Chapter Five: Hunting in the Mountains

  Longjia Village is located in a small valley, with a small river running through it, and towering mountains on both sides that reach the clouds.

  The main source of income for Longjia Village is farming, which is a typical self-sufficient economic model. In addition to farming, they occasionally go fishing in the river, but only enough for themselves to eat. The only way to make money is to go hunting in the mountains. If they can hunt high-level magical beasts, selling their fur and magic cores can earn them a lot of money. To sell the magic cores, they have to cross the big mountain and go to the market in the nearest town. After selling them, they buy back oil, salt, clothing, and weapons. However, hunting high-level magical beasts is very difficult and often results in casualties, so magic cores are also very precious.

  In the blink of an eye, three years have passed and Long Ge has also become a three-year-old child. Although he is only three years old, in these three years, he has done many surprising things.

  At the age of one, he knocked down a six-year-old kid! That day was a traditional holiday, Long Ge was about to eat an egg that his mother had prepared for him, but at this time, a six-year-old boy who had already eaten his egg saw it and wanted to snatch it away. As a result, Long Ge used a beautiful Water Step technique and a swift Fire Explosion strike, and the six-year-old boy fell to the ground with honor. At the age of one, Long Ge's level had already reached Qi Bing Seventh Level, plus the combat skills of skipping levels, dealing with a six-year-old child who had just reached Qi Bing Second Level was really too easy!

  Since then, Long Ge became a synonym for genius in the village.

  "Look at Long Ge, he's so great, why don't you learn from him?" Parents usually say this to their kids.

  "How come we didn't give birth to such an excellent child like Long Song?" Parents usually say this among themselves.

  "What's going on with your family's Long Ge? How did he cultivate to become so powerful?" The ordinary women would always talk about Xiao Yue when they got together.

  "When Long Ge grows up a bit more, I think we can ask him to go hunting. Only with more practice can this child make progress." Village head Long Xiao and Long Ge always say this to Little Yue.

  But Xiaoyue couldn't bear it, ten months of pregnancy, her own flesh and blood, how could she bear to part with it?! But what followed was Longge's performance, which made her agree.

  Long Ge was two years old when one day the villagers all went to work in the fields, leaving only a few elderly people to take care of the children. At this time, a big tiger came running down from the mountain, very hungry and wanting to find something to eat in the village. Seeing someone, it wanted to rush over and bite them. The elderly people were old and frail, with severe asthma, and couldn't deal with such a large tiger. You know that tigers are at least Qi Zhe level animals, especially big ones, which can be as high as Qi Zhe eighth grade. So the elderly people could only take the children into the house, but one child was too small, not even reaching Qi Bing level, how could he outrun a Qi Zhe eighth-grade tiger? Just when that little child was about to be eaten, a swift figure rushed forward and blocked the tiger's path.

  Earth Shield! As the strongest defense of Long Song, it is also the most skilled technique. In an instant, a shield was formed in front of Long Song and that child. Due to inertia, the tiger rushed up fiercely. Even without inertia, it would have rushed up anyway. Who cares about a child's shield? Underestimating will lead to bitter consequences. The tiger crashed into the shield, just like crashing into a hard stone, breaking its tiger teeth, almost fainting from pain.

  Long Ge didn't fare well either, because no matter how hard the shield was, it still required strength to support it. The result of Long Ge's support was that he ended up rolling four or five meters away while hugging that little kid (actually, Long Ge was even smaller than that little kid, haha!). After rolling four or five meters away, his hands and body were all scratched, and the wood energy was depleted. Long Ge used a healing technique after that, and the scratched areas stopped bleeding, but only just stopped bleeding - with Long Ge's current abilities, he was still far from achieving a healing effect.

  The old tiger, which had just stopped bleeding after having several of its teeth knocked out, let out a loud roar and charged again. Long Ge hurriedly pushed the child aside, then used his agility to dodge and weave around the tiger's attacks, while the elderly man, who had escorted the child into the house, also came running over to help Long Ge.

  But before they could even get there, Long Ge had already settled the battle.

  As a person with experience in the Air King's battle, although his previous life's power is no longer there, his previous life's thousands of battles' fighting experience still exists. Dealing with a small big tiger, Long Song is naturally not inferior. He saw him find an opening, unfold the Water Flower Step, flash to the top of the tiger's head, and clamp down on the tiger's neck with both legs. At the same time, his right hand performed the fire attribute attack move Fire Flowers Scatter, punching the tiger's head.

  The tiger took this blow, and although its head was like steel, it couldn't withstand it. It shook a few times before crashing to the ground. As it fell, Long Song lightly jumped off the tiger's back, casually dusting off his clothes. His state was as carefree as could be, his expression as relaxed as could be, and his posture as elegant as could be.

  "Dragon Song? You? Are you alright?" The old man who had been watching in a daze beside him finally asked.

  "It's nothing! I'm not afraid of a little tiger!" Long Ge said proudly, looking up with his small face. (It seems that Long Ge also has the awareness of being a child, pretending to be so!)

