Chương 17: Uncle, Do These Things Eat People?
Biên tập viên: Misty Cloud Translations
The young girl's teeth were tightly clenched as she nodded: "As long as you let me go, I will not make any moves against you."
After hearing that, Feng Jiu signalled the for the young man to bring the gold ingots over.
The young man walked over, gave the young girl a glance, and handed the gold ingots in his hands to Feng Jiu. Feng Jiu received it and immediately shoved it into her robes before moving the dagger away and tossing it towards the young man.
The young man stepped slightly back to catch the dagger and at the same time, the young girl turned back and raised a leg to kick out at Feng Jiu. "You damned little ruffian! You dare touch me!"
Feng Jiu had not let her guard down. After receiving the gold ingots, she had immediately retreated quickly and the young girl's kick had been in vain.
The young girl wanted to rush forward but at that moment, the middle aged man's deep voice boomed out: "Ying Rou, come back."
"Second Uncle!" The young girl stamped her feet, unwilling to let the matter end just like that. But when she saw her Second Uncle's gaze in warning, and her elder brother's signal with his eyes, she bit down on her lip and slunk her way back to the group.
On the other side, Feng Jiu was finding the six gold ingots in her chest rather heavy and afraid that they would crush the magical herbs kept in the same location, she took the gold out and showed them off to Ling Mo Han saying: "Uncle! See how much money I have! What do you say you let me treat you to some wine later?"
Ling Mo Han cast a glance at her and immediately open up his stride to walk away while Feng Jiu quickly followed hollering: "Hey Uncle! Go a little slower won't you! ?"
Watching as the two people leave one behind the other, the young man's eyes suddenly gave a flash filled with murder and he asked: "Second Uncle, why do we not kill that brat?"
"That blank robed man is no ordinary man. Even I was unable to fully ascertain that man's level of cultivation and that little kid is also very strange. He obviously had not practised any cultivation but still possessed such skills, he's definitely not just a mere beggar."
His voice paused a moment before he continued. "We have more important things to take care of on our trip. So do not stir up unnecessary trouble and this matter ends here. Do not bring it up again."
"Yes!" Although deeply disgruntled, they could do nothing but agree to it. Afterall, compared to the mission at hand on this trip, the matter with the kid was really insignificant.
When she recalled the purpose of the mission at hand, the young girl finally swallowed back her resentment and rage and then asked in excited anticipation. "Second Uncle, have mythical beasts really been born into the Nine Entrapment Woods?"
"Mm, I believe that the respective families will get wind of the news in turn and come to this Nine Entrapment Woods or they might already be somewhere around. So, we will have to move fast to not miss out on the opportunity." The middle aged man nodded as his gaze turned to look deep into the Nine Entrapment Woods, his eyes strongly determined.
Hearing his Second Uncle's words, the young man thought on it a moment and asked: "Could it be possible that those two people are here seeking the mythical beasts as well? I saw them going in a direction deeper in and I am guessing that they targeting at the same goals as us."
The middle aged man's eyes was suddenly filled with vicious malice as he said in his deep voice: "If that is true that we're after the same thing, then we will look for an opportunity to kill them along the way!" And he led the team forward, going deeper into the woods as he spoke.
…..
Up front, Ling Mo Han who had not gone much further suddenly stopped in his tracks, the gaze in his set of deep eyes turned sharp and cold as he scanned the surroundings cautiously.
Feng Jiu saw him stop and took the chance to remove the outer coat on her, quickly twisting it up into a simple makeshift bundle before taking out the herbs she had picked along the way all this time from inside her robes to put them in. Next, she then retrieved the gold ingots and stuffed them in after that, before finally tying the "bundle sack" tightly across her body.
Although the clothes she was wearing were the tattered clothes of a beggar, she had worn several layers of them, hence, removing a piece or two of them did not matter much to her.
But, when she finished tying up the bundle and lifted her head, she was suddenly startled. From in between the trees surrounding them, she saw several sharp fanged unidentifiable bestial forms, their bodies big as oxen, stepping out warily, and she blinked her eyes as she asked: "Uncle, do these things eat people?"
