Chapter 75: A Militarized Training Ground (2/2)

As regards those subsequent miscellaneous formalities of this large family, Yun Wu also didn't bother intervening.

Anyway, that old fox, Cloud Murong, had his own plans, and he would surely be good to Grandma Medicine. And Yun Wu knew very well what he was up to.

As a result, she picked the quietest room of the west wing and told others that she would be staying in her room for a long period to recuperate. After that, she sneaked out of the Murong Mansion and headed for the forest to the west of the city. That forest belonged to the Murong family and they reared a lot of magic beasts there.

Since beast blood was available at a place not far away, she naturally would go there and take it.

In the suburb to the west of the city.

Originally, this place had been a vast, desolate woods. The Murong family had transformed it into a private woods for rearing magic beasts, and there were many magic beasts that they had collected from various places in this woods.

The Murong family never killed these magic beasts to harvest their magic cores. Instead, they had specially hired some tamers to train these magic beasts – without erasing their beast nature – to be obedient so that they could control these beasts.

Just like that Tier II Wood Wolf that Yun Wu had seen at the Peak Hollow.

Though that Wood Wolf hadn't been a high-level one, it had been tamed by human, and it still had had its beast nature, which alone had strengthened its attack power to a certain degree.

It was widely known that tamers didn't have high station in this world, and the reason was that though tamers were able to tame magic beasts, most tame magic beasts would lose their beast nature and thus become unthreatening magic beasts which were no different from livestock or pets.

The reason why so many people wanted to become summoners was because those magic beasts covenanted to summoners still had their original beast nature and attack power, which enabled them to launch attacks more powerful than that of human.

But those tame magic beasts of the Murong family's tamers possessed brutish attack power. Though they were not as powerful as magic beasts covenanted to summoners, they could still be a formidable threat to their enemies if they were in great number.

Judging from this, the Murong family was definitely ambitious.

And those tamers that the Murong family had hired were definitely not mediocre ones.

After entering the suburb to the west of the city, Yun Wu started prowling in grass, trying to stay out of other people's sight.

There were high fences around the back of the suburb and all entrances were heavily guarded by the Murong family's men. Every certain distance, there was a watchtower on which a kung fu expert was on sentry duty keeping the airspace above the woods under surveillance.

It was nearly impossible to flew into the woods.

As a result, if common people wanted to get in, they would have to go through the entrance.

But it was not difficult for Yun Wu to get in even if she couldn't leap above the woods and descend from mid-air.

She found a remote corner outside the fence and shot a length of Heavenly Silk. Like a ghost, her figure flashed through the fence. The moment Yun Wu went in, she maneuvered between the ranges of vision of those guards on those watchtowers, heading directly for the depths of the woods.

This magic beast woods was large. The deeper into it, the more luxuriant trees around her were.

But she hadn't seen a single magic beast on her way deeper into the woods, which was very weird. Yun Wu exerted all her spiritual power to search the area around her, trying to find a magic beast or two.

But after searching for quite a while, she hadn't even found a wild rabbit, much less of a magic beast or two.

What was going on?

Given that the entrance of this magic beast woods of the Murong family was guarded so heavily, by no means would there be no magic beasts in this woods, unless...

The moment suspicion rose inside Yun Wu, a roar like that of a lion dimly came from a valley in the depths of the woods.

She felt that the source of that roar was very far away.

But this roar proved that Yun Wu's speculation was right. There were indeed magic beasts here, but they were reared in pens. Or in another word, they were imprisoned.

No matter what, she had come here for beast blood.

Yun Wu headed for the source of that roar.

After getting through a grove and getting over a small hill, she finally arrived at a valley surrounded by three steep peaks.

However, what she saw surprised her to some extent.

Or what she saw greatly surprised her.

She had thought that the Murong family's ambition was to train magic beasts, but when she saw that scene down there, a rather amazed look flashed across her purple eyes. She would be lying if she said that she was not astonished.

Outside that vast valley, there was a large group of trained personnel who numbered at least hundreds.

There were not just a couple of tamers but a large group of them.

Lying prostrate on a hilltop in concealment, Yun Wu watched the militarized training square down below and speculated that the group of people were an army. Their garments aside, between them, there seemed to be some kind of tacit agreement that only existed between service men.

But Yun Wu was a little confused. This Murong family was only the governor of a city. How did they get involved with an army?

And instead of training in a military camp, this army had chosen to conduct secret training in this remote mountain. There must be something behind this.

However, no matter what the reason was, Yun Wu was uninterested in speculating or finding it out. What she needed was beast blood.

There must be some magic beasts imprisoned at the rear of this militarized training valley, so she decided to detour to the rear of it.

She carefully scouted the area, made an assessment of the situation and then decided to stealthily take a detour around the peak of that mountain.

Detouring around that steep peak proved to be much more difficult than she had imagined.

Fortunately, she had received training more dangerous than climbing that steep peak in her last incarnation. After about two hours, Yun Wu finally managed to detour to a position above the rear of the valley.

Standing on the mountain, she looked down at the whole valley.