My Cultivation Starting from Archery

"What do you all say..."

Lu Zhiyong muttered, "So many demon cultivators lurking within Dragon Elephant City, what are they planning?"

Based on past experience, when demon cultivators invade a territory, their favorite activities are to conduct various blood sacrifices or capture people as furnace tripods for training.

But this time in Si Xue Dao, it's eerily quiet. So far, there's been no sign of any harm from demon cultivators.

Everyone was utterly perplexed.

"If something is unusual, there must be demons."

This was Chen Sansi's first reaction.

However, this matter wasn't something he could resolve alone, so he could only act according to circumstances.

Dragon Elephant City.

Chen Sansi arrived at the Heavenly Dao list at the dojo to check the current Copper Coin rankings.

The previous top-ranked Demon Suppression Guard has fallen in battle, replaced by the previously second-ranked Loose Cultivator, with a total of over seven hundred Copper Coins.

After that, Xue Xianrong managed to accumulate two hundred and eighty Copper Coins in just a month.

Chen Sansi deduced that it's highly likely several people cooperated to eliminate demons, focusing their earned Copper Coins on one person.

It seemed that next, he must act alone as well.

Working with many is safe, but Copper Coins often need to be divided.

If this drags on, Creation Jade Dew will soon be redeemed by others.

"Pa!"

While Chen Sansi was worrying, someone suddenly approached him, changing a new wooden token behind "Lu Shengzhi."

The wooden token displayed "one hundred twenty" in large characters.

Seventy appeared out of thin air?

Chen Sansi glanced around and noticed a fleeting figure dressed in black in the distance.

Second Senior Sister?

He hurriedly chased after, "Senior Sister, did you give me the Copper Coins?"

The blind woman stood leaning on her sword, tacitly acknowledging.

Chen Sansi asked, "What about Senior Sister herself?"

"I don't need them."

The blind woman spoke briefly, then flew away using sword control.

"This..."

Chen Sansi was somewhat surprised.

To express gratitude, he could only use Emperor's Breath Soil to plant several Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

Days in Dragon Elephant City gradually became stable.

At every Mao hour, Chen Sansi would leave the city to hunt demon cultivators, usually gone for over a month, then return to exchange Copper Coins.

During free time, he would retreat for cultivation, improving his skills' proficiency.

Time flies, sun and moon pass like arrows, and two years went by in the blink of an eye.

According to the Great Han's calendar, it's now September of the twentieth year of Tian Wu.

Mortal wars, once trapped in a stalemate, often last for a year or even several years.

In the cultivation world, it's even more prolonged.

According to ancient records, a battlefield in ancient times often lasted for hundreds of years.

In today's context, it often requires a duration of ten to several decades.

[Cultivation Technique: Swallowing Fire Technique. Mid-stage Foundation Establishment]

[Progress: 401/1000]

After finishing meditation, Chen Sansi took out the Longdan Bright Silver Spear and practiced martial arts in the cave mansion.

Endless True Power circulated through meridians, then split into his four limbs via the Glazed Heart.

After hundreds or thousands of repetitions, his liver at the upper right abdomen gradually transcended the mortal body, transforming into translucent glaze, and a touch of azure mysterious light shone brightly inside.

[Cultivation Technique: Dragon Scripture (True Power Late Stage)]

[Progress: 200/500]

The liver gate of the five gates is named Ming Longyan, titled Han Ming, located in the east, color green, elements belong to wood.

As of now, Chen Sansi hasn't obtained martial arts cultivation techniques for the Golden Body Realm, nor has he prepared the corresponding Spiritual Objects.

Thus, it's certain that he will first form the core in magic cultivation.

"Phew!"

Putting away the long spear, Chen Sansi exhaled a breath of stale air, took out the compass of the Extreme North, and began to attempt solving it again.

Golden spirit light danced in the sky, like the vast Milky Way.

His divine sense connected to the array plate, and as he gently adjusted different directions, the golden stars would shift accordingly.

From the initial chaos, it gradually coalesced into a vague pattern.

However, every time Chen Sansi wanted to go further, his head would explode with pain, forcing him to sever the connection with the compass.

