Chapter 24: A Day of Bloodshed

  "You're finally back, why are you slower than me in taking a shower?"

  Shangguan Yu and Qin Shougang had just returned when they heard Li Ruolan's complaints. The two exchanged a glance, and Shangguan Yu shrugged helplessly. "Can't be helped, if it wasn't for the stench on my body being too strong, I wouldn't even bother taking a bath."

  Shangguan Yu was being hypocritical, he was actually very grateful to the saber-toothed tiger in his heart. If it weren't for this, he might not have met that young girl. Now he even thinks the saber-toothed tiger in front of him doesn't seem ferocious at all, but still needs to be eaten.

  "Come on, let's work together. This is tiger meat, and I've never had it before in my life." Qin Shou and Shangguan Yu both started to get busy, and before long they began eating the tiger meat.

  "This tiger meat is truly fresh and delicious!" Shangguan Yu exclaimed, he had indeed never eaten more delicious meat than this.

  "That's because you've never had the pleasure, the best meat is dragon meat!" Li Ruolan didn't gobble it down like Qin Shou, but instead cut it into small pieces with her dagger and ate them one by one. A princess is a princess, if she were to eat like Qin Shou, Li Ruolan would have felt utterly humiliated.

  "Are there really dragons in the world? What do they look like?" In his past life, Guan Yu was a dragon's messenger, and dragons had always been creatures he revered. Now that Li Ruolan mentioned it, he naturally became interested. He wondered if the dragon Li Ruolan spoke of was an Eastern divine dragon or one of those large lizards from the West.

  "This... I don't know, I've never seen it with my own eyes. It's said that adult dragons are at least one rank higher than my father the emperor, how would I have seen them? If the dragon tribe wasn't extremely rare, the Tianxuan continent wouldn't be ruled by humans like me."

  Shangguan Yu didn't ask any more questions. He knew that Li Ruolan also only knew this much. As for Long, he was very curious, but it wasn't something he should be thinking about at the moment.

  "Hurry up and eat, I'll set up a tent for you to sleep in tonight, Qin Shou and I will stay outside."

  "What is a tent? What's it used for?" Li Ruolan naturally didn't know what a tent was, she had never even heard of one, let alone seen one.

  Shangguan Yu could only take out the tent from the spatial ring, but unfortunately, the other two people still had doubts on their faces. He could only set up the tent and then took out two quilts, putting them inside the tent.

  "Alright, Li Ruolan, you can sleep inside tonight."

  "What about the two of you?" Li Ruolan looked at Shangguan Yu, he found that Shangguan Yu always surprised him. This tent was really amazing, compared to the conditions in the imperial palace, it was much worse, but it was many times better than resting directly in the wilderness.

  "If you feel guilty towards us, hehe, then let's sleep together inside, how about it?" Qin Shou hadn't even finished speaking when she vanished.

  "You beast, if you appear in front of me again, I'll make sure you regret it!" Li Ruolan only said that and didn't chase after Qin Shou. She took another grateful glance at Shangguan Yu, then slipped into the tent.

  But Shangguan Yu took out a white silk ribbon, gazed up at the starry sky, and lay down directly on the ground.

  A night without words.

  "We're not far from the summit, come on, let's eat some wild fruit and try to reach the top by tonight!" As soon as it was light, Shangguan Yu got up to practice his sensing abilities, a habit he had already formed. After finishing his practice, he picked some wild fruit and brought them back.

  "Everyone has rested well, and today there are still many battles waiting for us!"

  Three people set off again, and Shangguan Yu knew that today would definitely not be calm. The closer they got to the top of the mountain, the more dangerous it would be, but in order to get the Tongling fruit, he could only move forward bravely. Moreover, he had seen that girl last night, and it was clear that her martial arts realm was much higher than his, and now they were not even people from the same world.

  "Everyone be on guard, three-headed demonic blood pigs are coming. Still following yesterday's tactics, Qin Shou you attack from a distance, Li Ruolan you attack from the side." This time Qin Shou and Li Ruolan didn't say much more, they had also witnessed Upright Officer Yu's recovery ability. Plus now they also acknowledged Upright Officer Yu as their captain, so naturally they didn't have any objections to his orders.

  "Humming"

  The demonic blood pigs were all black, with bristles that resembled sharp thorns, looking extremely ferocious. What was even more eye-catching was the two saw-like teeth in front of the demonic blood pig's mouth, which were thick and long, with the tip reflecting sunlight. The three demonic blood pigs charged towards the three officials, with one pig charging towards each person, as if they had been assigned. Perhaps the three pigs were planning to have one pig eat one person, but Upper Official Yu didn't know what the pigs were thinking.

  Shangguan Yu took out a longer iron rod and swept it horizontally, simultaneously sweeping towards the three demonic blood pigs. The three demonic blood pigs instantly became enraged, thinking that this human in front of them was **naked provocation. If they didn't teach this human a lesson, how could the three pigs continue to mix in Tongling Mountain?

  "Linglong Wangyue" Li Ruolan launched a timely attack, her swordsmanship was light and beautiful. However, to the three-headed demonic blood pigs, it didn't look so beautiful, as they all had several sword marks on their bodies.

  "The moonlight is like water" A sword light, a beautiful arc, the sky was full of sword shadows. This sword move, had all three-headed demon blood pigs covered in the sword shadow, and Upper Official Yu heard the mournful cries of the three-headed demon blood pigs.

  "Ten thousand miles piercing cloud arrow, three arrows fired simultaneously!" Qin Shou this time did not stand on the side, but stood behind the three-headed demon blood boar.

