Seventeen Wolf Pack and Jade Pendant

  The deep night has passed and it's almost dawn.

  The northern mountain range was pitch black, and all sounds were silent. Occasionally, one or two night owls would cry out, their calls echoing far away in the deep mountains.

  Four young warriors, tired from talking, gathered around a bonfire at the edge of a cliff. Two leaned against their sword sheaths and dozed off, while the other two roasted by the fire keeping watch through the night.

  "Get up, there's movement!"

  The two of them heard the faint sound of twigs breaking and were suddenly startled, kicking awake the other two. The four of them jumped up, back to back, tightly gripping their swords, suspiciously scanning the dark thicket around them.

  "What a person!"

  "Sneaking around, get out quickly!"

  A young warrior shouted loudly towards the forest.

  This empty land has only crackling bonfires that can illuminate dozens of square meters. Slightly further away in the thicket, it is pitch black and cannot be seen clearly.

  In the midst of a pitch-black forest, a dark shadow emerged slowly from the woods, revealing a gray wolf nearly the size of a calf, with gray fur, standing ten feet away from the bonfire, its green eyes gazing at the four young warriors.

  "It was a gray wolf, it scared me to death! The strength of an adult gray wolf is only at the fifth level of the Refining Body stage, I can handle it alone!"

  The young warrior looked up and burst out laughing, feeling relieved.

  But the other three young martial artists looked terrible and couldn't smile at all.

  Crack!

  Immediately afterwards, faint rustling sounds came from behind the gray wolf, and judging by the sound, there were absolutely no fewer of them.

  One by one, adult wolves appeared around the bonfire, with over twenty heads appearing in total. Pair after pair of green eyes flickered with a cruel cold light.

  The largest grey wolf in front was clearly the leader of the pack.

  The young warrior's loud laughter finally subsided into boundless terror.

  Four young warriors took a deep breath of cold air, their blades almost slipping from their grasp, and their hands and feet began to tremble.

  "A pack of gray wolves! Too many, can't cope! I can resist at most one or two heads, and the four of us working together can cope with at most eight heads. If there are more, we will surely die."

  "Damn it, a pack of wolves appeared at this time!"

  "Shall we go into the first line of trenches for shelter?"

  "Yechenba doesn't want us dead. If we enter the valley, he and the wolf pack will attack us from both inside and outside, and we'll die even faster!"

  "Let's hurry and get out of here!"

  They were flustered and at a loss, turning around and fleeing in surprise.

  Seven or eight gray wolves immediately exerted their strength and chased after them with a burst of speed.

  The remaining dozen gray wolves did not move, waiting in place.

  The wolf sniffed the cliff, and a fresh bloody smell wafted out, causing it to let out a low, mournful howl. The smell of blood excited it greatly. There was injured prey inside this cliff!

  Ye Chen was sleeping lightly with his knife in his arms inside the cliff, when he heard several young warriors' cries of surprise from outside. He suddenly woke up and opened his eyes, "What's going on outside...... Wolf howl?" He jumped up and rushed out quickly.

  As soon as he reached the exit, Ye Chen was shocked and stopped in his tracks.

  Only a line of cliffs outside, more than ten gray wolves with emerald green eyes, were surrounding the line of cliffs and coming over. Seeing Ye Chen appear, their eyes immediately revealed a fierce color.

  "A pack of gray wolves!"

  Ye Chen's pupils suddenly constricted.

  He had been waiting for those four young warriors to leave before he could leave this place. In his estimation, it would be at most two or three days.

  But now the situation has changed suddenly, and a pack of gray wolves has appeared.

  In the depths of the northern mountain range, a pack of gray wolves roamed about, and no one knew where they would appear.

  Ye Chen's previous calculations were all used to deal with Ma Ruyuan. No matter how he calculated, it was impossible to predict when the gray wolf would appear.

  "Ahh!"

  The grey wolf's icy green eyes glanced at Ye Chen and immediately let out a howl, commanding the pack to launch an attack.

  Suddenly, three gray wolves appeared, their eyes revealing a mad color, and they suddenly exerted force to jump up and charge towards the inner cliff.

  "Damn it, so many gray wolves, how can we kill them all?!"

  Ye Chen hastily retreated and rushed towards a deep cliff, only inside could he easily take advantage of the terrain to launch a counterattack.

  Three grey wolves immediately chased in.

  Ye Chen escaped back to the first line of cliffs, a hundred zhang deep.

  Ma Ruyu had been bleeding for half the night and was on his last breath, but he was unexpectedly stubborn and still clinging to life.

  "I don't want to die, I want to live and return to the Ma family's mansion, where a bright future of wealth and glory awaits me. When I return to the family, I'll gather my troops and come back to destroy you." Ma Ruyuan was dazed, muttering something under his breath, when he opened his eyes to see Ye Chen hastily retreating from outside in disarray.

  "Haha, Ye Chen, my reinforcements have arrived, you're done for!"

