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Chapter 13 – Striking To Kill Open-arm Devil Ape!



Its nostril brought pain to it and caused Open-arm Devil Ape to become crazy once more. It completely lost all rationality and only thoughts of slaughtering remained.

From beginning up to now, both sides’ masters were completely unable to intervene in the battle, it was both sides’ summon beasts independently attacking. This kind of situation was something the surrounding people were seeing for the first time, and they couldn’t help but click their tongues in wonder.

Fan Yanxing’s eyes were still tightly closed and he remained unmoving. At the side of his body, the mild tempered, gentle and cultured Lu Jing opened his mouth: “One is impulsive and violent, only fighting instinct remaining. The other has been calm and resourceful all along. This time’s match has qualities worth watching.”

On the other side, the valiant figured Fan Zhong smiled and said: “That’s not a definite, no matter how it’s said, the disparity between a Beastly Servant and High Level Beastly Guard is too wide. Moreover, don’t forget that the Open-arm Devil Ape’s skill hasn’t been used yet.”

While the spectators were discussing and commenting, Lin Wei and Open-arm Devil Ape came close enough to fight several rounds. It was unknown who would be able to cope with the other, but generally speaking, Open-arm Devil Ape was in on the offensive and Lin Wei was on the defensive, surrounded by perils several times.

He now only had one arrow left. His longspear was struck flying by the Open-arm Devil Ape the first time, then after picking it back up, he discovered that the longspear’s point had been snapped off.

However, Open-arm Devil Ape’s situation was also beginning to slide. Its body’s balance and attack accuracy was worsening——other people might be unclear on the reason, but Lin Wei was well aware. He had smeared a type of herbal medicine juice that he discovered during these seven years onto the arrow tips beforehand. This type of herbal medicine juice possessed an intense sedative effect. But Open-arm Devil Ape’s build was really too big, moreover, it’s fighting power was vigorous. The arrow points’ small amount of medicine juice was too little for it, thus there was only a small effect on it.

The effect isn’t obvious, truly a pity! Lin Wei secretly thought as he dodged the Open-arm Devil Ape. It seems like I can only use that! I really don’t want to use it, it’s too risky……

Lin Wei thought as he notched the last arrow in his hand.

After Open-arm Devil Ape attacked for a long time without success, it stopped in place to gasp for breath. It slightly halted, then put its arms down and half squatted1. At the same time, Fan Minyue loudly shouted behind it: “Devil Ape General! Use Ground-shattering Strike!”

Open-arm Devil Ape hurriedly breathed, then its entire body began undulating in an earth-yellow colored ripple!

It’s finally going to use its skill! Some spectators couldn’t help but stand up.

Devil Ape’s Ground-shattering Strike! Open-arm Devil Ape’s explosive harming skill had a very large range. How would that Lin Wei dodge it?

Seeing this scene, Lin Wei’s eyes actually shone; now!

Both legs pushed off and he soared! Aim the bow! Shoot the arrow!

The arrow light pierced through that earth-yellow colored ripple, making a ‘sou!’ sound as it went in!

The timing wasn’t even off by a fraction of a second. As a result of Open-arm Devil Ape’s preparation for its skill, it had temporarily stilled. This arrow accurately hit its cheek, piercing in four cun.

After receiving influence of the new arrow wound, Open-arm Devil Ape’s skill was temporarily interrupted. However, it immediately got back its composure and continued to launch the skill.

But in the next moment, it felt something was fishy——

When unleashing the Devil Ape’s Ground-shattering Strike, its qi and blood had to move through its entire body, then could it be able to erupt the most powerful valiant strike. Yet this time, from the new wound of its cheek, there seemed to be something merging with its blood, afterwards following veins to enter its heart, then through its whole body! And this type of thing that merged with its blood made a reaction with the herbal medicine juice that was in its blood beforehand.

Bang! Open-arm Devil Ape merely felt its brain buzzing, then the blood in its entire body started boiling. Within its mind’s sea of consciousness, the last speck of sobriety began to be defeated. Its entire mind’s sea of consciousness fell into boundless hell.

“Peaceful sleep grass and wisteria flower2.” Lin Wei looked at the Open-arm Devil Ape and said with a low voice: “You……will go berserk……”

Howl!——

Open-arm Devil Ape sent out a husky roar towards the sky, then its barely remaining left eye3 rapidly turned red. Its skill was forcibly cut short, but its aura and pressure actually rose, even returning to the level of Low Level Beastly General.
But Fan Minyue had just assisted Devil Ape to release its’ skill. This interruption caused her blood essence to burst forth and a mouthful of sweet blood rushed up her throat.

“Hm? Turned berserk?” Fan Xun opened his tigerish eyes wide.

“This……this isn’t Minyue controlling it! Not good!” Fan Tianlong’s complexion changed.

Open-arm Devil Ape’s entire body stood up! Under its’ completely berserk state, it would attack all life forms in front of it! And the one to bear the brunt was the one closest to it, Fan Minyue!

“Devil Ape, don’t!” Fan Minyue screeched. At this moment, she forgot to dodge and could only look on helplessly as that gigantic fist became increasingly close.

“Minyue, avoid it!” A shout came from the spectator stands. The owner of the voice was Fan Minyue’s father, Xiao Xun’s second uncle, Fan Zhishen.While he was shouting, he already jumped out from the spectator stands towards the martial arts competing stage’s Open-arm Devil Ape’s right side. From the inside his right arm’s wrist, a slender chain was released!

Fan Zhishen was one of the two Great Martial Masters in the third generation, his cultivation almost on equal level with his parent’s generation. The ability he was most adept in was ‘Concealed Chains4’, where the chain was forged using fine steel and black flame stone. It was exceptionally tenacious and could bind someone from a hundred meters away.

But at this time, it was too late. When his chain was 50 to 60 meters away from the Open-arm Devil Ape, the Devil Ape’s clenched fist was a mere two meters away from Fan Minyue!

I, am going to die? Just as Fan Minyue despairingly shut her eyes, a sudden vast golden light flashed and kept off the Devil Ape’s gigantic fist. Lin Wei recognized this light, this was the divine contract rule between Fan Minyue and Open-arm Devil Ape. In the situation where the contract relationship was still established, the summon beast could not injure its’ master’s life!

While it was sluggish after the block, Fan Zhishen’s chain arrived. The chain twined around the Open-arm Devil Ape’s right arm and on the other side, Fan Zhishen pulled on the other end of the chain and nailed it to the ground. Then, he once again waved his sleeve and another chain whizzed over, coiling around the Open-arm Devil Ape’s left arm, then nailed it to the ground in the same manner. A third chain emerged and tied down both of the Devil Ape’s legs. The Devil Ape kneeled down with a ‘ka-bam’.

The three chains completely restrained the Open-arm Devil Ape in place.

“Whew——” Fan Zhishen let out a long sigh of relief. He had finally saved his daughter. Although he didn’t know why the Open-arm Devil Ape would go berserk, if it was only berserk state, it couldn’t last for long. When its state withdrew, it would slowly recover its original rank and strength.

Just as he prepared to speak with his daughter, a burst of noise sounded out by his ear.

What’s the matter? Fan Zhishen turned his eyes over and discovered Xiao Xun’s summon beast quietly standing on top of the Open-arm Devil Ape’s shoulder at some unknown time. The next moment, he saw a scene that would be forever forgettable——that summon beast grasped a dagger and stabbed into the Open-arm Devil Ape’s split-open head wound. The Open-arm Devil Ape let out a heartrending howl, then fell to the ground with a ‘bang’ and stopped moving forever.

The entire audience became silent.

Fan Minyue foolishly looked on, she was unable to recover from these scenes. It originally should have been her wildly oppressing Xiao Xun, but the Devil Ape went crazy for some ineffable reason, finally……dying?

Fan Yanxing, who had his eyes closed all throughout, suddenly opened his eyes and opened his mouth to spit out a word: “Good!” No one knew what his ‘good’ was referring to.

Fan Zhishen looked at his daughter’s dead summon beast and fury clouded his mind. He powerfully shouted towards Xiao Xun: “Xiao Xun, you have big nerves! This was an in-clan comparing notes, you were suppose to hold back a bit. You, you unexpectedly let your summon beast ruthlessly murder! You’ve gone onto the evil path and are really guilty of terrible crimes! Today, second uncle will exterminate your summon beast and abolish your DouQi as a warning to others!”

“Second uncle, you……” Xiao Xun’s complexion greatly changed.

On the main spectator’s stand, Fan Xun, Fan Tianlong, and Fan Tianhu slightly hesitated. On the stage, Fan Zhishen already started.

However, an intense golden light appeared. This light passed through the inside of Lin Wei’s body, dazzling everyone’s eyes, directly rising into the sky! Fan Zhishen was pushed away by the light and was forced to cease the attack. Inside this light, Lin Wei slowly began floating, his aura clearly increasing.

“This……this is……” Lu Jing opened his eyes into wide circles.

“It, advanced.” Fan Yanxing said.

Lin Wei was bathed inside the light of the antiquity divine rule and felt incomparably happy. At the same time, his status began rising!

First, he broke through to Low Level Beastly Soldier with irresistible force, then continued advancing. Following very closely, he broke through to Intermediate Level Beastly Soldier and still didn’t stop, instead continued to rise. Ultimately, he stopped right at the bottleneck between Intermediate Level Beastly Soldier and High Level Beastly Soldier.

In addition, his rank also changed; it finally changed from ‘Lower than average’ to ‘Common’!



 


  1. TLN: Think of a gorilla, or google one. 
  2. TLN: A real flower, mildly poisonous. 
  3. TLN: Just a fun fact, the author used “木(wood)” here instead of “目(eye)”. Sometimes I’m thankful I know some Chinese. 
  4. TLN: Literal: ‘chain in sleeve’. 

Chapter 12 – Lin Wei’s First Summon Fight



Everyone was in uproar again.

Everyone used an incredulous gaze to look at Xiao Xun, thinking in their hearts ‘has her brain become silly?’ Just a moment ago, Fan Minyue’s conduct clearly showed that she was targeting her, so why did she1 turn herself towards the spear point?

However, only Xiao Xun herself was clear in her heart. What should come, isn’t something that should be hidden from. Rather than avoiding battle to enhance another’s might, she might as well lift herself up. At least her imposing manner would hold superiority.

While everyone was clamoring, only Fan Yanxing sat in meditation here. His eyes were closed and he was motionless, as if the outside world had absolutely nothing to do with him. Fan Xun looked ahead and nodded, then said to Fan Tianlong by his side: “Yanxing has matured a lot, it seems that his advancement to great martial master is right around the corner.”

Fan Tianlong smiled: “Father, I currently am also just a great martial master. By the time when Xing’er advances, his strength will directly surpass mine.”

On Qifeng Continent, besides summon beast cultivation, there was also a growth system of cultivating oneself. According to the DouQi within one’s body, in order from low to high: Primary Warrior, Intermediate Warrior, High Level Warrior, Martial Master, Great Martial Master, Battle King, Battle Emperor, Battle Reverend, War Saint, and the War God in legends.

In Fan Clan, only the Clan Head Fan Xun attained Battle King realm. His three children all attained Great Martial Master, and currently within the fourth generation, there was Fan Yanxing, Fan Zhong, and Lu Jing. Altogether, there were seven Martial Masters. The majority of the remaining people were High Level Warriors. There were also three Intermediate Warriors, but their summon beasts were out of the ordinary, so they couldn’t be underestimated.

After hearing Xiao Xun’s challenge, Fan Minyue first stared blankly for a moment, then immediately smiling: “Younger cousin Xiao Xun’s has great boldness, let us two sisters exchange blows well, haha.” As she was speaking, she rushed to jump onto the center arena of the martial arts competing stage.

Xiao Xun clenched her fist, then slowly made her way up onto the other side of the arena.

“Younger cousin, please call out your summon beast first.” Fan Minyue smilingly said as she decorated her fingernail at a moderate pace.

Xiao Xun lifted up both hands and began making hand signs. Space began vibrating, then a vortex channel appeared.

Everyone stood in a circle and watched on. They were very interested in Xiao Xun’s Beastly Servant summon beast and wanted to take a look at what appearance the summon beast had.

Lin Wei came out from the space vortex and landed in front of Xiao Xun.

The moment everyone saw Lin Wei, they all couldn’t help but suck in a breath of air——this absolutely wasn’t because they were amazed at Lin Wei’s status. A Beastly Servant was a Beastly Servant, this they knew long ago, but they had never seen this kind of summon beast. Even Clan Head Fan Xun knit his brows after taking a look. According to his profound experiences, he unexpectedly couldn’t make out what type Lin Wei was part of. He even made a great effort recalling those uncommon species in ancient texts, but he still couldn’t find a possible match.

But what caused everyone to be even more surprised was the outfit on Lin Wei’s body——he was unexpectedly wearing a belt strap! On the back was a bow and tube of arrows, while a dagger was hanging on his waist and his right hand gripped a sharp longspear. How was this still a summon beast? This seemed just like a warrior!

All people, including the opposing Fan Minyue, were shaking2 in their spot by Lin Wei’s appearance.

That’s right, in these days that Xiao Xun was teaching Lin Wei, she discovered that Lin Wei had high intelligence and was able to learn the skills that other summon beasts were simply unable to deal with. Archery and sword techniques, Lin Wei had learned them exceptionally quick, much quicker than when Xiao Xun started out.

That woman in the front is the Open-arm Devil Ape’s owner. Lin Wei thought. I wonder how the Open-arm Devil Ape is doing. No matter how much strength he has left, it doesn’t matter, since things have reached this stage, I can only risk my life at this moment!

“Open-arm Devil Ape! Come out!” Fan Minyue also made hand signs and chanted incantations. Another even bigger vortex appeared, then……then there was silence.

Hm? What’s going on? Fan Minyue’s complexion changed. These days, she hadn’t trained even once, so she also hadn’t summoned the Open-arm Devil Ape. In her imagination, crushing Xiao Xun absolutely wasn’t a problem. However, she hadn’t thought that when she summoning today, there wouldn’t even be the slightest movement.

Everyone in the surrounding began whispering in each other’s ears. There were truly many situations in today’s competition. First, there was a warrior dressed summon beast and immediately following that, there was also the situation of the Open-arm Devil Ape not showing up.

Hasn’t showed up! Lin Wei was wild with joy in his heart. Apparently, Open-arm Devil Ape’s injury was very grave and already couldn’t respond to its master’s summon. Seems like I won’t need to fight this time.

“Open-arm Devil Ape! Quickly come out!” Fan Minyue once again shouted.

After waiting for a whole half minute, the vortex finally made a sound. Following a howl, Open-arm Devil Ape’s gigantic body appeared. But when it appeared, everyone began to make a racket again! This was because the appearance of this Open-arm Devil Ape was really too wretched! On its head was a huge claw scar, while its right eye was already blind and its entire body seemed to somewhat sway as it stood upright. Moreover, its aura was already no longer that of a Low Level Beastly General’s. At best, it was to the degree of a High Level Beastly Guard’s.

“Open-arm Devil Ape! How can it be like this?” Fan Minyue turned pale with fright. Last time she reverse summoned, it was obviously still well. How come when she summoned it once more, it seemed it had carried out a life or death fight with another?

Open-arm Devil Ape howled in grief towards its master. After that, its barely remaining left eye saw Lin Wei. Indeed, when enemies cross each other’s paths, they would become exceptionally furious. Immediately, endless fury welled up from its mind. It violently howled and without regard for anything, it dashed over towards Lin Wei.

Kill it! Kill it! Kill it! At this very moment, there was only this thought in the Open-arm Devil Ape’s mind.

“Lin Wei, jump!” Xiao Xun loudly shouted.

Lin Wei bent his knees, then pushed off the ground with both his legs, causing him to leap up high. At the same time, he flipped the spear and aimed at Open-arm Devil Ape who was on the ground, ruthlessly pierced it downwards!

“Hmph, you think only you can jump? Open-arm Devil Ape……” Fan Minyue shouted, but before she even sent out a command, Open-arm Devil Ape already jumped up to face the airborne Lin Wei.

However, it had underestimated the wound Heavenly Wolf General had given it. The visible bone-deep claw scar injury had not only just reached its brain, it had also injured part of its cerebellum. In the split second that it jumped, its entire body unnaturally went askew and lost balance. It sent a fist attack toward Lin Wei, but this fist hit nothing.

Taking advantage of its illness, I’ll take its life! Lin Wei’s eyes showed determination. His hand grasped the longspear and suddenly pierced towards the wound on Open-arm Devil Ape’s brain.

“What an intelligent summon beast!” Fan Tianlong, who was behind Fan Xun, couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.

Fan Xun stroked his beard and nodded.

Lin Wei’s strike didn’t succeed. The Open-arm Devil Ape’s fighting instinct caused it to slightly lean its head. As a result, Lin Wei’s longspear hit its coarse fur and thick fleshed shoulder. Regarding this situation, Lin Wei had already expected it. His strike was an empty move; borrowing strength from the longspear in the Devil Ape’s shoulder, he once again turned over and rose, flipping over the Open-arm Devil Ape and landed behind it.

Open-arm Devil Ape angrily roared and started turning around to find its target. At this time, Lin Wei sent out strength through both his legs and took advantage of the Open-arm Devil Ape’s dazed brain. Its cerebellum was still slightly not working properly. From beginning to end, he situated himself behind the Open-arm Devil Ape and quickly pulled open the distance. Even though Open-arm Devil Ape’s strength declined, it was still equivalent to a High Level Beastly Guard; his and it’s disparity was really too wide. Lin Wei completely didn’t hold confidence fighting hand-to-hand with it.

When the distance between both parties were pulled open to 20 to 30 meters, Lin Wei rapidly took down the bow, then notched three arrows.

