Chapter 63: The Hidden Person
“I’ll come to assist you.”
Su Yan’s gaze was like an arrow. Seeing the Gray Thorn Wolf wanting to charge into the team, he drew his bow and shot.
The arrow’s momentum was not inferior to that during the day. With a puffing sound, it had already embedded into the body of an early First Order Gray Thorn Wolf.
Gao Zheng spread his arms wide, intercepting the Gray Thorn Wolf pouncing in front of him at the waist and breaking it, snapping its spine. Glancing at this scene, he shouted loudly: “Good shot!”
The two respectively killed enemies. The remaining disciples also reacted, raising shields and swinging blades. The Inner Disciples used Monkey Leap Step to advance and engage.
In an instant, the camp fell into combat, with firelight and human shadows crisscrossing endlessly.
Su Yan weaved through the crowd, his mind calm as water, his longbow in hand continuously releasing cold arrows.
Every strike landed at just the right moment. Whenever a Gray Thorn Wolf gained the upper hand or exposed a weakness, an arrow would shoot over.
He was like a ruthless sniper controlling the field, and it was precisely because of his actions that the team’s casualties were minimized.
‘Nearly ranked, early First Order. At most First-order Mid-stage. Fortunately, the Gray Thorn Wolf’s strength isn’t strong.’
At that moment, suddenly three Gray Thorn Wolves charged toward Su Yan.
The beasts had low intelligence, but their ferocity was full. Their hunting instincts made them choose to kill this constantly wandering guy.
“Be careful!”
Dian Jing pounced over, intercepting a Gray Thorn Wolf. Fierce Ape Three Forms and Monkey Fist struck with wide sweeps, wrestling the beast to the ground.
He had achieved Skin Refining Great Accomplishment, but that Gray Thorn Wolf was also early First Order, with comparable strength.
The remaining two Gray Thorn Wolves charged straight at Su Yan.
Come to die!
A sharp glint flashed in Su Yan’s eyes. He showed no fear at all. The fine steel longbow’s body flicked up, interrupting the pouncing Gray Thorn Wolf’s lumbar vertebra.
The Gray Thorn Wolf from the side opened its bloody maw, biting toward Su Yan’s thigh root.
Su Yan’s face showed cold light. With a Sea Suppressing strike from Fierce Ape Three Forms, qi and blood gathered, and he punched out, smashing that head to pieces.
He grabbed an arrow from the quiver and threw it out like a flying knife, instantly piercing the Gray Thorn Wolf entangled with Dian Jing.
Dian Jing disengaged and solemnly gave thanks. A rumbling sound came at that moment.
The two followed the sound and looked. The Rock Tiger Demon’s scales had been smashed by Li Jinshan’s hammer, and one head was forcibly torn off.
The remaining Gray Thorn Wolves were now held back and retreated in fear.
Suddenly, Su Yan’s expression shifted. The Velvet Fire Scorpion Insect sent a message.
His gaze flickered, but he did not chase out directly.
“Who’s there!”
He suddenly shouted loudly, then shot an arrow toward the direction where the Velvet Fire Scorpion Insect had detected something amiss.
This arrow of his used skillful strength. The arrow’s tail feathers had been quietly adjusted by him, making the whistling sound through the air much louder than usual.
Li Jinshan’s face changed abruptly. He fiercely looked toward the dense forest in that position, and sounds of panicked fleeing already came.
In the earlier battle, he had been held back by the Rock Tiger Demon and hadn’t noticed for a moment.
But now coming back to his senses, how could he not know what was going on?
Immediately, his anger blazed. His eyes were like a tiger’s, and he rushed out in one step.
Fighting sounds came from the forest. After just a few breaths, Li Jinshan, covered in blood, strode out through the shrubs.
In his hand, he dragged two half-dead people, both in strong suits, their bones broken.
Li Jinshan threw them to the ground, and the pain made them wail incessantly.
“Little Mountain Association and Seven Blades Martial Arts School scum!”
The anger of the Golden Ape Martial Arts School crowd surged up at once.
“Kill them!”
“Avenge ourselves on them!”
The group was impassioned. Anyone ambushed in the middle of the night would harbor a fire in their heart.
However, Li Jinshan’s gloomy gaze swept over: “Quiet!”
He was furious inside, but he knew they couldn’t afford to fight.
