Chapter 389 Mission 038
Qiao Lingyun lifted the small curtain of the carriage, revealing half of her pretty face, and said to Xiao Ying who was riding a horse with a smile: "Brother Luo, it's windy and sunny outside, riding a horse is so tiring! Come in and take a carriage!"
She knew that the Luo family had not prepared a carriage for Luo Chiluo, but she did not ask the Qiao family to prepare an extra carriage, just to get closer and cultivate feelings by sitting in the same carriage.
However, Xiao Ying refused firmly: "It doesn't matter, I don't feel tired."
After a while, Qiao Lingyun, who had not given up, lifted the curtain again and said to Xiao Ying: "Oh! It's so boring to sit in a carriage alone! Brother Luo, come up and accompany me to relieve my boredom!"
This time, Xiao Ying pretended not to hear anything, rode his horse to the front of the team, and walked in step with Captain Zhang of the guard team who escorted Qiao Lingyun to the capital this time.
Captain Zhang glanced at Xiao Ying, only greeted him in a flat tone, and ignored him.
Xiao Ying was not surprised to be treated coldly, because in this world, everyone can realize the Dao, the only difference is the level of understanding, so there is no big force monopolizing the practice method to establish their own status. So even though Xiao Ying is now the eldest son of the Luo family, his external strength is just that of an ordinary person who has realized two Dao patterns. Captain Zhang, who has realized seven Dao patterns, was hired by the Qiao family master at a high price. Not to mention Xiao Ying, even to Qiao Lingyun, the lady of the master family, he is indifferent.
Xiao Ying just wanted to get rid of Qiao Lingyun who was entangled, so he didn't mind that Captain Zhang didn't speak and just rode with him.
When the team passed through the deep mountains and old forests, Captain Zhang said to the guards: "Be vigilant and be ready to fight at any time!"
This world is not much different from the ordinary ancient world. There are many robbers in the deep mountain and dense forest trails like this non-official road. Even if the people in this world have higher martial arts than those in the ordinary ancient world, the martial arts of the robbers are not low.
If ordinary people were to walk along these forest trails, they would only be robbed of their money but not their lives. If it was a family convoy like theirs, which was obviously a fat sheep, the robbers would most likely ask for a high price, and several people would inevitably die in the fight.
Xiao Ying followed the convoy calmly. Regarding Captain Zhang's vigilance, he was quite curious about the specific scenes of the fights between the enlightened people in this world.
On weekdays, Xiao Ying had also seen the Luo family's children fighting in the Luo family, but that level of fighting was just like a fight between children. Except for one or two Dao patterns that were faintly visible on their bodies during the fight, it was really no different from ordinary hand-to-hand combat.
The Qiao family team had walked most of the way, and when they were about to leave the forest trail and enter the official road, they did not encounter any robbers. The guards gradually relaxed their tense mood. However, Captain Zhang reminded them with a serious face: "Don't let your guard down if you don't enter the official road!"
However, not long after he reminded them, the team was blocked by several fallen towering trees in front of them, and cold arrows were shot out from behind the trees without warning.
Thanks to Captain Zhang's previous reminder, the guards were not completely caught off guard. Although several people were injured, no one died.
The robbers who shot cold arrows from behind the tree saw no effect, and they all rushed out directly, each of them holding a machete and staring at the team: "Leave all the valuables and horses behind, and you can get out!"
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This world is not much different from the ordinary ancient world except that everyone can realize the truth. Horses are also expensive goods. Ordinary people cannot afford a bad horse even if they spend all their family's efforts. Even for a family like the Qiao family that can dominate a city, the horses in the team escorting the eldest daughter of the Qiao family are all ordinary horses. Only the horse under Captain Zhang is a good horse. Even so, these horses are still a great fortune.
At this time, the team still has nearly three months to travel to the capital. If there are no horses, it will take at least several times longer to reach Daoyun College, and the enrollment time will have passed.
So the team couldn't reach an agreement with the robbers at the beginning, and the two sides started to fight.
It's just that these robbers are mixed in the road, not brainless robbers, so the robber leader proposed to fight with Captain Zhang. If Captain Zhang wins, let their team leave, if Captain Zhang loses, just pay the money.
In this world where personal force can play a decisive role, the robbers will not be blind to offend some passing teams with masters. This is also their survival wisdom that has allowed them to rob on this road for so many years without being eradicated.
Captain Zhang has been in the martial arts world for many years and understands these things, so he picked up the spear hanging on his horse without hesitation, holding the reins in one hand and riding forward, pointing the spear at the robber leader, and seven Dao patterns on his body were looming.
