Chapter 13 - Strike
A few hundred villagers from Meng village were pushing some carts down a path in the woods. They were being escorted by Zhang Hu and his fellow barbarian hunters.
There were over thirty of these push carts. The heads of the dead barbarians were piled up high in the carts. The pungent smell of blood was mixed in with some unknown herbal smell. The smell was terrible enough to drive one into unconsciousness. In order to avoid the rotten heads spreading disease, the elders of Meng village had soaked these heads in some herbal mixture, causing this horrible pungent smell.
They had nearly two thousand barbarian heads. According to the reward that was posted in Little Meng City, these would amount to a lot of money.
The barbarian hunters and the villagers of Meng village had come to an agreement. After sending these heads to Little Meng City, they would split the reward money. The payout would be large enough to make up for all the losses of Meng village and also enough for these barbarian hunters to live a few months in pleasure, being showered with booze and women.
Wu Qi was sitting on the shaft of a push cart, he was carefully trimming the end of an arrow with his dagger, making the feathered tail round and flat. Inside his beast skin bag, there are more than a hundred trimmed arrows. The tips of these arrows were shining with a lurid glow.
This is the thorn from the poisonous tree, ‘Antiaris’, which grows deep within Little Meng Mountain. The thorn is harder than metal, sharper than a blade, and carries poison naturally. Those barbarians love to use these tree thorns as their arrow tips. Wu Qi gathered hundreds of them and trimmed the tails. He planned to use them as daggers that he can throw using bare hands, which should cause serious damage.
In this world without any guns or modern weapons, Wu Qi can only use whatever he can find, making them into his own defense.
Although he inherited the Scroll of Stealing, he knew, from his conversation with Zhang Hu, that this world is a complicated place. Only being at the peak of the Houtian cultivation level, he simply can’t live the life he wanted to live.
Satisfied with the last tree thorn he trimmed, Wu Qi carefully placed it into the beast skin bag and tied up the bag with a beast tendon.
Turning his head and looking at the mountains behind him, Wu Qi raised both his hands and waved few times.
Good bye Meng village!
Wu Qi and the others had left Meng village yesterday morning. The distance from Meng village to Little Meng City was about five hundred miles. For those soldiers who were riding Raptors, it would only take them five to six hours. But with so many heavy push carts in the group, their speed simply can’t be all that fast.
The mud road came to an end. The group had officially left the mountain. After following a proper road and walking for another two hundred miles, they should arrive at Little Meng City. As he was told by Zhang Hu, Little Meng City has a population of over two hundred thousand people. It is the biggest city for several hundred miles.
Out of these two hundred thousand people, only a few thousand are permanent residents of the city, the rest are barbarian hunters, rogues, and all sorts of traders. There were even some on the run killers, bandits, thieves, con men, and scoundrels. Zhang Hu didn’t have to say anything more. Wu Qi can already imagine what kind of city it is.
The village men at the front of their convoy cheered. They had finally left the woods and were walking on the real road outside of the mountain.
The speed of their convoy became slower and slower. Wu Qi was sitting on the shaft, staring at the thick mud on the road, and his face had a dark expression. So this is the official road that connected Little Meng City to other cities? From the condition of this road, Wu Qi was a little bit disappointed in this shit place. What kind of damn world had he actually come to?
The Meng villagers and barbarian hunters were used to this road’s condition. No matter if they were barefoot or wearing boots, they just walked like on the thick mud like it was no big deal, especially those men from Meng village.
The color of the mud is really weird, it even mixed with some unknown weird stuff, like some dead rats, bugs, and other strange things. Wu Qi’s face kept getting darker and darker. His whole body was covered with goosebumps.
After he absorbed Le Xiao Bai’s soul particles, besides obtaining his insane knowledge, Wu Qi had also inherited his addiction to cleanliness. Shaking his head helplessly, Wu Qi forced himself to focus all his attention on the mud.
If he had to live in this world, then he needed to get used to everything here. If he can’t even stand this little muddy road, how will he be able to live on in this world?
Taking a deep breath, Wu Qi grabbed the beast skin bag and got off the push cart. Then he went up to those men from Meng village and walking together with them on the muddy road. The mud quickly soaked through his crude sandals, sticking to his feet. Wu Qi smiled as he recalled a scene from when he was just eleven or twelve years old, where he was fighting for his life against some wild beasts in a coliseum full of mud.
Today what Wu Qi is facing is a place a million times more dangerous than those wild beasts, but also a million times more exciting, as it is a brand new world!
Breath in, breath out, breath in again, breath out again. While Wu Qi was walking, he was chatting with those villagers with a smile on his face. The innate cold qi in the veins on his arm kept getting thicker. Without wasting any time, he silently circulated this qi according to the ‘Source of Water Chapter’ skill.
The water elemental qi hovering in the surrounding area started to flow toward Wu Qi. It went through the center of his palms and quickly entered his veins.
Other cultivation scripts required one to refining qi in order to be able to use said qi. Once these natural energies entered Wu Qi’s body, they immediately became a part of the innate water qi within his body. The Scroll of Stealing. Once you have something in your hand, then it becomes yours. Why should you have to refine the qi?
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