Episode 8: Walking a Thousand Miles Chapter 8: Going to the Mountain

The Soul Contract Magic Array was known to almost most magicians. However, there was a restriction in order to set up this magic formation – one had to reach the seventh level magician realm in order to have enough soul power to set it up.

A nearly transparent magic pattern in the shape of a pentagon floated in midair.

And then, this magic formation diagram flew directly towards the head of the black-striped clouded panther, who allowed the magic pattern to merge into his mind without any resistance. In an instant, both Linley and the black-striped clouded panther felt the connection of each other’s souls.

It was different from the equality contract that Linley had concluded with Bebe.

When the equality contract was made, that magical pattern Linley and Bebe’s souls were both integrated into. This soul contract spell formation, on the other hand, was formed by Linley’s spiritual energy, and that black-striped cloud panther had accepted this soul contract, naturally recognizing Linley as its master.

“Master.”

The black-striped cloud panther was extremely respectful.

Linley looked at the black-striped cloud panther, “What’s your name?”

Linley knew that some higher magical beasts had their own names. For example, the Spineback Ironclad Dragon that Linley had seen in the Misty Valley back then was called Sardius.

The voice of a black-striped clouded leopard resounded in Linley’s mind, “My name is Blackru.”

“Blackru?”

Linley memorized the name.

“Blackru, tell me, what’s with the various forms you’ve changed into?”

With regards to this, Linley was extremely puzzled.

The black-striped cloud panther nodded and said, “Master, it’s because I’m a dual lineage magical beast of the darkness and wind lineages. There are also two magic crystal cores of the darkness and wind systems in my brain. When it’s normal, I’m the way I was at the beginning, with a balanced defense, speed, and attack power.”

“When I am dominated by the energy of the darkness-type magic crystal nucleus, my size becomes larger, my attack power becomes larger, and my speed slightly decreases. If it is dominated by the wind-based magic crystal core, it is the current wind-based form. The speed becomes faster. Defense becomes weaker.”

The black-striped cloud panther ‘Heilu’ answered honestly.

It dawned on Linley.

It turned out that the black-striped clouded leopard was a dual system magical beast of darkness and wind, and its current form was a wind system form. The bulkier one was the darkness system form, and the only one that was normal was the one at the beginning.

“At first, I thought that this Blackru was in its normal form.”

Linley laughed in his heart.

In the book that Linley had seen at first, the Blackstripe Cloud Leopard was introduced. Linley suspected that the person who had discovered the Black Striped Cloud Leopard had seen the wind form. It was only then that he thought that the Black Striped Cloud Leopard was that form.

“Roar,” Bebe ran over and growled lowly at the black-striped clouded leopard.

The Black-striped Clouded Leopard talked to him as well.

“The journey from now on is even more interesting.”

Linley had a smile on his face. ……

With the two magical beasts, Heilu and Bei Bei, Linley continued his journey of painstaking cultivation every day. Linley was immersed in the middle of the world of swordsmanship. With regards to the use of the heavy sword, from time to time, Linley would be in the midst of some new epiphanies.

Spring passed and fall came.

Another year passed in the blink of an eye.

In the fall of the second year, when everything was withering, Lin Lei sat cross-legged under an ancient tree and practiced hard, his body’s dragon blood fighting qi rushing about, his blood veins and heart being strengthened and transformed once again.

In the dantian, the dragon blood fighting qi had finally metamorphosed, and Linley smiled with joy. He had finally broken through the peak of level seven and reached the level eight realm. Becoming a rank eight warrior!

As a rank eight warrior. Once fully dragonized, Linley would be able to reach the peak of rank nine.

The difference between the peak of rank nine, and the beginning of rank nine, could be huge.

“Back when I was in Hess City, I struggled to even break through the defenses of an average rank nine magical beast. And nowadays, even if I don’t use the Black Yul Heavy Sword, I’m still able to kill an average rank nine magical beast.”

Linley was confident.

A peak level nine Dragonblood Warrior could definitely destroy a peak level nine Earth Wraith.

Aside from the Holy Realm, I was afraid that no one could threaten him.

“Just what is the higher realm of this Black Yul heavy sword, the so-called ‘potential’?”

Linley’s brows furrowed. Nowadays, with regards to the move ‘Running Thunder’, which lifted heavy weights like light weights. Linley had already achieved great success.

