Age of Heroes (Age of Heroes Chronicles)

Chapter 321: The three animals (2)

THE DARK FOREST

'Shit, these rabbits are testing my patience' Xiyun said spiting to the ground. It can be seen that Xiyun is struggling and tired.josei

Since morning she has been hunting rabbits. Rabbits, rabbits, rabbits. That is the only thing in her mind right now. 

Other than food of course.

At first she lingers around the entrance of the forest searching the rabbits, wolf and birds around it but there is no trace of even any animals other than the sound of the crickets and some centipede and scorpions. 

Xiyun believe this forest is fill with many poisonous animals like this which only increases her fear to go deeper. 

If the Golden Spider Sect participate in this meet surely many of them is here right now in this forest scouring this forest for poisonous animals. 

After all they are famed with their use of poisoned substances in their attack. Not to mention Golden Spider Sect is famous as one that produces Poison King.

But, after a few hours searching and another half an hour deliberating, another fifteen minutes of sweating, another fifteen minutes of doubting her own sanity, and praying to whatever gods that exist, Xiyun resolve herself and enter the forest deeper. 

Deep and deeper she goes until finally she spotted a rabbit. 

"Not ghost. Anything is better than a ghost' 

There is something about Xiyun that separate her from her sister. 

She is affable and graceful in the eyes of many but her life in the Sect is never easy so there are two vices if it can be called that, that become a part of Xiyun personality. 

One is her excessive fear for ghost or anything related to it. Another is her excessive love for exotic food. 

Which is why her talent in her cooking is top notch. If not for the tragedy and event in her life, she might be now working as a cook in some castle.

She is staring at the rabbit trying not to lose it from her eyesight. Then she began chasing it but it is not that easy.

The rabbit is fast, moving swiftly from one place to another, fast enough that the rabbit could even run away from Xiyun lightness technique. 

It is not because Xiyun is slower than the rabbit but the rabbit is unpredictable. Sometimes slow, sometimes fast. 

It is this principle that Arial want Xiyun to understand. In a way, Arial set this test especially for Xiyun to gain enlightenment on her own.

This is why he told Xiyun to hunt these animals. Wolf, rabbit and birds. All three of them need a different method to capture them. 

For Xiyun who have never engage in fights before and never ever catching anything other than the meek rabbit, the normal rabbit found in the human continent, this kind of rabbit that is fast and nimble proved to a challenge for her. 

Arial knew the moment he enters the forest at dawn that all of these are monster that is almost the same as the ones that lives in the Dark Lands. 

He encountered many of such similar rabbits, and the other beast in this forest during his journey with his entourage. 

How it reached here, and how it thrives here is beyond Arial understanding but Arial recognize the chance for him to teach Xiyun. 

It is because of that he ordered this kind of task for Xiyun. After all Arial is not that cruel to risk his disciple life for no reason.

This time Xiyun approached the rabbit with speed and then strike a fist at the rabbit but the rabbit dodged it and instead the rabbit jumped back and try to bite Xiyun arms. 

Quickly Xiyun back away a few meters form the rabbit. 

'It is fast. Damn. Stop, you stinking rabbit.'

Then enraged and a little embarrassed that she had to back away from a rabbit and the absurdity of it all she dashed forward and slap the rabbit as the rabbit try to jump and bite Xiyun. 

The slap is shockingly very powerful and the rabbit head was smashed to smithereens, leaving it writhing under the ground, its hind leg kicking air as it drops dead slowly and painfully. 

Her hand is red, from the blood of the rabbit.

Xiyun was shocked. Of her power and of the scene in front of her. The rabbit has no head. To be more accurate, the rabbit head is smashed to little pieces. 

'Teacher was right. I never should have doubted teacher words. He said I can handle the rabbit and he was right. The only thing difficult about the rabbit is their unpredictable movement. Now that I know that I am this strong I will not hesitate again to attack the rabbits.' 

Smiling but a little shaken, Xiyun begins her hunting spree of rabbits. After that first experience she is confident that gathering rabbits is an easy job. 

Her sack is ready to go. Then her speed of hunting rabbits becomes faster. 

'A one hundred rabbits? That is easy' she grins. 

She is singing while slapping rabbits every time. She doesn't know any other way to kill the rabbit and it seems to work for her, so she keeps on slapping any rabbits she found to pieces. 

All the rabbits on her sack have no head. 

The only difficult thing about the rabbit is their movement but in one hour Xiyun has begun understanding the movement and have begun adapted to it. 

Her pace becomes faster. She could be said a rampager...rampager of rabbits. In no time she managed to hunt one hundred rabbits. 

Sitting down in one of the trees, she opens her flask and drinks the Wujing tea she stole from the storeroom of Ermeishan. 

'Haa. I don't know why?' She said looking at the flask.

Every time she drinks the tea, she always feels like her energy suddenly returned, restored and more powerful. 

What Xiyun doesn't know is that since she learns Levitia Cultivation Technique combine with her drinking the Pill of Abbess Lin, her rate of synthesizing the pill has become faster. 

For Arial who have a massive amount of internal energy he noticed that his power increased every time he sipped the tea, thanks to his fast synthesizing reaction to the pill. 

But even he could not have realized he is drinking one of the hardest pill to ever been made in the world. 

'Now that I have hunted one hundred rabbits, now one hundred wolf claws.' Reciting her goals, she began to move but suddenly she stopped. 

But how could she do this? There are still five sacks on her backpack but where would she store this rabbits remains. 

She is not allowed to return until she completes her assessment. Then she notices the cave in front of her. 

A small cave. She then nodded. 

Better hide this here. Hiding it in the cave and pickings some foul smelling plants, Xiyun use the plants to makes the smell of the rabbits.

Then she moves again to hunt the wolf.

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