Baby with Daoist Monarch System

Chapter 613: Chapter 246: Giant Serpents

Old Qi saw their expressions and was very satisfied, he continued speaking.

”Experienced hunters can understand the state of a Demon Beast from leftovers like feces and snake skins... Some hunters can even discern the strength of a Demon Beast from these traces.”

”The strongest hunter in the village right now, Xu Binghu, can do just that.”

Old Qi mentioned this while not forgetting to praise Xu Binghu.

All the apprentice hunters in the village now idolize Xu Binghu.

They all want to be like him, becoming the strongest hunter in the Great Wilderness Border Village, enjoying a feast of fish and meat every day.

”Moreover, you can distinguish what kind of Demon Beast is in the territory through its feces...”

Old Qi pointed at a piece of dried-up feces in front of him and walked over to sniff it.

”This piece of feces belongs to a monkey. When you know this territory belongs to monkeys, you can learn the Demon Beast’s living habits. If you really want to enter the territory to hunt, you can choose the best hunting spot and time based on the monkeys’ habits.”

”Achieving this requires a long-term accumulation of time and experience.”

Old Qi taught the children tirelessly. Even the adults following behind the children found some insights from his words.

After all, Old Qi had only taught them inside classrooms before, and they would not enter the Great Mountain for hands-on teaching.

At this moment, a child in the crowd raised his hand to ask a question.

”Grandpa Qi, since you can tell that the Demon Beast in this territory is monkeys, can you kill them?”

Upon hearing this, the other children looked at Old Qi with anticipation.

The adults protecting them began to prepare themselves.

Even though they cannot take on a Demon Beast alone, they are very skilled in group fights. Moreover, with Old Qi, the seasoned hunter, they can quickly devise a suitable hunting plan.

With a calm expression, Old Qi glanced over the crowd and said.

”This is what I want to tell you as the second point.”

Everyone listened attentively again.

”Hunting in the Great Mountain, the second point is to recognize your own strength. Safety first. Only if people survive, does anything else become possible. If someone dies, they are really dead.”

Old Qi looked at everyone, nodding, ”That’s right. With our current team, even with my arrangements, we can kill the monkeys in this area, but what about if you were alone?”

”If you succeed in hunting the monkeys this time, will you have a misconception about your strength later on?”

”The most important point is, after you know my plan for hunting monkeys this time, will you copy it next time when you encounter monkeys?”

Old Qi spoke each word sternly, and the crowd listened with lowered heads, feeling very ashamed.

Seeing the desired effect, Old Qi was very pleased.

”My plan against the monkeys this time was formulated based on the feces, targeting just one monkey. The next time you encounter monkeys, the situation won’t be like this.”

”Experienced hunters know this, but you guys, let alone a Demon Beast, have not even hunted an animal before. This could create a stereotype for you, and you might lose your life because of it in the future.”

Old Qi’s words struck their hearts fiercely, and they all lowered their heads, saying.

”Grandpa Qi, we were wrong.”

Old Qi nodded, ”Hm, knowing is good.”

Old Qi knew very well that these kids having cognitive errors was very normal. The point was to teach them now, and the more questions they had, the more benefits they’d have in the future.

”Hunting was originally intended for survival. Every time you kill prey, the benefits should match. With this large group hunting one monkey, the benefit is too small. How would you split it?”

”Moreover, to humans, there isn’t much edible on monkeys, and people rarely eat them. So for hunters, this hunt is time-consuming and labor-intensive with little reward!!”

Survival is the most original essence of a hunter.

This is also what Old Qi most wants to teach them.

Old Qi thought today’s harvest was not small, and nodded with satisfaction, saying, ”Alright, I’ve taught you enough today, go back and digest it first.”

After speaking, he was about to lead the crowd away.

However, as they turned around, the sound of ”hiss hiss hiss” came from the surrounding bushes.

Upon hearing the sound, Old Qi immediately became tense and muttered, ”It’s a snake!”

Snake!!

Everyone became tense at once.

The people of the Great Wilderness Border Village, you could say, had a shadow over snakes, still clear in their minds a month after the village was slaughtered by Poisonous Snakes.

A snake appearing in the Great Mountain and in the territory of a Demon Beast is undoubtedly also a Demon Beast.

Among this group of people, there were twenty-three in total. There were fifteen children who came out to learn without any hunting experience, and the rest were hunters who had just experienced their first round of Body Refining with power reaching 500 pounds.

Only Old Qi had strength reaching 700 pounds, yet even so, facing a Snake Demon still had no problems.

However, judging by the sounds coming from around, there were at least ten of them, enough to keep them all here.

”Protect the children,” Old Qi instructed.

”Yes!”

With these words, eight people surrounded ten children, protecting them. Fortunately, due to the Poisonous Snake slaughter a month ago, though the children were a bit tense, at least they were not in a fluster.

Under the nervous gaze of the eight hunters, dozens of large snakes slithered out from the bushes, each two meters long, as thick as an adult man’s arm.