Chapter 68

"Four tokens in hand, robbery is indeed a very promising career!"

Inside the stone forest, Jiang Yi ran quickly, searching the two young men for three tokens. Adding the black token he originally had, he had obtained four tokens in just a short while. He also managed to get two bottles of Earth Rank healing medicine and several dozen pieces of purple gold from them. Jiang Yi did not take their treasures, not because he was soft-hearted, but because they would be useless to him. He was used to using the Qingming Sword, and carrying two swords would be a burden.

"Alas..."

While running, Jiang Yi sighed slightly. Ji Tingyu had told him to be low-key during the Blood Refinement, otherwise, offending the noble offspring or the relatives of the formal students in the academy would cause a lot of trouble. However, he ended up in a battle as soon as he climbed the mountain. This was despite his deliberate restraint; otherwise, according to his character, these two might have had to crawl down the mountain...

Continuing his run, Jiang Yi soon encountered another beast, a python. However, it was clearly not as fierce as the previous one. Jiang Yi easily obtained a token in about half an incense stick's time.

A short while later, Jiang Yi left the stone forest, and the terrain ahead turned into a dense forest. He entered it but quickly retreated.

Because there was a group of beast pigs in the small forest ahead, at least seven or eight of them. Although these beast pigs were not very strong and moved slowly, Jiang Yi did not dare to act rashly with so many beasts. He still vividly remembered the terrifying piercing ability of the spines on their backs.

"What to do? Give up? That's seven or eight tokens!"

Jiang Yi squatted in the stone forest, pondering. If he acted, he might be severely injured or even die. If he didn't act, it would be a waste to find so many beasts.

"Go for it!"

Jiang Yi gritted his teeth, circled around the nearby stone forest, and quickly headed toward the small forest ahead!

"Bang!"

He lay on an ancient tree, throwing a stone at a beast pig lying on the ground and sleeping. The beast pig immediately opened its cold eyes, roared a few times, and looked around. The nearby sleeping beast pigs were also startled awake, all with wary eyes, searching for the enemy.

Jiang Yi immediately pulled back, not moving, holding his breath. He knew that if he dared to show himself, the ancient tree where he was hiding would likely be overturned by the group of beast pigs.

After a moment, he peeked out again and saw that three of the beast pigs had lowered their guard and continued to lie under the tree, sleeping. The other five were still wandering around. He secretly exhaled, took another stone, and threw it to the west.

"Bang!"

The sound from the west forest startled the five beast pigs. They looked coldly in that direction and quickly rushed over.

"Diverting the tigers away from the mountain succeeded!"

Jiang Yi's eyes lit up. As the five beast pigs left, he quickly took another stone and threw it hard at the three sleeping beast pigs, then leaped down from the ancient tree and rushed into the stone forest.

"Whoosh!"

As expected, the three beast pigs soon followed, catching up to him as he entered the stone forest.

"Boom!"

The three beast pigs charged like battering rams. Two of them, moving too fast, crashed their tusks into two stones. Two loud explosions echoed, and the stones shattered. The two large beast pigs emerged from the stone dust and continued charging at Jiang Yi.

"Come on, come on, little master is here."

Jiang Yi glanced back, his eyes full of provocation, and waved at the three beast pigs. He quickly circled around to the back of a stone peak.

"Boom!"

The three beast pigs were thoroughly enraged, charging together. Their six large tusks crashed into the giant stone in front of Jiang Yi, shattering it and causing the nearby ground to tremble.

However!

When the dust settled, they saw Jiang Yi's figure appear in front of another giant stone, waving at them and quickly darting behind it.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Jiang Yi repeatedly provoked the beast pigs, who repeatedly shattered the stone peaks in the stone forest. Jiang Yi never engaged them head-on, instead leading them around the stone forest, using the countless stone peaks to dodge.

After an incense stick's time, the nearby stone forest was in ruins, with at least dozens of small stone peaks shattered. The three beast pigs were panting, clearly exhausted from the massive energy expenditure.

Jiang Yi no longer led them in circles but began to move around them using his abnormal reaction speed and the numerous broken stones. Each time the Qingming Sword left a bloody mark on the beast pigs, he immediately retreated, never lingering.

"Grunt!"

Soon, the three beast pigs were completely enraged, roaring loudly and beginning to release their beast techniques. The spines on their backs shot out like a thousand arrows in all directions.

"Three tokens in hand!"

Jiang Yi flipped backward, hiding behind a giant stone, avoiding the beast technique attack. Seeing the three bloodied, weak beasts, he chuckled.

He now had some experience fighting beasts. Although their beast techniques had the power of an Eighth Rank Casting Cauldron Realm martial artist, beasts were ultimately animals with low intelligence. As long as the tactics were appropriate, they could be easily hunted.

However, the power of the beast techniques still made Jiang Yi secretly alarmed. These were just First Rank beasts. What about Second, Third, or Fourth Rank beasts, or even those that could transform into human form? Could a single beast technique level a small city?

Easily killing the three beasts and taking their tokens, Jiang Yi immediately went into the forest, preparing to lure the other five beasts into the stone forest to hunt them all, which would give him twelve tokens.

"Huh?"

But when he circled around the nearby forest, he did not find the five beast pigs. He continued deeper into the forest and finally found them.

However... three of the five beast pigs were already lying on the ground, and the other two were covered in wounds. A girl in a black robe with a black veil over her face was fighting the beast pigs.

"Ninth Rank Casting Cauldron Realm, this girl is stronger than Ji Tingyu."

Jiang Yi hid in a bush, watching the girl wield a black long sword, fighting the beast pigs fearlessly, and was secretly amazed. The girl had a great figure, better than Yi Lingxue. Although her face was veiled, her eyes were very beautiful, and her movements were graceful. Her sword speed was as fast as lightning, and in just a few blinks, the remaining two beast pigs were killed before they could release their beast techniques.

"Bad luck!"

Jiang Yi was somewhat annoyed but had no intention of taking the tokens from her. It wasn't that he was afraid of the girl, but he was used to not causing trouble, and he couldn't bring himself to attack a girl.

"Whoosh!"

Just as Jiang Yi was about to retreat, five figures suddenly shot out from the other side. They all held identical red small crossbows, locking onto the black-robed girl from a distance. One of them sneered, "Girl, these five tokens are mine. Get out of here if you know what's good for you, or our crossbows won't have eyes."

"Shit!"

Jiang Yi cursed silently. He saw the same kind of bullying and tyranny everywhere. However, he had no intention of playing the hero. He quickly retreated, as two of the five men had reached the Ninth Rank Casting Cauldron Realm, and their crossbows glowed red, clearly being treasures with formidable killing power.

"Master, why bother with so much talk? This girl has a tempting figure. Why not... take her for our brothers to enjoy?"

Jiang Yi had just retreated a few dozen feet when he suddenly stopped, his eyes instantly turning cold. Stealing tokens during the Blood Refinement was normal, but a group of men stealing from a girl and then doing such beastly things?