There were bones everywhere in the valley, and these bones emitted a bad smell, which made Xiang Yuanyuan frown.
"These are all wild boar bones, right? Was this done by... Tiger Vanguard?"
Xiang Yuanyuan looked at the bones scattered all over the ground and easily identified them. After all, these bones were obviously from the same large animal. In Huangshan, there were so many large animals of the same type, and the only one was the wild boar.
This allowed her to recognize at a glance that it must have been done by Tiger Vanguard.
"Well, let's go inside. Tiger Vanguard is inside."
Du Ruo nodded and did not deny it. At this time, the two were still in the air. After Du Ruo finished speaking, he continued to fly into the valley with Xiang Yuanyuan.
As they flew, more and more bones appeared on the ground, scattered randomly. It was unknown how many wild boars Tiger Vanguard had eaten.
It was not until they flew over a turn that Xiang Yuanyuan heard the familiar purring of a tiger. It was the chest resonance of breathing that is unique to large cats and is very easy to identify.
After flying for a while, we found a tiger lying under a big tree in the upwind area of the valley.
"Is this still Tiger Vanguard? Why is this happening?"
Xiang Yuanyuan looked at the tiger lying on the ground and sleeping, feeling somewhat unbelievable.
The last time she saw Tiger Vanguard, Tiger Vanguard was extremely majestic. Although it looked clumsy in front of her, it could not conceal its power. Moreover, Tiger Vanguard's fur was shiny and smooth at that time.
But now the Tiger Vanguard lying under the tree has completely changed its appearance. Its body has become bigger, but most importantly, it has lost a lot of hair, and some parts are even bald so that the skin can be seen.
A breeze blew by, and a bunch of hair was blown off the Tiger Vanguard lying on the ground, revealing his smooth skin.
If Xiang Yuanyuan hadn't heard Tiger Pioneer's breathing and seen its belly rising and falling with its breathing, she would have thought that Tiger Pioneer was dead.
"It is currently sleeping and transforming. During this time, I have been keeping watch over it with my mind."
Du Ruo opened her mouth softly and explained for Xiang Yuanyuan.
As Du Ruo spoke, Tiger Vanguard's ears moved, but he did not wake up.
"Transformation? Is it the same transformation as my husband's body at that time?"
After listening to this, Xiang Yuanyuan immediately connected Tiger Vanguard and Du Ruo's transformation together.
“It’s somewhat similar, but more than that. My transformation was divided into stages. The skin, muscles, bones, internal organs, and spirit, each step can be traced.
But it seems to be a simultaneous transformation.”
Du Ruo continued to explain to Xiang Yuanyuan:
"It has absorbed a lot of spiritual energy. It used to follow me every day just to imitate my aura and my understanding of nature. After a long period of accumulation, although it didn't take any natural treasures, it was enough to support its body transformation."
"Is this a good thing? Will it become even more powerful after waking up?"
Xiang Yuanyuan loves all the animals in the house. For example, when the clouded leopard secretly went to feed little Duheng milk, she scolded it every time but did not really drive it away.
They even added a lot of beef and various nutrients to the clouded leopards because they were worried that the clouded leopards would not be able to produce enough nutrition for their milk.
"It's definitely getting better, but that's not the point."
As Du Ruo spoke, he waved his hand and the tiger hair that fell on the ground was blown up by the wind, revealing a handful of fallen tiger whiskers under the tiger vanguard's head.
The tiger whiskers flew up from the ground and landed in Du Ruo's hands.
"Take this back. It's enough material to make a bracelet and a necklace for your daughter."
Du Ruo handed the tiger whisker in his hand to Xiang Yuanyuan.
"..."
Xiang Yuanyuan rolled her eyes at Du Ruo. Even at this time, he still didn't forget his precious daughter. But she was relieved, thinking that Hu Xianfeng's condition was not serious, so Du Ruo acted like this.
"Its body is undergoing a series of changes now. These changes are the focus of my observation. If I am not mistaken, when it wakes up, it will no longer be an ordinary animal. It may become the first demon at present."
