Chapter 9:Ten Thousand Beast Mountain (2/2)

Here was the domain of the demonic beasts that ran rampant. Once a human entered their territory, it would trigger berserk attacks from demonic beasts.

Going through the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain’s mountain pass was just like entering the bloody jaws of a huge monster. The two’s horses immediately stopped ten meters from the mountain pass, standing there neighing. They didn’t dare to go any further no matter what.

Wang Murong and Qin Yu no choice but to abandon their horses there and advance up the mountain by foot.

Immediately upon arrival, they could both feel a gloomy and cold aura assault their senses, bringing a dense, bloody odor with it. Somebody had already entered and died here.

Qin Yu remembered going into this area many times. Three months ago, he had been plotted against and ganged up on by Qin Zhao and outsiders at this area. All of his twelve meridians were destroyed, turning him into a cripple.

The two moved forward together, discovering several demonic beast corpses along the road. The blood had already congealed into a black color.

Wang Murong swept a glance over the corpses and said, “Qin Xiong, 1 somebody just raided this place yesterday. I believe all the demonic beasts here have already been exterminated, so you’ll have to look for prey deeper in.”

Wang Murong’s address toward Qin Yu had also changed. Before she called him Qin Gongzi, but now she called him “Qin Xiong.”

Qin Yu didn’t mind the change in address, what he cared about was how Wang Murong’s last sentence used “you,” meaning only he, Qin Yu alone. Did that mean they wouldn’t be going together?

“Miss Murong, could it be that you aren’t coming with me?” Qin Yu stopped walking, as he turned to look at Wang Murong.

Wang Murong’s beautiful face exposed an awkward smile, “This… I want to go to a very dangerous area that will probably require you to risk your life, so I didn’t want to implicate Qin Xiong.”

“What are you saying? You’re a girl but you’re not afraid so how could I, a big man fear it?” Regardless of whether or not he was Xie Di or the current Qin Yu, the word ‘fear’ still wasn’t in his dictionary. “

“Qin Xiong, you really want to go with me? Over there, what we might run into aren’t demonic monsters, but rather…”

Behind Wang Murong’s sudden halt, Qin Yu could make out a trace of fear in her lustrous eyes. It seemed like she had already seen something terrible in that place to still have such fear. If that was the case, then why did she still want to go and even intended to go alone?

With Qin Yu’s two lives worth of experience, if he still couldn’t see anything then he may as well die a third time. In fact, this lass wanted him to come with her but was just too embarrassed to say it directly.

“Miss Murong there’s no point to just killing demonic beasts. I’ll go with you just to get first-hand experience of this thing that’s even scarier than demonic beasts, ok?” What he said was the truth. To him, killing demonic beasts was nothing new and was really just too boring. In his heart, Qin Yu was also curious. He wanted to go see what Ten Thousand Beast Mountain had apart from demonic beasts.

“Alright. Qin Xiong really deserves to be called a real and heroic man. Let’s start going.” Wang Murong was filled with joy. The smile on her charming face was breathtaking. However, not a single one of the women by Qin Yu’s side back then was not an otherworldly stunning beauty. This made him practically immune to beautiful women. But if it was an ordinary person, they may have ended up turning silly.

As the young lady filled with joy, his last trace of cautiousness finally dissipated. Qin Yu didn’t feel like exposing her and directly walked forward. “Let’s go then.”

“Oh wait.” Qin Yu had just begun to walk when he suddenly halted. He was pleasantly surprised as his eyes were fixed on a small, light yellow grass growing on a precipice up ahead.

“What happened?” Wang Murong followed Qin Yu’s gaze and didn’t see anything special. There was only a small unremarkable grass there.

“That is Yellow Herb Grass, a third-grade spirit herb. It can be used to refine an ordinary Strength Returning Pill,” Qin Yu explained. He swept past her to reach the cliff as he plucked the Yellow Herb Grass before carefully placing them into a previously prepared bag, which he stored in his bosom.

He really wanted to get a spirit ring. It would make storing things much easier.

“Qin Xiong, you also know how to concoct pills?” Wang Murong’s pretty eyes widened, staring at Qin Yu with disbelief. Knowing that Qin Yu could refine tools was already shocking enough. If he also knew how to concoct pills, could he still be considered human? If he was proficient in cultivation, tool refining, and pill concocting, then the word ‘monstrous’ wouldn’t be enough to describe him, after all, he was a human freak of nature.

Qin Yu returned from the precipice and chuckled when he saw Wang Murong’s exaggerated face of surprise. “I just know a little bit, it’s nothing strange.”

“Eh…? How is this not strange?” Wang Murong’s jaw went slack with shock, her mouth so big you could fit a chicken egg inside. That was extremely strange, ok?! Disregarding Qiongxi Country, you wouldn’t be able to find such a person that knew everything in the entire Ancient Wu Continent! So how was it still nothing strange?

Moreover, what he said was a Strength Returning Pill, which was not any ordinary pill. As the name implied, a Strength Returning Pill was a pill for recovering internal strength. If two cultivators were fighting and both sides used up all their strength but one of them used a Strength Returning Pill, the end result would be obvious.

Refining this sort of pill, required at the very least a Black Grade or higher level in pill refining.

Pill Masters were divided into six grades: Ordinary, Earth Grade, Black Grade, Heaven Grade, Sacred Grade, and Godly Grade. In Qiongxi Country, there was only one Black Grade level pill master. If Qin Yu was a pill master at the Black Grade level with his age then…

“Impossible. This is absolutely impossible!” Wang Murong firmly shook her head, immediately denying the possibility. “Maybe he only knows which spirit grass Strength Returning Pills are refined from and actually doesn’t have Black Grade level pill concocting talent. There’s no way that he can refine Strength Returning Pills.”

Her train of thought was mistaken, but also correct.

1.‘Xiong’ means elder brother and it can be used to refer to a first-born brother or older males of the same generation, and friends with mutual respect.