Preparing to Enter the City

Early in the morning, as the sunlight of dawn scattered, a new day arrived once again.

Usually at this time, Chen Xuan would be preparing to go hunting in the mountains to gain more time for Skin Refining in the afternoon and evening. However, early this morning, Chen Xuan did not immediately head to the mountains.

Instead, he was preparing.

Skin Refining was finished. He no longer needed to continue Skin Refining in the afternoon and evening, which was enough to increase his hunting time again.

Chen Xuan undoubtedly had more expectations for this longer hunting time.

Especially since he was preparing to enter the city as soon as possible, he naturally wanted to obtain more prey.

Fortunately, with the completion of his Skin Refining, the Conceptual Ability pathways that reappeared at this moment had undoubtedly increased as well.

Target: Go hunting in the mountains today, obtain enough prey, and return safely (To be determined)

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"Pathway One: Head to the Back Mountain, five hundred meters to the left of the Old Locust Tree, there is a flock of Mountain Chickens. Arriving in an hour is enough to hunt the Mountain Chickens. One thousand meters to the right of the Mountain Chickens' location is a Stream. An hour later, there are Sika Deer drinking water there. Then, quickly descend the mountain within half an hour."

"Pathway Two: Ascend the mountain from the left side of the Back Mountain, go straight for two thousand meters. Two hours later, a group of wild boars will pass by. You must leave after a quarter of an hour and return the way you came."

"Pathway Three: Ascend the mountain from the left side of the Back Mountain, go straight for five hundred meters, then move towards the front right. There is a cliff face. There are mountain goats on the cliff face. Complete the hunt within half an hour, quickly move away from the right side, then turn left for three thousand meters, arrive at the Big Poplar Tree's location, and then quickly descend the mountain."

"Pathway Four: The location of the Big Rock..."

New text appeared. At this moment, compared to before, his Conceptual Ability's pathways were not only more numerous, but the prey was also larger.

It was also clear that with the completion of his Skin Refining, the range of prey he could hunt was expanding.

For example, wild boars. If it were him before Skin Refining, his chances of hunting them would be very small. Even if he successfully hunted one, it would be impossible for him to safely bring back a wild boar weighing several hundred kilograms, so they did not appear in the pathways. But at this moment, with the completion of Skin Refining, all of this became possible, and the pathways naturally appeared.

It was precisely because of these more numerous pathways that Chen Xuan spent a considerable amount of time preparing.

An hour passed before Chen Xuan was ready with his supplies and set off again.

This time, he did not choose to go to the Old Locust Tree's location, even though the Mountain Chickens there seemed to have recovered, and there was also a Sika Deer.

But it was clear that neither the Mountain Chickens nor the Sika Deer were as valuable as wild boars.

If he could hunt an adult wild boar, he could exchange it for two taels of silver at Chen San Ye's house at the entrance of the village.

This was a significant income.

As long as he hunted a few more wild boars, Chen Xuan could gather enough money to settle in Green Mountain City.

Such value naturally made him exclude other options and focus entirely on the wild boars.

Although the risk of hunting wild boars was also extremely high.

After all, as a large wild animal, their average weight is around 150 kilograms. In some areas without natural predators, the weight of wild boars usually exceeds 200 kilograms, and in some areas, there may even be wild boar kings weighing 400 kilograms. This weight data is comparable to large felines, and some even exceed large felines. It is precisely because of their large size that in the natural world, wild boars have only two natural predators: one is the large tiger, and the other is the pack-dwelling gray wolf. Other animals find it difficult to threaten them.

In this world, wild boars were undoubtedly larger. Chen Xuan knew that the wild boar at Zhang Shan's house weighed over two hundred kilograms, close to three hundred kilograms. It was almost impossible for an ordinary hunter to hunt such a large wild boar.

Even the one Zhang Shan had was not hunted by him, but found.

In his memory, it seemed like it had been a long time since anyone in the village had successfully hunted a wild boar.

Even the one time he remembered a successful hunt was three years ago, when Zhang Shan and seven or eight other hunters from the village worked together. It was that time that Chen Xuan learned a wild boar could be exchanged for two taels of silver at Chen San Ye's place.

Two taels of silver, that was two taels of silver.

If he exchanged Mountain Chickens, even two hundred wouldn't amount to two taels of silver.

While Sika Deer were worth a bit more, this wasn't his previous life. In Chen Xuan's estimation, one would only fetch around two hundred copper coins, which couldn't compare to a wild boar.

He shook his head.

Pulling his thoughts back from his memories, Chen Xuan then slung his bow and arrows over his back, took his hemp rope and a simply made cart, and slowly walked towards the mountain.

The autumn sun was still a bit dazzling, but it lacked the usual scorching heat.

At this moment, the villagers were still busy with farm work, while Chen Xuan's figure entered the mountain forest.

Following the path indicated by his Conceptual Ability, his figure slowly advanced towards his target.

"Up the back mountain on the left side, straight ahead for two thousand meters!"

He softly spoke the words, his steps lightly counting his pace.

Two thousand meters, he didn't have measuring tools, so he naturally couldn't estimate it accurately. However, based on his pace, two thousand meters was likely only about three thousand steps. He just needed to count to three thousand steps, and that would be close enough. This was the experience he had accumulated from hunting continuously these past few days.

The error could be kept to a minimum.

A distance of three thousand steps wasn't very far. After about an hour, Chen Xuan finally reached his destination.

And the moment Chen Xuan arrived, his gaze fell upon a massive, dark figure not far ahead, rooting around on the ground. Its terrifying tusks gleamed with a chilling light under the sun. And on the other side of this massive dark figure, there were also several other dark figures.

Looking at these dark figures, Chen Xuan couldn't help but hold his breath, his heart immediately becoming tense.

These wild boars, even based on his initial estimation, definitely weighed over two hundred catties, possibly even reaching three hundred catties.

Hunting such large wild boars was undoubtedly very difficult.

His gaze couldn't help but glance at the longbow in his hand.

He slightly relaxed. This time, in order to hunt wild boars, he had brought a more powerful longbow, one that he had spent several months making.

Compared to his previous bow and arrows, this one had a longer range and greater power. At the same time, the arrows were no longer sharpened and carbonized wooden sticks, but had bone tips attached. These were ground from goat skulls, and their hardness was no less than steel. This was the killing weapon he had prepared this time.

After all, given the thickness of a wild boar's hide, without sufficient penetration, it might not be possible to inflict fatal damage.

As for using iron arrows, he simply didn't have the capability. The entire Small River Village couldn't even find a few iron arrows.

Shaking his head, Chen Xuan immediately began to prepare.