Episode 8: Walking a Miles Road Chapter 4: The Dark Shadow

The first snowfall of this winter was very big, and many places in the hinterland of the Magical Beast Mountain Range were covered with thick snow, and various kinds of footprints could be clearly seen on that snow, both human’s and those of magical beasts of varying sizes.

“What a lot of snow.”

Linley was wearing the same tattered linen pants as usual, his upper body bare. Even though the temperature at the moment was cold enough to cause the rushing water to freeze solid, Linley wasn’t the least bit afraid.

Barefoot, Linley advanced in large strides.

“Boss, it should be almost past the Yulan Festival by now.”

Bebe guessed.

Having stayed in the middle of the Magical Beast Mountain Range for a long time, he had even forgotten the approximate time, and although Linley had a pocket watch, there was only a simple time in that pocket watch, and no date.

“It should be about the same.”

Linley nodded.

It had been roughly two years since he had entered the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, and during those two years Linley’s warrior strength had grown at a fairly fast rate, reaching the peak of level seven. However, in terms of the utilization of the heavy sword, it was unknown how much more superior than if he had just obtained the Black Yul heavy sword. Especially when one became a rank eight dual system magician, magic and warrior abilities were utilized together, that strength was increased by a lot.

“Eh?”

Linley and Bebe both turned their heads to look.

Only to see two burly men in leather armor holding weapons running in panic not far away, and seeing that they were humans, Linley continued walking again. There were a large number of experts that came in to cultivate in the Devil Beast Mountain Range all year round, and over the past two years, Linley had come across quite a few humans. For the humans in the Magic Beast Mountain Range, Linley was adhering to the …… principle of not messing with people.

After all, there were quite a few of them, but they specialized in hitting the idea of the magic crystal cores in other people’s packages. Linley didn’t have a parcel with him because he had a spatial ring. So there were still very few people who hit on Linley’s ideas.

“Wait, wait.”

An anxious shout came from behind.

Linley, however, simply ignored them and continued walking. The duo was still running very fast, and caught up in a moment. When they caught up, Linley immediately stopped and turned around.

“What are you doing?”

Linley looked coldly at the two burly men.

With Linley’s vision, he could determine that these two were not weak, it was just that human strength was hard to tell from appearance. Linley was still wary of these two.

“Us?”

These two burly men looked at each other, however, they gave Linley an awkward smile. One of the one eyed bald men apologized, “We don’t mean anything else, it’s just that it’s really dangerous in the central region of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and our two brothers would like to …… go with you, brother. This way, if we all help each other, won’t it be much safer?”

The other bald man was stunned, then even nodded his head and said, “Right. The central region is too dangerous. If we go together, we can help each other. In this case, let’s all leave the central region together, and after we get out of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, we’ll separate again ah.”

“I’m not interested.”

Linley frowned and turned his head before continuing to set off alone.

Linley wasn’t the fledgling teenager he used to be, he could tell that these two men were obviously lying. In the Demon Beast Mountain Range, there was still a need to help each other? This was simply a joke. These two wanted to follow him. They were definitely up to no good. Linley didn’t want to cause any trouble and was too lazy to kill these two. Naturally, he didn’t want to walk with them.

When these two bald men saw that Linley had actually left so dryly, they glanced at each other and only hesitated for a moment before immediately chasing after them again.

“Wait, this brother please wait.”

The two bald men chased after him again.

Linley couldn’t help but furrow his brows as he turned back to look coldly at this duo that had chased over.

Those two looked at Linley awkwardly, the one-eyed man among them even apologized and said, “I’m really sorry, it’s just that our brothers really wanted to catch up with you. Don’t worry, as long as we get out of here, the two of us brothers will definitely thank you properly.”

Linley scanned the duo.

“You guys can follow if you want to.”

Linley said indifferently.

After being in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range for so long. Linley had a lot of experience as well. These two people had to follow themselves and let them, Linley was fully confident in dealing with these two. Not to mention the fact that there was a Bebe on Linley’s shoulders.

