Chapter 39: Revenge and Coming of Age

  Yifan and Malan both belonged to the Balagu family, which was originally a small and unknown family within the Baimon tribe. However, Malan was also a personal talent, who had killed many enemies during his military service on the border and had been promoted to the rank of Colonel, which had already attracted attention from many large families.

  Afterwards, the Pilar family produced Ivan, a highly talented Golden Bimon, which greatly elevated their family's status once again.

  In addition, Ivan not only has a good talent, but also cultivates extremely hard. His Dou Qi cultivation has already reached the early stage of the 5th rank Dou Jiang, and his spiritual power cultivation has also reached the early stage of the 5th rank Mo Dao Shi. In Liu Yu's generation, only Bu Ganing and Mo Luo can surpass him in terms of cultivation.

  Liu Yu privately analyzed the future of the Balagu family, Ma Lan was already at the peak of Dou Wang in his thirties, and as a dual cultivator of Huang Jin Bi and Mo Wu, it was only a matter of time before he became a Dou Huang. Several second-rate families were also trying to win over Ma Lan, with one family almost succeeding in marrying their daughter to him.

  However, Marlan doesn't seem to be in a hurry to make a choice and hasn't leaned towards any of the big families yet. In Liu Yu's mind, Ivan has more talent than his uncle Marlan and has a great possibility of becoming a top strongman in the future, so it's natural to want to recruit him early on.

  Moluo Ming and Liu Yu hold the same idea. Unfortunately, the current Wulin King belongs to the Weilin family, and the military affairs of the Wulin Kingdom are generally not intervened by the Council of Elders unless it is a war that mobilizes the entire nation, and everything is decided by the king's word.

  "This Gaia as the Da Wei you assigned to him, he just needs one sentence, well I'll send someone to deliver the message back to Di Huo Fortress immediately." After some contemplation, Ptolemy made a decision.

  "By the way, since our situation is so special this time, will there be any changes in the military allocation?" Liu Yu asked another question, and he only deeply felt that he was born in a strange year when he was about to join the army.

  Irina and Bernan had two to three thousand men from their generation, which was just enough for two regiments after joining the army. However, Liu Yu's generation of young Bamons only had a little over 300 people. Whether it was the previous generations or the younger generations of Bamons, they all far exceeded this number, leaving Liu Yu perplexed and could only attribute it to "Bamons having children in clusters."

  "It's nothing serious, I've heard that this kind of thing has happened before. The deployment for your military service is still the same as usual, half to the werewolf territory and half to the centaur territory."

  ............

  After Ptolemy and Liu Yu reached an agreement, he sent a trusted person to rush back to the Earth Fire Fortress that night to send a message. Liu Yu returned to his own wooden house, packed up his luggage, said a word to Feite, and set off alone towards the west of the camp.

  In just over a month, he will be leaving this place. Liu Yu wants to take this opportunity to venture deeper into the Desa Mountains for more training. Now that he has reached the late stage of 4th rank Great Warrior and mid-stage of 5th rank Demon Mystic, his abilities surpass many warriors in the camp.

  The forest of the Deza mountain range has been cleared of magical beasts above level 5 by the Bimon warriors, and Liu Yue estimates that he must go to the deepest part of the Deza mountain range before encountering an existence that poses a threat to him.

  "The powerful demons here are becoming fewer and fewer, perhaps in a few more years the Blood Refining Grounds within the tribe will have to move westward again." Along the way, Liu Yue only encountered a few three or four-stage demons, which made him feel quite depressed, thinking that these demons were too weak to achieve the purpose of trial. And he also knew that the Blood Refining Grounds within the demon tribe had not always been in their current location.

  A thousand years ago, when the Beastman Kingdom was still in Vesuvius, the area around the Earthfire Fortress was the Blood Refining Grounds of the Bimon Tribe. Later, the capital moved to the Earthfire Fortress, and the Blood Refining Camp was located in the same area where Liu Yu and others trained in magic and martial arts. Later on, it moved to its current location in the Desa Mountain Range.

  Upon careful consideration, the Mongol's internal blood camp constantly moving westward reflects the fact that the Beastman Kingdom was suppressed by the Fano Empire and retreated to the highlands.

  "It can't go on like this, in this cold and barren plateau the kingdom has no way out, must stop the trend of the kingdom's westward retreat, otherwise maybe one day the beast tribe will decline like the savage tribes of the man-eaters. Once again, recalling the history of the past thousand years, Liu Yu's determination in his heart became more and more firm."

  Under the bright moon, at the westernmost edge of the De Sa mountain range, in a thicket of weeds, rocks and small trees, Liu Yu sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, meditating like an old Buddhist monk.

  Sitting in meditation, a way of cultivating one's nature that was very popular in ancient China. It wasn't just monks or legendary Taoist practitioners and knights who did this; ordinary Confucian scholars like Su Dongpo, Zeng Guofan, and Yuan Liaofan would also sit quietly every day to seek inner peace and pursue the path of sainthood. Liu Yu was an ordinary person in his past life and liked this method of meditation very much. In this life, when he meditated, he would usually start by sitting still for a while to calm the fluctuations in his mind, so as to maximize the effect of his meditation.

