Chapter 93

"This…………"

"Hunted three cold beasts in one night?"

"How is this possible!"

"When Leader Luo Ming was here before, it was at most two in one night, right?"

"Not two. I remember that time, one was picked up."

"Three cold beasts in one night, this…… this…… how is this possible?"

"Three thousand-plus jin?"

"What three thousand-plus jin? Didn't you hear? Just said, 4,280 jin."

………………

Three prey—from entering the valley, to being carried into the wooden house, to the end of weighing, the exclamations of everyone in the camp did not stop throughout the process.

Whether they had things to do or were staying in the wooden house, everyone walked over at this moment, surrounding the three prey in three layers inside and three layers outside, their faces full of shock and agitation, and even disbelief.

Among the nine hundred-plus people in the entire camp, the most horrified expressions belonged to the people from the two camps of Da Chuan and Huang Zhao who had just merged in. Never mind three prey, even a complete cold beast corpse, they had never seen before;

Next were the one hundred-plus people from the Luo Ge camp. When Luo Ming served as leader, they had also seen the hunting team bring back prey from outside, but hunting three at once clearly also made their hearts shake;

Compared to them, the three hundred-plus people of Great Xia had the smallest reaction, but judging from the expressions on their faces, it was clear that these three prey also brought a psychological impact that was not small.

4,280 jin—when the three prey were deboned and skinned, and the net weight of the cold beast meat was obtained, everyone couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Xia Hong, and in their minds, they thought of the cold beast meat distribution system Xia Hong had mentioned before.

So, that wasn't lying to us.

He really, can do it!

Xia Hong naturally knew everyone's thoughts clearly.

The reason why he had to bring three prey back tonight was to let everyone in the camp know that he could fulfill the cold beast meat distribution promise he had made before.

One is to let them feel at ease, and second…………

Xia Hong took three wooden bottles from Xia Chuan, then walked to the front of the wooden dummy, opened the wooden bottles one by one, and dripped the essence blood of the three cold beasts into the hollow position of its abdomen.

The moment the essence blood dripped onto it, Xia Hong instantly sensed the change in the wooden dummy within the system.

Wooden Dummy (Level 1): Cultivation tool, activated by putting in coal stone, can significantly improve cultivation speed and increase martial arts insight.

Special Function 1: Can record cold beast varieties through essence blood, transform into any cold beast, and exert the strength of that cold beast's adult form.

Current recorded varieties: Long-tongued snow-maned beast, bone-spined frostwolf, golden-eyed magic sheep.

Three types of cold beasts have been recorded. Next, just put in coal stone.

Xia Hong's eyes flickered slightly, and he placed three pieces of coal stone at the abdomen position of the wooden dummy.

As soon as the coal stone was placed on it, it instantly ignited out of thin air, and a warm fluorescent light spread from the abdomen of the wooden dummy to its limbs.

In just a moment, the originally lifeless wooden dummy actually raised its head, opened its eyes, and stretched its arms a few times, as if it had come alive.

"The wooden man has come alive?"

"What wooden man, that is the wooden dummy the leader transformed."

"Right right, it's what the leader transformed before, I forgot."

"It really has come alive."

…………

This astonishing scene instantly caused everyone to scream in surprise, and everyone immediately surrounded it.

Not paying attention to everyone's surprise, Xia Hong's mind stirred slightly. After confirming a type of cold beast, he chose the sparring mode of the wooden dummy.

As soon as his choice ended, a change occurred on the wooden dummy's side.

The abdomen of the wooden dummy suddenly became bright, followed by an explosion of strong light, which flashed everyone's eyes.

When the bright light disappeared, the wooden dummy that had just stood in front of everyone had disappeared, replaced by an adult snow-maned beast with a body length of four meters, a back full of barbs, two sharp long fangs, and a ferocious face.

Seeing the snow-maned beast for the first time, everyone instinctively still showed fear, but finding that the snow-maned beast was standing in place without moving, and Xia Hong even stepped forward to touch its body, they immediately reacted that this was transformed by the wooden dummy, not a real cold beast.

The fear disappeared, followed by curiosity and astonishment.

"Turned into………… a cold beast?"

"This was just now, transformed by the wooden dummy?"

"This can't be true, right?"

"It shouldn't be as powerful as a cold beast, it just looks exactly the same."

