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The Zhenwu Sect, like the Spirit Snake Sect, is an ordinary sect with only one city of its own, and its sect leader Nian Zhe has great Juyuan cultivation.
Zhenwuzong is tens of thousands of miles away from Xia Mo Dynasty. It is separated from Xia Mo by the Sifang Dynasty, and it is only separated from the Sifang Dynasty by a mountain.
This mountain is the Zhenwu Mountain Range between the Zhenwu Sect and the Sifang Chuyun Dynasty.
"Senior brother, there is something wrong with these monster corpses."
"Yes, there are no fatal wounds, just symptoms of sudden death from blood loss."
Mu Rong and Yang Rui came to the Zhenwu Mountains from the sect early in the morning, but along the way, they found many shriveled corpses of low-level monsters outside the mountains.
"I remember that such things happened one after another in the Chu Yun Dynasty more than a hundred years ago, but the corpse was not a monster but a human. It also died of blood depletion in the whole body." Yang Rui thought for a while and said.
"Chu Yun's side actually appeared a thousand years ago. It seemed that a child of the Qing family who was less than ten years old could swallow the blood of others. Later, this child escaped, and the two thousand or so members of the Qing family were killed by Chu Yun. The dynasty was exterminated."
"Then it stopped for a thousand years and reappeared more than a hundred years ago."
The two of them were chatting while running towards the mountains, but not far away there were the sounds of fighting and the screams of young people.
A boy about ten years old was being torn around by one arm by a tiger bear.
While the boy was screaming, he did not forget to use the sharp wooden stick in his other hand to stab the tiger bear hard.
Without saying a word, Yang Rui took out her spear and stabbed the tiger bear. In just this moment, the tiger bear tucked its tail and ran away.
The young man was disheveled and pale, with only a layer of animal skin covering his body. He looked like a wild man in the mountains and forests. With his whole body covered in scars, he huddled under a tree and looked at the two of them in horror.
"Did you go into the mountain alone? Where is your family?" Mu Rong asked.
The young man looked at Mu Rong in horror and shook his head.
"Is your family from the Zhenwu Sect?"
The young man still shook his head.
"Senior brother, looking at him like this, he must have been living alone in the mountains."
"You're only about ten years old, and you don't have any cultivation. It's not easy to be alone in the mountains." Mu Rong said, taking out a bottle of medicinal solution and five spiritual jade, and handed them to the young man.
"This liquid can cure trauma. You can exchange this jade for silver coins, find a simple place to live, and then buy yourself some clothes and some food."
The young man didn't pick up the spirit jade. He stood up with difficulty against the tree and walked forward. However, he fainted on the ground before taking two steps.
"Senior brother?"
"It will be very troublesome to bring this kind of child home who has been growing up in the mountains." Mu Rong naturally knew what Yang Rui was thinking.
"It's just that there is no one to teach you. Once you take it back, you can teach it slowly. And you can also be a companion to Xue'er."
"Okay. Let's take it back and take a look first." Mu Rong said, carrying the unconscious boy on his back.
The two of them went down the mountain and returned home. Their four-year-old daughter Mu Xue looked at the boy curiously: "Hey, Mom and Dad, why did you pick up a little savage and come back?"
"Xue'er can't call others that. By the way, why didn't you go out to play today?" Yang Rui looked at Mu Xue lovingly and said.
"I don't dare. Pinyun always scares me, saying that he will release their three-eyed wolf to bite me."
"Silly girl, he's just scaring you, he won't actually bite you."
Mu Rong said and put the boy on the bed, then took out the healing liquid and started to treat the boy. At dusk, the boy finally woke up.
"Ah, are you awake? What's your name? My name is Xue'er. My parents rescued you in the mountains."
After waking up, the young man looked at the cloth on his body curiously, and then huddled up to the corner of the bed still nervously.
"What's your name? Where is your home?" Yang Rui looked at the young man and asked softly.
The boy didn't speak, and curled up in the corner of the bed with his head lowered.
"Mom, can't he speak?"
"Forest."
As soon as Mu Xue finished speaking, the boy blurted out.
"Lin? Is your surname Lin? There seems to be no one surnamed Lin in the Zhenwu Sect?" Yang Rui thought for a while and said.
"Okay, I'll call you Lin Zi from now on."
"Brother Lin, how about you play with me?"
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A few months have passed in the blink of an eye, and Lin Zi is well behaved in the Mu family, but he still doesn't speak and only occasionally speaks a word or two. She is still a little afraid of Mu Rong and Yang Rui, but she can play with Mu Xue occasionally.
When Mu Rong and Yang Rui returned home from the clan that day, they found Lin Zi covered in blood and sitting in the corner applying chewed plants to his wounds. Mu Xue squatted beside the forest and kept crying.
"What's wrong with Linzi? Xue'er, what's going on?"
"I took Brother Lin out to play today. Pinyun called Brother Lin a little bastard and let his three-eyed wolf bite me. Brother Lin protected me and started fighting with the three-eyed wolf." Mu Xue said in tears.
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A year has passed in the blink of an eye, and the woods still haven’t changed much. Still not talking much, but no longer so afraid of Mu Rong and Yang Rui. He also protects Xueer like an older brother.
In the past year, he has entered the mountain alone more than ten times, each time lasting two or three hours, and when he came back, he was covered in blood.
"Xue'er, where is your brother Lin?"
"Brother Lin went into the mountains and said he wanted to catch a ferocious beast for me. From now on, I will no longer have to be afraid of Pinyun's three-eyed wolf."
At dusk, the forest still did not appear. Mu Xue was anxious and worried, and couldn't help crying again.
"Senior brother, why don't you go to the mountains and take a look? Don't run into any danger."
"He has lived alone in the mountains since he was a child. He can escape even if he encounters danger. He has been out for a day. He must be used to staying in the mountains and is not used to being at home. He will not come back again."
"Brother Lin will never fail to come back. He promised to catch a cute and ferocious beast for me."
Just as he was talking, Lin Zi appeared covered in blood.
In one hand, Lin Zi held his shirt and two uninitiated monsters the size of rabbits, while in the other hand he held a silver-spotted two-winged leopard cub the size of a kitten.
The silver-spotted double-winged leopard cub had big cute eyes and looked at everyone curiously. On its back, a pair of fleshy wings had just exposed its pointed horns.
"Big beast, fierce."
Lin Zi said as he handed the cub in his arms to Mu Xue, and at the same time handed the jacket and two monster beast corpses in his other hand to Mu Rong. There are more than a dozen bright red fruits wrapped in the coat.
"Spirit fruit, beast-eating, delicious."
"Are these bimu fruits and fire lin fruits? These are only found in mountain streams. They are difficult to find. They are almost close to the mountainside."
In the Zhenwu Mountains, the foot of the mountain is the outer area, and the mountainside is close to the core area. Even Mu Rong and Yang Rui have to be careful when going there.
"By the way, senior brother. If Linzi can hunt monsters, you can teach him to take the monsters to the town and sell them, which will give him a way to make a living."
