Legend of Shi’En - C114

“Tsk tsk tsk, 90% of your inner strength. You’re really strong.” Shi En pushed his palm forward with all of his strength, and it released a whizzing sound. With a “Ga Beng” sound, the arm of the Siya Ape changed shape, and from the looks of it, it was as if Shi En’s palm strike had injured its muscles and bones, and that was not it, the strong impact caused the arm of the Siya Ape to rebound and hit its own head. The Siya Ape’s eyes flashed with golden light, and then with a “boom”, it fell onto the ground, unconscious.

“Eh, I’m sorry, Elder Farmer. I broke your child’s bones.”

The surprises that Shi En had brought him today were truly endless. Not only did he take down the Siya Ape with a few strikes, he had even broken one of its arms with a single palm strike. This was truly a youth’s terror!

Shi En could not remove the Inner Qi yet, he could still allow the wooden sword to absorb the increasing weight crazily. He had to be careful while driving the ship, he still had to be on guard, who knew if this Siya Ape was faking it or not. He saw that both of the Siya Ape’s arms were injured and had lost their fighting strength, and then dramatically punched himself and fainted. Suddenly, the scene became quiet, and Shi En called over the Elder Farmer, asking: “Elder Farmer, come over here, I have something to ask of you.”

“Eh, alright, little brother.” Elder Farmer slowly walked towards Shi En and asked: “Little brother, are you alright?

“I would like to know what kind of relationship you have with this Siya Ape? Is it really your child? Also, who exactly are you? ” Until now, Shi En still could not believe it, or perhaps, he could not accept this fact from the bottom of his heart. He could not imagine that when the Elder Farmer was young, he was able to coexist with a Maternal Siya Ape, and give birth to such a small Siya Ape in October.

Actually, Shi En was overthinking it.

The Elder Farmer’s surname was Wu, and he had a single name – Rice. The name was tacky but it was also real, simple and clear. His father wanted him to be able to eat since he was young, a typical farmer’s thought. The Elder Farmer was not a local, his hometown was in Yunnan Province, his family had been farming for generations, and had never changed jobs for dozens of generations. Furthermore, every generation of his family had their own children, and every generation lived a busy life of sun rising and setting, toiling away.

It was only until the year of the External Devil’s invasion that the young and strong Elder Farmer was dragged by the imperial government to the frontlines to become strong men, and then, it could be said that there was an unending war going on, and the people did not live it up. Fortunately, after years of hard fighting, the Elder Farmer still survived and only when Imperial Family of The Great Ming Dynasty bowed down to the External Devil Group did the war come to an end.

His superior didn’t ask him to stay either. He simply stamped the seal and paid him the money he deserved. Elder Farmer, who was filled with longing for his old home, finally returned half a month later. However, what he did not expect was that his home had already been taken for granted.

After many enquiries, the Elder Farmer learned from some of the village elders that two years after he was dragged to the battlefield, his father accidentally broke his leg when he was working outside the village.

Later on, his father became more and more ill, and because of the injury on his leg, he did not go out to work, so he had no income. In the end, he had to sell his land at a low price to pay for the treatment of his illness.

After the only family member in the world left him, Elder Farmer muddle-headedly left his hometown. He wandered around everywhere in the four seas until he came to the place called Bu Zheng Envoys in Guangxi, a place that changed his fate.

After wandering for several years, Elder Farmer had finally used up all of his savings. His life had already reached the point where he could not eat his fill, and he was completely naked; in the end, in order to support himself, he had to rely on the mountains and water for support. Together with a group of strong young men from a small village, he began to hunt the ‘External Devil Beast’ on the mountain, going to the market to trade for the living expenses.

Every day, he would lead a large group of young men up the mountain and rely on the knowledge and methods he had learned in the army to set up traps and traps to kill the ‘External Devil Beast’; however, gradually, Elder Farmer realized that his hands were covered with blood and he had started to put away his desire to kill. He was a farmer’s son with red roots, so he paid more attention to natural ecology than anyone else.

The Elder Farmer had wanted to use his blood-stained hands to save some tiny lives. Their real intention was to let a portion of the young ‘External Devil Beast’ on the mountain receive a certain degree of safety. Also, the people from the little village in the church knew how to protect the natural environment, otherwise, with the speed at which they were hunting, or perhaps in less than two years, the entire mountain would become a barren mountain.

Unfortunately, the young lad who tasted the sweetness had set the rules with the outsider, Elder Farmer. It was just that he disobeyed the rules because of his strength. The Elder Farmer knew about this, but he was helpless against it. He could only rely on his own weak strength to secretly let some of the ‘External Devil Beast’ in danger escape from him during every hunt.

One day, he accidentally received a message that someone from the village had gone up the mountain late into the night to pick ginseng, and accidentally fell into a very hidden cave. He even let him unintentionally discover that there lived a King of Fierce Beasts — Siya Ape that was in labor.

Hearing this news, the crowd broke into discussion, but without exception, all of them revealed expressions of greed. During this period of time, some of them had learned from their peers in the marketplace that these ‘External Devil Beast’ who lived in their own small village’s Posterior Mountain were extremely valuable. Moreover, they had heard of the price of these Siya Ape, it could be said that all of them were treasures, and even a single tooth of this Siya Ape could be exchanged for twenty silver. One by one, they calculated that if they could kill it, then the wealth they would be able to obtain from this Siya Ape would be enough for their entire small village to live comfortably for two years.

When this group of hot-blooded youngsters thought of this, they immediately raised their arms to call for everyone, with the intention of leading the entire village to the mountain, to hunt and kill the King of Assassins — the Siya Ape. Everyone was swallowed by a wild beast called desire, all of them looked down upon the Siya Ape.

And the only person who could still maintain his rationality at this time was Elder Farmer.

It was because he understood more than anyone else how terrifying the Siya Ape’s strength actually was. Back then, in the “Human Demon War”, he had personally witnessed the Great Ming Dynasty of a thirty thousand elite unit that was equipped with a powerful weapon. Even in front of a single Siya Ape, they could only be crushed like rotten twigs; a total of thirty thousand people, with less than a fifth surviving in the end.

Looking at the group of ignorant villagers in front of them, the entire village only had around three hundred people, their hands were filled with simple beast catching equipment, how could they deal with them? Furthermore, what they were facing was a Siya Ape in labor, although all the External Devil Beast would reduce their fighting strength to less than ten percent of their fighting strength, but they did not know, if the maternal External Devil Beast was aware that there was something harmful to her, they would not care about any consequences, even if they had to fight to the end with her, it would not be enough.

It could be said that if the villagers really went up the mountain to hunt the Maternal Siya Ape, then the whole village would only have a calamity awaiting them. Elder Farmer made up his mind that he could not sit idly by. After finding the cave, he went up the mountain first. With his own experience, he found the cave soon enough.