Beastmaster

The man's face was dark, he looked up at Fang Tiankuo angrily, "Who is your big brother? Look carefully, I am your uncle!"

After that, the man in black slowly took off his mask, revealing his aged face, just like an old man. "Tell me! Where are you from and what are you doing in Deadwood Village!"

Everyone was shocked when they saw this. It was indeed unbelievable. "Hello, uncle. We are from the village in the east and are going to the glacier continent in the west to find war beasts. We were just passing by here to take a rest, and then we saw the village in front of us, and saw you sneaking out of this village. We thought you were a thief." Jing Cangming said with embarrassment.

"Hmph! You are the thieves. But judging from your looks, you should all be beast generals. This goshawk belongs to this little girl, right?" The old man said as he walked to a stone block nearby and sat down. He waved his hand and the dead tree dog ran over and lay down at the old man's feet, but still stared at everyone viciously.

"Yes, sir. We are all beast generals. We are not bad people. We are just here to take a rest." Longying said sincerely.

Longying is already beautiful, and it is hard not to be convinced when she says these words with a sincere look.

"Then tell me, which village are you from?"

"Huangjiang Village, we are the beast generals of Huangjiang Village."

Upon hearing this, the old village chief immediately became alert, "You're lying! I'm an old acquaintance of Huang Yushu, the village chief of Huangjiang Village. How could I not know that there are four beast generals in Huangjiang Village! Where on earth are you from!"

"Do you know our village chief?" Several people looked doubtful.

"Hmph! Stop talking nonsense. Where are you from? If you don't want to tell me, don't blame me for being rude!" After saying that, the old man was about to stand up and cast a spell.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't do anything, sir! We are really from Huangjiang Village. How do you want us to prove it?" Fang Tiankuo asked.

"How long is his beard?"

"Damn! How do we know? No one has measured it."

"Then you are liars," the old man said proudly.

"Fifteen centimeters"

Several people looked at Zhan Yongyi in surprise, "Brother? Have you really measured it?"

"No, I've asked before."

Several people staggered when they heard this.

"Bullshit! Huang Yushu's beard is clearly thirty centimeters long, you little liars! Die!"

"You made the rule that shaving is not allowed?"

The old man put away his hand and looked at everyone with a playful expression, "Yes, maybe he shaved it. Then let me ask you where is Huangjiang Village?"

"How do you prove that you know our village chief?" Zhan Yongyi usually doesn't talk, but when he speaks he gets to the point!

"Hey~you little guy."

Suddenly there was a commotion in the village, "Oh no!" The old man sighed, quickly stood up and rushed into the village, followed closely by the Dead Wood Dog.

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to do. "Cang Ming, shall we follow them?" "Let's go! Follow them and see. Cang Ying stay here and wait."

Just now when he was negotiating with the old man, Jing Cangming had an inexplicable feeling in his heart, as if something was calling him, so he decided to go in and take a look.

Led by Jing Cangming, the group followed the old man in front into the village.

"This old man ran too fast. How come there is no trace of him?"

"It's okay, the village is not big and should be easy to find." As they were talking, they saw a crowd.

"Look, there are so many people gathered in front."

When everyone heard this, they looked and saw a 1,000-meter-high lush green tree-shaped tower standing in front of them.

That’s right, this is the altar of Kurumu Village. There are about two to three hundred villagers gathered in front of the altar, so the four of them ran towards the altar.

"Everyone, be quiet, be quiet!" In the center of the altar, the old man stood on the altar and looked down. At his feet stood the Deadwood Dog, looking down at everyone with his head held high. "Everyone, please don't worry. I will definitely resolve this matter properly. I won't joke about the future of our entire village!"

"Oh my goodness, it turns out that this old thief is not only a beast general but also the village chief. But it looks like this village is in trouble," Fang Tiankuo muttered.

At this time, an old man heard the sound and turned around and said, "Hey? You are not from our village, where are you from?"

The old man seemed to be a little hard of hearing and spoke very loudly. When the villagers heard this, they all turned around and looked at Jing Cangming and his companions. In a flash, they were surrounded by a group of villagers holding spears. The people who surrounded them were the guards of Kurumu Village.

"No, no, no, don't do anything, uncles and brothers, please don't do anything!" Fang Tiankuo waved his hands and said quickly.

However, the other three were ready for battle. They were not sure whether the old man really knew the village chief, so they were still very vigilant.

After all, in this era, each village is independent and no outsiders will visit unless there is some communication between affiliated villages or invasion by other villages.

An old voice was heard, "Everyone, retreat. They are just passing through our village to rest, and they are not as strong as me, so don't worry."

When everyone heard what the village chief said, they all dispersed.

"Come here, all of you."

At this time, a woman turned her head and looked at the village chief, "Village chief, you must protect the village. After all, you brought this disaster back personally. It has nothing to do with us. We just want to live a good life."

