Chapter 23: The Power of Monsters

At the foot of Baiman Mountain, Ye Li and Guo Huai stood together, looking coldly at the dozens of Ye family members in front of them.

Guo Huai said in a deep voice: "This hunting festival will last for ten days. On the first day, Ye Li and the chief steward will lead a team each to familiarize themselves with the nearby geography. You can move freely for the remaining nine days. After ten days, whether there is any harvest or not, you must meet here! Now, those whose names I read out, stand on my side, and those whose names I don't read out, stand on the side of the chief steward Ye Li!"

Baiman Mountain is full of dangers. If you enter the mountain alone for the first time, you will definitely die.

Guo Huai, Ye Li and others led the team, on the one hand to let the clan children familiarize themselves with the nearby geography, and on the other hand to train their combat awareness and avoid casualties.

After Guo Huai finished reading the names, Ye Xu found that he was assigned to Ye Li's team, and his heart sank slightly.

Also assigned to Ye Li's team were Ye Bin, Ye Feng and others.

Several people looked at each other and smiled proudly.

Ye Feng stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Ye Li, my father asked me to say hello to you."

Ye Li was touched and smiled, "Master, you are too kind. How dare I bother you to say hello?"

Ye Feng's father, Ye Simin, was the chief steward of the inner palace and one of the three powerful people in the Ye Mansion. Ye Li was Ye Simin's servant. Ye Simin promoted him and made him the chief steward of the outer gate.

Ye Feng glanced at Ye Xu and whispered, "Ye Li, do you have any way to get rid of that waste?"

Ye Li's heart moved and he smiled softly, "Master, don't worry. Ye Shaobao is a waste. I can kill him like killing a dog! Master, let me see how I can make him want to live but not die!"

Ye Feng and others were very calm and looked at Ye Xu fiercely, as if they were looking at a dead person, with murderous eyes and unscrupulous.

Ye Xu took the gazes of several people in his eyes, and felt bitter in his heart: "Are these people my brothers?"

A bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then his heart hardened, and murderous intent surged: "Since you want to put me to death, don't blame me for being ruthless, I will kill you first!"

Among the children of the Ye family, the only one who can make him feel family affection is his eldest brother Ye Qin.

When Ye Xu was young, he was alone and helpless, poor and distressed. No one in the Ye family took him seriously, only Ye Qin took special care of him.

After Guo Huai finished assigning the team, Ye Li immediately shouted loudly, and more than 20 children of the Ye family shouted loudly, urged the horses under their crotches, and rushed into Baiman Mountain.

More than 20 knights crossed and passed by, shuttled back and forth in the forest, and rushed to the mountains as if walking on flat ground. The Ye family is the largest Wuhuang family in Liuzhou. The children have always been skilled in martial arts. Horseback riding and shooting are compulsory courses for children of the family, which are extremely exquisite.

Ye Xu looked around and saw that the trees on both sides were getting older and more luxuriant. Even the vines climbing on the trees were as thick as buckets.

From time to time, a few frightened beasts jumped out of the bushes, fled in panic, and were then shot dead by the children of the Ye family.

These were just ordinary beasts, not monsters.

The real monsters refer to those alien species that have been contaminated with the vitality of heaven and earth. Their fur is tough, comparable to iron armor, and they are agile and fast as lightning. They also have powerful and incredible abilities. Ordinary tigers and leopards are vulnerable to even the lowest level monsters.

Monsters are full of treasures and are extremely precious. Their fur can be made into soft armor, their bones and teeth can be forged into extremely sharp weapons, and other materials on their bodies can be used as medicine and alchemy. Even the aristocratic families capture live monsters and raise them to guard their homes!

Therefore, every hunting festival is an opportunity for the children of the aristocratic families to make a fortune. Selling to merchants can make a lot of wealth, and they can also contribute to the family in exchange for the qualification to enter the arsenal to select weapons or mental methods.

If precious materials are obtained, the Ye family will even allow their children to enter the witch library and obtain witchcraft!

There are ten levels of monsters, corresponding to the tenth level of martial arts. The monsters that reach the tenth level are as powerful as martial arts masters. The higher the level of the monster, the higher the value!

Beyond the tenth level, it is no longer a beast, but a spirit or a monster. It can open its spiritual intelligence, practice, swallow and spit the vitality of heaven and earth, master witchcraft, and have the magical powers of a wizard!

Even masters of the innate realm will only die when encountering such a spirit-level monster!

Suddenly, there was a noise in front of the team. Ye Xu's heart moved and he said to himself: "The monster is found!"

Ye Li rode forward and shouted loudly: "Surround it, don't kill it!"

More than 20 knights whistled and galloped on horseback to trap the monster and narrow the encirclement.

