Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 766: The Magical Bow

Chapter 766: Chapter 766: The Magical Bow

Fang Bai circulated Wind Essence Qi and, taking advantage of a blowing mountain breeze, his body lightly crossed through the air and stepped forward, descending towards Shigong Mountain like a bird in flight.

As his figure neared the mountain body of Shigong Mountain, his ten fingers spread wide like suction cups, firmly attaching to the mountainside, and then he swiftly climbed to the peak like a nimble ape.

Observing the stone bow up close, Fang Bai felt an oppressive force bearing down on him. With his current cultivation level, he could hardly withstand that pressure.

The Fire Primordial Qi swirling around the stone bow indicated that the stone bow was related to fire.

Fang Bai was both shocked and delighted, growing more certain that this stone bow was extraordinary and definitely not merely a piece of rock.

Fang Bai’s hands gently caressed the surface of the stone bow, feeling the fluctuations of Fire Primordial Qi emanating from it. He speculated that the stone bow was merely covered with a layer of stone skin and that there must be mysteries within.

A flash of fire passed through Fang Bai’s eyes as he gathered a wisp of Fire Primordial Qi between his hands, and then he suddenly released it, intending to shake off the outer layer of stone skin to see what treasure lay within.

"This..."

The Fire Primordial Qi released by Fang Bai could easily reduce a thousand-pound boulder to dust without effort, yet it could not do anything to the stone bow before him.

Fang Bai continued to increase the Fire Primordial Qi until, in a final push, the stone bow was shaken, and the outer layer of stone skin began to peel away layer by layer.

"It really is a bow... Could it indeed be the legendary Houyi Bow of this world?"

When the stone skin was completely shed, what appeared before Fang Bai was a large bow engraved with dark red runes. Fang Bai could sense the terrifying power of fire contained in it.

Fang Bai closely examined the dark red runes and found that they were the spells to control the bow. With the prodigious talent of his previous life, he still found many parts of these runes to be deeply profound and abstruse.

"The Houyi Bow... It really is the Houyi Bow..."

Upon understanding the final few runes on the bow, Fang Bai recognized them as the characters for "Hou Yi."

The surprise in Fang Bai’s heart turned into overwhelming joy.

In his past life, Fang Bai had roamed the nine Heavenly Domains of the Immortal Realm and seen countless top-tier Immortal Artifacts. Any Immortal Artifact in his hands could be easily deciphered, and he would claim their runes for himself.

The runes on this Houyi Bow, which he found difficult to comprehend at first, suggested that it might be a Divine Artifact that existed only in myths, even within the Immortal Realm.

Fang Bai calmed himself and sat cross-legged before the Houyi Bow, his eyes fixed on the runes, starting to ponder and deduce their meanings.

Once Fang Bai sat down, he remained there for a full three days.

On the morning after three days, as the first ray of sunrise struck Fang Bai’s face, he finally seemed to have gained some insight.

He stood up, walked over to the Houyi Bow, sliced open his right finger, and let a few drops of blood fall onto the body of the bow.

He was a Chaos True Body, and every drop of his blood was a supreme treasure that could merge with all things in heaven and earth.

His blood, upon falling onto the Houyi Bow, was instantly absorbed by the bow’s body. Then the runes on the bow began to shimmer with light, shooting straight into the sky.

Some villagers from Shigong Village saw a sudden surge of brilliant light on Shigong Mountain from afar. Some were surprised and bewildered, not knowing the reason; others bowed in reverence, believing a deity had manifested.

There were also people rushing towards Shigong Mountain, wanting to get a closer look at what exactly was happening on Shigong Mountain.

However, by the time they arrived near Shigong Mountain, the glow from the mountain had vanished, and the stone bow was nowhere to be seen.

The sudden disappearance of the stone bow led to various speculations among the villagers of Shigong Village. Those who believed in spirits were convinced that the bow had been taken away by the "God of Archery," Hou Yi.

The villagers’ speculations were surprisingly accurate; the stone bow had indeed been taken away.

But it was not Hou Yi who had taken the stone bow, it was Fang Bai.

After Fang Bai had dripped blood on it, the stone bow revealed its true form and miraculously shrank into a bow that could be used by normal people.

With the Houyi Bow in hand, Fang Bai tried it out on the spot, and the result shocked him to the core.

Given Fang Bai’s current cultivation level and realm, he could only barely pull the bow once with all his strength, and like the Blood-Drinking Mad Blade, he was far from unleashing the true power of this bow.

If this Houyi Bow was truly a Divine Artifact, then Fang Bai believed that when its full power was revealed, it could indeed easily shoot down stars.

Sensing someone approaching Shigong Mountain, Fang Bai stuffed the Houyi Bow into his already full Space Ring, then again activated his Wind Essence Qi to cross the void and left Shigong Mountain, heading deep into the forest.

That noon, somewhere deep in the mountains, a sudden burst of flames shot into the sky, followed by a thunderous rumble. The forest birds were startled into flight, and the beasts scampered away.

The tremors in the mountains were caused by Fang Bai testing the power of the Houyi Bow.

Following the runes on the bow, Fang Bai used his own Fire Primordial Qi to form an arrow and shot it at a small hill.

The arrow, condensed from Fire Primordial Qi and released from the bowstring, carried a terrifying destructive force and struck the hill, leveling half of it.

With such astonishing power, Fang Bai believed that even martial artists who had transcended the Heaven Level Realm would be powerless against this arrow.

But as powerful as the Houyi Bow was, Fang Bai could currently only shoot one arrow with it.

Because just one arrow had nearly drained all the Fire Primordial Qi from his body, and it took Fang Bai a full two hours of breathing exercises to recover.

Given his current situation, using the Houyi Bow meant "injuring the enemy a thousand and self-harming eight hundred," so Fang Bai decided he would not use the Houyi Bow unless absolutely necessary.

On this foray from home, Fang Bai planned to first traverse Huaxia, and then expand to the entire world.

After leaving Shigong Village, he headed north, then turned east, and appeared that day near the vast primeval forests in the northeastern part of Huaxia.

By this time, Huaxia had already entered early winter. While other regions were just starting to feel the cold, the primeval forests of northeastern Huaxia had already experienced a heavy snowfall.

In the early morning, the sky cleared up, and sunlight bathed the land. A bustling small market town on the eastern edge of the primeval forest was filled with people, engaging in various trade activities.

Actually, there weren’t many goods for trade in the market town, mainly wild game such as pheasants and hares caught from the snowy woods, and various aged wild ginseng dug from the deep mountains.

"Look here, see here, fresh wild pheasants and ginseng just dug from the mountains..."

Around nine in the morning, a father and son arrived at the market town, and set up several wild pheasants and more than a dozen ginsengs at a stall with not much foot traffic, beginning to loudly hawk to passersby.

Here, the wild game and ginseng were quite popular, and the wild pheasants and ginsengs on the father and son’s stall quickly sold out. However, the few plants left, which looked like ginseng but slightly different, attracted no buyers.