“Hey, I’m here!” Lin Wei yelled at Open-arm Devil Ape.

Open-arm Devil Ape turned its head and without the slightest hesitation, it rushed at Lin Wei. It was as if a heavy armored vehicle was coming straight at him.

Lin Wei, why did you simultaneously notch three arrows? Xiao Xun’s heart jumped. Your archery still hasn’t become well-practiced.

Indeed, with regards to a beginner archer whose foundation wasn’t firm, simultaneously shooting three arrows was really a little like ‘learning to run before being able to walk’. However, Lin Wei had his own deliberation. His three arrows were tightly gathered together; he didn’t plan on shooting the arrows in three different directions, rather, he planned on shooting three arrows in one direction. This was comparable to a compressed bomb. As his archery didn’t have any prerequisites, he could only hope to raise the hitting probability.

Eye, eye, eye… Lin Wei was saying in his mind, otherwise using his mouth was also fine.

The distance between both parties was 15 meters!

Lin Wei loosened his right hand and the three arrows were ejected, simultaneously retreating backwards rapidly.

The arrow whizzed through the air. Open-arm Devil Ape subconsciously reached out to stop it, but there wasn’t enough time. The three arrows brushed past its arm and made a beeline for its face. One arrow hit his forehead, piercing an inadequate two cun3. Another brushed past the side of its cheek. The third one actually made a meritorious deed, exactly piercing into its left nostril!



 


  1. TLN: Xiao Xun 
  2. TLN: I was this |-| close to using ‘shooked’ because lmao. 
  3. TLN: 1 cun is ~3.715 cm(1.463 in) and is 1/10 of a chi

Chapter 11 – Great Competition Begins



Six days time passed by in a flash.

In such a short time, it was hard to really make any substantial progress. The only harvest was Xiao Xun and Lin Wei’s spirit communication becoming stronger. Now, it practically required only a meaningful glance for Lin Wei to understand what Xiao Xun idea wanted to convey.

In this short time, Xiao Xun also understood Lin Wei’s superiorities and insufficiencies a bit more——she discovered that Lin Wei’s strongest point was its intelligence. This summon beast was practically the most human-like summon beast that she had seen! For many things, one teaching was enough, a hint was all that was needed. In addition, Lin Wei’s strong powerful hind legs and lightning fast speed were also his strong points.

But the strongest insufficiencies was his status and skill. There’s wasn’t much to say about his status, he was currently still a Beastly Servant. However, the “skill” that every summon beast possessed, Lin Wei unexpectedly didn’t have! Xiao Xun and Lin Wei confirmed this matter after many spirit communications. Lin Wei himself didn’t have any concept to this thing called “skill”, and Xiao Xun didn’t have any induction. Ultimately, she could only dejectedly receive this conclusion.

At 4 in the wee hours of the morning on the seventh day, the clan’s central martial arts competing stage’s large bell sounded out on time! A resonant and melodious bell cry immediately reverberated to every corner of the entire clan.

Several tens of excellent younger generation left their training rooms in high spirits, beginning to dash over to the central martial arts competing stage.

In a small sized training ground by the east side of the clan’s castle, a steadfast tall and straight young man sat upright. Even though Fan Clan was an aristocratic clan, various kinds of resources were still very valuable. This youth being able to enjoy a training ground by himself, no matter how small, it could be seen how much importance the clan attached onto him.

“Young master! The bell has rung, the great competition will be going to begin soon!” A tall and sturdy looking man walked into the training ground from the outside, faced the the figure sitting upright, then respectfully half-kneeled and said.

“Is that so? It’s finally starting.” The young man opened his eyes: “Inside these five quotas, I, Fan Yanxing, must take up one.”

The young man jumped up as he was speaking and took several steps before disappearing from the man’s field of vision.

……

When this person called ‘Fan Yanxing’ reached the martial arts competing stage, the overwhelming majority of the younger generation were already there. After seeing Fan Yanxing, they greeted one after another: “Big brother!” “Older cousin!” “Older cousin1!”

That’s right, Fan Yanxing is the boss of the clan’s younger generation. He is Fan Xun’s eldest son and Fan Tianlong’s first wife’s eldest grandson. He is 34 years-old this year, and because the clan placed high expectations onto him, and including the fact that he is infatuated with cultivation, he was currently still not married.

When Xiao Xun looked at Fan Yanxing, a trace of admiration flashed past her eyes. Although she and this second cousin2 basically had no interactions, she had heard many things about him. The clan elders all extremely praised him. If she could be half as amazing as he was, then it would be sufficient to rise above the others in this great competition.

When all the younger generation arrived, then the clan’s third generation arrived. Xiao Xun’s bófù3, shūfù4, paternal bófù’s, paternal shūfù’s, all nine individuals arrived. Finally, the second generation trio of Fan Tianlong, Fan Tianhu, and Fan Tianfeng accompanied Clan Head Fan Xun onto the finale stage.

Fan Xun became 100 years-old the past year. His hair and beard were grizzled, he had a ‘dragon forehead, tiger eyes5’, and he was burly, his body very healthy. His father and uncle’s generation died relatively early, and in the year that he became 60 years-old, he became Clan Head. After being in charge of Fan Clan for more than 40 years, he had long ago set up supreme prestige. After sitting in the master seat, Fan Xun looked below, gave a satisfied nod, and said: “Let’s not speak any nonsense, those who want to compare notes or challenge someone to a fight, get on stage to compete right now. Those who want to officially participate in the sect selection, go to your grandmother Tianfeng to register!”

Approximately 20 young people on the scene successively stood up, then walked over to Fan Tianfeng. Xiao Xun also stood up.

At this moment, a voice suddenly said: “Younger cousin Xiao Xun, last time we agreed to compare notes one more time. How about we take advantage of them registering and compete?”

Everyone’s gazes went towards the voice and saw that the owner of the voice was Fan Minyue. Xiao Xun slightly wrinkled her brows and replied: “Older cousin Minyue, I must go over to paternal grandmother’s side to register. Really sorry!”

Hearing Xiao Xun’s reply, everyone present were in uproar!

The majority of the people knew that Xiao Xun’s summon beast changed, from an outstanding aptitude Beastly General to a trash Beastly Servant. If it was said that the previous Xiao Xun could contest for the first five, then everyone thought that the current her already lost her qualifications. One has to know, for sects receiving disciples, the most important thing was the disciple’s natural aptitude and summon beast’s merits and demerits. Even if other war beasts were stronger, they weren’t popular. It was like Fan Clan’s every great competition, it was stipulated that only summon beasts could be used each time.

Fan Minyue was the first one to burst out in laughter. She immediately covered her heartily laughing mouth, laughed a few times, then perhaps feeling that it was a little too impudent, she hurriedly stopped. She wiped the tears from laughing, then said: “Younger sister Xiao Xun, you don’t need to speak such a joke. You shouldn’t be……afraid? Heh heh.”

Xiao Xun didn’t pay attention to her again. The vision of various people moved to Fan Tianfeng. In front of her was already a line of a dozen or so people. This registration was very simple; it didn’t even need you to fill in your name. Fan Tianfeng acted as the registrant, while her eldest son, Lu Yuan, stood behind her and acted as an assistant. The two of them joined forces to judge the younger generation’s cultivation before their eyes, then filtered them into appropriate subgroups. As a result, it required careful and thorough investigation, so the time spent wasn’t short.

Fan Minyue took a look at Xiao Xun, then let out several sneering laughs. In her opinion, Xiao Xun was definitely using this method to avoid battle. When it was time for the competitions near the end, she could randomly fight some recognized-to-lose people, thus by-passing fighting with her. Thinking up to here, Fan Minyue also stood up and walked to the line. When she reached the back of the line, there happened to be two people between her and Xiao Xun.

“Younger cousin Xiao Xun, I truly feel embarrassed, I will also be registering.” Fan Minyue smilingly said: “I think that we should be the worst cultivators here, so when the time comes, we can properly compare notes.”

Everyone in the surroundings began whispering again. Fan Minyue’s summon beast was an Earth Attribute Bronze Rank Open-arm Devil Ape Beastly General. Within the fourth generation juniors, her summon beast was undoubtedly very strong. Within the fourth generation women lined up, entering the first five absolutely shouldn’t have any problem. But now that she purposefully said that her cultivation was the worst, wasn’t this bullying?

The male in front of Xiao Xun bitterly smiled, turned his head, and said: “Xiao Xun, why do you bother with this?”

“Older cousin Mo, feel relieved. Xiao Xun is aware of what she’s doing.” Xiao Xun gave the male a smile. This was one of Fan Tianlong’s grandsons, as well as one of the several people that were the best to Xiao Xun.

“You……” Fan Mo shook his head. He knew that Xiao Xun had a stubborn disposition, so he no longer urged.

The line dwindled until it was finally Xiao Xun’s turn. She walked to the front of Fan Tianfeng, saluted, and said: “Paternal grandmother, Xiao Xun has come to register.”

Fan Tianfeng looked at Xiao Xun and solemnly said: “The selection of the sect’s receiving disciple isn’t child’s play. Everyone will be using all their strength to fight against each other. You, have you thought it over?”

“Xiao Xun’s intentions are already decided.” Xiao Xun tranquilly replied.

Fan Tianfeng went silent for a moment, then said: “Good, then release your body and mind. Let your uncle Yuan perceive the DouQi in your body.”

Xiao Xun stood in place without making the slightest resistance. Lu Yuan slightly responded, then bent down and whispered into his mother’s ear: “Xiao Xun’s DouQi has improved again, and has already achieved high level warrior.”

“Oh?” Fan Tianfeng gave Xiao Xun a look full of praise: “Xiao Xun, what is your summon beast’s rank and status?”

“Rank: Lower than average, Status: Beastly Servant.” Xiao Xun enunciated each word with great difficulty. After the whole thing was completely said, she let out a sigh of relief, on the contrary feeling a burst of relaxedness.

Fan Tianfeng and Lu Yuan gave a glance to each other, then once more confirmed: “Xiao Xun, are you sure you want to participate?”

“Yes.” Xiao Xun nodded and give a simple and clear answer showing that she understood.

“Then good……” Fan Tianfeng lowered her head to the paper and wrote several strokes: “Go prepare. Next.”

Very quickly, it was finally Fan Minyue’s turn. She first said a pile of praises to Fan Tianfeng and Lu Yuan, then stated that she wanted to register.

“Minyue’s DouQi is also high level warrior.” Lu Yuan said into his mother’s ear.

“Minyue, your summon beast?” Fan Tianfeng asked.

“My summon beast is now a Bronze Rank, Low Level Beastly General.” Fan Minyue said with a smile. There was a trace of unrestrained complacence.

“En, not bad. You should also go prepare. Next.”

……

The registration ended. Altogether, 23 juniors registered. In accordance with the Clan Head and his three children’s plan that came from their discussion, they first arranged the 23 juniors by strength. Then, they began from last place, where the lower ranked could challenge the higher ranked. Of course, the first five places were forbidden to challenge, because that would be wasting strength in vain. The side that lost the fight would directly be eliminated. Starting from the last in line, every person that wasn’t eliminated would put forth a challenge and start one round. In this way, round after round was executed, until the first five places weren’t eliminated or challenged.

Within the 23 people, Fan Yanxing was first place. His strength was high and only the second place, Fan Zhong, could rival him. The third place Lu Jing also had a relatively distinct superiority over other people. Thus, everyone’s fighting focus was the fourth and fifth places.

In order to prevent all the people from challenging fourth and fifth places, an additional rule was raised. That rule was that only the sixth to tenth place could challenge the first five places.

Xiao Xun was currently placed last, whereas Fan Minyue was placed fourteenth. According to the rules, Xiao Xun possessed the privilege to challenge first. She stood up, let out a breath, then abruptly looked at Fan Minyue: “Older cousin Minyue, didn’t you just say that you wanted to compare notes with Xiao Xun? In that case, please bestow your teaching!”



 


  1. TLN: The first ‘older cousin’ refers to Fan Yanxing being their older cousin on the male side. The second is referring to Fan Yanxing as an older cousin on his/her female side. 
  2. TLN: 再从兄 means you have the same great-grandparents as person ‘x’, and from what I searched up, second cousins have the same grandparents. 
  3. TLN: This is probably the first time I’ve used the Chinese pinyin. Bófù means “father’s elder brother”, so Xiao Xun’s uncle that’s older than her father. 
  4. TLN: Shūfù means “father’s younger brother”, or Xiao Xun’s uncle that’s younger than her father. 
  5. TLN: Means that ‘heroic’. As in, his forehead shines, eyes shine, anime-style. 

Chapter 10 – Sect’s Receiving Disciple



The might of the two skills’ collision was greatly astonishing; the sound’s noise was so loud that even the deaf would be able to hear it. The fluctuation wave extended in all directions at terminal velocity, affecting the cliffs and vegetation in the surrounding of the ravine.

Right after the fluctuation wave from the attack dispersed, while the result was still undecided, Lin Wei’s silhouette appeared in a distant place. He ran over there at a lightning speed, and the Vigorous Vajra Ape that was chasing him from before had unknowingly disappeared without a trace at this moment.

The dust gradually scattered.

The Open-arm Devil Ape and Heavenly Wolf General’s figures once again appeared.

He saw the Open-arm Devil Ape sprawled facing downwards on the ground. On top of its head, on its right shoulder, and on its back were several visible bone-deep claw marks. Among these, the most terrifying one was on its head; it was practically already a broken skull with the injury reaching its brain. On the other hand, Heavenly Wolf General’s chest, abdomen, and four limbs were all hit by stone gravel, creating rivers of blood. Its abdomen was even pierced through by a block of stone!

“Heavenly Wolf General! Persist in living!” Lin Wei yelled. Then he accelerated his speed once more, rushing to Heavenly Wolf General’s side in a flash. He carried it on his shoulder, then left the scene rapidly.

……

The direction Lin Wei fled in was towards the back of the lake, but this time he turned towards the southeast. Previously when he ran about ten li, he had cast off the Vigorous Vajra Ape chasing him.

Lin Wei took a moment to compose himself. He wasn’t flustered, rather, he advanced in a straight line in a specific direction. Due to carrying Heavenly Wolf General on his shoulder, his speed was influenced. On top of the journey being smooth, the Vigorous Vajra Ape gradually started approaching. 100 meters, 50 meters, 20 meters……

After Lin Wei ran over an open space filled with withered dead leaves, the Vigorous Vajra Ape also ran over. It felt the ground sinking, then a large area of the ground broke. It howled in grief and fell down immediately afterwards. Below it, there were unexpectedly several buried sharp wooden stakes. At once, the Vigorous Vajra Ape’s heart was pierced through.

Lin Wei returned to the side of the pitfall, took a look, then turned to rush to the direction of the lake. Heavenly Wolf General’s injury was quite serious, so he had to hurriedly find a safe place to settle it down, as well as safely meet up with Plump Red. Although Plump Red’s status was lacking a lot compared to the Vigorous Vajra Ape, fire attribute has a natural restraint to gold attribute. Adding on the fact that Plump Red only need to run away and not fight, along with the help of Lin Wei’s completed traps, it shouldn’t be too hard for Plump Red to escape safely.

As expected, Plump Red returned to the cave before darkness. It received a small injury, but its entire bear1 seemed very spirited. It seemed that real combat had a very big effect to its advancement. Otherwise, it was unknown how much time it would take before it could break through to High Level Beastly Soldier.

Lin Wei began using some flowers and plant juice that he recognized in these past seven years to Heavenly Wolf General’s wound to disinfect it. After what should be staunched was staunched, what should be wrapped was wrapped. As for the wound from its penetrated abdomen, there wasn’t any better solution at present. Firstly, there wasn’t any needle and thread or any other tools to use to sew it up. Secondly, Lin Wei also didn’t have that skill.

Midnight.

Heavenly Wolf General light-headedly fell asleep. Lin Wei dragged his exhausted body out of the cave mouth, then leaned on a stone to rest.

The greater part of the sneak attack plan had succeeded; the Open-arm Devil Ape already received heavy losses. The only defect in what otherwise would have been perfect, was that it wasn’t thoroughly disposed of. But by his side, Heavenly Wolf General received a serious injury one more time. From this aspect, it could be said that both of them had lost.

Sigh, what could Master Xiao Xun be doing right now? Lin Wei lifted up his head and dazedly thought.

……

Just like Lin Wei, Xiao Chen was also gazing at the night sky in her garret. However, she was thinking more about Heavenly Wolf General. After all, she and Heavenly Wolf General had been together for seven years, so the emotions between them couldn’t be compared to a several days old newcomer.

“Sky wolf, where are you right now? Are you doing fine?” Xiao Xun muttered: “Could it be that……we can’t meet each other ever again2?”

Outside the window came a burst of cool wind. Xiao Xun tightened her front piece3 and exposed a trace of sorrow in her eyes. At this moment, the outside door of the garret was pushed open and a mature beautiful woman walked in. “Xiao Xun, it’s this late, why haven’t you gone to sleep?”

“Mama,” Xiao Xun replied: “I can’t fall asleep. Why haven’t you also rested?”

The mother walked to the front of Xiao Xun, then affectionately stroked her daughter’s cheeks. “I saw that your room’s lights were still on, so I came to take a look.”

Xiao Xun hugged her mother, leaning her head on her mother’s shoulders.

The mother funnily looked at her daughter’s childish intimate actions, softly patted her back, and asked: “Why can’t you fall asleep? Thinking about Lin Wei?”

Xiao Xun shook her head: “No, I’m thinking about Sky wolf……”

The mother let out a sigh and said: “My child, I know that the sentiment between you and Sky wolf are deep. Your father left early, you had no playmate as a child. Sky wolf was the companion that accompanied you for the longest. But Xiao Xun, you cannot immerse yourself in the past. Right now Lin Wei is your summon beast, have you thought about it? If you can’t shift your attention to Lin Wei, then how should it grow? In the future, how should you grow?”

