Scarlet Eye Boar (1)
"Let's go... There's nothing else to watch..."
"We should return to the main hall... The products in Weapon Display Hall exceeds our budget."
"Ah! I just remembered the medicine cooking in my home. I should return and maintain the fire. Please excuse me."
Random shoppers quickly disperse. Soon, there are only five attendants left inside the Weapon Display Hall. A few minutes later, all the attendants have disappeared, leaving only Yun Xue Li and Yang Guang here.
"Sister Yun, please forgive Yang Guang for overestimating his budget. I am sorry if I waste some of my sister's precious time." Yang Guang returned the twin metal cudgel back to the wooden casing and took a step back.
"Ah... I'm going to get fired..." Sister Yun suddenly sighs loudly. Her changes made Yang Guang turned speechless.
"I thought if I can keep my job after I managed to sell these two metal sticks, it seems like all my hope is gone! I'm going to be sold into a brothel soon!" Sister Yun throws away the box containing the twin metal cudgel and wipes her tears.
"I'm sorry, sister Yun. I'm really sorry!" Yang Guang apologizes again and again because Yun Xue Li started to cry.
"I don't care! You'll have to buy it." Sister Yun started to throw her unreasonable tantrum at Yang Guang. The wooden case on the ground is lifted up again and tossed at Yang Guang's hand by force.
"Sister Yun, I really don't have enough to buy this weapon. I like them a lot, but I can't afford it." Yang Guang's head gets lower as he speaks.
"What's your profession? Tell me its something like a store owner, alchemist, or escort agency." Yun Xue Li gets much more cheerful as she made fun of Yang Guang.
"Your little brother is a hunter and herb farmer." Yang Guang's answer stunned Yun Xue Li.
"Then... You're going to slave yourself to repay me. Come back every day and pay me the interest in buying the weapon without enough funds." Yun Xue Li turned around as she ends her sentence.
Yang Guang quickly calculates the length of time he'll take to finish paying for this weapon. At the same time, he sighed for his recklessness for coming here to purchase weaponry for himself.
"Stupid! Just be thankful with father's short sword! Why should I come here and get myself in debt?"
About five minutes later...
Yang Guang left the Cloudmist Association Store with the weapon box on his back. And in the pouch on his waist, there are two pills less than when he came to visit.
He finished using all his funds earned in these twelve days.
But in exchange for that, he temporary "loaned" a twin metal cudgel for him to use inside the Thousand Boar Forest.
...
Meanwhile,
"Young miss... If Old master noticed that the treasured Tiger Slaying Jian is missing from the treasure room, he..." the servant came to Yun Xue Li's side and tried to reprimand her.
"Third uncle, be at ease. I know father will be angry with me on this matter, but he'll see the return of our investment in the future once this boy grows up into a fine man." Yun Xue Li replied. At this moment, her demeanor is much more like the patriarch of the sect instead of a mere attendant.
"Please forgive your subordinate for saying this, but I can't see anything special from that boy. His cultivation is also merely at the entrance of the 4th Layer Jade Forming Realm." the attendant added as he kneeled before Yun Xue Li.
"That is because the third uncle is yet to notice the differences in his internal energy. The purity of Soul Qi leaking out from him is absolutely pure, even better than those cultivates from young using only Soul Jades and nothing else."
"I want to know more about this boy. If we can rope him into the Steel Refinery, we can control the whole Tianyu City in a decade." Yun Xue Li revealed her true self. A person thirst with power. The power that will allow her to control the entire Tianyu City.
...
Trash! All of you!" Yuan Xie breaks the neck of one of the subordinates that failed to recover additional Azure Jade Grass for him. Before him, there are already more than ten corpses that belonged to those between the 4th to 6th Layer of Jade Forming Realm.
...
The next morning, Yang Guang prepared himself for the trip to Thousand Boar Forest. With the Jade Container still hidden in his waist sash, he fitted the Tiger Slaying Jian on his back, father's dagger on the back of his waist, and two sachets of Blood Coagulating Powder.
Since there's no longer a demand for Stone Rabbit from uncle Mang, Yang Guang left the Stone Rabbits without attacking any of them. Even if a school of the rabbits went across his sight, Yang Guang remains undisturbed.
This is because he's mentally prepared to hunt for Scarlet Eye Boar, and this beast is the only target that could enter his sight.
It took him about an hour to look for one of the swine, and it finally pays off. A Scarlet Eye Boar is grazing under the sun not far from him, with the look similar to how it bloated it feels after eating a basket of fruits.
"It wasn't reckless! I have the strength of a 4th Layer Jade Forming Realm compared to a 2nd layer cultivation beast! I can win!" Yang Guang charged and revealed himself from the shrubs he's hiding. With a howl accompanying him as he gets closer, Yang Guang's victory is unquestionable.
BUT!
His recklessness yield no gain! At the same time, they expose him to a much more dangerous situation!
About ten steps away from the surprised Scarlet Eye Boar, another came in with a tackle! Yang Guang's unprepared body was impaled thoroughly by the other Scarlet Eye Boar as he was thrown back to the shrubs.
"OINK!!!" that victorious charge gave the Scarlet Eye Boar a chance to roar loudly. The cry of victory.
While behind the shrubs Yang Guang collapsed, a hint of blood can be seen, but that was far too little for an individual that was pierced by that two fangs of the boar!