Episode 8: Walking a Thousand Miles Chapter 16: Yulan River

The largest inland river in the entire Yulan Continent was undoubtedly the Yulan River, which entered from the North Sea, with its main channel running through the O’Brien Empire, the Yulan Empire, the Luo’ao Empire, and the Rhine Empire. Some of the branch channels of the Yulan River are densely spread in various regions of the four empires of the Yulan Continent.

It could be said that the Yulan River nourished most of the humans in the Yulan Continent.

“What a wide river.”

Linley sat on the deck of a large building ship, looking at the scene of the endless waves of the Yulan River around him.

This building ship was directly hired by Linley.

For a cost of ten thousand gold coins, it could directly reach the nearest riverbank mouth to Chil County City. That riverbank crossing was less than a hundred miles away from Chil County City.

According to Linley, if one were to follow the normal route, one would be afraid that one would have to experience many assassinations along the way. It would be better to directly hire a building boat and head south along the Yulan River …….

The building boat was hired by Lin Lei on a whim, and Lin Lei didn’t think that the people on this building boat would all be Madame Wade’s men. After all, around Blackrock City, Mrs. Weed’s power couldn’t be influenced yet.

“Big brother Lei.”

Jenny walked out of the cabin.

It was very windy in the middle of this river, blowing Jenny’s long skirt and hair. Zhanni smiled as she looked at Linley and walked over to Linley and sat on the deck as well, “Big brother Lei, I was still saying that I would spend ten thousand gold coins to invite you.”

Jenny was a little embarrassed to say this.

In Jenny and Keane’s opinion, ten thousand gold coins was already a huge sum of money.

But who would have thought. Linley had directly rented such a building ship, and the price of renting such a large building ship was very expensive. From Blackstone City to Chill County, such a distance, it would cost 10,000 gold coins. This was still a very low discounted price that the other party had given Linley in order to show their respect for such a powerful man.

Linley’s ground commission of ten thousand gold coins had only taken one gold coin now.

But now ten thousand gold coins had been paid. It was no wonder that Jenny was a little embarrassed. The Jenny siblings wanted to pay. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the money right now.

“Jenny, don’t you think that the scenery here is very nice?”

Linley got up and walked to the top of the deck, which had chains all along the edges.

Linley stroked his hand over the chains and looked around.

The waves of the Yulan River stretched for tens of thousands of miles, miles wide in wide places and hundreds of meters wide in narrow places. The mother river of the entire Yulan Continent ah, I don’t know how many people it has nourished. The history of the Yulan Continent could be traced back hundreds of thousands of years. “This Yulan River has existed for at least hundreds of thousands of years.”

Looking at this turbulent Yulan River. Linley couldn’t help but think of the scenes from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Viewing this vast earthly Yulan River, Linley’s heart opened up a lot.

“Hundreds of thousands of years of people or countries that have long since gone up in smoke and ceased to exist. Compared to this change of history, the rise and fall of nations. Personal grudges are so small.”

Facing the vast river. Linley had a special feeling.

“Nowadays, the Yulan Continent stands with six behemoths, the four great empires, the Light Clergy, and the Dark Clergy.”

Linley’s heart was calm and waveless.

From a young age, Linley’s goal was to fulfill his father’s wish, and something else was to ascend to the pinnacle of cultivation.

And after his father’s death, Lin Lei’s entire mind was plunged into darkness, all the way to revenge, all the way to kill …… this path, Lin Lei also lost Grandpa Delin.

Three years of hard training in the Magic Beast Mountain Range naturally washes the mind. But it made Linley’s heart like water. Completely transformed into a butterfly.

“Climbing to the peak of the cultivation land is the only way to achieve one’s goals. This behemoth of the Illuminati didn’t choose to retreat just as much when faced with the king of the Beast Mountain Range, Emperor Lin?”

Linley had complete confidence in his heart.

“One day. I too will ascend to that peak.”

Linley looked at the waves of the river, but he was ambitious.

The captain at the helm of this building ship was very relaxed, and although the current of the Yulan River was considered turbulent, it was much safer than the ocean. He even comfortably chatted with the sailors on the side.

