The Ancient Vast Realm

The sun was high in the sky, and the mountains were rolling. A huge beast passed by in the blue sky. Its sharp eyes scanned the forest below, and its body gradually flew to the towering peaks in front of it.

From time to time, a flock of birds would be startled from the distant forests, and the roar of unknown beasts accompanied by some cries would echo in the vast mountains.

In an inconspicuous forest, a blue-striped horned deer was vigilantly looking around.

Common wild beasts in Qishan: blue-striped horned deer

This blue-striped horned deer was about half a person's height, with three black horns on its head, two short horns at the back, and one long horn at the top of the forehead. The sharp black horns flashed with a faint glow, as if to show that it was not easy to mess with.

Its yellow fur looked soft and bright in the sunlight shining through the shade of the trees, and the blue markings on its fur looked particularly eye-catching, and its two eyes like black jade also flashed with a smart light.

The blue-striped horned deer walked cautiously in the mountains, as if there was an uneasy atmosphere around it, but in the grass not far away, a few clusters of its favorite berries were emitting an attractive luster under the sunlight, and the wind also brought a mouth-watering fragrance.

It has been hesitating here for a long time. Although its instinct as a wild animal warned it that something seemed wrong, it was reluctant to give up the food that was so close to it because it had not eaten properly for almost a day.

And just 20 meters away from the blue-striped horned deer, in a low bush, a pair of dark eyes were staring at the blue-striped horned deer not far away without blinking.

The owner of the eyes was a boy who looked about twelve or thirteen years old. He wore a set of clothes made of unknown animal skins on his upper body and gray trousers woven from coarse linen on his lower body. A bunch of weeds woven on his messy hair served as a cover. His dark face was smeared with dried brown mud and green grass juice, and his thin lips had cracked.

The boy looked ahead without blinking, swallowed a mouthful of saliva slightly, and pursed his dry lips subconsciously.

Even though he was hiding in the bushes, with the shade of trees and shrubs, the hot forest still scorched his lips, with many tiny cracks. He wanted to pull off the water bag on his waist and drink a big gulp.

But reason stopped him from doing that. After all, he had been squatting here for a long time to wait for this prey. If the prey noticed something and ran away because of a momentary mistake, he would be really depressed.

The boy hid in the bushes, holding a short stone spear with a sharp tip made of white stone in his right hand, and carefully taking out a thumb-thick straw rope from the animal skin bag at his waist with his left hand. He stared at the blue-striped horned deer in front of him, ready to go, as if waiting for something.

After a brief hesitation, the blue-striped horned deer slowly patrolled the berries, but did not notice any dangerous predators, so he walked forward with a little relaxation, looking around from time to time while walking, and planned to escape immediately as soon as there was any movement. This was the instinct of a weak herbivore.

However, it walked to the berry bush vigilantly, and did not find any danger, so it looked down at the berries on the bush.

I saw that the green and yellow fruits on the bush were full, and the white and tender flesh was exposed in the slightly cracked peel at the top. A little juice was seeping out along the cracked mouth, and the fragrance it smelled before was exactly emitted by the slightly cracked fruit.

Smelling the intoxicating smell, the blue-striped horned deer no longer hesitated, and happily lowered its head to eat the berries and tender leaves in big mouthfuls on the bushes. The delicious food also began to lower its vigilance.

The blue-striped horned deer began to slowly eat food around the berry bush, and did not notice that one of its hooves slowly stepped into a grass with slightly turned leaves.

Suddenly!

—— Whoosh!

The blue-striped horned deer felt a tightness on its feet, as if something was pulling one of its hooves tightly. The blue-striped horned deer immediately felt something was wrong and wanted to escape, but at this time one of its hooves was tightly tied by a strong straw rope, and it could not break free in a short time.

—— Whoosh

With a noise, it was horrified to see a two-legged creature wearing animal skins, with weeds on its head and a stone spear in its hand suddenly rushing towards it in the bushes not far away.

Seeing this, it struggled even harder, knocking the berries it loved just now to the ground, and it was crushed by it in panic, but this did not seem to change anything.

Time went back a few breaths ago.

Feng Xuan stared at the blue-striped horned deer, and saw it slowly approach the berries, and then gradually let down its guard. The corners of his pursed mouth gradually curled up, and a faint smile appeared on his tender face.

He had been away from the tribe for two days. This bunch of berries was not easy to find. In this dangerous wilderness, Feng Xuan did not dare to move around. He had to be careful with every step, and this place was a good place to make a trap.

He knew that this sour berry was one of the favorite fruits of many herbivores, including this blue-striped horned deer.

But this blue-striped horned deer is a semi-gregarious animal, with at least two or three, and at most seven or eight.

If it was the whole herd of deer, even if Feng Xuan had the courage, he would not dare to provoke it, but this lone blue-striped horned deer became his target.

