Uproot the Grass and Eliminate the Roots, Yellow Weasel Cubs

"Squelch!!!!"

The sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh rang out.

The Yellow Weasel's movements suddenly froze.

It slowly lowered its head, its slit pupils staring at its own chest in disbelief.

A section of dark-red blade tip protruded from it.

That was because Lu Yuan's rusty saber had pierced straight through its heart from behind.

Blood ran down the blade.

Drip, drip, it fell onto the muddy ground.

"Do you know what the consequences are..."

A great deal of blood poured from the Yellow Weasel's mouth.

It could not even speak a complete sentence.

"The consequence is that you, beast, won't live to see tomorrow's sun."

Lu Yuan's face remained expressionless as he sharply twisted his wrist.

The blade instantly severed the Yellow Weasel's heart meridians.

The Yellow Weasel's eyes, fixed on Lu Yuan, were filled with unwillingness.

Earlier, it had not sensed even the slightest threat from Lu Yuan.

There had even been less of a threat from him than from Kong Jie.

At least Kong Jie felt like he had reached the Entry Realm, though he was still weak before it.

In the Yellow Weasel's eyes, someone like Lu Yuan, who had not entered the realm, was no better than the villagers it had killed—beneath pigs and dogs.

Who could have imagined that this sudden burst would leave it without even time to react?

Pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger?

Could this fellow be an expert from the Demon Suppression Office?

Yet as the Yellow Weasel breathed its last, its thoughts vanished into thin air like smoke.

"Psh!!!"

Lu Yuan then pulled out the rusty saber.

A spray of blood burst from the Yellow Weasel's chest.

Its body, half a man tall, was like a lump of rotten mud.

It crashed down onto the wooden table.

At the very instant the Yellow Weasel died.

The system's voice sounded.

[ Ding! Detected that the host has slain the First-Order Perfected demon, 'Yellow Weasel Demon'. ]

[ Host: Lu Yuan ]

[ Realm: Mortal Realm (Not Grade Entry) ]

[ Lifespan: 28 days ]

[ Cultivation Techniques: Basic Demon-Slaying Saber Technique (Perfected 0/1000), Wild Bull Force (Major Success 20/300) ]

[ Experience Points: 450 points. ]

[ Experience gained: 500 points. ]

[ Current Experience Points: 950 points. ]

[ Prompt: The host has collected the first kills of First-Order Low-Grade, Mid-Grade, High-Grade, and Perfected demon beasts. Only a First-Order Peak demon beast remains before the 'Grand Prize Wheel System' can be activated! ]

"Thud!!!"

The sound of the Yellow Weasel's corpse hitting the ground.

Made the surroundings so silent that a falling needle could be heard.

The village women kneeling on the ground and trembling.

Widened their eyes in disbelief.

The villagers watching from the shadows found it hard to breathe, looking at Lu Yuan as though he were a god of slaughter.

That vicious Yellow Weasel demon had simply been stabbed to death in one blow?

"Brother Lu, you... this... I..."

Kong Jie stood where he was, still carrying the bundle containing the gifts, as though he had been struck by lightning.

He blankly stared at Lu Yuan's profile, speckled with a few drops of demon blood. His throat was so dry that his words came out in fragments.

Lu Yuan ignored everyone's shock.

With practiced ease, he used the blade to cut open the Yellow Weasel's abdomen.

He picked out a thumb-sized Demon Core that gave off a foul, musky stench.

He wiped it with the corner of his clothes and placed it in his mouth.

A faint fishy, musky flavor exploded in his mouth. Then unfamiliar fragments of memory flooded into his mind like a tide.

In the image.

The Yellow Weasel was lying in a cave, sheltering beneath it ten little yellow weasels that had already opened their eyes and possessed sharp little claws.

It licked the cubs with its tongue, its eyes carrying the tender affection unique to a mother beast.

The cave was beneath an abandoned grave in a mass burial ground less than two li outside Great River Village.

"So it was a female, and it had a whole litter of cubs."

Lu Yuan spat out the Demon Core and tucked it into his clothes, a gleam flashing through his eyes.

He now had 950 experience points. He was only fifty points short of upgrading the already Perfected Basic Demon-Slaying Saber Technique.

