Hunting (Medium)

  A small grass hut.

  This is the south foot of Mount Wudang, one of a row of over ten grass halls.

  "Xiao Yu, come and have a drink of water first."

  Tan Yu crouched on the warm kang, took over the steaming black ceramic pot from the old lady, and drank a mouthful. Suddenly, a warm current rushed straight to his chest and abdomen.

  "Godmother, it's so sweet!"

  It's been several days since he had such hot boiling water.

  The old lady smiled and said: "I kept all the sugar cubes you gave to your son, and added one more for you."

  Tan Yu drank the scalding sugar water in two mouthfuls, took a deep breath and said: "Mother, don't keep it all for yourself, those are for you to nourish your body, just eat them, after finishing, son will make more for you."

  "My teeth aren't good, I don't dare eat much." Mrs. Bao smiled and shook her head, took the empty bowl, and turned to leave.

  Before long, Baozi brought in two large ceramic bowls, one with braised pork and the other with steamed rice.

  "Xiao Yu, come and have some of this first."

  Tan Yong was overjoyed and quickly grabbed the braised pork belly bowl.

  "How can there be ready-made ones? Does the dry nurse want to eat?"

  Bao put the rice bowl and a pair of chopsticks on the kang, saying: "No. Since you taught me the secret to cooking braised wild boar meat last time, I've been cooking it often. One day, Master happened to come down the mountain and tasted it, and he really liked it. After that, almost every two days, he would come down the mountain to eat a bowl to satisfy his cravings. So, I often go out hunting for wild boar, and every day I have to prepare one or two bowls of braised meat in case Master comes over at any time. Mother is old now, but she can't eat this kind of greasy meat."

  As they spoke, Tan Yu was already using both hands, his left hand scooping up meat to eat, while his right hand worked in tandem to pull and tear at the rice, mumbling with a mouthful: "Delicious... Eldest Senior Brother, is Master still standing on the mountaintop, drinking the northeast wind?"

  "Don't spout nonsense! Master is a transcendent being, living on wind and dew, cultivating in seclusion." Bao shot back with a light rebuke.

  "Alright, fasting! Fasting!" Qin Yu's mouth was full of meat, and when he spoke, it sounded like "butt butt". It was easy to swallow everything down his stomach before letting out a breath. "Big brother, when will Master come out of seclusion?"

  "I don't know either, can only wait. Rest well today and go hunting with me tomorrow. This year's weather is particularly cold, we need to hurry up and get some meat for the winter."

  "Alright!" Qin Yu readily agreed.

  Bao sat down beside him, happily watching Qin Yu devour his food.

  "Master was still muttering about you before he went into seclusion, saying that your foundation is solid and you can officially enter the inner sect now."

  Qin Yu was taken aback, stopping the words in his mouth: "I won't go to the Taoist temple, Master knew it early. Besides, now I have a deep blood feud, how can I drag Master down?"

  Bao let out a sigh, he already knew about Qin Yu's encounter just now.

  On the second day after Qin Yu arrived at Mount Wudang, two uninvited guests came down from Mount Wudang.

  At that time, Qin Yu had just finished practicing and went out hunting wild boars with Bao, so he didn't meet the two guests.

  If he could see her, he would recognize one of them as Xi Zhi Lan, with whom he had a "one night" relationship in the cave.

  Xie Zilan accompanied another elegant and refined young man, together they climbed to the top of Wudang Mountain's Tian Zhu Peak.

  They came especially to visit Zhang Zongxun of Zhuangyuan Pavilion.

  Zhang Xun made an exception and came out of the pass to receive him.

  After a confidential conversation between the two parties for half an hour, the guest left.

  Zhang Xun fell into deep thought and remained silent for a long time.

  Hmph! Hmph! Hmph!

  Tan Yu crouched on a branch of a giant pine tree, and from far away, he heard the urgent running sound of wild boars.

  Unlike many ferocious beasts, wild boars like to run while humming, their sounds are not much different from domestic pigs, and it's relatively easy to track them down by following the sound.