Bare feet, stepping on the earth.

Linley continued his journey of bitter cultivation, telepathically recognizing the fluctuations of the earth and sensing the drift of the wind. Linley’s heart was also being washed by nature, becoming lighter and lighter. ……

Winter had come.

In the middle of the morning, a heavy snowfall descended, filling the sky and earth with endless snow. Linley stood in the snow. Watching the snowflakes descending across the sky, his heart was quiet.

Suddenly, Linley sat cross-legged on the flat ground, his Black Yul heavy sword resting flat on his legs, his upper body still naked, still the tattered linen pants.

Snowflakes fell on Linley’s body, but Linley was oblivious.

Time passes, this snow from the morning began to fall, has been down to the evening, the whole ground are covered with a layer of foot deep thick snow.

The two magical beasts, Bebe and Heilu, were hiding under a large pine tree. They looked at Linley from afar.

“Potential.”

Linley’s eyes opened, and there was a happy smile in his eyes. Tilting his head to look ahead, the snow had stopped at this moment, although it was evening. However, the entire heavens and earth were already brightly lit by the snow.

“Roar” came the roar of a magical beast from the distance.

Only an Ice Cold Snow Lion could be seen walking in the snow, it seemed to have seen Linley and was approaching him step by step. Linley watched as this Ice Cold Snow Lion approached, but he didn’t react in the slightest.

“Whoosh.”

With a single stomp on the ground, the Ice Cold Snow Lion pounced on Linley.

Linley eyed the Ice Cold Snow Lion as it pounced, and very casually grabbed the Black Yu Heavy Sword above his legs. It directly slashed towards the Ice Cold Snow Lion.

“Boom black yu heavy sword splits out at the same time, to black yu heavy sword as the center of a space as if they were all being compressed. All towards the Ice Cold Snowy Lion pressurized the past.

The Ice Cold Snow Lion was terrified and wanted to flee. However, the space around him had already been pressed over, and he had nowhere to run.

Facing this heavy sword, he could only meet it.

“Puh!”

The heavy sword struck the Ice Cold Snow Lion’s body, and the Ice Cold Snow Lion’s entire body unexpectedly shook violently before it directly turned into a piece of flesh.

“Potential, it’s the potential of the heavens and the earth, a sword that comes out can even lead to space to oppress, haha ……”

Linley laughed.

After that heavy snowfall that covered the sky, Linley had finally stepped into the third level of the Heavy Sword Sword Technique’s ‘potential’ level, only Linley knew very well that he was only at the beginning of this level of realm right now.

“To have sensed this layer of ‘potential’ so quickly, I must thank the stone carvings for the magical comprehension.”

Linley was fortunate in his heart.

Because of being a magus. Linley’s mind sensed the pulsations of the earth and the flow of the wind more and more clearly. The mind’s complete attunement to nature, coupled with the fact that on this journey, Linley had been practicing seriously. Thick and thin, at this moment, Linley had finally crossed over that layer of obstacles and stepped into the ‘potential’ layer of the Heavy Sword Sword Technique.

In terms of power, the power of this layer of ‘potential’ was much more terrifying than the layer of ‘lifting heavy weights’. It was also much more mysterious.

In the spring of 10003 of the Yulan Calendar, the northernmost edge of the Demonic Beast Mountain Range was only a few miles away from the North Sea. Even standing at the northern edge of the Magic Beast Mountain Range, one could see the endless blue North Sea.

Between the North Sea and the northern edge of the Wraith Mountain Range, there was a passageway connecting the O’Brien Empire and the Holy Alliance, and there were a large number of pedestrians on this wide road almost every day.

Whether it was merchants from the O’Brien Empire and the Holy Alliance, or people with other purposes, almost all of them took this road.

However. The residents of the O’Brien Empire’s land, in the face of the Holy Alliance’s residents, innately possessed a kind of pride. Because the O’Brien Empire was the strongest land empire in the entire Yulan Continent. And there is also the existence of the ‘God of Martial Arts’. In the martial O’Brien Empire, almost all of the residents were proud to be a member of the empire.

At this moment, on this avenue, there was a merchant caravan of hundreds of people stopping to rest. Many people were eating.

“Old Het.”

A young man on a carriage said playfully to a fat man next to him, “You’re going to make a lot of money from this business.”

