Chapter 34 of 100

Chapter 34

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Chapter Thirty-Four: Three Arrows

Yu Xiaohai's awakening was successful.

Seeing Professor Sun's incredulous face, Chu Yunsheng fully realized the importance of the Six Jia Primordial Talisman for awakening. Under the protection of the Six Jia Talisman, the extremely dangerous awakening process was effectively safeguarded, greatly increasing the success rate. Chu Yunsheng didn't need to think to know how terrifying this was.

However, apart from himself, no one else knew, not even Yu Xiaohai, who was still confused and thought he had just fainted.

Chu Yunsheng pulled him up, curious to know what innate abilities Yu Xiaohai had. As for the energy attribute, the amount of cold air emanating from him was enough to tell.

According to Professor Sun's brief description, the most common attributes he had seen in human awakenings were ice and fire, while others were very rare. Professor Sun had never mentioned anything like Chu Yunsheng's pure primordial energy.

But this was good, Chu Yunsheng thought. He could have Yu Xiaohai experiment with using his crossbow. This way, the two of them could work together, one in front and one behind, one in the open and one in the shadows, one attacking and one ambushing, greatly increasing their chances of survival.

Chu Yunsheng knew almost nothing about awakened humans, but under the guidance of the research-loving Professor Sun, Yu Xiaohai tried various things. The results were somewhat disappointing for Professor Sun. Yu Xiaohai's awakened ability was quite ordinary, only able to create some ice rain, which wouldn't even be enough to kill insects, let alone rats.

However, Chu Yunsheng didn't mind. Those with innate abilities were all described in ancient books as prodigies. For someone like Yu Xiaohai, who was far from perfect, just being able to awaken was already a stroke of luck, a sign of divine favor.

The most important thing was that Chu Yunsheng had the Primordial Talisman and didn't need Yu Xiaohai to have any special innate ability. As long as he had ice attribute energy, he could shoot ice arrows!

At first, Yu Xiaohai was very excited when he learned from Professor Sun that he had awakened. But after a few attempts, he became quite dejected when he found out the result. Although Professor Sun comforted him, saying that as long as he kept practicing, he would definitely gain strong combat abilities.

"Brother Chu, am I really useless?" Yu Xiaohai sighed.

Chu Yunsheng pulled him up and said mysteriously, "Come with me!"

Without waiting for Yu Xiaohai's reaction, he rushed downstairs like a whirlwind, chose a room, and used his primordial energy to kick open the door. Fortunately, the room was already empty.

Chu Yunsheng took out his crossbow and asked, "Can you use a crossbow?"

Yu Xiaohai looked at the crossbow in confusion, quickly drawn to the strange runes on it. He asked curiously, "Brother Chu, what is this?"

"Don't waste time. Can you shoot accurately?" Chu Yunsheng reminded him.

Yu Xiaohai rolled his eyes and said proudly, "Brother Chu, have you forgotten? Last year, when I was chasing Si Jun, I spent a lot of money at her club. Although I can't say I'm a professional, I'm definitely an amateur expert!"

Chu Yunsheng remembered that Yu Xiaohai's ex-girlfriend was indeed from some club and had even tried to get him to sign up for a membership. He had forgotten about it over time. He nodded and said, "Stop talking. Do as I say. Inject the energy in your body into the crossbow, then shoot an arrow at the sofa in the inner room."

Yu Xiaohai hesitated, not quite understanding what Chu Yunsheng was up to, and asked, "What are you doing?"

Chu Yunsheng knew it was hard to explain in a hurry and didn't want to say too much. He replied, "Just do as I say. We don't have time to explain now!"

Yu Xiaohai quickly said, "OK, OK, Brother Chu, I'll do as you say!"

He loaded the crossbow, which he handled more skillfully than Chu Yunsheng.

As Yu Xiaohai injected his energy, Chu Yunsheng noticed that the crossbow showed no reaction. What was going on?

Whoosh!

The arrow pierced the sofa, creating a large hole, but not a single piece of ice!

Yu Xiaohai looked at Chu Yunsheng in confusion, wondering if the sofa had a grudge against him.

