Volume 3: The Reputation Spreads, Chapter 41: If You Can't Beat It, Don't Force It

It proves that there is no point in dreaming of defeating others in fields where they excel. Li Yu knew it but didn't compare; one comparison and he immediately understood that relying on his feet on the ground could never surpass the two-tailed monkeys living in the trees.

At this moment, he stopped his steps. Surrounding him were adult two-tailed monkeys, each with spiritual energy fluctuations at the peak of the seventh grade. The leader monkey was even at the mid-sixth grade.

It was less than half a minute later.

Li Yu taught these two-tailed monkeys another lesson.

“Catching up doesn't mean anything!”

“You must first recognize whether you can defeat them?!”

Li Yu stood with his hands behind his back in front of a group of two-tailed monkeys squatting and holding their heads. Although these exotic beasts squatted down almost reaching Li Yu's shoulders, with their muscular bodies, they looked majestic and heroic.

Unfortunately, now they looked wilted like withered vegetables.

Especially the leader monkey's skull had a high, bulging meat bun.

At this moment, it was covering the struck area, grimacing.

“Does it understand human speech?” Li Yu stared at it, his face fierce.

The leader monkey honestly nodded.

“Understands, that's good. Go back now. If any more come, I'll scare you to death!” Li Yu raised his fist.

The leader monkey shrank its head in fright again, but when its palm pressed too hard, it touched the meat bun and let out a series of squeaks.

It was this short human just now who raised his fist and subdued them one by one!

They had all given it psychological trauma!

“You go!”

Li Yu directly leaped back onto the treetop and rushed away toward the distance.

Meanwhile, these aggressive two-tailed monkeys were now hanging their heads and walking dejectedly toward their old nest.

“Strange, it's over?”

Li Yu suddenly noticed something odd.

Just now, during the delay, the beast that had caused the entire mountain forest's exotic beasts to riot all day seemed to have ‘a master’, and many exotic beasts had already returned to their territories, no longer appearing to run around in all directions.

Li Yu didn't think for long. Anyway, this beast had no connection with him, and seizing the opportunity to cause chaos, he had already crossed the extremely deep distance of the mountain forest.

Such a good opportunity grasped by him can be said to have saved him a great deal of effort, at least less than half a day.

If nothing unexpected, by two or three o'clock in the afternoon, they could reach the Snow Mountain.

Avoiding places with obvious exotic beast auras and some eerie places whose depths he couldn't see, Li Yu landed on a towering ancient tree.

This position could effectively observe the surrounding scenery; if anything happened, he could leave quickly.

Having eaten the remaining exotic beast meat from last night and taking a few sips of the stolen fruit wine, Li Yu cautiously observed the surrounding scene.

Man is an iron rice bowl; without eating, one starves!

Li Yu had just sat down and not rested long when several figures suddenly burst out from the low tree bushes below.

“Is there an ambush!?”

Li Yu was startled; just about to take action, he saw the several people below sit down directly, looking as if exhausted for a long time.

“Damn, I'm worn out to death. This thing is too fast to run!”

Li Yu's mind moved; he withdrew his spiritual energy, shrank his body carefully into the dense leaves, and stood his ears to listen to the conversation below.

“Don’t mention it, chased for half a day but it still ran away! Truly not unworthy of being the legendary thing!” Another man said, wiping sweat from his forehead and speaking viciously, “I finally found an excuse to leave the team, only to chase to its position, and it then released its scent!”

“I rely, in an instant dozens of kilometers around, all exotic beasts came smelling it. Not bad, the targets are all essence treasures, otherwise we would all be done!”

“What do we do now, Big Brother? Is there still a chance to find it?” The only female in the trio asked.

“Difficult!” The leader man's face was gloomy as he shook his head, “Just caught it successfully transforming; the essence treasure will now be more cautious and won't expose its trace! And we don't know what form it will transform into. We have no chance left!”

The three chatted while eating their carried food.

Li Yu on the treetop slowly heard what had just happened.

These three were the ones tracking Qingxuan; luckily, they had found the essence treasure's existence. After that, they borrowed an excuse to leave the Ninth Prince Ying Yongge's team, pursued all the way, and finally found the essence treasure.

As a result, it had transformed successfully, and the medicinal fragrance released by the essence treasure directly attracted the attention of the exotic beasts in the mountain forest, leading to a chase between humans and exotic beasts for the essence treasure.

“So, Qingxuan is here too?”

Li Yu was somewhat surprised. Ying Yongge's luck was good; most of his allies were nearby, and on his first day here, he had gathered over a dozen people into a team. That's why he mentioned Qingxuan's existence again.

To quickly resolve several difficult opponents in the early stage.

And these three's separated locations were outside this mountain forest; Qingxuan's last traces were in this mountain forest.

“What is he doing here?”

His brows were tightly locked; listening to the three's conversation, it seemed Qingxuan's purpose was very clear—he had directly come to this mountain forest!

“Has he discovered the essence treasure's traces and come over, or...”

The back of this mountain forest is an icy snowy terrain. This point not only came from the demon tree's mouth but was also confirmed by Tumanxiang. If the White Fox Clan were really here, perhaps there really is a bloodline of the Snow Fox.

Otherwise, they wouldn't specially seek out a cold place as their clan's reproduction and habitation site!

“Enough, can't delay any longer. I'll go up to see the direction and situation!”

The leader man spoke; he leaped and landed on the tree trunk. And luckily, on this forked ancient tree with over a hundred branches, he exactly chose the spot where Li Yu was hiding.

The two locked eyes with each other.

“Hello!”

Li Yu revealed a friendly smile.

The enemy's enemy is a friend!

The one who can help him educate Qingxuan is his good brother!

“Li Yu?!”

The opposite youth hadn't reacted yet when he saw the honest-faced boy in front erupt with spiritual energy like a great hammer striking his body.

The youth let out a muffled groan, spat out blood directly, and fell down.

“Big Brother!”

The man and woman below spoke in unison; the boy flew up, pulled out his weapon, and attacked Li Yu, while the girl caught the unconscious youth.

“Shatter!”

Li Yu patted the long sword in his hand; it struck first, slashing a huge gash on the charging boy's body, and the latter directly fell.

Where it came from, it returned to where it came from.

“Can’t hard fight if you can’t beat it!”

“Don’t dream of escaping either!”

Li Yu spoke out, “Otherwise, if something happens, people will die!”

The remaining trio with one combatant had no words, but they didn't try to scatter and flee either. They understood the huge gap between them and Li Yu—that was an unbeatable power.

In one move, one was unconscious and one was severely injured, leaving the weakest.

“We admit defeat. To kill or to cut, it's all up to you!” the woman cried out bitterly.