Chapter 20 – First Battle (1/2)

Chapter 20 – First Battle

Qinghan put all of his belongings back into his bag, before he hastily walked towards the mountain range. Now, he was rather eager and full of excitement, as even his footsteps were more vigorous and nimble.

The Wild Mountain Rang already existed for more than ten-thousand years, which explained why all the trees here were extremely large and tall. The trees were so big that it even took several people standing hand in hand to embrace them. Also, some ancient, yet unknown plants, were all over the ground, like exotic flowers, bushes and vines. Moreover, it was not uncommon to encounter some poisonous insects on the way.

Fortunately, Qinghan was far from a reckless teenager. He had well prepared himself for this adventure. Early in the morning, he had bought some anti-insect medicine powder in Wild City, which would effectively prevent him from being bitten by those little creatures.

Suddenly…

Qinghan heard some noise not far away, so he instantly hid himself behind a bunch of high weeds, waiting for the demonic beast to come closer. Soon, a wild boar entered his vision, which was rooting about around a small tree for food. The two tusks in its mouth were shining brightly in the sunlight, which gave Qinghan a sense of horror.

“Wild boar with tusks, that’s a first-grade demonic beast!”

Qinghan quickly searched for the knowledge in his brain, and identified that the approaching beast was a mere first-grade wild boar. It was actually a unique species of demonic beasts, because they always wandered alone in the mountain range. Even so, its tusks were extremely sharp.

“Haha, I’ll kill you!”

Qinghan took the dagger out of his bag, clenching it in one of his hands. He slowly moved out of the bushes, cautiously observing his surroundings.

- Whoosh! -

Qinghan slightly arched his body, and then spurted towards the wild boar.

- Boom! -

The wild boar quickly sensed the danger, as it quickly ran forward with its two sharp tusks protruding towards the upcoming Qinghan.

“Er! How can it respond so swiftly?” Originally, Qinghan was confident in beating this wild boar black and blue. Now, however, he was a little bit terrified by its speed. For the sake of safety, Qinghan even leaned backwards and stretched one of his feet out, kicking on the tusks of the wild boar. He then scraped the back of the wild boar with his dagger, before he bounced back.

- Yowl! Yowl! -

The wild boar was irritated to the greatest degree, as its back was furiously bleeding. With an agonizing howl, the boar kicked the earth with its rear feet, causing the dust and leaves to fly up into the air. Now, its eyes seemed to be on fire, as he was aggressively and furiously staring at Qinghan.

All of a sudden, the wild boar rushed to Qinghan, almost like the water from a choked river that suddenly breached the dike.

“Oh... My... God... How fast!”

As soon as Qinghan turned around, he discovered something was running in his direction. Luckily, by using his Battle Qi, he successfully dodged.

- Bang! -

Qinghan escaped, while the giant tree in front of him wasn’t so fortunate, as it immediately fell down with a booming sound.

“Oh, how powerful! I believe it’s equivalent to several horses’ strength. Alas, if I was that tree, I would’ve been crushed into powder…” Qinghan tightened his heart, yet he grew more and more excited over this fight with the wild boar. Like always, he loved a good challenge.

- Bang! Bang! Bang! -

The angry wild boar almost went mad, as it made several successive attacks towards Qinghan, as though it attempted to grind Qinghan into tiny bits and pieces. Fortunately, Qinghan cleverly dodged away each time when it ran towards him. Occasionally, Qinghan would stab into the body of the wild boar. Now, after several rounds, the wild boar became weaker and weaker, as blood kept oozing out of its back.

Interestingly, Qinghan intentionally stood in front of a big tree, because he found that this silly wild boar would collide with the tree instead whenever he dodged away.

“Haha! This ugly beast is so stupid, as he can only run in one direction. No wonder it’s only a first-grade demonic beast – despite its impressive strength, it’s rather stupid. Now, take your time, I’ll wait until you bleed to death.”

Qinghan tightly gripped his dagger, squatted a little bit, and narrowed his eyes into two slits, waiting for the right timing to stab the wild boar.

- Bang! -

With this last bump against the tree, the wild boar finally fell down. But quickly, it staggered to its feet and was about to flee.

“No way! I won’t let you run away.”

Qinghan twisted his body and chased after the already severely injured wild boar. Due to its excessive loss of blood, the wild boar had used up all of its strength, as its speed had vastly dropped. Thus, it was easy for Qinghan to catch up with it.