When Du Ruo saw Xiang Yuanyuan’s eye roll, she just smiled and continued to explain for Xiang Yuanyuan.
"You mean it becomes a legendary monster? Then will it become a human? If it becomes a monster, will it be able to speak?"
Xiang Yuanyuan nodded, and immediately thought of many things, and asked a variety of questions one after another.
"I don't know anything."
Du Ruo shook his head. This was the first time he had seen such a thing. This was also the reason why he had been observing the changes in Tiger Vanguard. He would even occasionally let his mind plunder some spiritual energy and transfer it into Tiger Vanguard's body.
This can be considered as protecting the Dharma, and it can also be considered as accelerating the physical transformation of Tiger Vanguard.
"After the transformation, the body will definitely be stronger and more powerful, but it should be difficult to transform into a human. As for speaking, it should still be possible if you learn it."
Then Du Ruo thought about it, and calculated the spiritual energy he had passed on to Tiger Vanguard. It was basically impossible to do what Yuanyuan said so easily.
"Oh~"
To be honest, Xiang Yuanyuan was a little disappointed, but since Du Ruo said so, she didn't doubt it at all.
"But if the trend continues, what you said may actually come true, but it certainly won't happen in a short period of time."
Du Ruo finally gave his own speculation directly.
At the same time, I also had more ideas.
"If we develop a set of techniques that can be practiced by animals, and then teach them, would that be considered promoting martial arts?"
Du Ruo thought about it, but finally shook his head and rejected it. This kind of thing would not make much sense even if it was promoted. After all, animals are animals, and there are too many uncontrollable factors.
And there is no need for him to do this, so just put it aside and let future generations deal with it themselves.
Of course, there is no need to ask him to kill Tiger Vanguard like this. As long as he is still there, Tiger Vanguard will not be able to cause any trouble. By the way, he can also collect some information about the process of animals turning into monsters, which can be regarded as leaving some reference for future generations.
"I was wondering if Tiger Vanguard has come back for a long time. It turns out he's in the process of metamorphosis. How long will this last? Is it dangerous for him to just lie there?"
Xiang Yuanyuan was still a little curious. After all, she had been with Hu Xianfeng for such a long time, so it was normal for him to worry about her.
"..."
When Du Ruo heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Xiang Yuanyuan. This question made him speechless.
"It's still early. Its transformation is based on instinct, and it needs a long time to absorb spiritual energy. As for the danger... it's a tiger. As long as it's still breathing, no animal will dare to attack it.
And it's only when we get close that it instinctively recognizes our scent. If it were any other animal, it would sense danger and wake up and slap it to death with one slap. "
However, Du Ruo finally explained that Tiger Vanguard had long realized that it was about to transform, so it killed wild boars in large numbers before hibernating in order to accumulate physical strength. In addition, Du Ruo occasionally helped it plunder spiritual energy, so there was basically no crisis.
“Husband~~”
Xiang Yuanyuan looked at Tiger Vanguard for a while, but her curiosity soon wore off. Then she took Du Ruo's arm and looked at him expectantly.
"You want to see the mother clouded leopard?"
When Du Ruo saw Xiang Yuanyuan's expectant eyes, he immediately knew what she was thinking.
In this forest, perhaps what Xiang Yuanyuan misses most is the clouded leopard mother at home.
"Uh-huh."
After hearing this, Xiang Yuanyuan nodded repeatedly with a look of anticipation on her face.
The mother clouded leopard gave birth to two cubs. When Du Ruo went out, she sent one of them home. After that, Xiang Yuanyuan never saw the mother clouded leopard again.
Now that she was walking in the forest again, she wanted to see the mother clouded leopard again.
"Okay, let's go take a look."
Du Ruo did not object and nodded directly. He just thought about it, and the information and specific location of the clouded leopard mother immediately appeared in his mind.
Holding each other's round waists, the two left the valley and flew in one direction.
