Chapter 317: The Family Inherited Rogue Cultivator
When Chu Daniu saw that Xu Zhenfeng refused to accept Hei Niu, he felt a little regretful, but also a little relieved.
In fact, he also couldn't bear to part with Hei Niu.
But seeing how ferocious that demon wolf was, if Hei Niu followed this benefactor, maybe he would not be much inferior to that demon wolf? After all, they are both demon beasts.
Xu Zhenfeng looked at the three corpses of human monks on the ground, sighed in his heart, and said: "Your three companions..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw Chu Daniu staggering and about to fall. He took a few steps back and held onto the tree next to him with one hand before he could stand firm.
When I looked at the female monk again, her face was as pale as paper. She had already sat on the ground with bloodstains around her mouth.
The two human monks had dozens of wounds on their bodies, some of which were deep enough to see the bones, and some of which were bleeding profusely.
Xu Zhenfeng frowned. With these two monks injured like this, it would be difficult for them to get out of the valley.
He thought about it and finally changed his words, saying: "Do you have a storage device? Collect your three companions in it. I guess you are going back to the capital of Dajin as well? Since it's on the way, let's go together."
Chu Daniu said somewhat awkwardly: "Thank you for your kindness, I don't have any storage magic tools.
The weather is too hot to keep their bodies for long, so my three brothers can only... cremate them here, and I will take their ashes back home."
Xu Zhenfeng shook his head, put the bodies of the three human cultivators into his other storage space, and threw two pills to Chu Daniu and the female cultivator.
He was a demon and was considered poor among the cultivators in the human world. He never expected that there were cultivators in this world who were even poorer than him.
After Chu Daniu and the female cultivator took the pills and adjusted their breathing for a while, they barely regained some mobility.
Xu Zhenfeng simply let Ci Feng take them both up, and he followed behind Ci Feng.
After returning to Erlong County, Chu Daniu told the local county magistrate that his team was almost wiped out and he could no longer stay in the county and had to rush back to the capital to treat his injuries.
The county magistrate saw that the two monks were covered with wounds. He was afraid that they would die here, so he did not dare to keep them and sent them out of the county.
The black ox was injured even more seriously and could no longer pull the cart. Chu Daniu was reluctant to part with his yellow-grade custom-made ox cart.
Helplessly, Xu Zhenfeng had to persuade Ci Feng with all his might to get on the ox cart and take the three of them to the capital.
Along the way, Chu Daniu and Xu Zhenfeng told each other about the situation of their people.
The five of them were all casual cultivators, and they formed a small team that specialized in taking on bounties for a living because of their similar interests.
Since he couldn't stand the Demon-Slaying Tower's control, he didn't join it.
The three dead monks, like the female monk, had known Chu Daniu for many years. Because Chu Daniu was older than them and was fair, everyone elected him to be the leader of the team.
Over the years, the five of them had shared weal and woe, trusted each other, and fought against the demons countless times. Unexpectedly, this time, the entire team was almost destroyed.
When Chu Daniu talked about his sad moments, he couldn't help but burst into tears.
The female monk next to her cried bitterly.
The female cultivator's real name was Liu Yunni, and she was from a branch of a family of impoverished independent cultivators.
The inheritance of magic skills in a family of independent cultivators has a fatal weakness, which is that the skills cannot be passed on comprehensively because the qualifications of the family descendants are different.
After much difficulty, a talented successor emerges to carry forward the family magic, but the descendants are always limited in their qualifications and talents and are unable to fully learn and integrate the skills of their predecessors.
This is how the magic skills of a family of independent cultivators are passed down. It all depends on luck. If several generations in a row are gifted, then the status of the family will rise.
If several generations in a row are people of mediocre talent, then the number of family skills that can be completely passed down will decrease, and the family will decline.
It is not possible to recruit many disciples, as those who have some qualifications all want to join the big sects.
Nowadays, large sects are accepting disciples. As long as one has decent qualifications, one can at least enter the outer sect to study medicine, which is better than learning family techniques.
Who would be willing to practice a family technique that is limited in scope and has an incomplete inheritance?
However, there are always some families, no matter how poor their circumstances are, no matter how few family skills are left, they have always insisted on passing down their family skills from generation to generation.
The cultivators in Chu Daniu's team are all descendants of such families.
From Chu Daniu, Xu Zhenfeng learned about the conditions of the lower-level cultivators in the human world, which even Lou Qianjiang didn't even remember to tell him.