Episode 8: Walking a Thousand Miles Chapter 22: The Earth

A month later, the order from the patriarch of the Jax family came through: Keane immediately inherited the position of the city lord of Chill County, and during Keane’s minority, his sister Jenny assisted in handling the affairs of the county.

“Big brother Lei, you’re leaving?”

Jenny, Keane, and Lambert all looked at Linley in surprise.

Keane had inherited the position of City Lord, with Jenny assisting. Nowadays, Jenny’s siblings were at their most relaxed moment, and the two siblings were wanting to properly repay Linley in their hearts, but who would have thought that Linley would even say that he was going to leave Chill County City at this time.

“Big brother Lei.”

Jenny’s eyes were even a little red.

Linley was carrying a heavy sword on his back, and on his shoulder stood Bei Bei, next to him was the black-striped cloud panther Heilu, Linley smiled faintly and said, “In Chil County City, with this kind of cumbersome environment, my cultivation has been affected to a certain extent. I’m not going far away, I’m just cultivating quietly by myself for a while in that secluded valley outside of Chil County City.”

For Linley.

The most important thing was cultivation, especially nowadays when Linley was still in the midst of constant progress and hadn’t yet encountered a bottleneck. This time it was all the more important to take advantage of the opportunity to cultivate even harder.

The Dragonblood Warriors of the Baruch family had been known to cultivate for decades, waiting to reach the Holy Realm realm before crossing the world.

A high master must be able to endure loneliness. “Valley?”

Jenny and Keane secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“Well, I might come to see you guys sometime. This is as far as I can help you guys. In the future, you’ll have to rely on yourselves.”

Linley said with a smile.

Seeing the siblings Jenny and Keane.

Linley sometimes thought of himself and Little Walton. Nowadays, he and Little Walden didn’t have parents.

“I don’t know how Walton is doing now, I’ll set off to meet him once I comprehend the upper layer of potential.”

Linley said in his heart.

Linley knew very well.

Nowadays, Walden was studying and practicing at the O’Brien Academy, so he didn’t need to disturb him at this time. Moreover, people only grew faster when they relied on themselves.

Once he arrived next to Walton, I’m afraid that he would instead hinder Walton’s growth. There was a green mountain range to the east of Chill County City, and in the middle of an inconspicuous valley in the mountain range, Linley built his wooden house here. Here, he began his lonely cultivation.

At night, in the valley, there was a green lawn, and in front of the lawn there was a lake.

Lin Lei sat cross-legged on the lawn next to the lake shore, closed his eyes and quietly realized nature, beside him there was a bonfire burning, reflecting Lin Lei’s face brightly. Linley could feel the heaviness of the earth, the drift of the wind, the flow of the water, and the fierceness of the fire. ……

As a magician. The special earth and wind elemental affinities were superb, and Linley had a great advantage over ordinary warriors in sensing nature.

This was also the reason that in the Baruch family, the ancestor who had used a heavy hammer had only reached the realm of lifting heavy weights when he had reached the Holy Realm. Warriors, after all, are more difficult to integrate into nature than magicians. It was more difficult to integrate into nature.

“Lifting a heavy weight like a light weight Penetrating Thunder, that kind of eruption power, just like a volcano eruption. And the so-called potential is the potential of heaven and earth, earth, fire, water, and wind, but ……”

When meditating for a long time, Linley suddenly understood.

“Potential, that is merely potential, with the power of the surrounding earth and sky. And beyond the all-encompassing nature of potential, what I’m pursuing now should be the most suitable path of that In the dark of night. Linley, who was sitting cross-legged next to the lake shore, opened his eyes. Those eyes were as bright as the stars in the sky.

“Different weapons, different paths to follow. Heavy swords, powerful! And heavy swords have no edge. Naturally, it doesn’t rely on sharpness to win. Rather, it relies on that righteous heaviness, a righteous unrivaled attack.”

Linley’s mind vaguely realized.

The cultivation path of this Black Yul Heavy Sword Earth had something in common with the Laws of the Earth.

“The heaviness of the earth, the boundlessness of the earth, the calmness of the earth ……”

Linley was holding the Black Yul heavy sword, but his heart was completely in tune with the pulsations of the earth.

