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To start with, you simply lay the nameless enchanted bow in front of you, setting it besides its "Senior Sibilings" of Ghost Empress Melody and Moon Collapse and admire its craftmanship, tracing hand and paw both along every surface of it, scrutinizing and studying every inch of it intimately until you're as familiar with it as your own reflection or the back of your paws & hands or the rich perfume of a man's stomach freshly spilt or the soothing incense of a sealed tomb filled with moldering bones, until the touch of it and its weight is as known to you as the feeling of warm blood flowing through hair and fur and soaking into the dry,
Monu and Feiqing didn't disappoint. This is a treasure worthy of being called an artifact! A perfect tool and weapon to be wielded by you, who so favors Ghostly, Blood and Lunar Qi in their cultivations and techniques. And despite how tall it is, it is light and easily carried and with some adjustments of hand positions and postures, you're able to hold the unnamed artifact in the method of both the Rotten Oath and the Black Night Arrow scripture. But first you test its draw, and see just how strong it is.
And your demand of having a humming vine turned into its bow string is immediately proven to have been a canny choice to make, as the arrows sing, whistling as they shoot through the air. The vibration makes them punch through sturdier targets than your natural strength could achieve and the arrows continue shivering and vibrating for sometime after they've finally been stopped. And with some twanging of the string, you learn you can make the arrows fly in chaotic and unusual trajectories that wouldn't normally be possible without guiding them with spiritual energy or strings of Qi. And If you hold the bowstring for a long time, you can "Charge" a shot to even further increase the punch it packs and how penetrative it can be
Which combined with your Phantom Cat Step and two forms of specter lightness skills, could be a sure kill technique that deserves a name. Purring Arrow, is a nice, deceptively harmless sounding title for the move ( 猫喘鸣 箭, Māo chuǎnmíng jiàn). And you also figure out, that if you strum the string like you would your Guqin, you can create a short lived "barrier" of sound and vibration that can block projectiles, which Fu helped you figure out, and you find if you strum the string with enough fervor it can reflect projectiles similarly to your Dying Grudge Shield protection spell! You decided to name this ability Cicada Rampart Rhythm ( 蟭蟟 壁垒 节奏, jiāoliáobìlěijiézòu)
You experiment and practice with the resonance of the bow string and the many trick shots and sneaky shots it allows you to pull off, and seeing just how far you can lodge ordinary arrows into the strongest targets you can find. Like Fu. In Feiqing's personal armor and covered in Dying grudge shields.
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