Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 256 Not a single one of them is any good.
Yun Ce stayed by the giant bear, which was in a deep coma, for two days.

After eating the bear spirit's flesh, he discovered that it was very effective in repairing his broken body. He immediately thought of his two pregnant wives and planned to carefully cut the bear spirit into pieces and take away its essence to nourish his two wives as well.

After further research, Gouzi told Yun Ce that the energy density in the bear spirit's body was relatively high, which would be a great tonic for Yun Ce, but not necessarily for E Ji and Zhang Min. They would need to deplete the energy in the bear spirit's body before it could become a tonic for postpartum women and supplementary food for infants.

This time, I came out empty-handed, without getting anything good. It's rare to encounter a bear spirit that came to me on its own. If I miss this opportunity, I'll have to go back empty-handed.

As for how to deplete the energy in the bear spirit's body, Gouzi thinks that waiting for it to wake up and then fighting until it is exhausted and dies should be a good method.

Over the past two days, Yun Ce has been carefully protecting the bear spirit that has fallen into a deep sleep.

Because of his protection, neither the birds in the sky nor the beasts on the ground dared to disturb it. Yun Ce also tried his best to keep its wounds fresh, because if they rotted and festered, they would not taste good.

Fortunately, the temperature was very low, so the wound did not fester and the meat remained fresh.

The giant bear finally woke up on the third day.

At that time, Yun Ce was packing up the tent. If the giant bear still didn't wake up, he planned to have Gouzi forcibly wake the bear spirit and then leave.

Seeing the giant bear open its eyes, Yun Ce stood in front of its head and laughed, "You're awake?"

The giant bear was clearly still very weak. It propped itself up on its two thick forelimbs, sat up, and looked down at Yun Ce, saying, "Did you save me?"

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "You saved yourself."

Yun Ce, the bear spirit, had seen bear spirits before, but this was the first time he had seen a talking bear spirit, which made him even more eager to investigate.

The bear spirit, holding its head with one paw, asked, "Aren't there any enemies chasing me?"

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "If the few wild beasts that I chased away that wanted to eat your flesh are not considered enemies, then there should be no enemies chasing you."

"My back hurts a lot."

The bear spirit tried to reach out its short, thick arms to grab its back, but it couldn't reach because of the length. With a slight twist of its body, large amounts of blood were squeezed out of its muscles and trickled down the one-inch-wide wound.

"You have a huge, serious wound on your back."

"I can still hold back. Once I eat you, I'll recover a bit."

Looking at the giant bear sitting there quietly, Yun Ce couldn't help but ask, "How can you say such cruel things in such a calm tone?"

The giant bear leaned its massive body against a tree and said with some helplessness, "I used to be a bear. This is how bears live. If you don't eat me while I'm injured these next few days, I'll have to eat you after I recover. According to your human rules, it's wrong for me to eat you, but I'm seriously injured now and can't hunt for food, so I can only use you to fill my stomach."

Yun Ce pointed to the chestnut horse standing not far away and said, "Why don't we eat it? It has a lot of meat."

The bear spirit shook its head and said, "It runs too fast, and besides, its meat is poisonous. Your meat, though less, is sweet and delicious."

Yun Ce sniffed and asked, "Have you eaten people before?"

The bear spirit shook its paw and said, "I've eaten it; the cub meat is the most delicious."

Yun Ce nodded and said, "I think so too. I think you must have eaten people."

The bear spirit placed its front paws on the ground and looked down at Yun Ce, saying, "Considering that you protected me, after eating you, there's no need for me to eat people anymore."

Despite the bear spirit's sweet words, its front paws were already very close to Yun Ce without him noticing. As soon as it finished speaking, a huge paw slammed down on Yun Ce's waist.

Yun Ce turned and ran, but the giant bear pounced on him. Its two huge paws were almost about to grab Yun Ce each time, but he always managed to dodge them at the last second.

The giant bear was incredibly strong. Even after just waking up, its movements were still lightning fast. However, it couldn't sustain such strenuous activity for long. The terrible wound on its back severely hampered its agility. After about an hour, the giant bear stopped, panting.

Looking at Yun Ce, who was still standing in front of it, it said, "Are you using up my strength?"

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "I am consuming your vitality. The flesh of a monster like you contains a lot of energy. If you eat it before your vitality is exhausted, a warrior like me can naturally withstand it, and it may even be very beneficial."

"Your flesh is too harsh on women and children. Only by completely depleting the vitality within you can the energy in your flesh become negligible. Moreover, the quality of the flesh will be enhanced by the remaining trace of energy. Thus, it will be highly effective whether used as a tonic for postpartum women or ground into minced meat as complementary food for infants." "You want to eat me?" The bear spirit's voice finally lost its mercy.

Yun Ce laughed and said, "We've been eating it for three days now. The first two days we roasted it, and it tasted great, but it was a bit tough and hard to chew. This morning, I sliced ​​your meat into thin slices and used it in a hot pot. It tasted pretty good."

