"This … this … this person is already at the entrance of our village. If we don't save him, where is our conscience?
I think we still need to save … "
Hua Kai had just opened his mouth when he heard the system notification. He had no choice but to change his words.
"Should we save him or not? If we don't act now, that person might die." Hua Zihuan looked at the ranger who was about to reach his limit and said.
"Save him, we must save him." Hua Kai said with certainty.
"Ten people from the village protection team, open the village gate …" Hua Zihuan shouted to the village protection team.
"No need, I will go save him. Wal-mart, Lao Si, you guys keep an eye on that beast."
Hua Xing said and jumped down from the city wall. Qi Realm experts could release their True Qi and could even fly for a short period of time.
Yu Jun had just killed a gray wolf when he was sent flying by a three-horned rhinoceros. He landed on the ground and spat out a mouthful of blood. He felt that he had no strength left in his body. Looking at the surrounding wild beasts, he knew that he would not be able to escape today.
Everything in front of him gradually lost color. At the last moment before Yu Jun lost consciousness, he felt that the wild beasts around him were screaming in pain. After that, he lost consciousness.
Since Hua Kai had decided to save Bai Jun, Hua Xing jumped down from the city wall alone. The wild beasts outside the city seemed to be quite intelligent. When they saw Bai Jun, they wanted to escape. However, Hua Xing only took two breaths to reach the ranger. He quickly stabbed a few wild beasts with his spear. Before the wild beasts could surround them, he picked up the unconscious Bai Jun and walked back to the village gate.
Hua Zihuan was still instructing the village protection team to open the gate when Hua Xing carried Bai Jun back to the city wall.
"Doctor, how is it?"
Bai Jun was lying on the bed in the guest room of the main courtyard. After Hua Kai had renovated the room, there was a high temperature smoke flowing through the back wall. It did not feel cold at all.
"Family Head, this person's ribs are broken and his internal organs are severely damaged. Because of the continuous use of True Qi after the injury, the True Qi in his body is completely out of control. If we want to save him, we should give him the elixir that Master used last time. Only by stabilizing his True Qi can we treat his other injuries."
Doctor Zhong had lived in Fort Wah Ka for half his life. Although his medical skills were not good, he had slowly accumulated his skills in diagnosing.
Hua Kai looked at the unconscious ranger and checked his attributes.
Yu Jun: Qi's Qi Transformation level 9
Aptitude: A
Physique: 37 (39)
Strength: 42
Willpower: 47
Mental cultivation method: Basic Writing Skills (Heaven Rank Low-Level Mental Cultivation Method) Entry
Spear Art: Tianya Swordsmanship (Mystic Middle Level Spear Art) Small Success
Status: Seriously Injured and Near Death
This was the first time Hua Kai had met someone from the Hundred Schools of Philosophers. This writer's mental cultivation technique was actually a heaven-tier mental cultivation technique. The effects of a mystic mental cultivation technique were similar to a small success yellow-tier mental cultivation technique. According to this calculation, a heaven-tier mental cultivation technique was only at the entry level, but its effects were similar to a yellow-tier mental cultivation technique's completion.
Hua Kai sighed deeply. He couldn't keep the last Energy Refining Pill. He put his hand into his pocket to take out the Energy Refining Pill from his portable space and put it into the novelist's mouth.
The effects of the medicinal pill quickly took effect. The doctor diagnosed that Yu Jun's True Qi had completely stabilized. Only then did he write a prescription for Yu Jun and apply a medicinal plaster that had been passed down from his ancestors. In one meal, Hua Kai actually spent several dozen taels of silver.
He left behind a Household Servant to watch over Yu Jun. Right now, he could only resign himself to fate. This kind of injury would have killed most people without a doubt. However, those at the Qi Transformation Stage and above were much tougher. Moreover, Yu Jun was a mysterious student of the Hundred Schools of Philosophers. The outcome would depend on himself.
The next morning, Hua Kai received a system notification: "Congratulations on completing the side quest 'Save the Novelist student Yu Jun'. Reward: Purple Gold Ice Silkworm Armor."
That's it?
Hua Kai went to the guest room and saw that Yu Jun was still unconscious. However, after checking, he was no longer in critical condition. His physique had recovered a little, and his status was now heavily injured.
Seeing the Household Servant change the medicinal plaster for Yu Jun, Hua Kai wasn't in a hurry to collect the reward. The salt production in the northern part of the village was running low on coarse salt. In a few days, the salt production would be finished.
Hua Kai's four trips had brought back a total of 9000 catties of coarse salt. Currently, he had used about 8000 catties of refined salt, and 4300 catties of refined salt had been used. The salt yield was more than half. This was the result of his proficiency in the process. When all the refined salt was put together, it was almost one cubic meter (Salt Density: 2.3).
