Showing Off His Archery and Gaining a Goddess Maid

Su Ling had barely left the Great Soul Arena when Feng Yu'er caught up with him!

"H-hello. Can you really teach me archery? I'm willing to take you as my master," Feng Yu'er said as soon as she reached him.

Su Ling smiled. "Of course, but I have a condition."

"What condition? Tell me!" Feng Yu'er continued.

"You don't need to take me as your master. I happen to need a lackey to run errands for me. If you're willing, I can teach you," Su Ling said.

"Ah... a lackey?"

Judging by Su Ling's age, she was certainly quite a bit older than him. She had never been anyone else's lackey before. After all, she had always been the boss.

While Feng Yu'er was considering it, Liu Erlong also walked out of the Great Soul Arena.

"Feng Yu'er! Why are you dressed like that?"

Liu Erlong had actually called out Feng Yu'er's name!

"Dean Liu, it's you!" Feng Yu'er was surprised to see Liu Erlong and immediately spoke in her natural voice.

"You're actually a girl?" Su Ling looked at Feng Yu'er with feigned surprise.

"My name is Su Ling!"

"My real name is Feng Yu'er. Sorry about that. It's safer to wear a disguise when traveling through the Soul Master World alone."

"I didn't recognize you at first. It wasn't until you revealed your Martial Soul that I was certain," Liu Erlong said.

"Su Ling, Feng Yu'er graduated from our Blue Tyrant Academy over three years ago. She was our academy's team captain back then and led us to seventh place in the Heaven Dou Empire's preliminary tournament."

Looking at Feng Yu'er again, Liu Erlong said, "Not bad. You've risen from rank thirty-nine to rank forty-five in just over three years. You turned twenty-four this year, didn't you?"

"Dean, we weren't good enough. We couldn't make it into the advancement rounds," Feng Yu'er said regretfully.

"By the way, Dean, is Su Ling from Blue Tyrant Academy?"

Liu Erlong shook her head. "No, he's a student at an academy founded by a friend."

"Su Ling, your Soul Power is rising awfully quickly. You broke through to rank forty-five in just a few days?" Liu Erlong asked, looking puzzled.

But seeing that Su Ling found it difficult to answer, Liu Erlong continued, "Come on, let's head back. Yu'er, would you like to come back to Blue Tyrant Academy with me?"

"Su Ling is staying at my place for the next few days too."

"Yes, absolutely! I'd love to," Feng Yu'er said.

Feng Yu'er was twenty-four and at rank forty-five. If she had been just one year younger, she could have participated in this Advanced Soul Master Tournament. After all, the Soul Master Tournament required contestants to be under twenty-five.

"Su Ling, that's enough for today. You won't need to visit the Great Soul Arena tomorrow. Forging that equipment will take another day, so we'll set out the day after tomorrow," Liu Erlong said.

"All right!" Su Ling replied.

"Dean, where else are you going?" Feng Yu'er asked curiously.

"I'll tell you when we get back."

"All right!"

Inside the Great Soul Arena.

"What? Both of them refused?" Qian Renxue was speechless.

"Should I investigate them further?"

"No. Let's see how they perform from here on. Pay particular attention to this Moon in the Water. If he truly deserves a personal invitation from me, I'll go myself," Qian Renxue said.

[Ding... Feng Yu'er's favorability +2. Obtained White Chest +1.]

Along the way, Feng Yu'er kept telling Liu Erlong about her experiences over the past few years.

As they talked, Liu Erlong invited Feng Yu'er to become a teacher at Blue Tyrant Academy.

However, Feng Yu'er didn't agree right away. She was still thinking about learning archery from Su Ling.

After they returned to Liu Erlong's wooden cottage, Feng Yu'er went into a room to remove her disguise.

A slender, fair-skinned woman appeared before Su Ling.

Feng Yu'er was exceptionally beautiful, considerably more so than Liu Erlong beside her.

Liu Erlong wasn't bad-looking either. Perhaps the difference came down to age.

Feng Yu'er's figure was beautifully proportioned. Rather than voluptuous, she had a fresh, clean beauty, and her fitted white outfit was very pleasing to the eye.

In terms of looks, she was no less attractive than Shrek's three beauties. Her Goddess Overall Rating of only 91 might have been due to her talent and potential.

"Feng Yu'er, I only have two rooms here. You can sleep with me tonight," Liu Erlong said.

"All right!" Feng Yu'er nodded, though her mind was still occupied by what Su Ling had said.

"Um... Su..."

"Back in the Soul Fighting Arena, you said you had even better archery to show me. Could I see it?" Feng Yu'er asked a little bashfully.

Only now did she begin to realize that Su Ling's words seemed to carry a double meaning. Yet she couldn't quite find fault with them either. He really was talking about archery.

"Come on. Let's go outside, and I'll show you," Su Ling said.

Liu Erlong knew that Feng Yu'er had been obsessed with archery during her academy days. Unfortunately, the academy hadn't had a teacher in that field at the time.

Besides, she also wanted to see what other powerful moves Su Ling had kept hidden.

About a hundred meters from the cottage, Su Ling released his Martial Soul.

He then looked at the targets hanging from branches in the woods ahead.

Su Ling gathered his Soul Power, then condensed ten arrows on the Five Elements War Bow.

On closer inspection, these ten arrows were unusual. Their tails seemed joined together, while their arrowheads pointed in different directions.

The instant Su Ling loosed them, their joined tails split into ten, and the ten arrows flew in different directions.