After that, the villagers dispersed. Zhan Yongyi walked by several villagers and he vaguely heard them mutter, "Do you think the village chief will understand our intentions?"

Several people walked towards the altar and came to the village chief. "Sir, are you the village chief?"

"Hey, yes, I'm the village chief, little guys. Actually, I know you are from Huangjiang Village. Your necklace belongs to that old guy. I recognize him."

Jing Cangming looked down at the necklace that the village chief gave him when he was a child, "This was indeed given to me by the village chief grandfather when I was a child. He said that it was passed down in the village and can bless me."

The old man smiled and said, "This necklace is that old man's treasure."

"Baby?" Everyone was confused.

Where did the treasure come from when there isn’t even a beast general in the village?

The old man saw the doubts in everyone's minds and said, "There was a beast general in your village two hundred years ago, and his surname was Jing."

Several people exclaimed, "Sex?!"

"It seems that the old guy didn't tell you that Huangjiang Village used to be very strong within a thousand miles. The old beast general was named Jing Xiong, and he was also a young genius. He was a level 38 beast spirit, with dual attributes of magma and ocean. Later, he cultivated to the level of a beast and cultivated the plant system in order to balance the attributes of the world. He went out for training and came to our village, and this plant system was obtained from our village."

Several people turned to look at Jing Cangming, "It seems that you are the only one with the Jing gender in the village, Cangming."

The old man looked at Jing Cangming in shock, "You are Jing?!"

"Well, my name is Jing Cangming."

The old man laughed when he heard this, "Hahahaha, kid, then it's not surprising that the necklace is on you."

Jing Cangming looked at the necklace, tears flashing in his eyes from time to time, "Grandpa, please tell me what happened. Why didn't my parents and the village chief tell me this story?"

"Okay, since that old guy won't tell you, I'll tell you. Two hundred years ago, Huangjiang Village was not called Huangjiang Village, but Jingjiang Village. It was renamed Huangjiang Village sixty years ago, and Jingjiang Village was named after your ancestor Jing Xiong. In that era, Jingjiang Village was also a large village within a thousand miles around here. The surrounding villages all respected Jing Xiong when they heard the name. He had three war beasts under his command, the magma-type Duye Red-Rhythm Tiger, the ocean-type Silver Ghost Pig, and the plant-type Dead Wood Dog, all of them were battle-hardened beasts."

The more they listened, the more excited they became. "And then, sir, what then?"

The old man chuckled and said, "Don't be impatient, listen to me slowly. "Later, Jing Xiong established his own power called Wanshou Pavilion, and I was also a member of Wanshou Pavilion at that time. That's how I got to know Huang Yushu. We were both fourteen years old that year. He was not a beast general, so I always bullied him, but we had a good relationship."

As he said this, the old man's eyes gradually softened, revealing a nostalgic look, and even a hint of tears.

"Later, the Pavilion of Ten Thousand Beasts became the largest force within a radius of thousands of miles, and its reputation gradually grew. More and more people wanted to join. However, as the force grew stronger, the enemies also increased. We often had to fight with other forces, but we won most of the time."

Speaking of this, the old man slowly clenched his fists, and his breath suddenly became sharp, "Until that time, a force called Tinglan Sect from the Western Continent suddenly stationed in the northwest of this great country. It was heard that they seemed to be looking for some treasure, so they began to contact us big forces and forced us to look for it for them."

"No resistance?" Longying asked.

"Of course we resisted, otherwise Jing Xiong would not have died, and Wanshou Pavilion would not have withdrawn from the stage of history."

"Ah? What the hell is going on?"

"The day the people from the Tinglan Sect came to the Pavilion of Ten Thousand Beasts, their attitude was extremely arrogant. They killed the gatekeepers right after they arrived, and they didn't take the power of the Northwest seriously at all. Jing Xiong was furious at the time. The Pavilion of Ten Thousand Beasts was considered a big force in the Northwest, so how could he swallow this humiliation? He immediately started fighting with the people from the Tinglan Sect, but the gap in strength was too big, and the entire Pavilion of Ten Thousand Beasts was destroyed by this one person."

“One person?! Just one person destroyed the entire Wanshou Pavilion?!” Several people looked at the old man in disbelief and clenched their fists.

The old man had tears in his eyes when he said this. "It was just one man. Jing Xiong was defeated in a few rounds. Two of the three war beasts died, one of which was the Deadwood Dog. My Deadwood Dog is the descendant of Jing Xiong's."

As the old man said this, he touched the dead wood dog's head, as if to comfort it, and the dead wood dog buried its head in its legs and curled up.

"What about the living war beast?"

"That Duye Red Rhythm Tiger was captured by the Tinglan Sect. We thought that was the end of it, but less than an incense stick of time after the Tinglan Sect member left, a large number of Tinglan Sect members rushed in and looted the entire Ten Thousand Beasts Pavilion. Jing Xiong was seriously injured and fell ill. He died about half a year later at the age of 140. Since then, the Ten Thousand Beasts Pavilion has gradually declined, and we all dispersed."

