Chapter 44

After a惨叫, the wild buffalo crashed to the ground.

Lan Ling immediately rushed out, and at that moment, he clearly felt the demon star within him instantly awaken and begin to spin rapidly, transforming into a black hole-like existence.

Immediately after, Lan Ling clearly felt a surge of dragon power energy leaking out from the buffalo's body, being swiftly devoured by the demon star.

This demon star is truly evil and defies nature, capable of directly devouring bloodline dragon power.

This world is a balanced one, where both humans and beasts have bloodline dragon power within their bodies. However, when they die, this dragon power dissipates and returns to the world.

But now, the demon star has interrupted this cycle, directly devouring the dissipating dragon power.

Strictly speaking, this violates the energy balance of the Flame Dragon Continent. That's why it's called a demon star!

The entire devouring process took less than two seconds, almost ending as soon as it began.

"I finally, finally devoured power again," the demon star trembled.

Although this power was very weak, both Lan Ling and the demon star were extremely excited.

Because before, there was bow training, mental focus, and fixed target shooting, and it took a lot of effort to truly kill a beast and devour its dragon power.

This marks the beginning of true strength.

After the first kill, the search for the second began.

The Wild Buffalo Valley is called such because there are many wild buffaloes. Even if Lan Ling was looking for solitary ones, there were still many.

Soon, he found the second one, which was leisurely grazing, its eyes as big as fists.

He drew his bow, took a deep breath, and entered the Inverted Moon Technique, using his mental power to lock onto the buffalo's eye.

One second, two seconds, three seconds... five seconds!

This time, it only took five seconds to complete the lock, and in the mental realm, only the buffalo's eye existed.

Shoot!

The arrow shot out like a meteor, with no unexpected outcome, almost identical to shooting a fixed target.

A惨叫rang out as the arrow once again pierced the buffalo's eye, penetrating its brain and instantly killing it.

Then, the demon star entered an excited state of devouring.

Lan Ling even felt a strange, fiery energy seeping into his body, eventually converging deep in his heart.

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Following this, Lan Ling entered a period of bountiful harvest. Wild buffaloes are very strong, but their mental power is weak, and they are not very alert or mobile, with large eyes, making them easy to shoot once targeted.

Unfortunately, with Lan Ling's mental power, he could only kill ten at a time, then he needed four hours to recover his physical and mental strength.

Of course, the demon star had already devoured the bloodline dragon power of the wild buffaloes, allowing Lan Ling to shoot the eleventh and twelfth arrows.

However, Lan Ling still needed to use this power to enhance his own strength, and the dragon power devoured by the demon star could not be wasted.

As a result, Lan Ling could only kill about twenty wild buffaloes a day. It would take at least three to four days to increase his strength by ten pounds.

With the final exam only three months away, he needed to increase his arm strength to three hundred pounds and his mental power to over a hundred meters. This time was far from enough.

During the evening rest, Lan Ling shared his thoughts with Ye Jingyu.

"Do your best and leave the rest to fate," Ye Jingyu said.

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Every day after that, Lan Ling repeated the process of hunting wild buffaloes. At a distance of thirty meters, he could shoot through the buffalo's eye into its head, killing it with one shot. He had become almost infallible, increasing from twenty to about twenty-five a day.

That noon, Lan Ling was hunting the nineteenth buffalo of the day.

From the start of hunting wild buffaloes to now, he had already killed seventy-four, and with twenty-six more, he would reach a hundred.

Devouring the bloodline dragon power of a hundred wild buffaloes would allow him to complete a dragon power refinement, increasing his arm strength by ten pounds to ninety pounds.

He drew his bow, took a deep breath, held his breath, and used his mental power to lock onto the target.

"Whoosh..." an arrow shot out.

Without any unexpected outcome, the arrow pierced the buffalo's eye, directly penetrating its brain and instantly killing it.

At this distance of thirty meters, he was almost infallible, thanks to the mental lock.

"Twenty-five more to go," Lan Ling thought, then continued searching for the next solitary buffalo.

At this moment, Lan Ling deeply felt that although the demon star's direct devouring of bloodline dragon power was powerful, his training speed was still not fast enough. At this rate, he would not even reach the level of a first-class warrior archer before the final exam.

Just then, a roar suddenly came from not far away, sounding like both a buffalo and a beast.

Then, there was the sharp sound of stones being torn apart.

Lan Ling turned a small hill and saw a very large, entirely fire-red buffalo.

Its body was twice the size of a regular buffalo.

It was pawing the ground, and the hard stones were instantly shattered by its sharp hooves.

Its two horns were black and shiny, appearing even harder than steel.