He had discovered the lone blue-horned deer wandering nearby in advance, so he tore open the tops of a few berries and let the scent of the sour berries spread out in order to attract the lone blue-horned deer over.

Sure enough, as he guessed, this was a solitary and hungry blue-horned deer. Judging from its size, it should be a male deer that had just reached adulthood not long ago, but it was unknown why it was solitary.

Of course, this was not surprising. Blue-horned deer are animals that can easily get lost. It is not uncommon for them to be solitary. It is normal for them to fight for mate rights or be expelled from their leaders, or to get lost and fall behind when drinking water and eating grass. This is one of the reasons why Feng Xuan chose this blue-horned deer as his prey this time, so as to avoid being besieged by the herd.

Feng Xuan set up a total of three noose traps on the ground of the berry bush. The other end of the noose was connected to a large branch on the side along the ground. The rope loop was formed by a cross formed by small branches, and the triggering method was that as long as the blue-horned deer stepped on the noose, the rope would tighten immediately, and as long as the blue-horned deer struggled, it would tighten more and more, making it impossible for it to break free in a short time.

This is also a very common trap used by hunters in the mountains and forests, but it is almost limited to ordinary wild animals.

So when he saw the blue-striped horned deer struggling in the trap, Feng Xuan's eyes lit up, and he immediately grabbed the wooden spear and rushed out of the bushes.

He did not immediately use the wooden spear in his hand to attack the panicked blue-striped horned deer, but threw the rope in his hand to accurately trap the blue-striped horned deer's slender neck, then rushed to the big tree and quickly circled the rope around the thick tree trunk to make a knot, and then he felt relieved.

This straw rope is not particularly strong. Although the blue-striped horned deer is a relatively weak existence among wild beasts, it is still a wild beast.

Feng Xuan knew that a straw rope on the foot was not safe, and the blue-striped horned deer had a certain chance of breaking free.

Even if it was a timid herbivorous blue-striped horned deer, once it was in danger of life and went crazy, it would be a headache, and it was very likely to be injured. It would be disastrous to be injured alone in the mountains without the protection of companions, resulting in inconvenience in movement.

If they encounter predators in the mountains and forests, they will not mind enjoying a meal delivered to their mouths, and the stimulation of the smell of blood is even more dangerous.

These guys will lock their prey tightly like a maggot attached to their bones, and will not stop until they achieve their goal and tear the prey apart and swallow it into their stomachs to satisfy their appetite.

"Yiyo... Yiyo"

The blue-striped horned deer was tied up by the neck, and immediately screamed in panic and struggled in the opposite direction of Feng Xuan.

Feng Xuan knew that he could not wait any longer. The noise here was not small. If it attracted the attention of more powerful beasts, it would be troublesome.

He immediately raised the spear in his hand, and saw that the top of the wooden spear was a flat stone. The stone was white as a whole, and the top was polished very sharp.

This is a spear head polished with bone rock, which is sharper and more durable than ordinary iron tools in terms of sharpness and hardness.

The blue-striped horned deer saw Feng Xuan's posture of preparing to attack, and became even more panicked. While struggling, he accidentally stepped into another lasso on the side.

With the sound of the rope tightening, its feet tightened, and it staggered due to the two straight ropes, and immediately knelt on the ground due to inertia.

Seeing this opportunity, Xuanfeng's eyes condensed, and he immediately stepped forward, aiming the stone spear in his hand at the eye socket of the blue-striped horned deer and stabbing it fiercely.

With a "puff", half of the spear tip sank into the left eye of the blue-striped horned deer, and immediately a stream of blood mixed with black liquid flowed down the eye socket.

"Yo!"

Hearing the miserable cry of the blue-striped horned deer, Xuanfeng was ruthless, and suddenly stirred his hand vigorously, and then decisively gave up the stone spear and strode back.

This was to avoid the final counterattack of the blue-striped horned deer before death. After all, at this time, even the most docile beasts would become fierce and fight to the death.

As expected, the blue-striped horned deer felt the loss of life, and looked at Feng Xuan with hatred with its only remaining one eye, wanting to launch a final revenge on him.

However, its feet were caught by the lasso, and it had lost too much blood. After struggling for a while, it could only reluctantly let out a last wail and fell to the ground, twitching. For a moment, it was only breathing out but not breathing in. Only the slightly rising and falling abdomen could prove that it was not completely dead.

Feng Xuan stood not far away, carefully watching the blue-striped horned deer, slowly approached, stretched out his hand and pulled out the stone spear stuck in the deer's eye.

As the stone spear left the body, the blue-striped horned deer twitched violently and stopped moving.

Feng Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and slowly squatted down to check the situation.

At this time, the blue-striped horned deer was completely dead, with only a deep blood hole in the eye socket.