  Ma Ruyu panted with laughter, thinking that reinforcements had finally arrived.

  But he immediately saw several gray wolves chasing closely behind Ye Chen, and was suddenly stunned, frightened silly.

  No!

  Ma Ruyuan let out a terrified howl, even though Ye Chen had stabbed him with one knife before, he had never been so terrified. Encountering the gray wolf, his corpse would be left without a bone.

  "I am the son of General Hu Guo, how can I die here!!! Hurry up and save me! Ye Chen, my junior brother, Ye Chen, my senior brother, Grandfather Ye, it was my fault! This piece of jade is a family heirloom, worth 300 taels of gold, very beneficial for cultivation! I'll give it to you, just save my life!"

  Ma Ruyuan also didn't know where the strength came from, and frantically pulled out a delicate green jade pendant tied with a green silk cord from his neck.

  Ye Chen completely ignored him and continued to flee deeper inside.

  The three grey wolves behind him were chasing very closely.

  Ye Chen escaped another hundred feet, retreating to a narrow place that only allowed one person to pass through. He suddenly stopped and turned around, swinging his sword to execute "Tiger Leap Double Slash!".

  Tiger Leaps Twice, Cutting Twice was already a sure-win move for him.

  Hmph!

  A force of 1,200 catties struck fiercely, and the gray wolf that was charging in front could not dodge. From its head to its abdomen, it was split open by the blade and thrown out. It twitched a few times on the ground before dying completely.

  A grey wolf behind him almost simultaneously stretched out its claws and pounced over.

  Ye Chen was already unable to withdraw his knife momentum.

  "I'm not just good at knife skills!"

  He let out a loud shout and kicked out one leg, swift as lightning.

  Six hundred catties of force, one leg kicked at the weakest abdomen of that gray wolf.

  Bang!

  There was only a dull thud, and the gray wolf flew out seven or eight feet away, slamming into the cliff wall, falling to the ground, and limpingly got up.

  Ye Chen's leg was injured, neither lightly nor severely.

  Ye Chen drew back his sword and held it with both hands, guarding this narrow pass that only allowed one person to pass through.

  The last gray wolf finally showed a timid color and did not pounce, let out a loud howl, slowly retreated, and then left with the other injured gray wolf. One dead and one injured, this price has made these two gray wolves know that Ye Chen is not to be trifled with, and they have a mind to retreat.

  "It seems that the strength of a single adult gray wolf is not high, around level 4 or 5 in the Refining Body stage, with slightly faster speed but lower force. As long as it's not surrounded by two or more gray wolves, its safety can be guaranteed."

  Ye Chen took a deep breath, suppressing his racing heartbeat and calming down from his frightened state.

  He took a glance at the gray wolf that was already dead, and then carefully walked towards the edge of the cliff to see if the other gray wolves had left.

  Ye Chen arrived at the previous resting place. Ma Ruyuan was gone, leaving behind a trail of bloodstains, claw marks, and scratches that extended to the edge of the cliff. It seemed that when those two gray wolves left, they also took their prey with them.

  Ye Chen's eyes lit up and he saw a cyan jade pendant on the ground.

  "Jade pendant!"

  Ye Chen thought for a moment, when he escaped back then, it seemed that he vaguely heard Ma Ruyuan shouting something like 'help' or 'jade pendant'. He was in a hurry to avoid the gray wolf and didn't hear clearly. Moreover, he also didn't have the habit of searching people's bodies, and previously didn't know if Ma Ruyuan had anything on him.

  "Could the jade pendant Ma Ruyuan has been keeping close to his body be a treasure?!"

  Ye Chen's heart slightly stirred, and with some tension, he stretched out his hand to pick up that jade pendant.

  "It's indeed a treasure! For the past three months, my ancient painting scroll has not been replenished with 'Tian Li'. My cultivation has also stagnated at the sixth layer of Refining Body, lacking high-grade herbs to temper and refine my body."

  Ye Chen felt a surge of intense heat emanating from the ancient painting as soon as he held the jade pendant, and he couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

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  Summary of the first week.

  "Xian Fu Zhi Yuan" new book released in the first week, with the support of many die-hard book friends, it rushed to the homepage weekly ranking 14th and weekly recommendation 12th, and was on both lists. The number of collections exceeded 10,000.

  Here, special thanks to the book's master Qinglian Yi, door master Qingshui Yang, guardian Xinfei Wushi, rudder master Yuandong Tian, Youming Zhuhu, Helan Shan's soul, as well as four disciples, twenty-five apprentices, and eighty-one novice book friends for their rewards.

  Similarly, thank you to every book friend who has collected, clicked and recommended this book. Every bit of strength from book friends, regardless of size, is driving "Xian Fu Zhi Yuan" to go higher and further.

  The first update is at 0:00 tonight. There are still two more updates today.

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  Next week, our goal is to rank higher on both charts!

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