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45.03% Learning To Live As A Cultivator / Chapter 145: Chapter One Hundred And Forty Five - Jin Li watches a migration

Chapter 145: Chapter One Hundred And Forty Five - Jin Li watches a migration

Sun was somewhat used to the strenuous exercises and practices his Master insisted of him. His muscles no longer screamed for half a day after the 'warm ups', he no longer fell asleep as he soaked in the medicinal baths and he no longer needed to be dragged from his bed of a morning. However, it did not mean that he didn't seek a break from it every now and then. Seeing as hiding and complaining had gotten him nowhere, he found a new tactic; attending lectures. This way he could 'seem' like a diligent student, while dozing in the back of the lecture room.

He was not alone, but Jin Li was not attending the lecture willingly. He'd broken one to many mannequins and had been banned from the training grounds. All of the arena's had been claimed for various reasons and there were still too few who would accept his challenges anyway. Basically, attending the lecture and brooding was better than lying upon his bed and brooding. At least the images of Leon lying upon a bed beneath him flashed less before his eyes here.

The lecture was about... actually neither of them were paying enough attention, so they didn't really know nor did they care.

As the Teacher droned on at the front of the classroom, he was suddenly interrupted by a beaming face appearing in the room's entrance. "Teacher Corvus," the Lecturer greeted him.

"Ah... Teacher..." Corvus covered up the fact that he had no idea of this man's name with a cough. The man must have started teaching while he was out and about in the world. "I was wondering if my apprentice was attending your lecture... Sun! There you are!"

The napping boy was startled from his sweet dreams, falling backwards in a panic. No one moved to catch him, but he did receive several snickers. Jin Li did not laugh, but did not help him regain face either. "Teacher Corvus," Sun greeted as he rose to his feet. "Are you looking for me?"

"En!" Corvus agreed, cheerfully. "I've found something entertaining for us to do! Oh and you might as well bring Jin Li along, the more the merrier, right?"

Several envious glances were cast Sun's way, but the boy's expression was filled with black lines, making them wonder why. His Teacher was taking him out to play, surely that was better than a lecture on enhancement pills and their side effects?! Of course they had no idea that Corvus' idea of entertainment usually meant a world of suffering for his disciple. But while Sun descended the steps to the classroom's exit, Jin Li followed with less trepidation, his sword hand itching to get started.

As it was, the 'expedition' was actually a gathering of inner school martial artists and Beast Tamers observing the biannual migration of a herd beast named the Three Horned Greater Roe Buck. The beast was just slightly smaller than an equine and much more stocky of figure, with a small tail and patterned furred coat. They had three, hard clawed toes on each foot rather than hooves, thus they could grip the mountain side better. The males were also crowned with a triage of antlers and were particularly violent during this time of year as they made their way towards their traditional mating grounds. Fights would break out as they travelled through the mountains owned by the institute. These males might get separated from the main herd and cause havoc on an uncharted detour. Animals, weaker beasts and ordinary people had been hurt and even killed in their wake.

So the school always had groups of selected students watch the herds and make sure that they kept on track whenever possible. They also had to protect the herd from opportunistic poachers. The mountains were already suffering from these vermin and though the Three Horned Greater Roe Buck was not an uncommon beast, its meat, antlers and fur were all commodities to be bought and sold for reasonable money. Their breeding grounds was sheltered within a long dormant volcano that just happened to be surrounded by a deep gorge protected by poisonous mists, that the beasts themselves were immune too and also filled with large predators. The Roe Buck's northern home was hard to reached due to the thick, jagged mountain range that the creatures overcame each spring. So during the migration was the prime time for poachers.

It was just that the poachers usually attracted the wrath of the beasts that they hunted and potentially caused more headaches for the institute.

Corvus, Sun and Jin Li observed from the shelter of a tree a few metres away from the running beasts and Sun yawned loudly. "This is better than the lecture?"

Corvus pouted. "When I was a student," he began, reminiscing, "the herd was a lot more vicious. I even had to help Corne take down an old herd leader who strayed too far and began threatening the village to the east of the institute."

Sun's eyes lit up brightly, thus Corvus began to embellish his tale into one of a life and death situation in which Corne was pierced through the stomach by the angry beast's antlers and how several villagers had been wounded mortally by the beast beforehand. Corvus stated that he had risked life and limb to create a distraction that their comrades could rescue the villagers and feed them pills to save their lives.

"If I recall correctly," Corne drawled, suddenly appearing on a tree close by, "the villager who got hurt fell over his own feet in a panic to get away and you distracted the old Buck because you laughed so hard you almost peed yourself. I had to push you out of the way so you didn't get trampled when the beast ran at you and as for being pierced by the antlers... it was a small scratch that was fixed by a One Heart Pill. That old Buck ran back to his herd not long after." Pike, who happened to be with his Master, turned away, but could not hide his trembling shoulders as they shook from repressed laughter.

Corvus chuckled and waved away his older brother's statement. "Is that what happened? I don't recall it all that well...". He thought about adding some excuses, but his words were drowned out by a sudden scream.


