Chapter Ten: Iron Armor Through the Mountains

  About three hundred meters into the mountain, I saw some pretty fierce magical beasts, such as tigers and so on.

  Tigers and other high-level magical beasts are not even considered by the archers of the hunting party, who have encountered several and killed them with quick shots; also, when encountering wild boars, they were quickly killed by arrows. For such a powerful hunting party now, sometimes they don't bother to kill those low-level monsters because there is still a lot of meat from the magical beasts they killed last time that hasn't been eaten yet. Although it can be stored after being dried, it has already lost its fresh taste. So this time, after killing several heads, they didn't kill anymore and had to consider the future reproduction of the magical beasts, so they couldn't kill too many.

  Since they didn't kill many, they saved a lot of energy, and also didn't encounter a wolf pack like last time. Even if they did this time, they wouldn't be afraid. The purpose of this trip was to hunt high-level magical beasts, so they continued walking forward.

  After crossing a mountain, we entered the depths of the forest. This is where high-level demon beasts begin to appear. The high-level demon beasts we are talking about refer to those above the Qi Infant level. Only demon beasts that have survived their first Heavenly Tribulation can be considered high-level.

  Daring to enter the depths of the mountain forest, the hunting party felt a sense of danger, although they didn't see any monsters around them, but they realized that they were in constant danger.

  "General alert!" Village head Long Xiao shouted loudly, his years of hunting experience made him feel danger.

  The hunting party proceeded with caution after receiving the order, forming a square formation of five people, with the knife-hand carefully sliding through the long grass in front of them, while the shield-hand held up their shields to prevent a surprise attack by the magical beasts.

  Another twenty meters forward, Long Song also felt the danger, but this danger seemed to have been around them all along. However, no matter which direction they looked, there was no sign of high-level magical beasts appearing.

  "Could that demon hide itself?" Long Song thought to himself "If it can hide, its level must be very high, and we're probably just cannon fodder. But if its level is that high, how did we sense the danger in the first place?"

  "If it's not stealth, then what kind of concealment is it?" Long Song seemed to have a vague idea in his mind, "Being able to get close without using stealth, that should be..."

  "Everyone be careful below!" Long Ge's childish voice shouted.

  The hunting party heard the job and hurriedly noticed the situation under their feet, but before they could notice, a tremor of the land made the hunting party almost unable to stand.

  "Boom!" The ground suddenly surged up from the middle of the hunting party, and the members of the hunting party quickly dispersed in all directions.

  After the sound faded away, a huge figure burst out of the ground and charged towards Long Song. Why did it charge towards Long Song? Because Long Song was the weakest in this team, at least from the perspective of aura, that magical beast with a certain level of consciousness would definitely charge towards the weakest one.

  Long Song is in a precarious situation and doesn't know the monster's strength yet. Looking at its shadow, a head-on collision might put him at a disadvantage. What will Long Song do?

  Long Song made a move with his Water Drop Step, simultaneously giving himself an earth grain shield, and dodged with a flash of movement.

  That monster was huge and had great inertia, all that could be seen was it "thud" into a large tree, the tree fell with a loud crash, by the time it turned around, everyone saw its appearance.

  "Pangolin!!!!" The village chief exclaimed first.

  Pangolin Information: Category: Reptile Beast

  Level: Ordinary adult is Qiying level Individual King level can reach Qipai level

  Skilled at: burrowing through mountains and earth, extremely fast in soil

  Function: The shell can be made into armor, hard and elastic. The meat can be used, delicious and tender.

  Capture difficulty: Three levels, due to long-term living underground, it is difficult to capture.

  "Mountain Piercing Iron Armor!!" Long Ge exclaimed, because he saw that this pangolin had already advanced to the rank of Qi Xing strongman. The level of Qi Xing is higher than that of Village Chief and Long Wu by one grade. If it were a ninth-grade Qi Xing, they would have to run as far as they could, thinking the gap was too big. However, looking at this pangolin, it seemed to have just advanced not long ago, because the scales on its body had not yet shown the metallic luster unique to metal, so Village Chief thought it was a Qi Ying-level pangolin.

  "Cast the net!" Long Wu shouted loudly, and instantly, the shield bearers pulled out a dozen nets from behind their shields and threw them forcefully at the Ironclad Mountain Piercer.

  Surrounded by more than a dozen nets, the four-meter-high and eight-meter-long ironclad mole was furious, rushing back and forth with force, even thinking of using its digging skills to break through the big net.

  Unfortunately, it was disappointed that these large nets were made from the tendons of magical beasts. They were first soaked in medicinal water to make them fire-resistant and tough, then dried to become ropes, and after being woven into nets, they became not only fire-resistant but also extremely durable. Even if one tried to cut them with a knife, it would be very difficult to penetrate, let alone the fact that the Ironclad Mountain armor was now entangled by over a dozen of these nets.

  Chuān Shān Tiě Jiǎ felt that its claws were very difficult to break through these nets, so it angrily charged back and forth, thinking that it could break through by brute force or pull down the members of the hunting party.

  Unfortunately, it was disappointed again. Although its level is at the gas-form level, in terms of the thickness of its fighting spirit, it's probably about twenty times that of a Gas-Dan-level hunting squad (each gas has nine levels, and each increase in level increases the fighting spirit by one fold; Gas-Dan is two levels lower than Gas-Form, so it's equivalent to being twenty levels lower, so there's a difference of twenty times in terms of fighting spirit). However, now there are about thirty members of hunting squads holding onto the net, pulling it with all their might, so no matter how hard it struggles, it can't break free.

