Chapter 6: The Royal Hunt
"Uh... ”
In the bedroom, when Jiang Yan opened his heavy eyes with all his might, the warm sunlight had already sprinkled on his body, and it was already noon, which made Jiang Yan, who was used to getting up early, a little unaccustomed, he squinted and saw a familiar figure sitting next to the bed.
"Mother... ”
Looking at the figure, Jiang Yan hurriedly lifted his spirit and whispered.
"Yan'er, are you awake?"
Hearing the scream, the figure stood up with a bang, saw Jiang Yan who opened his eyes, and immediately said happily.
"The child is not filial, so that the mother is worried?"
Looking at the bloodshot eyes of his mother, it was obvious that he had not closed his eyes all night, Jiang Yan felt ashamed. I want to struggle with the pain in my body.
Mother Jiang hurriedly helped Jiang Yan, "You just woke up, don't be in a hurry, I told the imperial dining room, let them stew ginseng soup, and make up for your body." ”
"What about the assessment?"
"After you fainted yesterday, Ying'er carried you back directly, and I was worried about you, so I didn't continue to participate in the later ceremonies and came back to see you directly. Later, your father came back and said that you had been exceptionally accepted as a student at the prefecture level of the Inner Prefecture, and you had also obtained the qualification to go directly to the Library Pavilion to select exercises and martial arts. Mother Jiang looked at Jiang Yan lovingly and said.
"Mother, you must be tired after being here for so long, and now I'm awake too. You'd better go back and rest. Jiang Yan saw that her mother's eyes were bloodshot, and said distressedly.
After Chen Xiu left, Jiang Ying'er, Jiang Xiong and Jiang Xuan all came to see Jiang Yan, and they were not seriously injured, so they rested for a while, and Jiang Yan was already able to go for a walk in the yard in the afternoon.
After the assessment was held, Jiang Yan's life. Finally relaxed some rhythm, the tight martial arts training on weekdays also stopped temporarily, and the practice in the inner courtyard could not start until a month later, and during this time, Jiang Yan could just go to the library to choose exercises and martial arts.
In such a comfortable and relaxed day, Jiang Yan, who was accustomed to the previous compact life, really couldn't be idle, and as soon as his body recovered, he went to the library and chose a middle-level exercise to cultivate.
"Whew... ”
Before dawn, in the mist of the small courtyard, a figure sat under the tree in the courtyard, Jiang Yan, who was used to getting up early, couldn't be idle at all, and just got the exercises and began to practice, due to the restrictions of the martial arts, Jiang Yan could not practice the exercises prepared for the advanced martial arts in the library pavilion, and after weighing the pros and cons, he chose this intermediate exercise "Five Elements Decision".
After a full hour, Jiang Yan opened his eyes suddenly, wiped a handful of dew on his head, and went into the house to change into clean clothes, although his martial arts vein cultivation speed is not fast, but the best qualification in the entire Great Jiang Mansion is only the dual-attribute martial vein of Jiang Ying and a few others, as long as he cultivates hard, he is not unable to catch up, after practicing the exercises, Jiang Yan found that he is now absorbing martial qi day by day, according to this speed, it is estimated that when the inner courtyard opens, he will be able to condense the martial arts pill and become a second-level martial artist.
During this time, there was another news that also caused quite a stir in Da Jiang Mansion, because the cold winter is coming, and the annual royal hunt in Da Jiang Country is about to begin.
In the west of the entire Great Jiang Country, there are 100,000 mountains that are inaccessible, where the city is connected to a vast deep forest, this forest contains countless treasures of heaven and earth, in the summer the people of the Great Jiang Country go out to sea to fish or plant crops, but the whole southern five countries are bitterly cold, and the summer suitable for planting and fishing is very short, and before the long winter comes, people need to venture to the depths of the mountains to hunt a group of wild beasts back, make bacon, jerky, to spend the cold and long winter.
The tradition of the Great Jiang Kingdom is that the king and the ministers go into the mountains to hunt together, so this time in October every year is called the royal hunt.