The earth had its own unique pulsation, that unique soul-shaking pulsation rhythm that could only be sensed when the earth’s perception reached an extremely high level.

Linley stood up.

The entire person began to quietly wield the black Yu heavy sword, as Lin Lei’s black Yu heavy sword wielded, Lin Lei’s entire person, no matter whether it was from the pace or from the movement of the sword, all entered a unique rhythm.

It was a rhythm that made one’s heart palpitate.

“Hoo.”

The Black Yul heavy sword pierced through the air heavily as if it had the gravity of a million pounds. Linley wielded the Black Yul Heavy Sword, giving off a feeling as if he had fused with the earth, to the point where one could feel a sense of heaviness just by watching him practice with his sword.

“Poof.”

Linley’s Black Yul heavy sword suddenly stabbed in mid-air, only to hear several consecutive gas explosions ring out. Simply stabbing straight into space had produced several airbursts. This was simply unbelievable, as a weapon that was even faster would be good enough to cause one air explosion. To cause several air bursts was almost impossible.

“Eh?”

Linley’s eyes instantly lit up.

But so distracted, Linley immediately detached himself from the wonderful feeling he had just experienced.

“What happened just now? I didn’t use my Dou Qi, but why can this power be split into a rhythmic number of successive amplitude attacks going out.”

Linley pondered in his heart.

When cultivating, one might at some point suddenly enter a special state and achieve an extremely astonishing effect. However, if one didn’t completely penetrate and comprehend it, then it would be impossible to bring it to life at the drop of a hat.

Boiling! All Linley had to do was keep thinking and keep cultivating.

Teng! Master everything perfectly! Blue, clear without a trace of impurities, those few white clouds floating in the sky like beautiful silk. The valley where Linley lived was indeed secluded.

Wen! The wind blew and the lake moved.

Learning! Linley wasn’t cultivating at this time, but was fishing in front of the valley. One couldn’t be cultivating all the time, if it was always like that, it would be ineffective instead.

Fishing when he wanted to, sleeping when he wanted to.

The heart was attuned to heaven and earth. Completely attached to nature.

And while cultivating, the efficiency would be extremely high.

“Big brother Lei.”

A cheerful voice came from outside the valley, Linley turned his head to look, only to see Jenny riding a steed, behind her were two heroic maids, those two maids obviously also had good hands, the athletic movements of the horseback riding definitely catching up with the regular knights.

“Jenny.”

Linley put down his fishing rod and stood up.

At this time, Bebe and Heilu weren’t there, the two of them magical beasts had already gone into the deep mountains to look for some wild beasts. This mountain range that Linley was in was mostly filled with ordinary beasts, as for magical beasts they were extremely rare.

“Big brother Lei. This is some of the meals I prepared for you.”

Jenny took out a parcel from her horse’s back, which was wrapped tightly, “You must not have eaten very well while you were here. Come. Brother Lei, have a good taste.”

Jenny unveiled the parcel layer by layer, and inside was an iron box containing various dishes and rice.

Linley inhaled with his nose.

“En, it really smells good.”

Linley said with a smile.

Jenny’s face immediately reddened with excitement.

Linley’s heart was a dark sigh, how could Linley not see what was going on in Jenny’s mind? Jenny, regardless of her appearance or personality other than that, was overwhelming. But after experiencing so much, it was already difficult for Linley to open the door to the depths of his heart to others.

“Feelings?”

Linley sighed in his heart.

What feelings were he thinking about. It was better to get down to earth and cultivate properly. And at this time Linley’s mind couldn’t help but flash through a scene – it was after Linley’s father had died. Many nobles had gathered in Wushan Town, and on that night, Delia had come to see Linley late at night. Delia had come because she wanted to tell Linley that she was returning to the Yulan Empire. And on that night, Delia kissed Linley moments before she parted.

“Delia?”

Aside from Alice, Linley probably only had some feelings for this girl he had known since first year at the Ernst Magic Academy, especially since Delia had confessed sincerely several times. Although Linley had never admitted it, he had to admit in his heart that Delia’s shadow had been imprinted into his heart.

