Chapter 79: Northern Border Great Wall

“Clang clang~”

A bright silver spear tip, like a meteor or lightning, flew swiftly from behind the horizontal bar. With a flick of the spear tip, it transformed into two blurred streaks of starlight, accurately hitting the iron whip and Lian Zhan, producing two crisp yet muffled sounds of metal clashing.

Lei Qing only felt Lian Zhan being pushed away by a force, and even the tiger’s mouth of his hand felt numb from the shock. As for that heavy iron whip, it also flew past Lei Qing’s ear with a “whoosh”, the force so strong it made his hair flutter.

Startled in his heart, he looked back and saw Yu Shanshan riding her warhorse Flying Snow, holding a bright silver long spear with one hand, glaring angrily at the two of them with a face as cold as frost: “Are you two crazy? Do you not want your lives anymore?”

Lei Qing was also very shocked in his heart. Although he had long known that Yu Shanshan was a martial arts practitioner, and seemingly a proud disciple of some power ful sect. But last time, she had not displayed such powerful combat strength at all.

But now it seemed, this Yu Shanshan was extremely extraordinary, her Fighting Qi was restrained and one could not tell her depth. Thinking of this, Lei Qing also broke out in cold sweat. Last time he accidentally peeked at her bathing, fortunately, he ran fast, and fortunately, she did not dare to chase out and fight because she was not wearing clothes. Otherwise, with her anger and martial power at that time, she might have slaughtered him on the spot.

But now it was also very troublesome, he could not even handle An Feifei. If Yu Shanshan joined in, it was uncertain whether he would be captured by them. Immediately, Lei Qing’s eyes rolled. He roared with grief and indignation: “Yu Shanshan, you are bullying me too much, I will fight you with my life.” He turned his horse’s head, urging Wuzhui to start a trot, seemingly looking for some distance to sprint.

Yu Shanshan was stunned, wasn’t she the victim? A few months ago, the whole capital was spreading this matter. Now it turned out that he became the victim. Annoyed in her heart, since he dared to come and fight, that was just right, she would teach him a lesson.

Unexpectedly, Lei Qing rode his horse and ran to Zuo Qianqian’s side. He bent down, scooped her up by the waist and placed her on the horse’s back. He clamped the horse’s belly fiercely with both legs, and shouted: “Giddy up.”

Without looking back, he rushed down the mountain path.

The terrain of Fierce Tiger Ridge was very complex, with several small paths, but the mountain rocks were jagged and very difficult to walk on. If one rode a horse, it would be better to walk on two legs. Usually, when going up and down the mountain, one would lead the horse as much as possible.

But Wuzhui was not an ordinary warhorse, but a Demonic Beast-level warhorse. Even on those narrow mountain paths with scattered rocks, it could trot down the mountain. It was extremely flexible when leaping and dodging. Moreover, Lei Qing was also very skilled in horsemanship, the man and the horse cooperated seamlessly, walking like flowing water in such complex terrain. Moreover, Lei Qing had practiced riding Wuzhui on this mountain road several times before, there was a small mountain stream of two Zhang ahead, which could just be leaped over to block the enemy.

Yu Shanshan and An Feifei looked at each other. How could there be such a shameless person in this world? Clearly saying he would fight to the death, but then turned around and ran away without saying a word? How could there be such a scam?

However, Yu Shanshan had traveled a long way and circled around, probably not less than ten thousand miles to come and find fault. Having finally caught up with him, how could she be willing to let him run away? Immediately, Yu Shanshan’s face turned cold, and she shouted angrily: “An Feifei, let’s chase, we absolutely cannot let him escape. Giddy up~” She rode her horse and chased directly after Lei Qing.

An Feifei also thought she was unlucky to have taken such a thankless job. She rolled her charming eyes, thinking to herself that she was just a foil to help chase that pretty boy? Of course, she could not afford to offend the Yu Family, and she could not afford to offend Yu Shanshan, who was a famous proud disciple from the Moon Cold Palace. She had no choice but to helplessly call Duncan and some elite soldiers to follow.

Several Bronze experts in the Iron-Armored Personal Guards, after watching a wonderful show and seeing Lei Qing escape, said: “Boss, should we chase?”

“Chase what? That kid named Lei forced our merchant guild to issue a notice that we cannot make a move against him and those bandits within three years. If we chase, wouldn’t that make the merchant guild lose its reputation?” Ghost’s Sorrow Sikong Wei sneered: “That An Feifei from the Free Mercenary Group is very powerful, that kid named Lei can’t gain any advantage facing her alone. And Yu Shanshan, her strength is even a notch higher than An Feifei, even I can’t see her depth. According to intelligence, she seems to be a proud disciple of the Fighting Qi Holy Land, the Moon Cold Palace. That kid named Lei has offended her terribly, if he falls into Yu Shanshan’s hands, he will lose half his skin even if he doesn’t die.”