“Haha.”

The middle-aged fat man laughed to himself, “Petrie, you’re a smart young man. Keep doing this with us, it won’t take more than three years. You’ll be able to buy a manor house in your hometown, buy a few more beautiful maids, hire a few servants, and live the life of a happy manor owner ah.”

“Three years? Damn, if I still work for three years, I’m afraid I’ll lose my little life.”

The young man cursed. “Newcomers like me always have to do the most dangerous things. Alas …… one more year of work, old me I’ll go back to buy a beautiful woman and live a happy life. Lord of the manor? It also depends on whether I have that life or not.”

That middle-aged fat man laughed: “You are a newcomer, of course you have to do dangerous things. However, your share is also high. By the way, Petrie, there is a beautiful woman in our caravan this time. It was a side trip on the way.”

“You mean that Miss Jenny?”

The young man’s eyes lit up, “If I had a woman like that, I’d be willing to work another ten years. That figure. That temperament, tsk tsk ……”

“But people are obviously nobles, that old servant is obviously not a weak hand oh.”

The middle-aged fat man laughed playfully.

“Can’t you think about it?”

The young man said in dissatisfaction.

The middle-aged fat man laughed, suddenly he looked to the south and glared, “Huh? Petrie, you see? There’s a person coming out of the Devil Beast Mountain Range.”

Petrie immediately looked towards the south in the direction of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

The man wearing a blue normal warrior’s power suit and carrying a heavy sword came out from the Magic Beast Mountain Range. His that-colored hair was just above his shoulders, and by the looks of it, the man was nearly two meters tall.

Next to him was a black panther that was about the same height as him, and on the back of the panther stood a black shadow mouse.

“What is that black panther?”

Petrie exclaimed.

The middle-aged fat man glared, “Don’t argue. I’ve heard that panther-type and lion-type magical beasts are very strong magical beasts. Usually they are high-level magical beasts of level six or even higher.”

Petrie instantly didn’t dare to say anything.

And at the same time that brown-haired man was striding towards the caravan with great strides, the guards in this caravan were immediately on guard. The visitor was clearly a powerful warrior.

Linley was in a good mood at the moment, after three whole years of hard cultivation, he had finally gotten out of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

“The North Sea, it really is wide.”

This was the first time Linley had seen the ocean, and the boundless azure sea shook Linley’s heart.

Seeing a caravan stopping ahead, Linley chased after it.

“Hey, brother, what are you doing?”

A bearded mercenary guard shouted loudly, and Linley smiled, “I’m going to the O’Brien Empire, so you guys can give me a lift on the way.”

The bearded mercenary glanced at Linley, turned back and muttered a few words to a middle-aged blonde man next to him, before shouting at Linley, “Alright, twenty gold coins, we’ll take you there.”

“Fine.”

Linley was dry as a bone, directly reaching into his pocket and taking out a small pocket of gold coins, taking out twenty gold coins and handing it to the other party.

Linley’s outfit had been prepared in a spatial ring long ago. With a spatial ring, Linley was naturally well prepared.

“Hey brother, you have this mount, are you riding in a carriage, or just riding this leopard?”

The bearded mercenary asked enthusiastically.

“Carriage it is.”

Linley said.

“Alright then, you go to the carriage in the back, just the flat carriage that sits two people.”

The bearded man pointed and said, carriages with carriages belonged to the more extravagant ones. Most of the mercenaries in the caravan still did that kind of flatbed carriage.

“Fine.”

Linley was also casual.

Walking up to the flatbed carriage, the two men sitting on the carriage chatting were immediately startled by the ‘Black Lu’ next to Linley. Leopard-type magical beasts were generally high-level magical beasts.

“Ah, brother, after you.”

Those two had an unbelievably good attitude.

Linley got onto the carriage, which was covered in soft straw, and there was a thick cotton cloth on top of the straw. Linley sat on it, and Bebe directly jumped onto Linley’s shoulders.

“Brother, come, have some wine.”

An older-looking hanyou among those two greeted warmly.

“Thanks.”

Linley took the wineskin pouch, and then took a large sip.

“Oh, everyone, get ready for the road A loud voice suddenly rang out, and immediately, some of the people who had been resting underneath the caravan immediately got onto the carriage.

This a caravan and then will start, began to go to the O’Brien empire road ……