“Hey, see that black panther?”

That captain said smugly, “That’s a magical beast, you guys watch, my son will be able to take in a magical beast before too long.”

“Captain, that’s a panther-type magical beast. Can your son take it in?”

The sailor next to him laughed. There wasn’t really much difference between the status of the captain and the sailor, they were all a group of men who hung out on the water.

The captain sighed, “High level magical beasts, I especially admire those strong people. I remember last year, when I went to the imperial capital, I saw that the Martial God Sect was recruiting registered disciples, wow, you guys don’t know, how many strong people were there. Those who rode giant magical beasts, or those who harnessed flying magical beasts …… one by one, the strongest people all rushed over to compete for that one and only spot. All those battles, the experts moving around, I only saw a burst of phantoms. Too fast, too fast.”

One by one, the sailors also started bragging about the experts they had seen.

In the O’Brien Empire, almost every child grew up wanting to become a strong person, and entering the Martial God Sect had become the biggest goal.

Linley sat cross-legged on the deck, letting the strong wind blow, that Black Yul heavy sword resting on top of his legs, Linley closed his eyes and quietly felt the surging of that Yulan River.

“Potential, the potential of the heavens, the potential of the earth, the potential of the endless rivers and seas.”

Linley’s soul was completely merged into the wind, to the point of sensing the vast riverbed at the bottom of the Yulan River, sensing the endless earth around the Yulan River.

Naturally, it could also sense the turbulent river.

This floor boat traveled straight down the river, and had once moored down on the way for everyone to eat and so on. Linley, on the other hand, had been sitting cross-legged on the deck, not eating a single meal.

In the blink of an eye, six days had passed.

“Sister, big brother Lei, he’s not eating or drinking, is he alright?”

Keane pointed at Linley sitting cross-legged on the deck. Worriedly, she inquired to Jenny.

Jenny was also a little worried in the bottom of her heart, she shook her head and said helplessly, “I don’t know, it’s just that that Bebe doesn’t allow us to get close.”

“Don’t worry.”

The captain of the building ship came over and said smilingly, “Those top-tier powerhouses are not ordinary people like us, in front of them. A ten thousand feet cliff can’t stop them, it’s the millions of armies that can’t stop them. I have heard that some powerful people do not eat or drink to meditate for months. At their level, it’s normal to not eat or drink for months.”

The captain of the building ship said that it was normal, but there was still a hint of envy in his eyes.

Jenny and Gene were even more surprised when they heard this captain say this.

“Could it be?”

Suddenly a mumbling voice rang out, and Jenny, Gene, and the building ship captain all turned their heads to look, and at this look they were all startled.

Only to see Linley holding the Black Yu Heavy Sword, surprisingly leaping straight down from the floorboat towards the river.

“Big brother Lei.”

Jenny exclaimed.

The three of them immediately ran towards the front deck, and when they ran to the chains. Instead, they were shocked to see that Linley was holding the Heavy Sword of Black Yul, standing on the surface of the water, undulating with the water of the Yulan River. Yet it wasn’t sinking in the slightest.

This scene. It truly dazzled them.

Flying through the air, that was something that one had to reach the Saint Domain level to do. “Earth, fire, water, wind ……”

Linley murmured in a low voice while the heavy sword in his hand violently stabbed out towards the sky, and as the Black Yul heavy sword stabbed out towards the top, it emitted a terrifying whistling sound as if it had pierced a hole in the sky.

At the same time, the river around Linley’s body unexpectedly erupted directly towards the top.

“Haha.”

Only Linley’s loud, loud laughter could be heard, and then Linley’s figure was constantly prancing and shifting across the surface of the Yulan River, while the river water continued to undulate and roar in tandem with Linley’s figure and heavy sword.

It was as if the waters of the hundred meters of ground around Linley went berserk.

At times, the river water rushed tens of meters into the sky, at times it formed a maelstrom, at times the water flowed like arrows and flew in all directions. At other times, the water swirled around Linley ……

“Clang.”

