Seeing Suo Lun cover his eyes with the black cloth strip, everyone was completely stunned. What was Suo Lun doing?
“Suo Lun, what do you mean?” Li Nianzhen said coldly.
Suo Lun said: “Since my eyes cannot see, the hazy light and shadow would instead be a kind of interference. It is better to sink completely into darkness.”
At this moment, a male noble student sneered coldly: “Student Suo Lun really has good calculations. This way, even if he gets zero points, he has an excuse. It is not that my skill is insufficient, but that the third tier I chose has higher difficulty. Moreover, I even covered my eyes, so everything is not due to my failure in battle.”
As soon as these words came out, everyone suddenly realised and their gazes towards Suo Lun became even more contemptuous.
This person’s calculations are truly many. His character is really despicable.
Li Nianzhen gave a cold laugh and allowed Suo Lun to cover his eyes and show off.
Then she directly reported Suo Lun’s chosen third tier standard upwards. In her view, whether Suo Lun chose the first tier or the third tier, the result was the same, zero points!
Suo Lun doing this would only make him a complete laughing stock.
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Why did Suo Lun choose the three hundred and eighty jin bow instead of the two hundred and fifty jin bow?
Because he wanted to pursue the highest score. Although the difficulty level of the third tier had increased by three or four times, for him there was no difference between the third tier, the second tier, or even the first tier.
If the blind shooting theory he had in mind did not work, then even aiming in the first tier would not hit the target.
As for the three hundred and eighty jin strong bow being somewhat strenuous to draw, he could just keep using dragon force critical strikes.
“All candidates have finished choosing tiers. The archery subject great exam officially begins!” Mentor Li Nianzhen shouted.
“Dang!” Then the chief examiner struck the bell.
Then the staff placed the target positions according to the tiers each candidate had chosen.
Suo Lun had chosen the third tier, so his fixed target position was two hundred and fifty metres away, a full half li.
Even with perfect eyes, the rings on the target would already be almost completely invisible.
The placement of these targets was extremely strict. Every direction and every line had to match without any error.
The other students all bent their bows and nocked arrows, while Suo Lun instead put down his bow and arrows.
Then he turned towards Zhi Ning’s direction. Although he could see nothing, he stared tightly at Princess Zhi Ning with the black cloth strip covering his eyes.
“Princess Zhi Ning, you blinded my eyes, yet I will not have any complaints, nor do I need any sympathy.” Suo Lun said slowly: “There was once a musician, perhaps you have not heard of him. After his ears became completely deaf, he instead created the most classic and most shocking music. Because art is created with the heart, and music is also created with the heart.”
As soon as these words came out, for some reason many people present really began to believe a little that Suo Lun had truly been framed by Princess Zhi Ning and had his eyes blinded.
Suo Lun used his eyes covered by the black cloth to slowly sweep across the crowd and said: “Today I want to tell all of you that even if the eyes cannot see, one can still shoot arrows with the heart, with the spirit, and with the mind.”
Then Suo Lun’s voice suddenly rose sharply as he roared: “Today, I want to see if I can choke the throat of fate!”
With that, he picked up the three hundred and eighty jin strong bow in front of him, released dragon force, and fiercely drew it.
The three hundred and eighty jin bow could be drawn with his own strength, but he could not maintain it.
However, the dragon force stored by Yao Xing was enough for one or two hundred dragon force critical strikes. Therefore, using dragon force to draw the bow was easy.
And the instant he fiercely drew the three hundred and eighty jin strong bow, Zhi Ning, Li Nianzhen and the others suddenly widened their eyes.
How weak Suo Lun’s strength was, they knew most clearly.
Yet now he had actually drawn the three hundred and eighty jin bow with ease.
Then everyone held their breath and stared at Suo Lun’s arrow.
However, Suo Lun did not shoot. He just quietly aimed, motionless.
A full minute passed and Suo Lun still had not shot.
The other students secretly clicked their tongues in their hearts, then all began to bend their bows, nock arrows, and start shooting.
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Shooting with eyes covered was undoubtedly a dream talk, something impossible even in dreams.
Originally his eyes still had a very, very hazy light and shadow. Now with the black cloth covering his eyes, it was completely thorough darkness.
How should he do it? How should he aim?
This was a very rigorous, even solemn matter. It was definitely not something that could be achieved just with sentiment, nor was it something that could be done with chicken soup for the soul like shooting with the heart.
After Suo Lun completely closed his eyes, he thoroughly entered his own spiritual illusion realm.
Since the eyes could not see, then he would completely stop using the eyes to see and instead use spiritual power to perceive everything.
“Master, you need to make your heart lake completely, thoroughly calm, without the slightest ripple.” Yao Xing said.
Suo Lun completely cast aside all emotions in his heart and let his heart lake become thoroughly calm.
The well water in the spiritual illusion realm became completely quiet and waveless. The reflection of the moon in the water was absolutely complete. There was no grief, no sadness, no ripples of any kind in his entire heart.
He picked up the bow, nocked the arrow, but did not draw it. Instead he roughly aimed the arrowhead at the target position.
“Yao Xing, my cultivation is too weak now. Are you sure you can sense the impact and feedback from the dragon qi I shoot out?” Suo Lun asked.
“I can.” Yao Xing said: “I am extremely sensitive to energy, especially the dragon force I myself emit.”
Thus Suo Lun began to condense a strand of dragon force and circulate it to his hand.
“Swish…” The dragon qi shot fiercely through the arrow tip. The arrow did not move, only the dragon qi shot.
Although Suo Lun’s dragon qi was very weak, it could still shoot very far, and it was an absolute straight line, unaffected by gravity.
A moment later the dragon qi disappeared without any feedback return. This meant the dragon force had not struck the target.
