area51novel Chapter 183 Caravan Attacked
Chapter 183 Caravan Attacked
During this period, when passing by a mountain village, Yang Qing bought a batch of fine iron sand and a small amount of mithril sand in the village.
These things are not cheap when sold outside, and now when buying them in Miaojiang, Yang Qing is heartbroken by the price.
However, Yang Qing had a strong premonition that this mission would not be as simple as it appeared, and it would not be possible to complete the mission easily by following the caravan.
On the contrary, Yang Qing believed that only by training this girl in front of him and enabling her to protect herself would he have a hope of reaching Youyang.
Hundreds of years of sedimentary soil and thousands of years of wind-blown sandstone.
These things can still be found in the wild as long as you are willing to look for them. After being crushed vigorously by Yang Qing, they are mixed with the purchased fine iron sand and mithril sand, and finally mixed with fine soil. This becomes the portable soil that Shen Chan has to control at all times.
Yang Qing estimated the weight of this pile of soil when he was making it, and it was about three hundred kilograms.
At Yang Qing's request, Shen Chan needs to control it at all times, which is naturally a big challenge for the internal energy.
In response to this, Yang Qing gave most of the Qi-boosting pills he had saved to Shen Chan, so that she could continue taking the medicine and practicing.
Fortunately, there is a method of refining and cultivating soil in the "Wan Tu Gui Liu Jue", but Shen Tong had ignored this part when he was training Shen Chan.
She felt that the key was to master the art of controlling soil. As for soil, it was everywhere and could be obtained at any time. After Shen Chan became a saint, the most precious treasure among the soil - Xiran - would be in her custody, so there would be no need to refine other ordinary soils.
This is also the reason why Shen Chan has not found suitable soil so far.
However, after nearly ten days of training by Yang Qing, Shen Chan could now barely understand the fighting method that Yang Qing mentioned.
The ball of soil that Yang Qing had carefully refined and mixed with fine iron and secret silver had also been compressed by Shen Chan to the size of a football.
In order to help Shen Chan quickly master the fighting style of "Huluwa", Yang Qing even taught Shen Chan the Ziqi Tianluo technique of controlling qi, and personally practiced how to gather qi into threads, surround himself, and provide defense at any time.
Shen Chan was worthy of her strong affinity for earth-based Taoism. Although she had not mastered the Purple Qi Sky Net, she had mastered the method of completely dispersing the mud and sand, forming clusters of wind and sand barriers around herself, and gathering them into a "shield" at any time.
Not only that, Shen Chan also compressed the refined soil and covered the surface of his body with it, forming a thin, invisible "shell" that could also play a certain defensive role at critical moments.
This is also what Yang Qing reminded her. Just like Gaara is called the "Mask of Sand", his true self is always hidden in a layer of sand shell that is the same as his appearance.
Yang Qing is now determined to train Shen Chan according to the template of "Huluwa".
Now when Shen Chan is sparring with Yang Qing, he will completely disperse the mud that Yang Qing made for him, turning it into clusters of wind and sand that wander around him. Moreover, under Shen Chan's will, these wind and sand can quickly gather and disperse into a shield, which can barely block Yang Qing's attack of 30% of its strength.
As for the counterattack after the defense, Yang Qing felt that it was entirely possible with Shen Chan's control over the mud and sand.
For example, when Yang Qing attacked Shen Chan with a punch, Shen Chan could react instantly and control the wind and sand to form a shield to block Yang Qing's punch.
But then Yang Qing hoped that Shen Chan could control the gravel to wrap around his fist, and then crush and grind his hand bones, but Shen Chan didn't dare to do this no matter what.
Perhaps it was because Shen Chan had never participated in a direct battle before, and out of her aversion to killing itself, or perhaps it was because of her kindness, she was reluctant to do so from the bottom of her heart.
Of course, it is already very good that Shen Chan can practice to this level in ten days. It has to be said that Shen Chan is really talented in controlling the earth-based Taoism.
Wulan River is one of the important water systems in Miaojiang.
The river is more than 500 meters wide and the water flows rapidly, like a brave dragon, winding out from the obstruction of the mountains.
At this moment, at the Xuyang ferry, the Huangji Trading Company's team had just crossed the Wulan River.
"Boss, which route should we take next?
Should we go around the Wulan River for 200 miles and then climb over the Guituo Mountain, or should we go directly along the mountain to the Langxian Valley?"
Wei Xingwu, who was walking in front, asked.
Ever since he was beaten up by Yang Qing, this cultivator who had reached the perfection of the Soul Realm had been very depressed for a while.
"Let's go through the Wolf Valley. The route over Turtle Mountain will take at least two more days. It's also closer to the Black Miao's sphere of influence, so the possibility of being attacked is greater.
Scatter all the scouts and make sure there are no problems near Wolf's Mouth Valley."
After discussing with Shen Tong, Shopkeeper Huang gave instructions to Wei Xingwu.
"Yes!" Wei Xingwu responded.
Then he turned around and called over all the spies accompanying the caravan and began to assign tasks.
About an hour later, all sixteen spies sent out returned.
"Are you sure there's no problem?"
"Yes, Brother Wei.
We worked in groups of two and searched the slopes and cliffs on both sides of Wolf Valley.
We found no signs of human ambush, and we also found signs of wild animals and birds, which basically ruled out the possibility of an ambush by enemy forces."
"Since there are signs of wild animal activity, that means no one has ever been there. Since there is no ambush, let's get ready to set off."
Wei Xingwu nodded upon hearing this, then walked towards Manager Huang. After giving some instructions, following Wei Xingwu's order, the entire caravan began to slowly move towards Wolf Valley.
The Wolf-Mouth Valley is less than ten miles long and is formed by two not-too-high mountains. The roads in the valley are winding and interlaced. From a high vantage point, the two mountains look like a wolf's mouth, hence the name Wolf-Mouth Valley.
As Huang's Company entered, the grass suddenly rose up somewhere on the hillside on one side of the Wolf Valley, and then a mud gate emerged from the ground.
Then the earth door quickly opened, revealing the passage inside, and a Thick Earth Guard monk jumped out from inside.
A scout from a caravan not far away was on guard. He was startled when he saw the earth gate suddenly appearing. He was about to sound the alarm to remind the caravan passing below to be careful.
But the monk from Hou Tuwei raised his hand towards him, and countless darts made of mud flew out, instantly piercing his body, as well as his teammates not far away.
The two spies on guard were killed instantly by this move from the Houtuwei monk.
Three or four hundred meters away from the spy, another spy who was assigned to patrol saw the entire process of his teammate being attacked.
He crouched down and just as he took out a warning bullet to notify the caravan, he suddenly felt a pain in his chest. He lowered his head tremblingly, only to see a claw-shaped weapon had pierced his chest.
Then all the strength in his body receded like the tide, and his hands, which wanted to pull the warning bullet, were completely powerless.
"I'm sorry, my new spy brother, you're pretty nice to me, but unfortunately, I'm an undercover agent."
As a voice entered his ears, the spy gradually fell into eternal darkness. He only vaguely remembered that the voice seemed to come from another spy team member who had just been assigned to him by the team, the guy named Miao Jie.
At the same time, Yang Qing and Shen Chan had just crossed the Wulan River using their magical power of using fake objects to disguise themselves.