Although the Dao patterns represent different Daos, the external manifestations of the Dao patterns are the same, and it is impossible to tell which seven Daos these seven Dao patterns are.
The robber leader looked at the seven Dao patterns on Captain Zhang's body, and his face changed. He tried to show a ferocious smile that showed kindness on his face with a scar and a ferocious look: "Senior, please teach me."
As he said that, five Dao patterns appeared on the robber leader's body. He raised his long sword and chopped at Captain Zhang. The first Dao pattern on his body was slightly bright, and then the blade of the long sword made of ordinary material flashed with golden light, giving people a feeling of indestructibility.
Xiao Ying was watching this fight, which was considered to be of a relatively high level among ordinary people. He knew that the robber leader's first way was the way of gold, or the law of gold.
The laws of this world are obvious and easy to be understood by people, but the laws understood by individuals are different. No one can see it unless they actively use it. The law of gold is a relatively common Dao pattern.
Looking at Captain Zhang again, he stabbed the spear with a serious face and pointed it at the blade of the golden long sword. At the same time, his first Dao pattern also quietly lit up, and a huge force was transmitted from the spear to the golden blade. The robber leader who was caught off guard stepped back more than ten steps.
Obviously, Captain Zhang’s first Dao pattern was the law of power that he understood.
Although both of them used the first Dao pattern, Captain Zhang’s law of power and his excellent skills were undoubtedly the one that had the upper hand at the beginning of the fight. However, the robber leader did not suffer much loss, but only temporarily fell behind.
Xiao Ying looked at the Dao patterns on the two men and felt a little regretful: "It seems that they can't fight anymore."
As expected, the two fought and tested each other for a move and then stopped. The robber leader immediately admitted that he was not as good as him: "Senior, your strength is really strong. I admit that I am inferior to you! Goodbye!" After that, he took his men to move the towering tree to make way.
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Captain Zhang was not surprised by the robber leader's understanding. At the beginning, he showed seven Dao patterns, and the robber leader wanted to retreat, otherwise he would not be so polite to call him "senior". After that, the fight was just an explanation from the leader to his men. Otherwise, he would be too cowardly to let the man go without even fighting.
Captain Zhang waved to the guards: "Let's go!"
The team successfully passed this last checkpoint and entered the official road.
No one dared to rob on the official road, because unless the robbery on the official road was done cleanly and the news was not leaked, it would inevitably be hit by the power of the country. Although Fengling Country was only a second-rate country, no family in the country could withstand the power of the country.
So the Qiao family's team took the official road smoothly for more than a month to arrive at the big city of Huofeng City.
Huofeng City's status in Fengling Country is equivalent to one of the big cities second only to the capital. Due to its geographical location and special products, its prosperity is even not inferior to the capital.
When queuing to enter Huofeng City, Captain Zhang said to Qiao Lingyun: "Miss, we have arrived in Huofeng City. It is only more than a month's journey to the capital. Let's rest in Huofeng City for a few days?"
Qiao Lingyun thought of the prosperity of Huofeng City and nodded: "Okay."
They entered Huofeng City and rented a yard of a big inn to stay temporarily.
In a big city like Fire Phoenix City, there are many strong people and dignitaries, so even the somewhat proud Qiao Lingyun kept a low profile and had no objection to Captain Zhang renting only a medium-sized courtyard.
After settling down, Qiao Lingyun ran to the door of Xiao Ying's room next door and knocked on the door.
When Xiao Ying opened the door, he saw Qiao Lingyun happily asking him: "Brother Luo, let's go out for a walk!"
Xiao Ying also wanted to walk around Fire Phoenix City, so he agreed and went out with Qiao Lingyun and two guards.
In fact, after seeing the prosperous big cities in the urban world, he didn't think that the cities in this ancient world were prosperous, at least the population was not large. So when Xiao Ying was walking around, he mainly paid attention to the aura of the enlightened people he met.
Unless the people in this world actively show the Dao pattern, others can't see their strength. But Xiao Ying's spiritual sense is strong, but he can sense the subtle differences in aura, so he can estimate the average strength of the people in Fire Phoenix City by observing the aura of passers-by.
There are indeed many more powerful people in a big city like Fire Phoenix City than in the remote small city where the Luo family is located.
The strongest people in the small city are the elders of the three families who have ten Dao lines. In Fire Phoenix City, Xiao Ying has just met three enlightened people with ten Dao lines.
He even met an enlightened person whose aura is several times stronger than that of an enlightened person with ten Dao lines, perhaps a powerful person with more than fifteen Dao lines.
Xiao Ying was thinking about the powerful enlightened person he had just met, and was pulled by Qiao Lingyun into a jewelry store, and then he met the powerful enlightened person who had met him once.