In Qifeng Continent, it wasn’t that everyone could only have one war beast, it was that those others could only be regarded as “Contracted War Beast” or “Sealed War Beast”. These were those various kinds of beasts that the people of the continent caught; ‘Monster Beasts’, ‘Magic Beasts’. They used spells from the ancient times to set up a contract or used seal stones to apply the seal.

Summon beast, in the true sense of the term, used a kind of incomparably age-old divine ceremony. During the ceremony, if your aptitude was outstanding enough, then the antiquity rule would open a vortex channel for you and send a summon beast that suited you from another mysterious space! Only this could be considered a true summon beast. It followed antiquity rules by using your body measurements to choose. As long as its aptitude was outstanding enough, it would get an extra gift and skill! But this sort of true summon beast, every person could only have one.

As far as Xiao Xun was concerned, her summon beast changing from Sky wolf to Lin Wei, without a doubt, this was an extremely painful shock. Although she had other war beasts, her summon beast downgrading from Beastly General to Beastly Servant made her future in the clan already unoptimistic.

As a just-20-years-old girl, how could she not feel sad, how could she not pace back and forth?

At this very moment, her mother’s words was like a cool and refreshing spring, spreading through her mind.

Xiao Xun bit her lip, stayed silent for a moment, then said: “Mama, I know what I should do……”

The mother-daughter duo relied on each other for survival, for a very long time, a very long time……

……

The next day, a piece of information disrupted Xiao Xun’s resolve and plan to prepare to avoid from fighting.

Qifeng Continent’s Five Large Sects Alliance released an announcement, stating that they would open their gates to receive disciples after half a year. The five large sect’s receiving disciples standard is very rigorous. On a whole, every major aristocratic clan had to do all it could to grow one generation of an extremely talented loose cultivator to be selected.

Soon after, Fan Clan’s Clan Head Fan Xun released an order: The upcoming great competition will be used as an important competition to filter out the clan’s cream-of-the-crop younger generation. In this time’s great competition, the first five people who win will obtain the clan’s overall resource support. After half a year, they will go participate in the five large sect’s disciple selection.

This opportunity was the one Xiao Xun had been waiting a very very very long time for——starting from when she had just contracted her summon beast, she had been waiting all along for the five large sects to recruit disciples. In Qifeng Continent, aristocratic clans could only be considered as local tyrants in a rural place, while the five large sects were in the most pinnacle apex positioned giants. Only by joining a sect could one’s ability truly soar. The Xiao Xun who had lost her father as a child, especially long for this. She earnestly wished for being able to change her and her mother’s status at home with her own hard efforts. If she succeeds, then those upper echelons in the clan wouldn’t dare to uninhibitedly bully their mother-daughter pair.

The time left to the great competition in the beginning of next month was a short six days. Within this time, she had to make Lin Wei rapidly grow and make herself become even more formidable. Only then could she go contest for the position of the five seeded players! ——This was simply an impossible mission, but she had no other choice. She could only resolutely give her all in this fight!

Thus, at first thing in the morning, Xiao Xun arrived at her training room and summoned Lin Wei to begin training. It wasn’t only her; the entire clan’s several dozens youth generation all began immersing themselves in training hard. Of course, the overwhelming majority of the youth generation were males. After all, in the area of summon battles, males had superiority. And it seemed as if the majority of the youth generation’s women were destined to marry into a rich and powerful clan, especially Fan Minyue, who was to marry into Tian Clan, was happily at ease. The clan’s great competition this time was merely a way to escape from this custom, and even more to enjoy watching a bustling scenery. These past few days, Fan Minyue didn’t even feel like progressing in her cultivation, thinking that such violence didn’t suit her, this about-to-become rich and powerful clan’s young madam. At present, the only thing she wanted to do was to ruthlessly humiliate Xiao Xun during the great competition.



 


  1. TLN: The raws says ‘entire bear(整只熊)’, which I assume to be the author being funny because Plump Red is a ‘Red Bear’. 
  2. TLN: The phrase ‘ever again’, strictly translated, is supposed to be ‘in the future’ or just ‘again’. However, taking into consideration that it’s a young adult that just “lost” a longtime friend, I loosely translated it to ‘ever again’ to make it sound more “real”. 
  3. TLN: Front piece of this

Chapter 9 – Sneak Attack



Three days later, Lin Wei returned to the other world once more.

“What?” When Heavenly Wolf General heard Lin Wei’s news after returning, it stood up its body: “That villian, wants to fight with master again?”

Actually, what Lin Wei had said was that Fan Minyue was planning on challenging Xiao Xun in the clan’s great competition next month. But because of the circumstances of his current fighting strength, Xiao Xun was already prepared to avoid battles as a matter of fact. However, Heavenly Wolf General’s comprehension ability clearly wasn’t too strong; it subconsciously thought that this fight was already imminent.

Even so, the counterpart’s summon beast was precisely that fearful Open-arm Devil Ape. The result of this fight was already set in stone.

It was reckoned that the Devil Ape only needed to cry out once to blow Lin Wei face-down——the disparity between a Beastly Servant and Beastly General could be said to be the difference between heaven and earth!

Heavenly Wolf General paced back and forth inside the cave. To the side, Lin Wei and Plump Red were looking at each other in blank dismay.

“Heavenly Wolf General, it’s actually not necessary……” Lin Wei opened his mouth and said.

“I!” Heavenly Wolf General suddenly turned its head, a firm look appearing in its eyes: “I will kill it!”

“Who?” Lin Wei and Plump Red asked in unison.

“Open-arm Devil Ape!” Heavenly Wolf General gnashed its teeth and said: “Kill it! Kill it! This way master will be safe!”

Kill Open-arm Devil Ape? It was already impossible for Heavenly Wolf General to become Xiao Xun’s summon beast, so since it was like this, it prepared to directly kill the Open-arm Devil Ape in the other world! Without doubt, this was the best method. But the question was——was it possible to kill it? In last time’s fighting competition, Heavenly Wolf General had been defeated by the Open-arm Devil Ape and even suffered injuries……wait a minute! Lin Wei recalled Heavenly Wolf General’s reserved pressure boundary; could it be possible that Heavenly Wolf General already made a big breakthrough? If it’s like this, then killing that Devil Ape boss isn’t necessarily impossible.

“Do you have assurance?” Lin Wei’s heart was full of expectation as he rather nervously asked.

Heavenly Wolf General was silent for over ten minutes, then shook its head and said: “It very strong. I, don’t have certainty……”

No certainty? How is this possible? Could it be that merely achieving ‘reserved pressure’ was, in reality, no fighting strength promotion at all? Lin Wei’s heart slightly sunk. Although Xiao Xun prepared to avoid battles, it couldn’t be considered a long-term plan in the end. According to his growth speed, it was feared that he was incapable of being assistance to her in short-term. If Heavenly Wolf General could settle the Open-arm Devil Ape over here, then he would be able to win a very long buffer time for himself.

Reserved pressure……reserved pressure……wait, I got it! A thought flashed through Lin Wei’s mind.

“Sneak attack! We can set up a sneak attack!” Lin Wei slapped the ground and stood up.

Damn its grandmother, relying on my knowledge as an outstanding student in the supreme educational establishment in Huaxia1, designing a sneak attack plan is nothing. How could it be that I would be afraid of indefinite odds against a self-important bluffing Devil Ape?

……

On this day, there is a clear sky and gentle brightness, cotton-like floating clouds floating about. The emerald-green forest under the sunshine appeared especially lively and flourishing.

The Open-arm Devil Ape’s governance in this area was already ten days. The former Heavenly Wolf General’s subordinates were basically purged within a radius of 10 li2. All the life forms’ activities once again resumed normal orbit. Not slow, not anxious, regarding the majority of the life forms, a change in rulers had no substantive influence on them.

It was unknown from which area of the forest that it started, that this piece of news began spreading, stating: Heavenly Wolf General appeared in a small mountain cavity over twenty li east from the lake.

This piece of news spread around very quickly until it passed through the Open-arm Devil Ape’s ears. Then, a large group of Vigorous Vajra Apes soon after killed towards that mountain cavity. After a chaotic spell, it was ultimately confirmed that it was only a frail elderly Iron-back Wolf, but its appearance was actually quite similar to the Heavenly Wolf General. Since it was a mistake, it was only natural to drop it at this point.

After an interval of two days, another piece of news disseminated, stating: This time, Heavenly Wolf General truly appeared in a river’s ravine southwest of the lake.

As a result, the Vigorous Vajra Ape army once again pounced towards that ravine. After a thorough search, there wasn’t even a trace of the Heavenly Wolf General. However, they did discover a cave with some excrement and wolf fur remains.

The following day, another piece of news disseminated, stating: More than ten li southwest of that canyon, Heavenly Wolf General appeared again. It seemed to be wounded and is escaping this forest.

This time, the Open-arm Devil Ape practically sent all the Vigorous Vajra Apes out, only leaving several of them behind to take care of things. After a while, it simply left one behind to take care of things and brought two Vajra Apes with it to go over.

To reach its destination, the quickest path was to pass through that ravine. When the Open-arm Devil Ape led two Vigorous Vajra Apes through the ravine, it discovered that two figures stood in the middle of the road. One was a tall-figured, Intermediate Level Beastly Soldier statused Red Bear. The other figure seemed rather strange; one of its front claws was holding a long wooden stick. The wooden stick’s tip was exceptionally sharp, but its status was unexpectedly Beastly Servant. Quite obviously, the ones blocking the road were Red Plump and Lin Wei.

When the Open-arm Devil Ape saw Lin Wei, it couldn’t help but be startled for a moment. This was because, as a summon beast itself, it could see that Lin Wei was unexpectedly a summon beast! A Beastly Servant level summon beast!

“You are forbidden to chase to kill Heavenly Wolf General!” Lin Wei loudly shouted out.

“Right!” Plump Red braced itself to agree, but its legs couldn’t help but tremble.

“Kill them!” Open-arm Devil Ape shot a despising glance at them. From what it could see, that Red Bear was a waste, and that strange looking summon beast’s status was too low and also a waste.

The two Vigorous Vajra Apes responded by immediately raising their bodies and beating their chest. Then, after letting out a loud bellow, they went in different directions and threw themselves at Plump Red and Lin Wei. Plump Red let out a wailing shriek, then opened its mouth, sprayed out flame, turned around and took to its heels and ran away3. Meanwhile, Lin Wei took a step backwards and suddenly ran in another direction to evacuate. These days, the effects of Xiao Xun’s trainings finally appeared. His running speed had been upgraded by several-fold compared to before.

Plump Red and Lin Wei respectively4 went to the left and right, drawing away these two Vigorous Vajra Apes in these two directions. Everyone, my dear readers, you’ve guessed correctly, this is exactly Lin Wei’s plan; fortunately, the Open-arm Devil Ape happened to have two Vajra Apes by its side. If the amount of Vajra Apes were more, then he would have to use alternative plans. If it was like that, the work would be a little more complex.5

The Open-arm Devil Ape disdainfully sneered and prepared to continue hurrying on. At this time, above the left side’s cliff, an old hoarse yell suddenly yelled: “I want, to prevent you from killing Heavenly Wolf General!”

Along with this exclamation, a rather conspicuous stooped figure threw itself down. The Open-arm Devil Ape raised its head to take a look and just happened to meet the sun’s blazing light. That figure came over extremely quickly and it6 saw a lump of black shadow raiding at a high speed. Although the Open-arm Devil Ape couldn’t see clearly, in its’ perception, it could make out that this figure’s aura was very weak. Although it was much stronger than the two wastes from before, it was at most at the level of an Intermediate Level Beastly Guard.

The Open-arm Devil Ape didn’t have any time to think; it tightened its gigantic hand into a fist and immediately pounded over. Although this fist wasn’t all of his strength and was only 50% of its strength, its7 might was still enormous and brought the ‘sousou’ sound of fist wind. In its opinion, its counterpart was only at the level of a Low Level or Intermediate Level Beastly Guard, and it was absolutely impossible for it to dodge its fist. It8 thought that it would spray blood as it moved backwards five steps with its life bereaved, dying a horrible death, not even having any dregs remaining.

Yet, just as its gigantic fist was on the verge on contacting that shadow, the shadow suddenly sped up. It saw the shadow lower its waist, then instantly smashed a huge fist over from underneath. At the same time that the left claw was going over at the speed of electricity in the form of a fist, the right claw’s cold tip flashed directly to the Open-arm Devil Ape’s ribcage.

Just at this time, Heavenly Wolf General’s aura and pressure suddenly burst out. The Open-arm Devil Ape was dumbstruck upon this discovery; the target of its chase to kill was unexpectedly right before its eyes. It wanted to retreat, but there already wasn’t enough time. Heavenly Wolf General’s long and sharp claws pierced through its skin, ferociously penetrating its left lung.

However, the Open-arm Devil Ape was worthy of being called ‘Devil Ape General’; after it bellowed out in pain, it counterattacked. Its right fist whizzed forth with the complete entirety of its strength, while at the same time, its left chest muscles sent out force to make it hard for Heavenly Wolf General to smoothly withdraw its right claw.

Bang!

The fist struck Heavenly Wolf General’s body and the Heavenly Wolf General’s four steel-like long and sharp claws broke apart, then it seemed like an artillery shell as it was sent flying.

Heavenly Wolf General fell onto the floor and spit out big mouthfuls after big mouthfuls of blood. The Open-arm Devil Ape wanted to approach to pursue and attack it, but it trembled due to the pain from the wound in his left lung and could only stop.

The current situation was that both sides were seriously injured. On the surface, Heavenly Wolf General’s injury seemed a little heavier, but the Open-arm Devil Ape’s injury in its left lung brought an immense influence to its breathing and moving.

“Kill you! Kill you! ……” Heavenly Wolf General widened both of its eyes in anger, swaying as it stood up. Afterwards, its left claw began fiercely vibrating at a high frequency and its body also started to be suffused with a metallic radiance.

Seeing this scene, the Devil Ape stared blankly at first, then immediately howled violently. Both its arms buffed up and then it half-squatted, urgently breathing as its whole body produced a yellow-earth colored ripple.

Skill! This was a summon beast’s unique skill! Although Heavenly Wolf General was deprived of its summon beast identity, it had retained its skill. But in the other world, very few summon beasts could actually utilize their skills because there was no coordination with their master. Thus, the skill’s effect would greatly fall.

“Aooo! Sky Wolf’s Vajra Blade Edge!” Heavenly Wolf General loudly shouted and waved its vibrating-at-a-high-frequency left claw.

Creak!

It could be seen that the four blade edges rapidly took shape in the air, moreover, a layer of metallic luster spread out in a flash. It seemed like the four were true existing metal blade edges. They cut open the air, whirling towards the Open-arm Devil Ape!

“Devil Ape’s Ground-shattering Strike!” The Open-arm Devil Ape also let out a thunderous roar and both its fists smashed the ground. The entire ground exploded with a rumbling and countless pebbles quickly flushed over.

Both of their skills practically and physically clashed each other!



 


  1. TLN: An old name for China. I believe that it’s still being used in China though. 
  2. TLN: 1 li is about 500 m. Therefore, basically 5 km. 
  3. TLN: Sorry for the amount of commas. 
  4. TLN: Doesn’t specify which went left and which went right, but assumed that it’s respectively. 
  5. TLN: It’s an author’s note right in the middle of the text without writing an author’s note or parenthesis to signify that it’s an author’s note. 
  6. TLN: Open-arm Devil Ape (Devil Ape General) 
  7. TLN: The fist 
  8. TLN: Open-arm Devil Ape (Devil Ape General) 

Chapter 8 – Threat From The Clan



Hearing Heavenly Wolf General’s words, Lin Wei withdrew his neck in fright. According to his current identity as a summon beast, he could very easily see that Heavenly Wolf General already wasn’t a summon beast and its agreement was already rescinded! It was obvious how hard to accept this kind of rescinding was to any life form in this other world!

“Master, is she alright……” Heavenly Wolf General once again spoke, it tightly clenched its fist.

Lin Wei looked towards Heavenly Wolf General. He felt that Heavenly Wolf General seemed to have some kind of change. This change made its IQ and EQ become even higher, even closer to mankind. The former Heavenly Wolf General’s intelligence was roughly equivalent to a 6 or 7 year-old child, but now it gave the impression that it faintly had a 10 year-old juvenile’s feelings.

“She……” Lin Wei opened his mouth, but actually didn’t know how he should reply for a period of time.

“I originally, wanted to kill you.” Heavenly Wolf General ferociously watched Lin Wei: “You seized my master! But now that I’ve thought it over for a few days, I now do not want to kill you.”

Speaking up to here, Heavenly Wolf General’s gaze softened. It exerted all its might to swallow a mouthful of saliva and continued: “You, help me protect her! ……”

Lin Wei let out a sigh of relief. At the same time, the feeling of guilt welled up in his heart, after all, it was him who had seized Heavenly Wolf General’s position of summon beast. Moreover, according to his current strength, he was simply unable to coordinate with Xiao Xun in a fight.

Huh? Wait……

A sudden flash of inspiration appeared in Lin Wei’s mind: Since I can mistakenly enter Heavenly Wolf General’s summoning vortex and substitute for its contract, then next time Xiao Xun summons me, won’t it be possible for Heavenly Wolf General to replace me to go, and switch back like this?

Almost instantly, Lin Wei made this decision. This wasn’t because he was worth of admiration, rather his disposition was like this and he also had his bottom line.

“Heavenly Wolf General, next time master summons, you go!” Lin Wei said: “I’ll return you to master!”

……

Qifeng Continent, Water-like Moonlight.

