Dragon's Origin

Old Song valued promises greatly, or rather, he feared any action from Wang Sheng that might disrupt the success of the eldest miss's trial, so this time he directly brought gold coins and cultivation methods.

Like the Hunyuan Gong, the cultivation method was also a scroll. It wasn't large, and Wang Sheng could easily put it into his Naring. As for the gold coins, each roll consisted of three thousand three hundred gold coins, with every hundred coins rolled into a roll, just like the coin rolls Wang Sheng had seen on Earth, slightly thicker and much heavier, but the volume wasn't large.

There was still enough space in the Naring. However, after putting down these gold coins, besides the equipment and snake meat, there was almost no space left.

The gold coins and cultivation method were agreed upon conditions, and Wang Sheng took them without any psychological burden. Now that he had the items, it was time for Wang Sheng to leave.

Wang Sheng had no intention of participating in the Song family's internal affairs. He had told Song Yan long ago that he would leave when Old Song brought people over. With so many people present, Wang Sheng didn't even greet Song Yan, who was surrounded by the crowd. He proactively retreated to a corner and then found an opportunity to disappear.

Wang Sheng left discreetly, and not many people noticed his departure. However, there were still a few people who had been secretly watching Wang Sheng from beginning to end. Seeing Wang Sheng leave, one of them subtly gave another a wink.

The person who received the wink nodded slowly, as if inspecting the valley's terrain. He and a few others unhurriedly moved to the edge and then disappeared into the rocks.

Wang Sheng was unwilling to stay, not only because he didn't want to get involved in the Song family's internal affairs, but also because his Yuan Soul Carp could already leap in the water to the same height as the lowest part of the Dragon Gate. He estimated that in a few more days, it would definitely be able to jump over the Dragon Gate. Wang Sheng didn't want to share this big secret with Song Yan and the others.

In the end, the relationship between the two sides hadn't reached the point of complete trust. Song Yan wanted to take it a step further, but Old Song was constantly guarding against Wang Sheng, which Wang Sheng felt very clearly.

Once in the forest, a hint of coldness appeared in Wang Sheng's eyes. There were people behind him, five of them. They weren't helping in the valley but following him, definitely not to protect him secretly.

The Song family wasn't exactly Wang Sheng's enemy, but they weren't friends either. At any time, when his life was threatened, Wang Sheng wouldn't care about anyone's life in this world.

In the forest, Wang Sheng quickened his pace and also set up a few small traps. Not the deadly kind, but enough to delay the people behind him. Although Wang Sheng didn't care about killing people, he had just cooperated with Song Yan, so he would avoid killing if possible.

The five people chasing behind, after leaving the valley, seemed to have no more concerns and rushed into the forest quickly. Then, the five people were dumbfounded.

Wang Sheng was wearing genuine woodland camouflage, and entering the forest was like a drop of water merging into the sea. In the valley, his strange attire was still very conspicuous, but in the forest, he was practically invisible.

The eyes of four people all focused on the remaining young man. The young man looked at his companions, took out the hollow bamboo tube from behind his waist, squatted down, and opened it. A chubby, guinea pig-like creature crawled out of the bamboo tube.

The young man picked up the guinea pig, placed it next to a very obvious footprint left by Wang Sheng, pointed at the footprint, and the guinea pig began to shake its fat head and sniff. As soon as the young man let go, the guinea pig scurried off in one direction on its short legs.

Everyone followed the guinea pig all the way. Along the way, everyone could see traces of someone passing by, and they all understood that they were definitely chasing in the right direction. After running with the guinea pig for a while, the young man whistled, and the guinea pig's speed began to increase.

The reason everyone was running slowly before was also to prevent Wang Sheng from playing tricks. But after following for such a long distance, they hadn't discovered anything. Wang Sheng seemed to be single-mindedly running forward. What was there to worry about with such a fool? So the young man who tamed the rat told the guinea pig to speed up.

Everyone thought they would be able to catch up with Wang Sheng soon. No matter how powerful Wang Sheng was, he couldn't escape the tracking of this special tracking rat. However, just as they picked up speed, the change suddenly happened.

The guinea pig's short legs were paddling quickly. It didn't care what it would pass on the road, as long as it could bear its weight. Just as it quickly stepped over a branch lying across the ground, the guinea pig was fine, but the young man following closely behind heard a whooshing sound, and then a branch as thick as an adult's arm struck directly on the shinbone of his calf.

Fortunately, the young man taming the rat reacted well. He couldn't avoid the blow, but he managed to use his power to protect his calf in time. With a snap, the arm-thick branch broke in two. The young man's leg bone wasn't broken, but he was unable to counteract the inertia from the blow and fell flat on his face.

