Episode 8: Walking a Thousand Miles Chapter 1: Running Thunder

The central region of the Demon Beast Mountain Range was rarely visited throughout the year, and it was sometimes infested with magical beasts at level 7 or 9, so it was feared that only level 9 powerhouses would have the guts to traverse the Demon Beast Mountain Range. This time, however, Linley had come to the central region, and then had been advancing towards the north along the axis of the Demon Beast Mountain Range. With such a feat, I’m afraid that even ordinary rank nine powerhouses wouldn’t be this crazy.

Linley was just wearing torn linen pants, his upper body naked and barefoot. Carrying the Black Yul heavy sword on his back, he walked step by step through this off-the-beaten-path place.

Bebe, on the other hand, was standing on Linley’s shoulder, looking around in all directions.

“Cluck, cluck-”

Linley stepped on the thick accumulation of dead leaves, his face bland. His packages, Purple Blood Soft Sword, Flat Knife, clothes, and other items were all placed directly into the empty ring. Among that space ring of Clyde’s, in addition to the huge magic crystal card of 2.2 billion gold coins, there were also dozens of precious items, with the value of the lowest one item reaching millions of gold coins. This accumulation of thousands of years of the Finlay royal family was indeed terrifying.

But for today’s Linley.

Wealth was just something outside of his body, what he truly valued was his own strength. Couldn’t one see that the Dawson Chamber of Commerce was willing to directly pay 100 million gold coins to ask Linley to join the Dawson Chamber of Commerce? And that was only if Linley had the potential to become a Saint realm powerhouse. If one were to truly invite a Saint realm powerhouse, then I’m afraid the price would be even more staggering.

From this, it was clear that one’s own strength was the most important thing. ……

Although Lin Lei was walking through the central region, Lin Lei was still consciously avoiding places where he couldn’t see a single magical beast for dozens of miles. In the central region, there were still dozens of miles without a single magical beast, which was most likely the territory of the Holy Realm magical beasts. Although Linley was confident, he didn’t want to mess with Saint realm magical beasts yet.

All the way through the thorns, Linley wasn’t traveling very fast.

“Everything starts with basic practice.”

Linley was very pragmatic, this Black Yul heavy sword he carried every day. Splitting, slashing, teasing, stabbing, and various other basic movements, Linley always experimented again and again, each time trying to make the attacks as powerful as possible.

Linley wasn’t practicing in a set manner.

Rather, he had a thoughtful connection, deducing a correct path of cultivation based on the small amount of descriptions in that book on his family’s inheritance land about the cultivation of some of his forefathers.

The path of cultivation should not be overly ambitious.

Early spring, high summer, cool autumn, cold winter. No matter what time of year it was, Linley was always wearing the linen pants that had been torn due to multiple dragonizations, and his upper body was always naked.

Linley had discovered ……

With bare feet, one could feel the pulsations of the earth more clearly. Feet on the earth. The heart was also as calm as the earth. Linley’s ”Black Yul Heavy Sword” also had a sense of the heaviness of the earth when he used it.

The upper half of his body was naked.

Feeling the wind blowing on his body, Linley felt as if his entire being had become part of the wind, which was invisible. Linley’s use of the ”Purple Blood Soft Sword” land was also becoming more and more spontaneous.

Because of this.

Lin Lei that is to give people a heavy sense of stability, but also has a kind of floating with the wind feeling. These two feelings were originally contrary, but they bizarrely appeared in one person, and they were also so natural and harmonized. ……

Heavy sword cultivation was the main focus, soft sword cultivation was supplemented, and from time to time, stone carving sculptures were also carried out. At night, he also meditated …… Just like that, Linley’s entire body completely entered a special state of cultivation.

Sometimes when he saw a rushing waterfall in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, Linley would have a whim and cultivate directly under the waterfall.

Seeing a pristine river, Linley might just wander through the water.

Seeing a huge boulder on the top of a mountain, Linley might get inspired and go straight up to the top of the mountain to complete a stone sculpture. It might be several days and nights for one stone sculpture. ……

Follow your heart.

Linley’s heart was closer to nature than ever before, and in this kind of cultivation, Linley completely forgot about the passage of time. He just felt his strength increase every day, and every increase made him feel joyful and moved from the bottom of his heart.

The path of cultivation was winding and long.

The difficulty of this path, but the constant realization gained in the process of moving forward, was touching. ……

Linley’s beard sprang up, and his originally short hair gradually became longer. And the eyes that originally carried a fierce aura had gone through a long period of thinking about nature. They had also become bland and natural.

