Yan Li gulped down a mouthful of wine, then helped Ba Jin to sit under a tree and handed him the wine.
Ba Jin caught it and raised his head to drink. The spicy liquor affected his pain, causing him to choke involuntarily and cough until tears rolled down his face. "Brother Yan, do you know why I, Old Ba, am a headhunter?"
Everyone gathered around and tactfully maintained their silence, quietly listening to the lecture.
"Why?" Yan Li asked.
"When I was very young, my hometown encountered a Beast Tide …" Ba Jin held the wine jar and panted. "Brother Yan, you still don't know how a hunting ground came to be, right?"
He didn't wait for Yan Li to answer and continued, "If a Starfall Beast appears in a place, it will quickly contaminate the nearby Stellar Energy, causing it to infect other wild beasts. Look at those ghosts, they are wandering resentful spirits that have been contaminated by Stellar Energy … So, the more Starfall Beasts there are, the easier it is to become a hunting ground …
"My hometown is at the junction of the Wei Kingdom and the Great Desert Plain. It is a very remote village. As everyone knows, the Great Desert Plain is tens of thousands of miles of barren land, barren of resources, and there is no Stellar Energy to speak of. Who would have thought that it would become a hunting ground?"
He slowly fell into reminiscence. "My parents died in the Beast Tide to protect me. I escaped with a few companions from the same village. I begged for a living and ended up in the Southern Phoenix Realm. To fill their stomachs, my companions became bait for the hunting group. I, Old Ba, did not reveal my real name, and I was weak and powerless. I relied on them to support me. Later, they died in a bait operation, and I couldn't even find their bodies intact …"
"When I was twelve, I went to a place called Peach Blossom Town in the northern foothills of the Southern Phoenix Realm and found a job as a messenger." He gloomily said, "Because I, Old Ba, had poor aptitude, I couldn't awaken my real name. When I was eighteen, I finally gave up my goal of becoming a headhunter and married a girl from the same village … We had three daughters and one son …"
His expression gradually melted, like an iceberg under the sun. "My eldest daughter is very naughty. Every time I sleep, she will braid my beard, but she always refuses to admit it. My youngest son inherited my face. He's ugly. I'm worried that he won't be able to find a wife when he grows up, so I urge him to study … This boy is quite diligent. When he was ten years old, he awakened his real name. He was the first in our town. No matter how hard it is, I plan to send him to the academy to learn how to kill monsters and fulfill my regret …"
"But …" In the blink of an eye, his face was filled with grief. "Twenty years ago, a terrible thing happened in Peach Blossom Town …"
"What happened?" Gu Caiwei couldn't help asking.
Among the Heavenly Sword disciples, an older one suddenly exclaimed, "Could it be the 'Peach Blossom Village Gong Gongping Beast' incident?"
"Gong Gongping Beast?" Gu Caiwei's beautiful eyes widened. "Is it Peach Blossom Village Yang Gongping?"
The disciple was surprised. "Miss Caiwei, do you know him?"
"I've only heard of him." Gu Caiwei said with a complicated expression.
"What's going on? Hurry up and tell us!" Another disciple urged.
The older disciple slowly exhaled and said, "Exactly twenty years ago, a terrible thing happened in Peach Blossom Town. A Minister Counsellor named Yang Gongping was playing with his children when he suddenly turned into a Star Fall Beast and slaughtered all the people in the village. The people he killed also turned into Star Fall Beasts of various shapes. In just a few hours, Peach Blossom Town became a living purgatory. When the rescue team arrived, there were less than five people alive in Peach Blossom Town."
"What happened after that?" Yan Li said.
The older disciple looked at Ba Jin and sighed. "The hunting grounds of Peach Blossom Town had already threatened the surrounding towns. The Hall of Phoenix gathered their strength and killed all the Star Fall Beasts in Peach Blossom Town … In fact, those Star Fall Beasts were transformed by the people of Peach Blossom Town, but even after killing the main culprit, they could not change back."
Everyone couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air. They imagined their family and friends suddenly turning into Star Fall Beasts and then being killed by cultivators. Should they hate them or not? If they hated them, who should they hate?
Hearing this, Ba Jin couldn't help but cry.
Through his intermittent narration, everyone came to know that on the day of the tragedy, he had missed his lodging because he was delivering a letter, so he had to stay overnight in a small village. Although he was lucky enough to escape, his wife and daughter, as well as his youngest son, whom he had high hopes for, had all died in the disaster.
Under the impact of great grief, he actually awakened his true name at the age of 34. However, because he lacked a cultivation method, he could only study it by himself. In the end, he formed a set of methods to deal with the Star Fall Beasts, and became a hunting head as he wished.
His life's sorrow was closely related to the Star Fall Beasts. He had just entered his old age, but he still had to suffer such a blow. No wonder he wanted to die.
At the end of his story, Ba Jin's expression suddenly changed. He kept vomiting blood. Obviously, he was on the verge of death.
"Doctor, quickly find a doctor …"
"Doctor? Isn't there one? "
"Right, Doctor Su is here. Doctor Su, quickly come and save him!"
Doctor Su was entangled with the Black Fiends. When he heard the shout, he almost vomited blood. If it weren't for his self-restraint since childhood, he would have already cursed out loud. "You guys … Ah, after taking care of the Titan, you don't even know how to come and help me. All of you just gathered there to listen to the story, and now you want me to save people … Who told me to be a disciple of Dragon Elephant Mountain? Quickly come and take my place!"
"Hey, hey!" Everyone seemed to wake up from a dream and rushed over.
Su Xingyu was able to escape from the siege of the Black Fiends. Saving people was like fighting a fire. He immediately flashed to the side of Ba Jin. Seeing that he was still holding a jar of wine, he finally cursed out loud, "Which bastard, why did you give him wine? Are you urging him to die? "
Yan Li's hand trembled, and he almost couldn't hold the arc light.
"No, it's okay … I, Old Ba … Living … Is … Meaningless …" Ba Jin shook his head reluctantly.
"The disciple of Dragon Elephant Mountain will never leave him to die!" Su Xingyu calmed down and put his hands on Ba Jin's body. There was a warm white light.
This light of his wasn't an ordinary light either. It was the phenomenon of cultivating the third part of the "Wonderful Spirit True Pivot", the "Heroic Spirit Pivot". It was called "Spirit Spirit". Not only could it check the condition of a person's injuries, it could also be supplemented by silver needles to help treat them.
If it weren't for such a magical method, how could Yan Li be alive and kicking?
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