Du Ruofei was not heading in the direction of the boulder they used to go to. The mother clouded leopard had already given the territory there to the clouded leopard at home, and it went to a farther place.
There weren't many nice sights in the forest at night. The most eye-catching thing was some lights from the town in the distance, so Du Ruo flew very quickly and stopped after a while, standing on the top of a big tree.
"Over there, on that branch."
Seeing Xiang Yuanyuan still searching the forest with wide eyes for the clouded leopard mother, Du Ruo pointed to the tallest pine tree and said something. However, the sound did not spread out and was transmitted between the two of them.
Xiang Yuanyuan followed Du Ruo's gaze and saw the clouded leopard mother on the pine tree.
The mother clouded leopard is a little bigger than before, but not as big as the one at home. At this time, the mother clouded leopard is lying on the branch of a big pine tree, eating a snake more than one meter long with her head tilted.
If you listen carefully, you can hear the crunching sound of the mother clouded leopard biting snake bones.
I just wanted to take a look at Yuanyuan and had no intention of going back. After all, there were so many animals at home and I couldn’t take them all back.
And she also understands that these animals have their own way of survival and nature is more suitable for them.
The clouded leopard mother is different from the clouded leopard at home. Although the clouded leopard at home has become a mother now, Xiang Yuanyuan has watched her grow up since she was a child and has adapted to living with humans.
"Let's go and see the clouded leopard sisters at home."
Du Ruo secretly transferred a wisp of spiritual energy into the clouded leopard mother's body, and then took Xiang Yuanyuan away from the place and left in another direction.
"Meow~"
The mother clouded leopard seemed to sense something and felt a warm current in her body. She stopped eating the snake, looked up in the direction where Du Ruo and Xiang Yuanyuan had just stood, and called out in some confusion.
After finding nothing, he continued to eat the remaining half of the snake.
Du Ruo took Xiang Yuanyuan for a walk in the forest for quite a long time.
I saw the other little clouded leopard that the mother clouded leopard was carrying. To my surprise, that clouded leopard had also given birth to a baby. Another little clouded leopard was following it, walking in the forest.
This clouded leopard looks about the same size as its mother.
In fact, the mother clouded leopard picked the thinnest of the two clouded leopards and gave it to Xiang Yuanyuan. Animals know better than humans that only thin ones can grow up smoothly if they are handed over to humans.
In addition to seeing the clouded leopards, Du Ruo even took Xiang Yuanyuan to see the small group of short-tailed macaques. The group was still the same, except that the familiar figures were missing.
In the end, Du Ruo brought Xiang Yuanyuan back to the boulder, and the two of them took a look at the familiar nest of the red kestrel.
What surprised Xiang Yuanyuan was that there was actually another slightly smaller kestrel in the kestrel's nest. It was obvious that the kestrel also had a partner.
It seemed that they did not spend too much time on this circle, but in fact they had already flown around Huangshan Mountain. These small animals all have their own homes and lifestyles.
In the end, Du Ruo put his arm around Xiang Yuanyuan's waist and returned to the second-floor balcony, thus ending tonight's journey.
"Husband~"
Back on the balcony, Xiang Yuanyuan did not let Du Ruo go. Instead, she stretched out her arms, hugged Du Ruo's neck, and called her husband. Her tone was so sticky that it was almost stringy.
"Okay, okay, I'll go prepare the food and drinks today, let's have a drink first."
Du Ruo also slowed down his tone and responded with a doting tone to Xiang Yuanyuan.
"Well, okay, I'll go to the third floor to see if the baby is asleep."
A smile broke out on Xiang Yuanyuan's face, and then she tiptoed to Li Qiyao's room on the third floor.
When Du Ruo prepared the wine and food and brought them to the second floor, he found that Xiang Yuanyuan had already adjusted the lights in the room on the second floor to add some atmosphere.
Apparently, there was more to this evening than just drinking.
Du Ruo was not surprised. Even though he no longer had any desire for love between men and women, Xiang Yuanyuan was still an ordinary woman after all.
