Eternal Beast Taming Family

Day two.

On the way to town, Chu Jingyu took a specially built "highway".

Since the road was built, many villagers along the way have taken this road to go to the town, and have received countless thanks from the villagers in the surrounding villages.

However, now, this once smooth and solid road is covered with muddy footprints, and in some places, it even shows signs of cracking.

Moreover, some source beasts openly occupy the road, using it as their lair.

In just over ten days, Heyu Town, which belonged to the human race, has now become another world for the source beasts.

Passing through the village, Chu Jingyu could sense that quite a few people were still alive. Clearly, these source beasts had little interest in these humans whose bodies contained only a small amount of complex energy; if it weren't for their severely depleted energy reserves...

They generally do not actively seek out humans for hunting; instead, battles between source beasts and between source beasts and contractors are more frequent.

Even so, life was still very difficult for these ordinary villagers. The battles between the source beasts didn't care about the surrounding environment. If they raged into the village, the demolition of houses was a minor matter. The aftershocks of the battle alone could easily cause the deaths of the villagers.

Along the way, Chu Jingyu dealt with every source beast he encountered, but this was only a part of it. There were countless other source beasts in the territory of Heyu Town.

Upon arriving in town, Chu Jingyu went straight into the town mayor's mansion. Once again, he was the last of the three clan leaders to arrive.

However, his expression remained indifferent, showing no sign of realizing that there was any problem.

On the contrary, ever since he entered the study, the other three people felt his powerful aura, unique to the Spirit Rank, and their expressions became extremely complicated.

The town mayor, Tang Cheng, showed a hint of surprise on his slightly pale face.

The new patriarchs of the other two aristocratic families wore expressions that were more difficult to decipher, revealing a mixture of jealousy, vigilance, and wariness.

Compared to the two established families, the Chu family was definitely a rising star, but in just four short months, the strength of its patriarch had already surpassed that of the two families.

It seems that the shadow cast by the Liu family is about to return, which inevitably makes them feel complicated.

Chu Jingyu smiled and cupped his hands in greeting to Tang Cheng, who was sitting behind the table. After advancing to the Spirit Rank, he had a clearer understanding of Tang Cheng's current realm. He was at the middle level of the Spirit Rank, and he wondered if the trip to the outer realm had caused him to regress in rank.

"Mayor Tang, it's been a long time. How are you?"

As for the other two family patriarchs beside him, he did not take the initiative to greet them. After all, now that their roles had been reversed, and he was now a Spirit-Rank Contract Master, it was their place to pay their respects to him.

Tang Cheng nodded to Chu Jingyu and said with a smile, "Elder Chu, you've really changed a lot in just a few days. You've already reached the Spirit Rank."

This is great news for both us and Yuzhen. If the timing weren't so bad, we would definitely hold a banquet to celebrate.

Chu Jingyu sat down on a chair brought out by a servant. Through Tang Cheng's words, Chu Jingyu felt that Tang Cheng seemed to have changed quite a bit since their first meeting.

Judging from both his demeanor and his eyes, Chu Jingyu sighed inwardly at how things had changed. "The mayor has overstated things. It's just a small matter, not worth making a big fuss about."

Tang Cheng smiled and shook his head, then looked at the heads of the other two families, gesturing for them to come forward and greet them.

Despite their resentment, they had no choice but to acknowledge that they were now of a lower status than Chu Jingyu. The two patriarchs exchanged a glance, then simultaneously bowed to Chu Jingyu.

"We greet the Chu family patriarch."

Seeing the resentment in their hearts, Chu Jingyu's smile faded slightly. "Greetings to the two clan leaders."

After exchanging greetings, Tang Chengcai turned the conversation to business.

"Now that a great figure has descended upon Paper Hawk County, he will resolve the crisis of breaking the boundary that we are about to face, but we will have to deal with the rampant source beasts in this town ourselves."

"We invited the three clan leaders here today to see if you have any good ideas on how we and Jade Town can quickly restore peace to what it was before."

The other two clan leaders remained silent, but their gazes were all fixed on Chu Jingyu. The scene was somewhat strange. Although the three clan leaders were not familiar with each other and there was even some animosity between them, they now seemed to be under the leadership of Chu Jingyu.

"You can arrange this directly, Mayor. We'll contribute money if we have money, and we'll contribute our labor if we have labor."

Tang Cheng's gaze fell on the other two clan leaders, and he saw that they also nodded, indicating that they were obeying the town mayor's orders.

Tang Cheng chuckled lightly, "Alright, the matter is urgent, and further discussion would only be a waste of time. I do have an idea."

"How about the town mayor's office take the lead, with the three families and the town mayor's office each contributing personnel to form a hunting team to clear out the surrounding source beasts, starting from the vicinity of Heyu Town?"

"That's how it should be."

"However, how many people should each family contribute? Our Chu family is still in the early stages of becoming a prominent family, and we simply don't have any extra manpower available."

"I wonder if it's possible to have some more Source Stones to use as a substitute?"

Tang Cheng smiled and shook his head, "With Elder Chu overseeing the hunting team, the Chu family doesn't need to send out any other personnel."

Besides the guards and members of your family, the hunting party also includes conscripted private contractors. Now that the town is in trouble, how can they stand idly by?

As for funding, that's easy to handle. We hunted source beasts to obtain funds, which were then distributed to them according to their contributions.

"It's not impossible for me to go alone," Chu Jingyu nodded silently, tacitly agreeing to Tang Cheng's arrangement.

The other two family heads, the burly man clearly from the Shi family, spoke up, asking in a rough voice, "I wonder how many people each of our families, based on rank, the town head requires?"

"Twenty ordinary-rank individuals and five extraordinary-rank individuals will suffice."

Upon hearing Tang Cheng's words, the two clan leaders immediately frowned. Twenty ordinary-level individuals were manageable, but five extraordinary-level individuals meant that most of the clan's resources had been deployed.

Another man, dressed in a gray robe and looking somewhat thin, spoke up: "Mayor, aren't five people of different ranks a bit too many? After all, we still have women and children in our tribe who need care, and we really can't spare so many people."

Tang Cheng's expression was indifferent. "Your two families have been staying peacefully in town. I don't know if you've sent anyone to check outside the town, but there are all sorts of different-tier source beasts everywhere, and many of them even move around in groups."

"If we don't send more contract masters of different ranks, who knows whether we'll be hunting source beasts or being hunted by them?"

Hearing Tang Cheng's tone, the two clan chiefs knew that the town mayor's decision was final, so they could only sigh twice and resignedly agree.

Chu Jingyu watched them discuss the details with an air of composure, estimating in his mind when the hunting team would be able to clear the territory where the Chu family lived.