Episode 8: A Journey of Ten Thousand Miles Chapter 10: A Sword

“Ray, how’s that Ms. Jenny? Pretty good, huh?”

Ronz laughed in a low voice “It is very good.”

Linley nodded and praised.

Next to him, Luther even said, “More than good, I’ve been out there for a few years now, and I’ve seen quite a few beautiful women. But Miss Jenny, tsk, that’s absolutely ah. Brother Lei, do you have any interest in Miss Jenny?”

Linley was stunned for a moment.

Lanz also gave Linley a ‘men understand’ look, “Brother Lei, it’s normal for strong men to have beautiful women. If you don’t seize the opportunity now, you won’t have a chance later on when you leave this caravan.”

“You two.”

Linley cried and laughed.

Alice had already caused Linley to put his feelings on deep ice, and nowadays Linley wasn’t so starved that he wanted to chase after beautiful women when he saw them.

“Miss Jenny and her siblings are out.”

Luther whispered.

Linley turned his head to look, and sure enough, Miss Jenny and her younger brother Keane were walking towards a bonfire, and beside that bonfire was none other than their siblings’ old servant.

That aristocratic teenager ‘Keane’ couldn’t help but be curious and look towards the black-striped clouded leopard again.

The black-striped clouded leopard immediately grinned and revealed its cold fangs, and that Keane was instantly frightened and tightly grasped his sister’s hand, while Miss Zenny also looked over in Linley’s direction if she was aware of it.

Miss Zenny slightly embarrassedly nodded her head slightly in apology before taking her brother to sit by the bonfire.

Sister, that magical beast is so handsome.”

Keane’s bright eyes were full of longing, “One day, it would be nice if I could also own a powerful magical beast.”

The old servant beside him said smilingly, “Young Master Keane, it is not that simple to accept a magical beast. To subdue a powerful magical beast you must make the magical beast truly submit, and to make a magical beast submit, you must defeat it head on. As far as I know. The weakest of the leopard-type beasts is a level seven beast. That Lord Lei is a truly strong person.”

“The weakest are all rank seven magical beasts?”

Keane sucked in a breath, “Grandpa Lambert, then is there a Grandpa Lambert who is not as powerful as you?”

In Keane’s heart, the one he admired the most was actually this Grandpa Lambert.

When he and his sister were in the Holy Alliance, they didn’t have anything to rely on at all. It was Grandpa Lambert who sheltered them, if it wasn’t Grandpa Lambert, that nobleman in that town would have sent someone to snatch his sister. He had seen his Grandpa Lambert with his own eyes, directly smashing the shield of that noble guard with a single punch, and easily defeating those dozen soldiers.

“Me? My little bit of skill. People can over kill me easily with a single move.”

Lambert smiled and touched Keane’s head, “Young Master Keane, when we get to the O’Brien Empire, you have to be careful. There are many experts in this world. I can only shelter you in a small town kind of place, but when you get to the earth city ……”

“It’s fine, this time I’m going to inherit the position of city lord.”

Keane proudly raised his small head, “When I become the city lord, what else am I afraid of?”

Seeing Keane like this, Jenny also happily petted Keane’s head, “Keane will be a great City Lord in the future.”

“That’s for sure.”

Keane was very confident.

Gradually. Most people went back to sleep in their carriages, and only a few mercenary guards patrolled around. As for Linley, this was sitting on the ground with his knees crossed, and the Heavy Sword of Black Yul was resting flat on his knees.

The third of the three realms of heavy sword cultivation, ‘potential’ cultivation, Lin Lei didn’t know how his family ancestors cultivated it, but the way Lin Lei cultivated it was that his mind was attuned to the earth, to the boundless wind.

The earth had its own unique pulsations.

That unique pulsation, that unique rhythm also made Linley immersed in it. The boundless wind that filled the earth and sky was the most closely related to space. The wind that filled the space was also a key part of comprehending ‘potential’.

Immerse yourself in nature, comprehend nature ……

In this situation, Linley couldn’t feel the passage of time at all. By the latter part of the night, the vast majority of the people on the caravan were asleep, with only a few mercenary guards keeping a strong vigil.

“Rustling late at night, a cold wind blew, ruffling the tips of Linley’s hair, and Linley’s closed eyes opened quite abruptly. And then he inserted his Black Yul heavy sword into the ground scabbard behind him.