“Thank you, thank you.”

The two bald men said gratefully.

Immediately, the two of them followed beside Linley step by step, and from time to time, the two of them even looked around a few times, a hint of fear in their eyes.

“This brother, we’re from the Southwest Province of the O’Brien Empire. I wonder who you are, brother?”

The bald, one-eyed man cozied up to Linley.

Linley’s eyebrows lifted.

The O’Brien Empire?

Linley was well aware of that. If he were to head directly towards the east right now, it wouldn’t take long for him to enter the territorial boundaries of the O’Brien Empire.

“What’s the point of asking so many questions?”

Linley glanced at the man, “Follow if you want to, and keep quiet.”

“Yes, yes.”

The bald, one-eyed man nodded repeatedly.

In their opinion, Linley was indeed an extraordinary person, it wasn’t strange that he only wore a pair of pants in the middle of winter, but what was strange was that this person was still walking so calmly and slowly in the central region of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

It seems that this most dangerous place. It was as if it was his family’s backyard.

“Big brother.”

The bald man in the back pulled on the bald one-eyed man’s leather armor and lowered his voice, “Big brother, do you think we can save our little lives?”

The bald one-eyed man looked around in fear and lowered his voice, “Don’t think too much, now follow this mysterious man first. By following him, maybe we still have some hope.”

“En.”

The bald man nodded, only his heart was still apprehensive.

Linley, who was in the front, however, was walking very openly, and for the two people behind him to be muttering. Linley had also noticed, it was just that Linley had a feeling. These two people shouldn’t be the kind of people who were going to lay hands on themselves.

After walking for a while, Linley stopped.

One day Linley only walked about ten miles, the rest of the time he was in cultivation. When Linley stopped like that, the two people behind him were truly anxious.

“Why did you stop?”

The bald, one-eyed man said anxiously.

“Eh?”

Linley gave him a disgruntled cold look.

His second brother hurriedly said with a smile, “My lord, this is still the central region. Are we not stepping out of this dangerous place before we rest?”

Linley frowned and spoke, “You two don’t bother us here to follow if you want to, but me, I can walk if I want to. Stop when I want to. If you make any more noise here, don’t blame me for making a move to kill the two of you.”

These two bald men looked at each other, and then awkwardly accompanied a smile.

“Sorry, sorry.”

These two immediately retreated to the side, no longer daring to bother Linley.

“These two are behaving a bit strangely.”

Linley glanced at these two people, these two people said that they wanted to leave the Magical Beast Mountain Range, yet they had to follow him. If he didn’t leave himself, these two surprisingly didn’t leave either.

Why did they have to follow themselves?

These two didn’t even recognize themselves.

Linley sat down on his knees. He pulled out the Black Yu Heavy Sword and placed it on top of his legs. But at this very moment Linley suddenly felt a palpitation – “Whoosh!”

Linley turned his head violently, and a black shadow suddenly flashed past in front of him before disappearing.

“Ah, ah……”

Fearful cries came from the distance, only two or three of which ceased to ring out. It was only at this time that Linley noticed that only one of those two bald men was actually left at this moment. Just that bald, one-eyed man was left, and as for his brother, he had already disappeared. There was a puddle of blood right next to him in the snow. “Ah, ah, no, no.”

That bald one-eyed man seemed to have been stimulated like never before. It screamed.

Linley stood up solemnly, and Bebe was on guard.

“Boss, that monster is so fast.”

Bebe solemnly transmitted, “After entering the Magical Beast Mountain Range for so long, this is the fastest one I’ve found. I didn’t even see it clearly just now, I don’t know if it’s a human or a magical beast.”

Linley hadn’t seen it clearly either.

The monster was too fast, even a little faster than Bebe’s scurrying speed.

“What on earth is it? Bebe has already stepped into the threshold of a ninth level magical beast now, and after entering the Magical Beast Mountain Range for so long, he’s encountered quite a few magical beasts. But in terms of speed alone, none of them have surpassed Bebe.”

Linley was alarmed in his heart.

