Chapter 1282 - 20: The Saint Land Is About to Have the Wang Surname!

On the tenth day, a pervasive sense of unease had already filled the entire village.

To conserve food, the villagers voluntarily reduced their meals from twice a day to once, only eating a little when the hunger became unbearable.

To minimize consumption, the villagers reduced the frequency of going out, hardly leaving home except for necessary work. The babies, not getting enough milk, cried badly out of hunger, casting a pall of gloom over the whole village.

If this goes on, let alone the harsh winter, they might not even survive the month.

However.

Just as the villagers were on the brink of despair, Wang Lici returned.

A hundred strong young men shouted in unison, pulling with their shoulders a makeshift raft bound with wooden strips, trudging step by step back towards the village. Piled upon the raft were heaps of prey, seemingly dozens in number.

The prey was so heavy that every step the young men took left shallow dents in the frozen hard ground.

Leading the way was Wang Lici, dragging behind her was a one-horned rhinoceros whose height, even lying down, surpassed a human. Its rough skin was as thick as armor, and its massive size brought an incomparable impact.

Witnessing this scene, the entire village was almost stunned.

"How is this possible? That’s a one-horned rhinoceros, how did she manage to defeat it?" The elder was so shocked that his jaw nearly dropped.

Upon realizing it, everyone immediately burst into tears of joy.

Their village was saved!

On that day, the entire Farm Village No. 8305 bristled with a festive atmosphere.

All the villagers cheerily helped carry the fierce beasts’ bodies, divided the prey, and processed the fur, remaining enthusiastic and tireless despite the back-breaking work.

In this hunting trip, Wang Lici brought back several tens of thousands of pounds of fierce beast flesh.

Calculating 100 pounds as one unit of meat, the fierce beast flesh amounted to 400 units, enough to feed the entire village for a year if saved properly.

In the following period, Wang Lici continued to lead people for hunting as soon as she was full.

Although she consumed dozens of units of food per meal because of her unique bloodline, the more she ate, the stronger her body became, her strength increased, hunt efficiency improved, and the harvest grew greater.

The hunting team also joyfully followed the Favored by Heaven adult out to hunt, not only could they eat their fill, but they also received some extra food, most importantly, there was little danger involved. The Favored by Heaven adult’s strength was so great that those fierce beasts were all slammed to death by her.

She was so powerful, truly majestic, as if a War God had descended.

Under her leadership, before anyone realized it, the food in the farm village grew like a snowball, and the morale of the entire village soared.

The children in the village gained nutrition from the fierce beast flesh, becoming stronger physically and their strength improved significantly, even the elderly felt a new lease on life as if they could battle for decades more.

When a camera accidentally switched to footage of Farm Village No. 8305 on the big screen, the Zhenren present were stunned. The farm village had changed from deathly stillness to vibrant life, as if an earth-shattering transformation had taken place.

"What on earth has happened here?" Celestial Fire Zhenren cried out like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, "Quickly, rewind and let me see what’s going on."

The elder responsible for the big screen was baffled himself, hurriedly found the stored footage and played it back swiftly, focusing the main camera on Wang Lici.

When everyone saw her leave the hunting team to journey alone, as if she possessed a bird’s-eye view discovering the well-concealed fierce beasts one by one, smashing them to death with boulders, strangling them, or throwing them down, everyone fell silent.

What kind of terrifying devouring talent is this, it seems no matter how the fierce beasts hide, they cannot escape her keen sense of smell.

Even more frightening is that she can elevate her personal combat power to such a level merely by eating. Speaking solely of combat power, she has already left the others far behind.

To know, prior to her fight with the fierce beasts was "Favored by Heaven adult" Zhen Shicong, relying on teamwork, terrain advantage, traps, and his own strenuous efforts to barely manage to kill the fierce beasts.

The entire process was extremely perilous.

Other candidates tried fighting fierce beasts too, all experiencing thrills with half-hearted skills.

Yet, Lici dealt with those low-tier fierce beasts as easily as adults dealing with children.

Simply absurd.

"Lici, this kid has unlimited potential," Jiang Zhencang, regained composure, his eyes started to shine, "I have decided, even if she does not win the Lingyun Treasure Manual this time, I will personally visit the Immortal Palace to inform the Immortal Lord, and have her join Immortal Palace seeking opportunity, to see if there is any chance to compete for the inheritances of other manuals."

In the audience, Jiang Xingyuan’s heart skipped a beat, secretly anxious.

East Qian Lingyun Sacred Land intends to escalate their internal rivalry to the Immortal Palace, doesn’t it? The manuals at the Immortal Palace are finite, each one has its own space, the number of those lacking inheritors being even fewer.

Thinking that he might extremely likely compete for opportunities against someone like Lici in the future, Jiang Xingyuan’s expression darkened.

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