"After the new year, I would be sixteen years old and be qualified to split the assets. My parents are dead, and my brother has new parents. If I am successful, the entire inheritance is mine. But to take back the inheritance, there are two crucial steps, each being extremely important."
"The first is to apply for the mission at the internal affairs hall without any other missions at hand. The second is to complete the mission to earn the rights to inherit the asset."
"Jiao San is in cahoots with Uncle and Aunt. Leaving aside the second step, he's already trying to trap me at the first step."
How amusing... I've already lost interest in the inheritance.
But that doesn't mean it's out of the game.
In due time, it'll serve its purpose.
...
A week later.
"There's been a small scale beast tide that formed near the village. If we let it be, it will slowly become a big scale beast tide. When that happens the villages at the foot of the mountain will be crushed. Without those lowly mortals and slaves, we'd also be in a difficult position sometimes."
"According to my calculations, the real outburst of the wolf tide will happen next year. However, this small scale beast tide, is a subsidiary of that. The wolf group will continue growing stronger and bigger, and this will cause the other beast groups around the area to lose their living space. As this effect accumulates, when it reaches the maximum limit, it will cause the migration of beast groups. Migrating beast groups will naturally influence other beast groups."
"Under such an intertwined influence, there is a chance that the influence would be expanded and cause all sorts of beast groups to relocate, causing the beast tide to be formed from this matter. If this problem is not controlled in time, the tide would only get bigger. Although it is still unable to endanger the existence of the Gu Yue village, if we leave it alone, the village's power would be greatly reduced."
Fang Yuan listening to these people knew, his time has came.
He joined Jiao San's group and as they moved deeper, they started a wild boar king and they had started attacking Wild Boar King.
Jiao San turned his head around and shouted to Fang Yuan, "Fang Yuan, you have huge strength, go and restrain the wild boar king and buy us time. We need time to heal the red lava python."
Fang Yuan snickered in his heart. He was showing a Rank 1 Middle stage aura, but these people want him to hold the wild boar king which these Rank 2's can't do.
Jiao San continue shouting, "Fang Yuan, hurry."
"Okay." Fang Yuan nodded, quickly getting to the wild boar king and grabbing its two huge tusks.
He used all his strength and pulled, causing the wild boar king to be suppressed, its struggling suddenly diminished.
"Good job!" Jiao San praised, but his eyes shone with cold light.
The small beast horde was the perfect chance to eliminate Fang Yuan!
"Using this opportunity, I'll let Fang Yuan get injured and return to the village to nurse his injuries. Let's see if he can take to any missions after that! Of course, I cannot strike personally, if I get discovered that would be bad. Since there are so many beasts in the horde anyway, I'll borrow from their strength."
Gu Yue Jiao San laughed coldly in his heart, but he asked, "Fang Yuan, how long can you hold out?"
"A while more, don't worry group leader." Fang Yuan replied with much strength.
"Very good, Hua Xing, go and plant the corrosion blood grass Gu," Jiao San instructed while healing the red lava python.
"Yes!" A female Gu Master walked up.
She came to the side of the wild boar king and stretched out both hands, giving a thumbs up on both hands. The nails on her thumbs had a purple vine insignia coiling around.
Light red coloured red steel primeval essence gushed out and surrounded her white thumb, and entered the insignia.
The vines were brought alive immediately, extending a delicate tentacle from her nails.
The tentacles moved like snakes, extending to the wild boar king's mouth, and then along its teeth, going deep into its stomach.
"Hehehe…." Fang Yuan covered his mouth in the darkness as it curled into a devious angle.
Others would think about kinship and not have killing intent on their clansmen, this was going against the traditional moral values of the clan. But he did not put these values into his heart.
The strength he placed on the wild boar king's tusks suddenly vanished.
The wild boar king furiously growled and summoned all its strength. Its tusks swung in the air as Fang Yuan who was holding onto both tusks was brought along with the force and was thrown away.
The wild boar king once again turned its head, and the tusks swept through. The female Gu Master was beside it and could not react quickly enough to such a change. She was hit by the tusks and screamed in agony.
Then her slim body, after getting hit by the tusks, broke into two with a snap.
The female Gu Master flew away like a broken bag; she was swept high into the sky, and then plopped down again.
