After a miserable cry, that wild bull crashed to the ground.
Lan Ling immediately rushed out. At this moment he clearly felt the Demon Star inside his body instantly awaken, then begin to spin rapidly and turn into a black hole like existence.
Immediately after, Lan Ling clearly felt a stream of dragon power energy leaking out from the wild bull’s body and being quickly devoured by the Demon Star.
This Demon Star really is evil and heaven defying. It can actually directly devour bloodline dragon power.
This world is a balanced world. Humans or exotic beasts all have bloodline dragon power inside their bodies. However when they die this dragon vein power will dissipate and return to the world.
Now the Demon Star had interrupted this cycle and directly devoured the dissipating dragon vein power.
Strictly speaking this violated the energy balance of the Flame Dragon Continent. That was why it was called the Demon Star.
The entire devouring process took less than two seconds. It was almost over as soon as it began.
I have finally, finally devoured power once again. The Demon Star said with a tremble.
Although this power was very weak, both Lan Ling and the Demon Star felt extremely excited.
Because previously there had been bow drawing training, spiritual locking and fixed target shooting. It had not been easy to finally shoot and kill an exotic beast, all for the sake of devouring dragon power energy.
This meant the true beginning of becoming stronger.
After finishing the first hunt, they began looking for the second one.
The reason the Wild Bull Valley was called Wild Bull Valley was because there were really many wild bulls. Even though Lan Ling was looking for isolated wild bulls, there were still plenty.
Soon they found the second one. It was leisurely grazing with its eyes as big as fists.
He nocked the arrow, took a deep breath, then entered the Inverted Moon Art and used spiritual power to lock onto the bull’s eye.
One second, two seconds, three seconds… five seconds!
This time he only used five seconds to complete the lock. In the spiritual illusion realm there was only this bull eye.
Shoot!
The sharp arrow shot out like a meteor. There was no accident at all. It was almost no different from shooting a fixed target.
With a miserable cry the sharp arrow once again pierced through the wild bull’s eye, went through its brain and killed it instantly.
Then the Demon Star once again entered excited devouring.
Lan Ling even felt a strange hot energy drilling into his body bit by bit and finally condensing deep in his heart.
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Next Lan Ling entered a harvest period. Wild bulls had great strength but weak spiritual power. They were not very vigilant, did not move much and had big eyes, so once aimed at they were very easy to shoot and kill.
But unfortunately with Lan Ling’s spiritual power he could only hunt ten at a time, then he needed four hours to recover his physical strength and energy.
Of course at this time the Demon Star had already devoured the bloodline dragon power of the wild bulls and could now support Lan Ling in shooting the eleventh arrow or the twelfth arrow.
But Lan Ling still needed to use this power to enhance his own strength. Not a bit of the dragon power devoured by the Demon Star could be wasted.
In this way Lan Ling could only hunt about twenty wild bulls per day. It would take at least three or four days to increase his strength by ten jin.
And there was less than three months left until the graduation grand examination. At that time his arm strength needed to reach three hundred jin and his spiritual power also needed to improve to over one hundred metres. The time was completely insufficient.
During evening rest Lan Ling shared his views with Night Startled Feather.
Do your best and leave the rest to heaven. Night Startled Feather said.
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Next every day Lan Ling repeated the process of hunting wild bulls. At thirty metres distance he shot through the wild bull’s eye into its skull for an instant kill. Lan Ling was now infallible. The number rose from twenty per day to about twenty five.
That day at noon Lan Ling was hunting the nineteenth wild bull of the day.
From the start of hunting wild bulls until now he had already killed a full seventy four. With another twenty six he would reach one hundred.
Devouring the bloodline dragon power of one hundred wild bulls would allow him to complete one dragon power tempering and increase his arm strength by ten jin to ninety jin.
He nocked the arrow, took a deep breath, held his breath and used spiritual power to lock onto the target.
Whoosh… One arrow shot out.
Without any accident the sharp arrow entered through the wild bull’s eye, directly pierced its brain and killed it instantly.
In this way, within thirty odd metres he was now almost hitting every shot. This was the power of spiritual locking.
Twenty five left. Lan Ling said in his heart, then continued looking for the next isolated wild bull.
At this moment Lan Ling deeply felt that although the Demon Star directly devouring bloodline dragon power was heaven defying, his own cultivation speed was still not fast enough. At this rate, before the graduation grand examination he would not even reach the level of a first rank warrior archer.
And right at this moment a roar suddenly came from not far away. It sounded like a bull yet also like a beast.
Then there was the piercing sound of stones being torn apart.
Lan Ling turned past a small hill slope and immediately saw a very huge wild bull covered in fiery red all over.
Its body was fully twice the size of an ordinary wild bull.
At this moment it was pawing the ground. The hard stones were instantly sent flying in fragments after being scraped by its sharp iron hooves.
And its two bull horns were pitch black and shiny, looking even harder than steel.