In this continent, there were two moons. One was bright silver, the other, light blue. They simultaneously hung in the sky, looking exceptionally beautiful.

Xiao Xun stood on the balcony for a long time, leaning on the railing, looking at the night sky with her beautiful eyes. Currently there were two images circling each other in her mind; one was her former Heavenly Wolf General, the other was the current Lin Wei.

“Ai……” Xiao Xun pensively sighed.

“Oh! What is making younger cousin so worried?” Suddenly, an inharmonious voice sounded out from behind her.

Xiao Xun’s complexion changed, then she slowly turned around.

From a covert place walked out a tall-figured woman wearing a luxurious purple changpao embroidered with silver decorations. Her hair was level with her shoulders and clipped with a dark-gold cloud patterned hair clip. Both her eyebrows were thin and long, and her gaze was cold. When this woman walked out, she used an envious gaze to look at Xiao Xun’s delicate appearance and curvaceous stature that exceeded the mortal world.

“Older cousin Minyue, why did you come?” Xiao Xun faintly asked.

“Oh Xiao Xun, you still bear a grudge against older cousin.” The woman squeezed out a smile on her face, but a trace of complacency flashed through her eyes: “I’ve already told you, it was an accident in the competition last time. I also don’t know why Devil Ape General didn’t listen to my commands in the final moment, and accidentally injured younger cousin’s Heavenly Wolf General. This was purely an accident. Younger cousin can’t blame me.”

“I don’t blame older cousin.” Xiao Xun turned her face and continued looking at the moons in the sky: “If there is nothing else, Xiao Xun wishes to peacefully be alone.”

“There is no other matter, I just wanted to take a look at younger cousin.” Fan Minyue viciously gazed at Xiao Xun’s ample and towering twin peaks, then looked down at her airport-like chest: “Nowadays my mother oftens speaks about your mother-daughter duo and made me come over to take a look at you. When younger cousin and third aunt have time, we invite you to come over and visit.”

Hearing about second aunt often talking about them, Xiao Xun’s gaze softened, but recalling second uncle and this older cousin’s countenances, she shook her head: “Send my regards to second aunt for me: these days Xiao Xun really is occupied by something that can’t be left alone. After some time, Xiao Xun will definitely visit.”

“Haha, since it’s like this, then I’ll take my leave.” Fan Minyue stopped for a moment, then said with a smile: “Oh right, there’s a matter that I should say with younger cousin. Tian Clan’s eldest son came to propose marriage and my father already agreed. Currently they’re still discussing the date, so when the time comes, you should come to participate in my wedding ceremony, hahahaha.”

Tian Clan’s eldest son……

Xiao Xun’s heart slightly clutched. This Tian Clan’s eldest son was the earliest one that went to seek marriage with her, but due to first uncle and second uncle opposing and obstructing it, paternal grandfather didn’t promise this marriage. Tian Clan was a larger aristocratic family compared to Zhao Clan, so marrying with Fan Minyue is most in accordance to second uncle’s benefit demands. And it was very clear that he had already succeeded. The reason why Xiao Xun’s heart clutched wasn’t because she had any emotions towards this Tian Clan’s eldest son, after all, the two had only seen each other two or three times so there simply wasn’t any feelings, but because first uncle and second uncle’s method of handling things was simply too disappointing.

“Yes? Then Xiao Xun congratulates older cousin in advance.”

When Fan Minyue caught sight of Xiao Xun’s indifferent manner, seeming to not have received any psychological attack, her eyes rolled and spoke again: “Oh, by the way, I also heard that……younger cousin’s summon beast changed, is this correct?”

Xiao Xun’s complexion once again changed. Her chest began undulating, after being provoked several times, who would be able to bear it?

“Yes, what about it?” Xiao Xun coldly replied.

“At the beginning of next month, the clan will be hosting a great competition. At that time, we two sisters compare notes, how about it? Hahahaha.”

……

After a one brief rest day, Xiao Xun once again summoned Lin Wei.

But Lin Wei had given that promise, so when the summon vortex appeared, he didn’t go in, rather drew back several steps to let the Heavenly Wolf General by his side enter. Heavenly Wolf General gave Lin Wei a deep gaze, eyes exposing a grateful and appreciative look, then jumped into the summoning vortex.

After that, a matter that went against a person’s expectation happened again!

When Heavenly Wolf General was about to enter the vortex, suddenly, a strand of golden lightning violently shot out from the vortex and struck Heavenly Wolf General in a flash. Heavenly Wolf General only felt a trace of irresistible divine strength rushing into its body. Immediately afterwards, it was ruthlessly thrown onto the ground! ‘Bang!’, an enormous impact force caused even the ground to split open.

Heavenly Wolf General lifted up its head, merely feeling a burst of dizziness in its head. It discovered that a new summoning mark wasn’t produced on its forehead, and that vortex was still incessantly revolving.

What’s going on? Lin Wei and Plump Red both stared blankly.

This was completely different to what had been imagined……

Heavenly Wolf General exposed a determined look, then crawled up from the ground: “Roar! I must try once more!”

During its roar, it spared no effort in jumping again.

However, that golden lightning emerged again and impartially struck it again. This time, the power was even stronger and directly smashed the Heavenly Wolf General onto the ground, creating a large pit. With a loud sound, smoke and dust rose up, filling up this not-too-big cave.

At this time, a trace of incorporeal and divine, but irresistible, thought descended into the depths Heavenly Wolf General and Lin Wei’s minds——

Contract substitution, from today onwards, is permanently forbidden. Do not attempt to do it again, or else you will be directly erased!

Heavenly Wolf General and Lin Wei’s hearts immediately became apprehensive. A noun immediately popped up in Lin Wei’s heart: BUG1 fixing! That’s right, before he had transmigrated, he had taken a college-level programming course in middle school. This type of circumstance very similarly followed the procedure of BUG fixing. In the previous rules of this other world, it was possibly overlooked to restrict contract substitution, leading him to exploit this loophole. While the process of his contract was going on, this world’s rule also put out a revision for this kind of situation. That is to say, it was impossible for this contract substitution to appear in the future!

Heavenly Wolf General and Lin Wei looked at each other. After approximately 10 seconds, Heavenly Wolf General bitterly and astringently smiled and said to Lin Wei: “I cannot go. It’s better if you go!”

“This……won’t do……” Lin Wei shook his hand. He was unable to pass the moral threshold in his heart, moreover he wasn’t completely confident in his own strength: “How about we think up another solution?”

“Go!” Heavenly Wolf General let out a loud bellow: “Master is summoning you! Maybe, she is in a dangerous situation right now! Hurry up and go!”

Without waiting for Lin Wei to speak nonsense, he picked up Lin Wei and threw him into the vortex.

“H2……” Lin Wei didn’t have enough time to speak a word before he was swallowed up by the vortex.



 


  1. TLN: This word is in English as ‘bug’, but to differentiate it in translated text, I capitalized it. 
  2. TLN: The Chinese character here is ‘喂’, as in the thing Chinese people say when they pick up the phone. Usually translates to ‘Hello’ or ‘Hey’, so I left out all letters except for ‘H’ to make it look like he didn’t speak a word. 

Chapter 7 – Breakthrough, Heavenly Wolf General Wakes Up



The mother sat on the side, meticulously scrutinizing Lin Wei, then said to the daughter: “Xiao Xun, it seems……to be pretty good.”

Xiao Xun flattened her lips and dejectedly said: “What use is pretty good. Look at it, Attribute: None, Rank: Lower than common, Status: Lower than Beastly Servant. Your daughter has never seen such a trash summon beast! Mama, what happened to my Sky wolf? Why did it suddenly substitute summon beasts for me?”

Sky wolf? Are they speaking about Heavenly Wolf General? A divine light suddenly flashed past Lin Wei’s mind, right, I was sucked into the summoning vortex for the Heavenly Wolf General, that is to say, this is Qifeng Continent! I’ve come to Qifeng Continent!

Wait a moment……

Lin Wei suddenly discovered that between him and this ‘Xiao Xun’, there appeared to be a faint fluorescent connection; this fluorescence was the soul connection between the two individuals. This connection seemed to be weak, but it was actually indestructible! Along with that fluorescence, Lin Wei seemed to be able to spy on Xiao Xun’s happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy deep in her heart. Furthermore, in the deep darkness was an incorporeal spirit thought hovering around deep in his own heart. This spirit thought implored him to defer to Xiao Xun’s every command.

I, contracted!

Lin Wei understood all of the sudden, and this discovery caused him to be extremely startled for several seconds.

I and this Xiao Xun have reached contract relations! I am currently her summon beast! And she, is my master! Her original summon beast was Heavenly Wolf General, but now for some reason, I replaced Heavenly Wolf General; I became her new summon beast!

Heavens……

The mother carefully scrutinized Lin Wei, then hugged her daughter and said: “Actually, this is also my first time seeing an attribute-less summon beast. Although the rank and status is lower by a bit, Xiao Xun, you must bear in mind that there is a reason for every cause. Since Heaven arranged it to be by your side, then it is Heaven’s gift. It being unique like this, perhaps……perhaps it is your true summon beast, and that previous Sky wolf was just a method to bring it by your side. Xiao Xun, carefully treat it, mama believes that it will give you a pleasant surprise……”

Give me a pleasant surprise? Is it possible? Xiao Xun once again looked towards Lin Wei. She had never seen this summon beast’s appearance, even so much that she was unable to classify it; this meant it clearly didn’t have a summon beast record.

“What are you called?” Xiao Xun gazed at Lin Wei and exported her thought to him.

Lin Wei immediately received this thought through that fluorescence, then he discovered that the fluorescence opened a feedback channel for him. In other words, in this kind of situation, he could answer the master’s question. This made him extremely pleasantly surprised at once, as long as he could communicate, he could let the other party know his origins!

“Lin Wei! My name is Lin Wei! I’m actually not a summon beast, I come from a celestial body called Earth! I am a human!!!”

However, dreams are beautiful while reality is cruel——

In Lin Wei’s reply a moment ago, only “Lin Wei! My name is Lin Wei!” got through before the feedback channel immediately closed! The entirety of his following words wasn’t transmitted!

How can it be like this? Lin Wei stared blankly. Presently, from what he could gather from his response, it seemed like a summon beast was limited by what the master wanted to communicate. In such situations, a summon beast didn’t have any method to the the initiative to transmit its thought to the master, only able to reply the the master’s question.

Then I don’t have any ways? No! There definitely is a way! Remember those novels that I’ve read before; along with the summon beast’s growth, it finally achieved the realm of intention communication with its master! At that time, it was able to communicate with its master! Right, I cannot be discouraged! Certainly cannot be discouraged!

Lin Wei inwardly encouraged himself. He had arrived at this other world for a period of seven years, and his will was already tempered and very firm, not something a small setback could sway.

“Lin Wei……” Xiao Xun slightly nodded: “Name isn’t bad. What mama said is right, there is a reason for every cause in this world……moreover, I just began studying the summoning technique. Teacher already taught us that there is no trash summon beast, only a trash master. From today onwards, I will carefully train you! We will improve together! So……please treat me kindly!”

After Xiao Xun finished speaking, she went as far as to quite solemnly and earnestly give a bow to Lin Wei. This caused Lin Wei to become frightened, and he thought in his heart: isn’t this master too polite? Should I give back a bow? But I’m unable to now right now……

……

Thus, under this mysterious contract substitution, Lin Wei replaced the Heavenly Wolf General and became this Xiao Xun’s summon beast.

In order to make Lin Wei grow as soon as possible and recover the ability to move, Xiao Xun immediately carried out official training. This training last for a full five days! During these five days, besides training base stamina, skill and cooperation, in order to quickly as possible upgrade Lin Wei from ‘Lower than Beastly Servant’ status, Xiao Xun made him take a ‘Millennial Strange Flower’ and a ‘Hundred-Year Magic Beast Crystal’.

These two things were very good items, particularly the ‘Millennial Strange Flower’. It simply didn’t have a price in the market, unable to be bought even if one wanted to buy it. Under the assistance of these two supplements, Lin Wei finally broke through the shackles of his status, suddenly becoming a Beastly Servant from ‘Lower than Beastly Servant’! Fine……actually, there was no change in his essence……

Regarding Lin Wei’s weak upgrade, Xiao Xun couldn’t help but heavily sigh; it was difficult to hide the disappointed look in her eyes. One has to know, if it was another summon beast using these two supplements, at least it would be able to break through from Beastly Soldier to Intermediate Level Beastly Guard! With regards to some even more excellent aptitude summon beasts, it was possible for them to evolve from Common rank to Bronze rank! However, Lin Wei’s rank didn’t change, his status merely changed from ‘Lower than Beastly Servant’ to ‘Beastly Servant’. This sort of circumstance meant that either Lin Wei’s aptitude really was too inferior or his original ‘Lower than Beastly Servant’ was lower by a lot1.

However, Xiao Xun quickly restrained her disappointed look. She didn’t want her mother to see her weak side. Weak? Then we’ll train until we become strong!

In these five days, Lin Wei achieved a preliminary understanding of Xiao Xun’s background——

This petite-figured beauty is a young lady of one of Qifeng Continent’s big aristocratic clans. This big aristocratic clan’s master is Xiao Xun’s paternal great-grandfather, called Fan Xun. Xiao Xun’s paternal grandfather is Fan Xun’s second son, called Fan Tianhu. Fan Tianhu had three sons and two daughters, and Xiao Xun’s father, Fan Bin, is the third child. Unfortunately, in one of the Sect wars, he was killed and left behind his lovely wife and the barely 6 years-old Xiao Xun. Xiao Xun is 20 years-old this year and is a well-known stunning beauty far and near. As she was growing up, the amount of people visiting is seek a marriage was an endless stream. But the her who lost her father was given quite a considerable amount of relief, especially from her first uncle and second uncle. Both didn’t wish for her to marry into a powerful and influential big clan or large sect. When Xiao Xun was 13 years-old, she began her first contracting and the summon beast she received at that time was Heavenly Wolf Guard. Heavenly Wolf Guard’s formidable fighting strength made her standing in the family to temporarily stabilize, and after Heavenly Wolf Guard broke through to Heavenly Wolf General, it caused Xiao Xun to even begin receiving her paternal grandfather’s attention. But unfortunately, good things don’t last forever. The Heavenly Wolf General was severely injured and Lin Wei substituted for Xiao Xun’s summon beast; this caused her status to suddenly become dangerous!

Summon beast changing, it was impossible to conceal this sort of matter.

Let alone, it became such an irregular change from a Beastly General level summon beast to a Beastly Servant level waste. In all people’s cognition in Qifeng Continent, it was impossible for a Beastly Servant to become a summon beast because its qualifications was entirely insufficient! From the ancient times up to now, there had never appeared a Beastly Servant level summon beast; the most low level was a high aptitude Beastly Soldier.

When the fifth day ended, the highly intensive training already caused Lin Wei to become thoroughly numb with tiredness, unable to even sit up. Xiao Xun was disturbed in her heart and inwardly let out a sigh, then waved her hand and sent Lin Wei back. In these five days, there was already more than one group of people secretly coming to see her training Lin Wei, and all of the people who watched in the secret place pointed at the Beastly Servant level Lin Wei. All of them believed that they were hidden, but in reality, they were all seen by Xiao Xun. But Xiao Xun didn’t care about these people, what she truly cared about was the person who possessed the Bronze rank Open-arm Devil Ape Beastly General!

……

Lin Wei returned to the other world——all summon beasts that were reverse summoned would return to the other world to rest and await for their master’s next summoning.

The summoning vortex emerged in the cave and Lin Wei was thrown out, ferociously smashing into the ground. Such a smash caused Lin Wei to become disoriented.

“Nn?” Lin Wei opened his eyes and saw a trembling Plump Red is a place not far away. By Plump Red’s side was a tall and sturdy figure. Lin Wei rubbed his eyes and couldn’t help but to blurt out: “Heavenly Wolf General!”

That figure calmly stood there, facing towards Lin Wei, motionless, as if it was a block of stone.

Heavenly Wolf General was still that Heavenly Wolf General, that familiar steel needle-like mane, those familiar giant front claws. The only difference was that the Heavenly Wolf General at this moment didn’t have the least formidable and strong pressure emitting from head to toe from before. Its aura was totally reserved, so much that if one didn’t go take a look, one practically wouldn’t be able to feel its existence. It was like those exceptional experts in those wuxia novels that Lin Wei had previously looked through. When they reached an extremely high realm, they would return to their true self.

Hearing Lin Wei’s voice, the Heavenly Wolf General finally made a movement. Its ear trembled, then it turned its head.

“You’ve come back……” The Heavenly Wolf General spoke. Its voice was deep and low, full of a depressing and turbulent mood.



 


  1. TLN: That is to say, instead of being -1 Beastly Servant, it could possibly have been -15 Beastly Servant. 

Chapter 6 – Accident Arising From Many Causes! Contract Substitution?



Another two days passed by, but there still wasn’t an indication of the Heavenly Wolf General regaining consciousness.

At present, in the entire territory, only Lin Wei and Plump Red knew where the Heavenly Wolf General was. The two of them became even more prudent every day——not speaking of the Open-arm Devil Ape’s informers, they had to watch out for some other insignificant life forms or else it would be extremely easy to be exposed. At that time, the three of them would absolutely die!

Although the Heavenly Wolf General’s aura was slowly increasing, due to it not deliberately releasing itself outwards, as a result, it basically couldn’t be sensed from outside the cave.

But another quite serious problem emerged——every day at a fixed time, the summoning vortex would inevitably appear. This vortex’s movements could be faintly felt from a hundred meter scope outside the cave. If this kept on continuing, it was estimated that before the 5th day, the Open-arm Devil Ape would definitely know the Heavenly Wolf General’s hiding place!

