The demon hunting context is an annual event initiated long ago in order to decrease the population of demon beasts in the outskirt of the demon beast mountain and avoid beast tides for the town. That is why all the families must participate.
Before leaving the Yun family mansion, Yun Chen made some maps indicating the gathering points of all kinds of demon beasts in the demon beast mountain and handed it to elder Kong. When the competition started, the third elder gave them to Su Ling, Yun Xiang, and some other participants from the Yun family.
The purpose of Yun Chen was to win by both quantity and quality with him taking care of quality by hunting high level demon beast while the others will be in charge of quantity by hunting a lot of low-level demon beast by following his maps. He would also take this occasion to extract high-level bloodlines and absorb demon beast's souls and spirit roots for him and blood essences for his egg.
The depart signal was given by the city lord himself. All the participants rushed inside the forest, but Yun Chen was the last one to depart because he was still packing his weapons.
«I think those will be enough to take down any beasts below the innate realm. They cost me a lot of money, but it is worth it. » said Yun Chen before departing at an astonishing speed.
During that month, Yun Chen didn't only train or cultivate but he also asked the auction house to sell him almost all the demon cores obtained from beasts in the demon beast mountain. That was how he obtained the whole map of the forest and gave it to elder Kong. He also obtained some information about the territories of some high-level demon beasts. So, when the competition began, he headed directly toward those demon beasts that were at least in the foundation-building realm.
«Let's take care of the weakest ones first. I only need to injure them a little using poison qi and they will die by themselves. My poison became very strong. It is even possible to kill innate realm demon beasts in in minutes. » Yun Chen said to himself.
Using the poison qi, Yun Chen eliminated seven first-layer foundation-building demon beasts, six ones at the second layer, four at the third layer, and two at the fifth layer. Next, he decided to head toward the territory of a third layer one but, after arriving, he saw several members of the Mu family besieging the beast. After observing in the distance for a while, Yun Chen realised that the body of the beast had several wound dating from a few days and from their conversation, it seems the beast was injured a weak ago by some high-level cultivators of the Mu family in preparation for the context.
«It seems that the Mu family is pulling some tricks under the curtain. But it is useless because I'm already ahead of them. » Yun Chen though to himself.
He decided to stay until they finish and leave. The reason behind that was because he wanted to extract the bloodline, the blood essence, and the spirit root. In addition, that beast was a dragon-type beast: the one-horned fire dragon-tiger. So, he didn't want to miss it.
After they left, Yun Chen approached the corpse to extract the bloodline. While extracting it, he discovered that this beast has some Celestial tiger bloodline. Even if it wasn't a lot, there was at least five percent.
«It is really interesting! Since didn't fuse with any of the bloodlines that I have extracted so far, let's just focus on the divine bloodlines. That way, I will possess the five most powerful bloodlines. Moreover, I can raise their percentage by fusing several times with the same bloodline. » said Yun Chen overjoyed.
On this basis, Yun Chen began his selective hunt by using the eye of truth to directly see if any of the beasts that he met on his way can have divine bloodline. After five hours of restless search, Yun Chen found two other divine bloodlines which are the Black tortoise bloodline and the Immortal phoenix bloodline. He never found any true dragon bloodline, but he was already very satisfied.
«Even if I didn't find the true dragon bloodline, I have already collected the others. There is a lot of time left before the gathering. I will go and see if I can find the corpse of that two-headed black scale drake under that cliff. I hope it wasn't completely devoured by the other demon beasts. » declared Yun Chen.
Yun Chen rushed toward the mountainous area where the corpse fell. It only took him an hour to reach it because he was already in the deepest part of the forest near the mountainous area. At his arrival, Yun Chen looked for a safe place and began scouting the entire area five miles around him using his soul power. After a while, he finally located the corpse and surprisingly, the corpse was still whole.
«Even after more than a month, the corpse didn't rot or got devoured. Let's go see what is going on! » said Yun Chen with a doubtful face while rushing there.
After coming near the corpse, Yun Chen finally understood why the corpse wasn't and why it didn't rot. Yun Chen already knew that this beast possessed the true dragon bloodline since he felt the dragon pressure from its hexa-elemental seeds. But that was nothing compared to the pressure around the corpse in a radius of a hundred feet. And the corpse was preserved surely because of its high percentage of true dragon bloodline.
Yun Chen extracted its bloodline but was very surprised.
«Only fifteen percent? That beast even has true dragon scales on some part of its body. This percentage is not enough to make it grow true dragon scales! » exclaimed Yun Chen in confusion.
Suddenly, Yun Chen sensed some movements inside him. It was his egg. He took the egg out, but the egg was circling around the corpse without doing anything. Yun Chen used the eye of truth on the corpse to find out why his egg was so interested, and he was very shocked by what he saw in its stomach.
«True dragon egg? How did that beast find a true dragon egg to swallow?.... but it seems almost all the vitality of the egg is gone. It is impossible to save it but if it can be refined by my egg, it will be a huge boost! » declared Yun Chen.
He then cut open the beast belly with great effort and took out the egg. Yun Chen's egg began to absorb the vitality of the true dragon egg. Yun Chen sent the two eggs inside the companion beast space and began to peel off the few dragon scales on the body the beast.
«These scales are top grade materiel to craft weapons. » Yun Chen said with a joyful face.
«It is time to return! » Yun Chen said after packing all his loots.
The gathering time was fixed at the sunset at the exit of the forest. Everyone had already exited the forest and the only one left was Yun Chen.
The judges began to assess everyone loots. The rule was very simple: five points for a qi-condensing realm demon core, fifteen points for one at the spirit-gathering realm, and fifty points for one at the foundation building realm.
The results for each family were announced very loudly for everyone to hear it.
«Tang family! Twenty qi-condensing realm, four spirit-gathering realm and two foundation-building demon cores totaling two hundred and sixty points!
Mu family! Forty-one qi-condensing realm, twelve spirit-gathering realm and five foundation-building demon cores totaling six hundred and thirty-five points! » declared the judges.
Everyone was shocked by the performance of the Mu family. Moreover, elder Kong was very worried since Yun Chen didn't come out yet. Everyone in the Mu family was very confident especially Mu Bai.
«Haha! The Yun family is doomed! From what I can see, their score can't even come close to us. » Mu Bai cried out.
Yun Xi ang who was in charge to submit the demon cores was very embarrassed while waiting for the result.
« Yun family! Sixty-four qi-condensing realm, fifteen spirit-gathering realm and one foundation-building demon cores tota... » the judges were announcing.
«Wait! » cried a voice from the forest.
After hearing this familiar voice, elder Kong was very happy