In the blink of an eye, every target fifty meters away was struck.

"Amazing!" Watching Su Ling's shot, Feng Yu'er was utterly awestruck, her eyes brimming with admiration.

[Ding... Feng Yu'er's favorability +5. Obtained White Chest ×3.]

"This shot demands extremely precise control over Soul Power, and ten arrows isn't the limit," Su Ling said.

Generally speaking, with one hand holding the bow and the other drawing the string, three arrows were the limit if accuracy was to be maintained. Feng Yu'er had thought she had already reached the pinnacle in that regard.

Yet Su Ling's ten-arrow shot had completely overturned her understanding.

The ten arrow tails merged into one, while each of the ten arrowheads aimed in its own direction.

The tails then separated rapidly upon release. That certainly allowed more arrows to be fired, but hitting ten targets at once was simply unbelievable.

"Now watch this move! I'm aiming at the target behind that big tree," Su Ling said.

He loosed an arrow. As it neared the tree, it suddenly changed direction, curving around to strike a target that should normally have been impossible to hit.

Watching from the side, Feng Yu'er saw with her own eyes how the arrow abruptly changed direction and struck the target.

That alone wasn't difficult. Her Soul Skills could do it too.

But Su Ling hadn't used a Soul Skill. This was genuine archery.

[Ding... Feng Yu'er's favorability +5. White Chest ×2, Yellow Chest ×1.]

"And now, watch this arrow." Su Ling had intended to stop there, but her favorability had unexpectedly increased by so much again.

"Those shots focused on variation. This one focuses on attack."

Whoosh...

The arrow shot out, spinning at high speed. With a thunderous boom, the spinning arrow pierced the tree, leaving a fist-sized hole.

The power of this move depended on the user's Soul Power and the speed of the rotation. The faster it spun, the more powerful it became.

"This!" Feng Yu'er was completely stunned. That attack had been stronger than all her Soul Skills, surpassing what ordinary Soul Skills could accomplish.

"Su Ling, you brat! When I asked you to use your strongest attack before, you actually held back on me," Liu Erlong said.

"Tell me, do you have any even stronger finishing moves?" Liu Erlong demanded.

Liu Erlong sounded angry, but the increase in her favorability didn't lie.

[Ding... Liu Erlong's favorability +3. White Chest ×2.]

Su Ling said helplessly, "Sister Liu, this really is my strongest archery technique. I don't have anything stronger."

"Hmph. That's more like it," Liu Erlong said.

[Ding... Feng Yu'er's favorability +10. Obtained White Chest ×4, Yellow Chest ×2.]

After witnessing Su Ling's attack, Feng Yu'er seemed to have found her purpose in life. "Boss Su, from now on, I'll be your lackey-er, your maid. Please teach me archery."

"Feng Yu'er, you don't need to go that far," Liu Erlong said. How could her prized student become Su Ling's maid?

"Dean Liu, I've made up my mind. Archery like this is what I've been pursuing my entire life," Feng Yu'er said earnestly.

"You..." Liu Erlong didn't know what to say.

Su Ling's archery was a family inheritance. He certainly couldn't just teach it to someone else for no reason, and she couldn't order him to teach Feng Yu'er either.

"Fine, I'm staying out of it. Do as you please." With that, Liu Erlong returned to the cottage, leaving Su Ling and Feng Yu'er behind.

"All right, then. I'll accept you as my maid and teach you archery. Just call me Boss from now on. Everyone else does, so it's more convenient. Also, Dean Liu's suggestion was a good one. You can stay at Blue Tyrant Academy as a teacher."

"Boss, aren't I supposed to follow you?" Feng Yu'er asked, puzzled.

"My academy and Blue Tyrant Academy will probably merge before long, so it makes no difference," Su Ling said.

"So that's how it is. All right, then. Thank you, Boss!" Feng Yu'er said excitedly.

[Ding... Feng Yu'er's favorability +30. Congratulations, host. Obtained White Chest ×15, Yellow Chest ×3, Purple Chest ×1.]

[Ding... Feng Yu'er's favorability has reached or exceeded 60. Would the host like to bind her?]

Bind her!

[Bound Goddess: Feng Yu'er]

[Goddess Overall Rating: 91]

[Favorability: 67 (quite favorable)]

[Binding effect: The host gains 10% of the Bound Goddess's daily cultivation gains without reducing her cultivation speed.]

[Binding skill 1: Archery Enhancement (when Feng Yu'er is within 50 meters of the host, the power of arrows fired by the host without Soul Skills increases by 10%).]

It had jumped thirty points in one go. Feng Yu'er clearly wanted to learn in earnest, and she was the easiest goddess to gain favorability with so far.

Perhaps he could soon make her the first goddess whose favorability exceeded 90.

There were more goddesses in Douluo than just those who had appeared. Many others like Feng Yu'er were waiting for Su Ling to discover them.

Back at the cottage, Feng Yu'er immediately accepted Liu Erlong's invitation to teach at the academy. However, Liu Erlong wanted Feng Yu'er to undergo some more training first.

Thus, two days later, Liu Erlong and Su Ling set out with five others.

They were Tai Long, Jiang Zhu, Huang Yuan, Jing Ling, and Feng Yu'er.

Everyone wore weighted equipment. Su Ling's full set weighed a little over five hundred kilograms.

In truth, this wasn't particularly heavy for many Soul Masters. They could all lift it.

But moving and running while wearing it, and keeping it on twenty-four hours a day, was beyond what an ordinary Soul Master could manage.