Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 40: Reaching the Ears of Heaven

Why is the challenge of surpassing levels exclusive to geniuses?

Because it is extremely rare. It may require the perfect combination of timing, location, and people to occur.

Therefore, every occurrence signifies the birth of a legend!

Is Ning Rong a genius?

Absolutely not. She is merely a newcomer at the Second Layer of the Physical Body Realm, and she hasn't displayed any significant uniqueness.

Of course, Wen Buqing is not a genius either, but he is definitely not mediocre. With his peak Fourth Layer physical body, his defense is already extremely strong, and ordinary arrows cannot penetrate it.

However, today, Ning Rong, at the Second Layer of the Physical Body Realm, defeated Wen Buqing, who was at the peak of the Fourth Layer, using the advantage of her bow and arrows.

This was not a secret competition; the battle took place in the school cafeteria, with thousands of students watching.

As a result, this news instantly exploded throughout the entire school.

Anyone can see that Ning Rong herself doesn't possess much strength; she relies on the bow in her hand. Fortunately, the design of the bow is not complicated, so within half an hour, the blueprint of the bow has spread throughout the entire school.

By three or four in the afternoon, someone had already made a physical copy of it.

"Huh!" Looking at the arrow that had penetrated the target by half a foot, Zhang Feiran was somewhat surprised. "It's about twice as powerful as an ordinary bow!"

"Even more!" Zhang Feiran's attendant, Wang Xiangnan, said, "This bow was made temporarily, using materials that are not the most suitable, and the positioning of the parts is also substandard. Even so, it still doubled the power of the bow and arrows!"

"Is that so?" Zhang Feiran looked at the longbow in his hand. "The design doesn't seem complicated, yet it has such power. Why didn't anyone think of it before?"

"It is said that the inventor of this bow is called Yang Ning. He had already invented many things during his mortal days! He also has a title called the Genius of Yue Kingdom," Wang Xiangnan said. "After Yang Ning entered the Immortal Ascension Academy, he spent the first month reading books and disappeared for the second month, but it turns out he was working on this!"

"I knew it when you mentioned the Genius of Yue Kingdom!" Zhang Feiran's eyes lit up. "I only knew he was good at poetry, but I didn't expect him to be so skilled in crafting!"

"Yes, you were busy with your cultivation and didn't know. A month ago, he had a saying that cultivation is originally for craftsmanship. If you can't study craftsmanship, what's the point of cultivation?" Wang Xiangnan said seriously. "It seems he really likes crafting!"

Zhang Feiran patted Wang Xiangnan's shoulder. He knew that his attendant came from a family of craftsmen and had been practicing crafting since childhood. He thought he already had great talent.

But he didn't expect that someone would produce such an amazing work just two months into the school year. This was quite a blow to him!

"However," Zhang Feiran looked at the longbow in his hand, "if the power of a person can be doubled, then as long as someone has a bow, wouldn't everyone be able to challenge higher levels? Will everyone start practicing archery from now on?"

"Perhaps there will be more people practicing shields too!" Wang Xiangnan said.

He was indeed not good at archery, but who doesn't know how to make a shield?

An hour later, Zhang Feiran arrived at the classroom and realized that the originally scheduled teacher was absent and had been replaced by someone he didn't know.

"Hello, everyone. My name is Luo Yunyue!" This teacher was tall and had a ponytail, giving off a clean and neat appearance.

As if encountering something good, he had a smile on his face the whole time. "I just received news that from now on, the archery course will be promoted from an elective to a main course. As for the reason, some of you may already know, but I still want to mention it. Yang Ning, a freshman in the first year, has invented a new type of bow that can quadruple a person's strength!"

"Quadruple!" The classroom immediately erupted in excitement.

What does quadruple mean? The strength of a person from the Third Layer to the Fourth Layer of the physical body will experience a significant increase, but it's only about ten times.

While strength will continue to increase in the future, it won't be as exaggerated.