And once it hit the arrow target, this strand of dragon qi would reflect back and be immediately captured by Yao Xing, meaning Suo Lun had aimed correctly.
This was his blind shooting theory, which had never been verified. And all of this relied on the premise of Yao Xing, because only it could capture the reflected dragon qi.
“Missed.” Yao Xing said. Suo Lun’s first dragon qi shot had not hit the arrow target, so there was no reflection back.
Suo Lun slightly adjusted his position in the darkness, condensed dragon force once more, and shot it out fiercely.
“Missed…”
“Missed…”
“Missed…”
He did not know how many misses had passed. This was a very difficult process. Suo Lun had to continuously adjust his position in the darkness, condense the dragon qi, and then shoot it fiercely towards the arrow target direction.
In the eyes of others, Suo Lun just maintained the archery posture, motionless.
Fifteen times, eighteen times, twenty three times…
It was always a miss. Suo Lun had no impatience at all. He still carefully adjusted his position and continued shooting dragon qi.
“Hit!” Yao Xing suddenly said.
On the thirty third time, the dragon qi Suo Lun shot fiercely finally struck the arrow target.
“The dragon qi hit the arrow target, but did not hit the bullseye.” Yao Xing said: “Because the red of the bullseye is dyed with deer blood. When the dragon qi strikes it, part will be absorbed, then reflected back.”
Suo Lun once again made a minute adjustment to the direction.
Once, twice, three times, four times, five times…
“Hit, right on the bullseye.” Yao Xing said: “Remember, it is this position, exactly this position.”
When the dragon qi shot fiercely onto the deer blood of the bullseye, part was reflected back and part disappeared into the deer blood.
Therefore Yao Xing clearly knew that it had hit the bullseye exactly.
It was this position, exactly this position. As long as he aimed in this direction, he would definitely hit the bullseye.
But he could not shoot yet, because taking the arrow and shooting next would cause shaking and he would lose this absolutely correct position.
Next, with Yao Xing’s help, Suo Lun began to construct a complete virtual environment of the entire archery range space in his mind illusion.
The earlier use of dragon force shots to find the bullseye position was to obtain the most precise data, then construct the virtual space in his brain.
The distance of two hundred and fifty metres, the position of the arrow target, the height of the arrow target, where the bullseye was.
Immediately the entire complete space was fully constructed in Suo Lun and Yao Xing’s minds, absolutely one hundred percent accurate.
In this spiritual illusion realm there were only two objects.
One was the bullseye of the arrow target, two hundred and fifty metres away, at a height of one metre twenty three.
The other object was Suo Lun himself.
And when the real him made any movement, the him in the spiritual illusion realm would also move, without any error.
Then next he only needed to aim within the spiritual illusion realm.
In reality he could not see, but in the spiritual illusion realm he could see.
This entire theory was thought up by Suo Lun alone. Whether it could succeed, he really did not know. Only heaven knew.
Because the slightest error would cause failure.
Suo Lun fiercely drew the bow and began to aim.
The Suo Lun in the spiritual illusion realm also fiercely drew the bow and aimed.
He locked onto the bullseye target two hundred and fifty metres away.
One second, two seconds, three seconds.
Completely locked!
…
“Swish swish swish swish…”
The other fifteen students, after aiming, all shot their arrows.
Their results were just about average, roughly seventy percent hit rate. Although not very good, it was enough to pass the graduation great exam.
Yet only Suo Lun remained completely motionless, aiming in the darkness.
Others shot five arrows, but Suo Lun had not moved.
Others shot ten arrows, but Suo Lun still had not drawn his bow.
Others shot fifteen arrows, twenty arrows, but he still had not moved, as if he were呆 there.
The other people’s target positions were at ninety metres or one hundred and fifty metres away, while only Suo Lun’s target position was at two hundred and fifty metres away.
The other people’s bows were one hundred and eighty jin or two hundred and fifty jin, while only his bow was three hundred and eighty jin.
The examination time was limited and required finishing twenty arrows within a quarter of an hour.
Now the other fifteen students had all finished their twenty arrows, and there were still three minutes left until the end of the examination time.
“Suo Lun, there are still three minutes.” Li Nianzhen looked at the hourglass markings and said: “In three minutes, whether you shoot randomly or do not shoot, it will be zero points.”
“Suo Lun, just shoot a few random arrows.” A male student said: “There is no need to aim so pretentiously. Anyway we have no expectations for your results.”
At this moment, Suo Lun, who had been motionless there, suddenly drew his bow fiercely.
Everyone present widened their eyes, waiting for Suo Lun’s first arrow.
Of course, no one had any expectations for Suo Lun’s results. They only wanted to see how far he would miss the target.
Princess Zhi Ning narrowed her beautiful eyes. Once Suo Lun shot this arrow, it should mean the destruction of him and the Suo clan.
And Jian Ning also condensed all his dragon force, because he felt that Suo Lun, facing destruction, might very likely shoot the arrow towards Princess Zhi Ning.
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At this time Suo Lun held his breath. He had completely locked onto the target and aimed perfectly.
Fate’s throat, whether I can choke you depends on this time.
I will not pray. If it hits, then it hits. If it cannot hit, then I choose destruction!
Suo Lun condensed all his anger and all his will, then fiercely erupted.
“Swish…”
His arrow shot out instantly like a meteor.
“Pa…” In just about one second.
The sharp arrow drew a seemingly straight parabolic line and directly struck the target.
Right on the bullseye!
“Hahaha…” The planned mocking laughter instantly stopped abruptly.
Princess Zhi Ning, Jian Ning, and Ba Du almost stood up suddenly.
Everyone’s eyes stared in complete disbelief at that arrow.
Right on the bullseye, really right on the bullseye.