A few months later, Zhang Yun felt that he had mastered the essence of archery and took the initiative to challenge Li Guang.
Li Guang then set the rules of the challenge, winning two out of three games. The first game: a test of the accuracy of archery; the second game, a test of archery speed; and the third game, a jungle confrontation.
As expected, Zhang Yun was completely defeated.
Zhang Yun, with a depressed look on his face and his head bowed, slowly walked out of the birch forest. There were countless holes on the edges of his clothes.
Li Guang comforted me: "Zhang Yun, your progress has surprised me. From now on, you can challenge me every day and grow in the challenge. The same rules, the same best-of-three games, I'm waiting for you to surpass me."
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After a week of challenges, he felt for the first time that his archery skills were very close to Li Guang's, but there was always an invisible barrier in the middle that prevented him from overcoming even half a step.
After thinking for a long time, he realized that this gap is a kind of accumulation of years, that is, experience. But the only thing he lacks at the moment is time. Maybe a year later, I can defeat him with my true strength. The only way now is to outsmart him.
Already......
So he was quiet for three days. During these three days, he did not challenge or practice archery. He was just thinking, thinking silently...
Three days later, at the shooting range, the first round started with Li Guang's words, and the two fired their bows and arrows.
The rules of the first game are: Each person has one hundred arrows, and the one who hits the red heart the most times wins.
According to previous competitions, Li Guang has always had white hair, but he always misses one or two of his shots, resulting in his defeat in this round.
After each arrow is fired, the two men must stop to see if the other's arrow has hit the target, and then shoot the second arrow again.
Zhang Yun thought silently in his heart, one middle...five middle...tenth middle...fifty middle...ninety middle...ninety
Fifth high school...ninety-sixth high school...ninety-eighth high school, ninety-nine high school.
When he finished shooting the ninety-ninth arrow, Zhang Yun stopped, stretched out his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, closed his eyes and said silently in his heart: "It's true that the ancestors have appeared, Tathagata Buddha, the Jade Emperor bless..."
Seeing his appearance, Li Guang smiled boldly and said: "Zhang Yun, you are so lucky today. It is your first chance to draw with me. Are you a little nervous? Do you want to rest for a while before shooting the last arrow?"
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Zhang Yun shook his head, took out the last arrow in the quiver, put the arrow on his bow and whispered: "Let's begin!"
Li Guang immediately drew his bow and arrow. The moment the arrow left the string, he suddenly noticed that Zhang Yun turned his head towards him and showed a sly smile. He couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in his heart, and then he looked intently.
go.
The arrow in Zhang Yun's hand was shot out behind Li Guang. He did not shoot at the target in front of him, but chased after the arrow shot by Li Guang. The arrow came first and hit the flying arrow in front of him. The two arrows met each other.
There was a "clang" sound, and as soon as it was touched, it quickly shot towards both sides along a reverse figure-eight trajectory.
Li Guang's sword escaped from the target and shot into the distance, but Zhang Yun's arrow squeezed into the red heart from the side, winning completely.
Although the arrows shot by Zhang Yun were quick and clever, in the eyes of the two of them, it was not a difficult task, because in Li Guang's shocking twenty-one arrows, the move of using force to forcefully change the direction was
There are no less than ten moves, and both of them can easily do it with their archery skills.
Li Guang was startled at first, then smiled bitterly and said: "Haha, you won. Although it was a bluff, winning with your brains is a talent. I didn't lose unfairly, let's move on to the next round!"
Zhang Yun couldn't help but blush on his face after hearing this, and then said: "General Li, I will admit defeat in the second game. My archery speed will not be as fast as yours even if I practice for another fifty years!"
There is a saying that goes through a lot of tricks, but nothing can be flattered. His words made Li Guang laugh, his face full of pride and enjoyment.
Seeing that Li Guang's laughter stopped, Zhang Yun quickly stepped forward and said with a smile: "General Li, we have been competing for so long in the third game. It is too boring. Can we try another way?"
A glimmer of wisdom suddenly appeared in Li Guang's eyes, and he said with a teasing smile: "Boy, you have some bad idea again, are you trying to set up a trap?"
Zhang Yun quickly shook his head with a sincere expression.
"Then let's talk and listen!"
"General Li, I often hear you teach me that in archery, you need to see in all directions and listen to all directions. In the dark, you need to listen to sounds to identify your position. You can stabilize your target without looking at it, right?"
"Yeah! That's right!"
"We might as well change the rules in the third game. The total number of arrows each person shoots remains the same, still one hundred. It's still a jungle confrontation, but how about we play blindfolded this time!"
"This suggestion is quite interesting. You are not afraid that I will accidentally shoot you to death!"
"Haha, this is exciting enough! Don't worry, you haven't hit my vital parts in such a long time. At most, you only hit the corners of my clothes. I am very confident in my Qinggong skills." Zhang Yun
He said with a confident look.