…………

Xia Hong carefully looked at the appearance of the wooden dummy after transformation, then turned his head to look outside the wooden house, finding that dawn was still a while away, and immediately walked toward the outside.

The snow-maned beast transformed by the wooden dummy also followed him closely as he walked out. Although its expression was calm and it didn't show any intention to attack, its movement still scared everyone in the wooden house, and they scattered to both sides one after another.

Never mind ordinary people, even those Woodcutting Realm members were like this.

From this point, one can see the fear of cold beasts by the humans in the camps around Red Wood Ridge, which is almost engraved in their bones.

Xia Hong naturally also noticed this scene.

He frowned slightly, but soon relaxed again.

In the end, the humans around Red Wood Ridge are still too weak. Even the weakest cold beast has a higher status in the food chain than them, so this fear factor engraved in their bones was bred.

This hunt tonight has already proven that their group of people can soon completely stand above low-level cold beasts in the food chain. At that time, this fear factor in everyone's hearts will slowly disappear with time.

Walking outside the wooden house, Xia Hong kept a distance of about ten meters from the snow-maned beast, and then gave the instruction to start to the snow-maned beast.

The moment the instruction was given, the originally calm-faced snow-maned beast suddenly raised its head, its pupils gradually dyed with a layer of blood color, accompanied by increasingly heavy breathing, and its face gradually became ferocious.

Roar…………

A muffled roar rang out, and the snow-maned beast rushed toward Xia Hong like a cannonball leaving the chamber.

There was no accumulated snow on the valley ground, but even so, the snow-maned beast's four limbs could still leave claw marks on the ground.

It shows how terrifying the force generated when it charged was.

At a distance of ten meters, it stands to reason that Xia Hong could completely dodge it, but he didn't. Instead, he held his breath, grabbed the ground firmly with both feet, leaned his body forward, opened his arms, and remained motionless, his eyes fixed on the snow-maned beast rushing toward him.

Slap……

The moment Xia Hong's hands touched the snow-maned beast's head, it was like a cannonball exploding, making a loud noise.

The snow-maned beast's terrifying impact not only made his body retreat a full ten-plus meters, his straw shoes were worn through directly, and when retreating, his soles even dragged out a ten-plus-meter-long trace on the ground.

Chh…………

Even so, Xia Hong still relied on his forward-leaning body to forcibly block the snow-maned beast's impact after ten-plus meters.

And that's not all.

Xia Hong's brows tightened, he gritted his teeth and exerted force, his arms suddenly flipped, his body followed and leaped into the air, rotating in the air, almost using all his strength.

Taking advantage of the impact of the snow-maned beast that hadn't completely dissipated, Xia Hong forcibly flipped its huge body in the air for a circle.

Bang…………

The snow-maned beast fell to the ground, making a loud noise.

Xia Hong took the opportunity to turn over, avoided the barbs on its back, rode on the snow-maned beast's neck, and punched its head like raindrops, not caring about his life.

Swish…………

After dozens of punches, the movement of the snow-maned beast's body clearly became smaller. Just when everyone thought Xia Hong had achieved victory, the snow-maned beast suddenly opened its mouth, and its long tongue shot out rapidly, aiming directly at Xia Hong's chest.

Xia Hong, who had been prepared, quickly stood up to dodge, but the distance was too close, and before he could run out of a meter, the long tongue turned in mid-air and directly bound him.

Xia Hong's eyes flickered. He extended a hand to intercept the snow-maned beast's long tongue, then his body paused, giving up on fleeing, leaped into the air, bent his knees, and knelt fiercely toward the snow-maned beast's head in the air.

Boom…… crack…………

Xia Hong's aerial knee-strike after accumulating strength, using the hardest part of his knees, smashed into the snow-maned beast's head, instantly making a crisp sound of bone fracture.

After the snow-maned beast suffered this heavy blow, although its movement was slowly becoming smaller, it was clearly in a state of serious injury and near death.

But the long tongue that had been intercepted by his arm had already touched his neck.

Clearly, if that tongue advanced a little more, he would be dead.

This means…………

"Thirteen thousand jin of foundation strength, plus long fist, the energy I exert is at least over fifteen thousand jin. Even so, in a one-on-one situation without weapons, I am still no match for the snow-maned beast. The strength of this cold beast is simply... terrifying!"

Xia Hong stood up, looking at the snow-maned beast that had recovered on the ground, his face full of solemnity.

(End of chapter)