  After people of all kinds returned, the expression in Long Song's eyes changed completely.

  "He's no longer just a genius," the village chief exclaimed excitedly. "He should be a genius among geniuses! Our village's future wealth depends on him!"

  "Wait until he grows up a bit more and then let him go hunting," Long Wu excitedly asked again of Little Moon.

  "Alright! I know you've been wanting to see a flying eagle for a long time." Little Moon said with relief.

  "When Longge can go hunting, our village will have a better life." Villagers say this whenever they meet.

  Long Ge is three years old now, what kind of state is a three-year-old Long Ge in?

  Name: Long Ge

  Age: 3 years old

  Level: Qi has seven levels (with the blessing of Gongfa, it can now exceed seven levels in combat, which means that the combat power level is equivalent to Qi Dan fourth level. With combat experience, it may be even stronger!)

  Kung fu: Wu Xing Kung Fu (I have to say it again! What a great kung fu! Others can only cultivate one qi, but he cultivates five, which is indeed quite perverted. This is also one of the protagonist's strengths.)

  Lover: Not for now (sometimes I think of Huo Wu in my heart, but usually just ordinary thoughts)

  Ideal: To become the strongest (this ideal has never changed)

  "Hunting tomorrow!" The village chief thought for a moment and said "Let Long Ge go together too."

  "Good," Long Wu said with a smile, "I've been wanting to get this kid trained for a long time."

  The one who is happy is not only Long Wu, but also Long Ge. Long Ge has long wanted to enter the mountains and forests to find materials for making weapons, but due to his own lack of strength, he can only wait for the hunting team to set out together. It's worth noting that in his previous life, Long Ge was a first-class immortal alchemist who could refine sacred wooden artifacts. Although after rebirth, his abilities were limited, refining a copper-grade weapon was still not a problem. If he could gather precious herbs, it would be even better, and he could refine small return pills, medium return pills, large return pills, or small rejuvenation pills, medium rejuvenation pills, large rejuvenation pills, and other types of elixirs. These would be very helpful in the early stages of battle, because at this stage, Long Ge's wooden energy was still in the wood cotton stage and couldn't quickly heal wounds, so elixirs were indispensable.

  The days of hunting are in early summer, when the mountains are most densely populated with magical beasts. If they are not hunted down, the excess magical beasts will rush into the mountain valleys, destroying crops and harming people, so hunting is always chosen to take place in early summer.

  This hunting team has a total of fifty people, all of whom are the village's top-notch gatherers, including Village Chief Long Xiao and Long Wu, Dragon Song's father. The others were all seasoned hunters who had been on many hunts before, except for Dragon Song.

  When ready to depart, Xiaoyue repeatedly warned Longge: "Be careful when hunting, run in time when you see danger, and if you encounter a demon beast that can't be beaten, run to your father's side..." In short, she repeated these words more than a hundred times until Longge's ears were numb before she was satisfied.

  So this time the hunting team, in front is Long Wu leading the way, behind is Long Xiao bringing up the rear, and just starting to enter the hunting team's Long Ge is with the main force in the middle of the team, because there are many people in the middle, it's easy to take care of each other, and relatively safer.

  As soon as you leave the Longjia Village, you will directly enter the deep mountains. At first, when you go in, there are some small animals, such as rabbits and deer, which are not valuable but can fill your stomach, so this is the time to practice archery.

  The weapons used by the villagers of Longjia Village are generally wooden or iron-level, with only two exceptions: the village head and Long Wu. The village head wields a copper-level knife, which is suitable for his fire-type Dou Qi as it has the strongest attacking power. Long Wu, on the other hand, uses a copper-level bow, which suits his gold-type Dou Qi as it can easily break through magical beasts' defenses.

  Long Song used a bow, due to material limitations, he could only make an iron instrument by himself, although the power was not very high, but hunting small rabbits and small deer was more than enough.

  No sooner had the dragon song ended than Long Gong shot arrow after arrow into the animals' bodies, like shooting stars. In no time at all, he hunted down over a dozen rabbits and deer, enough to eat for several days.

  Others also hunted some, thinking it was enough to feed the whole village for a month. After that, they put all the prey into bags and continued on their way. There's no space, so rings are a hassle, but would those who can afford space rings still come hunting?

  Long Song was easy to walk with the team because he didn't carry a bag due to his small body.

  When we went deeper for several hundred meters, some wild boars and tigers began to appear. These could still be hunted, but encountering a pack of wolves was a headache.

  Boars and tigers are both Qi-level magical beasts, hunting them is not difficult at all; wolves are also Qi-level magical beasts, they just appear in groups, which makes it very troublesome. It's like an adult fighting a 12-year-old, of course, there's nothing to be afraid of, but fighting a group of 12-year-olds would be quite troublesome. Just like Ao Bai, the number one brave warrior of Manchuria, was taken down by a group of little ghosts, haha! I've gone off on a tangent.

  Long Ge's hunting team encountered either a tiger, a wild boar or a pack of wolves.

  The next chapter is fruitful