"Kong Jie, stay here and handle the aftermath. Calm the villagers." Lu Yuan turned toward the still-dazed Kong Jie. "I know where that Yellow Weasel's lair is. I'll be back in no time."

As he spoke, Lu Yuan skinned the Yellow Weasel and took its pelt with him.

As for the Yellow Weasel's meat, he left it in Kong Jie's care.

With that, Lu Yuan carried his bloodstained rusty saber.

And headed toward the mass burial ground outside the village.

"Brother Lu, be careful..."

Kong Jie offered a reminder.

Lu Yuan had barely left when a burst of hurried footsteps sounded at the village entrance.

Shi Yun arrived at Great River Village at an unhurried pace with two white-uniformed runners who had only recently entered the yamen.

He had deliberately come this late so he could collect Lu Yuan's corpse.

The Gray-Skinned Rat Demon Lu Yuan had killed last time had merely been a First-Order Low-Grade demon.

Perhaps Lu Yuan had some skill.

But against a First-Order Perfected Yellow Weasel demon, he would surely face certain death.

Yet the moment Shi Yun entered the village, he sensed that something was wrong.

The villagers gathered at the western end of the village were not weeping and wailing to heaven and earth. Instead, every one of them looked excited as they talked among themselves.

Shi Yun grabbed Kong Jie and demanded sternly, "Where is Lu Yuan? Was he eaten by the Yellow Weasel? Where is the corpse?"

"The Yellow Weasel is dead. Brother Lu killed it."

Seeing that it was Shi Yun, Kong Jie hurriedly answered.

"How could that be?"

Shi Yun was shocked, but even more than that, he did not believe it.

The villagers also glanced at Shi Yun as though he were an idiot. One of them said excitedly, "Eaten? Eaten by what! That young officer stabbed that man-eating Yellow Weasel Immortal to death in a single strike! He's gone outside the village to find the Yellow Weasel's lair now!"

"What?"

Only upon hearing this did Shi Yun finally believe that Lu Yuan had truly killed the Yellow Weasel.

But how was that possible?

That was a First-Order Perfected demon beast.

Had he achieved Grade Entry and become a martial artist?

Amid his shock, a powerful unease surged in Shi Yun's heart.

He hastily pressed for Lu Yuan's whereabouts.

"The officer went toward the mass burial ground. I know the way—I'll take you there!"

An enthusiastic villager volunteered himself.

"Go! Lead the way, quickly!" Shi Yun waved his hand and led the two white-uniformed runners, along with a crowd of Great River Village villagers who loved nothing more than watching a commotion, in a mighty procession out of the village.

Two li outside Great River Village lay the mass burial ground.

The place was thick with eerie yin energy, and weeds grew lushly.

Several ruined, abandoned graves.

Looked especially desolate beneath the moonlight.

Following the route from his memories.

Lu Yuan quickly found the Yellow Weasel's grave.

The cave entrance was not particularly hidden.

Lu Yuan pushed aside the weeds.

The entrance was as tall as a person, and inside was pitch-black.

A rank stench drifted out.

"Can't be bothered to go in."

Lu Yuan was unsure what dangers might be inside.

Since they were merely little yellow weasels that had only recently opened their eyes.

Lu Yuan directly lit a firestarter, set the dead grass at the entrance ablaze, and covered it with soil.

At once, thick smoke was drawn into the cave.

"Squeak, squeak!!!"

Not long afterward.

A group of little yellow weasels rushed out of the cave entrance.

Upon seeing Lu Yuan, every one of them bared its sharp teeth and snarled at him.

"So it's you lot."

Lu Yuan's expression remained cold as he raised his saber and brought it down.

"Squelch!"

One little yellow weasel was nailed to the ground by the blade tip, its blood staining the dried grass red.

[ Ding! Slain an unranked Yellow Weasel Cub. Experience gained: 1 point. ]

"Only 1 point?" Lu Yuan frowned slightly, but something was better than nothing.

He raised his saber, preparing to deal with the remaining nine in one stroke.

"Stop! Lu Yuan, have you gone mad? Stop right now!"

Just then, an enraged and frantic shout rang out.