Before deciding to hunt Qinghuolu, Zhang Ruochen calculated carefully.
With his current cultivation base, there is indeed a big gap in strength between Qinghuolu and Qinghuolu. Moreover, he still can't use the real weapon, because the flashing soul sword and Shen Yuan ancient sword are placed in the inner space of the space-time spar.
Once used, the space-time spar will be exposed.
If it were any other first-tier beast, Zhang Ruochen would have no chance of winning.
However, the Qinghuolu is different. The Qinghuolu's advantage lies in its speed, and its attack power and defense power are far inferior to other first-tier savage beasts.
And Zhang Ruochen's advantage is that he has the spiritual power and rich practical experience comparable to the Dzogchen warrior in the extreme heaven realm, and he can predict the attack direction of Qinghuolu first and make the most flexible response method.
Therefore, the terrifying speed of Qinghuolu may not necessarily be able to crush Zhang Ruochen.
"Roar!"
Zhang Ruochen took the initiative to yell at Qinghuolu like a provocation.
"Wow!"
The Qinghuolu was enraged, and the flames on his body burned brighter, turning into a blue afterimage, and rushed to Zhang Ruochen in an instant, and slammed into it.
Just before the Qinghuolu rushed over, Zhang Ruochen kicked his legs on the ground, and with the help of the elastic force, he rushed up to a height of more than seven meters.
"The flying dragon is in the sky!"
The torrential qi circulated rapidly through the eleven meridians, and Zhang Ruochen's body seemed to emit a low-pitched dragon's chant. The muscles and bones of his whole body were mobilized, and he slapped down suddenly.
However, the speed of the Qinghuolu was so fast that Zhang Ruochen's palm didn't hit it, but hit the ground.
"Wow!"
A cyan shadow flashed and appeared in front of Zhang Ruochen, and the cyan antlers on top of his head hit Zhang Ruochen's chest.
Zhang Ruochen slapped another palm, and fought with Qinghuolu.
"Boom!"
A powerful impact came from the palm of Zhang Ruochen's right arm, and he immediately lost consciousness.
Zhang Ruochen stepped back quickly and looked at his right arm, only to see that the palm of his right hand was burned by the flames on Qinghuolu's body, and even his sleeve was burned to ashes, exposing his wrist and arm.
True Qi circulated in the meridians, and the originally numb arm gradually regained consciousness.
"Squeak!"
Qinghuolu attacked again, and appeared in front of Zhang Ruochen in an instant.
At this moment, the nine princesses standing in the distance shot two lightning arrows in a row, both of which were aimed at the eyes of Qinghuolu.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The Qinghuo deer reacted extremely quickly, using the hard antlers on its head to knock out the two lightning arrows.
"The beast gallops!"
Zhang Ruochen saw the opportunity, rushed up, and with the impact of his body, he slapped again, bursting out with the strength of sixteen bulls, and hit Qinghuolu on the top of the head.
Qinghuolu let out a mournful cry, and a bloody crack appeared on the top of his head. He suffered serious injuries and his reaction became dull.
"Pfft!"
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Lord of the Ninth Princess opened his bow and shot the last thunderbolt arrow, which accurately pierced Qinghuolu's left eye.
"Boom!"
The arrow of the thunderbolt exploded, and the left head of the Qinghuolu was blown apart, and the eyeballs turned into a cloud of blood mist.
Zhang Ruochen rolled over and reached the corpse of the saber-toothed red tiger, and broke a half-foot-long sharp tooth in the saber-toothed red tiger's mouth.
The blue fire deer, which was seriously injured, also extinguished the blue flames on its body, turned around and fled.
Zhang Ruochen grabbed a sharp tooth of the saber-toothed red tiger, as if holding a short blade, and suddenly kicked on the tree trunk, and jumped up with the help of the trunk's elasticity.
"Pfft!"
The sharp tiger teeth pierced directly between the Qinghuolu's eyebrows, piercing through the Qinghuolu's head.
"Boom!"
Qinghuolu struggled twice, but finally fell to the ground, dying.
Zhang Ruochen pulled out the tiger teeth and inserted them into the Qinghuolu's abdomen, ending its life completely.
The Ninth Princess immediately rushed over, looked at the corpse of the Qinghuolu on the ground, and still couldn't believe what happened in front of her eyes, "Ninth Brother...you killed a first-class savage beast."
Zhang Ruochen stared at her, stood up, and simply bandaged his burned palm with a cloth strip, saying, "It's not me, but us."
The Lord of the Ninth Princess naturally knew that he hadn't been of much help. If Zhang Ruochen hadn't hit Qinghuolu's head with a palm, which slowed down Qinghuolu's speed, it would have been impossible for the lightning arrow she shot to hit Qinghuo. Deer eyes.
Of course, she was still very happy in her heart, after all, she participated in the hunt and killed that first-rank savage beast, and she succeeded.