"Before Jing Xiong died, he gave the Tianchi Chain, which is the necklace around your neck, to Huang Yushu and made him the village chief. From then on, Jingjiang Village became Huangjiang Village, and there has never been a beast general in Huangjiang Village since then. So the word Huang in Huangjiang Village refers to Huang Yushu's gender and also means there are no beast generals."

"Tinglan Sect! Sooner or later, I will personally avenge my ancestors! No one in the entire Tinglan Sect can escape." Jing Cangming's eyes were full of bloodshot, and he gritted his teeth and said fiercely.

"Child, the Tinglan Sect is one of the most powerful forces in the entire Western Continent. It may be difficult to avenge this."

The few of them stopped talking, as if they were all immersed in this sadness.

At this time Fang Tiankuo said, "Then, village chief, why haven't we seen any contact between Kumu Village and Huangjiang Village in all these years? Why didn't you come to help our village chief when Huangjiang Village was bullied?"

The village chief smiled bitterly and said, "We haven't seen each other for sixty years. If you hadn't come, I would have thought that the old man was dead. In fact, it's my fault. After the Myriad Beasts Pavilion was gone, I returned to the village and became the village chief. Our village is geographically secluded. If ordinary people look for it deliberately, they basically can't find it. I have never been out, so our village naturally has little contact with the outside world. I don't know what happened in Huangjiang Village over the years, otherwise I would have gone there long ago."

Zhan Yongyi said helplessly, "Just now at the entrance of the village, you said that our village chief's beard is 30 centimeters?"

The old man looked embarrassed and said, "I was just kidding you."

Fang Tiankuo looked at Jing Cangming and said, "I finally understand why your family has so many treasures."

"Then, village chief, what's going on in your village?" Jing Cangming turned his head and looked at the old man.

Might as well tell you about it.” The village chief said as he stepped aside. Behind him appeared a small figure, a palm-sized puppy, squinting its eyes and whimpering as if looking for milk. The dead wood dog came over and gently nudged the puppy with its head.

"Wow~ A puppy. Village chief, is this the child of the Deadwood Dog?" Longying looked at the puppy with admiration, but Fang Tiankuo stepped back, wishing he could stay as far away from it as possible.

"No, I picked it up when I was out on patrol a few days ago." Then he sat down cross-legged again, and everyone continued to listen to the story.

"This forest is called the Deadwood Forest, and our village got its name from it. As I just mentioned, the forest is large, the village is secluded, and we have no contact with the outside world."

"But some time ago, some people who had never been seen before suddenly appeared in the forest. Judging from their clothes, they should be children of some big families, and a family that majors in fire attributes." When he said this, it was obvious that there was a trace of fear in the village chief's eyes. The fear passed in a flash, but was still captured by Jing Cangming.

"Flame attributes? Then why did they come to the forest?" Jing Cangming was a little excited now. If it was for war beasts, it meant that there should be powerful and rare fire-type war beasts giving birth in this forest. Because this type of war beast is relatively rare, there are very few groups of them. The time when they give birth is when they are the most vulnerable. If they are in an area with their own attributes, they are likely to be attacked by hostile war beasts. Therefore, they will choose an area with their own restrained attributes to give birth. If there are some ancient ruins, maybe they can find something.

"If I'm not mistaken, they are probably here to catch young animals." The village chief glanced back at the puppy inadvertently.

Several people also realized that this puppy might be the newborn of a fire-type war beast. However, Jing Cangming stared at the cub and thought, "Could it be that it was calling me outside the village just now?"

"That's right, this young beast should be the offspring of the rare magma-type war beast Yi Shen Lie Lang Lion!" Everyone was surprised when they heard this, "Yi Shen Lie Lang Lion!" This is a legendary war beast. According to legend, there was a war beast in ancient times with the shape of a lion, black body and red mane. The mane poured down like magma and flowed slowly. An adult could reach fifty meters tall. Wherever it passed was dry land, and every step would leave a magma footprint.

"But, village chief, this cub looks like a dog. How could it be a lion?" Everyone also had doubts.

"Hey, when I found it, I just saw the lioness leaving, but she didn't take her cub with her. I inferred that the lioness must have been seriously injured and probably couldn't take her child with her, so she left alone. This cub must have been born prematurely, and it hasn't had a single sip of the lioness's milk since birth. When I brought it back, the placenta was still on its body, so I inferred that this was the cub of the giant beast. Fortunately, the Dead Wood Dog had just given birth to cubs some time ago, so it had milk to feed this little guy."

"What about its father?"

"I didn't see it, but I guess the male beast felt the danger approaching, so he went out to lead the enemy away to protect the safety of the female beast and the cubs. But there should be more enemies than just the group led away by the male beast, so the female beast also went out to fight to protect the cubs."