Transmigration begins with archery training

"Who?!"

Qin Feng was startled.

He rushed out the door immediately, but only saw a dark shadow flash by at the end of the road.

"You dare come looking for me!"

Qin Feng gathered his strength and sprinted away.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't catch up with the shadowy figure.

"Lightness skill? You can do lightness skill? Are you Chen Sanshi?!"

Qin Feng barely managed to stay behind the shadowy figure.

The two of them, one in front and one behind, chased each other, leaving Yanbian Village and heading straight towards Hutou Mountain.

We continued until we reached the Second Mountain.

The dark figure flashed again and disappeared into the dense forest, vanishing without a trace.

"Keng——"

With his longsword drawn, Qin Feng carefully entered the dense forest, holding it in one hand.

The night sky was cloudless, with a bright moon and few stars.

The pale moonlight spilled onto the earth, only to be shattered by the dense branches, turning into mottled light and shadow.

With each step Qin Feng took, rustling sounds came from the surrounding jungle. It was unclear whether these sounds startled insects, snakes, and beasts, or if someone was lurking in the shadows.

He angrily swung his sword forward, cutting down large patches of plants to broaden his view, but he still couldn't see the dark figure that had led him out.

"Who are you anyway?"

"Weren't you going to take me to see my brother? Where is my brother?!"

Finally, that eerie voice rang out again.

"You almost crushed your brother's head, and you're still asking me?"

what?

Qin Feng was startled and looked down.

Right in the mud beneath his feet was a stark white skull.

Scattered around the skull were fragments of bones and clothing.

Judging from the marks on the clothes, they appear to have been torn apart by a wild animal.

This is……

Qin Xiong's clothes.

How could he forget?!

"elder brother!!!"

"call out--"

Qin Feng roared, a sudden chill running through his heart.

A spiked arrow pierced his heart from behind and emerged from the front.

Pfft!

Qin Feng knelt down on one knee, using his long sword to support himself, struggling with all his might to keep from falling, blood gushing from his mouth and nose like a fountain.

He had no strength left and no longer tried to resist; he just stared blankly at his brother's remains.

The salt-like moonlight shone on them, one human and one ghost, two brothers.

"Depend on!"

"I'm kind-hearted and can't bear to see this. Since you brothers have such a deep bond, I'll grant you the blessing of a happy family reunion!"

Chen Sanshi emerged from the shadows.

He channeled his qi and blood into his arm, and with unstoppable force, the plum blossom spear pierced Qin Feng's heart, leaving a transparent hole and ending his life.

From start to finish.

Qin Feng didn't even get to see the killer's face.

This is what makes long-range weapons so terrifying.

If you can't dodge it or withstand it, you'll almost always lose the ability to fight back in one blow.

Clearly, mastering blood cultivation is not enough to resist.

Chen Sanshi rummaged through the corpse and found ten taels of silver.

"He's actually richer than your brother!"

Besides that, there is a sword.

Chen Sanshi thought about it and decided against it.

This sword was issued by Tianyuan Martial Arts School, and its distinctive features make it impossible to sell.

To prevent anyone from seeing the arrow and gun wounds on Qin Feng's body, he first pulled out the wolf-tooth arrows, then picked up a longsword and slashed at the corpse haphazardly more than a dozen times. He was only satisfied after confirming that the wounds were indistinguishable from the weapon used to inflict them.

"Finally done."

With his biggest worry gone, Chen Sanshi felt relieved.

This trip also greatly improved his skills in tracking and concealing traces, as well as his archery.

[Skill: Archery (Minor Mastery)]

Progress: (50/1000)

"The ability to track and conceal has been broken through!"

[Tracing the Clues and Hiding the Trail (Minor Success)]

【Progress: 0/1000】

[Effects: Night as bright as day, astonishing insight, light as a feather, ability to conceal one's presence]

Two more effects have been added to the original version.

Despite it being nighttime, Chen Sanshi was able to see every subtle movement as clearly as if it were daytime.

Concealing one's breath and hiding one's body—the meaning is self-evident and needs no further explanation.

Combined with these two terms, Chen Sanshi is essentially an assassin who appears and disappears without a trace.

"It's time to go back."

There's something big happening in the county town tonight; I wonder if it will affect areas outside the town.

He dared not linger and returned the way he came at great speed under the cover of night.

As Chen Sanshi passed through Sujia Village, he keenly noticed movement in the woods.

He was extremely vigilant and immediately climbed up the tree, using the newly learned technique of concealing his breath.

For a moment, I had the illusion that I had become one with the trees, and even the birds perched on the trees were not disturbed.

The sound of unsteady footsteps came from the woods, like a drunkard who would stumble and fall every few steps, breaking the grass and trees with a crashing sound.

at last.

