Chen Shouyi had just finished breakfast when Chen Yuwei and Chen Xingyue ca downstairs, chattering non-stop.
From their expressions, Chen Shouyi knew...
They hadn't succeeded in their practice.
In a certain sense, a single optimized ditation practice is much more difficult than the optimized version of the Thirty-Six Forms of Body Refining. The latter is straightforward and only changes movents. With enough practice, anyone can learn it, and those with a foundation can easily master it.
The forr, however, is abstract and elusive, involving one's mind. It requires achieving a deep state of ditation and controlling one's subconscious to practice.
Without reaching a deep state of ditation, the second optimized Thirty-Six Forms can't be practiced.
Because the prerequisite requires deep ditation.
The system's optimization isn't independent but rather interconnected, complenting each other. Chen Shouyi hadn't taught his sister the second optimized version of the Thirty-Six Forms for this reason.
As for the third optimized version he is practicing now, the Horizontal Training Thirty-Six Forms, it's even more challenging.
...
Since his cousin ca over specifically for guidance, Chen Shouyi naturally couldn't just brush her off with a few words. After breakfast, he patiently spent over half an hour instructing her.
After ten o'clock, he packed his bow and a backpack of arrows, along with various seasonings, and rode his bicycle to head out to that interdinsional passage in the lower city.
As for lunch, naturally it would be eaten in the other world.
...
Half an hour later, Chen Shouyi entered the spatial passage.
He released the Shell Lady.
It was just dayti, clear and cloudless.
He took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and felt his mood lift. Compared to the fog-laden Hedong City, the air here was almost entirely natural, without a hint of pollution.
He first opened his bow case, assembled the War Bow, and hung two quivers on himself.
Given his current strength, he couldn't dominate everything. The forest here still held considerable danger, with various fierce Giant Beasts appearing from ti to ti. Being careless could lead to danger.
...
Swish, swish, swish...
Arrows flew from Chen Shouyi's hand like a storm.
A large tree about eighty to ninety ters ahead was already filled with a circular formation of arrows, densely packed within.
"This bow is too light for !" Chen Shouyi thought to himself as he shot rapidly.
"With my current strength, the best War Bow should weigh between twelve hundred to fifteen hundred pounds, but this bow is only eight hundred pounds.
Unfortunately, such super powerful Martial Artist bows can no longer be mass-produced by the industry."
Chen Shouyi quickly emptied one quiver and reached for another.
"Still, I should check with the relevant departnts. I recall so bows aren't made from high-tech nanocomposites but from materials from powerful creatures in another world.
Although biological bows are less durable, requiring higher maintenance and lacking the stability of nanocomposites, few Martial Artists use these flashy yet impractical weapons.
But at least their attack power isn't bad. So War Bows, made with extraordinary biological materials, even have special effects."
Chen Shouyi shot both quivers empty in one go.
He estimated internally.
The two quivers, with forty arrows, took him about four seconds.
On Earth, three seconds would suffice.
But under triple gravity, his muscles worked harder, like a machine without lubricant, inevitably slowing him down.
Thankfully, the drop wasn't significant.
Chen Shouyi stepped forward, pulling each arrow out and putting them back into the quivers.
The arrowheads were severely deford, but it didn't matter as he was only practicing rapid shots.
Once he retrieved the arrows, he returned to his original position.
As he was about to reach for the arrows,
he paused, suddenly recalling Ye Zong's archery technique.
Chen Shouyi imdiately changed his mind, grabbing four arrows in one hand, pulling back quickly, and shooting them out.
"Swish, swish, swish, swish"
Chen Shouyi pondered for a mont; it indeed felt much faster.
However, accuracy suffered greatly, but he understood that speed and precision can't coexist. Shooting faster inevitably decreases accuracy, also due to deford arrowheads disrupting the arrows' balance.
After practicing for a while, he still felt that his original technique suited him better.
Faster shots lacked precision.
He now shot without intentionally aiming.
Everything was based on instinct.
And this rapid shooting almost dulled his instincts.
Only Xia Ji's eight-shot thod.
This was also because of Chen Shouyi's short archery practice ti and weak foundation. Starting by relying on instincts couldn't compare to other Martial Artists' years or even decades of constant refining practice.
...
The Shell Lady knelt, butt raised, continuously digging through the sandy soil. Soon, her eyes lit up as she picked up a sparkling blue Crystal Stone. She wiped it forcefully with her small hands, removing the sand.
In the sunlight, the crystalline sapphire emitted a deep blue shimr, like a tranquil pool.
The Shell Lady glanced at Chen Shouyi, then at the irregular sapphire, sighed, reluctantly threw it to the ground, and continued searching.
Eventually, until she unearthed a small white worm, she finally stopped happily.
Playing with the worm in her hand, she boredly watched the clumsy Giant not far away.
"Ah!"
She felt a sudden pain in her finger and cried out. Looking down, she realized she had been fooled; this worm was not a good one but a bad one, biting her hand.
Her eyes quickly welled up with tears.
She shook repeatedly.
But the worm clung tightly to her, unable to be shaken off.
"Good Giant! Good Giant!" she shouted, her voice tinged with tears.
Finding that Chen Shouyi didn't notice.
The Shell Lady beca fierce. She squeezed the worm tightly in her hand.
With a squishing sound, the worm was crushed, colorful fluids splattered everywhere.
"Dare to bite ? I'll crush you."
...
After exhausting all the arrows, Chen Shouyi was just about to rest when the Shell Lady approached, aggrievedly complaining, "Good Giant, I almost got eaten by a bad worm, and you didn't see it!"
Startled by her words, Chen Shouyi quickly checked her, and only upon finding no obvious wounds did he relax slightly, asking, "Where is that bad worm? Where did it bite you?"
"Of course, I killed it! But it bit !"
She extended her tiny hand, no larger than the size of a fingertip.
"Right here, it hurt, but I'm not afraid!" the Shell Lady pointed at the spot where she was bitten.
Upon a closer look, Chen Shouyi found no wound, not even a red mark.
He looked wordlessly at the tearful Shell Lady.
Quite the drama queen.
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