“Get up.”

Linley patted Luther and Ronz twice.

Luther and Ronz were both mercenaries who had fought for their lives on the edge of a sword, and neither of them slept to death, waking up in a flash. Ronz and Luther looked at the fact that it was only the middle of the night.

“Brother Lei, it’s late at night, why aren’t you sleeping?”

Luther was disgruntled in his heart, but he didn’t dare to complain with his mouth.

“There are bandits coming.”

Linley said casually.

“Oh.”

Luther’s drowsy eyes seemed to show signs of closing again, but he snapped his eyes open and stared at Linley in shock, “Brother Lei, what did you say? Bandits are here?”

“A group of roughly a hundred or so bandits is roughly three hundred meters ahead. It’s slowly approaching here.”

Linley said directly.

Linley had just sensed the pulsations of the earth. Feeling the blowing of the wind.

The footsteps of over a hundred people were clearly felt by Linley from a few hundred meters away. Of course, if it was normal, Linley wouldn’t have been able to detect it so early. With a mind attuned to the earth, this level of sensitivity was naturally much higher.

Luther was stunned.

“Don’t just stand there, quickly wake up the brothers.”

Lanz was calm and collected.

“Oh, know.”

Luther immediately went to shout at one mercenary after another, while Ronz went straight to alert the vigilant mercenary guards.

One by one, the mercenaries who were sleeping soundly were woken up in the middle of the night by shouting, so they were naturally unhappy.

“Bandits are coming.”

A single sentence scared them all to get up immediately.

“Where are the bandits?”

One by one, the mercenaries who woke up looked around in the dark. There were no ghost shadows. One by one, the mercenaries were disgruntled.

The leader of the mercenaries, a bearded man grabbed Lanz’s lapel, “You said there are bandits. Where is it?”

“It wasn’t me, it was Brother Lei who said it.”

Ronz said in a hurry.

“Oh?”

The bearded man’s heart was startled, for Linley, an expert who had inserted himself halfway, the bearded man didn’t dare offend the black panther when he saw it, and an expert who said that certainly wouldn’t joke about them.

At this time, the bearded man also heard the very slight sound of dense footsteps in the distance.

With the bearded man’s strength, he had already heard it.

“Strong. Prepare, prepare-”

The bearded man’s terrifying voice immediately alerted all, even to the point where many sleeping merchants, who were hitchhiking by the way, woke up.

These nearly a hundred mercenaries arranged themselves in a very orderly manner.

“Haha, Big Bearded Malone, I didn’t expect you to be so alert, years of not seeing has improved. It seems that a sneak attack won’t work, so we can only attack by force.”

Only a loud laugh could be heard, and then a silhouette dressed in black appeared at the front of the caravan.

“It’s you?”

The bearded man’s face changed when he saw the one-eyed blonde man in the lead.

The one-eyed snake ‘McKinley’. It was still very famous in this two regardless zone of a road of hundreds of miles. His people were famous for their viciousness and strength.

“Wow,” the cry of a baby in the caravan rang out.

“It’s bandits.”

Many people panicked.

“Quiet.”

The bearded man roared, and there were many people in the caravan who immediately organized and arranged for everyone to gather together, as well as for some of the adults to hold their weapons and prepare to resist.

The bearded man looked at the one-eyed blonde man, “One-eyed snake, don’t do things too desperately. This way, brother, I’ll offer five thousand gold coins. You guys make way, how about it?”

“Five thousand gold coins?”

The blonde one-eyed man sneered, “Malone, do you think I, McKinley, am a beggar? One sentence. One hundred thousand gold coins, I’ll let you guys go. Otherwise …… humph.”

All the mercenaries’ faces sank.

One hundred thousand gold coins? They had only been paid a total of sixty thousand gold coins for taking on this protection mission. If they sent one hundred thousand to the other party, they would still have to pay back gold coins ah. After all, according to the rules of mercenaries, once they took on a protection mission, even if they had to dispatch some bandits, the money was still for the mercenary team to pay.

“One-eyed snake, don’t go too far. You should be satisfied with five thousand gold coins if you don’t die alone.”

The bearded man grabbed his giant axe, “Otherwise. It depends on who’s strong.”

