readytorunbook Chapter 114 Shocking Bow
Chapter 114 Shocking Bow
Chapter 114 The Heaven-Shaking Bow
There are hundreds of wolf-faced silver bears outside the city. Although Xiao Chong and his men had just led a charge that killed more than a dozen of them, the remaining ones still put enormous pressure on the people in the city.
Fortunately, the wolf-faced silver bears are frightened and dare not get too close to the city wall. Otherwise, if they really rushed up and crashed into the city gate, the dilapidated city gate would not have been able to stop them.
If the city gates were breached, allowing a large number of wolf-faced silver bears to rush into the city, it would inevitably cause a disaster. Hundreds of powerful wild beasts would rampage through the city, and even someone with martial arts skills as high as Hengshan would be helpless against them.
As time passed, the beasts outside the city began to stir again, roaring as they slowly approached the city gate.
"We absolutely cannot let these wild beasts break in, or we'll be in big trouble!" Xiao Chong's voice was filled with worry.
Yokoyama silently launched several spears, shooting down the wolf-faced silver bears closest to the city gate.
After the beasts retreated a bit further, he nodded and said, "Not bad, we need to go down and fight again. You've already gone down once and need to rest, so I'll take over this time."
Xiao Chong pointed to the dozen or so people who had just left the city with him and said, "I'm fine, I can hold them off if we go down again. But these people aren't very strong, I'm afraid they might run into trouble if we go down again."
"Then I'll go down alone and kill a few of them first," Yokoyama said, and prepared to leave the city.
Xiao Chong stopped him, saying, "That's not advisable either. If Brother Heng goes out of the city personally, I'm afraid it will make the people inside the city even more uneasy."
"This won't work, that won't work, what should we do?" Yokoyama said anxiously.
Xiao Chong was at a loss for what to do and could only furrow his brows and rack his brains.
Just then, a series of rapid footsteps suddenly sounded from the direction of the city.
The two looked up and saw a group of nearly a hundred people rushing towards them from a distance. There were four or five people leading the group, one of whom was Yin Feng. The other two men and one woman were the Situ siblings and Xu Kuo.
Behind this group, far off, was a group of men who looked like miners, carrying many weapons.
"Great! This is a timely help!" Xiao Chong and Hengshan exchanged a glance, their faces beaming with joy.
Upon arriving at Hengshan, Yin Feng returned the token and said, "This is all the manpower we can gather. Apart from those who are still mining spiritual veins outside, nearly half of the pioneering teams are unwilling to send anyone."
Yokoyama put away the token and said resentfully, "I'll settle this score with them when we get back!"
Just then, the group of miners behind them caught up, and the one in the lead was Liu Yun, who had joined the rescue team with Xiao Chong a few days ago.
Liu Yun had the miners put down the weapons they had brought and reported to Hengshan: "I heard that wild beasts are coming to attack the city, so I had someone bring all the unused weapons in the manor. Apart from bows and arrows, they are all long weapons suitable for long-range combat."
"Very good, distribute them all." Hengshan praised, then turned to Xiao Chong and said, "These bows and arrows were issued by the clan when we came to the Southern Wilderness. They were all junk that no one wanted at home, but unexpectedly they have come in very useful. Brother Xiao, go and pick out a suitable one first."
"Bows and arrows provided by the Heng family? I'd better take a good look at them." After hearing Hengshan's introduction, Xiao Chong's heart stirred, and he quickly walked to the pile of weapons.
Although Hengshan spoke casually, calling them unwanted junk, it depends on how you look at it. The Heng family is a truly powerful clan, far superior to a minor force like the Xiao family of Feiyue City, which isn't even third-rate.
These weapons in front of him seemed worthless in Yokoyama's eyes, but since they were issued by the Yoko family, they couldn't be too bad.
Arriving at the pile of weapons, Xiao Chong began to carefully select them.
Xiao Chong had no use for those spears and swords. He had his own weapon, the Immortal-Slaying Sword, which was a truly excellent weapon, praised even by the old ghost of the Thousand Mountains, Ding Ling.
Moreover, he possessed a sword technique that matched the Immortal-Slaying Sword. This sword technique was left behind by Lü Daka, so it was naturally no ordinary item.
Although magic cannot be used on the Tianyun Continent, and flying swords, a divine-level magical artifact, may not be possible to cultivate, they are certainly not comparable to those of ordinary martial artists.
Therefore, Xiao Chong's mind was entirely focused on those bows and arrows.
Bows and arrows made up the vast majority of the weapons. In Xiao Chong's eyes, these powerful bows were all rare treasures, far superior to the crossbows he had selected from the Martial Fortune Pavilion.
This bow is fine; the bowstring is strong and powerful. This bow is also fine; the patterns on the bow are exquisite. And this one, this one, and this one—none of them are inferior to the collections in the Xiao family's Martial Arts Pavilion.
Xiao Chong picked up a handful of herbs, looked at them, and put them down. He picked up another handful, looked at them, and put them down again. He was already overwhelmed by the choices.
Seeing that Xiao Chong was about to examine all the bows and arrows on the ground and was quite fond of each one, Hengshan did not urge him on, but just watched with a smile.
Yokoyama had seen many martial artists from small towns who were even worse than Xiao Chong.