100,000 mountains, located in the southwest of the Great Jiang country, from the Great Jiang Mansion has a day's journey, this area is vast, even in ordinary times it is considered to be a very popular place in the Great Jiang country, although the mountains are full of layers of crisis, but with the crisis, is an endless number of heavenly treasures, monster crystal nuclei, and those desirable ancient treasures, many people for these, one after another into the 100,000 mountains, legend has it that someone found the ancient sages hidden the heavenly martial arts here, and some people picked up the high-level beast core on the side of the road, or dug up the elixir that directly improved the level, but more people, but disappeared forever in the vast mountainand was buried under the rotting leaves.
And going to the 100,000 mountains to hunt can be regarded as a very important event in the Great Jiang Mansion, the human-level students who have just entered the inner courtyard were originally not qualified to go, but Jiang Yan had just been accepted as a prefecture-level student in the inner courtyard because of his defeat of Wang Chong, and he was the grandson of the emperor of the Great Jiang Kingdom, and he was arranged to participate in this hunt.
Because the royal hunt is not only to hoard food for the winter, but also to train newcomers to fight, because everything in cultivation is for actual combat, so an important purpose of hunting is to hone the minds of students, and only through training can they become real powerhouses and serve the Great Jiang Kingdom.
However, there are not only various beasts in the 100,000 mountains, but also mutated monster beasts, which have formed a blood feud with humans since ancient times. Compared to them, these students of the Great Jiang Mansion are like flowers in a greenhouse, and they are not opponents at all.
Therefore, in order to protect the students, except for a very small number of teachers, almost the entire Jiang Mansion was dispatched, including Jiang Qing, Jiang Xiong, Jiang Xuan, plus Zhenbei Hou Wang Wei, and Zhennan Hou Hu Pan dispatched a total of five martial arts marshals, even if they encountered one or two martial arts level mutant demon beasts, it was enough to deal with them.
In the early morning of October 3rd, the team of men and horses poured out of the Great Ginger Capital, and when the sun was about to set, the team in front arrived at the foot of the 100,000 Mountain.
The sun gradually set, the night began to shroud, the team lit the bonfire, the students of the Dajiang Mansion obviously did not come to this environment, so everyone seemed a little excited, the sound of various conversations between the bonfires intermingled with each other, mixed with the laughter of the girl's silver bell, the whole camp was shrouded in a lively atmosphere, but this kind of excitement made the teacher who had to lead the team also pouted helplessly. "It's still kids, after all. ”
Tomorrow they will know how ignorant they are today in the face of ferocious beasts.
Jiang Yan sat by the bonfire, just a few days ago, he had just broken through the first-level martial artist and officially became a second-level martial artist, he did not join those students who were discussing hunting, but looked at the woods outside the camp, where there seemed to be many pairs of green eyes staring here.
When Jiang Yan was slightly stunned, the back of his neck was itchy. Jiang Yan thought that some insect flew over and reached out to shoot it.
"Oops. ”
A cry of pain came, and Jiang Yan looked back. I saw Jiang Ying'er standing there with a dog's tail in her hand, obviously playing a prank just now.
"Why are you working so hard, it hurts!" Jiang Ying'er sat down cross-legged by the bonfire in a huff. Rubbing his reddened arm, he complained.
"It's not your own prank, stealing chickens doesn't make you a handful of rice. They are all teenagers, and Jiang Yan is also happy to tease her cousin.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Ying'er pouted, and looked at Jiang Yan with her crooked crescent eyes.
"Nothing. I think about tomorrow's hunting. Jiang Yan looked at the bonfire with a smile on his face.
"I came to tell you about it, Wang Chong couldn't come to participate in this hunt because of his injury, but his brother Wang Cheng is here, and he will start hunting tomorrow, Wang Cheng is a real fifth-level martial artist, you must be careful, when I am grouped tomorrow, I will choose to be in a group with you." Jiang Ying'er said with some concern.
"Okay, I see," Jiang Yan agreed a little nonchalantly.
The bonfire rose, and the warm light of the fire wrapped Jiang Yan's body, what do you want to do so much, just let him come if you want to come, what you have to do is to become a real strong man, and then those debts owed to him, he will get them back one by one, Jiang Yan's eyes looked firmly at the darkness outside the camp.
Under the warm wrap, a wave of sleepiness hit, and when Jiang Ying'er was still chattering, Jiang Yan fell asleep deeply.