Heavenly Weeping was a ninjutsu that required no hand seals. He had just used Heavenly Weeping twice, and the Grind Panel had directly judged him to be at the beginner level. He no longer had to slowly grind his way up from not started. Back when he learned Water Dragon Bullet, the forty-four hand seals alone had kept him stuck at not started for two months.
Now that he had begun, all that remained was constant practice. If he only condensed a single high-density water needle, he found that he could use Heavenly Weeping five times a day. He had already used it twice.
He condensed another water needle in his mouth and fired it at a tree trunk. With a whoosh, the water needle struck the trunk. This time, he could clearly feel its penetrating power increasing, along with its density. When it hit the trunk, the water needle did not even shatter.
He still had plenty of chakra left, so he decided to use it to look for food. After informing Terai, he entered the forest. Before long, a wild boar chased him back out, one of its eyes already blinded by a kunai.
"Damn it, help! You well-connected brat, get over here and help!" Lin Chuan ran from a two-meter-long wild boar. After leaving the forest, he rushed toward Terai.
"Where did such a huge wild boar come from? That thing is enormous!" When Terai saw the boar charging over, he immediately leaped into a tree, not daring to face its sharp tusks.
"Quit talking and kill it. We'll have food for days," Lin Chuan said, likewise standing in a tree as he watched the boar below prepare to charge. It clearly intended to ram the tree.
"This boar must weigh four or five hundred jin, right? How do we kill it?" Terai licked his lips, interested in Lin Chuan's suggestion. If they could deal with this boar, they could devote all their time to learning ninjutsu without worrying about food.
Lin Chuan swept his gaze over the area by the river and spotted two massive boulders not far away, with a narrow gap between them. His eyes lit up, and he said excitedly,
"See the boar's eyes? I ruined one. If we blind the other one and turn it completely blind, we can lure it into that gap between the boulders and get it stuck there. Then you stab it in the heart. One hit, one kill..."
"Got it. Leave it to me." The instant Terai left the tree, the boar slammed into the trunk with a thunderous crash. The entire tree shook, and fruit rained down from its branches.
The moment the boar struck the tree, Lin Chuan jumped away and landed in another tree. Seeing the boar desperately shake its head, apparently dazed from the impact, he immediately formed hand seals and used river water to create a Water Clone. He had the clone draw the boar's attention while his real body hid behind the boulders.
The Water Clone threw a stone at the boar. It struck the boar's already-dizzy head, successfully drawing its hatred. The boar charged desperately toward the Water Clone by the gap between the boulders. The clone quickly passed through the gap, while the boar, charging full speed ahead without slowing down, rushed straight into it.
Lin Chuan's real body took the opportunity to emerge from behind the boulders. He pulled out a kunai and flung it at the boar's eye. With his accuracy against moving targets, there was no way he could miss. Yet the instant the boar's pupil saw the kunai, it actually shut its eye to block it. The kunai could not pierce the boar's hide.
He had blinded its other eye only because the boar had been unprepared, allowing him to strike its pupil in one hit. Now that it was on guard, it was a little troublesome.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Fortunately, he had thrown three kunai. As the boar charged, the three kunai continuously blocked its vision. In the end, the boar plunged headfirst into the gap between the boulders and became wedged in the middle because of its massive size.
Then Terai flashed out, driving his short blade straight into the boar's armpit beneath its front leg. That was where its heart was. The strike pierced straight through it.
"Roar! Roar, roar!" Its heart pierced, the boar opened its mouth and let out miserable cries. Its single eye turned scarlet as it stared at Terai. It was this tiny human who had stabbed it. It wanted nothing more than to tear this human apart with its tusks and huge jaws, but Terai was in its blind spot, leaving it unable to bite him.
Lin Chuan followed close behind, drawing his blade and flashing into view. He thrust upward into the boar's throat from below, then instantly withdrew his blade and retreated. Blood sprayed everywhere from the boar's throat.
Terai also pulled out his blade and retreated. If he had been even a moment slower, he would have been splattered with blood. He had no desire to bathe in the river and leave himself soaking wet.
Their short blades dripped with blood as they stood at a distance, silently watching the boar howl and bleed. Only when its blood had drained away and it could no longer cry did its head finally droop completely.
However, the boar's cries could be heard through more than half the Forest of Death. Lin Chuan and Terai did not care. Lin Chuan stopped Terai, who was about to approach, formed hand seals, and shouted, "Water Release: Water Shock Wave!"
A powerful stream of water burst from his mouth, washing the blood around the boar and the boulders into the river. Only then did they step forward to butcher the enormous wild boar.
They built a fire nearby, first cutting off the boar's front legs and throwing them into the flames to roast. They also tossed all the edible organs into the fire. Hadn't they seen how predators in animal documentaries loved eating organs? It was because organs were the easiest to digest.
The two continued cutting the boar in half and dragged it out from the gap between the boulders. Each took half of the boar and handled their own share of the meat, hanging the separated chunks beside the fire so the heat could dry them as quickly as possible.
Once they had finished preparing the boar, they dug the organs out of the fire, cut off the charred outer portions, and ate only the thoroughly cooked best parts within. Although they lacked seasonings and the wild boar had a strong gamey smell, neither of them cared at the moment. They dug in heartily.
After lunch, they gathered plenty of dry firewood and made the fire bigger, continuing to dry the boar meat. The boar's front legs beside the fire were for dinner. By evening, they would probably be cooked through. The two returned to practicing their own ninjutsu nearby.
Before nightfall, they pulled the roasted pig legs from the fire, cut away the burnt portions, and ate only the tenderest meat. Then they gathered all the dried meat, wrapped it in large leaves from the forest, tied the leaves with vines, and quickly left the riverside boulder gap where they had killed the boar during the day.
They could not stay here any longer. The beasts that had smelled the blood during the day had long since grown ravenous. If the two of them had not been in an open area, they would have already been ambushed by those beasts.
They had not even cleaned up the boar completely. They had only taken the choicest fat and lean meat. Some scraps of meat still clung to the remaining skeleton, uneaten organs remained where they were, and the enormous boar's head had not been touched at all.
Just after they left the riverbank, a hungry leopard burst from the forest. Its eyes glowed a faint green as it stared at the boar carcass by the boulders, drooling. The leopard raised its head and scanned the riverside, and after confirming that the two humans had left, it pounced directly on the boar's remaining organs. Once it had eaten its fill, it carried off a bone and slowly gnawed on it.
More small carnivores and scavengers soon appeared, all coming to share in the feast. They tore the boar's skeleton apart until only a pile of white bones remained.
Other people who had been curious about what had happened here during the day saw the firelight go out and quietly came over to investigate. They found countless carnivores feeding on the boar, with the boar's huge skeleton still standing there. No one knew who had killed that gigantic wild boar.
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