She landed on the ground, her eyes wide open. She was dead on the spot.
The female Gu Master's body was like a ragdoll. From the waist and across it was broken, and her upper body laid on the ground, displayed at an odd angle against her lower body, the arms parallel to the ground while her legs were pointing towards the sky.
From afar, Fang Yuan also started to descend.
First, he hit the tree canopy and broke many branches before landing on the snowy ground.
He turned his body nimbly and stood up on the snowy ground. Because he had utilized the White Jade Gu earlier, he was unscathed.
On the battlefield, after a momentary silence, Jiao San's angry howl could be heard, "Fang Yuan, didn't you say you could hold on!"
Fang Yuan laughed coldly in the dark, but suddenly his body twisted and he almost fell down. He used his hand to hold onto the tree trunk as support and was able to maintain his body balance.
He pretended to limp as if he could not walk, but his gaze swept across the surroundings to see if there was any other Gu Masters.
Against the beast horde, the Gu Masters were fighting with all they had, and could not be free enough or even have the mood to observe Fang Yuan. Even though he had been observing in secret and found no Gu Masters nearby, Fang Yuan still discreetly chose to hide himself.
From the other side, intense battle noises could be heard again.
Evidently, the wild boar king had escaped its entrapment and was fighting once again with the red lava python.
Fang Yuan shifted step by step towards them with a face of anxiety, almost falling onto the ground a few times. Dirt, soil, grass and snow were all over his body, making him appear battered and exhausted.
He finally got back to the fringe of the battlefield.
On the battlefield, three people and a pig were fighting.
The red lava python coiled around the body of the wild boar king and its two hind legs.
The wild boar king's two front legs could only thrash around randomly, causing it to roll on the ground, sometimes struggling. With the movement of its two front legs, it knocked and crashed into things randomly.
There were even more injuries on its body now, the boiling pig blood had dyed the floor red.
Seeing Fang Yuan, the outermost positioned Gu Yue Kong Jing said, "Fang Yuan, you scum, you caused Hua Xin to die!"
"I… I didn't mean it. But I really couldn't hold it." Fang Yuan shouted.
"Fuck, then why did you promise so confidently if you couldn't. No means no, giving false promises like this will kill us all!" Gu Yue Kong Jing furiously screamed. If he was not in combat at the moment, he would go up and give Fang Yuan two tight slaps.
"S-Sorry, I won't do it again." Fang Yuan quickly yelled back.
"Fang Yuan, we'll talk about this later!" Sickly snake Jiao San roared, feeling his pressure intensify. The almost dead wild boar king had flown into madness, and the red lava python had injuries and cracks all over its body.
"Kong Jing, don't bother with Fang Yuan. Quickly take out the knife scale web!" When Jiao San saw that the red lava python was almost at its breaking point, he shouted in panic with cold sweat all over.
"Yes!" Kong Jing quickly retrieved the big belly frog and used his primeval essence, vomiting a piece of steel web.
On this steel web, there were sharp spikes and apparent blades.
"Fang Yuan, grab the other end and rush up with me, we'll entangle the wild boar king." Kong Jing said.
"But my leg is injured, I cannot walk!" Fang Yuan said with an anxious expression, crippling his way there.
"Useless thing!" Kong Jing with no other choice, had to do it himself, his hands dragging the knife scales web and throwing it at the wild boar king.
The wild boar king was covered by the knife scale web, causing it to cry out as fresh blood splattered.
It had predicted that its death was impending, and struggled even more fiercely. As its struggle intensified, the knife scale web's entanglement got tighter, and its injuries worsened.
As for the red lava python, because of its rock body, it did not take much damage from this knife scale web.
"What a waste of this fur!" Jiao San said in pity.
"Finally settled." Kong Jing breathed out in relief.
At this time, Fang Yuan shouted, "Let me help you guys!"
Swoosh swoosh swoosh.
Numerous moonblades flew out and hit the knife scale web, causing the steel threads to be torn apart. With the wild boar king's intense struggle, the hole got even bigger and the knife scale web was torn into pieces, allowing the wild boar king to escape.
At once!
Kong Jing stared with bulging eyes, lost for words.
"What… what the fuck…" Another female Gu Master could no longer care about her feminine image and swore loudly.