Bebe’s speed was advantageous.

It was difficult to find any of the ninth level magical beasts that exceeded Bebe in terms of speed.

“What is that monster? Could it be a Saint realm magical beast?”

Linley’s heart was startled. Saint realm magical beasts were naturally fast, it was normal for them to be faster than Bebe.

Linley immediately turned his head to look at the bald, one-eyed man.

At the moment, the bald, one-eyed man had fear in his eyes, and his mouth was constantly chanting. From time to time, he was also looking in all directions in terror. It seemed to be afraid of being attacked once again.

“Ah.”

The bald one-eyed man couldn’t help but scream in terror as he felt himself being suddenly grabbed.

But when he looked back, it was actually Linley grabbing him by the collar.

“Say, what the hell is going on?”

Linley stared at him. “Otherwise, I’m going to leave you here alone, all alone.”

“No, no, don’t leave me behind.”

The bald, one-eyed man unexpectedly knelt down directly, “I’ll talk, I’ll talk.”

Linley couldn’t help but frown at this scene.

He had heard long ago that the O’Brien Empire was the most powerful empire in terms of military strength, and that Martial Gods were extremely worshipped amongst the O’Brien Empire. Many of the empire’s subjects cultivated to become warriors, and most of the powerful warriors were extremely proud. This bald man was able to enter the central region of the Magic Beast Mountain Range. His strength was not weak. Even if it wasn’t a rank seven warrior, it was at least a rank six warrior.

But now, this bald man in front of him even kneeled down when he said so, without any backbone at all.

“My lord, you don’t know, these days, are simply, simply a nightmare.”

The bald, one-eyed man seemed to have tears in his eyes.

Linley immediately gazed and listened.

“This time I’m with my brother, my wife. There are also some other brothers and friends who have formed a team to enter this magical beast mountain range to properly cultivate. At the same time, we’re also preparing to get some magical beast crystal cores. For people like us who have entered the Magic Beast Mountain Range five or six times. This matter is very ordinary. But I didn’t expect ……”

The bald one-eyed man’s whole body trembled, “On the third day of entering the Magical Beast Mountain Range, we had just entered the Intermediate Magical Beast area range when we entered a nightmare.”

“I have a team of six rank seven warriors and two rank six magicians. Hunting in an intermediate level magical beast area isn’t too dangerous. But who would have thought …… that we encountered a terrifying monster.”

“Monster?”

Linley frowned.

“The first time we encountered this monster, he directly sneaked up on us and killed a good brother of my land just like just now.”

The bald, one-eyed man’s body was trembling, “We were furious at the time, because the monster was so fast that we didn’t even notice the monster’s figure, and it was only when we heard our friend’s ground screams that we realized that he had been attacked. And seeing the blood left on the ground, we realized that that friend of ours might have died.”

“At that time, we thought that that magical beast would only make sneak attacks, not even daring to deal with us in name, so it must not be too strong. Angrily, we also presumptuously wanted to take revenge. But we didn’t find that monster at that time.”

The bald one-eyed man took a deep breath to calm his excitement and continued, “But that evening, when we were eating dinner, that monster came again.”

With that said the bald one-eyed man glared round, obviously nervous.

“That monster this time similarly took one of our magicians at once. Only this time, it just took the magician to a place a few dozen meters away and ate it. Right in front of a group of us, this monster ate up that magician of our team.”

“Monster? What does it look like?”

Linley immediately asked after it.

“By the looks of it, it’s a panther with a nearly pitch-black body.”

The bald, one-eyed man said.

“Pitch black all over? A grade eight magical beast blackline panther?”

Speaking of which, Linley was also a little unconvinced, as an eighth level magical beast hadn’t been able to reach such an astonishing speed just now. Even though panther-type magical beasts were the most amazingly fast amongst the crawling magical beasts.

“It’s not a black line panther, the people in our team are considered to be more knowledgeable, we all know that black line panther with that black line all over its body. But this monster’s whole body is curved ground black patterns, and the black patterns are very dense.”