129: Shoot, shoot, shoot

“Team 3 VS Team 10, Finals—”

The referee held the microphone, his voice reaching its peak before pausing.

The breathing of the entire audience also stopped abruptly at this moment.

“Start! According to the rules, this final can involve doping!”

As soon as the referee's words fell, a deafening roar erupted throughout the venue, and the audience screamed with stretched necks:

“Gua Zi, grab me some Gua Zi!”

“It’s finally starting!”

“The ultimate king of champions battle, who else but me!”

“Liu Hanfeng is the king of champions!”

“Damn, then I can’t sit with you, I’m a fan of Shen Bei.”

“Archery is elegance, what do you know?!”

“Melee is the Dao, what do you know, der.”

“Oh no, the main characters haven’t even appeared yet, and the audience is already fighting!”

…

Throughout the entire stadium, various shouts and cheers rose and fell.

Heating up the match to a whole new level.

At this moment, Shen Bei stood in Team 10, his gaze sweeping over the students who had gotten a free ride to victory with him.

Shen Bei’s voice was neither warm nor cold: “Your results are not bad; you’ve made it into the top 10.”

These words were particularly jarring to their ears.

Originally, in their hearts, no one had expected Shen Bei to be so fierce and overbearing.

In fact, in their view, melee combat was the lowest form of Martial Artist.

But Shen Bei had effortlessly defeated opponents, leaving nothing for the others to do, and reached the finals!

At this point, a student said with some dissatisfaction: “Do you have the confidence to defeat Liu Hanfeng?”

Shen Bei smiled easily: “What do you think?”

The whole place fell silent…

Shen Bei turned to leave, but stopped, paused, and looked back slightly, continuing: “I hope you all have some self-awareness.”

The meaning in Shen Bei’s words was very clear.

If Liu Hanfeng was defeated, Team 10 would still have an internal match to determine the ultimate champion.

This was a warning to the other students not to ask for trouble and to simply forfeit.

After speaking, he turned and stepped directly onto the arena.

Liu Hanfeng, on the opposite side, was already waiting.

“I thought you would send other students to wear down my stamina.”

Liu Hanfeng said with an infinitely mysterious smile.

Shen Bei smoothed his brow and replied with single-mindedness: “They would only be sent to their doom and would only boost your morale.”

“I thought so too.” Liu Hanfeng took out a dark red recurve bow and caressed it with both hands: “So, let’s have our decisive battle, one match to determine the winner.”

The next moment.

Liu Hanfeng didn’t hesitate at all.

He made the first move.

He immediately drew the bow to a full circle, and in a short instant, three light arrows condensed from True Qi suddenly appeared!

“Three-Explosion Life-Chasing Arrows!”

Liu Hanfeng released his fingers, and as the bowstring vibrated, three arrows tore through the air, plunging like shooting stars into the ground around Shen Bei, causing muffled explosions.

Besides regular arrows, Liu Hanfeng had many other types of arrows with different effects transformed by his True Qi!

Arrows like the Three-Explosion Life-Chasing Arrows could cause violent explosions upon contact with hard targets, their destructive power no less than a fragmentation grenade.

The sound of the explosions, the sweeping sound waves, pierced through metal and shattered stone, split the air and tore through clouds, the air vibrated with a roar, like boiling water, and invisibly, dust and stones directly shattered and flew everywhere!

Liu Hanfeng, having succeeded with one strike, did not stop, but continued to draw and gather power, aiming again, attempting to find Shen Bei’s figure in the dust and deliver a fatal blow.

He didn't believe Shen Bei would be taken down by a single move.

And the onlookers present all shouted:

“Holy crap! It’s a royal flush right from the start!”

“What! Liu Hanfeng actually still had tricks up his sleeve!”

“New archery! How many more does this guy know?”

“Haha, I told you Liu Hanfeng is awesome, over a hundred meters away, how can Shen Bei get close?”

…

On the other side.

Jian Tong tightly gripped Professor Gu Xinrou’s arm, her face tense as she gazed at the battlefield.

Professor Gu Xinrou said indifferently: “What are you nervous about? Shen Bei will surely be fine.”

“Being champion isn’t important, what’s important is not getting hurt,” Jian Tong stammered.

Professor Gu Xinrou scoffed.

How could that pervert get hurt?

When she practiced Martial Skills with him, no matter how severe his injuries, he would still be lively the next day.

If one spent a long time with Shen Bei, they might even think he was a modified human from the Apocalypse Cult.

On the battlefield.

Liu Hanfeng tilted his head slightly, still not seeing Shen Bei charge out.

“What is this guy doing—”

Suddenly.

The rolling dust abruptly contracted, emitting a piercing shriek, like spitting out a cannonball.

A high-speed spinning coin, enveloped in True Qi, suddenly shot through the air.

Whoosh~~

In that instant, Liu Hanfeng, relying on his incredibly keen hearing, instinctively tilted his body.

The coin clipped a few strands of his hair, flying past his ear.

