Becoming a God by Searching Mountains and Subduing Demons

Chapter 15: Luo's Family in Qing County
[Three years of time spent on improving archery skills]

[In the first year, you are no longer a green archer. Your bow drawing posture is perfect and has become muscle memory.

All you have to do is keep training, repeating, repeating, and repeating to improve your body strength and figure out the changes in wind direction.

You try hard to pull the bowstring, your arms trembling slightly, but your eyes are full of determination.

You are very poor at judging wind direction, and often the arrow's trajectory deviates due to your ignorance of wind direction.

You practice constantly, shooting arrows every day until you are exhausted, and the sound of the bowstring vibrating echoes in the mountains and forests.

[In the second year, your strength increased a lot, and you were steady and powerful when drawing the bow.

You have gained a lot of experience in grasping wind direction and know how to adjust the correct archery angle according to the wind direction.

Your strength has increased significantly, and a crossbow is no longer effective.

In the mountains and forests, you calmly feel the flow of the wind, and the arrows you shoot become more and more accurate, and it becomes difficult for prey to escape your attack. 】

[In the third year, you continue to hone your archery skills for another year and begin to use a two-stone bow.

You are like a hunting master in the mountains, drawing the bow and shooting the arrow in one go, with graceful and powerful movements.

A year later, you have become more accurate in judging wind direction, and can skillfully use it to make arrows fly farther and more accurately; you have become stronger, and can calmly use a two-stone bow to shoot ten arrows in a row without getting tired; your eyesight and accuracy are even more amazing, enough to hit the target from a hundred steps away.

[The deduction is completed. 】

[Martial Arts: Archery lv4, Herbal Bath lv4, Trap lv1]

The panel suddenly shattered and the words disappeared.

Jiang Yue woke up from his daze and felt that his back muscles, waist and abdominal muscles, and arm strength had increased a lot. His mind also had three years of experience in practicing archery, and the memory of shooting arrows again and again was unforgettable.

"call"

"My archery skills have also been upgraded to level 4, a two-level upgrade!"

Jiang Yue was amazed in his heart, walked out of the courtyard, and drew his bow and arrow at the abandoned earth wall dozens of meters away.

His eyesight was so amazing that he could even see black ants and a few flies climbing on the earth wall.

The bowstring of the stone bow in Jiang Yue's hand seemed to have no strength and was easily pulled to its full length by him.

whoosh-

The arrow shot out and pierced into the earth wall along with the fly, penetrating halfway.

Hitting the target from a hundred paces away is nothing more than this!
"It seems that the one-stone bow is no longer suitable for me. If I don't control the strength well, too much force will wear out the one-stone bow."

Jiang Yue carefully pulled out his wooden arrow from the earth wall and put it back into the quiver.

Looking at the sun, Jiang Yue planned to change his bow to the old two-stone bow at home when he went into the mountains tomorrow. Now he went to the market to sell today's mountain products.

"Xiaotian, wait for me to come back and let's go to grandpa's house for dinner together."

"You look after the house first."

Jiang Yue greeted Xiao Tianwang and received a response. Then he left home with two sacks and headed straight for Qingyang Town.
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Qingyang Town.

The hunting ground was still stinking and full of blood, with animal hair and chicken droppings all over the ground, and white feathers floating in the air.

The killed prey will no longer be fresh if left for a long time and its price will be lower, so many hunters go into the mountains and come back on the same day, rushing to the hunting market in the evening at sunset to sell fresh mountain products.

So even at this hour, the hunting ground is still bustling with people coming and going.

There were more people at Lin's Hunting Gathering today, probably because the price had been raised again. However, there were still not as many people as at Luo's Hunting Gathering.

Jiang Yue followed the order and lined up with the sack in his hand. About a quarter of an hour later, it was his turn.

When the one-armed old man saw Jiang Yue, a smile appeared on his face.

"Erlang is here."

The old one-armed man took the sack from Jiang Yue, weighed it, and said in surprise: "Wow, I'm lucky today."

Jiang Yue smiled and said nothing.

The one-armed old man smiled, went back to the shed and checked the prey Jiang Yue brought today.

The shed is surrounded by black cloth on all sides, so outsiders cannot see what is inside. It is specifically designed to prevent jealous people.

