Jiang Yimian just smiled when she saw Abiya's smug look.
She practiced archery for a while a long time ago to improve her aim with a gun, but it was just simple practice. Because she later became almost perfect in actual combat, she put down the archery skill, let alone improved it.
Compared to those skilled archers, she was naturally no match, and could even be considered inferior.
But she has one advantage: she has excellent accuracy. Within 100 meters, she can find the target by just hearing the sound and feeling it.
Blindfolded target shooting is not difficult for her; it's something she used to train for regularly.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Abiya assumed that she was scared, and said smugly, "This time, we'll split up, and I'll see if you can hit the target later."
She insisted on seeing this person with her own eyes; she couldn't let these people lie right under her nose.
Jiang Yimian merely raised an eyebrow and stepped aside.
Abiya took the black brocade cloth handed to her by a servant, covered her eyes with it, tied it behind her head, and drew her bow, ready to fire.
Seeing this, Granny Gui simply raised her hand to the servants beside the birdcage.
The next second, the birdcage opened, and numerous birds flapped their wings and soared into the sky.
For a moment, the only sounds in the quiet garden were the flapping of birds' wings and the chirping of birds.
Abiya simply held her bow and arrow, listened to the birds flapping their wings, finally determined a direction, and drew her bow to shoot.
With a "plop," the arrow pierced the bird's body, forming a perfect parabola before falling heavily to the ground.
The others gasped in astonishment, not expecting Abiya to be so skilled. Blindfolded, she could pinpoint the bird's exact location simply by listening to its sounds.
They thought they would miss at least a few arrows, but to their surprise, the first arrow hit the target perfectly.
For a moment, everyone couldn't help but worry about Jiang Yimian.
Just now we barely managed a draw, and now that she's blindfolded, it's going to be really difficult for her to beat Abiya.
Jiang Yimian simply looked at the birds in the sky with a normal expression, paying no attention to the arrow that had just hit its target.
Abiya smiled smugly, certain that her arrow had hit its mark.
Although she was blindfolded and couldn't see anything around her, she could tell from her feel and the sound of the arrow piercing the bird's body that her arrow was perfect.
The thought of witnessing Jiang Yimian's crushing defeat made her even more smug, and she fired several more arrows in quick succession.
Only after she was certain that most of the birds in the air had flown away or landed did she tear off the blindfold from her eyes and look at the servants.
Before long, someone brought back all the birds that Abiya had shot, a total of twenty.
Being able to shoot twenty birds while blindfolded is already quite impressive.
Abiya looked at Jiang Yimian with a defiant expression, "It's your turn. I want to see how many you can hit."
She wanted to watch the man shoot arrows with her own eyes, determined not to give him any chance to cheat.
These twenty birds were more than she had ever tried before; she was bound to lose.
Jiang Yimian simply took the black cloth strip handed to her by the servant, covered her eyes, tied it behind her head, and then held the bow and arrow, listening to the sounds around her.
Upon seeing this, the servant next to the birdcage opened the cage, and the bird instantly soared into the air.
The chirping of birds mixed with the flapping of wings, creating a somewhat noisy scene.
Jiang Yimian remained calm, simply raising her bow, taking three arrows from her quiver, and shooting them directly into the air.
Abiya was taken aback, then crossed her arms and sneered, "You think you're that lucky? All that fancy stuff, let's see if you can hit the target."
No sooner had he finished speaking than three arrows were seen successfully piercing the bird's body and falling from mid-air.
Abiya stared wide-eyed in shock, her face filled with disbelief.
The others were also stunned, unable to believe that Jiang Yimian dared to shoot three arrows at once while blindfolded, and that she actually hit them.
However, what happened next was even more shocking.
Jiang Yimian continued to draw her bow and shoot arrows, firing three arrows at once, all of which hit their targets.
She was like a goddess descending from the sky, unaffected by the black cloth in front of her, focusing solely on drawing her bow and shooting arrows, yet hitting the target every time.
It's as if they're already familiar with this environment; even if they can't see, they can quickly pinpoint the location of the target by sound.
Everyone was amazed as Jiang Yimian hit the target every time.
If they weren't afraid of influencing Jiang Yimian's judgment, they would have exclaimed in surprise.
Who would believe that someone blindfolded, relying solely on hearing, could hit the target more skillfully and accurately than if they could see it?
Or a group of targets that move in mid-air.
Abiya began to suspect that this person might be able to see, otherwise, how could he be so skilled, when at first she clearly thought he was unfamiliar with bows and arrows?
But now, this person controls the force of drawing the bow and shooting the arrow with extreme precision, as if he has become accustomed to the bow and arrow in his hand.
Every time the bow is drawn, three birds will fall to the ground.
How could this be the same person who couldn't even draw the bow properly during the initial test shot?
Impossible, absolutely impossible.
As birds flew up and down in the air, Jiang Yimian tore off the blindfold. Before she could adjust to the light, the blindfold was snatched from her hand.
Abiya stared intently at the black cloth in her hand, then tested it in front of her eyes to make sure it couldn't let in any light before glaring at Jiang Yimian with a grim expression.
His eyes were filled with anger and resentment. How could this woman be so good without cheating? How could she?
Xue Lingyu was also in disbelief, never expecting that Jiang Yimian not only didn't lose, but won so beautifully.
There's no need to retrieve the birds that were shot; anyone with eyes can see that Jiang Yimian shot far more birds than Abiya, almost many times more.
How could that bastard possibly win?
Jiang Yimian merely turned her head to look at Abiya and said calmly, "Well, Princess, have you seen clearly whether there's anything wrong with this strip of cloth?"
The woman wore a wide-sleeved cloud-patterned silk dress and a begonia flower hairpin. Her expression was indifferent, and she looked no different from a goddess who was untouched by the mortal world. However, her words were full of provocation.
Abiya was so angry that she clenched her fists tightly and said angrily, "No, it's impossible, how could you be so powerful?"
You, you must have been faking it from the beginning, deliberately acting so unfamiliar, deliberately drawing the first game with me, just to embarrass this princess, right?
You, you treacherous and cunning person!
These Jin people are indeed cunning; they clearly planned this all along. They deliberately made a bet with her just to embarrass the Tuyuhun. How could she let them succeed?
Thinking it over, she simply said, "Since you're faking it, this bet is null and void. Don't even think about trying to cheat this princess."
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