The Seven Blades Martial Arts School people who came to do these things had clean hands, with only these Little Mountain Association and Seven Blades Martial Arts School guards.
Even if they caught them red-handed, the ones who acted weren’t them. How could they pin the crime on the other side?
Such a firefight would have the Golden Ape Martial Arts School forced to answer at their door the next day.
“Pack up and settle accounts once in the mountains.”
He almost gnashed his teeth. Hunting in the mountains meant life and death were fated. The losses tonight would all be paid back by them.
“Bang”
Everyone felt frustrated inside, kicking over things in front of them, yet helpless.
The group gradually dispersed, but Li Jinshan noticed Su Yan walking over.
His nose twitched slightly, then he actually squatted down and probed near those two.
“Junior Brother, what are you doing?”
Su Yan groped around and suddenly found two bottles on those two, opened them to smell, and tossed them to Li Jinshan.
“Main ingredient is Blue Mist Flower, others I can’t identify, but this stuff should attract feral beasts and stimulate their ferocity.”
Li Jinshan understood immediately. A cold glint flashed in his eyes: “Those dog scum used this to lure the Rock Tiger Demon.”
“Repay them in their own coin.”
Su Yan incited from the side. Since the other side struck first, they naturally wouldn’t hold back.
“They can use feral beasts as knives, can’t we?”
Li Jinshan was moved.
Gao Zheng at the side also said: “Right, Senior Brother, we’ll go too.”
“Good. Gao Zheng, come with me. Let Zhou Gao stay here to guard against accidents. Tonight, we’ll make Yin Ruguang pay his blood debt with blood.”
Li Jinshan only selected Gao Zheng, Ma Shengming, Zhao Bao, and a few others, then instructed Su Yan: “You and Zhou Gao stay at the camp side. For the Qing Ya Valley trip, I’ll credit you with a share of merit.”
Su Yan had discovered the hidden enemies and pointed out the medicine’s effect. This merit was undeniable, and crediting an extra share was only right.
However, Su Yan had his own plans: “Senior Brother, I’ll go too.”
“Junior Brother, you haven’t reached Muscle and Bone Realm yet, just Skin Refining Realm. If an accident happens, it could be dangerous.”
However, before Li Jinshan’s words finished falling, tiger leopard thunder sounds came from Su Yan’s muscles and bones, and his aura condensed.
“I’m also Muscle and Bone.”
His gaze burned: “That arrow today was aimed at me.”
Li Jinshan widened his eyes. Su Yan had joined just over two months ago and already reached Muscle and Bone. This talent was unmatched even in the Golden Ape Martial Arts School, perhaps in all of Yun Cang Town.
He pondered for a moment and roughly guessed Su Yan’s character, then nodded: “Good, you’re in, but safety first.”
The few hurriedly packed things, quietly changed clothes, covered their faces, divided the two bottles of beast-luring powdered medicine, then quickly headed toward Qing Ya Valley.
They had all come for revenge, so their pace was extremely fast. The originally four or five li mountain path that would take at least an hour was reached in less than half an hour, arriving around Qing Ya Valley.
“Set up the powdered medicine, each go lure some feral beasts, find good hiding spots, and when the feral beasts invade, immediately return separately.”
“Understood.”
Outside Qing Ya Valley, the four split up in directions and began setting up the powdered medicine.
Su Yan chose the east, striding over quickly. The shrubs there rustled, and the White Bone Poison Centipede drilled out.
“Seven Blades Martial Arts School and Little Mountain Association are indeed greedy and reckless. Good, let some more of you die today.”
Cold light flickered in his eyes. Calling Li Jinshan for revenge was a spur-of-the-moment idea, also borrowing a knife to kill.
If only the White Bone Poison Centipede, it would still be a bit short, but now there was something to play with.
First send them a wave of feral beasts, then plan further.
He gently patted the White Bone Poison Centipede’s head. Immediately, it burrowed underground and quietly drilled over.
Although unable to go deep underground, this kind of lurking was enough.
He was about to start luring monsters.
A bit late with the overtime work, sorry. Today got the editor’s notice that it’ll likely go on shelves around October 1st. Those who need to invest can jump on now. September’s irregular updates were because the unit suddenly notified full-month overtime, every day past 9pm, too busy, sorry.
