Chapter 145 A good harvest

After listening to Mo Juren's story, Qin Xiu sighed,
"Unfortunately, we are not as lucky as Daoist Fellow Zhang. As soon as Daoist Fellow Meng Yang and I entered the woods, we were swarmed by the Iron-toothed Birds."

"In order to hold on, we almost used up all the talismans we had,"

"In the end, I was the only one who held on until the moment the wire snake died, but Fellow Daoist Meng Yang...ah, it's all my fault..."

It was Wang Zhuo's idea to let Qin Xiu and Meng Yang lead the monster away. At this time, he was responsible for it.
"Fellow Daoist Qin, there is no need to blame yourself. I believe everyone is aware of the dangers of hunting animals when they joined the team."

"This wire snake actually subdued the iron-toothed bird and the thief rat as its subordinates. This was something that no one had expected beforehand."

"Since Meng Yang is dead and his body cannot be found, we should follow the rules."

"We will give him a double share, and then give it to his Taoist partner, and then we'll let this matter go!"

Only then did everyone stop grieving, and quickly cleaned up the battlefield and prepared to leave.

The third brother Zhang Xing explained to Mo Juren,
"If one person dies, the original ten-way share of the profits will be changed to eleven, two of which will go to Meng Yang's widow, which is equivalent to diluting our income."

"But this is also a rule to prevent the hunting team members from watching each other die without helping each other. Because the more teammates die, the less you gain."

Mo Juren expressed his understanding. After all, if one person died and he could get more, it would inevitably encourage the evil of some people.

Then everyone started their return journey, and first they had to cross the woods at the foot of the mountain.

However, with the death of the wire snake, it seems that these iron-toothed birds are less restricted, and some have even begun to migrate and fly away with their young.

Wang Zhuo looked down from a high place and finally chose a direction that seemed to have the least bird nests. The crowd also split into three groups and used the same method they used to go up the mountain to cross the iron-toothed bird forest again.

At this time, the pressure faced by the team was much lighter than when they came. The attacking iron-toothed birds were more to protect their own nests. They mostly acted independently and rarely attacked in groups.

Even the third brother Zhang Xing was sharp-eyed enough to discover some "ventilation branches" on the partially empty bird's nest. These were one of the best-selling materials for refining Qi-restoring pills in the market.

The branches of the ventilation trees can preserve spiritual energy and are a very easy-to-use spiritual material. They are also worth some spiritual stones, so everyone rushed up the tree when they had the chance and found a lot.

Mo Juren also jumped onto the tree. He was also looking for this kind of spiritual material to practice alchemy. Since he happened to come across it, he picked up some.

There are quite a few such branches in the bird's nest, which may be useful for the iron-toothed bird to raise its young.

Some of the things in the nests are even relatively fresh, like branches and leaves that have just been broken off not long ago.

In the end, the nine-member team safely retreated from the hill, returned to Jishuitan, and then returned to Mangrove Valley along the same route.

When they reached the safe area, everyone took out their harvest and counted it together.

Mo Juren originally wanted to take out all the iron-toothed birds in the two storage bags, but when he saw that his number seemed to be more than those of the eight people combined, he gave up the idea.

He pretended to take out a ventilation branch, two snake eggs and two or three iron-toothed birds and threw them into the pile with theirs.

Fortunately, at times like this, it all depends on self-awareness. Most teammates know who has obtained what valuable things.

Everyone was a long-term cooperative cultivator, and they would not do such a shameful thing as searching each other's storage bags, so they were not surprised by Mo Juren's harvest. After that, they evaluated the harvest and returned the losses. Wang Zhuo was very generous and converted the gold medicine used by Mo Juren into a spiritual stone. The losses of other people's spiritual talismans and magic tools were also calculated clearly and reasonably, which seemed fast and professional.

The biggest harvest was the Hundred-Year-Old Iron Wire Snake. This was a second-level monster, and if its scales, snake meat, snake bones, snake blood, snake gallbladder, etc. were disassembled and sold separately, it could be exchanged for about 300 spirit stones.

It’s a pity that the snake eggs are no longer alive. I don’t know if it was like this when the mother snake gave birth, or if it was accidentally killed during the fight, which makes the value of the snake eggs much lower.

In addition, there are more than a hundred iron-toothed birds and a pile of ventilation branches, which can also be exchanged for more than fifty spirit stones.

Finally, after deducting the loss and dividing it into eleven parts, it was estimated that each of the nine people would get nearly thirty spirit stones, so everyone was happy and satisfied.

Under the chairmanship of the eldest brother Wang Zhuo, every item calculated by the second brother Xie Hong was well-founded and no one objected. It can be seen that the Five Friends of Mengshan have been able to gain a foothold here for many years and are quite fair.

If it were an ordinary hunting team, they would spend three or four days and might only get two or three spirit stones, or even one or two spirit stones.

Only by following a strong team like the Five Friends of Mengshan can we hunt this rare second-level spirit beast, allowing every team member to obtain such a valuable reward.

As for how to get your share, you can usually wait until you return to Tainan Market, sell the prey, and then divide the spirit stones. Depending on the final price, you may get a bigger share.

But you can also choose the second option, which is to take part of the harvest on site and convert it directly into income.

Mo Juren and Hu Pinggu and his wife both chose to distribute the supplies on the spot. Wang Zhuo was surprised.

"Why, aren't you three going back to Tainanfang City?"

The fourth brother Zhao Han guessed,

"Are you afraid of the recent frequent robbery of cultivators in Tainan Market? Don't worry, with us, the five friends from Mengshan, no blind robber would dare to attack you?"

Mo Juren smiled and said,

"Thank you for your kindness, Fellow Daoist Zhao. I just want to exchange my share for snake meat and ventilation branches, because I need them for alchemy recently."

Hu Pinggu also gave a similar reason.
"My husband and I are willing to exchange half of our earnings for the scales of the wire snake. We are planning to create some defensive magic weapons."

Mo Juren knew that Hu Pinggu and his wife were probably still frightened of Tainan Market ever since they were chased and killed the last time they went to the market.

So the five friends said nothing more and let Mo Juren take away nearly half of the more than 300 kilograms of second-level snake meat and more than ten pieces of green ventilation branches.

Qin Xiu suddenly said when he saw this.

"Fellow Daoist Wang, I have known Fellow Daoist Meng Yang for many years. This time he died, and I... can't go back to the market to face his wife and daughter. Please convert my share into spirit stones."

So Wang Zhuo directly took out thirty spirit stones from his storage bag and gave them to him, and the remaining prey were all taken away by the Five Friends of Mengshan.

After the distribution was completed, everyone prepared to go their separate ways. The third brother Zhang Xing specially took out the sound transmission talisman and exchanged it with Mo Juren for future contact.

From their words, it seems that they are very satisfied with Mo Juren's performance this time and look forward to more interactions in the future.

(End of this chapter)