Braised Dragon with Soy Sauce

Chapter 153 Waiting for the rabbit

When they received the intelligence from Mo Yuming, they had already been in the mountains for two days.

It would take more than two days to travel from Shangyuan City to the border, so barring any unforeseen circumstances, Mo Yuming's team would arrive at the border under Shangyuan City's jurisdiction ahead of schedule.

Mo Yuming did not allow the two old ladies, Qi Mei and Qing Wei, to participate in this operation. After all, protecting Huang Xiaoxiao was a great responsibility, and the Great Xia Empire's purse could not afford the slightest mishap.

To lead the five members of the Sin Clan safely across the Monster Mountain Range to Shangyuan City, the escort team must be quite large, and their cultivation levels cannot be too low.

According to the collected information, one generally needs to reach at least the fifth level of the Earth Rank to have a chance of getting here through that cliff, and that's assuming there's no burden involved.

Now, to protect and guard the five criminal clans as they pass through, the required personnel must certainly have even higher levels of cultivation.

Therefore, Mo Yuming estimated that Wu Ji would send at least level 6 Earth-rank martial artists to carry out this mission, and the number would be at least 15, including possibly some Heaven-rank experts.

In this operation, in addition to sending Dragon Lord and Tiger Lord to participate, Mo Yuming also had Sun Min select ten Falcon Guards with cultivation levels of Earth Rank 8 or above to go with him, and dispatched twenty Falcon Guards with excellent lightness skills and archery skills to provide covert support from behind.

At the same time, Su Yangyan and his group also began their respective actions.

Local governments issued notices to reassure the people, announcing plans to further improve policies that benefit the people, reduce tax revenue, and lower the barriers to immigration.

Jiang Yuheng directed the troop withdrawal in an orderly manner and intensified recruitment efforts.

The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of State Security began to intensify their efforts to investigate and verify household registrations.

Huang Xiaoxiao also assigned Huang An a new task: to secretly find reliable people and increase infiltration into surrounding cities, especially Zhongyuan City.

Aside from those who accompanied Mo Yuming on missions, the Falcon Guards directly under Mo Yuming's command were also busy. They possessed a list from Zhang Sibo and Wu Ci, and were secretly making the people on that list disappear.

The team swiftly traversed the Monster Mountain Range, with Dragon Lord and Tiger Lord leading the way.

Relying on their powerful mental abilities, they detected potential threats ahead and led their team around these obstacles to avoid unnecessary battles and reach their destination as quickly as possible.

After two days of rapid travel, Mo Yuming and his team finally arrived at the designated location ahead of schedule and began setting up surveillance there.

According to hunters who are very familiar with the area, there are only two ways to get here from the other side.

One is a ten-mile-long cave that pierces through the mountain, where many poisonous insects and magical beasts gather.

These magical beasts are not high-level, but they are all highly poisonous. If you are not careful, you will be attacked by poisonous insects and magical beasts hiding in the dark. At best you will be injured, and at worst you will die. It is not easy to get through.

The other option is to climb a solitary peak, pass through a spot called "Sky Eagle's Beak" at the summit, and then descend from the other side of the mountain to reach this side. That solitary peak is treacherous and difficult to climb, and it is also the habitat of a very ferocious flying magical beast called the Split-Headed Eagle. Therefore, attempting to pass through it would result in a fierce attack from the Split-Headed Eagle.

If one's Xuan Gong cultivation is high and there are no burdens, there is nothing to fear. Moreover, the eagles that are hunted are a type of prey that are very popular with buyers.

However, it would be extremely dangerous to cross "Sky Eagle's Beak" with several people of low cultivation level.

That section was all hard rock with no vegetation to cover it, so people with low cultivation levels were basically sitting ducks there.

Therefore, for safety reasons, most teams that are slow or have other problems will choose to pass through the caves at the foot of the mountain.

Therefore, Mo Yuming and his men lay in ambush around the cave, waiting for their prey to come to them.

Although Mo Yuming successfully reached the designated location under the guidance of Master Long and Master Hu, this place was already the territory occupied by magical beasts. It was an area that extended from the edge into the depths, and some of the more powerful magical beasts would often come to this area to hunt prey.

Therefore, if Mo Yuming and his group wanted to stay in this area, they would definitely not be able to avoid attacks from the magical beasts.

By the end of the day, Mo Yuming and his group had killed three level-three magical beasts and one level-four magical beast.

Level 3 magical beasts are equivalent to the strength of humans at the Earth Rank 1 to 3, while Level 4 magical beasts are equivalent to the strength of humans at the Earth Rank 4 to 6.

Monsters of level six or higher have surpassed the peak strength of humans at the Earth Rank, and can only be dealt with by experts at the Heaven Rank or above.

However, level 6 and above magical beasts rarely appear in the outer mountains; at most, only level 5 magical beasts occasionally come out to roam.

Upon seeing the monster's corpse on the ground, Mo Yuming immediately came up with a plan.

So he took out a transparent object from his storage bag. It was a treasure he had obtained in Yishi Valley, which he had kept without any use. Today, he finally felt he could put it to good use.

This is a clump of ghostly spider silk, a transparent kind of spider silk, bound there so tightly that even mental energy detection cannot detect it, and its strength is very high.

Therefore, Mo Yuming decided to install some small mechanisms at the entrance of the cave.

He also ordered Lord Dragon and Lord Tiger to lead their teams to capture some third- or fourth-tier magical beasts in the surrounding area, but not to injure them.

Three days have passed in the blink of an eye, and it's estimated that Wu Ji's group of people should arrive in the next day or two.

So Mo Yuming led ten Falcon Guards to light a campfire more than a hundred feet away from the cave exit, set up a rack, cut some monster meat and roasted it over the fire, and placed several jars of strong liquor next to it, pretending to be explorers hunting in this area.

Meanwhile, Lord Dragon and Lord Tiger remained hidden near the cave exit, conducting reconnaissance. With their "Soul Power Stacking Technique," even a fifth-level Heavenly Rank expert wouldn't be able to detect them.

“Someone has come out of the cave. The number of people is similar to the estimate. They are expected to come out of the cave in about an incense stick's time.”

Tiger sent a message.

"They were attacked by monsters in the cave, and two of the people in the lead were seriously injured. They will be coming out of the cave soon. It has been confirmed that it is them. There are five teenagers in the group who are being controlled."

Fifteen minutes later, Tiger sent another message.

"Alright, let's get started."

Mo Yuming gave the order. The Falcon Guards, disguised as explorers, opened the bottles of strong liquor, poured some on the ground, and let the strong aroma of the liquor spread.

Then they started pretending to drink and eat meat.

The sun was already setting in the west and was about to disappear; the woods were already getting dark, and the sunlight could no longer penetrate.

A group of hunters, carrying torches and swords, emerged from the cave. Most of them were ragged and disheveled, and many had obvious wounds.

As soon as they emerged from the cave, a burly man carrying a large knife shouted excitedly:

"Haha, finally out of that hellhole! I can finally breathe a sigh of relief! Damn it!"

"Don't get too excited yet. This is still deep in the Monster Mountain Range, where large monsters of a higher level than those over there often appear."

"Another middle-aged man following behind him said."

'Roar! '

No sooner had the man finished speaking than a level four saber-toothed tiger pounced out of the bushes, its jaws snapping at the burly man! The man quickly raised his knife to parry, cursing incoherently:

"Crow's Mouth!"