  Tonight's moon is very round and bright, the weeds on the ground can be seen clearly. Behind Liu Yu, more than ten meters away, a small tree appeared quietly with a black shadow without making any noise. It stared at Liu Yu for a while before lowering its head and moving forward slowly. Its pace was elegant and light, without making any sound. The fur on its body was also very smooth, brushing against the grass was lightly and silently.

  It stopped within five meters of Liu Yu, its eyes glowing with a deep green light in the darkness. It seemed to be hesitating whether to attack this prey, and as it got closer, it felt that the other party was strong and dangerous. The bloody aura on Liu Yu's body from killing monsters for many years made the black shadow motionless for a long time.

  From start to finish, Liu Yu had his back to the black shadow, seemingly completely unaware of its arrival. Ultimately, the craving for food overcame fear, and under the moonlight, the black shadow flashed and pounced on Liu Yu's neck. At the moment the black shadow rushed towards Liu Yu, Liu Yu also moved, he supported himself with his left hand and stood up from the ground, drew out the long sword hanging at his waist with his right hand, turned around and made a lateral slash.

  "Clang!" The golden aura on the sword tip dissipated with a loud noise, and the black shadow flew backward for five or six meters before landing awkwardly, barely maintaining its balance. Under the bright moonlight, Liu Yue saw that it was a black, wolf-like magical beast.

  "The Four-Stage Peak Demon Beast, Ghost Wolf" The familiar aura reminded Liu Yue of the ghost wolf he had encountered during his blood refining days. At that time, Liu Yue was only a Three-Stage Dou Shi in the early stages and was beaten to the point where he couldn't fight back. If it wasn't for Tolomeo's secret assistance, Liu Yue would have probably gone to see the Beast God already.

  "Heh heh, it's good this way. Before I leave, I'll vent my grievances and avenge my enemies." Not caring whether the ghost wolf understood or not, Liu Yu smiled as he spoke his mind.

  At present, Liu Yu's spiritual power cultivation as a fifth-level intermediate mage is extremely strong in sensing objects within ten meters around him. After the appearance of this ghost wolf, Liu Yu discovered it and only counterattacked after the ghost wolf launched an attack, as he was sitting quietly to experience the feeling of using stillness to control movement.

  Liu Yu finished speaking and took a step forward, jumping to the side of the ghost wolf, his movements as agile as the ghost wolf's.

  Liu Yu, who had been waiting for the opponent's attack just now, secretly operated his fighting spirit to its extreme. Relying on the power of his earth and fire dual-system mixed fighting spirit, Liu Yu was confident that he had already injured the two front limbs of the Ghost Wolf, so the Ghost Wolf should not have much ability to attack him now.

  As expected, at the same time Liu Yu launched an attack, the ghost wolf turned around and ran away. Unfortunately, this was not the Liu Yu of three years ago, who could come and go as he pleased.

  Liu Yu struck the black shadow's back with a sword, and the ghost wolf, which had just run out a few meters, keenly felt the crisis behind it. It rolled to the side to dodge this fatal sword. However, the remaining power of the golden Dou Qi wave, which had created a large pit on the ground, still injured it. Although the injury was not severe, it delayed its escape time.

  At the moment when the ghost wolf was about to get up and run away again, Liu Yu's left hand lifted a red light shot out from his palm, and a fireball exploded beside the ghost wolf, with a similar power that wasn't very big but once again disrupted the ghost wolf's escape rhythm.

  A first-class fire magic spell, Fireball Technique. With Liu Yu's mid-fifth rank mage strength, he can basically cast this low-level magic instantly without chanting any incantations.

  At the same time as the fireball exploded, Liu Yu's toes tapped one step at a time to the side of the ghost wolf. He pointed his sword tip towards the ground and lifted it up, the unresponsive ghost wolf's body fell down powerlessly, twitched once, and then there was no more sound coming out.

  As he gazed at the dying Ghost Wolf, Liu Yu suddenly had an epiphany. For three years, he was powerless against the Ghost Wolf, but after three more years, his strength increased dramatically and he easily slew it. Perhaps if the Beastman Kingdom's national power could be raised by a few more levels, they would also be able to make the Fana Empire fall just as helplessly.

  "Our national strength has increased by several levels, but there is still much to be done." Liu Yu said with some emotion as he gazed at the bright moon in the sky.

  ...........

  The intense sunlight of midsummer shone brightly on every inch of the Cordillera Highlands, and a magnificent castle stood quietly in the golden sunlight, gazing out at the eastern mountains. The Beastman Kingdom's capital, Lava Castle, was as majestic as it had been eleven years ago, and an important ceremony was currently being held at its center.

  The golden beast king's temple stood tall in the center of the Earth Fire Fortress, with hundreds of young and strong Bimon dressed in gold, brown, and red, quietly listening to an old golden Bimon wearing a golden robe and holding a wooden staff telling something at the entrance of the grand hall.

  "In the name of the greatest beast god in heaven and earth, I declare you adults. From now on, you are the strongest warriors of my beast tribe. You must sweep away anyone who dares to challenge the dignity of the beast god. This is the duty bestowed upon you by the beast god. Do you understand?" The words of Old Huang Jin's Bi Mung were filled with energy and shook the entire scene.

  Old Huang Jin compared to Meng's voice fell, standing in the front row of more than a dozen Huang Jin Meng led the way, single knee down, behind the earth Meng and Lie Yan Meng also followed suit.