Chapter 0011: On the Eve of the Hunt
In the middle of summer, a beautiful hunting season, the annual Xiangfu Hunting Festival is about to kick off. At this time, Xiangfu City was much more lively than usual, and the flow of people in the city gradually reached the highest peak of the year, and many large and small forces from their respective sects, academies and families swarmed out, pouring into the city like locusts, and the business of the inns in the city was surprisingly hot, and the price received was more than double that of usual.
Xiangfu City Hunting Festival, the five major forces in the city will naturally participate in it.
The City Lord's Mansion, as the organizer and host of this hunting festival, naturally invited many forces from other cities to participate, but these invited people only participated in the viewing ceremony and part-time referees of the hunting festival, not to compete for rankings.
However, within a radius of 100 miles, nearly 100 people signed up for the competition, they just wanted to use this hunting competition to attract the attention of Xuanyuan Academy, the city government, or the major family forces in the city, and then get the opportunity to join the major forces, in order to get more cultivation resources, judging from the results of the previous hunting festivals, such a chance is still very slim, but this does not affect their enthusiasm to participate, after all, the opportunity still exists.
But no matter what the purpose of the contestants is, the Xiangfu City Hunting Festival, which is officially hosted by the City Lord's Mansion, is obviously an official competition of great scale and popularity within a radius of a hundred miles, and the young people who stand out from the Hunting Festival, whether it is for themselves or their families' fame, will take this opportunity to get great publicity, not to mention, the rewards for the first to third places are quite a lot of cultivation resources, so no force or individual wants to miss this opportunity.
The time of the hunting festival is set on July 25 every year, and the place of hunting is set in the primeval jungle that stretches for hundreds of miles outside Xiangfu City.
Considering the safety of hunting, the three martial artists of the Wuyang realm cultivation in the City Lord's Mansion expelled the high-grade spirit beasts in the hunting area, and then joined forces to arrange a protective barrier to delimit the scope of the hunting area, preventing the contestants from going too deep into the jungle and encountering high-level spirit beasts, and there were unexpected casualties.
For He Shang, there are only seventeen days before the opening of the hunting festival, and the time is very urgent.
But tonight is different from the past, with a first-class cultivation in the martial spirit realm, although he can't do it freely now, but compared to his peers, he is really a top-notch generation, so he has to find ways to participate in this hunting festival anyway, in order to accept the experience and baptism of actual combat, and improve his ability to control spiritual power.
Behind the He family's mansion is a relatively vast forest, which belongs to the family's private property. In this forest, although there is no genius treasure to be found, if you are lucky, you can sometimes find one or two elixirs occasionally, and in your free time, there are many young people from many families who run inside to try their luck.
Idle for a while, He Shang thought about taking a walk in this forest to see if he could find any elixir to stabilize and improve his current cultivation, and increase the chances of winning for the upcoming hunting festival.
Thinking all the way like this, He Shang walked to the entrance of the forest without accident, and at this moment, the direction of the intersection of the forest was surrounded by a lot of people, most of these people seemed to be in their teens, and all of them were young people from the family.
He Shang's eyes passed through the sparse gap between the human walls, and he could only see that in the center of the intersection, a row of slightly sturdy figures lined up in a row, across the middle of the road, just blocking the only exit passage, and in front of this row of figures, there was a little girl in a pale green pleated skirt and white clothes, it was He Yaqin's little girl.
At this moment, her big black and bright eyes were angrily looking at the figure in front of her, and on her right hand she was clutching a Lingzhi that exuded a stream of aura, and it seemed that it was estimated that the year would be at least a hundred years.
He Yaqin's annoyed gaze fell on the human wall blocking the road, and the anger in her eyes kept emerging, and she asked sharply: "He Yong, don't go too far, you need the elixir to find it yourself, do you want to block the road and rob it?"
The young man named He Yong laughed playfully: "This nearly 100-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, I found it a few years ago, at that time because it was not fully ripe, so I didn't collect it immediately, just left it in place temporarily, I didn't expect that when I was about to come to pick, you actually took the lead and took the things that originally belonged to me as your own, you are young, you didn't learn well, and you stole other people's things!"
Hearing He Yong's reasoning, He Yaqin's eyes emitted a burst of mist, her pretty face turned red with anger, and she gritted her teeth and said, "You...... I'm not a thief!"
This hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum was found by her in a very secret cave, not to mention that in this era of scarcity of elixir, if He Yong had discovered it a long time ago, with his temperament, he was afraid that he would have already included it in his bag, how could she collect it!
He Yong looked at Yaqin's angry cute appearance, licked his lips, the fierce light flashed in his eyes, and sneered: "Yaqin, hand over the Lingzhi to me, in this matter, I will no longer pursue you, otherwise, don't blame me for bullying the small!"
He Yaqin clenched her palms, clenched her teeth, her eyes were full of unwillingness, and she said coldly: "I just destroyed it, and you don't want to get it!"