Only the crisp sound of a heavy sword being sheathed could be heard.

That originally frantic waters all violently calmed down. In the blink of an eye, the Yulan River returned to its original calm, only slightly undulating. Linley stepped on the undulating river water. However, he didn’t sink at all.

This time, Linley didn’t use wind magic to offset the gravity of the Black Yul Heavy Sword.

Instead, he relied on his comprehension of momentum, his utilization of momentum.

“This momentum is the momentum of the heavens and the earth, as well as the momentum of the earth, fire, water, and wind.”

A small smile appeared on Linley’s face, and with a single point of his foot, his entire body leapt directly onto the deck of the building ship.

With regards to the comprehension of potential, Linley had always started with the earth and wind. However, these six days of meditation had caused Linley to comprehend the fluctuations of water, and Linley also recalled practicing fire magic, the passion of that fire elemental earth.

Thick, ethereal, supple, passionate.

The four elements were fused together, and when a sword came out, it could cause heaven and earth to move. This was the true earthly potential, the potential that Linley had comprehended in the past was just the beginning of the threshold.

“Big brother Lei, you were, you were?”

Keane was a little excited, yet he didn’t know what to say.

That Jenny also looked adoringly at Linley.

What Linley had just done had truly dazzled them, even the building ship captains who had been running around outside for a long time had never seen such an amazing scene.

“That was just cultivation.”

Linley said with a calm smile.

Although that recorded book of the family said that the highest level of cultivation for this heavy weapon was the third level, the realm of potential, Linley had a feeling.

Potency, this layer was not the end.

Above it, there was more.

After reaching this layer of potential, especially after one’s own soul fits in with nature and integrates, one always has the feeling that …… there is a higher realm on top of it. Linley had that vague feeling, but he just couldn’t comprehend it.

“Dou Qi, strength is just a foundation, and how much attack power comes into play, this realm is a very important part.”

Linley had this realization in his heart at the moment.

For example, having a huge strength of a million pounds, but when you attack, it’s too clumsy and you can only bring out 10% of your strength.

After bitter cultivation, you might be able to exert thirty percent.

A high master, you can exert seventy percent.

And what Linley wanted to do was to exert ten percent, or even use the momentum of heaven and earth to exert an attack that was stronger than his own power.

“Jenny, Keane, how much longer until we reach the riverbank?”

Linley inquired.

“There’s still a day left.”

The captain of the building ship not far away replied.

Linley nodded and directly instructed, “In this case, we don’t need to dock at the riverbank closest to Chil County City. We’ll just dock at the mouth of the last riverbank in Chil County City.”

“Yes, Lord Lei.”

The captain of that building ship didn’t understand the reason, but he still answered.

Linley had taken the river, which had caused Mrs. Weed’s men to be in a mess all of a sudden, and that red-haired man, Cord, had eventually found out that Linley’s group of people had hired the floorboat to advance through the Yulan River.

That Hallmark pharmacist was no longer powerful, he couldn’t cross that hundreds of meters or even wider river and directly get on someone else’s boat. After getting on someone else’s boat, it was expected that the other party would also be suspicious of Apothecary Hormo.

Therefore, they could only stand guard at the mouth of the river bank.

But ……

As expected, this building boat should have arrived at the mouth of this riverbank.

“What’s going on, people should have arrived yesterday, right?”

Apothecary Holmer was sitting in the middle of a residence in the town next to the riverbank entrance.

“Master Holmer, please wait a little longer.”

That Mrs. Weed’s men were also anxious.

Suddenly the door of this residence was violently opened, and one of Lady Wilder’s henchmen ran in with gusto, saying indignantly, “Master Holmer, that group of people didn’t stop at this riverbank crossing, but rather at the previous riverbank crossing. They have now arrived at the small town of Red Sand, which is very close to Chil County City, and it is estimated that they will arrive at Chil County City this evening.”

“Arriving this evening?”

Apothecary Holmer was stunned.

“Quickly, let’s set off immediately. “Apothecary Holmer immediately ordered, and this group of people immediately rushed back towards Chil County City in a panic.