only became quiet when the sky was about to brighten.
After Lan Ling checked that his armour, weapons, medicines and everything else were complete, he left the room with Ye Jing Yu.
Lan Ling noticed that Ye Jing Yu’s gaze still quickly glanced towards the room next door. The door was wide open, but the Little Eagle inside had already disappeared without a trace.
After leaving the inn, Lan Ling and Ye Jing Yu exited the city.
Once they left Southern Yi Border City, the scenery completely changed.
In the distance were the vast and boundless ten thousand great mountains, like a huge barrier laid down by heaven, blocking the Furious Wave Kingdom’s path south.
This was Lan Ling’s first time seeing the ten thousand great mountains. They were truly even more spectacular than he had imagined.
Moreover, each mountain had three seasons at once.
At the foot of the mountain it was blazing summer, in the middle it was cool and refreshing autumn, and at the top it was covered in white snow.
These ten thousand great mountains, by visual estimation alone, were probably over five or six thousand metres in elevation. Large-scale armies could not possibly cross them.
And the area north of the ten thousand great mountains and south of the border city was typical wilderness land. It was flat, dry, with sparse but very huge trees. What grew more on the ground were weeds, shrubs, and countless wild flowers.
Every few dozen miles there would be a lake.
In short, the scenery here was exquisitely beautiful. It was the kind of place that artistic men like Lan Ling loved the most, open enough and wild enough.
Although this place was already very close to the ten thousand great mountains, there were still some villages. The residents of these villages mostly worked with exotic beasts, processing beast meat for rouge, beast skins, beast tendons, beast bones, and so on.
Moreover, these settlements provided trading and resting places for hunters.
Along the way, Lan Ling and Ye Jing Yu encountered many hunting teams, who all whistled at Ye Jing Yu. But none invited them to join, because once outside Southern Yi Border City it was very dangerous, and no team would invite strangers to join.
There were two types of hunting teams: one specialised in hunting exotic beasts, and the other specialised in hunting barbarian humans.
Clearly, Ye Jing Yu had stayed in the southern border for quite some time and was very familiar with the area.
“Next, I will take you to Wild Bull Valley.” Ye Jing Yu said, “Because wild bulls are large enough targets and easy to aim at, they are suitable as your first-stage actual combat targets.”
Lan Ling said, “Are wild bulls the strength type?”
“Yes.” Ye Jing Yu said, “Of course, they are immensely strong. Once provoked, they are extremely dangerous animals. Therefore I must stay by your side at all times. Once a wild bull gets within a few dozen steps of you, I will take action and kill it.”
It was good that they were the strength type. What Lan Ling lacked right now was strength.
Wild Bull Valley was quite far from Southern Yi Border City, about a hundred miles away.
Wild bull meat was too tough and not tasty. Wild bull tendons were worth some money, and wild bull hides were not bad either, but compared with other wild beasts their economic value was not very high, so not many people hunted wild bulls.
Hunting one barbarian gave a full fifteen silver coins, while one wild bull at most gave two or three silver coins, and it still needed to be dissected and carried back.
Therefore, apart from local village hunters who did it for a living, very few people specifically came to hunt wild bulls. As a result, the number of wild bulls was very large.
……
The two people and two horses galloped for a full several hours and finally arrived at Wild Bull Valley at noon.
The scenery here was even more open and even more beautiful. The terrain rose and fell gently, and the ground was covered with grass reaching above the knees, looking like a green carpet. Every few hundred metres there was a very large and straight pine or fir tree.
In the centre of Wild Bull Valley there was a huge lake with a diameter of several hundred metres. The water was clear as a mirror.
Ye Jing Yu dismounted and took out two bows, one of sixty jin and one of two hundred jin.
The sixty-jin bow was naturally for Lan Ling, while the two-hundred-jin bow was for herself.
She handed the sixty-jin bow to Lan Ling and said, “This is a sixty-jin bow. Try it. After drawing it, hold it steady for half a minute without moving.”
