Returning from the Immortal World
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“Uncle, excuse me, may I ask whether there are wild animals strolling around this hill?” Tang Xiu respectfully asked a farmer at Walled Hill Village’s foot.

“Do you want to eat game meat? There are a lot of wild games on the hill. On the ground, you can find pheasants, hares, and wild boars. In midstream, you can find wild turtles, alligators, and giant salamanders. You can find more for flying games.” The old farmer inhaled his tobacco pipe and spat out a thick smoke as he answered leisurely.

Having heard the old man’s words, it made Tang Xiu overjoyed. The locals sure are the ones more familiar with the situation in the surroundings. He had spent half a night in the hilltop and couldn’t find anything. He didn’t expect to get such a big harvest by asking the locals.

After Tang Xiu asked where to find these wild animals, the old farmer took a long sigh, “But alas, that was the situation in a few years ago. Because there are too many people hunting the wild animals in this hill, they scared them away, and now there only a few of them on the hill. Even if there are some, people can’t find any traces of them now…”

After having said goodbye politely to the old farmer, Tang Xiu started asking the other locals.

But he didn’t expect that even though he had asked a dozen of farmers on hill’s foot village, he didn’t get the answers he wanted, causing him to nearly fall into despair. If even the locals hadn’t heard of any rumors about fierce beasts here, didn’t this mean that Walled Hill Village really didn’t have any fierce beasts?

Tang Xiu was a perfectionist in nature. He had always been pursuing everything to perfection and reached the ultimate peak. He didn’t find any traces of fierce beasts last night, which meant that the Body Refining Liquid he wanted to concoct lacked one last ingredient. He didn’t want to accept this fact and finally decided to leave a note to ask for a leave, as he left school in the afternoon and visited Walled Hill Village again.

Since he didn’t get any useful information from the farmers in the village at the hill’s foot, Tang Xiu directly headed straight to the hilltop and explored the hill by himself.

Steep overhanging cliffs surrounded Walled Hill Village. It was more than 500 meters above sea level and 200 meters above flat ground. The high terrain was surrounded by different raised flat lands, giving off the feeling of a terraced mountain. This kind of terrain was extremely rare in the Shuangqing Province.

Zhang Xianzhong once occupied Walled Hill Village and declared himself king of this place. He built the city walls, city gates, as well as constructed the Li Family Ancestral Hall, the fence split stone, official buildings, a fort, The Goddess of Mercy Temple, and other buildings. Therefore, the hill had a winding and complicated path all the way to the top.

Along the way, Tang Xiu saw a few turtledoves in the depths of the wood. He was also almost bit by vipers and scorpions, which could make other people overjoyed when they saw them.

Unfortunately, the one that Tang Xiu wanted to find were fierce beasts, rather than sate his appetite for game meat. So these wild animals didn’t interest him in the slightest bit.

Half an hour later, Tang Xiu successfully climbed to the top with a few turtles, hares, and a dozen of snakes. His schoolbag was also filled up with scorpions and a variety of rare and precious medicinal herbs.

At first, Tang Xiu didn’t plan to hunt the games on the hill, but since he thought about his family’s restaurant and his mother’s malnourished body, he took and carried these games although he didn’t need them. He just conveniently hunted the wild animals he could see.

“Hey kid, you’re good. The five of us could only hunt 2 rabbits, but you actually caught a lot of turtles and snakes?”