Chapter 17

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　　“Baa…”
　　Just as Xu Taiping was about to approach the location of the trap, he suddenly heard a sheep bleat.
　　“Could it be that I really hunted a yellow sheep？”
　　Xu Taiping’s heart suddenly filled with joy.
　　The taste of roasted Mongolian gazelle meat is much better than that of wild boar, especially when paired with the perilla leaves from his family’s spiritual herb garden.
　　“It seems I’ll have a delicious meal tonight.”
　　As he thought this, he quickly ran to the trap.
　　……
　　When he arrived at the trap.
　　After seeing that the branches covering the trap were gone, Xu Taiping was even more certain that there was prey in the trap.
　　“Woo…”
　　Just as Xu Taiping was about to lean over and see if the prey in the trap was really a Mongolian gazelle, a low growl of a wild beast suddenly came from behind him.
　　“Bang！”
　　Almost instinctively, Xu Taiping jumped up from the spot and, relying on his foot strength, leaped directly to the opposite side of the trap.
　　“Roar！”
　　The moment Xu Taiping jumped to the opposite side of the trap, a gray wolf as big as an ordinary tiger pounced on the place where he had originally stood, and a small tree with a diameter of about a bowl was directly broken by it.
　　“Wolf？ Or a demonic wolf！”
　　Looking at the huge gray wolf, Xu Taiping’s hairs stood on end.
　　When hunting with his grandfather, he had seen wolves more than once, but compared with the wolf in front of him, they were simply insignificant and not worth mentioning at all.
　　“Awoo！…”
　　Just when Xu Taiping was filled with astonishment, that gray wolf leaped up again and pounced towards Xu Taiping on the opposite side of the trap.
　　“Bang！”
　　Xu Taiping rolled on the ground and successfully dodged the pounce of the gray wolf. Then he pulled out the hunting knife at his waist and ran towards the east of the mountain forest.
　　“Roar！”
　　Although his running speed at this time had far exceeded that of an ordinary adult, he still couldn’t compare with this demon wolf in front of him. He was caught up in just a few breaths.
However, Xu Taiping had calmed down at this time. He wasn’t flustered because the demon wolf was right behind him. Instead, he ran very nimbly and tortuously in the mountain forest.
　　This was still taught to him by his grandfather. When encountering wild beasts in the mountains, never run in a straight line, but detour and circle around them.
　　“Bang！”
Just at this moment, because the demon wolf turned too sharply, it accidentally hit a big tree as thick as a person’s embrace and broke it.
　　After catching a glimpse of this scene from the corner of his eye, Xu Taiping immediately stopped and then resolutely set up the arrow and pulled the bow.
　　He didn’t aim at the demon wolf’s head but at its lungs.
　　“Whoosh！”
　　Just when the demon wolf stood up again, Xu Taiping directly pulled the bowstring full and then resolutely released the arrow.
　　“Bang！”
　　Perhaps it was good luck, or perhaps because his eyesight and arm strength had greatly increased after cultivation, Xu Taiping’s arrow precisely hit the body of the demonic wolf！
　　“Roar！”
However, what Xu Taiping didn’t expect was that the fur of the demonic wolf was extremely tough. His arrow only pierced the epidermis. Not only did it not kill the wolf, but it instead stimulated the demonic wolf to become even more violent.
　　Seeing this, Xu Taiping didn’t hesitate and immediately picked up his bow and arrow and once again ran quickly towards the east of the mountain forest.
And this time, the frenzied demonic wolf didn’t care if there were trees in front of it. It simply broke them all.
　　In this way, the distance between Xu Taiping and the demonic wolf quickly shortened.
　　“Come on！”
　　But just when Xu Taiping was less than three zhang away from the demonic wolf and came to the side of a big tree with a cloth strip hanging on it, he suddenly stopped, pulled out the hunting knife from his waist, and then turned around and roared at the demonic wolf, putting on a posture of life and death.
　　“Roar！”
This demonic wolf had already been irritated by Xu Taiping. Now, seeing his provocation like this it immediately let out a roar, jumped up, opened its mouth to reveal a mouthful of fangs, and pounced on Xu Taiping extremely fiercely.
　　“Bang！”
　　Just as the demon wolf was about to swallow Xu Taiping in one gulp, Xu Taiping suddenly and violently reversed the blade of his knife and slashed at a vine on the big tree beside him.
