The emperor's guards marched to the hunting ground, only to see the team pennant waving, crowded, the hunting ground is also hundreds of steps around a sentry tower, observe the surrounding movements at any time, there are special rangers in the distance responsible for driving wild animals to the hunting ground, convenient for the dignitaries to hunt.

At this time, tens of thousands of horses rode a knight of the forbidden army holding a command flag, and went straight to Mu Sheng's hunting team, he handed over the token and said, "Qi Changping Jun, this is the hunting ground token, please go up to the designated hunting ground to hunt." ”

"yes, I see."

When the knight saw Mu Sheng accept the token, he turned around and rode back to the team.

As the leader of the team, Mu Sheng received a token from the flag officer of the guard, which was to designate this team to go to the hunting ground demarcated in the northwest direction, the hunting ground was very large, and it was impossible for Mu Sheng to hunt in the same guard as the emperor.

In addition to a few trusted important ministers of the imperial court accompanying the emperor's guards, the emperor is generally surrounded by the Praetorian Guards, the Imperial Forest Guard, three circles inside and three circles outside, and they are tightly protected, for fear that the beasts will collide with the emperor's royal car uncontrollably during hunting, of course, sometimes it is not only the beasts that are guarded against......

Mu Sheng led the team to the designated hunting ground and officially started the hunting activities.

Mu Sheng looked back at the few guards behind his birth, and ordered, "A few of you go to the south and find that the beast is believed in the whistle arrow, let's take the east road......"

The task was arranged, and several guards gave up their promises! Riding their horses away, they were responsible for exploring and guarding ahead, and Mu Sheng personally took ten guards to go on a safari on another road.

Hunting is not only the embodiment of individual archery skills, but also the embodiment of team combat, there are vanguard scouts to find prey, the team behind has to ambush in advance on the way to escape the prey, and there are personnel responsible for pursuing the prey, it is very important to see a person's ability to organize a team and command the battle.

The predecessor of the Great Jin Dynasty, the Jin State since the beginning of the feudal Liang land, because it is located in the northwest, has fought hundreds of years of war with the Huns led by the grassland tribes, in order to deal with the military threat of the northern grassland, the Jin State hunts from top to bottom, hunting, and is also held every year, and some private social activities of the magnates are usually based on inviting each other to hunt.

Mu Sheng led the team to track and hunt, his archery was accurate, almost no arrows, and he really shot and hunted a lot of wild animals along the way.

While they were dabbling, one of the guards' horses was suddenly frightened and nearly tossed the knight over.

The knight shouted, "Your Excellency, be careful, there are demon beasts." ”

I saw a black shadow shaped like a pig rushing towards the horse team, the beast's fur was like a spike, and it was as fast as the wind, and the chief of the guard whistled, and the guards immediately scattered, and around the beast, the knights opened their bows and arrows to attack the beast.

Mu Sheng rode to the left, saw the right time, and an arrow flew out and hit the demon beast, the demon beast roared, and he was even more panicked, wanting to break out of the encirclement of everyone.

At this time, the hunting horse team gave full play to the numerical advantage, and under the precise arrow point of Gongzi Sheng, the demon beast was hit by more than ten arrows in a row, and finally let out a wail and fell to the ground.

Mu Sheng immediately stepped forward to check the corpse of this demon beast, he took out his waist knife and cut open the belly of the demon beast and took out a demon pill the size of a grain of rice from it. The demon pill is the essence of this beast's cultivation for many years, and it is generally located on the chest.

Mu Sheng wiped the blood stains on the demon pill, put it in his arms, and said to himself, "It's a pity, it's only been ten years of cultivation, how can there be demon beasts here in the hunting ground?" ”

Mu Sheng turned on his horse, turned his head and instructed the guards, "Put away the prey, let's continue to ......"

The legend of the monster beast is a remnant of ancient times, and the record in the Taoist Sutra is that the battle of the primeval gods collapsed, which led to the alienation of many ordinary beasts in the mountains and forests to produce demon beasts.

Demon beasts can be cultivated, they have a certain ability to use strange arts, and their IQ is higher than that of ordinary beasts, which is very difficult to get, and there are also professional monk demon hunting groups among the people, who are specifically responsible for hunting demon beasts, and ordinary people above the middle and high level of demon beasts can't deal with it at all, they can only be made by monks, and the demon beast that Mu Sheng won just now is only ten years old, and it is only the lowest level of demon beasts.

The second is that there are too many valuable things on the demon beasts, and many monks are the biggest financiers, and the purchase of these materials to refine magic weapons and refining pills are all of the highest quality, and the beast tooth magic weapon given to him by the master is refined by the bones of high-level demon beasts.

Along the way, the horse hunting team stopped and continued to hunt, and the knights of the guard were also amazed by Changping Jun's miraculous archery skills, and invisibly, Mu Sheng's personal prestige was slowly established.

After a while, a sharp whistle flew out of the forest in the distance, and all the knights of the horse team immediately became vigilant, which means that they have encountered a fierce beast.

When Mu Sheng heard the sound, he immediately led the guards to support, and after the horse team entered the forest, he saw that several scout knights he had sent out to guard before were chased and killed by a tabby leopard.

The leading knight shouted, "Hurry up, it's a demon beast again." ”

The tabby leopard was as fast as the wind, and Mu Sheng directly opened his bow and arrows to snipe at the footsteps of his pursuit, and the knights immediately dispersed to cover the retreat of his teammates.