The source of the sound came into Chen Sanshi's view.

However, this was not a drunkard, but a person who was seriously injured.

The newcomer was short, dressed in rags, covered in blood, and had more than a dozen knife wounds on his body, some so deep that the bone was visible, and even his pulsating internal organs could be seen.

It's a miracle that someone with such a serious injury can still walk.

"Where did it come from?"

Chen Sanshi looked at the man's attire: his ears were pierced, and his beard was tied in a braid—it was not the style of the people of this dynasty.

"Barbarians?"

"That assassin?"

"Wasn't Commander Xiang Tingchun personally in charge last night, along with three hundred men and hundreds of martial arts disciples? Why did they all come out?"

He did not act rashly, but observed secretly.

"Cough cough cough..."

The barbarian coughed up black blood, and as he walked, he stumbled and fell into the grass. He tried to get up several times but fell back to the ground. He was clearly at his last gasp and about to die.

He was seen lying on the ground, his hands, covered in sticky blood, trembling as he dug mud from under a rock.

It took a lot of effort to dig out a small hole.

Immediately afterwards, he took out a box from his pocket and buried it with all his might.

"Are they hiding something?"

Chen Sanshi watched intently.

"Cough cough cough..."

After burying the things, the barbarian grabbed weeds and branches to cover up the traces.

By this point, he was barely breathing and on the verge of death, but he still kept crawling forward, trying to get away from where the things were hidden.

After walking about ten meters, his body stiffened and he stopped moving completely.

Chen Sanshi waited on the tree for about ten minutes to make sure it was really dead before jumping down, using his spear to poke through the soil and take out what was hidden inside.

"what's that?"

Chen Sanshi played with the palm-sized box, pondering.

Something that someone would hide even with their last breath before dying must be very precious.

But the problem is.

Why would an assassin carry a treasure with him when going out on a mission?

Or.

Was the barbarian's purpose in coming to Poyang County to steal this thing?

"No, no."

Chen Sanshi shook his head.

There are also parts that don't make sense.

If the barbarian came to steal something, he shouldn't have lingered here after killing the county magistrate, and then killed the master of Yunhe Martial Arts School.

Moreover.

What treasures could a tiny county like Poyang have?

Intelligence is even less likely.

With things escalating to this point, even if the intelligence is rendered useless, is there any need to bury it?

The whole thing was strange from the very beginning.

Neither the government office nor the martial arts school ever mentioned searching for anything; they only said they were looking for assassins.

"Front!"

"quick!"

"..."

Footsteps sounded again from not far away, swift and solid, clearly indicating that the pursuers were coming.

Chen Sanshi naturally couldn't reveal that he had been out at night, so he immediately restored the pit by pressing it down with stones, and then took the box back up the tree.

Those who came after us were not soldiers from the yamen or the garrison.

Instead, it was the martial arts school staff, and there were only three of them.

A middle-aged man was leading two of his personal disciples.

Judging from their clothes, they are from the Zhao Family Martial Arts School.

The one leading the group is the owner of the museum, Zhao Ben.

“Master, it’s just him.”

"And the person is dead!"

They found the barbarian's body.

Zhao Ben's expression turned grim, and he rushed over, rummaging through the corpse: "Where's the stuff?!"

"Search for me!"

"Yes!"

The two disciples drew their swords and searched the vicinity.

Of course, in the end, nothing came of it.

"Master, there's nothing here. I guess it was taken by a few other people."

"Damn it! It was so close!"

Zhao Ben's fists clenched until they turned white, and it took him a long time to suppress his anger: "You didn't leak any information tonight, did you?"

"Master, rest assured, apart from the masters of the three major martial arts schools, only a few of their personal disciples and Lord Qianhu know that we are searching for a magical treasure."

"All the other ordinary disciples and garrison soldiers thought it was simply a search for assassins."

"That's good."

Zhao Ben warned, "This matter concerns our long-term plan. If it leaks out, the consequences will be unimaginable! Therefore, even if an outsider learns the slightest bit of information, they must be killed without exception!"

"Let's go back and carry the barbarian's corpse back and dissect it. Who knows, the thing might be inside his stomach!"

"Yes!"

"..."

Watching the group walk away.

It took Chen Sanshi quite a while to process the amount of information in the conversation.

Immortal treasure?

Are they looking for a magical treasure?

Did Chitoko Muto also collaborate with them?

And they even kill any outsiders who come into contact with them without mercy? How domineering is that?

Chen Sanshi weighed the box in his hand.

"In that case, it's even less likely that anyone will know I've touched this thing."

"I have no choice..."

"It's mine!"