So he did not lose interest. Moreover, he also wanted to try whether he could produce offspring after practicing to his level.
The night went by in silence. Without the worry of the child, the two of them enjoyed the rare joy of their previous time alone.
Once people have enjoyed something, they will have desire for it, and it won’t take long before they want to relive that joy.
So, from that day on, Xiang Yuanyuan would send Xiao Duheng to sleep with Li Qiyao every now and then...
……
Since having children, time seems to have passed faster and faster. As long as I casually glance at the photos of the children taken on the mobile phone, and then see little Duheng running wildly with two clouded leopards' long tails in each hand, I will realize that year after year has passed by inadvertently.
After Du Ruo gave the fox the new version of the technique and the crystals that preserved spiritual energy, the technique was quickly promoted.
Although the most basic skills are still promoted comprehensively as before, there are also a variety of traditional martial arts.
However, the impact it caused is far beyond the comparison of the simple basic martial arts in the past.
At the beginning, it didn't actually cause much impact.
Because at that time everyone was still exploring and learning, and it takes time to convert skills into strength.
But less than half a year after the silence, some impacts began to occur.
Du Ruo has always known that practicing martial arts will generate violence, and every time his ability is improved or his realm is broken through, he will also have the illusion that he can destroy everything.
If only one person practices martial arts, or if only one person does so, it is actually not a big problem. There are moral constraints, legal regulations, and most importantly, the threat of guns. One person cannot cause any trouble.
But as Du Ruo said, geniuses are actually the least valuable. There are only 140,000 people in the country with such qualifications that can be picked out of a million.
There are always some gifted people who are born with physiques far superior to ordinary people, or are more friendly to spiritual energy.
This type of people may have originally lived at the bottom of society, or they may have many grievances. With their rapidly increasing strength, the rate at which the hostility in their hearts grows is far faster than that of ordinary people.
So when they are able to raise their butcher knives, the threats of laws and guns begin to become blurred in their minds.
After several consecutive large-scale massacres of entire families, although the murderers were quickly captured or killed, the impact was enormous.
All those who previously only regarded martial arts training as a way to strengthen their bodies or as a means of promotion suddenly realized that... unknowingly, they had an extra weapon in their hands.
Fortunately, the country thinks further than these people and has already prepared a response plan for such a situation.
As soon as these bloody cases occurred, the murderers were caught at the first opportunity, and then interrogated and sentenced as quickly as possible.
What followed was a nationwide crackdown, and a special department was set up to handle certain cases in a targeted manner.
At the same time, a nationwide policy was promulgated that every town and above would set up an arena for those who had practiced martial arts and had violent tempers to compete with each other.
Not only that, but arenas at the county, city, provincial, and even national levels are all open.
And just like a ladder in a game, everyone is ranked. The higher the ranking, the more resources, fame, money, power, medicinal materials, and skills people can get. It can be said that they have everything.
Moreover, the competitions are broadcast live every year, and there are exclusive live broadcast rooms at the municipal level and above.
In this way, with just one move, the above was able to transform everyone's hostility, allowing everyone to release their hostility while still having a goal to strive for.
We can even showcase the country's strength in some national competitions to prevent some people from becoming too arrogant.
This move directly triggered the carnival and enthusiasm of the whole nation and attracted everyone's attention.
Such measures did calm the unrest, but those who were rich and unkind, or who had done too many bad things, began to feel anxious all day long, because they found that people who were previously at the bottom, even those they could bully at will, began to become different.
These people have knives and are able to resist.
Moreover, the higher-ups take this kind of thing very seriously. Whenever there is a major incident involving warriors somewhere, a special department that manages warriors will come and conduct a thorough investigation as soon as possible.
Furthermore, a rumor began to spread online that the interrogation of a martial artist was different from an ordinary interrogation. It seemed that there were some techniques that could make people tell the truth, and that they could quickly find evidence and then conduct a trial.
This also immediately made the entire society much more stable, because civilians have never been the source of chaos.
(End of this chapter)
