Top Grade Immortal Emperor in the Flower City-Chapter 374 - 383: Bizarre Experience

Refuge shelters are meant for everyone to use; they exist to provide a haven from disaster, not as a private sanctuary for any individual.

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Yet, the middle-aged man still apologized to Mo Xing, leaving a very good impression.

"Uncle, what happened to you? Were you attacked by a wild beast?" Ye Ling asked.

The middle-aged man’s eyes flickered upon hearing Ye Ling’s words, seemingly evasive, and he simply smiled weakly, "Yes, we encountered a wild beast."

"Big brother! For the sake of money, are you willing to risk Huzi’s life too? If we hadn’t run into you, you and Huzi might have died by now!"

The middle-aged man stroking his beard yelled, while Huzi’s father’s face tightened slightly, growing much dimmer.

"Dad! Is my arm going to be useless from now on? It hurts so much!" Huzi clenched his teeth, his face flushed with pain.

The face of Huzi’s father was filled with sorrow: "Huzi, don’t worry, just hold on a little longer. Once the snow stops, we’ll head back and find a doctor who will surely be able to heal your arm."

Seeing the painful expression on Huzi’s face, Ye Ling stood up, walked over to him, and saw his arm covered in blood, the stark white bone visible.

"I think I can heal his arm," Ye Ling said indifferently. To him, the injury was a piece of cake.

Upon hearing this, Huzi’s father immediately knelt down with a determined attitude, surprising everyone: "Sir, if you can heal Huzi’s arm, Tie Yage is willing to do anything for you; you will be my greatest benefactor!"

Huzi was his only son, and he didn’t want to see Huzi suffer any harm. That was the basic nature of humanity and paternal love.

Mo Xing and Li Tianhao couldn’t help but speak up, urging Ye Ling to save Huzi. They could tell that these people in front of them were not bad folks, as a person’s nature can be discerned from their eyes.

But Ye Ling shook his head: "I can save him, but I need to know the full story first. Otherwise, I won’t lift a finger to help a stranger whose background I don’t know."

"And don’t think about talking around the issue; I can see right through your heart, so don’t think about deceiving me."

Ye Ling spoke slowly. To him, it was essential to understand how the injury happened before intervening.

After hearing this, Tie Yage bit his lip, clearly conflicted, while the middle-aged man supporting Huzi at his side gritted his teeth: "Big brother! What are you still hesitating for at this point!"

"What could be more important than Huzi’s future? Speak up!" The man’s roar seemed to jolt Tie Yage into clarity.

After taking a deep breath, Tie Yage eventually explained the whole situation. He was a hunter—or perhaps a herbalist—from a small town at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains.

In short, they lived off the land, but most of them didn’t have much money. And Huzi was of the age to take a wife.

To marry required a substantial amount of money, and in their community, the bride price was a measure of a family’s honor. As Tie Yage saw it, he dearly wished his family could hold their heads high before everyone.

Just when Tie Yage felt at a loss, someone approached him to do a job—hunt a creature.

Being a renowned hunter in town, Tie Yage was not surprised that someone sought him out by reputation, but once he heard about the quarry and location, he immediately refused.

The hunted creature was unnamed, and the location was not the Gates of Hell, but on the side of the peak of the Kunlun Mountains.

For the people who lived at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains, the peak of the Kunlun was an even more forbidden place than the Gates of Hell. If the Gates of Hell symbolized death, then the peak of the Kunlun stood for something sacred and inviolable.

What’s more, in their legends, it was said that divine beings lived atop the Kunlun Mountains, where mortals dared not tread.

Furthermore, in their small town, someone once climbed to the summit of the Kunlun Mountains, but ended up with serious injuries and fell into a coma. They were later rescued and returned to the town, but they had been rendered mentally incapacitated and still hadn’t recovered to this date.

However, when the mysterious stranger offered a reward of ten million, Tie Yage began to waver.

Ten million! That was almost an amount they could never earn in their lifetimes.

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After a day’s time and consulting with Huzi, the two men, their heads turned by the prospect of money, accompanied the mysterious man to the summit of the Kunlun Mountains.

But that was when the nightmare began. After the three of them reached the peak, following the mysterious man’s clues and directions, Tie Yage and Huzi found the place he had described in half a day.

It was a cave, seemingly bottomless, pitch-black, and very intimidating.

At that moment, the mysterious man asked either Huzi or Tie Yage to go into the cave to lure out the prey, after which he would take over.

Tie Yage also wondered if ten million was so easy to earn?

But after the mysterious man put forth another condition, Tie Yage and Huzi were stunned.

The mysterious man demanded that Huzi slice open his own arm, and then enter the cave while bleeding.

Although Tie Yage and Huzi were very reluctant, for the sake of ten million, Huzi still gritted his teeth and used the hunting knife he carried to cut open his arm, then headed toward the cave.

Walking into the pitch-black cave, Huzi was naturally scared. With every step forward, his heart was in his throat.

The entire cave was silent, and very deep. Each step echoed back at him.

Huzi didn’t know how long he had walked. According to Tie Yage’s estimate, he had been inside the cave for a full thirty minutes, which meant roughly over fifteen minutes for a round trip.

Just as Huzi was continuing to move forward, all of a sudden, a white shadow appeared before him.

It was a creature resembling a small cat, its eyes flashing with a golden light, its body snow-white, with a golden mark between its eyes.

Upon seeing Huzi, the creature rushed to bite him frantically, and with a mighty roar, it sounded as fierce as a tiger’s growl.

Huzi, overwhelmed with fear, turned and ran as fast as he could, using all his strength, but he was ultimately struck by the creature’s paw.

Just one swipe of its paw exposed the bones in Huzi’s arm and tore the muscles apart – the beast’s strength was terrifying.

When the creature chased Huzi to the entrance of the cave, the mysterious man immediately swooped into the hole, and suddenly the wind howled, and swathes of black fog enveloped the area.

Like a scene where evil spirits emerge in a horror movie, this spectacle thoroughly frightened the father and son, who no longer dared to stay there and fled back in terror.

On their way, they encountered people from their own town and were rescued by them. Then they faced a blizzard, arrived at the refuge, and met Ye Ling and the other two.

"The person you’re talking about, is he bald, and does he have a bright red flower on his head?"

Li Tianhao was breathing hard, his eyes red, energy bursting forth from within, as he stared intently at Tie Yage.