  But the skin of the Iron Scale Mountain is really hard and thick, and the hunting team can't do anything about it. Several team members kept stabbing the Iron Scale Mountain with long spears, but every time they stabbed its scales, a clear sound would be emitted, accompanied by scattered sparks.

  "This skin is really hard, if we hadn't been prepared earlier, how could we have caught this Mountain Piercing Iron Armor!" The village chief also sighed and said that he actually wanted to go up and give the Mountain Piercing Iron Armor a few slashes, but it was wrapped too tightly, and the village chief couldn't find a place to strike. Moreover, being able to capture such a living magical beast could sell for a lot of money. Such high-level magical beasts can not only be sold to arenas but also to wealthy families as mounts, so the village chief didn't take action. Otherwise, with his Infant Seventh Level cultivation, killing a Mountain Piercing Iron Armor that couldn't resist would still be possible.

  "What a great guy!" Long Wu also looked on, because he didn't want to kill a high-level magic beast that could be sold for a lot of money. "If we sell it, we can buy a lot of cold iron and then buy a lot of medicinal materials. After giving them to Xiao Xiao to refine, our whole village will get rich."

  "Hehe," Long Ge also laughed as he watched the struggling Chuan Shan Tie Jia.

  The Ironclad Beast of Mount Tian wouldn't be willing to be captured so easily, although humans couldn't break through its defenses for the time being. However, every time it defended itself, it would consume a bit of its fighting spirit. Even if it was confident that it could escape after the human's fighting spirit was depleted, the feeling of being pierced by a long spear was really too unpleasant.

  Not satisfied and can't fight back, what to do? Can only run away! Only saw the Ironclad Beast of Mount Tai, after a strenuous struggle, it aimed its claws at the ground, ready to burrow.

  "Father, it wants to run! Shoot its legs!" Long Ge hastily cried out.

  "Want to run?" Long Wu said as he drew his bow and shot an arrow, a golden light shooting straight towards the claw of the Iron Armored Beast.

  "Clang!" A bright spark flew onto the Ironclad Beast's claw, and its ability to break through gold properties was truly not to be underestimated. After being shot by an arrow, its claw, which had been digging into the ground every day, now had a bloody mark on it, and the scales on top of its claw were also damaged. This meant that it couldn't dig into the ground anymore, and it felt disappointed once again.

  Even if it can't dig into the ground, it will exhaust humanity's fighting spirit and then escape. With this idea in mind, the Ironclad Beast desperately charges at the large net, hoping to consume humanity's fighting spirit more quickly.

  As expected, in no time, ten people fell to the ground. However, there were fifty people in the entire hunting team, and as soon as ten fell, another ten immediately took their place. Even the village chief and Long Wu rushed forward to pull the net. As for Long Ge, he was still angry and his Chi was not high, so he just stood by and watched. Although he was just watching, it was also useful. Long Ge distributed the elixirs he had refined - the Great Recovery Elixirs - to the team members who had fallen to the ground. Before long, the team members' physical strength quickly recovered. Unfortunately, there were not enough Small Recovery Elixirs to go around, or else the team members would have not only recovered their physical strength but also their Chi. Alas, the Small Recovery Elixir was a second-grade elixir and too precious to be wasted on something as certain as capturing the Iron-Armored Beast of Mount Tai. Haha!

  The Ironclad Beast of Mount Tian originally thought that humans should have given up, but it discovered that it was wrong. After eating the medicinal pellets, humans came back to life and used their full strength to capture it. Suddenly, a sense of despair made it struggle with all its might, and it decided to self-destruct!

  But it ignored the extent of its depleted aura, with its current aura, self-destruction would require a preparation time of ten minutes. Would humans give it ten minutes? Humans were constantly consuming its aura! Moreover, there was also a Long Song beside it, Long Song kept using "Wind Blade" to strike its head through the net, making it feel dizzy wave after wave, even when it was awake, so this wish for self-destruction could not be fulfilled.

  After nearly three hours of stalemate, the Iron Armored Beast finally ran out of energy. Long Wu rushed up and threw a powerful punch, hitting it right on the head and knocking it unconscious.

  And as it fainted, the hunting party couldn't help but cheer together, because how difficult it was to hunt down a magical beast of this level! Just looking at the Ironclad Mountain Piercer lasting for three hours before its energy was depleted from intense exercise, one could tell what a daunting task it was. If they hadn't brought nets, three hours would have been enough for the Ironclad Mountain Piercer to annihilate them multiple times.

  The next thing was easy, the hunting party cut down a large tree, tied the Ironclad Beetle to it with nets, and then twenty people lifted it back slowly, while others guarded around.

  For this hunt, the team members are obviously very satisfied. Compared to last time, the team members were satisfied with the quantity, but this time, they were satisfied with the quality. If they sell this live Ironclad Beast, I wonder how many sets of equipment and materials they can exchange for! Hehe, the team members carried the prey back with satisfaction, their mood was incredibly sweet!

  But Long Ge thought to himself, if he sold the magical beast, how much money would he have left to buy things he needed?

  Everyone is looking forward to exchanging materials back because with Long Song around, having materials represents combat power and money!

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