Coming out of the salt production workshop, Hua Kai went to the stable. When Lie Yan saw him, it intimately rubbed its head against his chest. This Lie Yan's intelligence was very high, and it was not even three years old. For a horse, it had not yet reached adulthood. Hua Kai planned to increase Lie Yan's strength as much as possible. In fact, it was also a kind of increase in the family's strength. Just as he was about to lead the horse back to the main courtyard, he heard the sound of drums at the entrance of the village. Moreover, there were six drums in a row. This meant that the village was under attack, and the situation was very dangerous. All the villagers needed to be prepared.
Climbing up the city gate tower, the night had passed, and the temperature outside the city seemed to be getting colder. It was already a month into winter, and the wild beasts were already hungry. Now was the time for them to attack the human encampment. Hua Kai could vaguely hear the roars of wild beasts in the distance. The loudest sound came from the direction of Guang County. At this time, no village could have an easy time.
"Grandpa, did the wild beasts attack the village?" Hua Kai saw that his grandpa was fully armed and standing on the city wall, so he went up and asked.
"Just now, a few Clouded Leopards tried to sneak over the city wall, but they were killed by the village guards.
Last night, the number of wild beasts outside the village doubled, and another Diyin Tiger came. The Diyin Tiger is no ordinary savage beast. Even a low-grade savage beast is more difficult to deal with than a mid-grade savage beast. Based on the current situation, the wild beasts will most likely attack us at noon, "Hua Xing said.
Hua Kai saw that the wild beasts outside the village could not help but slowly approach the walls of Fort Wah Ka. In the distance, a strong tiger looked very mighty. It looked at Hua Xing on the city gate tower without moving, as if it knew that this was its strongest enemy.
Since a battle was unavoidable, Hua Kai decided to go home and retrieve the armor given by the system as a precaution. If the village guards were unable to defend Fort Wah Ka and met with a disaster, all the men and women in the village would fight with their weapons, and he would have a better chance of survival.
Quickly returning to his room, Hua Kai retrieved the mission reward for saving the novelist Yu Jun. In an instant, an exquisite purple-gold inner armor appeared in his hands.
The surface of the Purple Gold Ice Silkworm Armor was made of thin Purple Gold threads. Purple Gold was a material that was a hundred times more precious than gold. Even a Xiantian master would have a hard time breaking it. The Purple Gold threads of the inner armor were especially soft to the touch. Hua Kai pulled it with his hand and found that it was very soft.
Inside the Purple Gold Ice Silkworm Armor were several layers of sparkling and translucent white silk. It was cool to the touch. When Hua Kai put it on, not only did it feel very soft, the temperature was just right. When Hua Kai walked out of the room, he actually felt that the inner armor was emitting traces of heat. This was a mysterious inner armor.
The inner armor looked very thin, but Hua Kai weighed it and found that it weighed about five kilograms. It could protect his entire upper body, and it was very well hidden when he wore a jacket.
As soon as he walked out of the courtyard, Hua Kai heard shouts coming from all over the city walls. It was obvious that the dire beast attack had begun.
"Side Mission Hint: Fort Wah Ka is under attack by a group of dire beasts like never before. Please repel all the dire beasts and defend Fort Wah Ka.
The reward will be given according to the completion rate of the mission.
Yin Earth Tiger: Beginner-level Savage Beast
Strength: 48
Agility: 45
Intelligence: 53
Bloodline: Kaiming Demonic Tiger Bloodline (0.2%)
Skills: Baleful Claw, Sky Shaking Roar, Golden Tiger's Three Leaps
The system had actually given him another mission. He had never received any side missions before, and he had triggered one yesterday. Today, he had triggered another one, but this one was a little strange.
Humans had different aptitudes, and the same applied to dire beasts and savage beasts.
The Yin Earth Tiger had the bloodline of a demonic beast, and there was a chance that it could break through to become a demonic beast in the future. Furthermore, its intelligence had exceeded 50 points, which was already at the level of a high-grade savage beast. Normally, the strongest savage beast one could meet in a county was only a middle-grade savage beast. Looking at the many skills of the Yin Earth Tiger …
Seeing this, Hua Kai hurriedly walked towards the city walls. From time to time, there would be people giving out orders and reminding him that the dire beasts had begun to attack the village.
"Don't go up the walls. I'll be enough here. Instruct everyone to prepare the defensive supplies and arrange for medical treatment for the injured."
Hua Xing hurriedly said when he saw Hua Kai return. However, his eyes were fixed on the distant Yin Earth Tiger, and he didn't dare to look away. Even though the tiger was just standing there, Hua Xing could feel the immense pressure emanating from it.
"Grandpa, that Yin Earth Tiger is extremely dangerous. You have to be careful. I'll stay here and watch over it. I won't wander around. Don't worry," Hua Kai said as he looked outside the village.
Due to the fact that the Hua Clan Fort was located deep in the mountains, the southern gate of the village was where the most dire beasts gathered. Currently, they had already gathered at the foot of the city wall outside the village. One by one, they attempted to jump up the city wall. The four-meter tall city wall might not pose much of a challenge to them, but it would not be easy for them to climb up the city wall.
