Chapter 57: Competition (1/2)

Chapter 57: Competition

Today, Su Chen returned from his training as per usual. On his back, he carried a Giant Bucktoothed Bear. His body exuded a hazy killing aura, and he held a blood-stained Moon-Swallowing Heavenly Wolf Blade. Because it didn’t have the issue of draining one’s physical energy, the Heavenly Wolf Blade had already replaced the Black Streak Battle Blade had become Su Chen’s most commonly used weapon.

“Boss, you’ve returned,” Li Shu warmly came forwards to greet him.

“Yes.” Su Chen slung the giant bear off his back, tossing it onto the ground. The ground trembled for a moment.

“Everything has been going well, apart from……” Li Shu hesitated for a moment.

“What is it?”

“Someone didn’t pay for their wine and meat again,” Li Shu replied.

Su Chen raised his eyebrows, “Another Wolf Blade?”

“No, that’s not it,” Li Shu hurriedly replied. “He truly doesn’t have money.

As he spoke, he pointed towards the corner.

Su Chen followed Li Shu’s pointing to find a person hugging his head nestled up in the corner, curled into a ball.

Li Shu ran over, kicking that person’s butt. “Why haven’t you gotten up yet!”

That person slowly stood up.

When that person stood up, Su Chen received quite the shock.

This person was extremely tall.

Wolf Blade had already been tall, but compared to this burly man in front of him Wolf Blade would only reach his shoulders. As for Su Chen, he only came up to the person’s chest.

He was just like a small mountain standing in front of Su Chen, filling Su Chen’s entire vision. Su Chen felt a sense of pressure from him.

But such a large person stood respectfully in place in front of him, his neck shrunk in. His body was a tough as granite, and Li Shu’s fists and feet only felt ticklish. He did not dare to fight back at all; fear, hurt, and pleading were written all over his face.

Upon looking at the man’s rough skin, his sturdy chest and his guileless face, Su Chen finally understood.

“So he is of the Mountain Race.”

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The Mountain Race.

An Intelligent Race similar to humankind.

The Mountain Race had a very tragic history. From the beginning of their existence, they had always been stepped on. Although they had very powerful physiques, their ability to sense Origin Energy was extremely poor. It was difficult for them to absorb and release Origin Energy effectively. Of course, this wasn’t to say that had absolutely no way of using it. However, cultivating Origin Energy more difficult for them than for any other intelligent race. On average, Humankind only needed five years of Body Tempering to enter Qi Drawing, but the Mountain Race needed fifteen. Humankind only needed ten years of Qi Drawing to enter Blood Boiling, but the Mountain Race needed thirty. Human Origin Qi Scholars had seven cultivation realms, implying that the highest cultivation base could only reach seven realms. However, the Mountain Race had never even seen cultivators of the fourth realm, the Light-Shaking Realm, before. Yang Opening was their limit.

Their intelligence was not high, and they could not learn things very quickly.

Because they were not intelligent and were not sensitive to Origin Energy, no strong expert had ever appeared in their race, leaving them with no protective figure, despite their physically strong bodies.

This was the tragedy of the Mountain Race.

Because of this, the Mountain Race had never risen to glory since their existence.

The Five Great Races of the Primordial Continent – Human Race, Feathered Race, Ocean Race, Spirit Race, and Ferocious Race – all had their own moments of glory in history. Even now, they all had a territory that belonged to them. Even the races that had declined in power such as the Green Race or the Mysterious Race had once been great and powerful, and had left their mark of glory in history.

However, the Mountain Race did not.

They did not have any moments of glory in history, nor did they have a territory to call their own.

Their only history was that of slaves.

They had been enslaved by the beasts, enslaved by the Arcanas, and enslaved by humankind.

The Mountain Race served as slaves of humankind.

Although they did not have any great protectors, they were great cannon fodder because of their powerful physiques. Ignoring powerful Origin Qi Scholars, one individual from the Mountain Race could sweep the floor with even a large group of the human masses.

There were many other races like the Mountain Race whose intelligence was low. Most of them attached themselves to one of the Five Great Races to survive. However, because survival conditions were quite harsh, many of these “attached races” began to decline, and it had become harder and harder to find them.

According to rumors, there were already people in Long Sang Country that were calling out for the monitoring and protection of the Mountain Race and the Moon Race. It was becoming increasingly difficult for the army to reform its infantry, so they needed to add more Mountain Race people into their ranks. In addition, the suicide squad’s required large amounts of Moon Race supplements.Things had been positive and easy in recent years: there was favorable weather for crops, the Beast Waves had decreased, and everyone’s lives were good. Not many dared to go face to face with death anymore……

Su Chen had not expected that he would run into someone from the Mountain Race.