Feng Xuan did not have any special hobby to attack the eyes.

First, because the fur of the blue-striped horned deer is extremely tough, his stone spear is not easy to penetrate, and if he fails to pull out the spear head in time after the penetration, it is easy to be hit by the crazy horned deer and get injured.

Second, if too many wounds are caused, the bloody smell is too strong, which will easily attract carnivorous beasts. Piercing the eye socket with a stone spear directly into the deep of the head is almost a fatal wound, which not only saves effort but also ends the battle quickly.

If too much fur is damaged, it will not be worth a few iron coins. Of course, Feng Xuan himself will not admit this.

Feng Xuan stood up, looked around for a while, and listened quietly for a while. After confirming that no other beasts were approaching, he returned to the bushes where he had hidden before and took out a human head-sized animal skin bag and turned out a gray porcelain bottle from it.

He squatted down next to the blue-striped horned deer, first picked up a ball of mud from the ground to block the bloody hole in its eye socket, and then poured some green grass juice from the medicine bottle in his hand and smeared it randomly on the blood-stained wounds of the blue-striped horned deer, in order to prevent the strong smell of blood from emanating.

The medicine bottle contains the juice of bitter thorn grass, which can not only effectively cover up the smell, but also repel mosquitoes. It is a must-have medicine for forest hunters, and Feng Xuan had applied this grass juice on his body and face before.

After everything was done, Feng Xuan stood up and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He looked up at the sky. The sun was hanging high. It should be noon. With his own strength, he should be able to get back to the tribe before dark after carrying the body of the blue-striped horned deer.

At this time, he had been hunting for two days. At his age, if he did not return for too long, it was inevitable that Uncle Da Niu and the others would be worried, and he could not keep the body of the blue-striped horned deer in the wild.

Thinking of this, Feng Xuan took out the water bag from his waist, carefully sipped two small sips of clear water, put it to his ear and shook the water bag, and then he found that there was not much water in the water bag.

After all, it was mid-summer and the weather was still quite hot, and drinking water was consumed quickly.

In this wilderness, water sources are not so easy to find. Even though Feng Xuan wanted to drink up all the water in the water bag at this moment, he had to keep some for emergency use.

Thinking of this, Feng Xuan looked up and saw three big suns hanging high in the sky, emitting endless light and heat.

Yes, three big suns, but strangely, they did not cause destructive scorching to everything.

Feng Xuan had heard from the tribal witch that in the extreme north, the creatures there lived in ice and snow all year round due to the severe cold, and could not see the scorching sun at all.

Although Feng Xuan did not know how far the so-called extreme north was, anyway, the farthest place he had been to was other tribes dozens of miles away from the tribe.

Without thinking any more, Feng Xuan quickly cut off the straw ropes that tied the blue-striped horned deer corpse with a stone spear, and put the intact part into the animal skin bag, which could be used next time.

He lifted the blue-striped horned deer and put it on his shoulder and weighed it gently. It seemed to weigh about 100 kilograms. This was a newly grown horned deer, not yet fully mature. A mature blue-striped horned deer would weigh at least 200 kilograms.

With Feng Xuan's strength and condition, it was not too strenuous. He looked around and identified the direction. Feng Xuan carried the blue-striped horned deer on his shoulders and rushed to the east, which was the direction of his tribe.

After more than an hour of trekking, Feng Xuan suddenly stopped. He was in a jungle at this time, but he clearly felt that the atmosphere here was different. It seemed a little too quiet. There was a faint smell of blood in the air, and the chirping of insects and birds around seemed too weak to hear.

"Crunch..."

Suddenly, Feng Xuan's ears moved slightly, and he felt a slight sound coming from the jungle in front of him on the left. It seemed to be the chewing sound of animals eating flesh and blood.

Hearing this noise, Feng Xuan's heart sank slightly. He gently put the blue-horned deer on his shoulder on the ground and clenched the stone spear in his hand.

He tiptoed forward, paying attention to the low leaves and dead branches on the ground. He felt that he had to figure out what was going on first to avoid being attacked by unknown people.

"Crunch, crunch..."

A sound of chewing and tearing flesh gradually came from the front, and the sound became clearer and clearer.

Feeling the sound gradually increase, Feng Xuan hid beside a bush and gently pulled apart a few leaves.

The first thing that caught his eye was the bodies of several black wolves lying in a pool of blood, and then Feng Xuan moved his eyes and saw a black wolf body that was larger and had sharper claws lying a few meters away from the black wolves.

Qishan Territory Kailing Realm Savage Beast: Blood-Striped Mantis

Beside the black wolf corpse, a giant mantis with a hideous body suddenly caught his eye.

