Puppet

Ji Hao was stopped by the two Jia Clan warriors. The slaves near Ji Hao were all curling up on the ground and trembling in fear.

From the Cold Stream that was flowing at the side, the fat bear jumped out abruptly. The bear's fur was soaking wet. It leaped high in the air, raised its huge paw and slapped toward one of the Jia Clan warriors.

"Fatty! Get away!" The corners of Ji Hao's eye twitched. He let out a growl anxiously.

The bear's beady eyes turned into blood-red; thick strands of viscous white saliva hung from the corners of its mouth; every single of its hairs had risen on end like steel needles; and the huge bear paw created a gust of fierce wind. The bear showed no signs of stopping.

The Jia Clan warrior aimed at by the bear raised his head, throwing a sideways glance at the bear with that mocking smile that remained on his face. He then quickly took a large step sideways, moved right under the bear's body, and punched the bear's belly with his right fist.

This punch sent the gigantic bear flying into the air. The bear flew a mile away like a small flying mountain, then fell into the Cold Stream. The water rapidly turned red and then the bear slowly floated up, drifting down along with the flow then getting stuck at several giant stones in the middle of the stream.

At the end of the valley, swirls of dust rose thousands of feet high in the air. Tens of Fire Crow Warriors who were guarding the end of the valley were rushing towards Ji Hao and the others.

They shouted loudly when they saw the two Jia Clan Warriors; looming fiery lights appeared behind their bodies. They raised their arms and threw their spears towards the Jia Clan warriors across a distance of miles.

Tens of Mulberry wood spears were all wrapped by blazing fire and darted toward the two Jia Clan Warriors in different paths, blocking all the possible sides that the Jia Clan warriors might go to dodge the attack.

The Jia Clan warrior with the sword turned his head then showed a creepy smile to Ji Hao who had a very serious expression. The Jia Clan warrior then took the shield which hanged around his waist and raised it high then casted an odd spell. The shield suddenly emitted an eye-piercing light; the light soon formed an immense light-shield in front of the two Jia Clan warriors.

In the next second, all the spears shattered against the light-shield along with a thunderous noise, while the light-shield stood firmly without even shaking.

Ji Hao noticed that there was a familiar totem embossed on the surface of the Jia Clan warrior's shield - A tower with a blood-red eye floating on top of it. That eye was shining with a blood-red light, very life-like. Ji Hao gazed at that eye, shivering subconsciously.

Another Jia Clan warrior dropped his bola and soothed the bone joints of his fingers. He thrusted his hands towards the tens of Fire Crow warriors who were rushing towards him and his partner. His ten fingers then started flicking like he was playing a pipa[1].

The air near his fingertips then started popping; countless fist-sized, dagger-like sharp gusts of winds darted out from near his fingers and suddenly hit on those Fire Crow warriors' bodies.

Every single flick of the Jia Clan warrior sent hundreds of gusts of wind towards those Fire Crow Clan warriors; these dagger-like wind broke their bones, pierced their arms and legs, and hollowed their chests. Those Fire Crow warriors had not been prepared for this; they were trembling intensely and vomiting blood, seemingly as weak as grasses under the attack of these strange wind. Soon, all of the Fire Crow warriors were sent flying backwards by the rain-storm-like sharp gusts of wind.

"So vulnerable! I'm disappointed. Haven't met any real rival yet." Said one of the Jia Clan warriors.

The other Jia Clan warrior stopped flicking his fingers. Wisps of smoke rose from his ten finger tips, which caused by the friction between his fingers and the air.

Ji Hao gnashed his teeth and glared at the two horrible enemies.

The shield was nothing but a magus tool with extraordinary defensive power. However, Ji Hao didn't sense even a trace of magical power from the guy who just knocked tens of Fire Crow Clan warriors down by flicking his fingers, which meant that he only popped the air using brute force and easily smashed a Fire Crow Clan warrior team.

Mr. Crow stretched his wings and slightly moved his claws which were gripping Ji Hao's shoulder; a trace of cruelty flashed through his blood-red pupils.

Ji Hao patted Mr. Crow and slightly shook his head. He had known Mr. Crow since he was a newborn baby; he clearly understood the meaning of Mr. Crow's actions.

There are still more powerful enemies hidden in that dense jungle all this time, which was why Mr. Crow didn't pay any attention to the Jia Clan warriors and kept a vigilant watch at the jungle.

"You're very powerful. However, this is our Fire Crow Clan's territory." Ji Hao stared at the two Jia Clan warriors who wasn't even gasping for breath after all this, and said seriously. "No matter where you came from, you have invaded our territory, you..."

"This place is far, far away from the center of your Fire Crow Clan, we're not afraid of the retaliation from your clan at all. Are you trying to stall us? Little guy, I have to admit that you surprised me. This cleverness of yours will make you worth even more!" The Jia Clan warrior wielding a sword interrupted Ji Hao's words. He looked at Ji Hao up and down with his four cold eyes.

The other Jia Clan warrior picked up his bola, waved it then grinned and said to Ji Hao, "You'll be worth a fortune. I feel like I'm looking at piles of gold and jade. We can live a happy and comfortable life for a long while."

All the warriors guarding the Cold Stream Valley were knocked down this time; groups of Savages rushed into the valley.

These Savages had no sense of rules��they started damaging everything once they got into the valley.

Thanks to Ji Shu and his people, there were nothing like food or equipment worthy to be robbed in the Cold Stream Valley. The Savages rummaged for a while then fixed their eyes on those slaves who were still curling up on the ground.

"Meat! Smell so good!" Savages rubbed their hands and walked toward those slaves. They have fought hard for quite a while; at this point, they were all starving. The Savages could eat all living things; now these slaves who were powerless to resist were the best food for them.

The sound of friction came from the jungle. Three enormous metal beings swiftly walked out of the jungle along with cracking branch sounds.

Ji Hao looked at the three gigantic things stunningly - They looked like three huge metal spiders; their bodies were over twenty feet tall and the spider legs were nearly a hundred feet long, which allowed them to move surprisingly fast.

Soon, the three metal spiders got into the Cold Stream Valley. They opened their mouths and made an ear-piercing sound. The Savages who were approaching those slaves started screaming immediately and tried to block the sound by covering their ears with their hands. Then they left those slaves and fled.

The three metal spiders quickly walked up behind Ji Hao while driving Savages away and slowly lowered their bodies.

The body of the metal spider in the middle opened a crack abruptly; a cold voice came from inside of it.

"Bind all the captives. Now we only need to wait until the others come back and take care of them too, then we can finish this perfect hunt."

The voice paused for a second, then chuckled, "It's worth the wait. We have waited in the damn jungle for over a month. I'm very satisfied on our harvest this time."

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[1]Pipa: A plucked string instrument with a fretted fingerboard