Chapter 22 - Demons and Coincidences

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Lu Yu left early and returned late. He wanted to find some wild beasts or thieves around Windmill Town to kill and see if he could gather enough experience points.

In the end, he only caught a few pheasants. Each pheasant gave him 1 experience point.

When he carried the pheasant he caught back to the courtyard, he saw Little Tail lying on the table and asked, “Why are you lying here?”

“Hungry” Little Tail said weakly.

“You didn’t eat lunch? You didn’t eat dinner either?”

“Yes.” Little Tail nodded.

Lu Yu said loudly, “Why don’t you ask the guard at the door for food! You’re so stupid! How did you survive until now?”

He threw a few pheasants that had been killed in front of her and said, “Take them and eat them yourself.”

Seeing the pheasants in front of her, Little Tail’s eyes lit up. She quickly jumped up, grabbed the pheasants, and brought them to the well to cut them. This time, she was smart and knew to ask the guard at the door for tools and spices.

The things she wanted were very common, and many of them could be used as medicinal herbs. The guard quickly brought her the things she wanted.

After a while, Lu Yu, who was in the middle of training, smelled the fragrance and stopped training. He found that the pheasants had been made into roasted pheasants, and the fragrance was really good.

He snatched one of the roasted pheasants from Little Tail’s hands. He did not care how hot the pheasant was and bit it. With just one bite, he could feel that the delicacy in his mouth was exploding.

Little Tail saw that the roasted pheasant in her hand had suddenly disappeared. She was a little dumbfounded. After a while, she realized that it had been snatched away by Lu Yu.

Lu Yu touched his stomach and picked up the second roasted chicken.

Two of the three roasted chickens entered Lu Yu’s stomach. After drinking a pot of tea, he looked at Little Tail in surprise and said, “You know how to roast chicken? Who did you learn it from?”

“An old beggar, but he’s already dead.” Little Tail was a little depressed when she mentioned the old beggar.

Seeing her like this, Lu Yu did not say anything. He continued to cultivate for a while and then went back to his room to log off.

For several days in a row, Lu Yu had left early and returned late. People thought that he was wholeheartedly completing the mission that Butler Zhang had given him. In reality, he was only looking for places around Windmill Town where he could farm experience points.

“I’ve looked in all directions. There are no wild beasts or mountain bandits.” Lu Yu looked at the road leading to the Han Residence. “I’ve never been to this place before. I wonder if there are any places that can farm experience points?”

Under normal circumstances, there should be a place outside the novice village where players could farm experience points.

In fact, Windmill Town originally had a way for players to farm experience points. It was those underground sects. Unfortunately, all of them had died in the Han Residence. As a result, Lu Yu could not even find a place to farm experience points.

Walking towards the road leading to the Han Residence, Lu Yu naturally did not want to return to the Han Residence. Moreover, he wanted to look for a place that could farm experience points.

At the fork in the road leading to the Han Residence, one could take a turn and walk up the road leading to the Han Residence. Naturally, Lu Yu would not go that way. He continued to walk forward.

Soon, he found a small path leading to the forest. Lu Yu took out his sword from his backpack and walked towards the small path.

After walking for a while, he heard some movement in front of him. Lu Yu became alert and slowed down his pace to walk forward quietly. Through the gaps between the leaves, Lu Yu saw a strange creature.

It was grayish white in color and looked like a stone. Its hind legs were short, and its forelimbs were huge. There was also a single horn on its head. It looked like a combination of a gorilla and a rhinoceros.

What surprised Lu Yu even more was that this strange creature was eating a stone. With a crunching sound, the hard stone quickly disappeared into the monster’s mouth.

“Is this a demon?” Lu Yu was a little curious. He had heard from Zhang Lun that in some deep mountains and old forests, there were terrifying demons. Even martial art cultivators did not dare to enter the deep mountains and old forests casually.

“I don’t care if you are a demon or not. I will fight you!” Lu Yu unsheathed his saber. With the momentum of Fierce Tiger Descending, he slashed at the demon that was squatting on the ground and gnawing on a rock.

Clang ~ the sound of hard objects colliding.

Buzz ~ the saber was vibrating. Lu Yu’s arm could not stop trembling.

“Hard! Too hard. What the hell was this thing? It was even harder than steel!” Lu Yu did not doubt that he could cut open the stone with Fierce Tiger Descending. However, only a white mark was left on the gray-white demon’s body, and it did not break through its defense at all.

Looking at the gray-white demon that stopped eating the stone, Lu Yu was very panicked. He had just left the novice village, but he had already encountered such a strong demon. Who could continue playing this game!

“Brother Demon, you continue eating your stones and pretend that I never came. You eat your stone and I’ll go my way. Can we each take a step back?”

Lu Yu said as he retreated. The speed at which he retreated was extremely fast. He was just short of using the Eight Steps Chasing Cicada to escape.

“Roar” the gray-white-skinned demon did not seem to agree with Lu Yu’s suggestion. It put down the food in its mouth and rushed towards Lu Yu.

“I’ll go!”

Lu Yu no longer hesitated. He turned around and fled. The gray-white demon chased after him relentlessly. When it encountered an obstacle, it rammed into it. Its strong horn easily broke a tree as thick as its thigh.

Soon, Lu Yu realized that it was not because the gray-white demon had a bad temper, so it rammed into everything in front of it. It was because it was difficult for it to turn, so it could only crash everything along the way.

After dodging the gray-white-skinned demon’s strike a few times, Lu Yu realized that the demon was actually not as terrifying as he had imagined.