The pain from his calf made the young man unable to care about anything else. He quickly sat up and rolled up his trouser leg to take a look, and it was red and swollen. With the help of his companions, he stood up and took a few steps, feeling a sharp pain. He couldn't walk fast now.

Unlucky, everyone thought so, without thinking too much about anything else. One person helped the young man, and everyone continued to chase forward.

However, after three accidents happened in a row, and the three people in the front suffered some minor injuries, everyone understood that this was the work of the barbarian kid in front.

After understanding this, the five people were instantly furious. Who were they? Five of the most outstanding disciples of the Song family's new generation, the worst of whom was at the middle stage of the first realm, were actually being played by an insignificant barbarian. This was intolerable! Even if they chased to the ends of the earth, they would make this bastard pay a painful price.

The five Song family experts all began to use their spiritual energy to protect themselves at all costs and then chased forward at full speed. With their cultivation, using spiritual energy to protect themselves could last for at least twenty minutes without being harmed by those traps. Running at full speed for twenty minutes, they believed they would definitely be able to catch up with that bastard.

However, the ideal was beautiful, but the reality was extremely cruel. The further they went, the more small traps they encountered. They could still withstand ordinary branches hitting their bodies, but when the Song cultivator who issued commands stepped into a shallow pit that was a foot deep but only slightly thicker than his calf, the five people calmed down from their rage.

This trap was almost not a trap, because they couldn't see any traces of artificiality. It could only be said that it was a natural shallow pit in the forest. But stepping into it, with the body still maintaining the inertia of high-speed forward冲, the consequences were absolutely terrifying.

Crack, everyone heard the clear sound like a broken branch, accompanied by Song Xiu's extremely painful scream.

Ah! The scream almost tore through the sky. The other four Song family members absolutely believed that this was the loudest sound Song Xiu had made since they had known him.

Song Xiu's body had already lunged forward onto the ground, but his left calf was still straight in the shallow pit, and his knee was abnormally bent forward at ninety degrees. Even if others hadn't experienced it themselves, seeing this situation, they couldn't help but tremble.

The four people didn't care about their own pain and quickly rushed forward to help Song Xiu up, pulling his leg out of the shallow pit. One of them quickly took out a painkilling pill and put it into Song Xiu's mouth. After a while, Song Xiu's screams stopped.

Obviously, this leg was temporarily useless. No matter how powerful the painkilling pill was, it couldn't completely block the pain, but only to the point where Song Xiu could still endure it.

Song Xiu was covered in cold sweat, and he was almost frightened by the sight of his leg. Could it be that he would become a one-legged cripple from now on? Fortunately, his companions comforted him in time, saying that as long as he set the bone properly and recuperated for a few months, he would still be a lively and vigorous man.

What everyone couldn't understand was that it was just a dirt pit, and Song Xiu was still using spiritual energy to protect himself, so how could he be injured like this? Under normal circumstances, shouldn't Song Xiu kick the dirt in front of the dirt pit with one foot and continue running?

A companion carefully looked at the dirt pit and then understood the reason. This was a natural dirt pit, but it wasn't completely natural. In front of the dirt pit, there was a solid clump of tree roots, which had been cleverly processed to become this trap.

This trap was purely based on luck. If the people chasing behind didn't step on it, nothing would happen, but the opening on top was covered by a clump of weeds and dead leaves, which happened to cover the mouth of the pit. Song Xiu thought it was solid ground and stepped on it, only to be tricked.

"Kill him!" At this moment, Song Xiu had no other thoughts in his mind except this one. A rising star of the Song family, a young talent who was usually favored by the Third Elder, was actually being played by a barbarian like this. If he didn't kill Wang Sheng, he would never be able to swallow this breath.

"Help me up! Chase!" Song Xiu roared and decided to temporarily ignore his injured leg and chase after Wang Sheng to kill him first.

His four companions couldn't resist him, so two of them had to free their hands to carry Song Xiu on their shoulders and continue forward. However, the speed had already become ordinary speed, and they could no longer rush up, nor did they dare to rush up.

Before they had walked more than ten steps forward, one of the companions with sharp eyes suddenly pointed to the ground and shouted: "Look at the ground, there are words!"

Everyone lowered their heads together, and then they saw two large characters that had been scratched on the ground with a branch, which looked very crude but had a very obvious meaning: "Stop!"

What did this mean? The five people were all furious! An insignificant barbarian dared to threaten the Song family? Did he not want to live?

However, the anger came quickly and went quickly. As everyone carried Song Xiu forward, they all saw Song Xiu's drooping, unresponsive left calf, and they also remembered the pain they had been left with from the ambush before. Looking at the two "Stop" characters with extremely obvious warning meaning, everyone hesitated.

For a moment, the five people fell into silence. Should they continue chasing or not?