  "Brute, are you trying to get yourself killed? You're deliberately disgusting me, aren't you?" Li Ruolan put away her sword and walked far away.

  The three-headed demonic blood boar crashed to the ground, all of them dead. Originally, Shangguan Yu still wanted to continue attacking the demonic blood boars, but he didn't expect them to die like that.

  Shangguan Yu didn't understand Li Ruolan's reaction at first, but after taking a look at the miserable state of the magic blood pigs, he understood. The three magic blood pigs did not have arrows stuck in their bodies, but Shangguan Yu saw that each of them seemed to have grown a short tail. No wonder Li Ruolan had such a reaction, and unexpectedly Qin Shou used such a damaging move. However, this move was indeed effective, and the three magic blood pigs died just like that.

  "Haha, this move isn't able to solve the Magic Blood Pig more quickly? From now on, use it less." Qin Shou smiled slightly, he didn't think that doing so was wrong, he just feared Li Ruolan would get angry.

  The three of them didn't stop and continued walking towards the top of the mountain.

  A strong gust of wind hit him in the face, and Shangguan Yu quickly dodged to the side, avoiding danger. He looked up to see a leopard with colorful stripes all over its body. He could clearly see that the leopard had sharp claws. If he had been knocked down just now, he would have definitely been injured.

  "Be careful, Xiao Yu! This is a Rainbow Leopard, it's very fast!" Qin Shou shouted loudly, and in the brief moment, an arrow shot towards the Rainbow Leopard.

  However, Qin Shou's hundred percent accurate archery skills failed this time, and Caiyun Bao dodged the arrow with incredible speed.

  "Watch me, moonlight like water." Li Ruolan drew her sword from its scabbard and used this move again. The sky was once again shrouded in sword shadows, enveloping Caiyun Bao. This sword technique relied on speed. Even with Caiyun Bao's speed, it couldn't dodge the sword shadows' coverage, and the wounds on this leopard's body grew more numerous.

  The colorful clouded leopard roared with rage, it had never been so stifled before.

  "Watch me!" Qin Shou suddenly charged forward, his long spear directly piercing into Caiyun Bao's mouth.

  Caiyun Leopard let out a low growl, which was also the last roar of its life. The long spear in Shangguan Yu's hand had completely entered Caiyun Leopard's body.

  That day, there seemed to be countless beasts, and they too had gone through hardships. Shangguan Yu suffered one injury after another, fortunately his recovery ability was strong, if it were someone else, they would probably not have been able to move normally already.

  "Moooo"

  "This is terrible, it's a Minotaur!" A massive creature with the body of a man and the head and horns of a bull appeared before the three of them, its horn looking ferocious and frightening.

  The unicorn bull charged over, and Shangguan Yu gripped the iron rod tightly and chopped down with force. He also wanted to try if his internal energy had increased recently, so he chose a head-on collision.

  With a loud crash, Shangguan Yu was directly knocked flying several meters away. Only then did he finally understand the terror of the one-horned bull, his hands still trembling.

  "Ten thousand miles of cloud-piercing arrows, three arrows fired simultaneously." Qin Shou also launched an attack, all of which were shot at the body of the single-horned cow.

  But a surprising thing happened, these three arrows only scratched the surface of the rhinoceros's skin and then fell to the ground.

  "It's useless, my sword can't even penetrate the Minotaur's body." Li Ruolan said while attacking the Minotaur and speaking to the other two.

  "Watch this! Wanli Piercing Cloud Arrow, False Linked Pearls Arrow!" Qin Shou aimed at the eyes of the one-horned bull and two arrow feathers shot rapidly towards it.

  The unicorn closed its eyes in time, and the first arrow did not shoot in. At this time, the unicorn opened its eyes, but it couldn't close this eye again. The consecutive arrows were not one arrow, but two arrows connected into a line.

  "Ten thousand miles through the clouds, a true string of pearls!" Qin Shou didn't pause and took out two more arrows. The unicorn bull had learned its lesson this time, keeping one eye closed.

  "Mooooo..." The rhinoceros bellowed in agony, its two eyes each pierced by an arrow.

  "Hey, Big Dumb Cow, do you think my fake linked arrow and real linked arrow are the same?" Qin Shou shouted triumphantly.

  The unicorn bull charged towards Qin Shou with a loud noise, and Qin Shou was suddenly shocked and lost his color. Those few arrows just now had also consumed a lot of his vital energy, and the unicorn bull's charging speed was so fast that he estimated that this time he would be seriously injured.

  "Qin Shou, get out of the way quickly!" Shangguan Yu pushed Qin Shou away and stood firmly in his original position. Qin Shou was knocked to the ground, but this time Shangguan Yu was sent flying tens of meters away.

  "Pffft" Officer Yu spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his internal organs seemingly rearranged. Originally, he had always suffered external injuries, but this time he had sustained severe internal damage.

  "Ten thousand miles piercing cloud arrow, double arrows combined as a jade disc!" Qin Shou frantically rotated his primordial energy, and the entire bow lit up.

  "Whoosh"

  It was still Li Ruolan's angry move, but it worked very well. The bull struggled on the ground for a few times and then fell to the ground with a crash.

  "Xiao Yu, are you alright?" Qin Shou disregarded his weak body and ran to Shangguan Yu's side.

  "It's nothing, just a minor injury. I'll be fine after resting for a bit. Don't you know me?" Shangguan Yu said with a smile as he got up.

  "Waaaah..."

  Unconsciously, the moon had already climbed high. At this time, Shangguan Yu and others also heard the wolf howl, and it seemed to be coming from their direction.

  "Can't be! If a pack of wolves comes, we'll really be in danger!" Shangguan Yu said in a low voice.