34 The Future

Tang Yan took a deep breath and zoned everything out placing himself in an empty field. The target became his prey in this moment.

He seemed to have returned to the grasslands of South Africa, and the voice of Jafari came into his ear.

"Brother, show me your shooting skills again!"

He knocked the arrow, drew back the bow string, aimed and the distant target became the running antelope.

"My destiny, changes here!"

He screamed in his heart and let go with his index finger and thumb.

"TWANG!"

The arrow broke through the air and flew toward the target.

"Woosh"

Seeing the trajectory of the arrow, Tian Zhenzhe at the judges' seat suddenly stood up, and Li Lao next to him showed a small smirk.

Qiu Anguo and the Shanghai team were all wide eyed following the arrows flight.

"Boom!"

There was a heavy thud as the arrow hit the target, because of the strength behind it, the arrow burrowed into the target.

Right at the center of the target.

There was a burst of explosive cheers from the crowd.

"10 points! Tang Yan with 10 points!" In CCTV's studio, Yang Jia instantly screamed and exclaimed.

The audience all stood up from their seats and applauded excitedly.

The shouts one after another, were deafening.

The audience was rarely as excited as it was today.

But Tang Yan's performance was truly shocking.

Under the interference of wind, behind by 3 points, he actually shot two 10 pointers, helping Zhejiang dethrone the current champions.

This was simply a heroic existence.

Tang Yan heard the deafening shouts around him, and his adrenaline was also soaring.

In the city trials, he felt that his own destiny had changed, and at this moment he felt more clearly that his life was going to be the opposite of his previous life, the road he had been looking forward to.

He held the bow and lifted it up.

The cheers on the scene skyrocketed.

Since he was already a hero, then he might as well enjoy this moment.

"This young man is truly interesting." Tian Zhenzhe looked at Tang Yan, who was holding the bow in the center, and couldn't help but smile.

After Tang Yan's exit, he was greeted by Dong Jie and Ding Ran's excited clambering. Even Song Feng came down to give him a big hug.

Eliminating the Shanghai Team was more satisfying than winning the championship.

The Shanghai Team were all still dumbfounded, Han Tianfu was still stood frozen murmuring:

"How is this possible" to himself .

However, the results were already settled, and the Zhejiang Province had successfully eliminated the two time champions Shanghai to advance to the team finals.

Tang Yan's eight arrows had scored a total of 77 points, this score directly broke the men's archery semi-final record!

After ten minutes of rest, the men's archery finals would be held, the province of Guangdong vs Zhejiang.

With their performance in the semi-finals, the audience and the media no longer had doubts about the championship going to the Zhejiang Province.

At this time, Song Feng, the head coach of Zhejiang, submitted an application to the organizing committee. Because their team member Pan Yu was injured, they wanted to substitute in Ding Ran, from the bench.

When a archer was injured, or when there was a sudden accident, they were allowed to change them out.

The organizing committee approved the request and in came in Ding Ran.

The only major archer for the Guangdong Province was Cao Yan. Their overall strength while still formidable fell below Shanghai's and with Tang Yan and his team having eliminated the Shanghai Team , they had in fact, pretty much already won the championship.

Although Ding Ran's strength was much worse than Pan Yu's, he was able to play to 100% of his abilities, which Pan Yu couldn't compare with.

In the end, with 75 points from Tang Yan and 72 points from Dong Jie, the Zhejiang Province defeated the Guangdong Province.

216 : 213

For the first time in history, they had won the championship of the team competition.

From the stands, Pan Yu watched as they won the championship and his lips were bleeding due to biting at them.

The media was all over the Zhejiang Team after their victory. Everybody loved a underdog story, the outstanding performance of Tang Yan became the main highlight. The media spent a lot of effort spreading his name as a prodigy.

It was no exaggeration to say that Tang Yan had became a household name overnight and became the focus of people's discussion after a meal.

"The future of Chinese Archery"

....

Back in Zhejiang.

"Old Tang, we have to burn some incense at the ancestral grave. Who knew he had such talent for archery, hahaha!" Laughed Tang Yan's mother sat at the dinner table.

"Our son, has grown up." Old Tang smiled slightly and took a swig of the tea next to him.

....

Although he had established himself as a 'prodigy' he knew that it wasn't over yet.

In China, there were two hard indicators that must be achieved in order to participate in higher level international competitions.

According to the rules of the International Archery Association, only players who had reached the MQS (Minimum Eligibility) could participate in higher-level events. For the Youth Olympic Games and the Asian Games: the minimum was to be able shoot a score of 630 points and 610 points receptively in 72 arrows.

Tang Yan had already reached that level, but this didn't mean that he was eligible to participate, because this level of international competitions had limited places, each country could only send up to three archers to participate.

He had to reach the top three in the individual competition tomorrow, in order to participate in the Asian Games.

The good news was that after winning the team championship, the system had given him two more honor points.

After winning the championship, he was invited into the heterogeneous space of the system by Celia, but after seeing the system rewarded two honor points, he asked about this detail.

"Because the National Archery Championship is an Olympic-recognized national event, the rewards will naturally be higher." said Celia

But no matter the reason, the difference between the 2 honor points and the 1 honor point was very obvious, because to get more of Li Guang abilities, he needed more honor points.

This time, he needed exactly two honor points.

He unlocked 70% of Li Guang abilities.

Although he didn't feel physically different, he knew that on the court, it would be an absolute qualitative change.