“┗|｀O′|┛Ouch~~”

The bear demon roared and pounced on Yun Ce again. This time, its speed was superior. Yun Ce punched the bear demon's swung paw, and with a loud bang, Yun Ce's feet sank half a foot into the ground. The bear demon's right paw was firmly blocked by him and could not advance an inch.

As the bear demon's left paw swung over, Yun Ce had already pushed the bear demon's right paw forward a few steps, while simultaneously raising his left leg and using his foot to block the bear demon's left paw. The man and the bear immediately entered a wrestling state.

Although Yun Ce didn't take this weak bear spirit seriously, in order to ensure that E Ji, Zhang Min, and his child could have a good meal in the future, he was willing to use the skill of a water millstone to make the bear spirit's meat reach a higher level and the most delicious state.

Just as the bear spirit and Yun Ce were roaring and wrestling with each other, neither willing to give an inch, a burly man over two meters tall emerged from the forest. Upon seeing Yun Ce wrestling with the bear spirit, he couldn't help but stop and stand aside to watch.

Yun Ce didn't care. As long as that towering giant didn't ruin his plans, he didn't mind watching.

The bear spirit didn't think that way. The moment it saw the burly man appear, it abruptly withdrew the force that was squeezing Yun Ce and turned to run away.

Yun Ce leaned forward, grabbed its left foot, and held it in his arms, roaring, "Run! Where do you think you're going?"

The bear spirit's forward momentum faltered. Instead of running away, it was pulled back by Yun Ce. The bear spirit seemed unwilling to continue its struggle with Yun Ce, so it used its three legs to exert force and once again engaged in a contest of strength with Yun Ce.

“┗|｀O′|┛Ouch~~”

The bear spirit's howls were no longer intimidating, but instead contained a hint of pleading.

Seeing that Yun Ce was holding onto the bear demon's leg and still had the energy to smile and greet him, the burly man said from the side, "Why bother with all that effort when you could kill him with one strike?"

Yun Ce said, "There are pregnant women and young children in the family who need meat to nourish them. If they don't use up their strength, the meat will turn sour."

The burly man said, “That’s absolutely right. If we let it die of anger, its flesh will harden. Since you have this insight, you should completely shatter its arrogant spirit.”

Yun Ce thought the strong man's words made a lot of sense. A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and he raised one hand high, punching the bear spirit's hind leg joint. With a 'crack', Yun Ce's punch actually broke the thick bear leg. The white bone pierced through the flesh, emitting wisps of white steam and exposed to the sunlight.

Abandoning the bear's leg, the chestnut horse quickly ran over. Yun Ce took a lance from the chestnut horse's back, and before the bear spirit could recover from the excruciating pain, the lance pierced its other hind leg. The lance blade swung up and down a few times, causing great damage to the bear's leg, and a two-foot-wide gash appeared on the bear's leg.

With his two hind legs crippled, the bear spirit could only sit up by supporting himself on his two front paws. He looked at Yun Ce for a moment, then at the strong man, and finally said to Yun Ce, "You won't forgive me, will you?"

Yun Ce took a few steps forward and slammed his fist down on the bear spirit's head. The bear spirit roared and blocked with its claws. This time, it was Yun Ce pressing down and the bear spirit resisting, and they were locked in a struggle again.

Seeing that Yun Ce seemed a bit slow on the uptake, the burly man swung an iron chain to firmly lock the bear spirit's neck. He then used brute force to drag the bear spirit's massive body to an ancient tree, chose a thick branch as a bridge, and hoisted the bear spirit's body up, leaving only its leg, which had been cut open by the horse spear, on the ground.

In its struggle for survival, the bear spirit could only grip the chains tightly with its two front paws, fighting for its life. Once it was exhausted, its body weight would fall on its injured leg, and with the increased force of the chains intensifying the suffocating feeling, it would have to use all its strength to grip the chains again.

Yun Ce took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweaty face and said to the burly man, "Brother, you are quite skilled. So, the knife wound on this beast's back was your doing?"

The burly man glanced at the groove on the bear demon's back: "It was just one cut, I don't know why so much flesh was missing."

Yun Ce waved his hand awkwardly and said, "In that case, you should have a share of this prey."

The burly man shook his head and said, "I am not very interested in bear meat, but what it swallows is very important to me."

Yun Ce grinned and said, "I wonder what kind of treasure it is."

The burly man sighed and said, "It was an old item from my clan that was stolen by this bear spirit. I chased this creature for over two thousand miles and was about to succeed when it fell into your hands. If you could return it to me, my entire Zhou clan would be eternally grateful."

Yun Ce looked down at his outer robe, which had been slashed open by the burly man's blade, and said to the man, "Why are they all like this? They talk about being humble, but they're always trying to kill. Bears are like that, and so are people."

The burly man's thunderous strike was narrowly dodged by Yun Ce. After regaining his footing, he said with some regret, "I actually missed."

(End of this chapter)