When the encirclement was reduced to a size of four or five feet, the knights sat on their horses and looked at each other in surprise. Several young men murmured, "Is this the monster? It's too small?"

In the encirclement was a rabbit, with golden hair and black ears, more than two feet long. The long black ears trembled from time to time. It looked cute, but it had an unbelievably large mouth and two pairs of three or four-inch long fangs, which were ferocious and sharp. It didn't look like a herbivore, but a carnivorous beast!

The rabbit ran around and jumped up, as fast as lightning. It almost escaped the encirclement several times, but was forced back by the knights on horseback.

"A roar?"

Ye Xu looked at the rabbit carefully, and his heart moved, and he immediately remembered the origin of this monster.

This monster looks like a rabbit, but it is actually another species, named roar, a fifth-level monster, and extremely ferocious.

The strength of the roar is not strong among the monsters, but it has a trick. Its cry is loud and can shock a tiger to death!

When Ye Xu went hunting for the first time, he almost suffered a great loss at the hands of this monster!

Ye Li looked around and said in a deep voice: "Ye Zhao, this is your first time to participate in the hunting festival, and this roar is your first prey. Go, kill it!"

A 11 or 12-year-old boy in brocade robes stepped out, jumped off his horse, and drew out his sword. With excitement on his young face, he stabbed at the roar, and the tip of the sword shook out a bowl-sized sword flower. His sword skills were quite exquisite!

The superior swordsmanship of the Ye family, the 49-style Huanhua!

The roar did not dodge, but went straight to Ye Zhao. The sharp sword stabbed it, and a series of green sparks burst out. Not to mention piercing the rabbit skin, even a golden hair could not be cut off!

Although Ye Zhao was young, his swordsmanship and body skills were extremely outstanding. His body was like catkins and floating like the wind. Seeing that he could not stab the roar, he immediately changed his moves and retreated.

Ye Xu looked at Ye Li and was surprised.

Generally speaking, when the children of the Ye family participate in the hunting festival for the first time, Ye Li, as the chief steward of the outer gate, must instruct them on the strengths and weaknesses of the monsters, and use our strengths to attack their weaknesses. However, Ye Li asked Ye Zhao to fight, but did not remind him of the matters he should pay attention to.

"Ye Zhao is like me. His parents died early and he has no backing in the Ye Mansion. Ye Li, this old dog, is too much of a bully. He did not tell him the strengths and weaknesses of the roar. He clearly wanted to make Ye Zhao suffer a big loss and establish his prestige!"

Ye Xu was secretly angry. As a servant of the Ye Mansion, Ye Li did not fulfill his duty as a servant. Instead, he relied on his seniority and relied on his position as the chief steward of the outer gate. With Ye Simin's support behind him, he bullied his master and even ignored the children of the royal family and bullied them at will!

Ye Zhao took advantage of the roar being forced to retreat and immediately stepped forward. He raised the sharp sword in his hand and stabbed at the roar's eyes. The tip of the sword trembled and transformed into a bunch of snow-white flowers.

"Little rabbit, you are my first prey in the hunting festival!" Ye Zhao was overjoyed when he saw that the roaring beast could not dodge in time, and shouted loudly.

But before the sword was stabbed, the golden-haired and black-eared roaring beast opened its mouth to inhale, and in the blink of an eye, its belly swelled like a huge ball.

As the sword light stabbed, the roaring beast also opened its mouth, revealing a mouthful of ferocious teeth, and roared loudly!

"Roar!"

This monster was not big in size, but its voice was surprisingly loud. The sound waves rushed out, forming a blue sound wave visible to the naked eye in the air, one after another, smashing Ye Zhao's sword light into pieces and hitting him hard in the chest!

Ye Zhao was hit hard, bleeding from all seven orifices, flying backwards a few feet away, hitting a big tree, falling softly to the ground, motionless, but was shocked to death!

Even the horses under the crotch of the Ye family members around were panicked by the roar and retreated one after another!

Some newcomers who participated in the hunting festival for the first time were so scared that their faces turned pale and they looked at each other in bewilderment: "Is this the strength of the monster? So scary!"

The monster kicked its four hooves hard, and the next moment it appeared in front of Ye Zhao, opening its ferocious mouth to bite his neck!

Ye Li snorted coldly, waved his sleeves, rolled up the monster, and sent it into the center of the encirclement. Without even looking at Ye Zhao, he sneered: "This is the end of lack of strength! When encountering a monster, don't be greedy for success. First of all, you must understand the strengths and weaknesses of the monster, so that you can win every battle! The next one..."

Ye Li looked at Ye Xu, with a barely perceptible smile on his lips, and said: "Young Master Ye, you come!"