To the west of Fuzhou City lay a bamboo grove. The vegetation within was lush, and while the scenery could not be called especially beautiful, the trees and plants naturally radiated boundless vitality.
"Clang! Clang! Clang!..."
A dense, rhythmic series of weapon clashes rang out from the woods. A handsome young man in a Flying Fish Robe, wielding a Green Bamboo Sword, calmly deflected crossbow bolts fired at him from every tricky angle.
In just a few minutes, his opponent had fired no fewer than several hundred bolts at him in succession, yet not one had managed to breach the three-foot sword perimeter around him.
"I'm done!"
After another six bolts were all knocked aside, Youyou calmly reloaded her hand crossbow and said, "I told you long ago that I wasn't your match, but you insisted on trying. Still, this proves that your strength has improved tremendously since before. It really makes me see you in a new light."
"Actually, you've improved a lot too," Ye Weiming said truthfully. "Your strength, speed, and crossbow accuracy have all risen by a huge margin compared to before."
"And I'm guessing you still have other tricks you haven't used yet, right?"
Youyou froze. "You guessed that too?"
Ye Weiming nodded slightly. "Because none of the methods you displayed earlier seem worthy of being the reward for a five-star mission."
Youyou had taken enormous risks to complete the mission to retrieve the Zhuge Divine Crossbow. If her reward amounted only to what she had displayed so far, then the Tang Clan was being far too stingy.
This time, Youyou took longer than before to reload her bolts. Only after a full four seconds did she finish. "Actually, my biggest gain since we last parted was learning the sect's intermediate skill, Poison Quenching Technique, ahead