In fact, He Yaqin didn't care about this hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, her pursuit of the martial arts realm was not so urgent, but He Shang had just recovered from a serious illness, and she thought that she urgently needed some elixir to recuperate her body, which was also the starting point for her to venture out to find the elixir in the forest, and finally found a hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, but she didn't expect to kill a He Yonglai halfway, and she actually wanted to take this Lingzhi for herself.
He Yong groaned slightly, for fear that He Yaqin would make an impulsive move, so he immediately had an idea and proposed: "You are my sister, give you two ways to choose, first, hand over Lingzhi, and the accounts between us will be cleared;
Hearing He Yong's shameless words, He Yaqin frowned, and said categorically: "You don't have any full strength to make me make a choice, or that sentence, even if I destroy it, I won't let you succeed!"
He Yong's face was full of fierce light, and he said angrily: "Yaqin, you are toasting and not eating and drinking, then don't blame me for bullying the small!" As soon as the words fell, he began to use the spiritual power of his whole body, and was about to snatch the Lingzhi over.
"He Yong, I've seen shameless, but I've never seen you so shameless! You're so shameless, do your parents know?" At this moment, a loud voice came from behind the human wall.
He Yong withdrew his spiritual power, looked back suddenly, and immediately laughed, and said breathlessly: "He Shang, it turns out that you are a scholar who has no power to restrain the chicken, the 'monk' is not in the temple to eat fasting and chanting Buddha, and he is here to meddle in things!"
The corners of He Shang's mouth lifted a smile, sighed lightly, and said with a playful smile: "Over the years, I haven't tied a single 'chicken', but a cat and a dog like He Yong have tied a lot, do you want me to tell you one by one?"
Hearing He Shang's words, He Yaqin's face changed abruptly, He Yong has never dealt with He Shang all these years, but she knows that although He Shang is practicing Wendao, but his wisdom is close to a demon, He Yong often falls under his schemes, so far, He Yong really hasn't made any money on him.
"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, He Shang, you dare to be strong without a little spiritual power, this time I won't show mercy to my subordinates, let you have a good memory! This is a chance to give me a chance to clean you up in vain, and I will laugh!"
He Yong faced the peer in front of him who was almost as wise as a demon, and a trace of ruthlessness suddenly rose in his eyes, he had indeed suffered a lot of secret losses in He Shang's hands over the years, only a little sense of accomplishment in force, seeing that the other party had given him an excellent opportunity to vent his anger, He Yong naturally didn't want to miss it.
"Hehe, try it!" He Shang stood with his hands in his hands, indifferently, and his white shirt fluttered in the wind, as if he had already made up his mind, which suddenly made He Yong's confidence in his heart a little weaker.
After all, for so many years, in the contest between the two, He Yong was aggrieved, what can he do if he has cultivation? Others don't really do anything with you at all, and always arrange one perfect trap after another for you to jump into.
In order to avoid falling into He Shang's trap again, He Yong squinted at Yaqin, and suddenly had a plan, and proposed: "Yaqin, we are all brothers and sisters, so let's do it, I'll give you a third way, give me this Lingzhi, I promise not to beat him today, this condition should be okay, right?"
"He Yong, you are such a bastard!" In the face of He Yong's naked threat, He Yaqin bit her lip tightly, her eyes were red, and the tears of grievance swirled in her eyes, and she was full of contradictions in her heart.
He Shang raised his eyelids, a hint of playfulness appeared in his dark eyes, and said slowly: "He Yong, have you played enough majestic, if you have played enough, I will make an exception to satisfy you once today, the two of us have made a move!"
Seeing that He Shang was about to fight with He Yong, for fear that He Shang would suffer a big loss, He Yaqin immediately threw the Ganoderma lucidum in his hand to He Yong, and shouted angrily: "Take it, get out of here!"
I don't know how He Shang did it, seeing that the Ganoderma lucidum was about to be caught by He Yong, suddenly the white shadow in front of him flickered, and the Lingzhi actually reached his hand, only to see him say lightly: "Today I will help Yaqin make the decision, the two of us will compare and compare, if I lose, this Lingzhi belongs to you!"
He Yong was suddenly overjoyed, completely ignoring the mysterious scene just now, and couldn't hide his excitement between his words, and said eagerly: "Is this true?"
The corners of He Shang's mouth twitched, and he snorted coldly: "A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase!"
"Everyone will have to testify to me when the time comes, this is what He Shang asked for himself!" He Yong turned around and explained a few words to the onlookers, then looked at He Shang and sneered: "He Shang, I don't know where your courage comes from, but it makes me admire it very much, just by virtue of this, I won't let you lie in bed for too long this time!"
"That's a lot of nonsense!" The corners of He Shang's mouth brought up a sneer, his body rushed violently, and hit his body hard, a brutal force attacked, He Yong didn't have time to react, he actually knocked him directly to the ground, and rolled twice on the spot before stopping.
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