A guaranteed loss!
Faced with the Sleeve Arrow shooting toward its eye at tremendous speed, the Mandala Snake displayed terrifying reflexes.
Its airborne head dipped, narrowly avoiding a strike to its vital point. But the Sleeve Arrow was simply too fast and still struck its body.
Clang!
With a crisp ring, the Sleeve Arrow struck its scales, sending up a string of sparks, but it failed to inflict the intense pain it had in the original timeline.
This was not because the injury to his left hand had yet to heal completely. After all, with a mechanical hidden weapon, Tang San only needed to maintain his aim. Rather, there was a problem with the Sleeve Arrow's quality!
Having been robbed of a large quantity of Fortune Points by Lu Chen, Tang San had been particularly unlucky during the period before Nuoding Academy's term began. Not only had things frequently gone wrong while he practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill, but even his forging had fallen far below his usual standard.
Either he applied force incorrectly and failed to purify the metal completely, or problems with the mechanism prevented the parts from engaging perfectly. By the standards of the Tang Sect in his previous life, the Silent Sleeve Arrow he was using now would probably have barely passed muster.
Naturally, it struggled to achieve anything against the Mandala Snake's already tough scales.
If Dad hadn't blamed me without bothering to distinguish right from wrong, and had given me a little more time to polish it carefully, perhaps this Silent Sleeve Arrow could have been a little more powerful. I wouldn't have ended up in such danger...
The thought suddenly flashed through Tang San's mind.
The attack had barely tickled the Mandala Snake and achieved little. Yellow light shone over its dark