Chapter 19: Secret Art: Thousand Mountains (1/2)

Volume 1 – Between Daybreak and Evernight, Chapter 19: Secret Art: Thousand Mountains

The young man’s shot also went through the target, leaving a hole about the size of an egg. The shot was a little far from the bullseye, somewhat worse than his usual performance, but the training gun he normally used had a sight equipped.

“Seventy points!” the examiner reported the score on the target as usual.

The young man was a little disappointed, but still felt some pride soon after. After all, this was the best score so far.

“It’s your turn!” he said viciously while staring at Qianye.

Qianye smiled faintly. He raised the origin gun, charged it, and aimed at the same time, effortlessly firing the shot.

The red origin bullet shot toward the target, yet the point of impact was obviously kind of off. It looked like it would be worth around fifty points at most.

The young man’s expression became full of joy, but smile on his face froze immediately afterward.

With a boom, the red origin bullet exploded on the target, actually shattering more than half of it! The bullseye naturally wasn’t spared.

“One hundred points!” Hearing the voice of the examiner report the score, the young man was instantly awestruck.

He couldn’t help but ask, “That works too?”

Of course that worked.

Moving targets were up next. Qianye still shot casually, and even through the origin bullet was somewhat off the mark, it still shattered the entire target. Qianye still ended up with a full points for that round.

In the following exams for close range and long range shooting, as well as action shooting and speed shooting, Qianye shattered the targets with every single shot. He naturally received full points each time.

The young man had long ago become unable to smile.

He already discovered that Qianye’s ability to get a full score definitely wasn’t a fluke. Everything else aside, even if he used the same amount of strength as when he sucked on his mother’s breasts, he was only able create a slightly larger hole than other people with the crappy gun provided for the exam. In the meantime, Qianye was able to blow up the targets with the exact same gun. The difference between them was a matter of origin power!

After the exam was over, the young man candidly placed the necklace into Qianye’s hands. “I am Wei Potian! My Wei family is somewhat famous in the Far East Province. If you later have time to go there, you can make a request to my Wei family.”

Qianye gagged a little when he heard this courageous, domineering name. If he hadn’t forgotten everything he learned back in the literacy class with Zhang Jing, then the young man’s identification plate clearly had Wei Qiyang written on it.

The young man saw Qianye’s expression and immediately patted his chest in a bold manner, loudly saying, “Potian is a name I gave myself. How is it? Not bad, right? Have you been dazzled by my overbearing style? In the future, I, Wei Potian, will become a man capable of shattering the heavens with one punch!”

Qianye accepted the necklace. His impression toward Wei Potian changed slightly. Even though his behavior was little brutish and nothing like an aristocratic heir, at least he was a man who kept his word. His name was also kind of dumb, but other than that, there weren’t too many shortcomings.

On the way to the next examination ground, Qianye finally asked Wei Potian a question he had been holding back for a while, “Why did you cause trouble for me now? Did you do that because of my status?”

Wei Potian immediately scoffed at that statement. “Status? Commoner? Hah! I ain’t one of those dumbasses who thinks they were born noble. After all, commoners who can set foot in this place are all talented people. The only reason why I caused trouble for you was your face!”

Qianye touched his face, and as if coming to some sort of realization, said, “My face? Oh, I understand now. I look similar to an enemy of yours, right?”

Wei Potian immediately shook his head. “Of course not! I just hate pretty boys! Looking at that face of yours gives me the urge to smash a fist onto it! How can you be even prettier than my woman!”

Hearing this, Qianye felt his hands itch. He also felt the urge to smash his fist onto something—like the nose of a certain man who wanted to shatter the heavens.

Wei Potian suddenly smirked and said in a low voice, “Why don’t we have another bet? It’ll be on the results of the next examination. How about it? The stakes are the same as before—if you lose, you’ll return the necklace to me!”

Qianye looked at him and said, “You seem to only have one necklace.”

Wei Potian raised his wrist. “I still have this!”

There was a chain bracelet on his wrist. Its material was exactly the same as the necklace’s, and an engraved plate also hung from it.

Qianye’s brow furrowed slightly. “Why do I feel like this thing isn’t actually that useful. Just look at the birdbr-er, I mean, just look at you. Do you really have any authority in your family?”

Qianye almost said “birdbrain”, but having let that much of it slip, Wei Potian obviously knew what he was originally going to say.

Due to Qianye’s blatant skepticism, Wei Potian’s expression had long since turned ashen.. He angrily said, “During the next round of the exam, I will take back the necklace no matter what, so you don’t need to worry about what kind of authority I have!”

The next exam was for melee combat.

The rules of combat were very simple. They were one on one duels. One could challenge anyone they wanted, but were unable to refuse challenges from others. No matter how many times one lost, the exam would be considered over as long as a total of five matches were won. The exam rankings would then be decided by win rate.