Although its defense was amazing and its straight-line sprinting speed was relatively fast, as long as one knew its weak point, even a martial cultivator at the third level of the body refining realm could escape under its pursuit.

As Lu Yu ran, he noticed that the trees around him were decreasing. Then, he rushed out of the forest and came to a place where there were rocks everywhere.

Although the gray-white demon could not hit him, he could not do anything to it either. Lu Yu felt that it was a bit troublesome. The demon seemed to be determined that it would not let Lu Yu go.

After running for a while, Lu Yu heard a voice from afar.

“This way, the Wind Rock Demon is running this way.”

Then, Lu Yu saw a familiar face.

Zhang Lun was also very surprised to see Lu Yu here. Wasn’t he in Windmill Town? How could he be here?

Just as he was about to ask Lu Yu, he saw the Wind Rock Demon rampaging behind him. His attention was attracted by the Wind Rock Demon, and he quickly said to the people around it, “Quick, surround the Wind Rock Demon. Don’t let it escape!”

Many martial art cultivators wearing Han Residence’s guard uniforms surrounded the Wind Rock Demon. When the Wind Rock Demon realized that it was surrounded, it gave up on chasing Lu Yu and rushed toward Zhang Lun. It wanted to break out of the encirclement.

When Zhang Lun saw the Wind Rock Demon charging towards him, he did not dodge or draw his short knife. He took a deep breath and performed a fist technique.

Flowing Water Fist!

Boom! The Wind Rock Demon collided with Zhang Lun. Soon after, Lu Yu heard continuous sounds coming from the Wind Rock Demon’s body.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Wind Rock Demon’s huge body, which was comparable to that of a rhinoceros, was actually forced back by Zhang Lun. Its two short hind legs drew two deep trenches in the ground.

Immediately after, a few guards threw out a large net made of special materials to cover the Wind Rock Demon. The others hurriedly went forward and pulled out the rope, exerting force from four directions at the same time.

When the large net was thrown out, Zhang Lun had already retreated from the area covered by the large net.

Under the combined force of more than ten people, this Wind Rock Demon, whose strength was comparable to a seventh level body refining realm martial art cultivator, was caught. When Zhang Lun walked towards Lu Yu, he even bared his teeth and waved his hands.

Lu Yu could clearly see that Zhang Lun’s hands had turned red.

Zhang Lun said, “This Wind Rock Demon is really tough. Its strength isn’t that great, but it’s tough enough. Its defense is stronger than many qi cultivating realm demons. It can’t even be beaten.”

After saying that, he looked at Lu Yu and asked, “Why did you come here? Why did you provoke the Wind Rock Demon?”

Lu Yu told him the excuse that he had made up long ago. “I found some clues and followed them to this place. I didn’t expect to bump into the Wind Rock Demon.”

“Really? Then you are really unlucky to bump into the Wind Rock Demon here.” Zhang Lun did not doubt Lu Yu.

Hearing his words, Lu Yu asked curiously, “Is the Wind Rock Demon doesn’t appear in this area?”

“Indeed. Most of the Wind Rock Demons are gathered on the back of the Wind Rock Mountain. There are large amounts of exposed wind rock ores over there. The Wind Rock Demons eat wind rock ores for a living, which is why they are so hard.”

“If the Wind Rock Demons are so close to the Han Residence, wouldn’t the Han Residence be in danger?” Lu Yu asked.

“Actually, the Han Residence is located on the Wind Rock Mountain to prevent the Wind Rock Demons from barging into Windmill Town. However, most of the time, the Wind Rock Demons are very quiet in their own nest and won’t run around. Therefore, it’s not as dangerous as we thought.”

Looking at the Wind Rock Demons being dragged away by everyone, Lu Yu asked curiously, “Why are you capturing it?”

From their actions just now, it could be seen that Zhang Lun and the others were here specifically to capture the Wind Rock Demon. Otherwise, their cooperation would not have been so smooth.

“The Wind Rock Demon is useless, but what the Wind Rock Demon pulls out is a treasure. After the Wind Rock Demon eats a large amount of wind rock, a true treasure will appear in its excrement — iron essence.”

“Iron essence is a first-grade spirit class treasure. It is trade in tael. If you have enough iron essence, you can spend some processing fees to custom-make spirit weapons in the Divine Weapon Pavilion.”

The two chatted as they walked. Unknowingly, they came to the mining area where the Han Residence was mining wind rocks. Lu Yu suddenly stopped, he said to Zhang Lun, “Brother Zhang, I’m going back to Windmill Town to continue searching for clues about the mysterious person. Goodbye!”

“Okay, be careful.”

The two separated, and Lu Yu left the mining area as quickly as possible.

Zhang Lun brought the captured Wind Rock Demon to the place where the Wind Rock Demon was being held. On the way, he bumped into Yang Xiu.

Yang Xiu noticed that there was a familiar-looking person who was talking to Zhang Lun just now. When he asked who that person was, Zhang Lun did not think too much and directly told him that it was Lu Yu.

When they went to Windmill Town previously, Yang Xiu noticed Lu Yu was in the team. Now that he saw him here, he asked curiously, “What exactly is that Lu Yu doing? Why is he running around?”

“Butler Zhang asked him to find someone. Why are you asking this?” Zhang Lun asked curiously. Yang Xiu did not seem to be such a curious person.

After listening to Zhang Lun, Yang Xiu said casually, “Oh, it’s nothing. I taught Lu Yu back then, and I still have a good impression of him. I just want to know what he is doing.”

“Is that so?” Zhang Lun was a little puzzled. Yang Xiu was not the kind of person that he said he was. During his year in the Han Residence, Zhang Lun rarely saw Yang Xiu care about other people’s matters..