“What to do, what to do?” Lin Wei anxiously grabbed his head fur(he currently already doesn’t have hair on his head, it can only be called head fur).

“What’s wrong?” Plump Red was eating roast fish by itself, a little unclear on why Lin Wei showed an anxious appearance. Although its IQ was relatively higher than those within its level, it definitely couldn’t compare with Lin Wei, this transmigrator, and it clearly still didn’t figure out the serious crucial point.

“Aiya! It would make no sense to you even if I explained it!” Lin Wei hopped around and said.

“Uh……” Plump Red scratched its head, then handed over the roasted fish in its hand: “Eat fish!”

Lin Wei depressedly took the roast fish and ate two mouthfuls, then suddenly hopped up: “I’ve got a solution! I’ve got a solution! Do it like this!”

As Lin Wei was saying this, he threw down the roast fish and pulled Plump Red, taking to his heels and ran towards the direction of the cave: “Quicker, quicker! It’s almost about time today.”

“What are we going to do?” Plump Red asked as it was running. It still hadn’t finished eating the fish, its stomach wasn’t full, and it had to waste a half pile of fish.

“It’s surely feasible like this, it’s surely feasible like this……” Lin Wei was rapidly analyzing in his heart: “How come I didn’t think of this a little earlier? Later, when the summoning vortex appears, we can lift up the Heavenly Wolf General and throw it inside the vortex!”

“What?” When Plump Red heard this, his eyes rounded in disbelief.

“That’s right.” Lin Wei lifted up his head and resolutely reasoned: “Every time, the Heavenly Wolf General is unable to be summoned because it has lost consciousness, and merely depending on the vortex’s attractive force isn’t enough. If we can assist the Heavenly Wolf General in entering the vortex, then everything will be solved. Once the Heavenly Wolf General’s master knows that it’s injured, then the master definitely won’t summon it to fight, so the Heavenly Wolf General will be safe! And if the Heavenly Wolf General leaves, then we’ll also be safe!”

Plump Red nodded in half-understanding.

“Plump Red, your strength is greater, in a moment you must use a bit more strength!” Lin Wei instructed.

“Oh……ah?” When Plump Red heard this, it involuntarily shivered.

Just as the two of them barely reached a distance 50 meters away from the cave, an unusual fluctuation started to appear. The running Lin Wei and Plump Red only felt their scalps tingling and fur start to stand up: “It’s started! Let’s go a bit faster!”

Three steps turned into two steps, and when they rushed into the cave, the summoning vortex’s attractive force’s lifting turbulence caused the two of them immediately to fall on the floor, rolling them to the Heavenly Wolf General’s side.

“Come!!! We have to lift it!!!” Lin Wei did his utmost to shout and dug under the Heavenly Wolf General’s right shoulder, then exerted himself to lift the Heavenly Wolf General.

Plump Red swallowed its saliva with great difficulty, and immediately afterwards, it followed Lin Wei’s example and went to lift up the Heavenly Wolf General’s left shoulder. It could usually lift a boulder, but now it was actually strenuously propping up a left shoulder.

“Come on!” Lin Wei shouted loudly.

Plump Red clenched its jaw and made a great effort to stop both its legs’ trembling, then with a low bellow, it finally coordinated with Lin Wei to lift up the lying supine Heavenly Wolf General.

Like this, the distance between the Heavenly Wolf General and summoning vortex became closer by a lot. Immediately, the attraction force intensified a bit. Lin Wei and Plump Red felt an incorporeal strength once again pulling themselves upwards. It seemed like their bodies had became very light and there was a feeling of both their feet going to leave the floor. However, even though the attractive force was several times stronger than before, it still wasn’t enough——the Heavenly Wolf General trembled from head to toe, nearly floating inside, but there still seemed to be some weights pressing down on Lin Wei and Plump Red’s bodies. The former school’s top student Lin Wei was quite clear on this in his heart; only when this weighing down feeling completely disappears will the summoning vortex’s attractive strength be able to fully exceed the Heavenly Wolf General’s gravity, and pull the Heavenly Wolf General inside of its vortex.

Of course, there is also another type of method; to throw the Heavenly Wolf General up and hope that when the Heavenly Wolf General rises, the attractive force will intensify until it exceeds its1 gravity! But at present, Lin Wei and Plump Red already reached their limits, so much that they had even overdrafted their physical strength. The Heavenly Wolf General’s formidable pressure pushed down on them, causing them to display way less strength than they anticipated. It was feared that the amount of power that Plump Red could send out wasn’t even a tenth of what it could normally use.

“No good……” Plump Red was shivering and its four limbs were twitching. Its physical strength already approached its true limit.

“Almost there, try harder!” Lin Wei suddenly burst out with a bellow. Both his knees bent and he dug his toes into the ground. He collected all the strength in his body again, then used all of it to jump upwards!

The final battle! Success or defeat all depended on this one move!

Yet in this crucial moment, another change was suddenly born——

Originally, Lin Wei thought that he and Plump Red could use their strengths and toss the Heavenly Wolf General inside. But unfortunately at this time, Plump Red’s strength was exhausted earlier than expected and it tumbled to the floor, causing the Heavenly Wolf General to follow its direction and slip downwards. But at this moment, Lin Wei was right in the middle of sending out his strength. Now that the above-mentioned weight2 suddenly vanished, it led to Lin Wei entire body to become like an artillery shell as he leapt upwards!

“Fuuuuuck……” In that moment, Lin Wei couldn’t help but break into foul language. He lifted his head to take a look, and was met with the sight of the vortex already in front of him. At such a close distance, the attractive force was actually greatly terrifying. Practically without the slightest resistance, Lin Wei was dragged into it in a flash.

“No! Save……” Lin Wei was scared to the point of his soul flying away. He called for help loudly towards Plump Red, but before the word ‘I’ left his mouth, the vortex mouth suddenly closed and he immediately sunk inside an absolute darkness!

……

There wasn’t a trace of illumination, not even a trace of colors. It was even unclear on the up and down directions; it was like he was in space as he felt weightlessness.

Lin Wei bewilderedly drifted along in some certain direction.

He didn’t know how long he had been drifting along, it seemed as long as several centuries, yet it also seemed to be but a flash. A kind of misty golden radiance appeared and descended onto Lin Wei’s body, digging its way into Lin Wei’s body. When it submerged into Lin Wei’s body, it suddenly jolted, seeming to come across some inconceivable matter, and hesitated for a while. There seemed to be a sound, yet not a sound, saying: “How can this be? Strange……”

Just at this time, a sudden rip in space occurred in the direction he was drifting towards and a bright light shown in. A pleasant voice anxiously shouted: “Sky wolf3! Sky wolf! Is that you?”

When the golden radiance in Lin Wei’s body heard that voice, it turned around several times rapidly in place. It seemed very anxious, but didn’t have any means.

As soon as the opening began to become bigger and bigger, the outside scenery also became hazily visible. That golden radiance stopped in place, then ‘whoosh’-ed into Lin Wei’s heart. Using the heart as a center, an incorporeal power enveloped Lin Wei. This power was divine and dignified, as if it represented the whole world’s order and rules. Immediately following, an ancient and complex symbol writing was left onto Lin Wei’s forehead.

Afterwards, while Lin Wei was in a dazed state, he was thrown out from this split open hole!

“Sky wolf! Huh?!!!……” That pleasant voice came to a stop spontaneously.

……

After a long time passed again, Lin Wei finally felt his consciousness returning to his body; he could finally control his own body. Trying hard to open his heavy eyelids, he saw a dusky room before him. The room was approximately a little more than 10 meters on each side of the room, while the floor was ice-cold bluestone tiles along with some moisture. The room didn’t have any lighting, only a high window opened a crack, letting in a thread of chilly moonlight.

Lin Wei propped up his body and lifted up his head. Then, he finally saw the most longed for and wished for during those seven years——humanity! Furthermore, it was two humans!

Two flower-like beauties were in the middle of staring with their eyes, using an amazed look to watch Lin Wei. The ages of the two was a bit wide, one was approximately a little over 40 while the other was about 20, just in the prime of her life. The two people’s appearances somewhat resembled each other, one look and one could tell that they were mother and daughter.

“This is……I returned to Earth?” Suddenly seeing humanity, Lin Wei was immensely pleasantly surprised in his heart and couldn’t help but blurt this out. But when these words just came out, he promptly realized that it was wrong. The clothing style of the two woman before him wasn’t similar to any place on Earth that he knew of. The mother of the two women wore a simple loose light yellow swan’s down4 cheongsam-style skirt, embroidered with fine floral designs. Her waist was bound by a thin and tough orange colored silk belt, showing off her mature figure even more. The daughter’s clothes was a snow-white broad sleeved short jacket that covered her whole body, as well as wrapped up her developing extra large chest.The spacious sleeve was in a semi-transparent state, and one could vaguely see a fresh lotus-like white delicate jade arm. Below that was a skin-tight rice-colored leather pants and a pair of bright red boots. The clothing, pants, and boots all had fine decorations, appearing valiant and formidable-looking.

What kind of people were they?

Where was this place?

After the mother-daughter pair heard Lin Wei’s words, they didn’t have any special reactions, seeming to not understand what he had said. The daughter turned her head and said a few words to the mother.

But these words, Lin Wei unexpectedly understood! This wasn’t any language that he knew of on Earth, not even the other world’s beast language, rather a kind of language that he had never heard before. But unfortunately, the way he understood those words was like this: the meaning of the words clearly directly transmitted itself into his mind.

What the daughter said was: “It woke up.”



 


  1. TLN: Heavenly Wolf General. 
  2. TLN: The Heavenly Wolf General’s body slipped out of Lin Wei’s hands too. 
  3. TLN: The Chinese for ‘Sky wolf’ is the same two Chinese characters for ‘Heavenly Wolf’. Changed it to ‘Sky wolf’ because who the hell would call their pet ‘Heaven wolf/Heavenly wolf’? 
  4. TLN: Swan’s down is a type of fabric. 

Chapter 5 – Clouding Over



Three days later, the Heavenly Wolf Guard still remained unconscious.

Due to security concerns, Lin Wei and Plump Red placed the Heavenly Wolf General in another cave, neither at Heavenly Wolf Mountain nor the lakeside. The cave was halfway up the mountain, concealed by layers upon layers of shrubbery. If one pushed aside the shrubbery covering the cave, one could directly gaze at the boundless forest in the distance.

Every night, Lin Wei brought back some water back and poured it through the gaps of the Heavenly Wolf General’s teeth. Afterwards, he would use some clean cotton hemp and straw padding to dress its wound. At present, its wound had basically healed enough to form a scab.

On the fourth day, there still no indication of the Heavenly Wolf General waking up. Its pulse was already steady, breath normal, and body’s aura and pressure became increasingly powerful. Plump Red already didn’t dare to approach it within 10 meters. But even though Lin Wei’s status was lower, he still clenched his teeth and persisted.

“Aiyo, too fearful!” Lin Wei had just fed the Heavenly Wolf General some water. Immediately after he did that, he hastily ran to Plump Red’s side and wiped the sweat off his forehead. At the Heavenly Wolf General’s side, he felt that he was being placed by a high-pressure blast furnace’s side, his dry mouth not even daring to lightly move.

“We……we……we leave……” Plump Red’s words weren’t nimble.

“Okay……” Lin Wei answered. Just as he prepared to leave the cave with Plump Red, suddenly, a different shape abruptly appeared!

The area 4 to 5 meters above the Heavenly Wolf General suddenly hissed and the space violently warped. The intense warping caused light to become chaotic, producing a huge dizziness feeling. Following right after, a ball of black light suddenly appeared! ——Space vortex, that familiar black space vortex appeared again.

Lin Wei and Plump Red simultaneously sucked in a breath of cold air, both involuntarily step-step-stepping backwards several paces.

Summoning!

This was a summoning! The Heavenly Wolf General’s master over at Qifeng Continent was summoning it!

A strange suction force emerged from the black space vortex and the Heavenly Wolf General’s body started fiercely trembling, seeming to want to leave the ground and go in. But because the Heavenly Wolf General was in an unconscious state, it was unable to complete the summon response. Also, the pure suction force clearly wasn’t enough to pull the Heavenly Wolf General into the space transmission gate.

Along with the passing of time, the Heavenly Wolf General’s body trembled even more intensely. In its surroundings was a ball of weak golden radiance attached to the center of the space vortex. This ball of radiance became increasingly intense, seeming to exert all its strength in wanting to deliver the Heavenly Wolf General into the space vortex. Lin Wei could even feel a worried and impatient summoning call coming from the black space vortex, full of anxiousness and grief.

Lin Wei and Plump Red’s hearts had already risen up into their throats and both beasts already involuntarily hugged one another.

Approximately ten minutes later, the space vortex’s strength appeared to be used up. It struggled for a little while, then shrunk unwillingly and disappeared.

The Heavenly Wolf General’s body once again became tranquil, but it still didn’t wake up.

Lin Wei let out a long breath and discovered that at an unknown time, he had already controlled his sweat. Patting his chest with lingering fears, he and Plump Red looked at each other: “Summoning……it was a summoning. But, the summoning unexpectedly……failed?”

“We, quickly leave.” Plump Red once again urged.

Lin Wei nodded his head and left the cave with Plump Red.

“It was quite scary a moment ago……” Outside the cave, Lin Wei moved some huge tree leaves to cover up the cave entrance: “This is the first time I’ve seen a summoning space vortex at such a close range……”

His voice hadn’t fallen when suddenly, a loud muffled sound was heard from the southeast direction without the slightest omen. Then, the whole earth seemed to tremble immediately afterwards.

Lin Wei was greatly frightened: “What’s the matter? What’s going on? An earthquake?”

He turned his body around and discovered Plump Red foolishly standing for a long time. It had lifted its right-hand claw to point towards the southeast.

“What’s wrong? What did you discover?” Lin Wei looked in the direction Plump Red was pointing at and saw a thick brown smoke floating off a mountain peak in the distance. Then, an intense fluctuation radiated over from there. This fluctuation wasn’t visible to the naked eye, but it could be clearly felt. That sort of feeling only came from a Bronze rank Beastly General deliberately releasing its own pressure.

That direction……

Lin Wei’s heart jumped.

Isn’t that the direction of the Heavenly Wolf Peak? How is this possible? The Heavenly Wolf General is unconscious in the cave behind me! So, who is over at the Heavenly Wolf Peak? Furthermore, just now there was a fierce vibration and thick smoke. What’s going on? ……Could it be……another Beastly General?!

Just as this thought appeared, Lin Wei promptly shrunk his neck and hurriedly erased that thought from his mind.

Restraining his restless mind, Lin Wei and Plump Red returned back to the lakeside. Along the way, they saw many beasts dashing, seeming to have received some kind of frightening.

And just as they reached the lakeside, they suddenly met an extremely disturbing scene——they saw the usual absolutely arrogant Ash-fur Wolf clan’s several Low Level Beastly Guard-grade members being driven away from the forest by a Bronze rank Vigorous Vajra Ape. Afterwards, when they wanted to continue their action of running away, it was ruthlessly terminated——the Vigorous Vajra Ape overtook them and suddenly pressed fiercely towards the ground. Following that was a muffled rumbling sound and two holes being formed. Inside those holes were Ash-fur Wolves pressed into meat patties.

The remaining Ash-fur Wolves’ eyes turned red with anger and they loudly howled. They stopped escaping and instead turned towards the Vigorous Vajra Ape, using everything they had to throw themselves at it.

The Vajra Ape slightly lowered its body and extended its right hand to hold to front-most ‘throwing-themselves-at-it’ Ash-fur Wolf’s hind legs. Afterwards, it1 swung it in a wide arc and resolutely smashed it on the floor. The Ash-fur Wolf sprayed a mouthful of blood; its spinal column had fractured. It struggled to crawl with its upper body, but the Vajra Ape’s gigantic hand was already pressing down. Bang! The Ash-fur Wolf’s head exploded like a watermelon.

Lin Wei and Plump Red were already frightened in their tracks. The two of them were dazedly watching the Vigorous Vajra Ape licking off the blood from holding the hind legs, not having the slightly thought of escaping.

“You two.” The Vigorous Vajra Ape lazily opened its mouth to speak: “Go to Heavenly Wolf Peak……meet the new feudal lord! Those who don’t listen to the command, death.”

“Yes!” Plump Red practically stood up its body in conditioned reflex. Although it had already promoted itself to peak Intermediate Level Beastly Soldier in the course of the seven years, there was still an immensely wide gap compared to a Beastly Guard.

Lin Wei hastily nodded. New feudal lord?! Heavens! As a person who had transmigrated, Lin Wei immediately understood some things. The Heavenly Wolf General being heavily injured and remaining unconscious from a fight, and at this critical juncture, there just happened to be a new feudal lord appearing. This……couldn’t be a coincidence, right?

……

One hour later, Lin Wei and Plump Red arrived beneath Heavenly Wolf Peak together.

At this time, he finally understood what the matter was with the fierce vibration and thick smoke——this place had been razed down in a square with the sides of 100 zhang2, forming an enormous block of open space. A figure of several thousand beasts had already gathered in this open space. In the front of this open space was a block of 50 to 60 meter tall rock, and on top of it was a lofty and towering figure.

Bronze rank! Low Level Beastly General!!!

A tide-like line of information bubbled forth into Lin Wei’s brain, causing it to swell up in pain and practically choke him.

The new feudal lord was of the ape race, moreover, it was an Open-arm Devil Ape that had never appeared here before. Along with its arrival, the ape race in this territory towered up and the wolf race a huge suppression. As for the other beasts, as long as they obeyed, then their security was ensured. However, the wolf race actually faced a savage massacre.