Mu Sheng looked back at the demon beast pattern, it was actually an intermediate demon beast, no wonder the scout knight wanted to escape, the mid-level demon beast was already intelligent, and it was difficult for ordinary people to deal with it. At this time, he was suspicious in his heart, the demon beast is a very strong sense of territory, and he usually does not go out of his hunting range, and usually hides in the deep mountains and old forests to cultivate, it is difficult to see, but today he accidentally saw two demon beasts on the periphery of the mountains and forests!

How could there be demon beasts in this ritual hunt? Mu Sheng speculated in his heart that it might be that the location of the hunting ground assigned was indeed a little too marginal, and his luck was not good.

Mu Sheng didn't think about it, turned around and opened his bow and arrow, and another arrow hit the tabby leopard's left eye, only to hear it roar, the knights and horses stood up in shock, and the knights were still running, while turning back to shoot, although the knights' archery level was not as good as Gongzi Sheng, but the victory was in the crowd, and many arrow clusters still hit the tabby leopard chasing behind them.

The demon beast saw that everyone was not easy to mess with, a black shadow flashed and rushed towards the knight to attack, and when everyone shouted angrily, the arrows rained down, but the demon beast actually shook a shot, and suddenly pounced downward, and in a few jumps, it went left into the grove and disappeared, it obviously saw that the situation was not good, and ran away with a move.

The middle-level demon beast has thick skin and thick flesh and strong strength, and Mu Sheng's current strength is not an opponent against his head-on, not to mention that Mu Sheng's personal guards are just ordinary people.

Mu Sheng summoned the demon beast scout and asked, "What's going on?" How could there be monsters in such a place? ”

The scout stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, take a closer look at the monster beast skins we hunted just now......

Mu Sheng took a closer look when he heard this, and saw a faint white mark on the fur.

Mu Sheng's tone was a little surprised, "This is the Beast Master's Mark......

The scout said, "Enlightened Prince, it is speculated that there may be a beast master in the vicinity, otherwise it is impossible for these low-level demon beasts to run to the periphery of this forest......"

Before the scout's words fell, a guard beside Mu Sheng shouted, "Be careful. ”

Mu Sheng was alert, and immediately made a decision, and rolled down directly from the horse, he only felt that a black shadow flashed behind him, and there was a sound of tearing cloth, and the cloak behind him had been grabbed into strips of cloth, and it was actually the tabby leopard who went and returned, killing a horse pistol.

Mu Sheng lay on the ground and broke out in a cold sweat, just now he reacted a little slower and would be seriously injured if he didn't die, but he didn't expect to shoot it blind in one eye, this beast still holds a grudge.

The demon beast tabby leopard saw that a blow missed, and tried to escape, all the guards have opened their bows and arrows, and the arrows are all beckoned to this beast like flying locusts, it jumped a few times, galloped to the edge of the forest, roared at the knights, shook its body, shook off all the arrows, turned around and dived into the forest and disappeared again, if the ordinary beast had been shot on the spot.

When Mu Sheng saw the demon beast running away, he immediately turned over and got on his horse, and ordered, "Be vigilant, this demon beast has opened its mind, it's too difficult, let's evacuate this place immediately." ”

"No!" The knights immediately withdrew from the hunting grounds.

Mu Sheng led the team to camp on the flat grassland not far from the hunting ground, this tabby leopard is not easy to deal with under the cover of the forest, and it can't play the advantage of sneaking ambush on the grassland with a wide field of vision.

The knights sat around the campfire and rested.

The scout came and reported, "Your Majesty, we have smeared the arrows with Deepavali powder in accordance with your lord's orders, and if this beast dares to come again, the guard will make it unable to eat and walk around." ”

Mu Sheng said, "Well, it's very good, be prepared, in case we encounter a demon beast, we can deal with it." ”

At this time, he looked at the demon beast skin in his hand, and fell into deep thought, the demon beast ran from the dense forest to the periphery, there were only two possibilities, one was the monster beast beast master's catastrophe, or the beast tide caused by the two beast masters fighting for territory.

The so-called beast master is a demon beast that has reached the realm of transformation, which is equivalent to the four elephants of the human race, the strength of each beast master is very terrifying, some demon beasts with long cultivation years are covered with copper skin and iron bones, and the monks of the same level are not opponents at all.

Mu Sheng suddenly remembered something and asked the chief guard, "By the way, have you sent someone to inform the base camp?" Don't let the monster run too far and collide with the emperor's royal car. ”

The chief guard said, "Your Excellency, please rest assured, someone has been sent to inform you." ”

"Well, that's good......"

Before the words fell, everyone heard a thunderous beast roar erupting from the depths of the mountains and forests, and it was a roar of lightning and thunder, and the birds flew in the mountains and forests in an instant, and the beasts roared endlessly.

Mu Sheng immediately ordered, "All on alert." ”

The camp was immediately put on alert, and all the knights methodically entered the combat positions to deal with possible surprises.

Mu Sheng looked at the woods shrouded in dense fog in the distance, and his heart moved, it seemed that his guess was correct, it should be the beast tide caused by the battle of the beast master, they were a little unlucky, and the hunting ground was relatively remote, and it happened to hit the muzzle of the gun.

When the knights heard the roar of the beast in the distance, their expressions were a little panicked, and the chief guard stepped forward and asked, "Your Majesty, what should we do next?" ”

Mu Sheng said with a solemn face, "Don't panic, everyone gets on the horse and stands by......"

The chief of the guard reminded again, "Your Majesty, there seems to be an abnormality in the southeast direction......

I saw a herd of beasts running through the forest in the distance, a few beast roars, and then a roar of lightning and thunder.

Mu Sheng was shocked in his heart, turned his head and told everyone, "Everyone be careful, it may be a high-level demon beast that can use spells, if there is a slight abnormality, we will run first, with our strength, we can't fight these demon beasts......"