8 Trials 3 (2/2)

The audience burst into cheers once again.

Tang Yan had finished exactly one and a half minutes ahead of schedule. This was definitely an unprecedented performance. Although Li Cunde was still in with a chance, everyone could see that there was a gap in their strength.

Twang!

Boom!

”Li Cunde, 10 points!”

The umpire reported the results of Li Cunde's fifth arrow, causing the scene to fall into chaos.

Loading his final arrow, Li Cunde drew the bow back and aimed; he held his position a while then shot...

Twang!

Boom!

”Li Cunde, 9 points.”

Silence filled the arena, all that could be heard were the gasps of the audience.

Xiao Yan could be seen shaking his head helplessly.

The second group preliminaries ended, and the results of this group were released.

Tang Yan came in first place in his group with 360 points. He was also ranked in first place out of all the current archers.

Li Cunde was in second place in the group and overall, with 359 points.

The veteran archer Song Sizhe from Wenzhou City scored 357 points, making him third in the group and third, overall.

The results of their group were quite good; the top three were basically guaranteed to advance into the finals.

The 50-meter event wasn't a mainstream event; therefore, there were only 48 people competing in it. There were a total of eight archers in each group for a total of six groups.

After the four remaining groups had finished shooting, another person had achieved a perfect score of 360 points.

In the fourth group, Zhou Ning from Yuhang City had also shot a perfect game like Tang Yan.

However, because Tang Yan used less time, he was ranked in first place in the preliminaries, while Zhou Ning was second.

In the final stages of the competition, of the 48 players, only the top eight would be advancing to the quarter finals.

Tang Yan's opponent in the quarter finals was Song Sizhe, and he was ranked eighth.

The quarter finals would take place in the afternoon after the 50m preliminaries, the 70m and 90m preliminaries took place.

After the 50m event, the audiences' emotions were on edge.

Tang Yan returned to the resting area to watch the other events.

As he was watching the 90-meter preliminaries, an uninvited guest appeared- Shao Ping.

”Coach,” said Tang Yan respectively upon seeing Shao Ping. Though he didn't particularly like Shao Ping, since he was the head coach, he knew to be respectful.

”Well done at the preliminaries. I hope you continue to perform well in the afternoon. Try your best to win the event, and I will try my best to help you get into the provincial team.”

Hearing what Shao Ping said, Tang Yan was stunned. He hadn't expected Shao Ping to advocate for him.

He suddenly felt that maybe Shao Ping wasn't as bad as the other team members made him out to be.

”Of course, I will try my best. Thank you so much, coach,” said Tang Yan with excitement clear in his voice.

Shao Ping nodded with a smile, patted him on the shoulder then headed back to the judges panel.