Chapter 202: Chapter 115: Running Technique and Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill Break Their Limits Again, The Final Frenzy of Lin Luoxue and Company

’So this is Qi and Blood Circulation?’

He looked down at his hands. A warmth from mingling with the wind still lingered on his fingertips.

The wind blew across the Martial Arts Arena again, lifting the hem of his robes.

Chu Fan headed toward his residence. Though he walked slowly, it felt as if he might drift away with the wind...

He stepped into the courtyard, where fragments of crabapple leaves were wedged between the cracks of the bluestone slabs.

A medicinal aroma drifted over on the wind, mixed with the sweet scent of the crabapples, masking its bitterness.

In the kitchen, a medicine pot bubbled on the stove, white steam carrying the bitter fragrance over the courtyard walls—Mrs. Zhang was brewing a medicinal bath.

Tianxing had gone to the Moon Arrow Martial Arts Hall.

He had gone not only to practice the Moon Eclipse Arrow, but most likely also to tell Master Chen the news of his breakthrough into the Bone Marrow Forging realm.

Chu Fan stood in the center of the courtyard. As the wind swept past his sleeves, his qi and blood suddenly circulated from his Dantian.

He hadn’t moved an inch, yet his body floated up with the wind. The hem of his robes brushed against the bluestone slabs without stirring a single speck of dust.

As he drifted toward the steps, he tapped the tip of his right foot lightly on the stone, then floated back out against the wind, like a fish swimming upstream.

The wind’s resistance was much lighter than before.

Even moving against the wind, he could borrow some of its force to increase his speed, though it was far from being as effortless as when he moved with it.

Chu Fan tapped his right foot on the ground again. His body spun halfway around, and he leaped into the air, landing on a slender branch of the crabapple tree in the courtyard.

The thin branch trembled, shaking loose a few dew-kissed leaves, but his body swayed gently with it, as steady as if he had grown there himself.

On a higher branch, a strange, gray-brown feathered bird took flight with a FLAP, the tip of its tail still dotted with mud.

Before flying off, it squawked twice in irritation—perhaps Chu Fan had disturbed its peace.

Chu Fan landed lightly, his feet touching down on the blades of grass without making a sound.

He had never learned Qinggong, yet just by relying on the Trait from Breaking Limit with his Running Technique, he seemed capable of competing with Martial Artists who specialized in Light Body Skills.

If he weren’t eager to Break the Limit of his Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill while the iron was hot, he would have left the city for the forest immediately to test the speed of this new Trait.

Chu Fan went inside, slung the Meteor Bow over his back, and headed for the forest outside the Seven Stars Gang Sub-Branch.

[Skill: Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill (Second Limit Break 2452/2500) (Traits: Pursuit; No Distance)]

After all this time, it was about time for this arrow skill to Break its Limit again.

However, since it didn’t consume qi and blood, the power of its Limit-Breaking Traits was far inferior to the Moon Eclipse Arrow.

But its advantage was that its Experience Points increased easily, making it faster to Break the Limit.

The morning mist in the forest had not yet dissipated. It wrapped around the tree trunks like a thin veil and condensed into fine beads on the leaves and branches.

The air held the sharp scent of grass and trees, mixed with the damp fragrance of decaying leaves. The chirping of insects carried far in the mist.

Chu Fan scanned his surroundings to confirm no one was there, then stood still in the woods, his posture as straight as a pine tree.

He remained motionless, gradually blending into the mist until even his breathing was as light as the wind brushing over blades of grass.

After a moment, he took the Meteor Bow from his back.

Taking a deep breath of the cool forest air, Chu Fan’s gaze fell upon a large tree a hundred paces away.

The trunk of the large tree was dotted with seven or eight old arrow holes of varying depths, scattered randomly.

At the very bottom, a small patch of bark had just been shaved off, revealing the pale-yellow wood core, which was still slightly damp.

Chu Fan’s fingertips brushed across his Quiver, and the coolness of a Purple Bamboo Arrow spread through his palm.

Nocking the arrow, drawing the string, and releasing—the movements were as fluid as flowing water.

WHOOSH!

The Purple Bamboo Arrow tore through the air and embedded itself precisely in the newly shaved arrow hole, sending up wood splinters too fine to be seen.

[Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill Experience Points +4]

Chu Fan’s expression was calm, showing neither joy nor sorrow.

For him, this was already as natural as breathing.

His archery was now fast, accurate, and ruthless, yet it lacked any spectacle—no visions of surging qi and blood, no special effects of flowing light, only a bone-deep precision forged through countless hours of practice.

He drew another arrow, nocking it and drawing his bow.

He didn’t pull the string to its limit, stopping at the most stable arc that allowed for the easiest release of force.

His gaze was as sharp as a hawk’s, yet it held a tranquility that seemed to see through everything.

SWISH!

The sound of the arrow slicing through the air was short and sharp.

Almost simultaneously, two hundred paces away, a nearly broken dead twig was snapped with a *thwip*, falling onto the decaying leaves and startling a few beetles into flight.

[Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill Experience Points +4]

Time slowly passed.

The mist gradually began to thin.

[Skill: Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill (Second Limit Break 2497/2500) (Traits: Pursuit; No Distance)]

Even at the final moment, Chu Fan’s heart was as still as an ancient well.

He drew a Purple Bamboo Arrow and looked toward an old tree three hundred paces away. A dry, brittle yellow vine hung from it, swaying gently in the wind.

Chu Fan held his breath, his gaze locked on the swaying vine.

The speed of the wind, the arc of the vine’s sway, even the minute effect of the air’s humidity on the Arrow Dao—all of it was reflected clearly in his mind.

Pursuit allowed the arrow to slightly adjust its trajectory;

No Distance allowed the arrow’s Force to remain undiminished over greater distances.

Combined, they were a divine skill.

Even without using the Moon Eclipse Arrow, his archery could be considered supreme.

BUZZ!

The bowstring vibrated lightly as the final arrow left the string.

The arrow was silent and absurdly fast—the moment it was loosed, it seemed to already be in front of the vine.

The dry vine snapped on impact, its broken end as clean as if it had been sliced with a knife.

[Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill Experience Points +5]

[The "Hundred-step Piercing Willow Arrow Skill" has reached its limit. You can spend 100 Spiritual Essence to Break the Limit. Spend it?]

Chu Fan tilted his head back slightly, and with a thought, made his decision.

The moment the Spiritual Essence was depleted, the Map of Mountains and Rivers panel changed.

His body trembled slightly as a strange power swept through him.

In his mind, thousands of arrow phantoms flashed by—the faint glow on an arrow using the Pursuit Trait, the killing intent of an arrow pinning a scout from hundreds of paces away with the No Distance Trait.

Every arrow he had ever shot—its trajectory, force, and angle, even his state of mind and the environment at the time—replayed, deconstructed, and reassembled in his consciousness.

A feeling of sudden enlightenment washed over him, as if he had pushed open a new door.

His already supreme archery had climbed to an even higher level.

Chu Fan opened his eyes and looked at the severed vine three hundred paces away.