Volume 1 The First Entry into the Troubled Times Chapter 1 Wild Mountains Meet Monsters
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In the evening, the birds and beasts gradually quieted down, and the afterglow of the setting sun turned into a little light and sprinkled into the dense forests of Mount Yujin, silently providing light for the land.
There were two people walking on the lonely mountain forest path.
"Master, we've been out for so long, and we haven't seen a single spirit beast? I'm almost hungry, and the spirit beasts must have gone home for dinner, so let's go home too." A teenager kept muttering, only to see him wearing a light gray shirt, with a pair of thick linen pants, and holding a branch folded by the side of the road, beating east and west, looking at the master in front of him boredly, and his immature face was full of sorrow.
The master called by the boy walked in front of the boy.
Her face was covered with a layer of black tulle, revealing a pair of big black eyes, her black hair was tied with a bright red headband, and she was tall and wore a light black robe, and a black belt around her waist, although the robe she wore was loose, but it could not cover the slenderness of her body.
She looked back at the young man behind her, and said angrily, "Stinky boy, shut up! Stay in the mountains and forests and let the wild beasts eat them, and the world is much cleaner. Hurry up, take the decoy beast and scatter some in the woods in front of you, catch a spirit beast for your kid earlier, and save trouble with Lao Wang every day. β
"Oh, I see, apprentice is going. Sensing that the master's tone was wrong, the young man didn't dare to speak back.
The boy groped as he walked, took a handful of gray powder from his pocket, pinched it in his hand, looked east and west, chose a direction, and plunged headlong into the woods.
Inside the woods, overgrown with bushes, weeds, and thorns, there was no place to stay. The stiff weeds and bushes tore at the boy's calves, which grinned his aching teeth.
The young man barely walked a hundred steps, looked back, couldn't see the master, was a little flustered, and looked around again, the silence was terrible. He retreated, so he threw a few handfuls of bait beasts into the grass at random, and ran away.
"Master, where are we going to squat?" said the young man who trotted all the way back.
"Squatting, stinky boy, come out and catch a spirit beast, so timid? I still expect you to inherit my mantle and catch goblins in the future? Go to the tree, hurry, the bait beast is starting to smell! The spirit beast should come out. β
"Master, I don't think I need to inherit your mantle at all. You looked like this when I was six years old, and ten years have passed, and I'm sixteen this year, and you're still like this, aren't you old?
As soon as he heard these words, the master's brows furrowed into the word "Chuan", and he hit the young man's head hard: "Demon you, if I am a goblin, I will eat you in the first place! Will I leave you until now?"
As soon as the boy wanted to say something, he was covered by the master. She suddenly became alert, pricked up her ears, and listened intently for a while: "There are footsteps, but ...... It doesn't seem to sound right....... No! It's not a spirit animal, it looks like a monster, they're approaching! Hurry up and climb up!"
Before the boy could react, he was lifted up by the master, jumped into a tree with lush foliage.
"Mufa - stealth!"
The master whispered, and the two of them slowly began to fade and disappeared between the trees.
Just finished stealing, two middle-aged men slowly walked out of the dense thorn bushes.
Through the not-so-strong sunlight, the master and apprentice could see that the two of them were dressed in gray and black robes, and the slightly taller man was holding two large ringed steel knives in his hands, and the two furry ears on the top of his head were propped up. The slightly shorter youkai is very thin, with high cheekbones supporting a fleshless face, holding a wooden stick that is neither long nor short in his hand, and the two ears on the top of his head are lowered, and he looks a little in bad spirits.
The slightly larger monster scratched the ears on the top of his head strangely, and asked another monster suspiciously: "Brother Wolf Yuan, I just smelled the smell of a human being, why is there no one in the blink of an eye?"
The monster named Wolf Yuan looked at the brother next to him, looked around carefully, and said, "In this barren mountains and mountains, ordinary people who will walk around at dusk." Wolf side, let's look around, and if we find it, we will kill it. We still have important things to do, and we need to be fast. β
As soon as the words fell, the young man who was hiding couldn't help it, and said to the master next to him in surprise: "Master, these two say that you don't have any cultivation!
As soon as the young man's words popped out of his mouth, the wolf Fang who was carrying a steel knife below immediately raised his head, looked at the place where the two were hiding, and smiled happily: "Good guy! Big brother, people are hiding in trees!"
The wolf flung his right hand hard, and the bright big ring steel knife flew over with a scream. Almost in the blink of an eye, the steel knife was already in front of him, the young man was still in a daze, and the master next to him had already picked up the kid next to him, and turned around and stood under the tree. Looking back, the steel knives that flew over had already cut through the large branch of the tree where they had just been hiding.
"Stinky boy, let you talk too much!" the master scolded casually.
The boy didn't defend himself, and he was obedient at this time.
The master and apprentice remained motionless, looking at the murderous monster with their eyes.
"Big brother, it's two people, a bit of cultivation, let me slaughter it. At some point, the steel knife thrown out had returned to the wolf's hand.
