Douluo: AFK to Become a God

The sound of hammering echoed through the Shrek Academy, loud and constant.

Unlike yesterday's task of forging the Silver Hammer, today's focus was on shaping the Silver Hammered Silver into the form of a bow. With the help of Ma Hongjun, the "Fire Master," after three hours of effort, the 120-pound block of Silver Hammered Silver was shaped into a curved bow.

Although the Silver Hammer was larger and used more material, and there were two of them, the difficulty of shaping the bow was greater than that of the hammer. A hammer can be a bit rough as long as it resembles a hammer, but a bow? That's a different story.

For one, the two limbs of the bow need to be of equal length. The curvature of the limbs must be consistent. After hammering for over three hours and attaching the tendons of a thousand-year soul beast as the bowstring, the Silver Hammered Silver Bow was finally completed.

Its appearance might be, well, perhaps a bit ugly, but it was fully functional.

"Chu, what are you making a bow for?" Ma Hongjun asked, eyeing the freshly forged Silver Hammered Silver Bow in Chu Chengzhou's hands, confusion mixed with disdain in his eyes.

"We're all soul masters, what's with the bow? Without the soul ring ability attached to a martial soul, how can you possibly compete with a battle soul master of the same level?"

At that moment, Ma Hongjun couldn't help but imagine the following scenario: a battle soul master breaking through the protection of summoned beasts, Chu Chengzhou confidently pulling out this bow, only for the arrows to fail to pierce through the defense. The result would be Chu Chengzhou getting beaten up, looking just like the big pig head he had yesterday.

Tsk, just thinking about it was amusing!

At that moment, Chu Chengzhou noticed two large geese flying high in the sky above Shrek Academy.

"Fatty, watch closely!"

He pointed at the two geese in the sky, holding the bow in his left hand and pulling back the bowstring with his right. A golden light from his soul power flickered, and in an instant, a three-foot-long, platinum-colored soul arrow materialized in his hand.

"Whoosh—!"

Narrowing his eyes, he focused intently, then released the string. The platinum-colored soul arrow shot out with incredible speed.

In the blink of an eye, the arrow zipped through the air and struck one of the geese flying leisurely, directly piercing its head.

In the next moment, another flash of light passed, and the second goose, seemingly a pair with the first, was also hit in the head. Both fell to the ground in a heap.

"Bang, bang—!"

The two decapitated geese fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust on the training field of Shrek Academy.

The gray and white arrow skills only enhanced Chu Chengzhou's accuracy. However, having a bow without arrows was not enough. After reaching the yellow skill level, Chu Chengzhou could give up traditional arrows and create soul arrows by expending soul power.

When his skills reached the purple level, his accuracy improved further, and the power of his soul arrows increased significantly.

As for the light attribute soul arrows, these were not a result of his purple-level archery skill, but rather the result of Chu Chengzhou's unique ability to convert his soul power into light attribute soul power through his True Spirit Flag martial soul.

Of course, while he could create soul arrows, this didn't mean that physical arrows had no use. Only ordinary arrows were rendered obsolete. If high-level forged metal arrows were used and combined with his soul arrows, the power of the arrows would be even greater.

"Wow, so accurate?" Ma Hongjun exclaimed, staring at the two geese lying motionless in the distance.

Given the speed of the two soul arrows, even a soul master at the second or third ring would have trouble avoiding them. Even a fourth or fifth-ring soul master would likely not have time to react.

Although the targets were only two ordinary geese, this didn't reflect the full power of the arrows. Ma Hongjun was certain that, as a 25th-level soul master, he would not be able to withstand such an attack.

After all, he wasn't a defense-type soul master and lacked defensive soul skills. With only his protective soul power, he wouldn't be able to block the concentrated soul power of a 29th-level soul master forming a soul arrow.

"Those geese can be sent to the cafeteria for extra meals. Oh, and Fatty, here's your red envelope!"

Saying that, Chu Chengzhou pulled out 10 gold soul coins from his storage ring and handed them to Ma Hongjun.

Since they were all classmates, and he had asked Ma Hongjun to help, Chu Chengzhou preferred to pay rather than owe a favor. He felt that his favors weren't so cheap.

"Hehe, Chu, I won't be polite!" Ma Hongjun grinned and quickly accepted the coins.

For Ma Hongjun, 10 gold soul coins were quite a bit of money. After all, the price for a night with an "older sister" or "aunt" in the brothel was only a few silver soul coins.

Pah! What "older sister" or "aunt"? He was going to the highest-end black market club in Soto City to find a beautiful lady!

...

As night fell, with the exception of Oscar, the food-type soul master, Flender gathered Chu Chengzhou and the others on the training field.

Looking at the energetic group of Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Chu Chengzhou, and Xiao Wu, Flender nodded slightly, then waved his hand. "Let's go, follow me!"

With that, Flender tapped his toes and lightly sprang forward, heading toward the outskirts of the academy.

The four quickly followed behind.

Flender maintained a relatively fast pace, and at this moment, the differences in speed among the four students became apparent.

Surprisingly, it wasn't Xiao Wu, the highest-level soul master, who was right behind Flender, but Chu Chengzhou. Xiao Wu was second, Dai Mubai third, and Ma Hongjun was at the back.

Aside from soul skills, a soul master's speed wasn't solely determined by their soul power level. For example, the purple-level body technique of a thousand-year soul skill allowed Chu Chengzhou's speed to surpass Xiao Wu, who hadn't mastered it and was even a bit lazy about learning it.

Shrek Academy wasn't far from Soto City, and in no time, Flender arrived at the south gate of Soto City.

Soto City was located in the center of the Barak Kingdom, far from any external threats. Although there were city guards, the gates were open around the clock. Once the group caught up, they entered the city smoothly.

Even though it was already dark, Soto City was still full of energy, even more so than during the day.

Some vendors who only operated at night had set up shop, selling snacks or trinkets in their usual spots.

Of course, while Soto City's night market was considered lively on the continent, Chu Chengzhou had seen such scenes many times in his past life and wasn't very interested.

However, Xiao Wu, with her lively nature, was different. She eagerly looked around, and whenever she saw something interesting, she would sneak closer to take a closer look.

If it weren't for the "night class" they had to attend, Xiao Wu might have dragged Chu Chengzhou around the streets for a good stroll.