Chapter 211: First ascent of three thousand ren!

Bu Jingyun?

Qin Shuo felt as if struck by lightning, his whole body stunned on the spot.

This name...

It must be a coincidence!

At this moment, he felt a bit numb!

Surely no one else could be like him, having come from the same world through transmigration, right?

That's too much of a coincidence!

Qin Shuo shook his head, feeling the likelihood of coincidence was greater.

After all, the surname Bu isn't too rare, so having namesakes isn't strange.

Moreover, this ten-thousand-ren climber, like Nie Lao Deng, is probably just using an alias.

"Leaving one's name on the mountain isn't a good habit, but if one uses an alias..."

Qin Shuo thought it over, and finally left two characters on the stone tablet:

Xiong Ba!

Hmm, that'll do.

That way, even if other climbers discover this newcomer from the Divine Weapon Secret Realm, they won't associate it with him.

"Mountain climbing."

Qin Shuo glanced back; behind him, mist stretched boundlessly.

The entire Ten-Thousand-Ren God Mountain was like an isolated island floating in a sea of mist, standing alone apart from the world.

Step onto the mountain!

Hum!

As soon as he took a step, the scenery before him changed extremely fast.

In an instant, Qin Shuo felt as if he had mistakenly entered an ancient battlefield where two armies clashed.

Arrows rained down like a black cloud, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, pressing down upon him.

He could clearly feel the icy sharpness emanating from those arrows, piercing cold to the bone.

"This..."

Qin Shuo's mind swayed.

He was clearly conscious entering the Divine Weapon Secret Realm; his present body was formed by the heaven-earth essence qi of this secret realm.

Yet at this moment, every inch of his skin felt as if targeted by a sharp arrow, faintly aching.

His bones and organs also sensed it, as if truly standing on a battlefield.

"Is this the pressure of the ancient gods' will?"

Qin Shuo's expression grew solemn.

Swish swish swish swish swish...

Ten thousand arrows pierced through his body!

That extreme pain, spreading from his divine soul to his physical flesh in the stone chamber, made his body tremble uncontrollably.

Thick tendons bulged like small snakes under his skin, and large beads of sweat fell drop by drop from his forehead.

Qin Shuo gritted his teeth, forcing himself to endure the pain of ten thousand arrows piercing the soul.

No wonder...

No wonder that with Nie Jin Feng's talent, he only managed to climb a thousand ren.

This soul-piercing pain, acting directly on the divine soul, is tens to hundreds of times stronger than being struck by blades.

This is only the first stage, yet the pressure is already so terrifying.

If he were to climb to the summit of that ten-thousand-ren peak...

Qin Shuo's heart involuntarily jumped; instinctively he wanted to retreat from the stone steps.

But he quickly steadied his mind.

Because he knew this was merely the trial of the Divine Sun-Shooting Bow, and it would not truly destroy his divine soul.

As the thought of perseverance arose, Qin Shuo felt his divine soul, under the terrifying barrage of ten thousand arrows, begin to vibrate at a peculiar frequency.

This vibratory power spread from his divine soul to his viscera and bones, invisibly tempering his true essence and qi-blood.

"There's even this benefit?"

Qin Shuo kept stepping; each step accompanied by the soul-piercing pain of ten thousand arrows and that unique vibratory force.

In one breath he climbed over eighty steps, and the forest of arrows shot back over eighty times.

Sensing carefully, he found that his divine soul will, after those eighty-odd relentless penetrations, had condensed somewhat.

The body formed from the secret realm's spiritual qi faintly glowed.

Moreover, in the stone chamber, Qin Shuo could roughly sense that his qi-blood and true essence had become purer and brimming with vigorous vitality.

Especially the Yuan Magnet True Qi, which faintly contained a trace of sharp arrow intent.

"Can it even aid in refining the viscera?"

Qin Shuo's eyes lit up; he hadn't expected the mountain-climbing trial to offer so many benefits.

No wonder Nie Lao Deng specifically reminded him to give it his all— the higher he climbs, the greater the benefits, and the more likely he is to gain the Divine Weapon's approval.

With the aid of the vibratory force of ten thousand arrows piercing the soul, he might even be able to refine his viscera swiftly!

