Everyone who knew the emperor was headed north knew that he was rather impatient.

Moreover, because they knew that this was a conflict in opinion between the academy and the emperor, the academy’s side didn’t dare stall for time. As such, that day, Tong Wei didn’t continue training Lin Xi and Bian Linghan until they were completely spent out of fear that they won’t be in their optimal conditions with the competition imminent.

However, Lin Xi wasn’t in a hurry to return to Self Defense Department Freshman Dormitory. Instead, using the excuse of searching for a place to calmly meditate, deepen his insight towards the wind and humidity of this world, he found a mountain that was even higher, climbing his way up.

“This place should be just about five hundred and fifty steps, right?”

When he climbed up to a cliff that was close to the summit, while catching his breath, he looked down into the wilderness below, unable to hold back a mutter of praise.

It really was quite high, quite far.

The exclaim of admiration in Lin Xi’s voice was at his own archery skills.

In this world full of powerful cultivators, his current archery skill might not be especially astonishing, but compared to the past modern world he was familiar with, there might not be anyone whose arrows were more accurate than his own, especially when using this type of ordinary standard longbow.

The variables involved in accurately hitting a target were no longer limited to just the minute effects of the bowstring and his...