Chapter 40: Abandoning Dongling

  "What the hell's race! How many ghosts are willing to be ghosts? Which ghost doesn't want to become human again? Screw it, I don't admit that I'm a ghost!" As soon as this was mentioned, Yin Yue's face changed and he began to lament.

  "In those days, I was only twelve years old, with elders above and youngsters below, a renowned child music prodigy in the local area! Who didn't like me? I was a big star!"

  "I have tens of thousands of fans who chase after me, worship me, respect me and love me, treating me like their own father!"

  "But on that day, those damned spirits took me away and transformed me into a spirit! From then on..."

  Yin Yue's mouth opened and closed rapidly, speaking incessantly, while Chu Cheng's face grew increasingly bizarre.

  "Alright, alright, I'll spare your life!" Chu Cheng said calmly.

  Just an ordinary yin spirit, not very capable, if I want to kill him, I can just kill him, and he wouldn't dare make any trouble. Moreover, having such a freak is indeed beneficial for someone like me who is unfamiliar with the world of humans.

  "Thank you, uncle! Thank you, big brother!" Yin Yue listened and immediately kowtowed, knocking his head repeatedly.

  Suddenly, Chu Cheng's face changed color.

  Someone is approaching from nearby.

  "Yin Yue, hide me quickly, someone is coming!" Chu Cheng's face turned serious.

  "What? That blind hunter dares to chase us here? No problem, I'll take Big Brother to find other prey and surround this guy together!" Yin Yue immediately stood up, with a face full of anger.

  "A hunter who doesn't open his eyes? A hunter will have a large group?" Chu Cheng looked at Yin Yue, his face unpleasant: "I am the hunter!"

  "What, what? You're the hunter? Ah, ah, ah! How miserable I am to have followed a dying person! Heaven and earth, pity me!" Yin Yue's face turned ashen.

  Hunters, that's the symbol of death, the synonym for bad luck! How many hunters can survive? Especially in this fatal hunt!

  "Alright, stop it! Are you cursing me to death? First take me to hide!" Chu Cheng was not feeling well in his heart, secretly thinking, is it really that scary?

  "Whatever, a life is like the withering of grass and trees in autumn. If I die, then so be it! Besides, I've already died once before! Big brother, come with me!" Yin Yue's face was filled with a tragic grandeur.

  Can't help but say, Yin Yue is indeed a local ghost, and he is quite familiar with this place. He quickly led Chu Cheng into an inconspicuous cave, surrounded by dead air that masked the scent of blood and flesh.

  "I said it's cloudy and rainy, you don't think highly of me?" Chu Cheng looked around the small cave, there was nothing, very simple.

  "Big brother, why do you have to be a hunter? Is being a hunter that easy?" Yin Yue seemed to think he was going to die soon, with a gloomy face: "The hunting grounds have existed for thousands of years, and in all the hunts, how many times has the hunter won? Once! Just once!"

  "Uh-huh, I know." Chu Cheng scratched his head: "But this time is different."

  Chu Cheng told Yin Yue about the special thing that happened during this hunting trip.

  "Really? But I somehow feel that you will be worse off." Yin Yue's expression became even more peculiar. The young kid, no, youth in front of him was actually the weakest among the five hunters?

  "What nonsense! Yīn Yuè, you just said that you knew the distribution of all forces in the entire hunting ground? Are there different forces within the hunting ground?" Chǔ Chéng asked.

  "Of course! For thousands of years, the hunting grounds have been self-contained, how could there not be a few powers?" Yin Yue's face was full of disdain: "Big brother, I'm telling you, the hunting grounds are divided into..."

  The entire hunting ground is divided into two major camps: Temple of Dark Gods and Den of Ferocious Beasts.

  The Temple of the Dark Gods is located in the south, where the great King of Jin Youwang is worshipped. Within it, there are two types of dark spirits: those born naturally from the native soil and those transformed from outsiders. The two coexist externally but internally they eye each other with disdain and have clashed multiple times.

  The Twelve Elders of the Temple of Darkness, consisting of five native yin spirits and seven foreign yin spirits.