"Huh, brat, don't you know I'm letting you go?"
Zhang Yun couldn't help but feel excited when he heard this, and then gritted his teeth and said: "There is a way of saying that swords and arrows have no eyes. If you shoot me to death, I will accept my fate. Anyway, if I can't pass your level, I'm done."
The two agreed on the rules, each took their bows and arrows, and hid behind a birch tree.
After watching them take their positions, Guandi's figure appeared in the sky, and a big hand waved down, blocking their vision, and the game began immediately.
Just listen to the sound of arrow strings bouncing and the sound of arrows flying through the air in the woods, intertwined continuously. After a cup of tea, the woods returned to calm.
After a while, Li Guang showed his body first and said with a smile: "Haha, both of us have used up our arrow speed, and neither of us hit each other. Let's call this game a draw!"
"No, you lost!" Zhang Yun laughed and stood up from his side. The bow and arrow in his hand were drawn into a full moon, and a carved feather arrow stood above it.
"Impossible, impossible! You have clearly shot a hundred arrows, and I will not count them wrong! Are you cheating?" Li Guang said with an expression of disbelief, glaring at Zhang Yun with both eyes.
Guan Di, who was in the air, suddenly interjected: "It's true that you lost. He didn't cheat."
With a wave of Emperor Guan's hand, Li Guang's figure disappeared into the air.
Zhang Yun suddenly felt an inexplicable melancholy, a sense of loss and a sense of hesitation in his heart. The figure of this old man had been deeply imprinted in his heart. He didn't care whether it was real or not, life is like a dream!
Emperor Guan glanced at Zhang Yun, who was silent below, and said meaningfully: "Zhang Yun, you attach great importance to friendship and have great wisdom. I start to appreciate you a little from now on. Do you know the difference between a general and a handsome man? Very good.
Simple, if you finally defeat Li Guang by practicing your archery skills, then you are just a general, only worthy of charging in front of the battle, just a man!"
"But since you used your secret power to break the arrow that was released, you have become a handsome man! You are so careful that you don't forget to use stones to strum the bowstring at the same time to confuse Li Guang's hearing. You are very resourceful.
What a handsome guy!"
"I have prepared more than a dozen plans for this trial of the righteous, such as: let you fight the murderer Bai Qi of the pre-Qin Dynasty, the famous anti-Jin general Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty, Xiang Yu, the overlord of the Western Chu, Yuan Chonghuan, the general of the late Ming Dynasty...
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"But after this round, I found that it was only a matter of time before I relied on my wisdom and force to make things difficult for you. I finally made up my mind to use my ultimate trump card, haha! The next level will bring you endless
Same experience.”
As soon as Guandi finished speaking, the scene changed rapidly:
I saw Zhang Yun wearing a modern version of sportswear and a pair of light sports running shoes. In front of him was a straight runway about two meters wide, with no end as far as the eye could see, straight to the sky.
Zhang Yun was filled with doubts and looked up at the shadow of Emperor Guan in mid-air, waiting for his explanation.
Guan Di stroked his long beard and said with a proud look on his face: "Have you ever heard of a purely physical sport in later generations called marathon?"
Zhang Yun quickly shook his head in confusion. Even though he loved reading and had collected hundreds of thousands of various books and periodicals circulating today, he had never heard of this sport that had been abandoned long after its origin.
Seeing that he was unclear, Emperor Guan hurriedly explained: "During the Greek-Persian War, the Persian king Darius I crossed the sea and invaded westward, attacked Attica, and landed in the Marathon Bay northeast of the city of Athens. The Athenian army fought bravely, and at Marathon
The Persian army was defeated in the plains, known in history as the Battle of Marathon. In order to quickly tell the Athenians the news of the victory, Greece sent the long-distance running champion Pheidippides to run from Marathon to the central square of Athens and said only one sentence: "We are victorious!"
. He collapsed and died from physical exhaustion. His miraculous and glorious achievements made him a national hero in Greece. In order to commemorate the heroic deeds of Pheidippides, later generations established this long-distance running event in world sports competitions and the Olympic Games.
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"Your opponent in this level is this Pheidippides. Your physical ability is also limited to the level of ordinary people by me. He is a hundred meters in front of you. You two start running at the same time. This level does not require any force at all.
And wisdom, as long as you catch up and kill him before the end of the trial, or chase him to death, you will win, otherwise you will fail to pass the level, kill! Haha..."
With a wave of Emperor Guan's hand, a little man about 1.6 meters tall appeared a hundred meters in front of Zhang Yun. He looked like a Westerner at first glance. The little man didn't even look back to say hello and ran away.
Zhang Yun was stunned, smiled bitterly, glared at the proud Guan Emperor in the air, then raised his legs and chased after him.
I couldn't help but curse a few words in my heart: "Second Master Guan did everything he could to prevent me from passing the customs. Do you still have any sense of being a benevolent and righteous man? I strongly despise him!"