"Be careful."
Feng Maoyuan stepped forward to part the grass and look, but a huge dark shadow suddenly sprang out of the grass and lunged at him. Huangfu Yue quickly pushed him aside.
After Feng Maoyuan saw what had leaped out of the grass and attacked him, he felt a chill and broke out in a cold sweat.
My goodness, it was a giant wolf weighing three to four hundred catties!
If Huangfu Yue hadn't pushed him aside in time, he would have been in grave danger, either dead or seriously injured.
The giant wolf, having missed its prey, was furious. It glared fiercely at Huangfu Yue and Feng Maoyuan, baring its teeth. Its mouth was full of sharp, blade-like fangs, gleaming cold and looking utterly terrifying, capable of crushing a person in one bite.
Seeing the giant wolf poised to pounce, Feng Maoyuan quickly drew the saber at his waist, ready to strike first.
But it was too late. The giant wolf had already lunged at them ferociously, targeting him. However, before it could reach him, a small stone flew towards the wolf's head, piercing its brow and exiting its hindbrain the next second.
With an outpouring of red blood and white brain matter, the giant wolf let out a wail, closed its eyes, and fell to the ground, motionless.
Feng Maoyuan stared in astonishment at the once terrifying giant wolf, now instantly dead. After recovering from his shock, he looked at Huangfu Yue, who had thrown the stone that ended the wolf's life, his eyes filled with admiration.
"Thank you for saving my life, County Princess! County Princess, your martial arts are truly peerless. With just one stone, you instantly killed this giant wolf. Your martial prowess is undoubtedly the best in the world!"
Although he had seen Huangfu Yue grab a handful of stones and eliminate over a dozen assassins in an instant before, seeing her kill a ferocious giant wolf with a single stone still shocked him, once again awed by her heaven-defying martial strength.
He sincerely believed Huangfu Yue's martial arts were the best in the world; he couldn't imagine anyone being more powerful than her.
Huangfu Yue smiled faintly at Feng Maoyuan's adoration and praise. She glanced at the giant wolf on the ground, thinking that she could have an extra meal at noon – braised wolf meat.
Roasted wolf meat would be good too!
When she was on missions in Siberia and ran out of food, she had hunted snow wolves for sustenance. Both braised and roasted wolf meat tasted quite good, leaving a lasting impression.
However, she hadn't expected wolves to appear in this area. Indeed, the wilderness in ancient times was teeming with beasts.
She had once read a miscellaneous book about ancient times, which contained many stories of protagonists encountering wild beasts in the wilderness. Some encountered wolves, some encountered tigers, some even met leopards, and there were even accounts of people encountering giant pythons as thick as water buckets.
At the time, she had wondered how there could be so many wild beasts in the ancient wilderness; it seemed too far-fetched.
Now she understood it wasn't far-fetched. The ancient wilderness was sparsely populated, hence the abundance of wild beasts.
Since there were wolves in the area, they should return quickly. They needed to be careful that other wolves wouldn't attack the people in the royal estate.
"Let's go back," Huangfu Yue said, bending down and slinging the giant wolf over her shoulder.
Feng Maoyuan stared, his eyes about to pop out, at Huangfu Yue, who was effortlessly carrying the three-to-four-hundred-catty giant wolf on her shoulder.
He had known her strength must be immense when he'd seen her uprooting a giant tree before, but he hadn't imagined her strength could be this great, to so easily lift and carry such a heavy giant wolf on her seemingly slender shoulders.
Huangfu Yue ignored Feng Maoyuan's utterly astonished expression and returned the way they came, carrying the wolf. Feng Maoyuan only snapped back to reality after she had walked several meters away and quickly hurried to catch up.
Neither Huangfu Yue nor Feng Maoyuan noticed a jet-black crow with blood-red eyes, exuding an aura of death and looking incredibly sinister, observing them from high above.
Seeing Huangfu Yue and Feng Maoyuan leave, the crow immediately followed them, trailing them back to where the people from the royal estate were, as if tracking and monitoring them…