"This is the leader of the wild buffaloes, the Fire Red Savage Buffalo," Ye Jingyu said. "Its bloodline dragon power is much stronger, it is very fast and incredibly strong, and you cannot kill it."

Lan Ling was shocked; this must be the elite-level buffalo the demon star mentioned. Each herd has such an elite Fire Red Savage Buffalo.

Killing this buffalo and devouring its power would be equivalent to dozens of ordinary buffaloes.

Lan Ling felt a slight excitement and said, "I want to try."

Ye Jingyu thought for a moment and nodded, then drew her curved sword and stood guard nearby. A mere Fire Red Savage Buffalo was no match for her.

"Wait, unless the buffalo is within ten meters of me and about to kill me, you cannot kill it," Lan Ling said.

"Alright," Ye Jingyu said.

Lan Ling took a deep breath and took out an eighty-pound bow from Ye Jingyu's bag.

Yes, an eighty-pound bow. At this point, his arm strength was only eighty pounds, and to aim and shoot without any movement, he needed a sixty-pound bow. However, to hunt this Fire Red Savage Buffalo, he chose the eighty-pound bow.

He tried to draw the bow with his own strength and found that the eighty-pound bow was very difficult to draw, and it was impossible to aim steadily.

So, he would use dragon power, as the demon star had already devoured the bloodline dragon power of seventy-five wild buffaloes.

With a command, the dragon power within the demon star surged into Lan Ling's arms, instantly increasing his strength.

"Snap..." he directly drew the eighty-pound strong bow.

Then, his gaze sharply focused, entering the Inverted Moon Technique realm, concentrating all his mental power to lock onto the elite Fire Red Savage Buffalo's large eyes.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

The demon star's power was rapidly depleting.

He had completely locked on.

"Whoosh..." he shot an arrow.

The arrow shot out like lightning, instantly reaching the Fire Red Savage Buffalo's eye.

Lan Ling's shot was very accurate, but the Fire Red Savage Buffalo reacted quickly, closing its large eyes just as the arrow was about to pierce them.

"Bang..." the arrow hit the thick eyelid and flew out, leaving only a shallow wound.

The skin of the Fire Red Savage Buffalo was very thick and tough.

In pain, the Fire Red Savage Buffalo was completely enraged. It roared and charged forward wildly.

Its speed was very fast, and in just two seconds, it was already in front of Lan Ling, opening its mouth to roar and using its terrifying horns to impale Lan Ling into a bloody mess.

Ye Jingyu's curved sword was about to shoot out like lightning.

At this moment, Lan Ling used all his strength to draw the bow and shoot, unable to aim, and shot based on his instinct.

"Roar..."

The arrow shot directly into the buffalo's mouth, through its throat, and directly pierced its heart.

Ye Jingyu pulled Lan Ling away quickly, and the several-thousand-pound buffalo's corpse fell heavily.

At the last moment, the Fire Red Savage Buffalo was killed by Lan Ling.

This was a miracle, and his luck was too good. He had not even aimed and still hit it directly.

Lan Ling felt all his strength drained, and his legs were about to give out.

At the same time, the demon star excitedly screeched, devouring the bloodline dragon power of the dead Fire Red Savage Buffalo.

This time, it took a full minute to devour.

"Demon Star, how is the bloodline dragon power of this Fire Red Savage Buffalo?" Lan Ling asked.

The demon star said, "It's equivalent to that of twenty to thirty ordinary wild buffaloes."

Lan Ling said, "Then, with the seventy or so devoured before, can we perform a dragon power refinement to enhance my arm strength?"

"Enough," the demon star said. "Go to the water to recover your mental power, and I will use the dragon power to transform your arms and enhance your strength."

Next, Lan Ling immersed himself in the water, listening to Ye Jingyu's Tranquil Technique to recover his mental power.

At the same time, the demon star released dragon power, inch by inch refining and transforming Lan Ling's arms.

First, the tendons, then the bones, and finally the muscles.

After five hours, the dragon power refinement was complete.

When Lan Ling opened his eyes again, he found himself full of energy, and his arms felt much lighter and hotter, with a clear increase in strength.

According to the demon star, this dragon power refinement increased his arm strength by ten pounds, bringing it to ninety pounds.

Although the goal of three hundred pounds was still far away, this significant increase in strength was very exciting.

Then, when he drew the sixty-pound bow again, it was very easy, completely different from before.

This elite Fire Red Savage Buffalo was truly satisfying, one kill equaled dozens of ordinary buffaloes.

At this rate, with just a dozen more, Lan Ling's arm strength could reach over a hundred pounds.

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