Transmigration begins with archery training

Sun Li and Sun Buqi have recently been operating in different ways, one openly and the other covertly.

It took me a while to realize that the martial arts school disciples often went out of the city and up the mountain, so I thought I'd come and check it out tonight.

They spotted a fire nearby and rushed over, only to see this scene before them.

"Fire, fire!"

"..."

After noticing the anomaly, the night watchmen from other nearby herb gardens led their men, shouting as they rushed over.

"Go back first."

Sun Li sighed softly, "I'll check the other medicinal herb gardens another day."

……

The next day.

As soon as Chen Sanshi arrived at the military camp, he heard many people discussing this matter.

Have you heard?

"A fire broke out on Nijōyama last night."

"When I was patrolling the city this morning, I personally witnessed people carrying back several charred corpses from the mountain!"

"It seems that the young masters of Tianyuan Martial Arts School were all burned to death!"

"How could a wildfire suddenly start?"

"It's obvious that someone did this on purpose."

"Who has such audacity?"

"..."

After listening for a while, Chen Sanshi went to the training ground and gathered his men for their daily drills.

Several people, just like before, were lazy and perfunctory when practicing stance training.

"Are you Zhao Jin from Lizhuang?"

Chen Sanshi walked up to him and spoke calmly.

"Yes! The Commander-in-Chief knows me?" the man exclaimed in surprise.

"I recognize it."

Chen Sanshi asked, "How's your training going?"

"It's alright, just too tiring."

The man said with a grin, "It's much more tiring than farming."

"Then go back to farming."

Chen Sanshi suddenly said, "Xu Wencai, take him to collect the rations for the next few days."

"grown ups?!"

The sudden expulsion stunned not only the man, but everyone present.

"Perfect timing, I have something to tell you."

Chen Sanshi knew he could no longer let them get away with it.

He took a deep breath and spoke in a loud voice: "I know that you came to me to join the army because I am from the countryside outside the county, just like you, and you thought I would take care of you."

"That's right, of course I'll take care of you!"

"I can't guarantee anything else here."

"I, Chen Sanshi, will never withhold a single grain of food or a single copper coin from you. If you have talent, I will do my best to teach you martial arts!"

"but!

"I hope you understand that this is a military unit, not a theatrical troupe. Soon, some of you will die! You really will die!"

“If you don’t train properly now, you will not only kill yourselves on the battlefield, but also other brothers!”

"Therefore, I'll make it clear from the outset."

"From today onwards, anyone who dares to be lazy and perfunctory will be just like Zhao Jin, receiving their rations and going home to farm."

"I will not tolerate such a black sheep in my ranks!"

"Did you understand?"

After he finished speaking, the training ground fell silent.

The few people who had been slacking off earlier looked embarrassed.

"understood!"

After a long while, they responded in unison.

The crowd actually admired the young man in front of them, but he wasn't used to practicing martial arts yet.

Joining the army was a decision made after discussing it with the villagers.

Anyone who gets kicked out will lose face big time.

Chen Sanshi sighed inwardly.

He knew he had to find a typical example.

Otherwise, there will always be people who take advantage of his friendliness and act recklessly to break the rules.

Like Zhao Jin just now, he didn't practice properly from the first day he joined the army, and he often encouraged others to leave the camp and go home to rest without permission.

What's the point of keeping someone like that around?

"continue!"

Chen Sanshi gave the order.

The soldiers resumed their stance training, each gritting their teeth and persevering, with no one daring to slack off.

Just then, the rich young master from yesterday walked over.

That's right on time.

……

Tianyuan Martial Arts School.

In the center of the courtyard, which was filled with green plants, lay many charred corpses, all black and hard, like matchsticks, almost unrecognizable as human.

"Which one...which one is Zhan'er!"

The owner of the museum, Liang Shengzhi, had bloodshot eyes and was on the verge of a breakdown: "Who! Who dares to be so bold!"

He has four children, but only one son!

He ended up dying a gruesome death.

The owners of the other two museums were also present.

"It seems our plan has been exposed."

Pan Quan was alarmed: "But the strange thing is, why hasn't anyone come looking for us?"

Whoever discovered what happened in the mountains should not remain so calm.

Recently, quite a few people have been investigating this.

"My son!!!"

Liang Shengzhi was overwhelmed with grief and carefully examined the bodies, trying to find out which one was his son. He had no heart to listen to what his son was saying.

Pan Quan looked to the side: "Uncle Zhao, who do you think made this up?"

"If I remember correctly, Brother Liang's son and that old servant are both at the Bone Refining Realm, right?"

The Zhao family patriarch, who had been silent all along, slowly spoke up: "Even with seven or eight true disciples guarding the herb garden, not a single one of them managed to escape alive."

"This shows that the perpetrator's level of skill is extraordinary, and dealing with a Bone Cultivation Martial Artist is as easy as killing a chicken or a dog."

"Looking across Poyang County, who do you think could achieve this?"

"Xiang Tingchun!"

Pan Quan suddenly realized: "He must have discovered something and entered the Medicine Valley to investigate the secrets, wanting to monopolize the secret of the immortal treasure!"

"Yes, that's right."

Master Zhao stated confidently, "Otherwise, if things were exposed, why wouldn't anyone question us? If it were Xiang Tingchun, it would make sense. The magic treasure is in his hands; why would he be willing to expose this?"

"That person surnamed Xiang is utterly vicious!"

Pan Quan angrily cursed, "Destroying the Song family is not enough. Relying on their own cultivation level and having leverage over us, they are preparing to gradually devour us and completely wipe us out!"

"Xiang Tingchun!"

Liang Shengzhi roared, "I swear I'll never forgive you! Even as a ghost, I'll take you down with me!!!"

"Keep your posture upright."

"Right, that is it."

On the firing range.

Chen Sanshi carefully taught Sun Buqi.

This young master was not only generous, but also paid in advance.

He had never seen a silver note worth two hundred taels before.

"call out--"

Sun Buqi aimed an arrow at the target a hundred paces away and shot it.

I'll probably get a score of around 4 rings.

Undeterred, he fired another arrow, which resulted in two rings...

"..."

Chen Sanshi has taught everything he needed to.

But after two hours, the young master made no progress whatsoever.

Even though my posture is correct, I just can't hit the target.

"Master!"

Sun Buqi insisted on addressing him that way, and no one could stop him: "How exactly did you do that?"

Archery and martial arts are not closely related.

The level of one's martial arts skill can at most determine how many bowstrings can be drawn.

But the heavier the bow, the more difficult it is to control.

Shooting an arrow through a willow leaf from a hundred paces—how easy is that?

But the extraordinary person before us is more than just an archer who can hit a target from a hundred paces away; what's most terrifying is that he never misses a shot.

"How did you do it?"

Chen Sanshi thought for a moment and concluded, "It still depends more on hard work; heaven rewards diligence!"

"What a wonderful saying, 'Heaven rewards diligence!'"