This is the leader of the wild bulls, the fiery red barbarian bull. Night Startled Feather said, The bloodline dragon power inside its body is much stronger. It is very fast and possesses immense strength. It is not something you can kill.
Lan Ling was stunned. This must be the elite level wild bull mentioned by the Demon Star. Every herd had such an elite fiery red barbarian bull.
The power gained from devouring this wild bull after shooting it would be equivalent to dozens of ordinary wild bulls.
Lan Ling felt slightly excited inside and said, I want to try.
Night Startled Feather thought for a while and nodded. Then she drew her curved blade and guarded beside him. A mere fiery red barbarian bull was nothing to her.
Wait, unless the wild bull has already come within ten metres of me and is trying to take my life, you cannot kill it. Lan Ling said.
Alright. Night Startled Feather said.
Lan Ling took a deep breath and took out an eighty jin bow from Night Startled Feather’s bundle.
Correct, it was an eighty jin bow. At this time his arm strength was only eighty jin. To aim and shoot steadily without trembling he needed to use the sixty jin bow. However now to hunt this fiery red barbarian bull he chose to use the eighty jin bow.
He first tried pulling it open with his own strength and found that the eighty jin bow was very strenuous to draw. It was impossible to aim steadily.
Then next he would have to use dragon power, because the Demon Star had already devoured the bloodline dragon power of seventy five wild bulls.
With one command the dragon power inside the Demon Star continuously surged into Lan Ling’s arm. Instantly the strength in his hand increased completely.
Creak… He directly pulled open the eighty jin strong bow.
Then his gaze suddenly contracted. He entered the Inverted Moon Art illusion realm, gathered all his spirit and used spiritual power to lock onto the large eye of that elite fiery red barbarian bull.
One second, two seconds, three seconds.
The Demon Star’s power was draining away rapidly.
The lock was completely completed.
Whoosh… One arrow shot out fiercely.
The sharp arrow instantly shot towards the fiery red barbarian bull’s eye like lightning.
Lan Ling had shot very accurately, but this fiery red barbarian bull reacted very quickly. In the instant the sharp arrow was about to pierce its eye it fiercely closed its bell like eyes.
Bang… Immediately the arrow shot directly onto the thick eyelid and flew out, leaving only a shallow wound.
The skin of this fiery red barbarian bull was very thick and very tough.
Under the pain this fiery red barbarian bull was completely enraged. It roared fiercely and charged over madly.
Its speed was extremely fast. The short thirty metre distance was covered in less than two seconds. It arrived right in front of Lan Ling, opened its mouth and roared, wanting to use those terrifying sharp horns to gore Lan Ling into minced meat.
And the curved blade in Night Startled Feather’s hand was about to shoot out like lightning.
Right at this moment Lan Ling exerted all his strength, fiercely drew the bow and shot an arrow. He could not aim at all and directly shot according to his feeling.
Aooo…
This sharp arrow directly shot into the wild bull’s mouth, went through its throat and pierced its heart.
Night Startled Feather pulled Lan Ling and quickly dodged aside while the corpse of this several thousand jin heavy wild bull smashed over fiercely.
At the final moment this fiery red barbarian bull was shot and killed by Lan Ling.
This was simply a miracle. His luck was too good. He had not even aimed at all yet had directly hit it.
Immediately Lan Ling felt all the strength in his whole body completely exhausted. His two legs were about to go soft.
At the same time the Demon Star was excitedly screeching and desperately devouring the bloodline dragon power that dissipated after the fiery red barbarian bull died.
And this time it took a full half minute to devour.
Demon Star, how is the bloodline dragon power of this fiery red barbarian bull? Lan Ling asked.
The Demon Star said, It is equivalent to twenty or thirty ordinary wild bulls.
Lan Ling said, Then together with the previous seventy odd ones that were devoured, can we carry out dragon power tempering to enhance my arm strength?
It is enough. The Demon Star said, You go into the water to recover your spiritual power. I will now use dragon power to transform your arm and increase your strength.
Next Lan Ling once again fully immersed himself in the water and listened to Night Startled Feather’s Peaceful Art to recover his spiritual power.
At the same time the Demon Star released dragon power and tempered and transformed Lan Ling’s arm inch by inch.
First the meridians, then the bones, and finally the muscles.
A full five hours later the dragon power tempering ended.
When Lan Ling opened his eyes again he felt refreshed in spirit and his arm felt much lighter and hotter with obviously increased strength.
According to what the Demon Star said this dragon power tempering had increased his arm strength by ten jin. Now it had reached ninety jin.
Although it was still quite far from the target of three hundred jin, such an obvious strength increase still made one feel rapidly excited.
Then when he once again pulled open the sixty jin bow it was already very relaxed and completely different from before.
This elite fiery red barbarian bull was truly satisfying. Killing one was equivalent to dozens of ordinary wild bulls.
If he continued killing like this, after just over ten of them Lan Ling’s arm strength could be raised to over one hundred jin.