The master turned around, blocked the young man, and said slowly: "Please the Eight Faces Ridge of the Divine Mountain is the realm of the human race, you demon clan can step into it at will, can you find death?"
The slightly shorter wolf Yuan just wanted to say something, but the brother next to him had already taken a step forward: "The realm of your human race, showing your demonic aura, will indeed cause trouble. But won't anyone know if I kill you?" he smiled treacherously, and slowly walked forward with two steel knives, closing in on the two of them.
When the wolf side acted, the wolf yuan had been quietly watching the master and did not take any action.
The young man was a little unsteady in his heart, and from the two monsters in front of him, he smelled a heavy demonic aura. The rabbit spirits and bee demons he encountered before were far inferior to these two. So, he pulled the master's clothes: "Master, am I in trouble again, these two monsters seem to be very powerful." β
The master didn't have time to take care of the little apprentices around him, so he lifted the hem of the robe and tied it to his waist, made gestures with his hands, and recited the formula in his mouth: "Wood method - thorns." As soon as he finished speaking, the thorns around the wolf seemed to be conscious, and surrounded him, and countless spikes stabbed at him.
The wolf side wielded a steel knife, slashing left and right. But the thorn vines cut more and more, and then he cast a demon spell, spitting out raging flames from his mouth, and it took a long time to finally burn all the thorn strips.
He looked up and saw that the two humans in front of him were gone.
"Big brother, they ran away! Why don't you stop it? Oh, why is this thorn so difficult to cut?" asked Wolf Yuan while taking care of his weapons.
Wolf Yuan looked at the embarrassed brother, walked over, and patted him on the shoulder: "Brother, they left after casting the spell, but we are fortunate to have picked up a life." β
The wolf pin the steel knife to his waist and couldn't help asking: "We picked up a life?" I think that chick is just so capable, I don't think she can take your life. β
"I just kept looking at her, trying to see the depth of her cultivation, but I didn't find anything. Later, I saw that you burned the thorns, and I was secretly glad that she didn't really make a move on you. Don't believe me, look at the thorn you just cut. β
As soon as the wolf turned around, the thorns that he had just slashed and burned with his knife were still growing well.
"It's not bad that ordinary human magicians can drive ordinary thorns, and that woman can actually cross this level and directly spell thorns. Moreover, she was stealthy and could hide the kid next to her together, causing us to think that it was a person at first, can ordinary people do it at this level? This master's cultivation is estimated to have reached the master of magic. If you have such a cultivation at a young age, I am afraid that I will be the enemy of my demon clan in the future. β
"Then she just slaughtered the two of us, why bother to create the illusion that she can't beat us?"
"If I'm not mistaken, she's for the kid next to her, and sometimes you learn more by letting go of an enemy than defeating it. With this master, that kid will not be a fuel-efficient lamp in the future. Brother, you remember this smell, and if you smell it from afar in the future, you will not be so lucky next time. Let's quickly set off back to the Demon Realm now and report the results of this mission to the King, as well as today's events. β
"That's without further ado, big brother, let's go. β
The two monsters turned around and headed west, and in a few moments, disappeared into the dense forest.
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After passing through several woods, and crossing a stream, in the midst of a pile of rubble, the master who was carrying the boy in his hand finally stopped, threw the boy to the ground, and went to the stream to drink.
The stream was murmuring and extremely clear, and the master took a sip of the stream water in his hand, and the kid behind him spoke: "Master, I'm sorry, the apprentice was reckless and almost killed you." β
The master got up and looked back at the little apprentice with an apologetic face: "Since you know the apology, remember this sentence for the teacher, even if you have great ability, you have to calm down." β
The young man was still apologetic, and nodded like garlic: "Remember, master." He thought for a while and asked, "Master, what kind of monsters are those two, you really can't beat them?"
The master thought for a while and looked at the young man's immature face: "It should be a wolf demon, it has been cultivated for hundreds of years, and it is estimated that it is at the beginning of the demon period." That's right, for the teacher..... Can't beat it. β
"Master, if you don't say it earlier, I won't say that!" the young man smiled embarrassedly.
The master took out a finger-long piccolo from his bosom, put it to his mouth and blew it, and then said to the young man: "Apprentice, remember one more sentence, it doesn't matter if you can't fight in a fight, just run." β
After speaking, there was a sound in the mountains and forests in the distance, and the sound became louder and louder, as if some animal was approaching quickly. After a while, a colorful tiger sprang out of the woods, and leaped to the two of them on the other side of the stream.
The young man walked over with a branch, and looked at the tiger without fear at all, but said happily, "Old Wang, you are here." β
The tiger roared majestically, and the creek rippled, and the birds in the forest flew into the sky, and then it shook its head at the boy.
The master got up and sat on the tiger's back, and helped the young man to get on the tiger's back: "Old Wang, come back to Xiapo." The tiger understood his master's command, and leaped over the rocks with all his might, and then leaped into the woods, and then galloped away toward the distant sunset.