That was true too, since someone else was doing the work, why bother themselves? Maybe, in a short while, that daring kid from the Lei Family would be stabbed to death by Yu Shanshan who hated him to the bone. But having said that, that kid was really daring, he even dared to peek at the bath of the daughter of Yu Tianji, the Grand Preceptor of the Cabinet of the Tianlan Empire. Not being beaten to death on the spot was simply dog shit luck. No wonder, this time even the old aristocratic Lei Family couldn’t protect this kid.

Oh no~ Several experts in the Iron-Armored Personal Guards, sooner or later, thought of a terrible possibility. This kid named Lei was quite lustful, the Eldest Miss had been in his hands for a month, could it be…

Although these Iron-Armored Personal Guards were worried, they only dared to think about it in their hearts.

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Thousands of miles away from here at the Northern Border of the Tianlan Empire, even though the season was already spring, it was still freezing cold here, with goose-feather-like snow falling, thickening the snow on the mountains and rivers once again.

The Northern Border Great Wall was built according to the terrain, tens of Zhang high and seven or eight Zhang wide. Wrapped in silver snow, it wound and spiraled for more than two thousand miles. It bordered the Raging Strait to the east and reached the Abyss of Despair to the west.

This great Great Wall was built by the historically famous human emperor pioneer Great Yi. Because of the constant harassment from Demonic Beasts and the Barbarian Tribe, the entire construction process was extremely difficult and resulted in heavy casualties. It took a hundred years for this Northern Border Great Wall to be officially completed. It blocked a large number of Barbarian Tribes and Demonic Beasts outside the Northern Border, trapping them in the North Ice Prison, which was like a cold hell, preventing them from wreaking havoc in the human hinterland.

Firstly, it was to commemorate the achievements and contributions of Great Yi to humanity. Secondly, Great Yi’s dying wish back then was to be buried under the Northern Border Great Wall to help humans suppress the alien races forever.

Therefore, the Northern Border Great Wall was also called “Great Yi’s Guardian”.

Also, because the Northern Border Great Wall was extremely important to the entire human race, despite the constant change of dynasties and internal human wars. The Northern Border Great Wall still stood tall.

No matter who occupied this territory of the Northern Border, they had to maintain and station troops at the Northern Border Great Wall.

Now, this was the responsibility of the Tianlan Empire.

The Northern Border Great Wall had dozens of passes and hundreds of beacon towers. According to the size and danger of the passes, each pass had to station hundreds to thousands of people. And even the beacon towers would have a small number of soldiers taking turns to guard them.

Tiger Crouching Pass was an ordinary pass in the Northern Border Great Wall that stretched for thousands of miles, named after the Tiger Crouching Mountain it sat beside.

A beacon tower lingered on the top of the mountain, where the terrain was extremely high, most suitable for looking out and watching the scenery. The earth, mountains, and trees were all wrapped in a thick layer of silver, magnificent and having a unique atmosphere.

The wind in the Northern Border was fierce, blowing on the face like a knife cutting.

But right beside this beacon tower, two young men in their late twenties were drinking heavily and eating meat under the sky full of snowflakes.

The one on the left was wearing a set of dark silver general’s iron armor and a helmet with a red tassel. When snowflakes drifted to his side, they would stir up a small thunderclap, shattering the snowflakes. This person’s face bore some resemblance to Lei Qing, but amidst his handsome features, there was an even more fierce and domineering aura. Holding a large bowl of wine, he said heartily to the man opposite: “Situ, thank you for showing mercy to my Little Nine and letting him go. You really are a brother, I, Lei Laohu, will drink this first as a sign of respect.”

After speaking, he gulped down the large bowl of wine in one go. After drinking, he looked at the man opposite with a proud face.

The man opposite had a slender figure and skin that was somewhat sickly pale. He coughed twice and said: “Lei Laoha, Lei Hong. You must be doing this on purpose, finding such a cold place to drink cold wine. You must be taking revenge for when I reported to your father after you climbed over a widow’s wall back then. Cough cough, I am a sick person, I can’t withstand your bullying.”

Although he said so, when those snowflakes drifted close to his body, it was as if they met a heat wave out of thin air, turning into countless white steam and rising up. It could be seen that his Fighting Qi cultivation was very thick and domineering.

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