"I… it seems I messed up. I wanted to help!" Fang Yuan said, sounding very sincere and innocent.
Jiao San dodged the wild boar king's charge, rolling on the floor. Before he even got up, he shouted, "Fang Yuan—! You dumb piece of shit, see what you did! You're simply garbage for a teammate!!!"
"Leader, you must trust me, I didn't mean it," Fang Yuan defended himself.
"Shut the fuck up, from now on, do nothing, wait at the corner!" Jiao San shouted, rolling again and dodging the wild boar king's trample.
Fang Yuan snickered, but still obediently took tens of steps back.
"All of you get back!" Jiao San shouted, finally showing his true trump card as two strands of poisonous yellow air came out from his nostrils.
The poisonous air continued to come out from his nose, growing more and more until they gathered into a lump of yellow poisonous cloud.
The wild boar king and Jiao San's shadow could be seen outside the poisonous cloud.
Kong Jing, Fang Yuan and the others observed outside the yellow cloud.
Fang Yuan said to the remaining female Gu Master, "Heal my leg, it's injured!"
The female Gu Master flew into a rage, "My good sister is dead, and your leg is only stumped! Why don't you go and die?!"
Fang Yuan said in grievance, "I didn't want this to happen either."
But his eyes shone with a trace of sharpness.
Five minutes later, the wild boar king plopped onto the ground.
The yellow cloud dissipated, and Jiao San breathed loudly with a pale face. He had used his final trump card, and now he had little to no primeval essence left.
"All of you come here and dissect the corpse quickly, we will retreat after taking the spoils of the battle!" Jiao San shouted.
Fang Yuan surrounded the wild boar king and quickly began to dissect the corpse.
The wild boar king's blood was still hot, and the smell of blood was thick. Throughout the surrounding forest that was enshrouded in darkness, there were continuous howls from wild beasts and intense battle noises.
But there were no wild beasts in this tiny battlefield.
This was the authority of the beast king.
There were rules among the wild beasts.
The thick aura of the wild boar king caused other wild beasts to shrink in fear, and if the beast horde came here, they would find their way around this region. Of course, if it was another stronger beast horde or another beast king, they would not care about the wild boar king's aura.
At this time, pairs of blue eyes glowed in the surrounding darkness.
From other places, blood-curdling screeches and alarmed cries of Gu Masters could be heard.
"It's the wolves, the wolf pack!"
"The lightning wolf pack actually appeared!"
"Damn it, why is there a wolf pack here, it is still not the time for the outburst of the wolf tide right?!"
"Retreat, forget the wild boar king, we have to retreat quickly!" Jiao San shouted, and the faces of the surrounding people also turned white.
One lightning wolf was not scary. But a pack of lightning wolves, even the wild boar king would have to run.
Most importantly, the lightning wolves' durability and endurance were high. They also had great speed, being most proficient at chasing.
At such a critical moment, Jiao San could no longer care about the others, abandoning the three and running for his life.
"Group leader, wait for me," Kong Jing shouted in panic, catching up to him.
Fang Yuan quickly hit the neck of the female Gu Master near him who was in a daze, causing her to faint.
"Stealth Rock Gu," Fang Yuan willed and he disappeared from the spot.
Kong Jing and Jiao San who were running for their lives, felt something hit the back of their necks and fell down unconscious in the way.
The wild boar king's stomach was already cut open with a huge wound.
Fang Yuan squeezed his way into the bloody wild boar's body, at the same time using the female Gu Master's body to block away the entrance and cover up his body.
The wolf pack quickly descended, mostly tearing over Jiao San and Kong Jing's meat, while a portion of them surrounded the female Gu Master's body and feasted.
While Fang Yuan was inside the wild boar's body, he could hear the wolves' chewing and swallowing, as well as their biting, causing vibrations in the corpse.
"The first beast horde has lightning wolves, and the clan would definitely send reinforcements. The wild boar king's body is huge, so if the lightning wolves want to eat it completely, they would still need some time. I am already using stealth, so they can't find me easily either."
If a normal person was in such a predicament, they would feel as if the seconds that were passing by were like an eternity. But instead Fang Yuan closed his eyes and started to nurture his aperture walls with his primeval essence.
Afterall, his entire team is dead meat.