Cultivation: Starting from a Fighting Cock

Chapter 89 Halfway Out
"Master! Master's Wife!"

Ji Cheng let out a mournful cry and quickly went forward to check on the two men.

All that could be seen was half of Situ Ying's body; everything below his navel had been smashed away. Huang Cuicui used her magic to seal the wound at the severed point, barely keeping him alive.

His other arm was also half blown off, and the injury was so severe that Ji Cheng couldn't bear to look at it.

Huang Cuicui was alright, with no serious injuries, but she was in a very sorry state, clearly having escaped with all her might.

"Master's wife, what's wrong with Master? And where are Uncle Ma and Uncle Gou?"

Ji Cheng asked anxiously and helped Huang Cuicui up.

Clearly, they encountered a powerful demonic beast on that dark, gloomy monkey mountain to the west. Alas, Ji Cheng had warned them long ago, but they wouldn't listen. Situ Ying even said that even if they were no match for it, they could still escape unscathed.

Now, he has only managed to escape with his body partially intact, and it is unknown whether he can be saved given his injuries.

"It's a third-tier monkey demon..."

With Ji Cheng and Cui Sheng's help, Huang Cuicui stood up, took a breath, and looked sad.

She said that when they entered the monkey mountain, they saw many masked civets. They caught two masked civets and then followed the other masked civets to the depths of the monkey mountain, where they met a third-tier monkey demon covered in red fur.

A third-tier demonic beast, whose strength corresponds to a Foundation Establishment cultivator in the human race.

The four sensed something was wrong and immediately tried to retreat, but the monkey demon attacked swiftly, blocking their escape route. In just a few rounds, it overwhelmed Situ Ying, leaving him unable to defend himself.

Ma Yuan and Gou Feng were no match for him. Seeing that Situ Ying had half his body broken, the two knew that there was no hope of escaping today. They decisively took the Body Explosion Pill and fought desperately against the monkey demon.

"Sister-in-law, take my brother and run!"

The two men's blood and energy surged tenfold, and they fought for their lives, creating a glimmer of hope for Huang Cuicui.

Huang Cuicui tried everything she could, but she was no match for the monkey demon. She had no choice but to use an extremely precious escape talisman to escape from the monkey mountain with Situ Ying, who only had half a body.

After she finished speaking, Huang Cuicui was already in tears. Needless to say, the two brothers, Ma Yuan and Gou Feng, were definitely dead.

Situ Ying's half-body and the first-tier Xuanbing black hammer were also left on Monkey Mountain.

She lamented that after more than twenty years of exorcising demons, she would perish in this small town of Wuzhen.

"Ergou, I must take your master back to the sect immediately. If my master intervenes to save him, there might still be a glimmer of hope..."

Huang Cuicui didn't bother to wipe away the tears on her face; she was in a hurry, so she spoke very quickly.

Given the current situation, she naturally couldn't care less about Ji Cheng, so she arranged a way out for him.

"Find a martial arts school in Wuzhen to learn martial arts. If you succeed in your training, you can come to the Demon Forging Sect to take the assessment. If you fail, you will be separated from your master in this life. Brother Cui, I hope you can take good care of Er Gou!"

After saying this, Huang Cuicui left behind several dozen taels of silver and a manual called "Tiger Roar Shocking Fist".

Then she summoned her flying boat and, without pausing for a moment, flew away from Wuzhen at full speed, carrying half of Situ Ying's body.

Staring in the direction where the flying boat disappeared, Ji Cheng was lost in thought, as if he hadn't yet recovered from his immense grief. Cui Sheng gently patted his shoulder and said:

“Nephew, please accept my condolences. Demon hunters are inherently a highly dangerous profession. As the saying goes, ‘You may hunt geese all day, but one day you may be pecked in the eye by a goose.’ I imagine your master and the others were prepared for this misfortune. Otherwise, your Uncle Gou and Uncle Ma would not have so decisively taken the Body Explosion Pill to save your master’s wife’s life.”

"Don't worry, you are Brother Situ's disciple and have been entrusted by Master Huang. You can stay at my Cui family's house with peace of mind. I, Cui Sheng, will definitely treat you like my own son."