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Author’s note; Sorry about the late update, I had a rough idea of what to write, decided it was crap, then spent the whole day replanning things so I could get to where I needed to be.

Chapter 146: Chapter One Hundred And Forty Six - Corvus shows off again

Not all poachers were men, just as not all poachers were greedy for gold and silver. Some were simply down upon their luck and looking for a quick, albeit dangerous way to feed their hungry families for a few days until their luck turned for the better. However, these poachers just happened to be men of dark intent and reputation. As Cultivators, they were failures, unable to break through the thick bottle neck that separated the third and fourth stages. Unable to seek satiation in power, they sought it in money, but with their lofty ideals, they could no longer live satisfied by the hard working ways of commoners and they lacked the savviness of merchants. So they sought a 'fast profit' by poaching, taking what they wanted from the land, no matter who they belonged to, in order to make money.

They were not gentlemen, they were not honourable and they were opportunistic. And at this time, they had not discovered a small number of Greater Roe Buck that happened to stray from the herd to be slaughtered by their readied weapons, but two lovely, young beauties and their not so able male protector.

When the two Teacher-brothers and their students raced to where the scream had emanated from, they had been expecting to rescue foolish students or servants (hired by the school) from a furious stag. Instead they came upon a scene that made even the rakish Corvus turn serious.

Four unpleasant men, skins stained with dirt and simple leathers upon their frames, were reaching for two panicked and crying girls who clung to each other, one terrified, the other cursing; "Do you have any idea just who my father is?" To one side was a boy, beaten and bloodied, clutching a wound in his stomach and breathing shallowly.

There was a quick exchange of glances.

Corvus dropped from the tree limbs to the foliage covered grounds first. "Excuse me," he said, with a sinister hint to his jovial sounding words. "May I ask, what are your intentions towards those young ladies?"

The four men jeered and looked at the man before them. His clean, attractive appearance automatically caused them to feel disdain and while they could not sense his level of cultivation, they blindly believed it could not be much more than their own. After all, such a pretentious, foppish man hardly looked like an immortal Cultivator far removed from the trivials of the mortal world. And there were four of them and just one of him.

Thinking this way, they turned their attentions away from the girls, believing that they would be able to deal with this intruder quickly then enjoy the spoils. They grabbed their fallen weapons and waved them threateningly at Corvus who put his hands in their air as if worried while saying; "Ho, can we not talk about this?"

"Tch," one of the men spat and launched an attack on Corvus, who danced easily out of the way of his heavy axe, before ducking beneath the wild swing of another's sword.

"Ah, you missed," Corvus teased before adding; "you know, you'd have better control of your sword if you adjusted your grip just a little..." The knife wielder was a little more challenging to face, but not so much that Corvus was worried. Still the incorrigible man complimented his technique as he dodged the sharp blades. His sharp tongue and foolish play irritated the men, angering them beyond reason. Step by step, the men were drawn further away from the girls, who were quick to stand up and create distance themselves.

Sun leapt down and approached the wounded youth. "Ah, I don't have any healing pills!" He lamented as he noticed the seriousness of the wounds.

"Here," Jin Li pressed a pure coloured Blood Pill into his palm, which was then fed to the boy. On noticing the pair, the girls quickly made their way to their sides.

"You saved us!" One said in adoration, while Jin Li looked down upon them with a frown. "Surely this is fate." Sun rolled his eyes, what saviour? Wasn't it his Master that was the one who lead the poachers away?

Speaking of whom, once the girls were no longer within the poachers' reach, Pike and Teacher Corne joined in the fray. "Stop playing around, brother," the latter said as he nearly sliced one of the poachers in half with his broadsword. The head of another was lopped from his shoulders before he could turn around to defend himself.

"Poo!" Corvus complained, suddenly grabbing the neck of the sword wielder and crushing his windpipe effortlessly. The knife wielder was quick to react and attempt to flee, but his life was snuffed away just as quickly by Corne, who suddenly appeared before him and ran him through.

The three men left the bodies where they lie; they would later end up in some scavenger beasts' stomach and returned to the students. Pike glanced briefly at the girls who apart from looking a little pale of face, seemed otherwise unharmed and glanced at the wounded boy. "How is he?"

"We gave him a pill and the bleeding has already stopped," marvelled Sun, who was staring at the stomach wound. He could have sworn that the injury was deeper, but if that were so, a mere Blood Pill surely wouldn't have produced such results so quickly!

As if understanding his thoughts, Jin Li added, dismissively; "It was likely not as serious as it looked." Pike nodded in agreement.

"Many thanks, Teachers, for your timely arrival," the girls bowed respectfully at the two older men, the girl who spoke had a voice like a chiming, glass bell, clear and delicate. It gave both men pause, even causing Corvus to glance at his older brother with puppy dog eyes.

Corne sighed and seeing as his useless sibling had opted to make him the disciplinary, he cleared his throat and began; "This area is out of bounds for unaccompanied students during this period. All schools have been notified. Thus begs the question, what are you three doing here?"


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No excuses, I was just being lazy x

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