254 Two Main Ingredients (1/2)
Yun Yang could identify the one in Qiu Yunsan’s embrace with just one glance.
It was indeed an eighth level ace mystical beast – undeniably so.
Oddly enough, the tiny mystical beast’s nose seemed to be bigger than its face. This eighth level ace mystical beast’s name was Three-eye Boar!
The name was literal, of course. The heritage of this mystical offspring was a wild boar – one that had three eyes.
It was said that before the third eye opened, the combat power of Three-eye Boars was negligible. Except for the high level mystical beasts, they would not be much stronger than ordinary wild boars of the same size; at most, their furious charging might be very powerful!
However, the ray that shot from the third eye once it opened could kill a ninth peak mystical cultivator within seconds – an impressive feat indeed.
However, the third eye would only open when the boar had grown into adulthood.
Therefore, Three-eye Boars were considered as rather useless eighth level mystical beasts that could kill a more advanced level enemy! Other than that, Three-eye Boars were no different from ordinary pigs – gluttonous and lazy with thunderous snores.
The corners of Yun Yang’s lips twitched; obviously, he was not fond of such useless beasts. After all, a very long time was needed for Three-eye Boars to enter adulthood. It was not as long as Thousand Illusion Monkeys that needed between seventy to eighty years of growth but they did require at least thirty years; it was simply too hard for them to be useful!
Yun Yang was more interested in something else about the Three-eye Boar though – Three-eye Boar meat was a rare delicacy!
What surprised Yun Yang instead was how the Qiu Family had acquired this young Three-eye Boar. It was already an arduous task to catch a mystical beast alive, even harder to seize a young cub!
Mystical cultivators could kill mystical beasts of course. However, mystical beasts in their incubation period would usually kill their own offspring before they died; they would rather kill their babies themselves than for their babies to become slaves to humans. The higher the level of the mystical beast, the more common was this practice.
The reason Yun Yang was puzzled was also due to the characteristics of the Three-eye Boars. Adult Three-eye Boars had ray of death that could kill mystical cultivators. It would be difficult to obtain a Three-eye Boar cub without paying a substantial price; the casualties of several ninth peak cultivators would be imminent. Even when the cub was caught successfully, a long period of time was needed to bring it up to adulthood.It was only by then that Three-eye Boars could bring its unique combat power into play, but the proportion of the return against the effort was barely justified – a smart person would not have opted for it.
Yun Yang was doubtful but he did not show it. Scanning the Third-eye Boar, he sighed at its small size – there were less than two catties of meat on its frame.
Let’s see when it grows up some more.
If the Qiu Family knew that the mystical beast offspring that they had gotten their hands on so arduously had actually become a high-graded ingredient in Yun Yang’s eyes… what would they have felt?
Yun Yang shifted his glance to the eighth level pinnacle mystical beast in Xia Bingchuan’s arms.
This cub’s level was half a grade higher than Qiu Yunsan’s eighth level ace Three-eye Boar but it was tastier than the Three-eye Boar! Here, the cub was a Greedy Bear, also known as a Ten Thousand Catty Bear!
The name was supposed to be the precursor of what the bear would become – not unlike its name, this bear mystical beast was famous for being able to provide a generous meal. It was nothing extraordinary for these bears to grow up to seven or eight thousand catties when they were full-grown; they could easily go up to tens of thousands catties as well. As for the innate talent of such bears, it was their strength that was immense!
There did not seem to be a conclusion of how strong a Greedy Bear could be; it was most probable that the more it ate, the more powerful it would be.
Due to its large size, its combat skill against the enemy was a direct strike with its paw.
No matter what kind of enemy it met, it would attack with swipes of its massive paws. The strength contained could destroy mountains and crack the ground. A Herculean effort indeed!
Therefore, these bears had paws with a famed nickname – Grisly Palm of Paw!
A Ten Thousand Catty Bears had another characteristic; if three consecutive strikes could not knock its opponent out, it would turn to flee without any exception.
It was not that it was afraid of the enemy but it was a change of strategy because all of its strength was only sufficient for three paw strikes!
After three strikes, it could only recover after a large amount of feeding.
The Greedy Bears then had another derogatory nickname – Three-Slap Bear!
The power of the three slaps was a Herculean factor; a slap from a Greedy Bear of ten thousand catties’ could fling a small mountain away.
The problem now was – what sort of enemy would stay stationary for you to slap them? Besides, if a Three-Slap Bear missed, it would result in it spinning seven or eight rounds from its own sheer force…
Furthermore, such bears were mentally slower than normal bears that had no levels to begin with.
If it were not for the bear’s thick skin and flesh so rough that normal ninth level mystical beasts could hardly penetrate its defense, such bears would have gone into extinction a long time ago.
Greedy Bears were perhaps high-level mystical beasts that were the easiest to obtain, yet the most useless ones!
If Three-eye Boars were useless, Greedy Bears were even worse.
In Yun Yang’s eyes though, this Ten Thousand Catty Bear carried more benefits than the Three-eye Boar.
Bear paw – delicious!
Bear gall – expensive medicine!
Bear meat – delicious!
Bear penis - Qiu Yunsan would find the use for this… Perhaps he would be alright eating it.
Yun Yang looked at Qiu Yunsan and Xia Bingchuan rather speechlessly. ”Both your noble families have taken the time of half a year to catch these two toys? One stranger than another… What were both of you thinking? Are your families playing you two or are they playing me?”
Qiu Yunsan and Xia Bingchuan both flushed and coughed.
They were helpless! If there had been other choices, how would they make a fool and embarrass themselves!
Of course, those mystical beasts that could fly or had innate skills were great… but they could not catch those! Capturing these two was possible because they were relatively easier to be hunted down!
”It’s a genuine eighth level ace mystical beast, after all, it must have some sort of training value…” Qiu Yunsan chuckled awkwardly.
Yun Yang huffed speechlessly.
”Boss, look over at this…” Qiu Yunsan said hugging the Three-eye Boar excitedly while the cub snorted in his embrace. ”Let’s begin?”