  He suddenly changed his face and shook his head.

  That's the wild boar king!

  The senior brother told him that the wild boars in this mountain forest are divided into four groups, with each group having around ten to twenty heads. Although there are many wild boars, they are actually easy to hunt and kill. As long as your archery skills are good, you can shoot one dead with just one or two arrows. The rest of the wild boars will not stop and fight, but instead will continue running away without looking back.

  But there is another situation, that of solitary wild boars.

  These wild boars are either the original pig kings that were defeated by new kings and expelled from their groups, or they challenged the old kings but failed and were kicked out of the herd.

  This one is the Wild Boar King.

  Don't look at it as just one head, but the ferocity is mighty, the fangs are sharp, and it's even more difficult to deal with than five or six ordinary adult wild boars put together. It dares to contend with fierce tigers and black bears. Ordinary hunters wouldn't dare to hunt this level of beast king alone. Once encountered, they would immediately dodge.

  Baochu said that there was a wild boar king nearby.

  Qin Yu's heart was racing with excitement, but he secretly exclaimed what a great opportunity.

  He left his senior brother and came hunting alone, wasn't it just for this kind of thrill?

  The next moment, a majestic beast as powerful as an ox appeared before his eyes. A sharp mouth, two shiny fangs protruding from the lips, countless bulges scattered on the rough gray outer skin, looking like at least 600-700 pounds.

  50 meters!

  40 meters!

  Tan Yu slowly raised his hunting bow, the arrow had already been loaded, he was using a specially made three-edged arrow, with three sharp edges, making it most convenient to bleed.

  The forest where he lived was also specially selected, with few large trees and a vast open space in front of him, so he could discover prey very early and at ease.

  This is very important, encountering unexpectedly is the most taboo thing for hunters when hunting, and there are indeed many ferocious beasts in this forest that can kill people.

  Zhang Gong!

  Move your target!

  When the prey ran to a distance of about thirty meters, the opened bowstring also reached a nearly full moon degree, and Quan Yu's right hand relaxed.

  Roar!

  Tan Yun didn't hear the wonderful sound of "whoosh!", but instead a deafening explosion.

  He was shocked, what's going on, I've been discovered by the Wild Boar King?

  At the same time, a flower appeared in front of my eyes, and a nimble animal pounced down from mid-air, knocking down the wild boar king. Its bloody mouth opened wide, biting fiercely at the wild boar king's throat.

  The wild boar king let out a loud hum, struggling desperately. It was very powerful, but it was being bitten and couldn't use its strongest tusks, so it could only roll over and resist with great force.

  He looked carefully and found it was a golden leopard. The leopard, including its tail, was no more than one meter five in length, looking small and delicate, not weighing much, but unexpectedly dared to launch a sneak attack on the wild boar king.

  On the leopard's waist and back, an arrow is inserted, a three-edged arrow of Qin Yu.

  Qin Yu rolled her eyes, even hunting a wild boar would have been intercepted halfway! However, her heart was also startled, this leopard was hiding in the trees not far away, and she hadn't noticed any trace of it at all, it was really too careless.

  What if it was an attack on itself...

  Thinking of this, Qin Yu hated and added another three-edged arrow, aiming at the Golden Leopard for half a day, but in the end did not shoot.

  The majestic golden leopard and the stout wild boar king had reached a life-or-death moment. Although the wild boar king couldn't use its tusks, it had sturdy hooves and a body several times heavier than the leopard's. After a few flips, it turned out that the leopard was pinned under its body, and one could almost hear the leopard's bones cracking. However, the leopard's sharp teeth were still tightly clamped onto its opponent, refusing to let go.

  The snow-white ground was already full of bloodstains. Most of it was the wild boar king's neck blood, and there were also a few drops of leopard's arrow wound.

  Tan Yong thought in his heart that this wild boar king was doomed to escape, and his main goal was probably still the golden leopard that seemed to be at a disadvantage.

  He hesitated for a moment, his arrowhead still aimed at Golden Leopard.