Chapter 11: Hunting in the Snow
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This old Taoist exudes a powerful aura and coercion, his surname is Li, his name is Lin, and he is a little immortal master.
And this heroic young man is the sixteenth son of Emperor Wu of the current Great Shang Empire, King Ji Yong of Jin.
Although Emperor Wu's harem had 3,000 beauties, he had less than 60 children.
It is said that when Ji Yong, the king of Jin, was born, the celestial omen was out of phase, causing a sensation in the imperial palace.
He was gifted, and since he was three years old, he was taken to the "Tianlong Temple" where the Emperor Taishang lived in seclusion and practiced, which was the first Taoist temple in the Great Shang Empire.
Ji Yong practiced penance in the "Tianlong Temple" for 17 years, and did not return to the imperial capital Tian'an City until he was twenty-one years old, when he was enthroned as the king of Jin.
Emperor Wu had more than 20 adult princes, more than 10 of whom were very good, and Ji Yong, the king of Jin, was one of them.
In order to compete for power, these princes secretly fought endlessly, and they all raised a lot of strange people.
This Li Lin Little Immortal Master was the leader of the guards he hired at a high level.
In addition to Ji Yong, the king of Jin, there was also an eighteen or nineteen-year-old woman who also wore a red fox fur robe.
She is Ji Lin, the younger sister of King Ji Yong of Jin, the current Princess Yongping, with extremely beautiful appearance, graceful posture, skin like jade, and black hair scattered on her back.
Ji Lin rode a handsome white tiger, wearing a sword at his waist and a bow on his back, with a heroic posture.
The two young men riding the golden lion and the thunder leopard are both cousins of Ji Yong, the king of Jin, one is surnamed Liu and is named Zhong, and the other is surnamed Liu and is named Quan.
Their grandfather, Liu Zhengke, was a Jiedu envoy in the current Great Shang Empire, wielding a million-strong army, and their aunt was Concubine Liu, the mother of Ji Yong, the king of Jin.
Liu Zhong and Liu Quan, tall and burly, although their temperament and demeanor are far inferior to Jin King Ji Yong, but they exude a terrifying atmosphere, they have practiced martial arts since childhood, and their swordsmanship and archery skills are very exquisite.
Each of them rode a wild ox, and the snowflakes fell on their dense, long, shiny furs, and suddenly turned into dewdrops of liquid and rolled down.
The most commonly used mounts of the generals of the Great Shang Empire, their hooves can run like flying in the ice and snow, in the swamps, and in the mountain roads, as if they were walking on the ground.
Except for these people, most of the others rode the "Wanli Xue", which is a high-quality steed that can run quickly even on ice and snow, and can travel thousands of miles in one day and one night.
"Wanli Xue" was originally a wild horse on the savage prairie, but it was later domesticated by humans and became the most commonly used mount for the cavalry of the Divine Wolf Empire in the north of the Wanzhou Continent.
They are fat and strong, covered with fine white hair, with strong hooves and strange eyes, allowing them to see the road ahead even in a blizzard.
However, raising "Wanli Xue" is also very expensive, not only do they have to eat good forage every day, but the forage must be accompanied by some elixir.
"Wanli Xue" is very humane, after identifying the owner will never abandon it, and it is deeply liked by people who love horses, so the princes and nobles of the Great Shang Empire who love horses, and the wealthy do not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to buy from the merchants of the Northern Wolf Empire.
These people riding "Wanli Xue" are all martial arts, extraordinary skills, wearing soft armor inside and fur cloak outside, they are the guards of the Jin Palace.
Wow!
Six three-headed hounds made barks from time to time, making the beasts in the nearby mountains and forests tremble.
The three-headed hound is the king of dogs, and the adult three-headed hound is one meter and five meters tall and two meters long, with a very fierce demeanor and extremely sharp teeth.
With three heads, the three-headed hound can bite its opponents with three sharp mouths, so even beasts such as lions, tigers and leopards are no match for them.
The three-headed hound has an extremely sensitive sense of smell, ten times that of the average hound, it can smell prey hiding thousands of meters deep in the cave, and it can shrink its bones, and it can shrink its body by up to three times.
Three-headed hounds are even rarer than "Wanli Xue", and the price of a three-headed hound is five or six times more expensive than that of a "Wanli Xue".
On a hill less than twenty miles away from the "Aoki" Taoist temple, suddenly six three-headed hounds barked violently.
A middle-aged man who looked like a guard shouted, "Your Royal Highness the King of Jin, a fox den has been found under the snow. ā
He usually takes care of the three hounds, so he is very familiar with their every move.
The three-headed hound will make different calls and make some inconspicuous actions when it spots different beasts, but it is impossible for anyone who is not familiar with them to notice.
"Let the hounds drive them out of their litters. Jin King Ji Yong shouted with a smile.
Soon after, two of the three-headed hounds actually burrowed into the thick snow and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Their claws are so sharp that they can easily break through the ice and snow as solid as an iron shield.
Two conspicuous holes in the snow emerge from behind the two three-headed hounds.
After about a meal, a large group of foxes suddenly flew out of the two snow holes.
"Oh my God, there are so many foxes in this cave. One of the beautiful maids of Princess Ji Lin of Yongping couldn't help but scream.
There are about twenty foxes in this group, with more than ten adult foxes, four old foxes, and six young foxes.
Their fur is mostly snow-white, with a few fiery red, but one cub turned out to be golden.
According to the records of the "Strange Things" handed down from ancient times, the fox is the most psychic branch of the beasts, divided into white fox, fire fox and golden fox.
The number of white foxes is the largest, the number of fire foxes is scarce, only one percent of the number of white foxes, and the golden fox is even rarer than the fire fox, only one of ten million of the number of golden foxes.
The fire fox and the golden fox are mutants among the white foxes, they are more intelligent and psychic than the white fox, especially the golden fox, as long as it can spend tens of thousands of years safely, it is possible for it to cultivate into a half-fox fairy or even a fox fairy.
However, as soon as the foxes escaped from the snow cave, they found that they were surrounded by humans.
At this time, Liu Zhong and Liu Quan raised their hands, and the two strong bows were held in their hands.
"Don't hurt the fire foxes and the little golden fox, take them alive. The head of the Jin Palace's mansion shouted.
I saw Liu Zhong and Liu Quan stretching their arms, their bows like a full moon, and the tips of their arrows pointing at the two fleeing white foxes.
The sharp long arrow shone with a cold light and shot out in an instant, and the two sounds of "Boom" and "Boom" breaking the air immediately sounded.
I saw two white foxes let out a miserable fox cry and staggered to the ground, each with one leg firmly nailed to the hard ice and snow by a long arrow.
"Whew!"
Liu Zhong and Liu Quan's archery skills were very exquisite, and their movements were completed in one go, and after a moment, they each shot a long arrow.
Immediately, one of the legs of two more white foxes was nailed to the ice and snow by a long arrow.
In less than ten breaths, more than a dozen white foxes were all nailed to the ice and snow by long arrows, and from time to time let out a miserable fox cry.