The nine princesses were so excited that they immediately rushed towards Zhang Ruochen and hugged Zhang Ruochen.
"Ninth brother, we are simply the best combat partners, the cooperation is too tacit!"
Her pair of soft jade arms tightly hooked Zhang Ruochen's neck, and a pair of elastic peaks on her chest pressed up, almost throwing Zhang Ruochen to the ground.
Zhang Ruochen raised an arm, pressed the shoulder of Princess Nine, kept a certain distance from her, and said lightly, "We should go back!"
Seeing Zhang Ruochen's indifferent look, the Ninth Princess stomped his feet, frowned, and said, "I'm your sister, and I won't eat you. Do I always look disgusted?"
Zhang Ruochen walked out of the tiger's howling slope, turned over and rode on the back of the antelope, stared at the nine princesses, and said, "Let's go!"
The nine princesses rolled their eyes, put their hands on Zhang Ruochen's palm, and landed behind Zhang Ruochen, stretched out a pair of jade arms, hugged Zhang Ruochen's waist, leaned his delicate and beautiful face on Zhang Ruochen's back, and teased: " Your Highness Ninth Prince, quickly take your beautiful sister and leave this place full of killings!"
Zhang Ruochen shook his head lightly, and immediately rushed out of the dense forest on his antelope horse, heading towards the royal family's martial field.
...
Of the forty-three young warriors who participated in the hunt, twenty-six have returned to the royal martial arts field, and only seventeen have not yet returned.
The warriors who haven't come back at this time either died accidentally in the mouth of the wild beast, or they haven't hunted the wild beast yet.
"Min'er, how was the harvest this time?" asked the fifth prince's biological mother, Concubine Huo.
The fifth prince had a confident smile on his face, and said: "Report to mother, you can rest assured, this time hunting in Wangshan will definitely not be better than mine!"
"That's the best." Concubine Huo nodded and smiled.
Lin Fengxian also cast a questioning look at Lin Ningshan, and said, "Shan'er, this is your first time participating in Wangshan hunting, so you must have encountered many difficulties, right?"
Lin Ningshan shook her head, also very confident, and said: "Wangshan hunting is easier than I imagined, without any difficulties. I am confident that in this round of assessment, I will definitely be able to enter the top ten."
Lin Ningshan glanced in the direction of Wang Shan, and seeing that Zhang Ruochen still didn't come back, she felt even more proud, and thought to herself, "It seems that he hasn't hunted any wild beasts yet. After all, he has only practiced martial arts for three months. Tiancaidibao can increase strength in a short period of time, but it cannot improve a person's combat experience."
At this moment, Concubine Lin also became nervous, staring at Wang Shan's direction eagerly.
Afterwards, the young warriors who participated in the hunting came back one after another.
Most of the faces of the young warriors who came back at this time were not happy, and looked sad. Obviously, they did not hunt any wild beasts in Wangshan.
"Why haven't the Ninth Prince and the Ninth Princess come back yet? Don't be surprised."
Everyone began to worry. After all, during the hunting in Wangshan in previous years, some young warriors were killed by wild beasts.
The King of Yunwu County frowned slightly, and he was about to send someone into Wangshan immediately to find the Ninth Prince and the Ninth Princess.
Suddenly, a voice rang out from the crowd, "I'm back! The Ninth Prince and the Ninth Princess are back together!"
Concubine Lin, Lin Ningshan, and the other princes and princesses all stared in the direction of Wang Shan. They saw the nine princes and the nine princesses riding together and galloping from a distance.
Returning to the royal martial field, Zhang Ruochen and the Lord Jiu jumped off the back of the antelope and walked towards King Yunwu.
"My lord!" Zhang Ruochen said.
"Greetings to my father!" the head of the nine princesses said.
Princess Yunwu laughed loudly and said, "Jiu'er, why are you riding with Xi'er?"
The Ninth Princess said first: "Father, Ninth Brother and I were attacked by iron bulls in Wangshan Mountain, and my mount was seriously injured. Therefore, I can only ride an antelope with Ninth Brother."
King Yunwu stared at Zhang Ruochen and said, "Jiu'er, is that so?"
"Yes." Zhang Ruochen said.
King Yunwu nodded, staring at Zhang Ruochen's injured right arm, and said, "Jiu'er, after all, this is the first time you have participated in the hunting of Wangshan, and the first time you have fought against wild beasts, and you only got it three months ago. Activate the mark of divine martial arts, even if you don't hunt wild beasts, don't be too discouraged."
"I see!"
Zhang Ruochen didn't explain, just said lightly.
Princess Nine's lips moved at first, but in the end she didn't say anything.
The sixth and fifth princes were very happy when they saw Zhang Ruochen's injury.
The corners of Lin Ningshan's mouth also curled up slightly. In the last round of strength assessment, Zhang Ruochen did shine, but he was still too far behind to really fight against wild beasts!