Qin Shuo felt a faint joy; he directly circulated Whale Swallowing Four Seas, madly absorbing a surge of heaven-earth essence qi to ease the pain in his flesh and soul, then pressed onward.

The higher he climbed, the denser the arrow rain became, and the arrow momentum grew more terrifying.

At the end, each time Qin Shuo stepped onto a new level, he felt only a dark cloud covering his head.

Immediately after, came the horrible pain intense enough to cause the divine soul will of the vast majority of martial artists to collapse.

Three hundred steps...

Five hundred steps...

Eight hundred steps...

When he reached over eight hundred sixty steps, Qin Shuo felt his divine soul go numb, unable even to turn a thought,

His whole person was dazed and confused, unable to continue climbing on his own.

"Hu!"

Qin Shuo again circulated Whale Swallowing Four Seas, using the essence of heaven and earth to make up for the deficiency of spirit and body.

"As expected, with my own talent, climbing eight hundred steps is already the limit."

He tried again, but felt his steps heavy as if filled with lead, unable to lift even a bit, unable to move a single step.

"Diamond Buddha Nature!"

Without any hesitation, Qin Shuo directly activated this Buddhist divine ability originating from the depths of the soul.

"Om!"

In an instant, Qin Shuo felt the mountain-like pressure vanish, wind rose beneath his feet, and he shot up with a swoosh-swoosh-swoosh to break through to a thousand ren!

"Ding ding ding ding ding..."

At the same time, the torrential arrow rain struck the divine soul consciousness shrouded in Diamond Buddha Nature, emitting a dense, clear metallic clang.

"Indestructible Vajra!"

What is indestructible is not only the flesh, but also the divine soul.

Under the support of the indestructible, unyielding Vajra will, Qin Shuo walked with vigorous steps like flying.

One thousand ren, two thousand ren, three thousand ren...

Upon reaching this point, the power of the sky-filling arrow rain surged again, more than doubling.

If the first step's volley of ten thousand arrows is considered the power of an ordinary archer, then the arrows at the three-thousand-ren height have power nearly equal to that of ten thousand martial artists wielding strong bows, shooting together.

Such power is precisely what Qin Shuo, who possesses the accomplished level of Diamond Buddha Nature,

also once again felt the bone-piercing, heart-eternal trembling and palpitation originating from the depths of the divine soul, as when he first climbed the mountain.

His 'Vajra Body' developed ferocious cracks under the terrifying arrow onslaught.

"Om!"

Suddenly, the arrow rain filling the sky vanished, leaving only a single black crossbow bolt as thick as a forearm!

The sharpness of tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of arrow rains, at this moment fiercely converged into one,

"Ten Thousand Arrows Return to One!"

In an instant, Qin Shuo's body hair stood on end.

On this sole remaining arrow, he felt a long-lost aura of death.

"This arrow, I cannot block it!"

Qin Shuo's heart suddenly gave rise to this thought.

But the next moment, a flash of extremely tyrannical, overbearing blade light instantly crushed it!

With a single blade in hand, nothing can stand before it!

No matter if thousands of mountains block the way, myriad valleys obstruct the path...

I myself have a blade that cleaves all obstacles, parts the clouds, and sees the sun.

If the heavens cover my eyes, I will sever heaven and earth with my blade!

At this moment, Qin Shuo's heart gave rise to an awakening,

A hundred-zhang blade aura rose from earth to heaven, like a mountain flood pouring backward, a vast sea striking the sky, and fiercely collided with that single arrow of the Ten Thousand Arrows Return to One!

"Clang!"

At the instant the blade and arrow met, it was like a meteor colliding with a divine mountain, heaven and earth fell silent, all things stilled.

The blade light that severed heaven and earth split the forearm-thick terrifying arrow in two; afterward the myriad arrows reappeared, yet all were annihilated together.

At the same time, a cold, mechanical broadcast echoed in Qin Shuo's ears:

【Qin Shuo】

【First ascent of three thousand ren!】

【Evaluation: Knowing there are tigers on the mountain, yet heading straight for the tiger's mountain. Will as firm as steel, belief as strong as the blazing sun.】

【Reward: Condensing Gang into Arrow Technique!】

【Divine weapons have spirit; without extraordinary talent, an unyielding perseverance cannot be obtained!】

【Please continue striving!】