Chương 18: First Glimpse of the Honed Edge!
Biên tập viên: Misty Cloud Translations
"ROAR!"
The response she heard had not come from Ling Mo Han but an ear splitting roar of rage from the ferocious beast before her eyes.
The moment the fierce roar sounded, the massive and ferocious beasts had immediately coiled up and pounced towards the two of them, their wide jaws salivating heavily, exposing long fangs that gleamed, thirsting for blood, a sight that made people shiver in fright.
"Up the tree!" Ling Mo Han's icy gaze swept around, as he hollered in a deep voice.
Upon hearing his call to climb the trees, a wide smile came onto Feng Jiu's face. She had said that the uncle was a nice man!
"Uncle, you be careful yourself too." She slipped quickly up a huge tree beside her nimbly and hugged a wide branch to look down at the scene below, eager to see what kind of moves the uncle would be able to throw out.
But when she spied out of the corner of her eyes from her high vantage point the young man hidden behind them holding up a bow aimed right at the uncle below her, a cold coming glint immediately flashed in her eyes. Her mind raced as she saw one of the ferocious beast ramming itself into the big tree she was on. She released the arm hugging the branch and timed herself to fall off the tree at the same moment of impact from the beast's ramming.
"AHHHH!"
Engaged with more than ten of the ferocious beasts, Ling Mo Han instinctively turned his head back to look and his face darkened slightly. [The troublesome one!] He was about to summon his powers to catch her when he saw her wink at him. Upon seeing that, his eyebrows creased together as he swung his sword at the ferocious beast charging in at him.
At the same moment, after Feng Jiu fell to the ground, she immediately picked up her legs and ran screaming: "Argh! Help!"
Her movements were queer. Obviously not possessing a sliver of mystical aura as she ran around haphazardly among the ferocious beasts, she had somehow avoided being hit. After running a circle around them, she did not run to hide behind Ling Mo Han but ended up running back the way they had come.
"Help me….."
The ten over men hidden behind a clump of trees not too far away saw Feng Jiu running in their direction, with her being chased by seven or eight of those ferocious beasts, and their faces suddenly paled.
"Damn it!"
The young man cursed softly. He hadn't been able to get a good aim with the pulled back bow in his hand due to the erratic movements of the black robed figure in front of him and when he saw the ferocious beasts running towards them, he knew his assassination attempt had flopped, Hence, he quickly shifted the bow slightly to train his aim directly at the little beggar and released it.
"Ready yourselves for battle!" The middle aged man shouted out and his mystical aura flared out as he whipped out the short sword at his hip.
When she saw the young man release his arrow at her, the corners of Feng Jiu's mouth curled up like hooks, turning into a strange smile that looked decidedly sinister.
Once bitten twice shy, against people who had repeatedly tried to take her life, she would however not repeatedly spare them theirs.
Furthermore, her hands were beginning to itch. She would use this group of people to test her mettle in this world!
Her targets determined, her murderous killer instinct swarmed out, a chilling aura filled with a conqueror's overwhelming presence flared. Just by the change in her eyes and the aura emanating from her being, it had caused the middle aged man, their leader, to suddenly find his heart awashed in illogical fear, shuddering in absolute terror!
He had come across all kinds of people throughout his life, and he was acutely aware that the little beggar at this moment was a completely different person from before. His sudden dominating conqueror's presence, that chilling murderous aura, and that exhilarating air oozing with confidence within those eyes, was enough to make him tremble in fear.
But, this person possessed not a shard of mystical power. He believed that no matter how strong an aura the little beggar was able to push out, there was no way the little beggar can overpower him in battle!
Ling Mo Han's gaze fell into the little beggar girl as well, and his deep eyes flashed a bright glint.
As expected, she wasn't such a harmless and simple girl as she portrayed herself to be. But thinking about it made him realised that he should have noticed the little beggar wasn't an ordinary person. What kind of an ordinary girl would dare to enter the Nine Entrapment Woods alone?
However, without an ounce of mystical power in her, she would not be a match for those people.
But very soon, he came to yet another realisation that he had still underestimated her…..
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