Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 217, Section 109: A Strong Sense of Ownership is Essential
Liu Changsheng was the High Priest of the Han Dynasty.

At the age of five, I entered the Divine Dragon Palace to serve the ancestral fire, as well as five hundred folk fires from three hundred military prefectures and two hundred tributary prefectures of the Great Han Dynasty. It has been a hundred years since then.

In the Han Dynasty, he was almost a god-like figure. People said that the Han Dynasty could live without an emperor, but it could not live without a high priest.

Now, the High Priest has stopped insisting on annihilating the Oni-fang people, and once this news gets out, it will be a huge blow to the Han people.

This statement might very well change the minds of those who were originally prepared to fight the Guifang people head-on, as the Guifang people are indeed very powerful now.

Then, perhaps the old stories of the Southern Song Dynasty will repeat themselves: some will fight, some will negotiate, some will surrender, and in the end, everyone will happily become slaves of a conquered nation, gleefully being treated like animals.

After reading through all the documents provided by Shen Lexi, Yun Ce looked at the guy whose face was a mess from his punch and said in surprise, "Huh, he's not dead? I'll have something to brag about when we get back."

"Alright, if you're dead, you're dead. Those who aren't, hurry up and heal them, then take me down to see the demon you mentioned. If there's no demon, I can continue killing you."

Shen Lexi glared at Yun Ce and said, "You're nothing but a beast in human skin."

Yun Ce laughed heartily and said, "The curses from the enemy are the greatest praise for me."

"Do you hate the Guifang people that much?"

"There's no other way. My ancestors taught me a famous saying since I was a child: if you meet an enemy on the street, kill him on the street; if you meet him in an eatery, kill him in the eatery; if you meet him in a latrine, drown him in the latrine. So, I met you at the inn, so I have to kill you here."

“Our two races have been entangled for thousands of years, and have fought each other for thousands of years. Countless Guifang people and countless Han people have died in this process. Do you want your descendants to be caught up in this endless slaughter?”

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "Of course I don't want to."

"In that case, can't we find a way to live together peacefully? As High Priest Liu Changsheng said, the world is vast and can accommodate both of our races."

Yun Ce frowned and said, "What I mean is that I will kill you all in my generation, so that I don't leave this troublesome matter to my children and grandchildren."

Shen Lexi sneered and said, "Do you have the ability? Just because you killed my eight brothers? Even if you can kill all the Gui Fang people, now I'll take you to see the demons and see if you can kill them all too."

Yun Ce laughed and said, "I've always been a person who loves war. The stronger the enemy, the more I like it. My ancestor said, 'Fighting with Heaven is endlessly joyful, fighting with Earth is endlessly joyful, fighting with Man is endlessly joyful.' To be honest, I love this saying to death. Even if I die on the way to the arena, I will die with a smile on my face and have no regrets."

Shen Lexi laid Ninth Brother's body down and sprinkled some glowing blue powder on his unrecognizable face. The powder landed on his rotten face and quickly seeped into the flesh. At the same time, the bleeding that was still gushing out immediately stopped.

Seeing Shen Lexi turn her gaze to other corpses, Yun Ce quickly said, "I guarantee that those eight are dead and there is no need to treat them."

As he spoke, he tucked Liu Ruyan, who was lying on the ground and occasionally spitting out blood, under his arm and urged Shen Lexi, "Hurry up and go."

When Shen Lexi saw Liu Ruyan spit out another mouthful of blood, her voice couldn't help but become shrill.

"Damn it, her ribs are broken. You're going to kill her by holding her like that."

Yun Ce retorted angrily, "If there isn't the devil you mentioned down there, and this ghost woman takes the opportunity to escape, wouldn't I be at a huge loss? I'm going to take her with me. If you've lied to me, it will be easier for me to kill her."

Shen Lexi suddenly fell silent, glanced at the heartbreakingly frail Liu Ruyan, then looked at Yun Ce and said, "Liu Chang'an, you don't like women, do you?"

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "I just don't like women from the Guifang tribe. Once I get my hands on my own wife or concubine, I'm reluctant to let go. Go away, I don't like you, so don't waste your time. I already beat up your Yuheng Imperial Concubine in Chang'an."

You're younger than her, but you lack her allure; you're not as good as her at seducing men.

Shen Lexi groaned in anger, went to the wall, pulled a rope, and a floorboard fell down with a bang, folding into a staircase. At the end of the staircase was an iron door.

Shen Lexi opened the iron gate, and a series of high-pitched roars made Yun Ce's ears ring.

Shen Lexi snorted, and the roars immediately stopped.

The basement was indeed very large, and now it was filled with iron cages, each containing a human-shaped object. Yun Ce looked at the cage closest to the door, where a creature at least two meters tall, bald, with no hair and only pale, wrinkled skin, was inside.