At this moment, Cui Sheng felt sympathy for Ji Cheng's plight.

Her only relative, her grandfather, had just been killed by a tiger demon, and her newly appointed master had also met with this calamity just days later.

Such a change was an unbearable burden for a seventeen-year-old boy, and Cui Sheng felt heartbroken seeing it.

"Thank you, Uncle Cui."

Ji Cheng snapped out of his daze, exaggeratedly wiped away his tears, and said childishly, "My master is a lucky man, he will definitely be saved!"

Actually, there's an element of acting involved. He did have feelings for Situ Ying, but after all, from their first meeting to their separation, they only spent a short four days together.

Moreover, Ji Cheng had tried to persuade him beforehand, but to no avail. Helpless, he could only respect the fate of others.

Especially for someone as calm, rational, and unconstrained by morality as Ji Cheng, he wouldn't immediately feel grateful and vow to avenge or repay kindness just because someone showed him a kind side.

More often than not, he had the mindset of an observer.

Let's observe how things develop first. In the words of my past life, let the dust settle. Once it's clear who has indeed done me a favor, they will find an opportunity to repay it in the future.

He is very mature. If he has a passionate and impulsive side, it is mostly just acting.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that his current level is too low.

If one's moral character is too low, one will naturally be cautious in doing things and will think thrice before acting.

If you are powerful, you will naturally have fewer concerns and can do whatever you want, such as "I don't eat beef".

For example, right now, he can't possibly run off and fight that third-tier monkey demon to the death, can he?
“Nephew, this was left by your master’s wife. Keep it safe.”

Cui Sheng stuffed a pile of silver and the "Tiger Roaring Killing Fist" manual into Ji Cheng's hands, telling Ji Cheng to rest well and not to be too sad.

Ji Cheng nodded and accepted it with tears in his eyes.

After dinner, under the moonlight, Ji Cheng practiced his boxing in the courtyard again, and this time he practiced even more diligently.

Upon seeing this, Cui Sheng nodded repeatedly, thinking he understood Ji Cheng's feelings very well.

After finishing his boxing practice, Ji Cheng, as usual, boiled water and took a bath to relax his body and improve blood circulation.

Afterwards, back in his room, he transformed into a demon.

"Monkey Mountain, third-tier demonic beasts..."

The mystery of the dark, towering forest to the west has been unveiled, and Ji Cheng naturally wants to explore it. If he can retrieve the bodies of Uncle Ma and Uncle Gou and bury them, Ji Cheng will feel better.

In fact, he had guessed that the monsters in that mountain forest would not be so easy to deal with, and he was somewhat prepared for the tragic end of Situ Ying and the other three.

He sighed deeply, relieved that Huang Cuicui and Situ Ying had managed to escape alive, but sadly that Uncle Gou and Uncle Ma were gone.

Having made up his mind, he quickly left the Cui family, transformed into a peregrine falcon, and flew swiftly across the river, over the dilapidated mountain god temple, and into the territory of Monkey Mountain.

I wonder if Xiaohua was affected by this battle?

"Woo!"

The intrusion of a peregrine falcon was quickly noticed by several masked palm civets in the forest, who all let out warning cries.

Ji Cheng ignored it and continued deeper. He did not see Xiao Hua. These were all flower-faced raccoons that had not yet developed intelligence.

Before long, Ji Cheng saw the corpses of Ma Yuan and Gou Feng, which had been gnawed by wild beasts and left only as skeletons.

A pang of pity welled up in Ji Cheng's heart.

He swiftly swooped down, collected the two skeletons, and then stood a hundred meters in the air, looking down over the forest.

Suddenly, two pebbles flew through the air; they were thrown by a red-haired monkey.

Ji Cheng used the "Treading Clouds and Flowing Wind Steps" technique to quickly dodge in mid-air.

[You watched the monkey demon wield its hammer and absorbed a wisp of demonic energy from a third-tier demonic beast!]

Ji Cheng felt a chill run down his spine. Yes, it was this monkey demon covered in red fur.

The monkey demon had a fierce expression on its face. At this moment, it was playing with Situ Ying's first-tier Xuan weapon, a black hammer weighing a thousand catties, which was quite a handy weapon in its hands.

(End of this chapter)