Only occasionally, when cultivating, would the eyes be sternly terrifying.

Linley’s mentality was also sculpted by nature to be much more calm, and without Derinkelwalt’s guidance, it was practically the same as not having someone to rely on behind him. Linley naturally continued to grow and mature more and more.

The waterfall that reaches nearly a hundred meters high falls from a high place, and finally smashes heavily into the deep pool below, stirring up countless splashes of water. And in this deep pool side, leaning against the waterfall has a protruding stubborn stone.

On the rock was sitting cross-legged on a person, his thighs were placed on a green-black heavy sword.

It was early in the morning. The sky had just dawned, and in the midst of the mountains of the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, the fresh air of the morning caused Linley to greedily take a deep breath.

“Ah.”

Linley opened his eyes.

Looking back, Beibei was curled up next to Linley, that little paw firmly gripping the stubborn rock, not having to worry about falling at all.

“Bebe, it’s time to go.”

Linley said with a smile.

Beibei opened his drowsy eyes and looked around for a moment before shaking his head in confusion before standing up, “Boss. I’m hungry.”

“Let’s go, we’ll eat later.”

Linley pointed his foot at the stubborn stone. The entire person floated directly out of the tens of meters wide deep pool like the wind and landed on the shore, and Bei Bei stomped on the stubborn stone to transform into a black residual shadow that also landed directly at Linley’s feet.

A person and a beast, once again set off.

But just after walking for a while, Linley took a big step out of the ground and stopped, Bebe looked at Linley in confusion.

“There’s a magical beast around.”

Linley said in a soul transmission.

Bebe stared, nowadays, Bebe was already considered to have entered the ninth level of magical beasts, and normally, it felt magical beasts before they even got close. But this time, it didn’t feel it.

Linley stepped on the ground and felt the wind moving.

It was very difficult to escape Linley’s senses if there was any movement in the surroundings.

“This magical beast’s pace is light, I can’t feel it walking on the ground at all, but it caused the wind to move when it moved.”

Linley said in a soul transmission.

Bebe nodded. ……

A gold-striped leopard that was three meters long was grabbing onto a tree trunk and not moving. Leopard-type magical beasts should be the fastest class of ground reptiles.

Especially the Holy Realm magical beast ‘Running Thunder and Lightning Leopard’. It moved like a terrifying Holy Realm Magical Beast.

The Golden Leopard is a Grade 7 Magical Beast. As a leopard-type magical beast, naturally adhering to the leopard-type magical beast’s best speed. Its explosive speed in an instant, the general eighth level magical beast is also inferior.

The golden-striped leopard exerted its limbs.

“Whoosh.”

With a single leap, it went straight to another tree, leopard-type magical beasts were best at running on trees, which was also very well known. The Golden-striped Leopard had already seen the humans in the distance in the gaps of the dense foliage.

The golden-striped leopard waited quietly, waiting for the human to approach.

Sure enough, the human was approaching with a black shadow mouse.

“A black shadowrat? No threat.”

The intelligence of a rank seven magical beast was also extremely high. The Golden Striped Leopard’s main target was locked onto that human, and the aura on that human had already caused him to be wary. But the golden striped leopard had a feeling that that human shouldn’t be too strong.

Indeed Linley, in human form, was only at the late seventh level today.

A level seven magical beast against a level seven warrior, usually the level seven magical beasts had the advantage.

“Whoosh.”

Suddenly stomping on the trunk of a large tree, the golden-striped leopard suddenly transformed into a golden shadow, rushing towards Linley in a fluttering trajectory.

The human, who hadn’t made the slightest movement, suddenly – lightning-like – unsheathed the Black Yu Heavy Sword, and the entire person used the force to retreat. At the same time, in a smooth manner, he was carrying the force of ten thousand pounds and slashing directly towards the golden-striped leopard.

The Golden Striped Leopard was simply unable to change its direction extensively in mid-air, and could only endeavor to shift its head away.

“Poof.”

The Black Yu Heavy Sword was as fast as lightning, and violently chopped on the Golden Striped Leopard’s body. Only to see that the Golden Leopard’s body was directly strangely dented while the sound of bones breaking resounded.

The Golden Leopard’s body fell to the ground with a “pong” sound, the Golden Leopard convulsing on the ground, blood seeping out of its mouth, in less than ten seconds, the Golden Leopard was already dead.

Linley naturally put away his heavy sword.