  The ferocious beast's nest is in the north, it is the gathering place of countless ferocious beasts. Among them, more than a dozen of the most powerful ferocious beasts are all at the Seven Treasures Realm and extremely powerful.

  The Temple of Shadows and the Lair of Beasts are sworn enemies, having fought each other for a thousand years, with neither able to destroy the other.

  And every time hunting begins, they consistently exterminate both hunters and prey.

  "So that's how it is, no wonder so few people survive each hunt." Chu Cheng's face was gloomy.

  Hunting alone was more difficult than he had imagined.

  "Let's go hunting on a cloudy day." The corner of Chu Cheng's mouth slightly curled up.

  "Hunt?" Yin Yue didn't understand.

  "Yes, take the initiative to attack and hunt down all prey! Whether it's humans, yin spirits, or ferocious beasts, they're all my targets!" Chu Cheng's eyes gleamed with a fierce light: "If you want to survive, then you can only do so by killing others!"

  "Umm... alright then, let's go hunting." Yin Yue's eyes sparkled slightly.

  Although I had already sentenced Chu City to death and myself to death, I thought it was just a matter of dying early or late, so be it! However, once I went out hunting, maybe I could find an opportunity to escape!

  "Of course, before that, you should make an oath first, one that can be witnessed by heaven and earth." Chu Cheng said calmly.

  In an instant, his face turned ashen.

  In a small grove, two middle-aged people were walking together.

  They are all prey, one is a first-order transcender and the other is a second-order transcender.

  Suddenly, a flash of blood light flashed by, and a bloody tip pierced through the throats of two people in succession.

  "The only hunt that's damned... Don't blame me for the two of you!" A young man suddenly appeared, taking away the only magical tools the two had, his face expressionless.

  On a small hillside, a burly man holding a large knife looked around in all directions.

  He is also a prey, but has long since transcended the ordinary realm threefold, condensing three drops of essence. He believes in standing high and seeing far, so he climbs up this small hill, but forgets that when one stands high, others can see more clearly too.

  A blood-red rope suddenly flew from behind and tied up the big man entirely.

  The next moment, Da Han's blood was boiling, his five organs were all torn apart, and the seven orifices of his body flowed with blood, and he fell to the ground dead.

  "Don't blame me!"

  ……

  In the hunting grounds, many places have happened the same thing. And the one who did this is a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy.

  The young man was short in stature, with a golden lobster the size of a palm on his shoulder, and had distinctive features. Behind him, there was also a dark spirit following him.

  At this time, the audience in the auditorium was boiling, and everyone's eyes were attracted by the young man.

  "Huh? Isn't this Chu Shi? The weakest hunter in history? He's actually so powerful?"

  "Awesome, indeed awesome! The prey that died at his hands has already reached nine, among which the strongest one condensed three drops of blood essence!"

  "With just two drops of Blood Essence, he killed three drops of Blood Essence with a single strike! This Chu Shi is no ordinary person!"

  ……

  Yin Wu's heart was boiling, his whole body was boiling!

  "You were right, Youquan! I knew it was a good idea to listen to you! This Chu Shi is really incredibly powerful! Just how strong is he, and how many hidden cards does he have? Do you know, Youquan?"

  Yin Wu's fists were clenched tightly, his face filled with excitement.

  "I have no idea! But I must say, Chu Cheng's strength is indeed immeasurable. However, his opponent is even stronger!" Youquan shifted her gaze to other figures, focusing on other powerful individuals.

  "Huh? Isn't that Dongling Abandoned? Looking at the direction he's advancing, it seems like he's going to meet Chu City? Ah, they really met!" someone exclaimed.

  Yuquan's eyes narrowed, her gaze fixed on a magnified image.

  In the image is a boy running with all his might, using both hands and feet.

  He wore animal hide clothing, holding a large white bone club in his hand, with a wild and savage light in his eyes, looking like a terrifying beast.

  "Abandon Dongling!"

  Yuquan's eyebrows were tightly furrowed.

  Abandoned in the Eastern Tomb, he was thrown into the Eastern Tomb half a month after birth and left to fend for himself. Later, he was raised by wild beasts, grew up drinking the milk of hundreds of beasts, learned all sorts of beastly tricks, and had habits that were different from ordinary people.

