After the Iron Spine Tiger landed, a strangely colored little green grass stealthily sprouted from the ground, topped with several lush velvet leaves. Cannibal Little Pu stealthily approached the Iron Spine Tiger, leaves dripping wet, making it hard to spot without close inspection.
"I must take this tiger's body down the mountain," he scratched the leaf crown of the Second Rank Little Qingpu, and the green-colored grass discontentedly shook its leaves. After devouring a massive amount of Dark Beasts, the leaves had grown significantly larger.
The original Cannibal Little Pu's temperament greatly differs from the mischievous Qingpu, its Spiritual Sense not fully developed, and due to having absorbed the Creation Power, it felt especially close to Yue Jinghua.
"Don't be greedy, in recent times you've devoured hundreds of Dark Beasts, not even leaving behind fur or skin, making it tough to find Dark Beasts in this region. This tiger's carcass is to block inquiries, lest Old Xia keeps asking why I return from the mountains empty-handed, as if I came here for a picnic," Yue Jinghua hooked her leg, and the two hundred plus pounds tiger's body flew up into the air like a leaf, then shouldered and carried it down the mountain.
On the way, she encountered several mercenaries, the group was surprised by the Iron Spine Tiger on her back.
"Jinghua, you're here again to compete with the old guys for drinks," they were all old mercenaries who lived off hunting Dark Beasts around Hundred Beast Mountain, their Cultivation levels were around the Dark Human fourth or fifth layers, a rather low level in the Mercenary World due to their old age, making it hard for them to get any jobs outdoors.
"Haha, if the old guys want to drink, easy, I'll treat everyone this afternoon," her long hair casually tied behind her head, completing the crescent-shaped eyebrows and eyes, Yue Jinghua unconcernedly revealed half her homely face, her youthful brilliant smile instantly uplifting the moods of those old mercenaries.
This kid called Yue Jinghua arrived at Hundred Beast Mountain a week ago, initially, everyone thought she was one of those symbolic students from the royal capitals, staying for a while before heading back.
A week ago, the evening sky blazed red like blazing rue.
On the Free Market of Hundred Beast Mountain, a girl with a grotesquely homely face walked along, her footsteps leaving drips of blood marks all the way.
Descending the mountain on her own, she ignored the many gazes at the Free Market, walking straight to the most secluded corner to a grocery store called "Old Xia".
After entering, Old Xia almost popped his eyes out; Yue Jinghua brought with her several first rank and two second rank Dark Pills.
A dozen Dark Beasts might produce one Dark Pill, oh my, how many Dark Beasts had to be slain for that many?
After leaving the grocery store, she bent her steps into a pub at the Free Market.
For the following seven days, it was always the same; she was a cheerful and hearty young person, drinking and eating heartily, her nature flowing with the freewheeling spirit of mercenaries. She freely mingled with others, inquiring about various rumors that circulated in Beast Mountain and the Mercenary World.
In just seven days, she fully immersed herself into the life of the Free Market, almost no one remembered she was not actually a mercenary, but only a student here for trials.
After greeting Yue Jinghua, the old mercenaries each returned to the mountain, forgetting their instant doubts—Iron Spine Tiger being a third-rank Dark Beast with tough skin and formidable strength, particularly its devastating bite which even troubled experienced mercenaries, how had a novice alone slain it?
After the old mercenaries left, the smile on Yue Jinghua's face faded, easily getting along with all kinds of people and gaining their trust quickly is the innate Skill of a Top Female Spy.
To avoid the mercenaries going up the mountain, Yue Jinghua took a quiet path downhill, walking along a seldom visited cliff, when passing by a broken cliff slope, she heard an eagle cry.
In Hundred Beast Mountain, eagle-type Dark Beasts were few, only a type that nests near cliffs, the Wind-calling Eagle, a third-rank Dark Beast.
Next to a steep path that could only admit one person, two third-rank Wind-calling Eagles circled downwards.
Yue Jinghua placed the Iron Spine Tiger aside, quickly moved to the edge of the cliff, those two Wind-calling Eagles had already swooped down, disappearing at the cliff's edge.
The chaotic rocky cliff below, surrounded in mist, the cold piercing mountain wind howling upwards like a knife.
Yue Jinghua frowned, facing two Third-stage Wind-calling Eagles with her Ninth Layer Dark Human Cultivation level would indeed require some hard work, but both eagles being Third-stage Peak Dark Beasts, might very likely carry Dark Pills. A bold thought appeared in Yue Jinghua's mind.
Starvation stifles the timid, fullness kills the bold, without entering the tiger's den one can't get the tiger's cubs, setting her resolve, Yue Jinghua licked her wind-dried lips and murmured: "Go."