A Dark Tortoise Cat had just jumped onto the wall, and before it could react, several spears appeared where it was about to land. Even though the Dark Tortoise Cat was agile, it was still pierced by several spears at the same time. The dire beasts that had just leaped onto the walls were exhausted. The village guards would take advantage of this opportunity to severely injure the dire beasts, and the chances of them surviving after falling off the walls were very low.
Hua Kai looked anxiously at the foot of the walls. The dire beasts all had ferocious expressions on their faces as they pounced on the walls. Some of the more intelligent dire beasts were actually the most difficult to deal with. They would always look for openings in the village guards' attacks. Soon, some of the village guards began to get injured.
Third Uncle ordered the villagers to carry the injured off the walls. The pressure on the walls was increasing. A few silver-haired monkeys quietly climbed to the side of Fort Wah Ka. There were only two Body Tempering Realm village guards in that area. Very quickly, some of the monkeys took advantage of the opening to scale the walls and leap into the village. Fortunately, Hua Yue's reserve team was at the foot of the walls. The monkeys were surrounded and killed as soon as they jumped off the walls.
"Hua Yue, take some people and hurry up on the walls. Wei Hong, organize your men and get ready at the foot of the walls. Erzhuang, tell all the strong men in the village to get ready. Third Brother, prepare the village for battle …" Hua Xing watched as the Yin Earth Tiger approached the entrance of the village. The dire beasts at the foot of the walls became more and more ferocious. They jumped onto the walls without any regard for their own lives.
"The golden apes are coming. Everyone, be careful!"
Hua Zihuan saw that the golden apes were all running towards the side of the walls. He hurriedly ran in the direction where the golden apes were attacking.
When the Golden Ape leader saw that the Hua Family Fort's walls were in a tight spot, he led his tribe to launch an attack. In a short period of time, the Hua Family Fort's walls had many failures. Fortunately, Hua Yue led the second team up the walls at this moment.
Hua Kai saw that a rat-like dire beast had taken advantage of the chaos to scale the spearhead. He quickly stabbed the rat in the eye with his spear. The rat screamed and fell off the walls. Fourth Uncle and the leader of the golden apes could only barely prevent the rat from climbing onto the spearhead. The village guards were quickly scaled by the golden apes. Hua Yue and Erzhuang had already gone to provide support.
At this moment, the entire village was in danger. However, Fort Wah Ka often encountered situations like this every year. The village guards tried their best to prevent mid-grade dire beasts and above from scaling the walls. The low-grade dire beasts were left to the reserve team and the ordinary villagers. As long as the experts in Fort Wah Ka could chase or kill the savage beasts outside the walls, the dire beasts that entered the village would die sooner or later. However, the casualties among the ordinary villagers would be higher.
"Kill …"
Hua Kai had just defeated a mid-grade dire beast when two more dire beasts scaled the walls in front of him. He used all his strength to stab a mid-grade gray wolf. Then, he saw a horned cow leap onto the walls. This horned cow was considered a powerful species among the high-grade dire beasts. Hua Kai, who was only at the mid-stage of the Body Tempering Realm, was no match for it. However, he saw that all the guards behind him had already joined in the battle. If the horned cow were to enter the midst of the ordinary villagers, Fort Wah Ka would definitely suffer heavy losses.
At this moment, many people saw that Hua Kai was in danger and ran over to help. Hua Kai knew that as long as he blocked the first wave of attacks, reinforcements would arrive. However, when the horned cow stepped onto the walls, Hua Kai realized that he was too naive.
This horned cow was a high-grade dire beast that was equivalent to a human in the Natal Opening Realm. Furthermore, dire beasts often went through battles. In a one-on-one fight, ordinary humans were no match for it.
Hua Kai naively thought that he could block the horned cow for a moment. However, when the horned cow came in front of him, he felt as if he saw a large truck speeding towards him. Before he could react, the horned cow had already reached him. At this moment, Hua Kai felt that death was so close to him. He roared, gathered all the Qi in his body into his arm, and stabbed at the horned cow with all his might.
The expected collision did not happen. Hua Kai stabbed the horned cow, but the spearhead only pierced an inch or so. The horned cow ran up to Hua Kai and fell to the ground. While Hua Kai was puzzled, he heard his grandfather's voice beside him.
"Everyone, fall back. Hurry!"
At this moment, Hua Kai saw the Diyin Tiger running towards the walls. It was his grandfather who had saved him just now.
After being pulled down the walls by two Household Servants, Hua Kai was filled with regret. He knew how strong the Diyin Tiger was, but he had distracted his grandfather, allowing the tiger to seize the opportunity to attack his grandfather. Unfortunately, this was not the time to blame himself. Hua Kai knew that if he stayed, the clan would suffer even greater losses. He hurriedly ran back into the village.
When he reached the streets, Hua Kai saw many villagers fighting with dire beasts. There were quite a number of dire beasts entering the village, but most of them were mid-grade and low-grade dire beasts. The villagers were not under too much pressure.
Hua Kai helped kill two low-grade dire beasts and turned back to look at the walls. He saw that ever since the Diyin Tiger had climbed up the walls, even though his grandfather had blocked the path into the village, more dire beasts had crossed the walls and entered Fort Wah Ka.