Doesn't this mean that just by having a bow, one's cultivation level automatically increases by one level?

And a person's defense will not increase explosively like their strength because the physical body has its limits.

After the Fifth Layer of the physical body, defense relies on the blood energy force field, and after the Qi Refining Realm, defense relies on mana.

But whether it's the Qi and Blood Force Field or the Mana, they are not very effective against attacks that pierce through defenses like arrows.

That's why sword cultivators are always dominant in every version!

Zhang Feiran knew why the teacher was so happy. The surname Luo meant that he came from the Luo family in South Forest, which specializes in archery!

On the other hand, Wang Xiangnan looked at the newly added "Bow and Arrow Design and Manufacturing" on the class schedule and was also stunned.

In addition, there was also "Bow and Arrow Evasion and Counterattack" for the servants.

For the maids, Xu Shi saw Ning Rong's archery and decided to offer an archery course, with a powerful textbook title: "The Path of the Arrow God."

Yang Ning's fame among the students was already high, and now that he was trending again, it instantly reminded countless people of him.

When all the students discovered that the class schedule had changed because of a bow, it caused an even greater sensation!

From then on, Yang Ning's love for refining tools and his identity as a genius in tool refining became firmly engraved in everyone's minds.

The dean of Immortal Ascension Academy, Fang Zhuo, also learned about Yang Ning. He was the one who ordered the change in the class schedule.

"Yang Ning!" he exclaimed.

He also had a compound bow in his hand, which was even more authentic than the one Wang Xiangnan had temporarily modified.

He even used spiritual materials, and if he hadn't overlooked the material compatibility in the temporary refining process, it wouldn't have been impossible to refine a Spirit Weapon.

"To be able to invent such a bow, as well as the Quyuan Plow, waterwheel, catapult, horseshoe, saddle, and steel frying method!" Being able to enter Immortal Ascension Academy as a book boy, Fang Zhuo naturally had information about Yang Ning.

But he hadn't paid much attention to it before, until today when the compound bow appeared, Fang Zhuo realized that he seemed to have recruited a talented person!

A talent in tool refining!

However, Fang Zhuo frowned, "But he is from Wei Daocheng's ship!"

Wang Yi had already given the order that everyone from Wei Daocheng's ship must die, including Yang Ning.

But it would be a pity to lose such a talented person like Yang Ning!

He was only in the Physical Body Realm, and he was able to invent such revolutionary things. What more could he achieve in the Qi Refining Stage?

Fang Zhuo also thought of the other side of the scale, Lin Tianheng!

The order of the Gold Core Realm and a talented tool refiner, which one was more important?

"Perhaps he is good at invention and creation, but so what? Spirit Weapons are different from Mortal Weapons, not to mention Dao Weapons. It may take a sect decades or even hundreds of years of effort to create a new Dao Weapon." Fang Zhuo pondered. No matter how many compound bows there were, it wouldn't make a difference to the Gold Core Realm!

But what if?

What if?

After thinking for a long time, Fang Zhuo simply put away the compound bow and summoned a black zither. He stepped on it and with the sound of the zither, flew towards the south.

The speed of a Qi Refining cultivator was extremely fast, but even so, it took Fang Zhuo more than two hours to reach his destination.

This was a place where mountains competed for dominance, with majestic and treacherous peaks. There were many mountain ranges, stretching for hundreds of kilometers. The peaks were surrounded by clouds and mist, with lush forests, murmuring streams, ancient towering trees, cascading waterfalls, and blooming mountain flowers, creating a magnificent scenery.

But what was even more shocking were the colorful rainbow lights on the mountaintops, reflecting the sounds of the Dao and piercing through the sky. Flying cranes, magic gourds, flying swords, and various Law Treasures were seen traversing the mountains, with cultivators of all kinds sitting on top of them.

This was the former number one sect, Extreme Eternal Sect, and now the second sect in the world, the mountain gate of the Immortal Dao's ten sects, Extreme Eternal Sect.

(End of this chapter)