Chu Yunsheng took the crossbow, slapped his head, and realized he had forgotten to change the talisman in a hurry. The cold soldier talisman on the crossbow was sealed with his own aura, which others couldn't activate.

Now he only had three units of primordial energy left. If he inscribed a new first-stage unowned cold soldier talisman to arm Yu Xiaohai, it would cost him two units of energy. However, even if Yu Xiaohai had less energy, as long as he could fire two full-energy ice arrows, he could freeze and kill the red-armored insects with his Qianbi Sword alone, without using any primordial energy. This way, with the last unit of energy in his body, he could still kill three insects, so he wouldn't be at a loss. If Yu Xiaohai could fire more than three ice arrows, he would be in profit!

Experiment, continue the experiment!

Chu Yunsheng made a quick decision and told Yu Xiaohai, "Wait here for a moment. I need to use the restroom."

He didn't want to reveal his ability to inscribe talismans yet.

Although Yu Xiaohai found it a bit strange, he didn't pay much attention and said casually, "I'll wait here for you."

In the bathroom, Chu Yunsheng quickly took out his talisman-making tools. Since he had to replace the talisman, he had inscribed it a few times and was already familiar with it. Adding an unowned seal made it even simpler, and he finished quickly.

If he were at the Second Yuan Heaven realm, he could even add Yu Xiaohai's aura to the seal, so that only Yu Xiaohai and the maker, Chu Yunsheng, could use the special talisman.

Sealing the unowned cold soldier talisman on the crossbow, Chu Yunsheng came out and handed it to Yu Xiaohai, saying confidently, "Try again, do as I said."

"Again?" Yu Xiaohai grumbled, but seeing Chu Yunsheng's stern look, he didn't dare to say anything more.

As soon as Yu Xiaohai injected his energy into the crossbow, Chu Yunsheng immediately felt the cold soldier talisman activate. With a sharp whistling sound, the arrow, carrying a wave of cold air, pierced the sofa, freezing it solid in a visible manner, turning it into an ice sculpture.

Thud! The crossbow fell to the ground, and Yu Xiaohai stared at the ice sculpture in shock, as if he had seen a ghost.

Chu Yunsheng was very satisfied with the result. It once again demonstrated the power of his cold soldier talisman. As long as there was enough primordial energy, it could unleash the ice arrow combat skill. Of course, this was on the condition that the user had pure primordial energy or ice attribute energy. If it were fire attribute energy, not even a piece of ice would form.

"How many times can you inject energy like that?" Chu Yunsheng wanted to know how many arrows Yu Xiaohai could fire.

"Maybe once, I used some during the experiment with Professor Sun," Yu Xiaohai thought for a moment and said. He wasn't stupid and quickly realized that there was something peculiar about Chu Yunsheng's crossbow. Since the day Chu Yunsheng made the prophetic prediction in the Sunlight Era, he had found Chu Yunsheng increasingly incomprehensible. Being smart, he didn't ask any more questions.

Chu Yunsheng stroked his chin and said, "Hmm." He estimated that Yu Xiaohai could probably fire three ice arrows at most. Although it was less than what he could do, it was still good. At least with these three arrows, he could eliminate the threat of three red-armored insects. When his energy was full, he could only kill nine insects, so together they could handle twelve insects!

Moreover, Yu Xiaohai was a friend he trusted.

However, he didn't know much about the training methods for awakened humans. Now that he knew Yu Xiaohai's abilities, he thought for a moment and said, "Go upstairs and find Professor Sun. See if he can teach you how to improve your abilities, but don't tell them about what happened just now."

Yu Xiaohai understood that Chu Yunsheng might have something else in mind. He was now smart enough not to ask unnecessary questions and smiled, "Brother Chu, I'm not stupid. I understand!"

Chu Yunsheng nodded, remembering that Yu Xiaohai hadn't eaten for a long time. He took out some food and called out to Yu Xiaohai, who was about to leave, "I almost forgot. I have two bags of cookies. Take them upstairs. If the old man refuses to talk, use the cookies to persuade him. Also, use the remaining cookies to trade for some 9mm handgun bullets from the soldiers. Eat the bread and water as soon as possible. We might have to evacuate at any moment!"

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