Yun Ce let go of Liu Ruyan and poked the hairless monster with his finger. He saw the monster open its eyes. Its eyes were very large, azure blue, with wisps of radiating black lines on them. It had some facial features, but its eyes and nose were very large, while its ears and mouth were small.

Its arms and legs are quite distinct. It has five fingers on each hand, with two-inch long, non-retractable nails, which should be its main weapon. Its legs are bent backward like a goat's, with bulging muscles, indicating that it must have an excellent jumping ability.

Just as Yun Ce was about to get closer to take a closer look, the hairless monster suddenly opened its mouth, and a dark green fleshy spike shot straight toward Yun Ce's face.

Yun Ce reached out and grabbed the spike or tongue, then glanced back at Shen Lexi, who had a calm expression, and said, "Don't use these kinds of tricks again."

Shen Lexi snorted and continued to take care of Liu Ruyan. Seeing that Liu Ruyan's bra had come undone at some point, revealing a pair of snow-white breasts, Shen Lexi wanted to help her cover them up, but Liu Ruyan stopped her with a look.

Yun Ce naturally noticed Liu Ruyan's beautiful breasts, but he didn't give them a second glance. To him, Zhang Min's breasts were what truly aroused him; Liu Ruyan's were nothing compared to a silicone doll.

His gaze fell on the dark green thorn in his hand. This thing could hardly be considered a tongue. Who would grow a three-inch-long black thorn on their tongue? Moreover, just by looking at the crystalline liquid oozing from the tip of the thorn, he knew that being pricked by this thorn could very likely result in poisoning.

Avoiding the gazes of Shen Lexi and Liu Ruyan, the dog's tentacles silently emerged from the wristband and plunged into the mouth of this so-called devil along Yun Ce's wrist.

The hairless monster began to struggle violently, clearly uncomfortable with the dog's presence. It tried to break free from Yun Ce's hand, but the hand remained as steady as a rock, refusing to budge no matter how much it struggled.

Once the dog's tentacles emerged from the hairless monster's body, Yun Ce pulled out a knife and stabbed it into the fleshy spike. Instantly, a large amount of colorless liquid oozed from the tip of the spike. Yun Ce took out a bottle and collected the liquid little by little. If the liquid started gushing out too slowly, he would stab it again.

Only after Yun Ce cut off the mouthparts and no venom came out from the tip of the spikes did he release the hairless monster. Watching its body fall to the ground with a thud, Shen Lexi looked at the bottle in Yun Ce's hand and said, "You killed the Jumping Demon."

This thing prefers to come out at night, and can leap ten zhang (approximately 33 meters) in a single bound, landing silently. It feeds on the Guifang people, especially young children and girls. Liu Chang'an, does this sound appealing to you?

Yun Ce's eyes lit up. He pulled one of the hairless monster's legs through the gap in the iron cage, swung his knife, and sliced ​​open the tough, cowhide-like outer skin. Then he carefully widened the wound, separated the strong tendons, and exposed a hamstring as thick as a baby's arm. He tried to cut it with his knife but found that he couldn't cut it. Yun Ce was overjoyed. He took out his saber and continued to widen the wound until a complete hamstring appeared before his eyes. Only then did he use his extremely sharp saber to cut the hamstring, carefully rolled it up, and put it into his waist pouch.

Yun Ce glanced back at Liu Ruyan, whose chest was still exposed, and said to Shen Lexi, "We should catch more of these monsters in the future. Their skin is tough yet soft, and can be used to make very good leather goods. Their meat probably doesn't taste very good, mainly because the muscle fibers are too coarse."

If you're willing to spend more time stewing it, the meat will have a lot of collagen, and you might be pleasantly surprised.

However, the hamstrings from this thing are definitely a very valuable byproduct; using them to make bows and arrows could more than double their effectiveness.

Shen Lexi's eyes widened to almost the size of the jumping demon's, and after a long while, she looked at Yun Ce, who was busy and cramping up again, and said, "Is this how you view the devil?"

Yun Ce said while having cramps: "All things in nature are created to nourish people."

The devil you speak of is no exception.

It's just that it's stronger, more toxic, and more violent.

Find their weaknesses, capture them, and exploit their economic value. If the economic value is high enough, we might even actively raise them in the future.

Shen Lexi grabbed Liu Ruyan's blouse and pulled it up, completely covering her breasts, then screamed at Yun Ce, "You're the devil!"
Do you know how many children and girls in the "Jumping Demon" are nightmares, and you're actually thinking about how to make money off it?

Yun Ce coldly coiled the hamstring he had just acquired, staring at the frenzied Shen Lexi and said, "This is why I despise you Guifang people."

As human beings, we are here to rule the world. The world exists for us. The sky, the earth, every blade of grass and every tree, even the insects, all belong to us.

Fear should not emanate from humans. Humans have always been the ones to instill fear in them. Shen Lexi, you Guifang people don't even have this sense of ownership. What are you talking about in unifying the land?

　I'll be spending the whole day with you all today, so I'll continue.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)