Archer; So Your Name Had Dongfeng in It All Along

Why not summon a Heroic Spirit who "knew everything about soul masters"?

The reason was simple. Heroic Spirit Summoning had to follow the course of Douluo Continent's history and legends. While it could draw in counterparts from parallel timelines, the person could not be fabricated out of thin air.

If he truly followed the legends of Douluo history and summoned someone who "knew everything about soul masters," and that person also bore quite a grudge against Tang San for not being brought to the God Realm...

"This is a Ten-Year Lonely Bamboo. Its defining trait is resilience..."

Ye Chenxing hurriedly shook his head, casting those messy thoughts from his mind. If he really summoned that flat-top who was "invincible in theory," he feared he would suffer a cerebral hemorrhage and pass out from rage on the spot.

After adjusting his state, he took a deep breath. The secret chamber returned to dead silence.

Then, Ye Chenxing once more recited the ancient incantation he had used when summoning Qian Renxue.

As soul power poured into it wildly, the summoning array on the ground suddenly erupted with blinding light. The intricate runes flowed and intertwined like living things, while the immense energy fluctuations made the entire underground chamber hum and tremble. A pillar of light shot skyward, and the gale whipped Ye Chenxing's clothes around him.

Ye Chenxing stared fixedly at the center of the light pillar, his eyes full of anticipation.

Would it be Caster? As long as they had a skill like "Item Construction" or "Territory Creation," this summon would be an absolute steal!

The light slowly faded, revealing a tall, upright figure at the center of the array.

The newcomer was a middle-aged man. He was tall and powerfully built, with handsome features and a high nose bridge. His sharp eyes seemed capable of seeing through people's hearts, while an immensely imposing aura radiated from his body. Every gesture carried the commanding presence of one long accustomed to holding power.

Ye Chenxing could not help feeling uneasy. In his imagination, even if the summoned soul engineer did not wear thick glasses and look like some fanatical scholar, he should not have had this sort of presence, right? This temperament did not belong to someone doing logistical research. He was clearly a tyrant with great power in his hands.

The middle-aged man lowered his head and looked at his hands, lightly clenching and unclenching his fingers as though feeling out the strength of this body. Then he raised his eyes and swept his gaze around the room before finally fixing those sharp eyes on Ye Chenxing.

He stepped forward and dropped to one knee.

"Servant, Archer, greets Master."

Mm, not bad. He looks quite loyal, not like some prickly bastard who would rebel.

Ye Chenxing secretly nodded, but the next moment, his smile froze completely.

Wait?

"What class did you just say you were?"

"In reply to Master, I am a Heroic Spirit manifested in the Archer class."

Ye Chenxing sucked in a cold breath.

How could this be? How could he be an Archer?

I wanted support. What did you mean by giving me another damage dealer?

But the deed was done, and Heroic Spirits could not exactly be returned for a refund. Ye Chenxing could only desperately comfort himself inwardly.

Fine, fine. At least the Archer class comes with the passive skill Independent Action. He can recover some soul power on his own, so that counts as an advantage.

Ye Chenxing cleared his throat and forcibly suppressed the complaints in his heart. "Rise, Archer. Then tell me your identity."

The man rose as instructed, his manner still respectful. "Master, I do not possess a specific historical identity. I am an existence born from the very concept of a 'soul engineer.'"

?! Oh!

Ye Chenxing's heart shook. There was light at the end of the tunnel. He had thought his idea had failed because he had not summoned a Caster, but unexpectedly, it had succeeded through an Archer! It seemed his idea of using the entire Sun Moon Empire as a medium had been completely correct.

Only... if he was the embodiment of the soul guidance concept, why was he specifically an Archer?

Ye Chenxing looked the man up and down before continuing, "So you are a completely fictional figure? But your appearance does not resemble that of a pure soul engineer, scholar, or researcher. Instead, you look more like someone in a high position of authority."

Archer nodded and replied with great respect, "Master, you truly have keen eyes. Though I have no name and am merely a concept, the body I relied upon when I was summoned possesses an identity of its own."

"Oh?" Ye Chenxing raised an eyebrow. During his little lessons at Einzbern, he seemed to recall that there really was a type of summoning known as "possession."

He could not help becoming even more curious about the other party's identity.

"Let me hear it."

Archer spoke calmly. "The body I am using is called... Qiangu Dongfeng."

? Who?

Qiangu Dongfeng?!

Ye Chenxing's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

How could it be him?! Why him?!

Was he not the master of the Spirit Pagoda ten thousand years in the future?

Since when could Heroic Spirits summon people from the future? Had it not been agreed that only heroes who left their mark on history could be summoned?

Ye Chenxing frowned deeply and began carefully searching through the magecraft lessons he had heard in his previous life at the Einzbern household.

Had the teacher mentioned this before? It seemed they really had briefly said that the Throne of Heroes transcended the timeline, so people from the future could also...

Forget it, that was not important at all! The issue was that this guy's Martial Soul was clearly a Coiling Dragon Staff! What did a close-combat, power-type battle soul master who fought with a staff have to do with Soul Guide Devices?!

As a Coiling Dragon Staff soul master, if you descended in the Lancer class, I could accept that. As the future supreme ruler of the Spirit Pagoda, if you were summoned as a Rider, I could also see the logic.

But you had to be an Archer!

Why could you be an Archer? It could not be because your name contained Dongfeng, could it?

Ye Chenxing took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the absurdity in his heart before asking, "Then, Archer, what exactly is your 'bow'? And by what legend were you selected as an Archer?"

"In reply to Master, I do not possess a bow in the strict sense," Archer answered respectfully. "But I descended in the Archer class because, in the field of 'shooting,' I left behind a name that would endure across the ages on this continent."

"...Shooting?"

Archer nodded and calmly recounted that horrifying piece of history—or rather, the future that was originally meant to happen.

"In the past... or rather, in the future, I used countless Fixed Soul Guidance Shells from Levels Seven to Nine, along with two Godslayer-Class Fixed Soul Guidance Shells, to completely level Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect headquarters."

"..."

Ye Chenxing was dumbfounded. So it really was because your name contained Dongfeng?

Good lord, so this was what it had been building up to!

Thinking about it carefully, that feat... really did make him more like a qualified Archer than anyone else who used bows or shells.

In terms of firing, Lightfeather Douluo? Could a Super Douluo's output compare to a Level Twelve Fixed Soul Guidance Shell? What kind of joke was that?

In terms of opposing Tang, wiping out Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect in one wave, roots and all—now that was a genuine vanguard of anti-Tang forces!

If he was not Archer, who else had the right to be one?

Ye Chenxing swallowed, his eyes shining. "So, if you were given the title Archer because of that legend..."

"Then your ability is... to reproduce Godslayer-Class Fixed Soul Guidance Shells?"