The Open-arm Devil Ape towered above, looking down with half-opened eyes, using a gaze that looked down upon all living things upon all the beasts in the open space. Of course, it was the type of complete despise, the type of look that regarded them as ants. This kind of feeling caused Lin Wei to feel unhappy from head to toe. One has to know, even though the Heavenly Wolf General was proud and aloof, it didn’t use this kind of gaze to look at the other subjects under its rule.

After about half an hour, the open space was more or less overflowing with all kinds of life forms. However, Lin Wei hadn’t seen that Silver Electric Red Silk that he had met before.

The Open-arm Devil Ape turned its head and moved its gaze downwards. Then, the High Level Beastly Guard Vigorous Vajra Ape by its side walked out. Although it3 was in a position lower than the Open-arm Devil Ape, it was still up 40 to 50 meters high. After it scanned the crowd, it opened its mouth and said: “The Heavenly Wolf General……has died!”

Once these words came out, the open space immediately was in an uproar. Lin Wei’s heart jumped and the guess in his heart became a bit more certain. From what it seems, there was an 80% chance that this new Open-arm Devil Ape feudal lord had something to do with the Heavenly Wolf General’s serious injury.

“Died?” Plump Red didn’t react and its face was vacant. It turned to Lin Wei and said: “No way……”

Lin Wei shivered in fright and hastily covered Plump Red’s mouth. He dragged it down: “Don’t say anything.”

“Afterwards, in the future, we follow the Devil Ape General.” The Vigorous Vajra Ape continued: “Those who refuse to accept, get out of here. Those who resist……death!”

In the open space, all life forms palpitated like cicadas in winter4.

“In addition……” The Vigorous Vajra Ape stopped for a moment: “Everyone, pay attention to the wolf race, especially……Iron-claw Wolf.”

All the life forms in the open space began whispering to each other. The Iron-claw Wolf was the Heavenly Wolf General’s clan, but in reality, inside this region, the amount of Iron-claw Wolves could be counted on one hand. The reproduction rate of the Iron-claw Wolf was very low, causing the population to be very scarce. The Vigorous Vajra Ape wanting everyone to pay attention to the Iron-claw Wolf clan was actually quite a strange command.

Lin Wei’s heart suddenly had a burst of understanding. Apparently, the Open-arm Devil Ape actually wasn’t very certain of the Heavenly Wolf General’s current condition. It should only be able to determine that the Heavenly Wolf General was seriously injured, but unable to determine whether or not it was dead. The reason why it had disseminated the Heavenly Wolf General’s death was definitely to crumble the faith in the crowd. As for this strange command, it was to present any fish slipping through the net. Seeing the Heavenly Wolf General’s beasts truly be pitiful, once this command was issued, if there was a beast that saw the seriously injured Heavenly Wolf General, they could only regard it as an ordinary Iron-claw Wolf and afterwards report it to the ape race.

After staying in this other world for seven years, Lin Wei had a general judgement of the intelligence situation of all the life forms here. The overwhelming majority of the life forms were fairly rich in mood and they had a certain degree of thinking. Compared to Earth’s animals, they were already highly advanced, approximately equivalent to the degree of a 5 or 6 year-old baby. A small number of species had an even higher intelligence level, emotional and thinking capability. But even then, it was only approximately equal to a 10 year-old juvenile. However, this Devil Ape General before him was the most fierce person that Lin Wei had met in these past seven years. Its strength was about the same as the Heavenly Wolf General’s, but its intelligence was obviously higher as it could plan; it already touched the level of “scheming”. Despite only being at a very shallow level, it was still a type of qualitative leap.

In this place, Lin Wei didn’t fear the opposite party’s strength being formidable, he feared that the opposite party was intelligent. One has to know, as a transmigrator, the largest superiority was his innate intelligence and knowledge that he had brought over. If this aspect was pulled closer or even surpassed, then he truly wouldn’t have any superiority.

The Open-arm Devil Ape’s eyes were halfway open, having not one bit of interest towards the crowd of innumerable ants below it. After shooting a glance, it prepared to leave. Suddenly, empty space began hissing and violently twisting. This present situation, Lin Wei was already accustomed to and didn’t wonder at; this was a summoning space vortex! The space vortex appeared 3 to 4 meters above the Open-arm Devil Ape’s head and the Open-arm Devil Ape’s appearance all of the sudden became humble and respectful. Although it didn’t stretch out its tongue and shake its tail, compared to that ‘disdainfully looking down upon all living creatures’ attitude, it seemed like two different apes. It’s Master was summoning it! The Devil Ape General prepared to leave through this space vortex.

But just at this time, a bellow sounded out: “Heavenly Wolf General, is unlikely to be dead!”

A shadow soared through the air, suddenly throwing itself towards the Devil Ape General who was about to enter the space vortex.

Naturally, it was a White-back Swordtooth Wolf, a Bronze rank Beastly Guard! Its bloodline was on the same level as the Iron-claw Wolf in this area, but it was a kind of wolf clan with even less members. The opportunity that the White-back Swordtooth Wolf chose was very timely, practically the split second that the Devil Ape General was summoned. If it attacked right at this moment, then its success rate was absolutely the highest!

Yet, a trace of a taunt flashed past the Open-arm Devil Ape’s eyes. It didn’t even stop its footsteps, still walking into the space vortex. It simply lifted its left arm that was still outside and suddenly pounded downwards. Without any mercy, it just happened to bash the top of the White-back Swordtooth Wolf’s head. An immense strength ran through it and the White-back Swordtooth Wolf’s head immediately smashed into the ground. While a very loud rumbling noise was resounding, the ground cracked. The crack extended from all the way from the rocks they were standing on to the front of countless dumbfounded life forms.

The Open-arm Devil Ape then entered the space vortex and disappeared.



 


  1. TLN: The first ‘it’ refers to the Ape. The second ‘it’ refers to the front-most Ash-fur Wolf 
  2. TLN: Zhang = 3.3 meters, so 100 zhang = 330 meters. 
  3. TLN: Vigorous Vajra Ape (I swear this is the most confusing **** ever) 
  4. TLN: Cicadas don’t chirp in the winter. Thus, this means that all the life forms’ hearts topped beating. 

Chapter 4 – Seven Years



A white steed flits past a crack, time flies by. In a blink of an eye, Lin Wei had already lived in this world for a whole seven years.

Seven years. How many ‘seven years’ did a human have? Living to 70 in ancient times was rare, 10 ‘seven years’ meant that one was one foot into the coffin. Seven years, if Lin Wei was still on Earth, he would have been able to finish his Master’s degree. Even if he didn’t study for a Master’s degree, he would have already stepped into society and possibly been married with a child. His parents also would have been able to enjoy the domestic bliss of having a grandchild.

But now? The cruel reality was——Lin Wei was stranded in this strange world.

Seven years. With the help of the knowledgeable and erudite Hundred-Year Treant, Lin Wei understood many things about this other world. He gradually understood that in this world, there was a strict status system. The most common would be a Beastly Servant; approximately half of the population was classified as such. Generally speaking, Beastly Servants didn’t have any fighting strength.

Above Beastly Servant is Beastly Soldier. Beginning from Beastly Soldier, it became divided into the three ranks of Low, Intermediate, and High. Beastly Soldier is considered the most initial ranked small force with just a little fighting strength. If there happened to be a territory war or race battle, Beastly Soldiers could only be cannon fodder.

Above Beastly Soldier is Beastly Guard. Beastly Guard is the dividing line of the entire status system. Only one in ten Beastly Soldiers had the possibility of turning into a Beastly Guard. During a large-scale battle, Beastly Guards were the main force and were often the deciding factor in the ultimate outcome of the battle.

Above Beastly Guard is Beastly General. As the name implies, it is the military officer within a group of beasts. The quantity of Beastly Generals were sparse, often appearing within relatively organized powerful tribe groups. For example, wolf clan, lion clan, ape clan and so on, their influence and ruling strength could radiate a wide expanse past their tribe group. In these seven years, the Heavenly Wolf Guard finally succeeded in making a breakthrough to Low Level Beastly General. It took a part of territory from an old Beastly General, including the forest and lake that Lin Wei was at. In other words, Lin Wei and Plump Red were affiliated with Heavenly Wolf Guard’s——currently should be called Heavenly Wolf General——governance.

As a Low Level Beastly General, Heavenly Wolf General’s territory was already very expansive. The former old Beastly General was an Intermediate Level Beastly General; its territory range was larger by several dozens of times! When one arrives at this level, even if one is separated by a small status1, the strength disparity is extraordinarily immense. Lin Wei hadn’t seen the old Beastly General, but he had heard that its subordinates were several other Low Level Beastly Generals. As for even more formidable High Level Beastly Generals, Lin Wei absolutely didn’t have an idea of.

Above Beastly General was a more formidable status, separated into Beastly Commander-in-chief and Beastly King, as well as the Beastly Emperor in the legends!

That class of hegemony was absolutely a ‘Heaven and Earth2’ sort of existence, it was something that the current Lin Wei couldn’t imagine!

Apart from ‘status’, there was the even more important ‘rank’! To draw an analogy, if ‘status’ refers to absolute value of fighting strength, then ‘rank’ refers to the potential value, growth value, and increase value3. The disparity between different ranked Beastly Servants or Beastly Soldiers probably wouldn’t be too large, but the higher ranked one would possess a greater growth value. Every time it rose one class, it would obtain more power than the lower ranked one. Like this, when becoming Beastly General, Beastly Commander-in-chief, these levels, the different ranked fighting strength value would be very obvious.

The division of ranks from lowest to highest was “Common”, “Bronze”, “Blue-silver”, “Purple-gold”, “Orange-crystal” and “Scarlet-diamond”.

Some life forms, due to their bloodline relationship, naturally possessed relatively high ranks and their starting points were much higher than other races. Besides, there were extremely few situations in legends that stated that it was possible to transfer ranks. For example, causing a mere common life form advance to Bronze Rank!

In these seven years, Lin Wei hadn’t completely abandoned seeking a channel to return back to Earth. His searching scope gradually expanded to the Heavenly Wolf General’s entire territory. Using this world’s natural day cycle to calculate, he would go out every few months to explore for a short interval of several tens of days, taking as long as 2 to 3 months to return back to the habitat.

In the period of seven years, although Lin Wei’s status and rank hadn’t changed, his survival ability had gotten quite a huge improvement. The advanced intelligence that came from being a human gradually displayed its effect. Utilizing some traps and simple-to-manufacture weapons, Lin Wei currently could even kill some Low or Intermediate Level Beastly Soldiers. With corresponding self-made tree leaf rain clothes and camouflage disguise, it was possible to hide from Beastly Guard and higher status life forms.

During these seven years, the Contract Selecting Cloud appeared six times, once a year on average. For four times, it hurriedly floating around and didn’t select any life form in this area. There was one time where it chose a Bronze rank bird from the territory border. There was also a time where it unexpectedly chose a Common rank Intermediate Level Beastly Soldier in a distance not far from Lin Wei’s place. It caused all life forms’, who attended the ceremony, eyeglasses to fall down(if they had eyeglasses).

On this day, there was a pleasant breeze and beautiful sun.

Lin Wei was crawling on the branch of a large tree, wearing the tree-leaf rain clothes on his body. His hand grasped a short spear made out of stone, calmly and quietly waiting for prey to tread pass the trap he set up under the tree. He hid himself for a full three hours. At last, after patiently keeping watch for three hours, he obtained the result——underneath, a plump ‘Big Flower-spotted Deer’ appeared in his field of view, just happening to walk in the direction of the trap. Common rank, Beastly Servant.

Lin Wei looked at this game and couldn’t help but roll his eyes. This prey wasn’t the one he needed; there simply wasn’t any difficulty or challenge. Moreover, a herbivorous beast wasn’t his main hunting target.

Just when Lin Wei was about to go down and drive away the ‘Big Flower-spotted Deer’, the ‘Big Flower-spotted Deer’ suddenly stopped in its tracks, appearing to sense something and lifted its head towards the sky to look around. Then, it seemed to be frightened by something and took to its heels and ran off.

“What was that all about?” Lin Wei stared blankly. He didn’t think that the ‘Big Flower-spotted Deer’ could discover his hiding self. So, what had happened?

Lin Wei subconsciously lifted his head, only to see a ball of radiance thirty meters above blooming. Right after that, the rays of light tore open a pitch-black hole in the sky.

Huh? Lin Wei stared blankly first, then his pupils began enlarging soon afterwards. This……this is……

A space vortex!!!

Lin Wei’s mind suddenly exploded4, it was a space vortex! This was what he had been longing for day and night for these past seven years, the space vortex that he longed for even in his dreams!

For a short while, Lin Wei felt that he was unable to breath. Must go in! Absolutely cannot miss this time’s opportunity! Although it was a little high, if he climbed up up the tree a bit more, then jumped over, there was a chance he could make it.

Lin Wei didn’t give any further thought to any trap or rain clothes disguise; he rose and stood up his body.

Just at this time, a fierce aura rushed out from the black hole and a tall and sturdy figure was ruthlessly thrown out from the inside.

That thrown figure’s speed was extremely quick, leaving Lin Wei with not enough time to react. Like this, both sides were impartially smashed against each other. An intense striking power caused the tree branch to loudly rupture and collapse. Afterwards, Lin Wei and that figure fell down onto the ground together.

In the moment of falling to the ground, Lin Wei suddenly remember a mater.

****! Just as this word appeared in Lin Wei’s mind, a thick rope went ‘swish’ and binded that figure and him together. This still wasn’t the end; following that came the vigorous sound of an upwards lift until it stopped two to three meters off the ground.

“Hm? Who, is plotting against me?!” Along with the ear-deafening bellow, an intense heaven-startling imposing manner burst forth from the figure beside Lin Wei. Then, the figure started twisting to struggle free from the rope. When it turned its body, its swift right claw held the already-unable-to-breathe-due-to-the-imposing-manner Lin Wei and used him to thump against the tree thunk.

Lin Wei only thought that his chest shook and a mouthful of sweet blood came up. However, because his throat was being held, he was incapable of spitting it out. What was even more fearful was that an exceedingly strong pressure was coming from this figure, causing Lin Wei to tremble from head to toe, practically making him want to fall to the ground and prostrate.

Iron-claw Wolf, Attribute: Gold, Rank: Bronze!!! Status: Low Level Beast General!!!

The other party’s information was like a clap of thunder and a lightning strike through Lin Wei’s mind.

Low Level Beastly General status Iron-claw Wolf! Lin Wei shook from head to toe, immediately following that was a name that jumped into his mind: Heavenly Wolf General!

In this place, with this rank and status, as well as being a summon beast, there is only one: Feudal Lord Heavenly Wolf Guard. It should have just finished in participating in a battle over at Qifeng Continent. After being reverse-summoned, it was unknown due to which reason, but the space tunnel’s exit had a deviation. Instead of being opening at the cave dwelling in the mountain peak, it had opened here.

The matter was as rare as lightning striking a tiny rock on the ground. When Lin Wei was pressed against the tree trunk, he wasn’t even afraid. He had enough time to just lift his eyes to catch a glimpse of the Heavenly Wolf Guard’s approximate mighty appearance.

First of all, the most prominent was the Heavenly Wolf General’s pair of claws, resembling the male lead’s claws from the movie 《Wolverine》 on Earth. The claws were as sharp as a spear point, strange and incomparably long, twinkling with a dark and cold metal luster. At this moment, a claw was holding onto Lin Wei’s neck with its sharp edges embedded into the tree trunk on both sides5, seeming like a diamond hoop. The other claw was lifted up and its sharp edge was less than one inch away from Lin Wei’s eye.

The Heavenly Wolf General’s mane was brownish-yellow, standing up due to anger. It opened both its eyes wide and on its right ear was a gash dripping with blood. There was also blood flowing down the corner of its mouth.

It’s wounded? Moreover, it seems that its injury is very heavy.

“You……” The Heavenly Wolf General looked at Lin Wei for a moment: “You are my subject, I……I contracted the other day, felt your aura……”

After it finished speaking, the Heavenly Wolf General appeared to have depleted its whole body’s strength and its grip loosened, its body falling into Lin Wei’s embrace.

“Huh?” Lin Wei exerted all his strength to support the Heavenly Wolf General, only to discover that it had already lost its consciousness. When he lifted his head to take a look at the black space vortex again, it had already disappeared.

To be able to severely wound a Bronze rank Beastly General, what grade of existence was it? For the first time, Lin Wei felt the cruelty of a summon beast fight. When he listened to the Silver Electric Red Silk say that its mother had died in a summon beast fight in the past, he didn’t really feel anything. Now, he had the most direct observation familiarity.

Lin Wei swallowed a mouthful of saliva with great difficulty. For approximately 5 to six minutes, his mind blanked out.

The Heavenly Wolf General fainted with serious injuries, what should I do?

Wait for it to wake up?

Give it artificial respiration? Or should I call over a beast skilled in breathing?

Or should I deliver it to Heavenly Wolf Mountain?

Or should I first bring it to the lakeside?

“Plump Red! Plump Red——” Lin Wei couldn’t attend to whether or not the surroundings had any hidden danger and immediately called for Plump Red to come over. He truly couldn’t continuously support the Heavenly Wolf General by himself because it had lost consciousness, even when its pressure had lessened greatly.

Several minutes later, Plump Red walked out from the grove holding a roast fish in its hand. When it saw Lin Wei and the Heavenly Wolf General that he was supporting, it spit out a mouthful of saliva the size of an eye. Then, it very simply threw the roast fish to the ground, turned its head, and ran! Its speed was unprecedentedly quick.

Bang! Lin Wei couldn’t support anymore and fell onto the ground……



 


  1. TLN: Low Level, Intermediate Level, High Level 
  2. TLN: OP as hell. 
  3. TLN: I think increase value in this case means how much strength one gets when they go from Low Level to Intermediate Level etc. 
  4. TLN: Not literally. Figuratively. 
  5. TLN: Of his neck 

Chapter 3 – Contract Ceremony



“In the end, what is this thing?” Lin Wei stood up, stretched his neck, and looked towards that ‘Contract Selecting Cloud’ floating towards the mountain peak in the distance.