“Big brother Lei, eat quickly.”

Next to him, Jenny said expectantly.

Linley sighed in his heart, “It seems like we can’t waste Jenny’s youth like this.”

Linley thought as he also took a large bite, and as he ate, he even complimented, “It’s really good, it tastes great.”

Hearing Linley’s praise, Jenny was happy.

“Jenny, you don’t need to come over from now on, I don’t really like people disturbing me when I’m practicing.”

Linley said to Jenny.

Zhanni was stunned.

“Oh.”

Zhanni responded, before squeezing out a smile, “Then Big Brother Lei can also go to the castle grounds when he has time.”

“En.”

Linley could only respond.

The days of cultivation passed quickly, in the blink of an eye Linley had also stayed in the valley for almost a month, and for the comprehension of the Black Yul Heavy Sword Lin Lei had gradually mapped out the path.

As long as he persisted, it was estimated that after spending a few years, he could definitely reach a new level beyond potential.

This tavern was dimly lit, with the main color leaning towards dimness, as if it were dusk. At the same time the tables were placed regularly from table to table. They were also separated from each other by screens.

A very serene and stylish tavern, Linley had come here once and liked it.

The consumption here was also relatively high.

After cultivation, usually after seven or eight days, Linley would go to this quiet tavern to drink wine and listen to the beautiful music in the tavern. From time to time, he could also hear the heavenly conversations of some of the guests.

“It’s almost July, Walden’s semester should be over.”

Linley thought secretly in his heart.

There were still quite a few guests in the tavern at this time, and the guests were very self-consciously using slightly lower voices when they talked, but Linley listened carefully, and heard the content of every guest’s conversation all around him.

Suddenly a conversation caught Linley’s attention. “Have you heard, there’s a super genius popping up in the imperial capital, a seventeen year old youth named Walton.”

At a dining table to the side of Linley were sitting three middle-aged men who were talking about the genius of the empire.

Walton?

Linley’s attention immediately focused.

After entering the O’Brien Empire for so long, Linley hadn’t really heard any messages about Walton.

“You’re talking about the genius who popped up in this year’s O’Brien Academy grade competition?”

The balding man next to him had his eyes light up, “That I’ve heard of as well, the O’Brien Academy’s seventh grade annual tournament is very much in the spotlight. There are even cadets who have reached the eighth level of warrior participating in this grade competition.”

O’Brien Academy, as the number one warrior academy in the Yulan Continent, had even added a seventh grade.

One could only enter the seventh grade if they reached the seventh grade warrior.

And seventh grade warriors were actually able to graduate, but many seventh grade warriors still stayed in the academy. Even the very few eighth grade warrior trainees were in no hurry to graduate.

“Vulture, you know the news too. That Walton ah, really, tsk tsk.”

The turquoise-haired middle-aged man who started speaking sighed, “At only seventeen years old, having never participated in a grade competition in the past, this time he participated in the seventh grade grade competition, and he actually defeated an eighth grade warrior. This time, he participated in the seventh grade tournament, and even defeated an eighth grade warrior. He became the seventh grade in the seventh grade tournament.” What? At seventeen years old, he even defeated an eighth grade warrior? Really?”

The obese man who had been listening was shocked.

The bald man glared and said, “Of course that’s true. I watched it with my own eyes, you don’t know, that Warden is two meters tall, extremely strong looking, his figure alone gives people a terrifying sense of oppression, and his weapon is a terrifyingly huge battle knife. Holding that battle knife, that Wharton unexpectedly crossed the line and defeated an eighth grade warrior. Becoming number one in the grade level tournament.”

“According to others, this Walton has defeated an eighth level warrior right now, and it is estimated that he should be able to reach an eighth level warrior by the age of twenty. Back then, the genius Sword Saint Olivia stepped into the ninth level realm at the age of thirty, and this Walton is surprisingly not that far behind in terms of talent.”

The blue-haired man marveled, “At seventeen years old, defeating an eighth level warrior. The imperial capital hasn’t seen this kind of genius for a long time, to the point where it was recognized as O’Brien Academy’s first genius, and His Majesty the Emperor even bestowed it with an earldom.”