The bearded ‘Malone’ was still somewhat confident, he had fought with McKinley in the past, and his strength was about the same. He believed that McKinley hadn’t succeeded in his sneak attack, so he shouldn’t dare to go out of his way to attack strongly.

“That’s the way it should be, brothers, do it.”

McKinley steeply shouted.

At once, a group of bandits were holding weapons one by one. Howling angrily one by one, they rushed up. This scene indeed surprised Malone beyond measure.

“Whoosh!”

“Whoosh!”

“Whoosh!” ……

The archers on both sides opened their bows relentlessly, only in this kind of hundred-on-hundred battle, a small number of archers really weren’t very useful.

“Malone, go to hell.”

McKinley rushed up with a sharp long knife, and with a point of his foot, the whole person leapt up more than ten meters, and then carrying the force of ten thousand pounds, he fiercely slashed wildly towards Malone.

Ma Long also grabbed the huge axe, not willing to show weakness back to chop over.

“Buzz.” The dark black light on the surface of the long knife flourished.

“Peng.”

Ma Long only felt his hands tremble, and he couldn’t help but take several steps back.

“You?”

The bearded Malone looked at the one-eyed McKinley in surprise, he was very clear about McKinley’s strength. Frontal hard confrontation. His own heavy weapon had the advantage. But now the other party is actually dominating, this ……

“You think well, I have stepped into the eighth level warrior realm.”

McKinley’s face was filled with pride.

“No wonder you attacked strongly without hesitation.”

Malone understood at this time.

“Boss, there’s a beautiful woman here.”

A voice suddenly rang out.

McKinley immediately turned his head to look, and was seeing the panicked and blanched Jenny, who at the moment was panicking and protecting her brother, that pathetic look was indeed moving.

“Haha, that female land belongs to me.”

McKinley immediately became excited. ……

The mercenaries were bloody fighting with the bandits, a bandit directly cut off the mercenary’s head with a knife. But behind him, a mercenary just stabbed him through the back.

“Back up, back up.”

Malone yelled and flew back. Those mercenary guards were fighting and retreating.

“Lord Lei, please save our mercenary group.”

Malon respectfully pleaded to Linley. At this moment, the mercenaries had formed a circle, while the other merchants and walkers were in the circle. Linley and Malon were on the outermost edge of the circle.

Linley nodded in the face of Malon’s plea.

“I’ll only settle that chieftain for you.”

Linley said, and Malon’s eyes immediately glowed with excitement;if McKinley was dead, what was there to fear from those little bandits?

The campfire was lit, and Jenny nervously hugged her brother.

“Sister, that mercenary leader seems to be begging that Lord Ray.”

Keane looked at the scene with glowing eyes, and Jenny also looked at Linley.

Linley stood in the center of the roadway, looking bashfully at the bandits.

“Get lost.”

McKinley rushed over at extreme speed with his longsword in hand. The entire person was extremely swift, while also constantly swaying from side to side, seemingly turning into two phantoms, making it impossible to figure out which was the real body and which was the phantom.

Phantom Slash!

This was the signature move of the one-eyed snake ‘McKinley’!

“Ridiculous.”

Linley, who had already reached the ‘potential’ level, simply cared very little about this kind of skillful attack move.

“Die.”

A horrifyingly ferocious aura appeared in that single eye of McKinley’s.

The Black Yul heavy sword on Linley’s back was sheathed, and the moment it was sheathed it erupted with an astonishing aura, as if the surrounding space had completely frozen over in an instant.

The Black Yul heavy sword simply slashed directly at McKinley.

McKinley wanted to dodge, but he was shocked to find that the surrounding space seemed to be sealed, and in this instant, even the sound disappeared.

He had nowhere to dodge, and even then, he couldn’t even see anything else. His eyes could only see the increasingly large Black Yu Heavy Sword.

He wanted to raise his sword to resist, but at this moment, he felt as if he was trapped in an endless quagmire, the sword weighed ten thousand pounds in general, and the speed of his rise was too slow.

“Puh!”

Black Yu heavy sword split on McKinley’s body, and McKinley’s body from the head to the feet, even instantly turned into mush. Whether it was the bandits, or the mercenary team, or Jenny, Keane and the others were all dumbfounded at this scene.

“Those little people, over to you.”

Linley sheathed his sword and calmly said to the bearded ‘Malone’.