 

Plump Red apparently wasn’t too clear on what was happening. It looked dazed for a moment, then lowered its head and continued on annihilating its grilled fish.

 

“Stop eating you two, together……let’s take a look together!” The Iron-skin Rhinoceros elatedly said.

 

Follow together? Lin Wei stared blankly. That place was in such a far away area from this lake; going there would be too dangerous.

 

Suddenly, Lin Wei finally noticed something he didn’t discover previously——in the lake’s open field, the amount of beasts suddenly increased by a lot! Furthermore, they basically scuttled from the forest, went around the lake, and ran to the forest on the other side. The direction they were going in was the direction that ‘Contract Selecting Cloud’ was floating in. The strangest thing was that among these beasts, there were all kinds of statuses. The lowest was naturally Beastly Servant, but the highest status was Low Level Beastly Guard! It was so strange that wolves, rabbit, and sheep were harmoniously running together! All the beasts had a type of indescribable excited mood, as if they were going to participate in a grand event.

 

Plump Red scratched its head. Suddenly, its mind luckily sharpened and an excited look on its face rapidly surfaced. It stood up, patted off its butt and abandoned the grilled fish in its hand, following after the Iron-skin Rhinoceros who was running towards the forest.

 

“Hey, wait……” Lin Wei yelled at once: “What’s going on? What is this ‘Contract Selecting Cloud’?”

 

“In a while, I’ll inform you, quickly run!” The Iron-skin Rhinoceros shouted. It was already disappearing into the concentrated beast crowd.

 

Regardless, I should first go and take a look! Lin Wei thought in his heart. Looking at the 5-6 Plum Flower Deer-looking small beasts running by his side, he promptly followed and mixed into the middle of them, using them to safeguard himself.

 

Just like this, he followed the large forces to pass through the entire forest, cross several rivers, then saw the Contract Selecting Cloud’s speed gradually slow down.

 

At this moment, the amount of life forms in all directions constantly increased!

 

Yes, the words ‘life form’ had to be used here because, besides from those gigantic Treants and plant class creatures, Lin Wei could also see some completely different life forms that didn’t have shapes like ordinary animals.

 

The one that appeared the earliest was an unfixed clay-shaped life, and on that gray-black body were two whirling eyeballs. It was twisting on the ground, rolling around, and its speed was quite quick.

 

After concentrating his attention on its body, a line of information with more words than a common organism appeared:

 

Pottery Clay Monster, Attribute: Earth, Shape: Semi-entity Life Form, Status: Beastly Servant.

 

“Semi-entity?” Lin Wei stared blankly for a moment: “What does it mean? Could it be referring to its unfixed shape, its ability to twist and deform?”

 

Lin Wei pondered for a moment but was unsuccessful. However, he very quickly saw another even more magical thing——it should have flown over from his left rear. It appeared to resemble a ball of mist and while flying, it emitted red or orange rays of light. Inside of it, there seemed to be a silver electric snake twisting and flickering. It’s speed was extraordinarily quick, sweeping past low altitude with a low cry.

 

Silver Electric Red Silk, Attribute: Lightning, Shape: Elemental Class Void Body, Rank: Bronze, Status: High Level Beastly Soldier.

 

“Heavens! What is that Contract Selecting Cloud in the end? It unexpectedly attracted this many living creatures over. Even a Bronze rank Elemental Class ran over!” Lin Wei glanced at the Contract Selecting Cloud floating on the mountain summit in the distance and discovered that it had basically stopped.

 

“You wanna know?” Suddenly, a tender pouting sound echoed besides Lin Wei’s ears.

 

Lin Wei was shocked by this sudden voice. He turning his head to look and saw the Silver Electric Red Silk that had just flown past him. It wasn’t known when, but it had appeared on his right with its illusory figure was floating. Although its figure didn’t have substance, Lin Wei could still feel an attentive gaze. Moreover, this gaze was tinged with curiosity.

 

“You know?” Lin Wei probingly asked.

 

“Yeah.” Although this Silver Electric Red Silk was Bronze rank, it didn’t resemble that former Vigorous Vajra Ape who sent out a formidable pressure.

 

“Because my mommy told me!” The Silver Electric Red Silk’s voice was filled with pride.

 

Faint! Its mother?

 

“Then where’s your mother?” Lin Wei subconsciously asked. He thought in his heart, is a fully grown Silver Electric Red Silk’s body larger?

 

“My mommy……” The Silver Electric Red Silk’s voice was tinged with pride, but there was more loss and sadness emerging. Although its status wasn’t high, its voice conveyed exceedingly rich emotion: “In those years, she was chosen by the Contract Selecting Cloud and contracted into a summon beast! But……but afterwards, during a fight, she was……was, killed by a *******……”

 

After speaking the last word, the Silver Electric Red Silk’s voice broken into a feeble sob.

 

Contract! Summon Beast!

 

When hearing these two familiar nouns, a lightning bolt went across Lin Wei’s mind.

 

Suddenly, he understood, completely understood.

 

This place was a summon world! That is, a world where summon beasts lived! All the life forms in this place were summon beasts! No, no! To be precise, only a portion are summon beasts. The remaining portion could be considered as reserve summon beasts.

 

And this Contract Selecting Cloud came to filter summon beasts! Once it chose, then one would change and turn into a true summon beast.

 

Him turning into this appearance, transforming into a beast, turning into a member of the reserve forces.

 

If he could was chosen by this Contract Selecting Cloud in the future, then wouldn’t he……be able to leave this world?!!

 

Lin Wei suppressed the excitement in his heart and swallowed his saliva. At last, he finally found a way to leave this place!

 

With this hard-to-suppress excitement, Lin Wei once again look towards the Contract Selecting Cloud. Previously, this group of red clouds already stopped over his head, but very clearly, it hadn’t chosen him. Now that it stopped over that mountain speak, there was a very big possibility that it already found an appropriate life form.

 

To turn into a summon beast, what requirements or conditions needed to be met? Lin Wei guessed that it possibly required one to be at least Bronze rank or higher. Possibly at least Beastly Guard status or higher?

 

When Lin Wei thought up to here, he merely thought to put all his strength into his legs. Je forced his way ahead of the relatively slow beasts and began running towards the mountain peak. He had to make clear the requirements of becoming a summon beast!

 

Approximately two hours later, Lin Wei finally arrived halfway up the mountain. After arriving here, it became difficult for him to even take a step further. On the mountain peak, unknown whether or not it was because of Contract Selecting Cloud, there was a top-down wind pressure. Moreover, the higher one approached the mountain peak, the stronger the wind pressure would be. Apart from this, those high status beasts could occupy a more advantageous position. When Lin Wei wanted to continue onwards, two ordinary rank wolf class Intermediate Level Beastly Soldiers in the front obstructed him and used an unfriendly gaze to stare at him.

 

Lin Wei helplessly stopped in his tracks. He was already the number one person among Beastly Servants to approach the summit the most. From this position upwards, one could see innumerable Intermediate and High Level Beastly Soldiers. Close to the end of his field of view, there were already large quantities of Low Level Beastly Guards.

 

At this time, the Contract Selecting Cloud began to slowly change shape. Its area gradually spread out and it turned thin, with its color deepening along with the thinning. The wind pressure halfway up the mountain also became stronger, causing Lin Wei’s eyes to nearly not be able to open and his figure swayed incessantly.

 

“Oh!!!”

 

All the life forms simultaneously cheered.

 

Lin Wei opened his eyes by a seam with great difficult under the wind pressure and saw this scene——there was a hole in the middle of the Contract Selecting Cloud. A resplendent ray of light came down from the hole. That was just according the light on the mountain peak; the light pillar’s afterglow dyed half of the mountain peak in golden and in the middle of the light pillar, a silhouette slowly rose from the summit. An intangible power sucked it into the sky, causing it to ascend higher until it finally stopped over in the middle of the Contract Selecting Cloud.

 

This silhouette’s distance was too far, so Lin Wei was completely unable to acquire its detailed information. However, a burst of whooping already began disseminated downwards the mountain like a tsunami.

 

“Look! Quickly look! Heavenly Wolf Guard!”

 

“Truly, it is indeed the Heavenly Wolf Guard!”

 

“Is……is it that the Iron-claw Wolf?”

 

“En, yes.”

 

“I heard, it had……been on the mountain the whole time.”

 

In front of Lin Wei, those two wolf race Intermediate Level Beastly Soldiers were endlessly fanatical. Lin Wei fixed his eyes and took a look: those two Beastly Soldiers were only common rank Gray-furred Wolves. Apparently, this Heavenly Wolf Guard was the wolf race’s common idol.

 

“It’s the Heavenly Wolf Guard……” It was unknown when the Silver Electric Red Silk had appeared by Lin Wei’s side. It mumbled: “Bronze High Level Beastly Guard! Amazing.”

 

“Is it very powerful?” Lin Wei asked. Being able to be spoken highly of by the Silver Electric Red Silk, it seemed that this Heavenly Wolf Guard truly was a fierce character.

 

Heavenly Wolf Guard. This was clearly a name just like Plump Red. However, this name had a penetrating haughty and aloof atmosphere and one could faintly pry into this Bronze High Level Beastly Guard’s mood.

 

Silver Electric Red Silk actually didn’t say anything.

 

In the sky, the Heavenly Wolf Guard seemingly extended its limbs, then sent out a howl that even the deaf would be able to hear. And at this time, the Contract Selecting Cloud sent out a slender red light ray that used an extremely quick speed to hit the Heavenly Wolf Guard.

 

Weng! All the life forms underneath felt their souls shaking, then there seemed to be a formless law descending. All life forms in their soul seas could hear these words:

 

Metal-attributed Bronze High Level Beastly Guard Iron-claw Wolf has successfully been contracted into a summon beast to Qifeng Continent! Obtained the law’s bestowal of a new skill and new talent. Its skill and talent must be kept confidential. This mountain peak has turned into its permanent governance and has changed names to Heavenly Wolf Peak.

 

All life forms once again sent out a mad cry and inside this mad cry, one could totally hear the sincerity and reverence from their hearts to obtain an evolution.

 

Lin Wei’s body jolted. After the contract, there was unexpectedly an additional skill and talent bestowal and land possession! Hard-to-suppress happiness surged up; this was it! I must become stronger and obtain the Contract Selecting Cloud’s approval, so that I can turn into a summon beast!

 

In the sky, the Heavenly Wolf Guard’s figure became illusory. Afterwards, it distorted and was sucked into the Contract Selecting Cloud with a ‘whoosh’.

 

“It was summoned to Qifeng Continent!” Lin Wei’s eyelid jumped and his heart was trying hard not to beat. He had been looking for the space transmission gate the entire time; as long as he could pass through that hole, he would be able to leave this place!

 

In the surroundings of the mountain peak, all the wolf class beasts howled and jumped, appearing to be incomparably excited. But Lin Wei began retreating back, preparing to return to Plump Red and the Iron-skin Rhinoceros’ side.

 

But after walking several steps, he actually discovered that the Silver Electric Red Silk was closely following him.

 

“Huh? Why are you following me?” Lin Wei stared at the Silver Electric Red Silk and asked.

 

“Che, who is following you……” The Silver Electric Red Silk blinked its substance-less shaped eyes: “You……shouldn’t be wanting……wanting to become a contracted summon beast right?”

 

Having the thing in his heart said, Lin Wei’s heart jumped. But on the surface, he pretended to have a nonchalant appearance, saying: “Too difficult, I don’t have this notion.”

 

Huh? Wait……

 

What damned place is this Qifeng Continent? Why wasn’t it summoned to Earth? There simply wasn’t a Qifeng Continent on Earth!!!Could it be that this was another heavenly body? Or perhaps it was——another dimension?!!!


Chapter 2 – Surviving



It was Lin Wei’s first night sleeping in a desolate and cold climate in this other world. He slept next to the Hundred-Year Treant. When the sun rose up into the sky the next day, the Hundred-Year Treant had already left and Lin Wei woke up crying.

 

He dreamed about his parents.

 

It wasn’t known for what reason, but transmigration always bought an enormous convenience in another world. The language would always unobstructed, the surrounding environment would always be considered safe, identity and status would have the probability of being a little special, and talent possibly being one in a thousand……but undeniably, this was another world. It wasn’t their original “home”. It could contain many many things, but it couldn’t contain their original family members, it couldn’t contain their original emotional fetters of their family members. It was impossible for you go free and easy, so thoroughly, so worryless.

 

Transmigration. It wasn’t a child’s naive delusions; it was a reality, an ice-cold reality. Because everything in this place was unfamiliar, if you couldn’t mix in, your heart would freeze over forever. And unfortunately, you couldn’t find the road home.

 

This place didn’t have a time-measuring tool. This place’s day and night seemed to be different from Earth. But based on experience, roughly around 20 hours had passed. Lin Wei crawled up and curled himself into a ball.

 

Twenty hours. The school should’ve already notified his own parents. He suddenly went missing. He wondered the worried or grieved appearance that his parents should have.

 

How can I go back?

 

That ancient parchment book definitely had problems! It obviously influenced his consciousness, causing him to become sickly and completely lose his ability to think. Otherwise, he absolutely wouldn’t run away to another world in spite of having parents and relatives!

 

The cool early morning breeze blew past and Lin Wei’s whole body trembled. He used his claws to rub his body for a while so that he could warm up a bit. He took a look all around and could see some beasts starting to move around in the jungle. In the area several dozens of meters in front of him, there was a bizarre armadillo-like beast slowly moving its body.

 

Concentrate!

Yellow-shelled Spotted Beast, Attribute: Earth, Status: Beastly Servant.

 

Good, this one seems relatively docile, let’s go and greet it. In an unfamiliar world, more friends equals more to depend on. At least there is some common knowledge that I don’t know and need to ask a lot about.

 

Just as Lin Wei prepared to move, suddenly, an arm-thick big green-ringed snake came out from the shrubbery on the side. It opened its bloody mouth wide and bit the spotted beast’s neck. Then its whole body quickly followed, circling its prey tightly. Lin Wei was frightened! He watched the Yellow-shelled Spotted Beast do its utmost to struggle, flopping around causing the dust to rise, but unable to struggle free. The big green-ringed snake incessantly coiled its body, tightening as it coiled.

 

Sky-encompassing Snake, Attribute: Poison, Status: Low Level Beastly Soldier!

 

The Sky-encompassing Snake’s green skin could cause it to be undiscoverable inside the shrubbery, making it a perfect assassin!

 

Lin Wei sucked in a breath of cold air. This was the first “Poison” attributed life form he encountered after transmigrating! He promptly held his breath and slowly retreated by crawling backwards step by step. Luckily, the Sky-encompassing Snake was single-heartedly dedicating itself to handling the great meal in its mouth and seemed not to have noticed Lin Wei, who was behind its body.

 

The line of sight inside the jungle was obstructed, so retreating to the lakeside from yesterday was safer by a bit! Lin Wei bent his waist and began relying on his memory to move towards the direction of the lake. On one hand he was slowly moving and on the other, he nervously looking at the shrubbery all around and the branches above him, afraid that another ferocious beast would come out from some place.

 

After about ten minutes of walking and stopping like this, he finally saw a corner of the lake water through a small crack in the branches and leaves. Lin Wei cheered in his heart, I’m safe!

 

But just at this moment, the sound of something breaking came from behind him! He tensed up and appeared to see a huge shadow roll over, collapsing into the thickets near a tree with a ‘boom’. Lin Wei’s heart suddenly jumped into his throat and practically without the slightly hesitation, he took to his heels and ran. He didn’t dare to turn his head to look! Under the shroud of death, he already exerted even the strength to suckle breasts, fearing that if he was even a bit slow, he would be patted into a wide-open bloody mouth!

 

After running 20 to 30 meters, the sound of being chased couldn’t be heard from behind him. Lin Wei kept running as he turned his head to take a glance.

 

Huh? Lin Wei immediately discovered that the single huge shadow lump was actually two! One was a Wind attributed Long-tailed Storm Fox and the other was a Wood attributed Green-haired Jackal. It was unknown for what reason they were wrestling together, but since the two were both Low Level Beastly Soldiers, they were thus evenly matched. The long-tailed fox bit the Green-haired Jackal’s tail, while the Green-haired Jackal clung the long-tailed fox’s hind legs and held them together. They rolled here and there, unable to deal with the other.

 

Lin Wei let out a long breath. So it was a false alarm. He patted his heaving chest and promptly sprinted several steps. When he arrived at the lakeside, he immediately collapsed onto the ground, breathing in mouthfuls of air.

 

This world is really too dangerous! Must find a way to go back!

 

Early morning at the lakeside was tranquil. The amount of beasts was a little less compared to yesterday and those several Bronze Rank Vigorous Vajra Apes weren’t present. After taking a glance, he found that the highest status was an Intermediate Level Beastly Soldier Horned Hippopotamus.

 

As Lin Wei drank up several mouthfuls of lakewater, he now felt that his belly was hungrily calling ‘gugu’.

 

Right! Gotta find food, I must continue on living!

 

Lin Wei concentrated on his own body and even more information appeared: Biological entity, Omnivorous.

 

En……omnivorous, omnivorous hurray! Omnivorous means not picky about food and his survival possibility will be much bigger. I can capture fish to eat……right! I can still drill wood to make fire! I am someone who transmigrated, so this is absolutely my advantage!!! Isn’t roasted fish much more delicious than raw fish? Lin Wei happily thought.