Xiao Chong paid no attention to Hengshan's gaze and continued flipping through the pages one after another.
If you're going to choose, choose the best. As long as you're satisfied, that's what matters. Who cares what others think? This has always been Xiao Chong's philosophy.
Hmm, how come there really are some junk mixed in there? Just as Xiao Chong was in a dilemma and about to suffer from decision paralysis, an inconspicuous short bow caught his attention.
This short bow is quite ordinary, only about two feet long, and looks very old, clearly having weathered many years. Due to its age, the originally dark bow has turned slightly white, and even the bowstring appears somewhat loose.
A martial arts master from a prestigious family, how dare you put up this kind of trash? Aren't you ashamed? Xiao Chong casually picked up the short bow.
The moment Xiao Chong got his hands on the short bow, his eyelids twitched.
This short bow, though small, is quite heavy, not at all as flimsy as it looks.
Perhaps due to his enhanced spiritual awareness recently, Xiao Chong felt as if the short bow in his hand had twitched slightly, and a desolate and ancient aura rushed towards him, stirring up some inexplicable emotions in his heart.
Something's strange, definitely strange! Xiao Chong stared intently.
The short bow lay quietly in my palm; the feeling from before had vanished, as if nothing had happened.
"Am I imagining things?" Xiao Chong brought the short bow close to his eyes to examine it closely.
The bowstring was made of some kind of unidentified animal sinew, and the bow itself was neither iron nor wood, its material unclear. At one end of the bow were two faint characters, presumably the name of the bow and arrow.
It took Xiao Chong a lot of effort to recognize the two small characters, but he was taken aback.
The bow's name, "Zhentian," was originally quite ordinary. But these two ordinary words made Xiao Chong's heart ache, his eyes well up, and he almost shed tears.
For no other reason than that he knew these two words in his previous life.
Although it was a bit archaic, Xiao Chong was well-versed in Taoist classics in his previous life and had studied many ancient scripts. The two characters "震天" (Zhen Tian) engraved on the short bow were one of them.
Holding the Heaven-Shaking Bow in his hands, Xiao Chong's eyes welled up with tears, feeling as if he had met a long-lost relative.
Yokoyama, watching from the sidelines, was completely bewildered and couldn't understand Xiao Chong's behavior.
You're from a small town, after all. It's just a broken bow. Why are you getting so worked up? Besides, although this bow can be considered an antique, it's almost beyond repair. Do you have a hobby of collecting antiques?
These thoughts flashed through Hengshan's mind, and he smiled and said, "Brother Xiao, this bow is an old item from the clan. It has been in disrepair for many years and is no longer of great use, which is why it was sent to the Southern Wilderness. I think you should get a new one."
"No, no, no, I like this one. It's short, lightweight, and easy to use." Xiao Chong shook his head vigorously.
"Take it if you like it, little brother," Yokoyama said with a nonchalant smile.
"Then I shall accept your offer." Xiao Chong tucked the Zhentian Bow behind his back and thanked Hengshan for his kindness with a smile.
Now that he had the Heaven-Shaking Bow, shouldn't he also have matching Cloud-Piercing Arrows and Sun-Shattering Arrows? After putting away his short bow, Xiao Chong unceremoniously plunged into the pile of arrows, trying his best to find new treasures.
But he was soon disappointed. All the arrows on the ground were the same, ordinary arrows, with not a single one different from the others.
Having finally obtained a "treasure" that felt somewhat strange, Xiao Chong was somewhat disappointed to find that it was just a broken piece.
But then he thought about it again and felt relieved. After all, the origin of this Heaven-Shaking Bow was somewhat related to him, and even if it didn't have any amazing power, it was still very meaningful.
At this moment, the hundred-man team that Yin Feng had gathered had found suitable weapons, and the bows and arrows on the ground had all been distributed. They were just waiting for Hengshan's order to fight against the wolf-faced silver bear below the city.
"Everyone, follow me up to the city wall!" Yokoyama shouted, leaping onto the city wall first.
"Kill!" The crowd's morale soared, and none of them were willing to be outdone, so they all leaped onto the city wall. Soon, the city wall was filled with a long wall of people.
Seeing that there was no movement on the city wall for a long time, the beasts outside the city were pressing towards the city gate again, and several burly silver bears with wolf faces had even come to the foot of the city wall.
"Boom!" A silver bear with a wolf's face raised its massive paw and slammed it onto the city wall. The wall trembled slightly, and sand and soil crumbled down, revealing the rubble beneath.
"You're asking for death!" Seeing the wolf-faced silver bear so rampant, Hengshan was furious. He snatched a powerful bow, nocked an arrow, and shot it towards the city walls.
This arrow was fired in anger. The bow was drawn as full as a moon, and the arrow shot out like a shooting star. With a loud "thud," the bowstring snapped, and the arrow pierced the chest of the wolf-faced silver bear.
A spray of blood erupted as a high-speed arrow blasted a gaping hole in the chest of a wolf-faced silver bear. The arrow's momentum continued, piercing through the back of one wolf-faced silver bear and embedding itself in the instep of another, trembling incessantly.
"Good!" the crowd on the city wall cheered in unison.
Inspired by the power of that arrow, these people became as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they all followed Yokoyama's example, drawing their bows and nocking arrows, and firing a barrage of shots at the beasts below the city.