　　“Swish！”
　　The moment the vine was cut off, a wooden spike made from a log as thick as a water bucket, hung by a thick vine, flew out from beside Xu Taiping and just happened to meet the pouncing demon wolf.
　　“Aow！”
　　With a shrill cry, the huge wooden spike, taking advantage of the momentum of its swing, heavily stabbed into the chest of the demon wolf.
　　This wooden spike was originally prepared by Xu Taiping to deal with wild boars, but unexpectedly it came in handy at this time.
　　“Roar！”
　　However, soon Xu Taiping discovered that the thickness of the demon wolf’s skin and flesh was simply unimaginable. Even that wooden spike was not able to completely pierce it.
　　“I can only give it a try.”
　　In the critical moment, Xu Taiping held the hunting knife with both hands and jumped up. Then, regardless of whether it would cause the disorder of the true qi operation, he blindly transferred the true qi in his dantian and gathered it on his arms. Finally, he slashed the knife heavily on the wound on the demon wolf’s lung.
　　“Bang！”
　　There was another loud noise in the mountain forest.
　　The knife that Xu Taiping slashed out with the urging of the true qi actually cut open the lung of the demon wolf alive, and the blood immediately sprayed out like raindrops.
　　“Click…”
　　Before Xu Taiping could even come to his senses, the hunting knife in his hand broke into several pieces, and his two arms began to swell rapidly. In the blink of an eye, they swelled up like elephant legs.
　　The intense pain woke him up.
　　“Not good, the true qi has started to run amok！”
　　Seeing this, Xu Taiping’s heart tightened. Then he sat cross-legged and began to operate the “Canxia Gong” to guide all the randomly running true qi in his arms back to the dantian.
　　“Hoo…”
　　After a while, Xu Taiping, who finally managed to make the true qi in his body return to a stable operation, let out a long sigh of relief.
　　At this moment, his heart was full of fear.
　　Just now, on impulse, he suddenly operated the true qi, almost causing the true qi in his body to run out of control, and the consequences would be disastrous.
　　“I remember that in the description of Yanglu Mountain, there are no jackals and wolves here at all. How could a wolf suddenly appear, and it’s still a demon wolf.”
　　Xu Taiping stood up and walked to the side of the demon wolf very vigilantly.
　　At this time, the demon wolf was already dying. Its abdomen had been opened with a hole by Xu Taiping’s hunting knife. Even if its vitality was tenacious, it wouldn’t live much longer.
　　“It’s almost dark. It’s better to go back to the small courtyard first. Ask the bronze mirror about the matter of this demon wolf later. Don’t come here to hunt for the time being. Also, this time, I must buy a martial skill no matter what.”
　　Looking at the sky, Xu Taiping decided to go back first.
Although the Green Bamboo Residence where he lived was shabby, according to the instructions in the jade slip, there were also formation barriers arranged around the courtyard of the Green Bamboo Residence. Ordinary wild beasts and the monster couldn’t get close, and it was very safe.
Wait a minute, the corpse of this demonic Wolf should be able to exchange for some merit coins, right? Forget it, whether it’s worth money or not, it’s better to drag it back first.”
Just as he was about to leave, Xu Taiping suddenly thought of something, so he turned around and dragged the corpse of the mountain forest up, and then dragged it out of the mountain forest like this.
Although he still looked like a teenager and his figure was slightly thin and weak, his strength was very great now, and it was no problem to drag such a demon Wolf.
　　……
　　Not long after Xu Taiping left, a figure covered in rot walked out of the mountain forest.
　　“This stupid wolf, couldn’t even handle such a small thing！”
　　After seeing the pool of blood on the ground and the thick wooden thorn, the man suddenly burst into swear words.
“Now that the grass has been startled and the snake has been alerted, it seems that only I can take action myself to lure him out of that courtyard. I have to think of a way as soon as The king has been urging. If I don’t bring this kid’s heart and liver back, I’m going to become the king’s food!
　　The figure stomped his feet and muttered swear words in his mouth.
　　If Fairy Lingyue hadn’t fallen asleep, she would definitely be able to recognize this person at this time.
　　That’s right, this person was exactly the changgui that had been spying outside the courtyard that night.