“Bebe, let’s eat this leopard meat for breakfast today.”

Linley said casually.

For Linley and Bebe, this was just a very ordinary thing, killing a few powerful magical beasts almost every day in the magical beast mountain range.

If one were to watch with a sword expert. It was obvious that Linley, who was only at the late seventh level, was using a 3,600 pound heavy sword to a very high level. Not only did the weight of the heavy sword not become a hindrance, but Linley was able to utilize the force to make the heavy sword faster.

And when he was splitting, he could even kill a level seven magical beast with a single slash of his sword. This power was truly astonishing.

Linley and Bebe then roasted leopard meat in the magic beast mountain range.

“Boss, how many strongest attacks does your heavy sword have now. You said you made a breakthrough the other day.”

Bebe said inquiringly.

It had been more than a year since he had entered the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, and during this year, Linley had a heart that was completely fused with nature, completely immersed in cultivation. The rate of progress in cultivation in this year and a half was indeed astonishing.

“Strongest attack power? It’s hard to say. At least against an average level 8 magical beast, I’ll be fine in my normal human form.”

Linley said confidently.

This wasn’t pride, but rather confidence in his strength.

“Leopard meat smells so good.”

Bebe’s little nose sniffed.

“Eh?”

Linley frowned and suddenly laughed, “Bebe, often when you roast meat, it attracts some magical beasts over. It’s just that the magical beasts this time seem to be quite bulky.”

Linley and Bebe saw this one magical beast after a while.

A Velociraptor.

“Velociraptor?”

Linley smiled, for the Velociraptor Linley was familiar with it. Although this Velociraptor was a level 7 magical beast, its defense was of a very perverted type, the same level 7 magical beast, but the Velociraptor’s defense was much more perverted than that of the Golden Leopard. The Golden Leopard’s speed was much faster than the Velociraptor.

“Boss, you said that you have great attack power, are you able to kill this Velociraptor with a single sword chop?”

Bebe suddenly said.

The Velociraptor’s scale armor was nearly half a meter thick, and the skull of that vital head was even more frighteningly hard. Although the Velociraptor moved slowly, its defense was as good as that of an average level 8 magical beast.

“A sword? Haven’t tried it yet, let’s try it today.”

Linley unsheathed the Black Yul heavy sword behind him. He directly took a step towards the raptor.

The raptor was two stories tall, and its body length was even closer to twenty meters. Such a huge volume. Compared to him, Linley was like a tiny dot.

“Roar” the raptor roared at Linley.

Linley, however, was still holding the Black Yul heavy sword, and walked over step by step with his bare feet.

Steeply – Lin Lei footsteps speed violently fast up, extremely fast towards the raptor rushed over, raptor roared, at the same time that the dragon tail violently will be ruthlessly pumped over. The speed of the raptor’s tail was astonishing.

“Clang.”

Linley’s Black Yul heavy sword very quickly just managed to block the dragon’s tail.

However, the force of the dragon’s tail was too great, Linley’s entire body stomped on the ground, and then with the force of the dragon’s tail and the rebound force of the ground, Linley directly leapt diagonally towards the Velociraptor.

When the raptor saw the human in front of it, it immediately opened its bloody mouth.

“Eh, this human?”

The Velociraptor was astonished to find that the human in front of him swung that Black Yul heavy sword as lightly as if he were waving a straw, and then slammed it against its head.

The raptor was confident that his skull was the hardest place in his entire body.

Sure enough ……

When that lightweight heavy sword first touched the skull, it wasn’t a threat at all. But in the split second of touching, a terrifying force burst out violently. Just like a flood breaking the dike, that amazing power burst out in an instant, it just heard a skull cracking sound, and then it knew nothing else.

Bebe looked at this scene in shock.

Linley had merely slashed his sword against the hardest skull of the raptor, and then the raptor’s ground skull had unexpectedly broken right off as if it were fragile, and brain matter and blood bubbled out. The raptor’s huge body collapsed to the ground with a loud thud. Linley, on the other hand, floated to the ground.

“Boss, wow, how did it get so powerful?”

Bebe excitedly rushed over.

Linley smiled and said, “Over the past year or so, I’ve matched my strength with my dragon blood fighting qi to the point of near perfection, and then with my perception of the earth, I was able to break through the simple levels of strength and fighting qi, and comprehend the so-called ‘lifting weights as if they were lightweights’ realm of my Baruch family forefathers, and only then did I have this ‘Running Thunder’ move.”