59: This guy again

After wandering in the Forest for another hour, Wei Xun finally found the last Huang Ling Grass for Xiao Ling.

After gathering all three Huang Ling Grasses, Wei Xun used Shadowless Step to lead Xiao Ling westward, eventually discovering a completely destroyed human encampment.

Within the encampment, there were many scattered medicinal herbs, which were very useful for humans.

However, for monsters who are naturally not prone to illness, they were just some wild grasses with strange smells, so they were useless.

Xiao Ling picked up a basket in the encampment and reloaded the scattered medicinal herbs into it.

"How far is your town from here?" Wei Xun asked.

"It's still over a hundred li east from here!" Xiao Ling slowly replied.

Hearing Xiao Ling's words, Wei Xun pulled out a piece of cloth from hisArms.

This cloth was a map he had drawn with charcoal.

It depicted the general situation of the surrounding area, centered on Black Tiger Mountain.

At this moment, the map indicated a Bi Shui Lake about ninety li west of Black Tiger Mountain.

Over a hundred li to the south were the original Black Bear Forest and the valley where Si Niang first lived, which Wei Xun marked as Black Snake Valley.

This human encampment was about eighty li from Black Tiger Mountain, and Wei Xun drew a small square with a sharpened charcoal stick about two hundred li east of Black Tiger Mountain.

"What's the name of your town?" Wei Xun asked.

"This..." Hearing Wei Xun's question, Xiao Ling suddenly didn't know whether to answer or not.

"Don't worry!" Wei Xun casually said, "I'm just drawing a map, I won't harm your village!"

"Our town is called Monster Slaying Town!" Xiao Ling said, "It's because a powerful Monster Slaying hero appeared in the town before..."

Wei Xun wrote the words "Monster Slaying Town" on the square and then asked, "What's to the east of your town?"

"Further east..." Xiao Ling thought for a moment and said, "Further east is Qianzhou City!"

"Alright!" Wei Xun put his drawn map back into hisArms and then said, "I'll escort you a bit further east, then you can go back on your own!"

"Mm!" Xiao Ling nodded. Although she was still worried about her companions who had been captured by monsters, she had no other choice but to return early to help those who needed assistance.

So Wei Xun led Xiao Ling, using Shadowless Step to quickly shuttle through the Forest. After emerging from the Forest, they unexpectedly saw an endless plain.

"We're out!" Wei Xun looked at the wisps of smoke rising from the distant plain and knew that humans lived in those places.

"The town is right there!" Xiao Ling pointed to a vaguely outlined town in the distance.

Wei Xun looked in the direction Xiao Ling was pointing. Indeed, there was a town-like place on the distant plain, about fifty or sixty li from the Black Abyss Mountain Range.

It was fortunate that it was a continuous plain, allowing Wei Xun to see so far.

"Alright!" Wei Xun did not walk out of the Mountain but instead looked down at Xiao Ling and said, "My task is complete, you should hurry back!"

"Mm!" Xiao Ling nodded and prepared to walk down from the Mountain.

"The Mountain is very dangerous, don't come in again in the future!" Wei Xun said this as he watched Xiao Ling's retreating back, then turned and left.

By the time Xiao Ling turned to express her gratitude, Wei Xun's figure had already disappeared.

"Must return as soon as possible!" After seeing Xiao Ling off, Wei Xun continued to use Shadowless Step to quickly shuttle through the Forest.

It was already getting late, and he had to rush back before the human flesh feast at noon. With over two hundred li to cover, he had less than an hour left.

At this moment, on Black Tiger Mountain, all the monsters were happily gathered together.

A large cauldron, the same one used in Xiong Er's wrestling match earlier, was set up at the entrance of Tiger King Cave.

Firewood was now stacked under the cauldron, and boiling water was heating inside.

The captured humans were tied up and thrown into the center of the clearing, surrounded by a group of drooling monsters.

"I say, this human flesh should be eaten raw!" A Grey Fur Instructor, who had transformed from a wild wolf, said to the other Instructors beside him, "When it's cooked, the meat gets tough!"

"What do you know!" Another monster, who looked like a transformed wildcat, said, "This human flesh has to be boiled alive to be truly delicious!"

"You're all wrong!" Another Monster Instructor said, "Human flesh is indeed better cooked, but the heart tastes best eaten raw."

A group of Instructors gathered, debating various ways to eat human flesh, each speaking eloquently as if they were very experienced.

Just then, the Tiger King emerged from the cave, accompanied by two generals and Fox Elder, and took his seat on his stone chair.

"Is everything ready?" The Tiger King asked the imps beside him. At this moment, he had one arm around the female monster transformed from a Three-Flower Cat and the other arm around a female monster transformed from a fox, looking very carefree.

"Reporting to the Great King!" At this moment, Poison Fang Instructor said to the Tiger King, "Everything is ready, it just depends on how the Tiger King wants to eat!"

"How many people are there?" The Tiger King asked casually.

"This time, a total of thirteen people were captured!" Poison Fang honestly confessed.

The Tiger King glanced at the people lying on the ground in the center of the clearing: "How come they're all men? Didn't I hear that a human woman was captured?"

"This..." Poison Fang felt a little guilty upon hearing the Tiger King say this, but he didn't dare to lie to the Tiger King, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "That woman was taken away by Grey Fur Instructor last night..."

"Grey Fur?" Hearing these two words, the Tiger King's brows immediately furrowed: "It's that guy again!"

Then the Tiger King looked at the group of monsters below, but he did not see Wei Xun's figure.

"Where is Grey Fur?" The Tiger King shouted to the crowd below, but no monster responded.

At this moment, Xiong Er, sitting on the edge of the clearing, was also looking back for Wei Xun's figure. Because he was greedy, Xiong Er had gathered Horn and the others and brought them up here early, but Wei Xun had not returned yet.

"Reporting to the Great King!" At this moment, Fox Elder spoke, "There's still some time before the feast begins. Perhaps Grey Fur Instructor was delayed by something!"

"What could possibly delay him?" The Tiger King snorted coldly after hearing this: "He took that human woman, who knows what he's doing in his cave right now."

After saying this, the Tiger King turned to the Crow Demon beside him and said, "You quickly go to Grey Fur Instructor's cave and notify him to bring that human woman here as well!"

"As you command, Great King!" The Crow turned and transformed his arms into wings, then flew towards the Mountain Forest where Wei Xun lived.

However, a moment later, the Crow Demon returned to the center of the clearing.

"How is it?" The Tiger King asked when he saw the Crow Demon return, "Did you tell Grey Fur?"

"Reporting to the Great King, Grey Fur Instructor is not in his cave!" The Crow Demon reported, "And the human woman is not to be seen either!"