World-Ending Demon Emperor-Chapter 44 - 42 Mental Locking Spell

44: Chapter 42: Mental Locking Spell

44 -42: Mental Locking Spell

Others needed two to three months to complete the bow-drawing exercise, but for Lanling, she set the goal to finish it in half a month, which was already quite astonishing.

However, Lanling only took one day to accomplish this step.

This, this was truly monstrous.

“Suo Lun, do you know what I want to do right now?” Ye Jingyu said, “I want to cut open your body to see what’s different inside you compared to others.”

Lanling said, “Can I start live fire training tomorrow?”

“You can, genius.” Ye Jingyu turned and entered the tent, saying, “Go to sleep, you can still get three hours.”

Lanling entered the tent and crawled into his sleeping bag.

Ye Jingyu simply lay down on the tent fabric, still with her back to Lanling.

“Don’t look at me, or I’ll punch you.” Ye Jingyu’s back still seemed to have eyes of its own,

Lanling said, “No, I mean, don’t we need to keep watch?”

“No need,” Ye Jingyu said.

“Even if I fall asleep, as long as someone comes within a hundred steps of us, I will detect them, unless their martial arts are much higher than mine, and a master wouldn’t come to kill wild cattle.”

Suddenly, Lanling felt relieved, immediately turned over, and fell asleep with his back to Ye Jingyu.

…

Early the next day, while Lanling was still deep in sleep, he was already woken up by Ye Jingyu.

Then, Lanling found her hair was wet, indicating she had been up for a while and had even taken a bath.

“Starting today, you’ll practice live firing,” Ye Jingyu said.

Lanling was extremely excited, finally waiting for actual combat.

He hurried out of the tent to wash and had breakfast, then he was ready to pick up his bow and shoot wild cattle.

“What are you doing?” Ye Jingyu asked.

“Going to shoot wild cattle,” Lanling said.

Ye Jingyu said, “Who told you to shoot wild cattle?”

With that, Ye Jingyu pointed ahead, and suddenly Lanling saw a target standing thirty meters in front, covered with circles.

“Start with a stationary target, then shoot moving objects,” Ye Jingyu said.

Lanling immediately let out an internal wail, “Isn’t that wild cattle’s target much bigger than this target, and moreover, they stand there without moving?”

Ye Jingyu said, “That’s right, the target of the wild cattle is large, but do you know how thick and tough their hides are?

You need a bow of at least two to three hundred pounds to penetrate their outer skin.

With your mere sixty-pound bow, if you want to kill a wild cattle, you must hit it in the eye.

Do you think you can hit the eye of a wild cattle from tens of meters away?”

Lanling immediately behaved, there was no doubt it was impossible.

Ye Jingyu continued, “From now on, you shoot a stationary target in live fire.

Thirty meters distance, ten test shots, scoring eighty points gets you to go hunt wild cattle.”

Unexpectedly, it was so difficult to want to shoot a wild buffalo and absorb its energy.

Now Yao Xing’s energy was completely exhausted, and everything depended on Lanling himself.

Moreover, Yao Xing was desperate for energy, and so was Lanling, eager to shoot wild cattle and absorb energy.

Thirty meters distance, averaging eight points per arrow was indeed a very difficult goal, especially for a beginner like Lanling.

“Alright, you start,” Ye Jingyu said.

Lanling stood thirty meters from the target, took a deep breath, and drew his bow and arrow.

Then, holding his breath, he remained completely still, starting to aim at the center of the target.

Seconds ticked by, and after about ten seconds, Lanling felt he had aimed right and was ready, suddenly releasing his fingers.

“Whoosh…” The arrow flew straight out.

Lanling was immediately filled with anticipation.

However, the result disappointed him, he not only missed scoring above eight points, but he also missed the target entirely.

Then, Lanling shot a second arrow, but missed the target again.

It was strange, he had clearly used the three-point line aiming technique and had even considered gravity and wind speed, yet he still couldn’t aim correctly.

At that moment, Ye Jingyu stepped forward, corrected Lanling’s posture, and then stood at his outstretched hand, her left hand holding his bow, and right hand supporting his arrow, saying, “I’ll help you get the feel of it.”

Her chest was too high, and at such close range, it pressed directly against Lanling’s back, instantly disrupting his breathing.

Taking a deep breath, he calmed himself down.

“Whoosh…” He shot the third arrow.

Sure enough, it hit the target, but without scoring.

Ye Jingyu let go of Lanling and let him continue on his own.

Lanling had indeed great talent.

Almost every arrow hit the target from then on, and the tenth arrow even scored one point.

And shooting ten arrows in a row was about the limit for Lanling at the moment.

“Alright, take a break, lie down,” Ye Jingyu said.

Lanling put down the bow and lay straight on the grass.

Ye Jingyu came over and started massaging his limbs.

“How do you feel?” Ye Jingyu asked.

Lanling said, “It’s not very easy, I think at this rate, I’ll need at least half a month to hit eighty rings.”