 

Afterwards, when he turned head to prepare to capture fish, he happened to see a Fire attributed Red Bear spit out a flame onto a pile of firewood, then throw 10 fish on top of it, calmly roasting them.

 

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Fine, I can do it even better than you! I can use bamboo sticks and use them to pierce through the fish, then roast the fish! Can it do that? Lin Wei indignantly thought, then jumped into the lake to prepare to capture fish.

 

Barely 10 seconds later, Lin Wei did his utmost to kick up and climb ashore, exerting all his effort to throw up all the lakewater in his lungs……

 

Can’t swim! Before transmigrating, he couldn’t and after transmigrating into this damnable appearance, he still couldn’t.

 

Lin Wei lied on the ground, unwillingly howling in his heart: I was a bookworm! Otherwise, how would I be struck by such tragedy? Not even able to catch a fish?

 

After resting a while, Lin Wei looked for some fruits in the vicinity to fill up his stomach.

 

In the period of the following several days, the lakeside beasts could always catch sight of a big kangaroo-looking guy running all over the place. It would occasionally go into the forest to the side to look for some flexible vines, occasionally pull up some weeds inside shallow water.

 

On the fourth day, Lin Wei finished weaving a large net that he could use by himself. Then he used a broken wood and pushed it towards the water. Afterward, supporting the broken wood, he carefully drew it into the water in an area with a relatively concentrated amount of fish and cast the fishing net.

 

After that, the fishing net floated on top of the water……

 

It was made of things that were all lighter than water, how could it not float? ……The bookworm smacked his head; he forgot to add something heavy.

 

Approximately 3 hours later, Lin Wei once more arrived at the place of the fishing net with a tiny stone as a weight and threw the net again.

 

This time the fishing net submerged smoothly and covered some fish. Lin Wei restrained the excitement in his heart and spared no effort to pull it up. Completed! The first batch of fish is finally going to be caught!

 

Whoosh.

 

Uh……used strength too abruptly, net leaked……

 

Lin Wei’s tears nearly streamed down his cheeks. Four days of effort, just to waste it like this. Is this what is called ‘something a person cannot endure’?

 

By the time Lin Wei dragged the broken net ashore, he unexpectedly discovered that there was a tangled fish inside the broken net! This fish used all its might to struggle by flopping, but its fin, gills and tail were all coiled around, causing it totally unable to get away.

 

And like this, after trying hard for a long time, Lin Wei finally ate his first roasted fish——of course, the fire was borrowed from that Low Level Beastly Soldier Red Bear. He wasn’t dimwitted enough to really go drill wood to make fire.

 

There was probably 12 or 13 roast fish in front of the Red Bear, but Lin Wei only had one. However, this ‘one’ had a bamboo stick pierced through it and appeared out of the ordinary.

 

Once Lin Wei opened his mouth to take his first bite of the fish meat, the Red Bear extended its bear paw and patted Lin Wei’s shoulder, saying: “You, messing around for such a long time, was just, in order to eat fish……speak earlier, next time, I, divide you some!”

 

   ……

 

Lin Wei lifted up his head, tears finally flowing down his cheek. Sigh, in the end, should I cry, or should I smile? Apparently, the people from before saying bookworms have high IQ low EQ were quite reasonable.

 

But no matter what, Lin Wei had finally made his first friend in this other world, this not-the-smartest Red Bear. Apparently, besides from himself, the beasts in this place didn’t have their own names. In order to distinguish it from other Red Bears, Lin Wei called it ‘Plump Red’.

 

On the tenth day, several Green-haired Jackals attempted to steal their roasted fish. Although all of them were Low Level Beastly Soldiers, Plump Red’s physique was clearly tall and wide, plus the ability to shoot flames, it had an obvious attribute restraint. With Lin Wei’s assistance, they finally fended off these several uninvited guests.

 

On roughly the thirteenth day, Lin Wei made his first full circle around the lake and recorded down the approximate density of the woods in the surroundings.

 

Finally, on what seemed to be the seventeenth day, Lin Wei convinced Plump Red to follow him in a certain direction to explore. The two beasts walked for 3 days and 3 nights, but being unsuccessful, Plump Red gave up and pulled Lin Wei back to the lakeside.

 

On the……eh, time was already unable to be measured accurately. It should soon be one month since Lin Wei arrived at this world. During this time, Lin Wei had come across a big crisis; an Intermediate Level Beastly Soldier status Sand Wolf attempted to prey on Lin Wei. The Sand Wolf was an Earth attribute, so it mutually restrained Plump Red’s Fire attribute. However, Plump Red’s status was below it by one rank. Plump Red tried to protect Lin Wei, but even though it had the will, it didn’t have the strength. In the most critical moment, a predestined friend of Lin Wei’s, the Iron-skin Rhinoceros, hurried and saved his life. Plump Red received an injury, but after ten days, it recovered completely. Lin Wei then discovered that Plump Red faintly had some changes, seeming like it was a little stronger than before. Could it be that Plump Red was going upgrade to an Intermediate Level Beastly Soldier?

 

Lin Wei had been unable to research what ability was needed to go back the whole time. At least in the scope of this lake and forest that was searched, he didn’t see anything similar to a space vortex or transmission gate.

 

Today, Lin Wei lied on the lakeside facing upwards, gently sighing. He was currently somewhat discouraged. His strength was too weak, so he was simply unable to go to a farther place. What could he do about this?

 

Light red clouds floated by in the sky. Ai, this world’s air quality was truly good. Lin Wei sighed in his heart. Blue skies, white clouds, clean without impurities……

 

Uh, white clouds……

 

White……

 

Huh? How can there be light red clouds?!! Lin Wei instantly sat up. It was not just him; all the beasts in his surroundings also lifted up their heads, looking towards these unusual clouds.

 

When he concentrated his attention on it, a very brief line of information appeared:

 

A Contract Selecting Cloud!

 

There were only these four words, no additional information. What was the meaning? A series of question marks currently floated in Lin Wei’s heart.

 

This strange ‘Contract Selecting Cloud’ floated around with a very quick speed, halting over each beasts’ head for a very brief instant, then continuing to float more.

 

“Red cloud, came again!” The Iron-skin Rhinoceros suddenly raised its head, exceptionally excited: “Red cloud came!”


Chapter 1 – Turning Into A Beast!



Currently, Lin Wei had already recalled everything before he transmigrated!

He was in the school library reading a thick profound book, a book that was bound parchments. The book was called 《Ancient Summoning Technique》1.

After he opened this book, he only felt himself being hypnotized by some intangible power. For the rest of the day, his whole person was muddleheaded. Ultimately, he apparently climbed up the school’s main building roof, then jumped down.

As a result, he turned into his current appearance!

Lin Wei stood foolishly at the lakeside for a long time, looking at his reflection on the lake water, remaining silent for a very long time.

How should he describe his present figure?

Looking at it holistically, there was an extra long tail which actually resembled Earth’s kangaroo tail by 40-50%. However, the shape of his ‘hind legs2’ changed into one resembling a carnivorous dinosaur and his ‘forelimbs3’ were longer than that of a kangaroo. His figure was slimmer and more well-proportioned than that of a kangaroo. His upper body skeleton was much more obvious and seemed closer to the physique of a human body. His head was an adorable oval with two high erect pointed ears. The most important thing was that he had four ‘fingers’ per claw and could grasp things!

Slowly bending down, he lowered his head and extended his tongue to lap up a mouthful of lake water. Then, he noticed that his tongue was slender and soft.

It seems……not too bad?

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“Ah!!!How can it be ‘not too bad’?!Why is it that when other people transmigrate, they would be a ‘Crown Prince’, ‘Princess’, or at the very least, an ordinary person, but when I transmigrated, I become an animal?!!” Lin Wei felt himself simply want to suddenly storm away.

I’m definitely dreaming! I’m definitely dreaming! Lin Wei exerted all his effort to slap his face, attempting to make himself wake up.
“Hey! Quiet down, it’s noisy.” The large rhinoceros on the side that was drinking water couldn’t keep on watching, so it opened its mouth to talk. Its body was extremely grandiose; just its shoulder exceeded Lin Wei’s height by more than 50 centimeters. Its body’s length exceeded 4 meters and from head to toe, its rhinoceros skin seemed seemed just like iron, holding the faint glittering luster of a metal.

“Quiet down? How can I calm down?” Lin Wei’s eyes turned red. He turned his head to stare at the rhinoceros and gnashed his teeth: “Everything here is false, you don’t exist! I will now prove it to you!”

As Lin Wei was speaking, he sent out force through his legs, sparing no effort to dash and collide with the rhinoceros.

“Hold on……” The rhinoceros was startled, but it didn’t have enough time to prevent him; Lin Wei’s head had already bumped into him.

A muffled ‘peng!’ sound resounded. The rhinoceros stayed in position motionless, but Lin Wei actually bounced back several meters and fell onto the ground dazed. A big blood-red bump swelled up from his forehead.

Quite sore! In particular, in that split second when the strike just hit, a counter-shock strength was transmitted from the rhinoceros’ hard skin and spread all over his body. It was as if his entire body wanted to fall apart.

“You, all right?” The rhinoceros promptly asked: “You stupid? The difference between us is too large. I, Beastly Soldier, you, uh……you bumping against me, wounded?”

What? Beastly Soldier?

Lin Wei held his head since he was still dizzy and opened his eyes to look at the rhinoceros. He then noticed that when he concentrated his attention to look at the other party, the other party’s body seemed to faintly send out some type of radiance. When this kind of radiance entered his line of sight, a magical line of information unexpectedly appeared in his mind:

Iron-skin Rhinoceros, Attribute: Gold, Status: Intermediate Level Beastly Soldier.

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After about half an hour, Lin Wei’s strength finally came back to him. At this time, that Iron-skin Rhinoceros had already drunk its fill of water and long gone away.

Lin Wei massaged the big bump on his forehead and crawled to the waterside, then drank several mouthfuls of lake water in succession. He gasped for mouthfuls of air, falling on the ground without care for his image as he looked up at the sky. Just now, what was going on?

Lin Wei blankly stared at the sky. An extremely long snow-white bird with a red tail flew past. Lin Wei concentrated his attention on its body and very quickly, information appeared again in his mind——

Red-Tailed Snow Pheasant, Attribute: Fire, Status: Beastly Servant.

Lin Wei sat up with great effort and began to look all around. In this area of lake water and mountain peaks, there were approximately 400-500 animals in his field of view. He visually estimated that there were 50-60 different species, either soaring or running, resting or playing. He began to sweep across the bodies of these beasts.

Turquoise Wind Fox, Attribute: Wind, Status: Low Level Beastly Soldier.

Small Leaf Long-Armed Ape, Attribute: Wood, Status: Beastly Servant.

Horned Hippopotamus, Attribute: Water, Status: Intermediate Level Beastly Soldier.

Red Kite4, Attribute: Fire, Status: High Level Beastly Soldier!

Long-eared Earth Rat, Attribute: Earth, Status: Beastly Servant.

Brown River Raccoon Dog, Attribute: Water, Status: Beastly Servant.

……

After reading the majority of it, the overwhelming majority of the beasts’ statuses were ‘Beastly Servant’——from the literal meaning, they should be the lowest level existence similar to a slave or cannon fodder. It was even to the extent that there were levels like low level, intermediate level, high level and they all didn’t feel like differentiating. Above Beastly Servant was Beastly Soldier; they should possess the basic level of battle capability. Moreover, every animal species had their respective attributes. From what he had currently seen, there was ‘Wind’, ‘Wood’, ‘Water’, ‘Earth’, ‘Fire’, and ‘Gold’; the six types of basic attributes. Lin Wei had even seen a rare ‘Lightning’ attributed ‘Lightning-Evading Peregrine Falcon’.

Lin Wei continued to turn around his head to scout. When his gaze turned to the several tall and sturdily built gorillas by the lakeshore, his head seemed to have been suddenly hammered heavily and he involuntarily retreated several steps. What was different from the other beasts was that there was an extra “Rank” term:

Vigorous Vajra Ape, Attribute: Gold, Rank: Bronze!!! Status: Low Level Beastly Guard!!!

The appearance of the new ‘Bronze’ rank and new ‘Beastly Guard’ status caused Lin Wei’s mind to feel a stab of pain. Especially ‘rank’! This seemed to be an even higher level type of bloodline, sufficient for all other common rank organisms to agree that they would be rolled over by an overwhelming gap! Disparity, this was an absolute disparity of quality.

Just then, Lin Wei felt a formidable pressure pressing down on him and he felt similar to a small boat within a storm. One of the Vigorous Vajra Ape’s suddenly let out a great roar and stood up its 3 meter tall body. Afterwards, it turned towards Lin Wei and went over. It had sensed Lin Wei’s attentive observation and felt that its dignity received offense. Thus, it became angry!

Bronze rank ‘Beastly Guard’! Lin Wei spit out a mouthful of blood that bubbled up his throat. He could practically determine that the opposite party could instantly erase his existence!

Run without delay!!!

When the Vajra Ape was approximately 100 meters away from himself, Lin Wei began to turn his head and sent more strength into his legs, breaking into a dash.

Could he run away? The answer was ‘definitely not’——the roaring behind him was getting closer and he could infer that Vigorous Vajra Ape was quickly pulling the distance between both sides closer.

Wherever that Vajra Ape went, the average rank beasts would avoid its way with incomparable eagerness while trembling. An Iron-skin Rhinoceros that wasn’t able to get away in time bumped into it and flew horizontally 3 zhang away5 with its life or death unknown.

Too scary, the original solid tank-like Iron-skin Rhinoceros, an Intermediate Level Beastly Soldier, was like paper paste in front of the the Vajra Ape!

Lin Wei’s scalp tingled and he powerfully increased his pace. The amount of time he could do two steps in became three steps. ‘Sou!’, he rushed into the forest by the lakeside, hoping to possibly draw help the dense trees to slow down the other party’s pursuit.

Behind him came a loud sound. Lin Wei hurriedly turned his head to take a look and was immediately frightened out of his wits. He saw the Vigorous Vajra Ape arbitrarily dashing over, destroying all the trees in the way like they were stalks of wheat. Its speed didn’t receive any influence, moreover, the distance between both sides was already pulled to approximately 20 meters. Lin Wei could even see its angrily glaring bloodshot eyes and saliva flowing down the corner of its mouth.

The distance of 20 meters, regarding the Vigorous Vajra Ape, was a distance that could simply be neglected. It jumped up high and crossed the distance in a flash, its entire body heavily smashing onto the ground.

I’m done for! I’m screwed……Lin Wei lifted his head and saw the gigantic ape extend his palm and press down with all its golden hairs standing up. At this moment, Lin Wei already didn’t even have the strength to lift a finger.

I’m dead, I’m dead, I’m dead. Transmigrating into such a miserable role, perhaps death is rather a type of extrication. Lin Wei powerlessly closed his eyes.

After that, a very strange striking noise resounded. The reason why it was strange was because Lin Wei was very certain that this wasn’t the sound of the opposite party’s palm striking him.

Huh? What’s going on?

Lin Wei waited several seconds, but that palm still didn’t press down.

“As a Bronze Beastly Guard, bullying a child is very shameful.” An aged voice conveyed.

Lin Wei slowly opened his eyes, only to see a slender and robust tree trunk branch extending from an ancient tree and blocking the Vigorous Vajra Ape’s palm from going downwards. No matter how the Vajra Ape sent out its strength, it couldn’t move a single bit! Lin Wei’s heart began to beat quickly and a premonition emerged from his heart. He gulped and his sight focused on the branch.

Hundred-Year Treant, Attribute: Wood, Rank: Bronze, Status: Intermediate Level Beastly Guard.

The one that kept off this fatal blow for him was a tree, a Bronze rank ‘Hundred-Year Treant’ with the status of Intermediate Level Beastly Guard. Its rank and status was very high, but unexpectedly, it absolutely didn’t have the kind of pressure that the Vigorous Vajra Ape had. On the contrary, there was the feeling of a kind of cleansing spring breeze around it. Lin Wei turned his head, trying hard to clearly look at the Treant’s appearance, but could only see the enormous girth of the Treant’s tree trunk, and above that was the omnipresent lush treetop. Furthermore, there wasn’t that human-shaped face as imagined.

The Vigorous Vajra Ape was apparently quite afraid of the Hundred-Year Treant as it resentfully scratched its head; “I’m just, joking with him, haha……”

After it finished speaking, the Vigorous Vajra Ape withdrew his palm and turned around to leave.

“This place is very dangerous, little fellow.” The treant said: “Don’t provoke those rough fellows again.”

Compared to the previous Iron-skin Rhinoceros and Vajra Ape, this Hundred-Year Treant pronunciation and expression level simply incomparable.

Little fellow? The Iron-skin Rhinoceros from before had said that it and I differed, but this Hundred-Year Treant regards me as a little fellow? Lin Wei blinked and at this moment, he recalled a very important issue——

What species am I right now? Furthermore, what rank and status?

Lin Wei concentrated his own body and the line of information appeared.

Lin Wei, Attribute: None, Rank: Lower than average, Status: Lower than Beastly Servant

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Three minutes later, Lin Wei spit out a mouthful of blood. The sky and clouds seemed to already have lost its colors in his eyes and he couldn’t hear the sounds of insects and bird calls all around him. I unexpectedly can’t even compare to a Long-eared Earth Rat. I would have better been off dying a moment ago……this was Lin Wei’s sole thought at this moment.



 


  1. TLN: Anyone reminded of ‘Ancient Strengthening Technique’? 
  2. TLN: In Chinese, they differentiate between humans and animals by calling the legs ‘后肢’ or ‘hind legs(animals)’. 
  3. TLN: Same for the arms, which they call ‘前肢’ or ‘forelimb(animal)’. 
  4. TLN: The type of hawk, not the one we humans fly. 
  5. TLN: Zhang = 3.3m