A Better Harvest
Similar to the plants, a cultivation beast is also categorized into Basic, Profound, Earthly, and Heavenly. But instead of evaluating them through yearly age, the cultivation beast is measured through their bloodline.
Although not the strongest in this Thousand Boar Forest, the Scarlet Eye Boar controlled the entire forest solely by relying on their abnormal reproduction rate. A pregnant sow can easily give birth to a litter of 10 to 15 piglets every month without the need to rest and recuperate from the exhaustion.
To make it worse, Scarlet Eye Boar possessed an excellent lineage-carrying gene that can ensure their offsprings to be born with the parent's unique traits. As long a Scarlet Mane Boar appears within this Thousand Boar Forest, the entire forest will be infested by them within a couple years.
And they're both still belonged to the Basic Cultivation Beast category, along with a third evolved form known to the public as Scarlet Iron Hog. Any further from Scarlet Iron Hog means the Cultivation Beast is qualified to join the ranks of Profound Beast.
"OINK!" the Scarlet Eye Boar charged at Yang Guang's direction. Although the pair of tusks yet to grow beyond its snout, the deadly force it controlled is still threatening to Yang Guang, a 2nd layer Jade Formation Realm cultivator.
But the Scarlet Eye Boar is just too fast!
Before his attack lands on the Scarlet Eye Boar's head, he'd already been knocked aside with a slight injury on one of his legs. The charge attack is about 300 - 350 jin strong.
As a cultivator, the strength of their body strength and defensive is calculated by the number of (Jin). To qualify as a 1st Layer Jade Formation Realm cultivator, one must possess a minimum of 100jin strength and above.
As the body strength and defensive ability are calculated separately, one may possess a body strength at 5th Layer Jade Formation Realm, with a 1st Layer strength in Defensive Strength.
With the strength of merely above 220jin in body strength and 120jin in defense, even a non-cultivator can do the math about the difference between Yang Guang and the Scarlet Eye Boar. Furthermore, a Cultivation Beast is always born at least 50% stronger than a cultivator.
Using the Scarlet Eye Boar as an example, a 2nd Layer Jade Formation Realm beast could harness the attacking strength of 300jin, along with the short tusk that enhanced its attack by 50jin when used. In total, that's a 350jin worth of attack power.
Yang Guang can be said to be lucky. That scrape earlier only causes him some superficial wound. But no matter what, all he needs is just one direct hit, and he'll be sent back to meet his maker.
"Brat, retreat to your southwest direction! We'll provide cover!" the coarse voice from an adult caught Yang Guang's attention as he quickly followed his instruction. As soon as Yang Guang took a step backward, a volley of arrows came.
Three out of the twenty-some arrows accurately pierced the though skin of Scarlet Eye Boar, leaving it bleeding on the same spot. At the same time, the blood that drops to the ground started to evaporates.
"No! Stop!" Yang Guang quickly used his thumb to cover the mouth of the Jade Container, hoping to stop it from making things suspicious to other hunters. If the treasure in his hand is found out by others, it won't take them too much effort to grab it from Yang Guang.
"Boy, go home. We'll have this Scarlet Eye Boar," the hunter immediately revealed his intention to take over the beast from Yang Guang's hand.
"Sure. Thank you for saving me from the Scarlet Eye Boar. I'll take my leave first." Yang Guang smiled at the hunter and quickly left the place. At least, he and the Jade Container can remain safe from outsiders.
"Hey." the hunter placed one of his hands on Yang Guang's shoulder.
"Yes?" Yang Guang shivered a little and replied to him.
"We're a little hungry. Give us the Stone Rabbit." the hunter scanned Yang Guang's appearance along with the Stone Rabbit corpse on his back.
"Of course! Please take the rabbit as a token of appreciation to save me from danger." Yang Guang placed the Stone Rabbit on the hunter's hand.
"You're good to go." the hunter turned around and placed his attention on other matters. Like a mouse chased by a cat, Yang Guang leaves the forest and returned to the forest outskirt. Since there's a demand of two Stone Rabbits per day to Uncle Mang's stall, Yang Guang has to complete his task before he can return home.
It took him three full hours before he returned to the broken hut with three Stone Rabbit in his hand. Since all the blood has been dried by the Jade Container, Yang Guang immediately process the meat and repeat what he did yesterday.
The only difference this time is instead of providing him with 1 red pill for each kill, the jade container rewarded him with three red pills only. But lesser or more, each of them still greatly valued by Yang Guang.
Its because the four red pills are worth two Soul Jade if they were to be sold at a market price.
"Cultivate! I must increase my strength and join a sect to obtain more resources for my cultivation!" Yang Guang found a spark to lit up the flame in his heart.
Eight days quickly passed. It was the time for Yang Guang to collect the Azure Jade Grass once again. It took the Azure Jade Grass ten days to grow and mature. The moment the oldest stalk of grass withered, the Azure Jade Grass will be thoroughly separated from the root.
If Yang Guang is lucky, a garlic-like clove with seed will appear within the root to be replanted into a new Azure Jade Grass. And in fact, the twenty plants here all came from his effort of repeating this every ten days.
"The quality is much better than the last batch!" Yang Guang smiled as he grabs the first stalk of Azure Jade Grass, which look like a fresh stalk of spring onion used in cooking. In fact, there's some restaurant marinates the profound-grade Azure Jade Grass to be used in preparing dishes.
"Time to work!" Yang Guang removed the short sword hanging on his waist sash and other stuff like the Jade Container on the table and start harvesting the Azure Jade Grass.