The archery range fell silent. The soft sounds of swallowing echoed through the throats of the many students. Jiang Qiu turned around and walked away, placing the spear on the wooden rack with both hands.
Liu Yong stood rooted to the spot like a dead tree. His rolling eyes stared from afar at the young man's back, his fingers twitching faintly.
There were always greater mountains beyond mountains, and greater people beyond people. Everyone understood that principle.
His father often said that the students in the Heavenly Prodigy Project were the finest geniuses selected from major high schools across Plateau City. They practiced Dual Cultivation of Spear and Bow and possessed extraordinary talent.
Even No.1 Middle School had geniuses chosen for the Heavenly Prodigy Project, and he himself had lost to one back in middle school.
But why could he not believe that No.8 Middle School had produced an unparalleled genius?
At that thought, he slowly closed his eyes. A choking emotion turned into a sourness that surged into his nose. "Jiang Qiu should have joined the Heavenly Prodigy Project long ago. Why was he training martial arts at an Outer City high school?"
"..."
Liu Qi lowered his half-raised right hand. His brows pressed over his eye sockets like beams. In that moment of distraction, the image of a single spear breaking a hundred shadows still reflected in his pupils, while the wind continued to whistle as before.
Hundred Shadows Stab was an exceptionally swift spear technique. When a martial artist used it, it was like a thousand wolves swallowing the plains. Those with sufficiently profound mastery could take it even further, crushing their opponents until they could barely breathe.
Such a spear technique had never been something students could easily evade, much less break.
Liu Yong's spear skill