  In his eyes, beasts are kin, and humans keep their distance.

  This guy is extremely talented, although he's only seventeen years old, but has already refined four drops of blood essence, his strength is extremely powerful, far beyond what ordinary people can compare to.

  Chu City, will it be his opponent?

  Everyone is paying attention.

  One move killed a second-rate hunter who had just transcended the ordinary realm, Chu Cheng was about to leave when he suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked into the distance.

  "What's wrong? Big brother?" Yin Yue was puzzled and followed Chu Cheng's gaze. Suddenly, his face changed greatly.

  "Heavens, what a powerful and domineering aura! What wild and unbridled footsteps! B...big brother, let's yield, shall we?" Yin Yue's heart was filled with fear, her words stumbling out incoherently.

  "Yield? Is it necessary? Besides, that guy is coming straight for me, how can I yield?" Chu Cheng stretched out his hand, and the long spear "Ji Guang" was in his hand.

  After several breaths, the two met.

  This is a life-and-death struggle, not child's play. Chu Cheng and Dong Ling abandoned all idle chatter and went straight for the kill.

  The long spear of Chu City, the white bone stick abandoned by Dongling, collided in mid-air.

  "Boom!"

  A loud crash, Dong Ling stumbled back three steps, while Chu Cheng directly flew out and crashed into a giant tree with a thick trunk, snapping the tree in half.

  "Pffft!"

  A mouthful of fresh blood spurted out from Chu City.

  "Dong Ling abandoned, what a Dong Ling abandoned! No wonder he grew up drinking the milk of a hundred beasts, his strength is so great, it's simply like a fierce beast, not weaker than Dongfang Ye and Han Zuo!"

  In Chu Cheng's mind, the information about Dong Lingyi immediately emerged.

  Yinling Ancient Path's comprehensive evaluation of Dong Lingyi is 11th level, which is exactly the third stage of Detachment Realm and the power to condense five drops of blood essence. But he only has four drops of blood essence, which means that compared to people of the same rank, Dong Lingyi is much stronger.

  Chu Cheng's eyes narrowed slightly.

  He felt an unusual aura from the white bone club that was discarded on the east mound, and that club was by no means ordinary. Its level was extremely high, absolutely not below the long spear "Jìguāng".

  The magic tools are divided into four levels, namely the Seven Treasure Magic Tool, the Five Elements Magic Tool, the Mountain and Sea Magic Tool, and the Divine Communication Magic Tool, corresponding to the Seven Treasure Realm, the Five Elements Realm, the Mountain and Sea Realm, and the Divine Communication Realm.

  Generally speaking, the Xuanqi used by the cultivators of the Extraordinary Realm are mostly ordinary mortal instruments and do not fall under the category of the Seven Treasures. However, people like Chu Cheng, Dongfang Ye, and Jiu Gongzi use top-grade Seven Treasure artifacts because they all have extraordinary identities.

  How many more extraordinary individuals does Panshi Academy have, and how many possess one of the Seven Treasures?

  And this Dong Ling discarded, the white bone stick in his hand was also a seven-treasure artifact and an extreme product!

  "Huh? That white bone... is a White Silver Treasure Bone, and it's not a human's White Silver Treasure Bone, but rather some kind of ferocious beast's White Silver Treasure Bone. This thing, its original grade isn't enough, only equivalent to a top-grade Seven Treasures artifact. However, it seems like it was refined by an expert, making it an extreme-grade Seven Treasures artifact." Suddenly said Kunsha on his shoulder.

  "So that's how it is." Chu Cheng suddenly understood in his heart.

  Dong Ling was abandoned and grew up among wild beasts from a young age, no one knows where he got this white bone club. It can even be said that this white bone club was given to him by some ferocious beast after its cultivation.

  This thing is equivalent to a Golden Lobster, but its level is much lower.

  Golden lobster is in the Five Elements Boundary.

  "Come again!"

  Chu Cheng let out a loud roar, his blood boiling with excitement. He pointed his spear at the sky and launched a "Dragon Emerging from the Abyss" attack, charging straight for Dong Ling's abandoned position.