Although he managed to dodge in time, the sonic boom caused by the coin still made Liu Hanfeng’s head feel as if dozens or hundreds of gongs were buzzing, instantly freezing him in place!

“This guy really has True Qi, but how could he…?”

Liu Hanfeng was a bit dumbfounded: “Isn’t he a melee-type Martial Artist? How does he also have time to Cultivate long-range attacks?”

At this moment, Old Qin below was also startled; fortunately, Liu Hanfeng reacted quickly enough, otherwise he would have died on the spot!

Old Qin angrily said to Principal Zhang: “Are you cheating? What melee-type Martial Artist throws hidden weapons?”

Principal Zhang snorted: “Who said hidden weapons aren’t allowed?”

“What I want to say is, you’re so stingy! You don’t even forge hidden weapons for your students!”

Principal Zhang’s face turned crimson; this was indeed his oversight.

During Shen Bei’s fight with Yu Qiuyi, he already knew Shen Bei could use True Qi to throw hidden weapons.

He really should have forged small and sharp hidden weapons.

But Principal Zhang was very good at finding excuses for himself. He said: “What do you know! Coins are easy to carry and unremarkable. This is called taking them by surprise!”

“You—” Old Qin snorted: “Sophistry!”

…

At this moment, Shen Bei walked out of the dust, a hint of disappointment on his face: “Couldn’t succeed with a sneak attack, huh? Did I scare you?”

Liu Hanfeng’s eyebrow twitched: “Tolerable, tolerable. The accuracy is good. If I were in the smoke, I wouldn’t have that kind of accuracy.”

Without time to think much, three more explosive arrows appeared in Liu Hanfeng’s hand, then his arm muscles bulged, and in an instant, the bow was drawn to a full moon—

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Air blasts and shrieks erupted, and three meteors instantly tore through the air!

Almost at the same time as Liu Hanfeng fired three arrows, Shen Bei seemed to sense the danger in advance, taking a step with the Seven Stars Steps, transforming into a black lightning bolt and flashing away.

Boom boom boom!

Shen Bei’s movements were extremely swift, narrowly dodging Liu Hanfeng’s three enraged arrows in the nick of time, causing the ground to vibrate, earth and stone to explode, and three large pits to appear.

“You’re quite good at dodging!”

Liu Hanfeng’s arrows didn’t stop.

Arrows of flame, arrows of lightning, arrows of frost, arrows of shock…

Continuously chasing that ghostly black shadow, he fired at the rapidly approaching Shen Bei.

And Shen Bei constantly advanced and retreated, advanced and retreated amidst the various shots.

Some arrows were simply impossible to withstand head-on.

Even if King Kong Indestructible could ensure he wouldn't suffer massive injuries.

But Liu Hanfeng's arrows weren't just about damage; they also had various restrictive effects!

That was what made it so troublesome.

Therefore, Shen Bei had to advance and retreat, not just act on impulse.

Just then.

“Shockwave Arrow!”

Whoosh~~

Liu Hanfeng seized the opportunity when Shen Bei leaped forward, precisely at the midpoint of his parabolic trajectory, which was when his speed was slowest, and fired an arrow that vibrated above Shen Bei’s head.

With a hum.

The air suddenly fluctuated.

Shen Bei instantly felt his brain dizzy and heavy.

As if an entire mountain was pressing down on him.

Then, Liu Hanfeng drew another bowstring.

This time, the charge was longer than usual.

“Nine Stars Linked!”

“It’s over, Shen Bei!”

Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!

Nine consecutive bowstring sounds rang out.

Nine arrows whistled through the air, like comets striking the moon, erupting from Liu Hanfeng’s hands!

The air was violently rubbed and burned, emitting a scorched smell. The whistling sound of the nine large arrows continuously erupting was like the wailing of thousands of evil spirits, so piercing that it seemed to tear one’s Soul out!

This was Liu Hanfeng’s ultimate Martial Skill as a Shen City Martial Arts University Martial Artist, Nine Stars Linked!

It was unleashed the instant Shen Bei was controlled!

As the renowned Liu Hanfeng, he also possessed another ability: intuitive marking. Within a certain range, even if he couldn't see or hear, he could clearly build a three-dimensional dynamic model in his mind, delivering precise, surgical-like strikes to his target.

And this ability, combined with his most powerful archery, had always been invincible!

Boom boom boom boom boom boom!

The next moment, a fierce wind swept through, and air currents blew. The small open ground vibrated incessantly, and time seemed to freeze. Shen Bei, still in mid-air in a fierce pouncing posture, had not yet landed when six bursts of fire and blood simultaneously erupted from his throat, shoulders, chest, lower abdomen, and other locations, as if bombs had exploded on his body!

The combined lethality of intuitive marking, Nine Stars Linked, and explosive arrows was undeniable; even an iron man would be blasted to smithereens.

And Shen Bei was immediately sent flying, his flesh and blood splattering in the explosion’s fire, like a broken rag doll.