Digesting Essence Treasures, Summoned by the Madam

Seeing a burrow in the ground, its entrance as black as night and wide enough for two arms,

"So that Crab Treasure from earlier was trying to escape back into this hole?"

Li Xian cut down a branch and thrust it deep into the burrow. Before long, the branch was ground to pulp.

"There's more than one Crimson Mountain Crab in this burrow."

"I'll mark this place. When I come back to catch crabs another day, it'll be much easier."

"What a pity there's no water nearby. Otherwise, I could bring my iron pot here and cook them on the spot. Wouldn't that be a splendid thing?"

Li Xian sighed inwardly and returned to Black River Village.

On the way, he dug the wild boar and mountain monkey he had hunted out of the soil. He carried the mountain monkey over his shoulder and held the wild boar in his right hand.

Li Xian did not like eating monkey meat. He gave the mountain monkey to the villagers and had them cook a pot of mountain monkey and yellow rice porridge.

The wild boar, meanwhile, he brought home.

"I was originally planning to hunt a tiger beast."

"But since you came rushing to me yourself, so be it. I'll eat you first; hunting a tiger beast can wait."

Li Xian patted the wild boar.

Its meat was firm and dense. Wild boars bred quickly, were common in the mountains and forests, and were fiercely aggressive.

Before Li Xian's father died, father and son had often been attacked by wild boars while hunting in the mountains. One benefit of being a hunter was that the master of the estate would occasionally reward them with beast meat to add some variety to their meals.

Usually, it was wild boar meat.

"Wild boar