The Dragon Emperor was a transmigrator, so he had also brought the unit of time, but he should have been a liberal arts student, so clocks and watches had never been invented. Therefore, the timekeeping tools in this world were still hourglasses, with minute hourglasses, hour hourglasses, and day hourglasses.
What Ye Jing Yu took out was a minute hourglass, very small and exquisite.
Lan Ling picked up the bow, put on the finger ring, took a deep breath, and fiercely pulled the string.
“Do not use all the strength from your arms. You should use more strength from your waist.” Ye Jing Yu stepped forward and began to correct Lan Ling’s movements and posture.
With the sixty-jin bow, Lan Ling could draw it with all his strength, but holding it for half a minute was very difficult, because it relied entirely on the strength of three fingers.
Therefore, after only two or three seconds, Lan Ling felt as if his fingers were about to break. In the end he could not endure it and quickly released.
“Bang!” A string sound rang out and the bow body trembled.
Ye Jing Yu said, “Use your own strength. The sixty-jin bow is obviously your limit. You have already learned the three steps of enlightenment and can activate dragon force. Next, try using dragon force control to transmit your dragon force to your right arm, then draw the bowstring again and see.”
Lan Ling closed his eyes, easily sensed the demon star, then used his consciousness to command the demon star to release a strand of energy. Next, he used his consciousness to control this energy and concentrate it all on his right arm.
“Whoosh…” Sure enough, he easily drew the sixty-jin bow and held it motionless for a full thirty seconds.
During this time, the demon star’s energy was rapidly depleting.
“How is it?” Ye Jing Yu said, “This is the power of dragon force. When you concentrate it on your arm, it increases the strength of your arm. When you concentrate it on your legs, it makes you more agile.”
Lan Ling nodded deeply in agreement. Dragon force was simply a bug for humans in this world.
On Earth, humans could occasionally stimulate their potential and double their strength, but that only happened when their lives were in danger. Many people might never have the chance to stimulate their potential in their entire lives.
But the dragon force in this world could be activated at any time.
Ye Jing Yu said, “However, the energy of bloodline dragon force is limited. You can activate it at most three to five times a day. Therefore, whether in archery or combat, when a warrior activates dragon force, it is considered a critical strike. This kind of dragon force critical strike is used only at the most critical moments. Normally, you still have to rely on your own strength. Understand?”
Lan Ling nodded, indicating he understood. Using dragon force was a critical strike that doubled attack power, and it could be done at most three to five times a day.
Ye Jing Yu said, “Then how do we increase the strength of our own bodies? It is still by relying on bloodline dragon force. In the first step of enlightenment, dragon force sensing, you should have discovered that bloodline dragon force surges out from the depths of the heart and instantly disappears into the limbs and bones.”
Lan Ling nodded.
Ye Jing Yu said, “When bloodline dragon force enters your limbs and bones, it is to relieve the pain in your body, so this power is offset and will not strengthen your body’s power. To increase your own strength, you must rely on the third step of enlightenment, dragon force control, and release the activated bloodline dragon force onto the meridians of a certain body part.”
Then Ye Jing Yu raised her right hand and said, “For example, if you want to increase the strength of your arm, you can activate bloodline dragon force and then inject this dragon force into the tendons, bones and muscles of your arm.”
Lan Ling said, “This is for increasing strength. But what if you want to increase agility? For example, certain archery skills or certain assassins do not require much strength but require great speed.”
Ye Jing Yu said, “Injecting dragon force into the tendons, bones and muscles of the arm will increase strength more or agility more depending entirely on your bloodline talent. If your strength talent is high, it will naturally increase strength more. If your agility talent is high, it will naturally increase agility more.”
Lan Ling suddenly understood and completely comprehended it.
Ye Jing Yu said, “For the next period of time, we will camp in Wild Bull Valley. First, we must complete the first goal of actual combat shooting: draw the bow ten times in a row, holding each time for half a minute!”