The moon is above the treetops; the heaven and the earth are still. (T/N: 4-word expressions are popular in Chinese. I don't know if there's something deeper to it. They are way out of my league to translate.)

Chu Ye held onto a st.u.r.dy branch and made use of the moonlight to steadily walk on the forest path. Her six senses did not miss any sudden abnormalities in the forest.

Halfway through the forest, she had only encountered 2 wolves, a fox, and 3 hares. Of course, none of these small wild animals have the ability to escape from Chu Ye's clutches, especially the two wolves, whose deaths could only be considered as miserable.

“Help…” Suddenly, a cry for help faintly sounded in front of her.

Chu Ye, who was feeling bored, lightly perked her left ear, picked up the prey she got from this path and quickly ran towards the area where the voice came from.

Actually, in her heart, Chu Ye wasn't so willing to run with such heavy prey. However, even though Boling Yili's grandfather is the head of Lu Village, his family was quite poor. The matter was that they cannot help Boling Yili and her mother.

In their eyes, Lu s.h.i.+ was a married-off daughter that cannot be retrieved, but now that she had been driven back to their home by the husband's family, their household at the village had lost face. They had long regarded Lu s.h.i.+ as a disgrace, and if they weren't afraid that the villagers would gossip, it was likely that Lu s.h.i.+ would already be kicked out of her home.

How can those relatives be reliable?

This was why Chu Ye believed that people can only rely on themselves.

With these prey in her hand, she was convinced that she can exchange them for some money to use when needed.

Lost in thought, she reached the source of the sound. Then, the ever-so-calm Chu Ye suddenly disappeared.

Why?

Because she saw something that she hated to the bone… a tiger.

In the distance, a boy covered with mud looked stunned as he faced adult “cloud-patterned tiger”.

The cloud-patterned tiger seemed to have suffered many injuries. There were blood stains and spots on its cloud-patterned snow-white fur. On the tiger's back was a mystically twinkling silver ring of light, similar to a halo.

A first-grade magical beast? Chu Ye abruptly stopped in her tracks.

In the Autonomous Wizard Continent, for ordinary wizards, warriors, and even magical beasts, after they have successfully cultivated, a ring of light would appear behind their backs whenever they fight, with the number of rings signifying their rank.

There was no doubt that this cloud-patterned tiger with one ring of light was a first-grade magical beast.

Silver represents the wind system; red represents the fire system; blue represents the water system; brown represents the earth system.

This first-grade magical beast possessed a silvery-white halo, so to be more accurate, it was a first-grade wind-type magical beast.

“Save me…” The boy eventually discovered Chu Ye's arrival, eyes brightening with hope.

The cloud-patterned tiger had already opened up his mouth widely, ready to bite into the head of the boy.

Chu Ye suddenly saw the moment before her death in her previous life, when the two tigers pounced toward 001.

“No!” Chu Ye screamed in anger. She rolled from her spot and came to the young boy's side. With a violent thrust, the branch in her hand was ruthlessly inserted into the throat of the tiger.

“Wu…” The tiger gave a mournful roar, the pain causing a burst of madness from it.

Chu Ye did not retreat and grabbed the boy's twin daggers from his hands. The pet.i.te body gracefully jumped onto the back of the tiger. The next second, the two daggers vanished as they stabbed into the eyes of the tiger, where blood immediately spurted out.

“Raaaaawwwr..” No living creature would be able to bear the bone-biting pain of getting their eyes impaled. The cloud-patterned tiger was going berserk.

Chu Ye was only a few meters away from its violent thras.h.i.+ng, but its eyes were already blind. Even if the surrounding trees were destroyed, it would still not be able to find Chu Ye and the young boy.

Chu Ye singlehandedly supported the boy's waist and helped him back away from the scope of the tiger's violent attack.

At this time, the young boy was struck dumb. He blinked towards Chu Ye's side.

He didn't expect that such a beautiful and touching young girl was actually quite fierce and vicious!

It was merely more fierce and vicious from the back.

Chu Ye ignored the boy's fearful gaze. She bent over to pick a fist-sized stone on the ground, aimed the dagger to pierce the tiger's left eye, and jeeringly threw it.

*Whoos.h.!.+* [1]

“Raaaawrrrrr…”

Followed by a sharp sound signifying something getting hit was the tiger's miserable wailing.

This was because Chu Ye's hidden weapon, a stone, nailed the hilt of the dagger and caused it to go deeper into the wound of the cloud-patterned tiger, which was already lodged in the bone to some extent.

But the vitality of a magical beast cannot be underestimated. Even though it received such a serious injury, the tiger still did not die. However, it had no chance of escaping. The second stone, third stone, fourth stone were thrown in succession, and each one accurately hit the same spot, the hilt of the dagger.

It was pitiful to see this cloud-patterned tiger, who had just been promoted to a magical beast, suffering from the force of the rocks nailing the dagger still impaled in its eye, further penetrating its skull. The cerebral hemorrhage caused it to finally die.

“Can you still walk?” Chu Ye indifferently looked towards the mud-streaked face of the young boy. That composed manner made it seem like everything that took place a moment ago had nothing to do with her.

The boy somewhat distractedly shook his head, and immediately nodded. “Can walk…”

“Good,” Chu Ye dispa.s.sionately grunted. She picked up the game that she previously collected and turned to leave.

“Wait!” He couldn't help but call out.

“Is something the matter?” Chu Ye turned her head and coldly gazed at him. A terrifying aura could be felt from her.

“No-nothing…” He quickly waved his hands. He was at a loss on what to do and could only blankly stand in place, watching the girl walk farther and farther away until she couldn't be seen anymore, but he was still motionless.

……

Away from the hustle and bustle of the city, the people in the village were used to the sunrise and sunset every day.

This was why when Chu Ye returned to the Lu Village, most of the villagers had already closed for the day and gone to bed, and only a few small shops were still settling in the accounts of their income for the day. The faint candle light swayed in the night wind.

Guided by her memories, Chu Ye came to the only meat shop in the village, and startled the shop owner when she threw all the hunting game she had been carrying the whole time onto the ground.

“How much money can be exchanged for this?” Chu Ye asked simply.

The shop owner was named Lu w.a.n.g, and had suntanned skin and a tall and robust body. Looking at the amount of b.l.o.o.d.y animals on the floor, he asked with amazement, “Seventh little sister, how did all these prey come to you?”

Boling Yili was the Boling family's youngest Seventh Miss, which was why the villagers in Lu Village were accustomed to calling her Seventh little sister.

“Picked them up.” Chu Ye dimly answered.

Boling Yili has lived in this village for 6 years. Although she usually didn't like to talk with people, all the villagers can recognize her, and they also know her character. Don't even mention this big of a wolf, Boling Yili would previously not even dare to step on a tiny ant.

This was why she lied so as not to draw unnecessary suspicion.

Lu w.a.n.g didn't completely believe her. He looked into the girl's eyes and felt that she was not the same as before, but as to how she was different, he couldn't tell. For the moment, he didn't dare to ask more. He respectfully gave Chu Ye 30 pieces of copper coins.

[1] Originally indicated the tinkling sound of a bell… but why? It doesn't fit in English so I changed it.