Ye Jingyu asked, “How do you aim?”

“Three points, one line,” Lanling said.

“The target, the arrowhead, and the feathers.”

Ye Jingyu asked, “Then what do you think is the most important aspect of archery?”

“Finding the feeling, so you can almost shoot without aiming, or only aim for a very short time,” Lanling said.

Ye Jingyu said, “With that method, the greatest achievement you can hope for in your life is to be an excellent archer in the military.

Do you know how far a Dragon Archer can shoot a target?”

Lanling shook his head, “I don’t know.”

“One thousand meters,” Ye Jingyu said.

“Impossible,” Lanling exclaimed in shock.

Firstly, a bow couldn’t shoot that far, and secondly, even if it could, hitting the target would be outright impossible.

A person one thousand meters away would be nothing more than a tiny black dot.

Keep in mind that on modern Earth, even the most precise sniper rifles in the hands of a highly skilled sniper might not hit a target a thousand meters away.

Using a bow and arrow for such a feat was simply ludicrous.

Ye Jingyu said, “Because, an excellent archer never uses their eyes to aim, but their spiritual power.”

Yao Xing had once said this.

Ye Jingyu continued, “The most important thing for an archer is spiritual power.

A Dragon Archer can lock onto a target thousands of meters away using spiritual power, then directly link the arrow in their hand to the target with that power and achieve a one-shot kill, all without needing to aim with their eyes.”

Lanling was flabbergasted, the concept was too fantastical.

Although he had always known that spiritual power was powerful and mysterious, he had never experienced it firsthand, only hearing about it from others.

Lanling asked, “What exactly does that feel like?”

Ye Jingyu replied, “What it feels like, you’ll understand when the time comes.

But let me tell you two things: a master can extend their spiritual power tens of meters, hundreds of meters, or even thousands of meters outside their body.

Hence, a target a thousand meters away would be pulled in instantly.

Not only that, but when the spiritual power reaches a certain level, it can make the time in your perceived world slow down.

The time you perceive using spiritual power will be two times, three times, or even more slower than reality.

Can you imagine how terrifying that is?”

Lanling was utterly astounded, especially by the second point; it was incredibly mysterious.

This was akin to a different kind of time slowdown.

In your eyes, your enemies are moving in slow motion.

With this, you could easily dodge an enemy’s attack and find their weak spot for a lethal hit.

Ye Jingyu said, “Therefore, the world’s top swordsmen and Dragon Archers, without a doubt, are those with strong spiritual power.

Spiritual power is the core of Martial Arts.”

Lanling asked, “Then how do you use spiritual power to lock on to a target?”

Ye Jingyu explained, “It’s simple.

Run your Dragon Force into your brain, then project it directly through the light in your eyes.”

It was still Dragon Force.

Ye Jingyu went on, “Of course, this is a test of one’s spiritual talent.

Those with high spiritual talent can do it with a small amount of Dragon Force and project it over a long distance.

For those with low spiritual talent, no amount of Dragon Force will help.

So, spiritual talent is the most important talent for a Martial Artist.”

Realizing this, Lanling felt a chill in his heart because Yao Xing in his body no longer had energy, and therefore, he could not convert energy into spiritual power anymore.

At that moment, he felt an unprecedented desire to absorb energy.

“The Dragon Force in my body is depleted; I can’t use spiritual power to lock on,” Lanling said.

Ye Jingyu replied, “After resting for half the night, you should have recovered a bit.”

Lanling said, “My constitution is different from others.”

Ye Jingyu said, “No matter, you don’t need Dragon Force to lock on spiritually at a distance of thirty meters; you can do it with your own spiritual power.”

“How do I do that?” Lanling asked.

“Use the Inverted Moon Mantra to completely quiet your body and your mind,” Ye Jingyu instructed.

With the Inverted Moon Mantra, Lanling easily achieved tranquility in mind and body.

At this point, he didn’t even need the energy from Yao Xing to calm the water surface in the Spiritual Illusion or to restore the inverted moon to its full shape.

“Then, focus all your spirit on one point, casting it onto the center of the target,” Ye Jingyu said.

“Don’t use your eyes to look; use your spirit.”

Lanling gradually immersed himself deeper and deeper.

“What do you see?” Ye Jingyu asked.

Lanling said, “In the Spiritual Illusion of the Inverted Moon Mantra, the inverted moon in the water has taken on the shape of the target.”

Ye Jingyu said, “Then keep focusing your spiritual power, concentrating all of it on a single point at the center of the target.”

Lanling began to concentrate with all his might, gathering all his spiritual power on the center of the target.

Then, he clearly felt everything within the Spiritual Illusion fading away.

The water surface disappeared, and the edges of the target gradually blurred and faded.

The target locked by his spiritual power shrank smaller and smaller.

Soon, very soon, the process would be complete, his spiritual power would be fully concentrated on one point at the center of the target.

But just at that moment, Lanling’s head exploded with a loud bang, a sharp pain engulfed him, as if his brain had burst open, and he collapsed to the ground.