[Skill: Formation (Second-tier)]

[Progress: 481/1000]

Thanks to the large number of array diagrams brought back by Deng Wuchang, his array formation expertise has been steadily improving over the past two years, deepening his progress in deciphering the compass.

Once he becomes a third-tier Array Master, he would formally decipher the compass, coinciding with reaching the level to create the Destructive Spirit Array.

Grinding arrays is considered the most important thing outside of cultivation.

In the past two years, most of the demon cultivators within Si Xue's territory have been cleared out, leading to fewer copper coins obtained from subsequent hunts.

Currently, combined with Second Senior Sister's assistance, Chen Sansi's total copper coins number five hundred, estimating it will take two more years to accumulate the required two thousand.

"Relying solely on hunting is no longer feasible."

He paced inside his cave mansion and muttered to himself, "If it doesn't work, I'll have to seize spirit mines or go be a 'night watch' outside Star Peak Mountain."

In just two short years, over a thousand loose cultivators have died.

The path of cultivation is fraught with difficulties, but it has never been just talk.

Additionally, about half a year ago, a major event occurred at the southern Demon-slaying Great Wall.

Dehai True Monarch, who was in charge, was betrayed by another Nascent Soul cultivator, resulting in his death and the dissipation of his dao.

The Demon Sect nearly opened a breach in the Great Wall, but it was stabilized again when the Holy Sect transferred Cao Xie from the Heavenly Sword Sect there.

This Myriad Dao True Monarch is the nominal commander of the entire south.

So far, it is only the Divinity Transformation cultivators who have not taken action temporarily, while the rest of the high-realm combat forces, along with the Northern Demon-slaying Great Wall, have seen half of their forces engaged in battle.

It is said that the battles at the Northern Demon-slaying Great Wall are even more brutal than those at the southern wall, with even elders from the Holy Sect needing to personally oversee the defense.

Of course, these matters are not yet Chen Sansi's concern.

He opened the stone gate of his cave mansion, soared through the sky, and after leaving Dragon Elephant City, ventured into the mortal realm.

Estimating another three or four times, and if no demon cultivators can be found, then there would be no need to waste more time.

"Someone's following me again."

After flying over fifty miles, Chen Sansi sensed someone tracking him from behind.

It was most likely Cao Zhi.

Speaking of which, with Cao Zhi being in the late-stage Foundation Establishment, it's unclear what gives him the confidence to eye Chen Sansi covetously.

But Chen Sansi wasn't careless, knowing that with Cao Zhi leveraging on the big tree that is Cao Xie, he either had treasures for protection or backup.

Thus, he deliberately made a loud commotion with his sword flight, heading towards the gathering of disciples from the Qingxu Sect nearby.

No matter what, given his connections with his master's wife and the Qingxu Sect's Supreme Elder, the other party wouldn't dare make a move openly.

"Brother Lu?"

Chen Sansi recognized a familiar figure not far away.

Lu Zhiyong stood suspended in the air, gazing intently at the village below, his expression heavy with a hint of unease.

Upon seeing him, Chen Sansi seemed to have found a reliance and approached actively: "Junior Brother Lu, you came at the right time, there's something wrong with this village!"

"Another dead village?"

After receiving a confirmed reply, Chen Sansi lowered his body into the village.

It was dusk, and the blood-red twilight filtered through the sparse treetops, scattering mottled light throughout the village.

Under the shadow of the old locust tree at the village entrance, a few dilapidated stone benches were faintly visible,

Every household's doors and windows were tightly shut, all appeared pitch-black from the outside with no signs of human activity, only the desolate and bleak sounds of the autumn wind.

"Creak—"

He pushed open a wooden door and saw several hanging corpses.

A family of five, all hanging in the shadows.

Lu Zhiyong kicked open several room doors in succession, all revealing similar situations.

The people of the entire village were dead!

And without exception, all died by suicide!

Such situations have happened more than once.

"It must be the demons' doing."

Lu Zhiyong cursed, "What the hell are these beasts up to?"

At the scene, they didn't find any traces of blood sacrifices, and some of the deceased even possessed spirit roots but weren't taken away.

"It seems."

Chen Sansi softly said, "Two years ago, the demon cultivators who infiltrated at great cost and casualties didn't do it just for blood sacrifices or cultivating demon techniques, there's some other scheme at play."