The giant mantis was nearly two meters tall, with a green body and an inverted triangle head. It was holding a pair of blood-colored large knife arms and eating the huge black wolf corpse in front of it with relish. The knife feet in its hands kept cutting the black wolf corpse, tearing the flesh and blood.

When Feng Xuan saw this emerald green giant mantis, his pupils shrank suddenly. In just a moment, he recognized that this was the insect beast described in the tribal martial arts hall.

Insect beasts are also a kind of wild beasts. Of course, some people generally call them wild beasts directly, but their insect appearance still makes many people prefer to call them insect beasts.

And the one in front of him is the killing beast among insect beasts-the blood-patterned mantis. This is an insect beast in the spiritual realm, and it is also a famous insect beast for killing blood.

Insect beasts are the most difficult and fierce insects of the same level. Generally, wild beasts are unwilling to provoke insect beasts of the same level, let alone this blood-patterned mantis. The black wind wolf on the ground is the best proof.

Each black wind wolf is a leader among beasts, and cannot be compared with the blue-striped horned deer that he just hunted.

An adult black wind wolf can easily deal with two mature blue-striped horned deer at the same time, and with his current strength, even if he just faces a black wind wolf head-on, the outcome is unknown, and he dare not easily fight against it.

And if he is not mistaken, the largest black wind wolf should have broken through to the Kailing realm and become a real wild beast. The huge size that exceeds that of ordinary black wind wolves is incomparable to ordinary black wind wolves.

But under normal circumstances, fierce beasts such as black wind wolves are only wild beasts at the initial stage of Kailing realm even if they break through, and only a very small number of black wind wolves will have the opportunity to grow into mid-level or high-level Kailing realm.

But even so, this Kailing realm black wind wolf leader and four mature black wind wolves still died under the terrifying knife arm of the blood-striped mantis, and it seems that the blood-striped mantis has no scars on its body.

Not daring to look any longer, Xuanfeng immediately moved his hand away slowly, and while the blood-veined mantis was eating and not noticing him, he slowly retreated.

Carefully returning to the corpse of the blue-striped horned deer, Feng Xuan put the horned deer on his shoulders again and immediately moved away from the place where the blood-striped mantis was and took a detour.

"Huff-Huff"

While running, thinking about this terrifying giant mantis, Feng Xuan's heart was still restless. After all, this was an existence that he could not deal with at all. If it was really noticed by this thing, the end would make Feng Xuan dare not think about it anymore.

He had to report the news to the tribal patrol team. After all, this terrifying insect beast was not far from the tribe. With the strength of this blood-striped mantis, it would be a disaster for ordinary tribal patrol members to encounter it rashly. The blood-striped mantis is famous for hiding and loving to kill.

After more than an hour of rushing, the outline of a mountain in the distance appeared in Feng Xuan's vision.

It is called a mountain, but in fact it is only about 500 meters high. It is really sparse and ordinary in the territory of Qishan, but it is more prominent compared to some small peaks around it.

In the sky above the mountain, two black eagles were circling and playing, and a loud eagle cry was heard from time to time.

Feng Xuan couldn't help but smile. This was the tribe he lived in, the Black Eagle Tribe, an ordinary human tribe.

The mountain where the tribe lived was called the Black Eagle Mountain. It was a name that the tribe had after it took root here a thousand years ago. Before that, it was just an ordinary wild mountain without a name.

Feng Xuan slowed down his pace slightly, and from time to time he picked some ripe and edible wild fruits on the roadside to replenish his energy, and then collected some and put them in the animal skin bag around his waist.

Even though he had seen the Black Eagle Mountain before, Feng Xuan still spent nearly half an hour to rush back to the tribe. It was not just a saying that he would run to death in the mountains. This was because he was a martial artist and had plenty of energy.

After running for nearly two hours, although he had stopped to rest in the middle, Feng Xuan still felt that his body was beginning to be exhausted. After all, he was carrying a prey weighing more than 100 kilograms, even though he was a martial artist who was about to break through the body forging realm.

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Insert some cultivation realms in this article. I didn’t intend to put them, but some friends reported that they couldn’t distinguish the realm comparison.

Martial Arts

The first realm is the body forging realm-skin refining stage-bone refining stage-boiling blood stage

The second realm is the internal organs realm-internal organs refining stage-blood and qi stage

The third realm is the essence storage realm-qi transformation stage-spirit concentration stage

The fourth realm is the giant spirit realm-soul condensation stage-empty stage

Witchcraft

The first realm is the witchcraft realm

The second realm is the spirit witch realm-soul enlightenment stage-spiritual communication stage

The third realm is the white witch realm-casting pattern stage-totem stage

The fourth realm is the black witch realm-controlling soul stage-returning to the void stage

Beast Path (a general term for alien races)

The first realm is the spirit opening realm

The second realm is the breathing realm

The third realm is the air control realm

The fourth realm is the lord realm