"Good quality."

The old one-armed man came out and stretched out his calloused hand to Jiang Yue, signaling Jiang Yue to negotiate the price. Jiang Yue understood and covered the black cloth, and the two began to make gestures from under the black cloth.

The one-armed old man is very honest, or perhaps in order to compete with Lin's hunting group, he bids very reasonably, just asking for a small profit for himself.

Three musk deer skins were worth nine hundred coins, and the remaining five pheasants of different sizes were worth a total of two hundred coins, which came to one tael and one qian of silver.

Combined with his previous savings, Jiang Yue now has two taels and two cents of silver in his hands.

"make a deal."

Jiang Yue smiled.

The old one-armed man and his servant walked into the shed, took out the money after a while and threw a purse to Jiang Yue.

The more he looked at Jiang Yue, the more he liked him.

Despite his young age, he is not only an expert in archery but also has an amazing physique. He is probably a good candidate for learning martial arts.

The old man with one arm wanted to recruit more people, so he signaled his men to receive the hunters behind to buy mountain products. He then pulled Jiang Yue to a small shed at the back and poured Jiang Yue a cup of hot water.

"Old man, this is..."

Jiang Yue was confused.

The old one-armed man said with a smile: "Erlang, why don't you come to my Luo family to make a living? You can avoid the wind and rain and the dangers of the mountains and forests."

"Ok?"

Jiang Yue was stunned and asked in confusion: "I don't know about Luo's..."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Seeing that Jiang Yue didn't know the Luo family, the old one-armed man laughed heartily and explained, "The Luo family is a big family in Qing County. The family has escort agencies, business companies, medicine companies, cloth companies, and martial arts companies. The family assets are very large. If you are willing, you can come back to Qing County with me when winter comes. I will help you find a place to study martial arts or medicine."

"Martial arts."

Jiang Yue was somewhat fascinated and muttered to himself.

The old one-armed man heard Jiang Yue's murmur and explained with a smile: "Wuhang is where our Luo Clan teaches apprentices. If ordinary people come here, they can't learn anything. They need to be introduced by acquaintances, sign a contract, and stay in Luo Clan as a guard before they can go to Wuhang to learn anything."

"Ok."

Jiang Yue was a little disappointed.

He certainly wasn't willing to sell himself to the Luo family as a bodyguard, so he had to give up.

The one-armed old man was very surprised to see Jiang Yue was unwilling.

You know, being able to learn martial arts for free, staying in the Luo family as a security guard, not having to worry about food and drink, getting a good monthly salary, and not having to pay various exorbitant taxes is what many people dream of.

But Jiang Yue was unwilling.

The two had only met a few times and were not close friends. The one-armed old man was just eager to recruit talented people, and seeing that Jiang Yue felt that the security guards were inferior to others, he stopped trying to persuade him.

"Drink a cup of hot water to warm yourself up."

The old one-armed man pushed the water cup in front of Jiang Yue and said with a smile: "Take care in the mountains, and I'll wait for your goods tomorrow."

"no problem."

Jiang Yue drank the hot water and felt much warmer. He said goodbye to the one-armed old man.

After leaving the hunting ground, Jiang Yue looked at the sky and saw that it was still early, so he strolled around Qingyang Town.

He had used up all his wooden arrows and only had two iron arrows left. If he wanted to try hunting wild deer next, iron arrows would be indispensable, so he planned to find a blacksmith shop to buy some arrows.

The road in Qingyang Town is a dirt road trampled out by people. The road is narrow and rugged, with potholes all over it, covered with stones of various sizes and deep and shallow ruts.

On rainy days, the road becomes muddy, and on sunny days, it is dusty and every step you take will raise a cloud of dust.

Occasionally there are some dry weeds and messy branches on the roadside, adding a sense of desolation.

Fortunately, Qingyang Town is quite popular and does not look dilapidated.

After turning several times, Jiang Yue stopped.

There is a shop in front of me, with a plaque reading Qingyang Blacksmith Shop, and a line of small words below: Opened by the disciple and grandson of Xu Chong of Qimen.

The sound of blacksmithing came from the shop.

(End of this chapter)