Seeing the beautiful soldier, the team leader of Tiger Wolf Army named Chen Zhong swiftly covered his blabbing mouth, a look of utter shock on his face.

He certainly hadn't forgotten the first time he met the handsome soldier Ye Huang.

Chen Zhong and Ye Huang were both team leaders in the Northwest Tiger and Wolf Army.

However, unlike Chen Zhong, who had been a seasoned soldier for eight or nine years, Ye Huang had only arrived in the northwest four months ago.

It was said that he came to the Tiger Wolf Army on the recommendation of a certain old friend of the Tiger Wolf General.

After reading "his" recommendation letter, the Tiger Wolf General did not favor old connections but simply followed tradition, directing Ye Huang to bring back ten beast skins.

Every new recruit to the Tiger Wolf Army, whether a common soldier or a seasoned one transferred from other military camps, had to hunt and bring back ten beast skins without exception.

Because the Tiger Wolf Army is Daxia's sharpest spear and also the military force with the highest casualty rate.

If one doesn't have exceptional skills, not only will they meet their end in the Tiger Wolf Army, but they would also drag down their comrades-in-arms.

Ye Huang didn't say much, turned around, and left the camp. With nothing better to do, the brothers of the Tiger Wolf Army started betting on Ye Huang, some wagering that he would be so scared that he'd never dare return.

Others said he would die a violent death on the Xixia Plain.

Yet, a day later, Ye Huang returned, bringing back ten beast skins.

Those ten beast skins were each felled by a single arrow, with the wounds right in the eye sockets of the skins. That's when the soldiers of the Tiger Wolf Army realized that this man called Ye Huang was a Divine Archer.

After that, Ye Huang was assigned to the fourth team.

In the military camp, it's an unwritten law for seasoned soldiers to bully the newbies.

Since women were scarce, some soldiers with delicate and tender skin in the military camps would inevitably be ridiculed.

Ye Huang, who was particularly good-looking, caught the eye of Chen Zhong, the team leader of the first squad, who noticed the latter's fair and tender appearance reminiscent of a woman and teased him casually.

Who would have expected that the fair and delicate Ye Huang, without a word, drew his bow and shattered Chen Zhong's two front teeth.

This young man's archery skills had reached a state of sheer brilliance.

At that time, the arrowhead got stuck in Chen Zhong's teeth and couldn't be pulled out, nearly driving the entire camp to hysterics with laughter.

Subsequently, this soldier named Ye Huang rose rapidly in rank within four months.

In the Tiger Wolf Army, hunting beasts accumulates Merit Points, and Ye Huang always led the charge in battle.

In just four months, the number of beasts he had hunted had reached four to five hundred, an astonishing figure when added to his Merit Points.

It's rumored that after this year's Military Merits Assembly, Ye Huang might even get promoted.

"Pick up the prey and move out." Ye Huang commanded. The soldiers of the fourth squad promptly stepped forward and hoisted the Xixia Green Wolves onto their backs, ready to go.

The soil of the Xixia Plain was barren and couldn't sustain crops; these Xixia Green Wolves were not only their prey but also their food.

Four months had gone by.

Four months earlier, when Ye Huangyu realized that after breaking through to the Elixir Realm her cultivation was hard to further advance, she knelt in front of the Marquis and requested to be sent to the Northwest Tiger Wolf Army. The Marquis remained silent for a long while.

To achieve a breakthrough in Martial Arts, there are only two ways: the first is through years of diligent practice and study, and the second is through desperate survival and fierce combat.

The first method, for Ye Huangyu, was too long a wait; she could not afford it.

So, she chose the second method.

After the silence, the Marquis handed Ye Huangyu a bow and a book of archery techniques.

"This bow is called Sea Suppressing Eight Lang, a bow I used when I was younger, and this book, Sea Suppressing Three Styles, is one of my famous Martial Arts techniques. You haven't been by my side for long, so there's limited time for what I can teach you. Take this bow and my letter of recommendation to meet with Tiger Wolf General Nie Fengxing, and he will surely allow you to join the Tiger Wolf Army," said the Marquis, as he passed the bow and archery book to Ye Huangyu, before waving his hand.

Ye Huangyu accepted the bow, an ancient treasure with a long history, a top-grade Xuan-level Spiritual Artifact, while the Sea Suppressing Three Styles was a Sixth Tier Martial Arts technique.

Ye Huangyu bowed her head deeply three times and resolutely left the bustling Xia Capital.

After more than half a month, Ye Huangyu arrived at the Xixia Plain. Along the way, she mastered the use of the Sea Suppressing Eight Lang, comprehended the Wave Breaking Style and Cloud Piercing Style from the Sea Suppressing Three Styles, becoming a Divine Archer who could hit the target with every shot.

But even though she was mentally prepared, the first ten days Ye Huangyu joined the Tiger Wolf Army were still spent in terror.

Ye Huang still remembered the taste of her first bite of wolf meat—it was hard and astringent, truly, damnably awful.

In the military camp, where communal bathing and sleeping on large bunks were common, Ye Huangyu could only sneak to bathe at night after everyone else had finished.

At midnight, she would lie among dozens of naked men, and if she wasn't careful, a man's thigh or arm might end up on her body.

After the initial ten days had passed, Ye Huangyu gradually became familiar with everything here.

Life in the camp was monotonous, but it was also simple, and she quickly adapted to everything.

After four months in the camp, Ye Huang, which was Ye Huangyu in disguise, had grown tanner and more uncouth.

Her body had acquired many wounds, the most severe of which left her heavily injured, lying among beast carcasses, surviving by eating rotten flesh.

The four months of experience with the Northwest Tiger and Wolf Army had significantly increased Ye Huangyu's cultivation, reaching the Great Primordial Dan Realm.

But these changes were only superficial, and Ye Huangyu knew that something inside her had changed as well.

Now she could easily mingle among a crowd of men, and without as much as furrowing her brow, she could shoot dead a mother wolf that had just given birth. A bloodthirsty intent had entered her gaze.

Even Ye Lingyue, her daughter, would not recognize her at first glance.

The Tiger Wolf Army was divided into ten squads, with a hundred soldiers in each, making a total of just over one thousand in the entire army—an amount that obviously did not compare to the size of other military forces in the northwest.

Yet it was this very Tiger Wolf Army that, during the most severe period of beast turmoil, managed to hold the fortresses from the Xixia Plain to the Northwest Cities, safeguarding the safety of countless civilians and livestock in Northwest Daxia.

"Team leader, the wind is picking up," shouted the soldier carrying the wolf corpse ahead.

"Yes, the wind is picking up," Ye Huangyu's pupils shrank sharply.

Among the howling wind, animal howls could also be heard.

Ye Huangyu frowned sensitively, perhaps because she had had dealings with her daughter's Little Fox Dog earlier, she was more attuned to animals than the average person.

She had a vague feeling that the activity of the beasts had increased significantly compared to before.

Upon returning to the camp and handing over the wolf corpses, Ye Huangyu received an order; the Tiger Wolf General summoned her for a meeting.

~The book has been on the shelves for nearly a month, Houhou, this month we've surged to the thirteenth place, the highest in history, hoping to maintain it by the end of the month, if you have tickets, throw them our way, also to clarify again, Da Fu's chapters are two thousand words apiece, so they're twice the price of a thousand-word chapter, don't ask me why it's so expensive, I'll get mad~