Qin Yi sipped the water from the pool with his palm then drank it directly.

Despite his expectations, the water did not have the slightest effect. It was just plain water which was cool and refreshing.

This discovery made him doubt.

“Am I wrong?”

“It should have worked. After all, it went well last time. However, I feel nothing from this water except for the coolness…”

Qin Yi tilted his head slightly as he fell into confusion.

Could it be, it takes some time for it to take effect?

After all, the volume of water in the pool is too much for a chunk of rock. It’s understandable that the process of spreading the effect is slow.

That’s the only answer he could come up with.

Qin Yi finally nodded and approved his own analysis.

It still took half an hour for the disciples to take a break and come to this place. By that time, Qin Yi would be able to see what effect this pool water would have.

However, as the culprit who changed the water, Qin Yi must not stay here any longer. Otherwise, if a commotion broke out, he would be the first one that others would suspect since he was the first to arrive here.

He hastily stood up and returned to the archery field.

Qin Yi has been gone for an hour, and the crowd here has reduced a lot. Some disciples still stay and practice here, and some were gone and were replaced by disciples who have just come here.

This is a good thing for him.

With this, he can finally practice archery with ease.

However, as he was about to pick up a random bow on the ground, a familiar voice suddenly sounded from behind.

“Oh, you’re finally back!”

Qin Yi turned around and saw whose voice it belonged. It turned out to be Duan Zhong, a black-robed man he had seen an hour ago.

He naturally had to give a polite greeting, “I have met… the elder?”

“Haha…” Duan Zhong laughed and said, “You don’t need to be so polite. Just call me Big Brother Duan Zhong like the others. My robes are slightly different from others because I work as an instructor in the archery field. However, I’m not an elder; It’s just a temporary job I took from Mission Hall.”

So, that’s how it is.

Qin Yi, “Big Brother Duan Zhong”

“Good.” Duan Zhong smiled heartily.

“I saw your archery earlier, you’re not like a beginner. Did you practice archery before?”

This topic was not something of a secret, so Qin Yi is willing to answer that question.

“Big Brother Duan Zhong, I’ve been practicing archery since I was a child. However, I stopped practicing for two and a half years during my novice years in the Novices’ Quarter, and earlier I just wanted to familiarize myself with my archery.”

That’s a bit of an exaggeration.

The truth is that Qin Yi started practicing archery at the age of twelve; it was a year after he came to this world.

He was now seventeen and had retired for two and a half years in the Novice Quarter. Thus, if calculated correctly, he had only practiced archery for two and a half years.

At that time, his archery talent was good, and even his instructors said that he was the future of a legendary archer. But he treated it as a joke.

However, in order to justify his great skill in front of Duan Zhong, he could only exaggerate for a bit.

“No wonder.” Duan Zhong nodded in acknowledgment as he did not have an intention to dig someone past any further.

“I see you are an experienced archer, so you don’t need to be taught from the start. However, I guess the skills you have learned in the past were only limited to mortal skills. Since you’ve come here, that means you’ve chosen an arrow skill from the Myriad Books Pavilion, right?”

“Yes, Big Brother Duan Zhong, I chose an arrow skill called Spiral Arrow Technique from the Myriad Books Pavilion.” Qin Yi answered.

Duan Zhong shows no surprise regarding Qin Yi’s choice.

Spiral Arrow Technique is a basic arrow skill that is easy to comprehend, and it is suitable for a starter like him.

“Although it wasn’t difficult to learn, this skill was an immortal technique, and you shouldn’t try to underestimate it and compare it to a mortal technique. If you have any doubts, you can ask me. As the instructor here, I will try my best to help you.”

Duan Zhong gave Qin Yi a little reminder and a few words of encouragement before he left.

Seeing Duan Zhong’s back gradually drifting away from his vision, Qin Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

He moved to a quieter place and began his training by shooting arrows a thousand times.

***

Half an hour after Qin Yi left, the disciples had already started to flock to the Rejuvenate Pond to take a break.

The sight of the reflection of the sun’s rays on the clean and fresh pool of water made the exhausted disciples excited as if they saw an oasis in a desert.

After doing a long and extensive training, it was only natural for some disciples to get some bruises and minor injuries on their bodies.

Moreover, training consumed a lot of energy and stamina.

In Rejuvenate Pond, there are several berry trees whose fruit is ready to be picked; the disciples could eat them to alleviate their hunger, then drink the pool water to quench their thirst.

These pain, exhaustion, depletion of spiritual energy, and lack of stamina can be overcome by taking certain pills. However, they were reluctant to do that.

For poor disciples like them, pills were a luxuries item, every single pill was very precious, and they could not obtain it haphazardly like picking up pebbles on the street.

They are only willing to use the pill at the right moment. Using it in training sessions is too extravagant and wasteful. Only sinners would do that.

Ye Chen was one of those poor disciples. He was a young lad that had a faint scratch on his cheek.

Once he took off his upper robe, one could see scars almost all over his body. They are a symbol that he is a hard worker and often does life-threatening activities.

However, they were the injuries that only appeared on the surface.

Few people knew that Ye Chen had old wounds on his body. On the mission he was carried two months ago, he was hit by a Venomous Green Toad attack.

The Venomous Green Toad was a Rank 1 Magical Beast that lived in the Endless Rain Swarm. Its poison attack cannot result in death to its victim, but it can still be detrimental in many ways.

Ye Chen is an unfortunate example. During these two months, the Venomous Green Toad’s venom continuously attacked his immune system and slowly spread to his Dantian. Consequently, his cultivation base was unable to advance further and his martial arts practice is also affected.

He sat on the edge of the pool, looking at the reflection of his pathetic face in the water.

“My cultivation is unable to advance, and my martial arts practice is not progressing either. This damn poison, if it were not for it, I would not have ended up this miserable!”

Ye Chen sighed at his sorrowful life.

He could actually cure this poison with a Rank 2 Detoxification Pill, but how could he possibly obtain it so easily?

The Rank 2 Detoxification Pill was extremely expensive; it was ten times the Rank 1 Detoxification Pill’s price which cost 15 spirit stones.

With his status as a Third Stage of the Qi Condensation disciple, it would take him long to accumulate spirit stones to purchase a Rank 2 Detoxification Pill.

However, he felt he couldn’t hold on any longer. By the time he accumulated enough spirit stones, perhaps he was too late, and he turned into a waste.

He had few friends in the outer sects, but only one or two people were willing to lend him some spirit stones. Even so, they were far from enough.

He scooped the pool water with his palms, then splashed it on his face. He did that several times until he finally scooped up some water to drink.

Just as he had just gulped the water down his throat, a disciple not far from him suddenly exclaimed hysterically.

“My injuries disappeared! How is that possible?”

All the disciples in Rejuvenate Pond instantly looked at that disciple. They were surprised by his exclamation.

“What’s wrong with you? Are you crazy from training?”

“Crazy guy, you better calm down! Everyone here wants to rest.”

“Hahaha…”

Instantly everyone laughed at that ‘crazy guy’.

The ‘crazy guy’ flushed in anger, “You are crazy, your entire family is crazy!”

He paused for a moment, and then he took a breath and said: “What I say is true. I just drank the water of this pool, and guess what happened? My wounds healed instantly! Not only that, my spiritual energy and stamina also recovered in seconds.”