Chapter 12 – The Traveler
Chariots rumble and roll and horses whinny and neigh.
The sky was a deep clear blue and not a cloud was in sight. Two huge eagles are soaring high up in the sky. They seem to be circling the group moving on the ground.
There was rain a few days ago, so the road that lead to Little Meng City had accumulated almost a foot of thick mud. Although the skies had been clear for the last two days, the mud is still not completely dried up. As such, wheels and hooves could easily get stuck, requiring the horses to use great strength for every step they took.
Due to the strong sunlight constantly baking the muds, the surrounding air filled with a weird pungent smell. This weird pungent smell is like some rotten meat left to ferment in a clay pot. The smell seemed to be able to enter one’s body through their pores, making it inescapable.
An army of two hundred horsemen is escorting seven gold engraved coaches, though they are moving quite slowly, due to the muddy road. Sometimes a few of their horses slip on the mud, which always brought scolding and cursing from the riders on their back. Some of the more bad-tempered riders would fiercely whip their horses when this happened.
All seven of the coaches are extremely luxurious. The leading six coaches each have four wheels and are each being dragged by four pure white horses.
As for the last and biggest coach, it doesn’t have a single wheel. The whole coach is floating three feet above the ground and is being dragged by four pure black rhinos. These rhinos are a very rare species. Green spots dot their black skin and they have three curvy horns on their head. The horns shimmer like amber, full of strength and grandeur.
The internal decoration of this floating coach is simply luxurious. It is just like a large bedroom.
It has a soft bed, a long study table, two book shelves, and four bronze censers placed at each corner of the coach. There’s even a thick carpet on the floor and various fine decorations. Although it is on the road, it still provides extremely luxurious comfort to those who ride in it.
Lu Chengfeng is sitting behind the study table with unkempt hair, barely able to keep his sleepy eyes open. He is staring blankly at the lower tier magical item ‘Little 25th Lamp’ in front of him. The magical lamp is the size of a fist and is made from purple gold and shaped like a toad. It’s slightly opened mouth spits out a tiny hair size thread of red flame, a soy bean sized Silver Essence is floating within the flame and melting slowly.
This piece of Silver Essence is small, but it cost Lu Chengfeng three hundred white silver to extract and purify it. It contains a thread of concentrated Western Great White Gold gas in it. Due to the class of the silver and Lu Chengfeng’s skill level, the extracted Silver Essence contains only a very thin amount of concentrated gas, and the quality is very poor, but still, it is the gas of Great White Gold.
Lower tier magical item ‘Little 25th Lamp’, this is a treasure that Lu Chengfeng spent all his wealth on, as long he puts a fire stone in it, it will spit out a thread of primordial fire. Of course, with sufficient cultivation level, he could use his own energy to ignite the magical lamp and obtain the fire, it’s just that Lu Chengfeng’s skill level is not high enough for him to do that.
The strength of the fire ignited using the fire stone is not very high, and also very unstable. This piece of Silver Essence had been melting for more than 14 hours, but only 99% of it was melted. The last drop of it, which is the heart of the essence and contains the gas of Great White Gold, refuses to melt, no matter how it burns.
Filled with impatience and anger, Lu Chengfeng gritted his teeth savagely and formed a seal with both of his hands. He made up his mind and bit hard on his tongue, then he spit out a mouthful of blood essence into the magical lamp. A noise like blowing wind came from the lamp and then the fire in the magical lamp suddenly become stronger, turning from the size of a hair to the size of a matchstick. The Silver Essence floating in the fire melted instantly, turning into a half transparent silver droplet.
Lu Chengfeng was filled with joy, and he hurriedly reached over to a stone stick, the size of a baby's arm[A], and, with his right hand, carefully grabbing a set of tweezers made from purple gold. He moved the tweezers to the silver droplet, then he grabbed it and carefully pulled it out from the lamp.
A very fine silver thread was pulled out from the silver droplet, the shining silver thread was floating in the air like a shadow.
Lu Chengfeng did not dare to be the slightest bit negligent. He hurriedly pulled the silver thread and inserted it into a carved pattern on the stone stick. Using the tweezers, he kept pulling, stretching, lifting, and pointing the silver thread around the stone stick. There were three simple golden dagger symbols with twelve stems that connected them on the stone stick, which was slowly filled up by the silver thread.
Due to not being very skillful on the task, the silver thread was broken three times in the process of insertion, causing some imperfections on the carved symbols and stems. But overall, it was still a smooth process, the formations on the stone stick were finally completed, and it didn’t turn into a ruined formation.
After he was done using the Silver Essence thread, he inserted three bean size Earth Stones into the core position of the Golden Dagger symbols. Lu Chengfeng put down the tweezers, held the stone stick with both of his hands, and starting uttering some incantation. He slowly injected his energy into the stone stick, initiating the magical power of the formation.
The stone stick was made from low tier Earth attributed ‘Ancient Stone’ and already contained powerful Earth energy. After being carved with Metal attributed symbols, and using some Earth stones to initiate the formation, a formation pillar for use in laying the ‘Great White Golden Dagger Formation’ is ready.
The ‘Great White Golden Dagger Formation’ is a Metal attributed formation. Using the Earth attribute stone stick as the foundation, by utilizing the inter-promotion of the five elements[B], in which the Earth bears Metal, he initiated the ‘Great White Golden’ gas within the Silver Essence, turning it into golden daggers to attack his enemies. This is a basic formation that is used by lower rank cultivators in order to protect their own lives and property.
With Lu Chengfeng being at the peak of the Houtian level, to be able to successfully produce the Great White Golden Dagger Formation, and to gather all the raw materials for it, is a difficult process.
Laughing with a weird ‘Kah kah’ sound, Lu Chengfeng took out two identical formation pillars from the lowest quality storage bag he had with him. Staring at the three formation pillars shining like silvery amber, he lay his tired body down on the soft bed.
“Ha. I’m now a general for Little Meng City. A city that is attacked by barbarians every two or three years. Basically, every couple of years a batch of officers will get killed. Sending me, a good for nothing man, here. I suppose their intention is for me to die here?”
Laughing at himself, Lu Chengfeng tightly clenched onto the three formation pillars, a crazy look suddenly appearing in his eyes.
“But I am not willing to accept this! I, Lu Chengfeng, will not die in this place! Sooner or later, I will walk straight up back into the Lu family in Li Yang, and teach all of you bastards who I, Lu Chengfeng, am!”
Clenching his fists, Lu Chengfeng, like a wounded tiger, roars out in angry and deep voice.
The insulation of the coach is pretty good, thus, those cavalrymen outside of the coach never hear anything from inside.
Keeping the formation pillars, Lu Chengfeng shuts the ‘Little 25th Lamp’ and carefully stows it away. Lifting up the curtains on the window, he glared at the two hundred cavalrymen escorting him. Lu Chengfeng shakes his head in disdain.
Of these two hundred cavalry guards, every single one of them is tall and handsome, wearing nice armors and carrying good weapons. But they are all idiots, all of them are good for nothing. Not a single one of them had broken through a cultivation level in ten years. Lu Chengfeng, who had the cultivation level of peak level Houtian Grade, can easily defeat fifty of them at once. If he were to lay down the Great White Gold Dagger Formation, he could easily kill all of these scum bags.
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