A Thousand Li: The Third Cut: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel by Tao Wong

Author:Tao Wong [Wong, Tao]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Starlit Publishing
Published: 2023-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

The rest of the day passed in relative peace—if you called warding off intrusive personal questions from Minh Trac peaceful. The fortune-teller seemed to not understand why anyone would be unwilling to discuss their personal details, muttering about the lack of accuracy in his forecasts. Be Long had no choice, and Tou He was content to divulge his information with only the mildest of prompts, but neither Yang Mu nor Wu Ying cared to indulge the man.

In fact, it had gotten so bad that Wu Ying had left his horse behind with Yang Mu while he took to scouting ahead, flitting from tree to tree and branch to ground with ease. All the while, the wind swirled around him, providing him details.

Dinh Don followed along more sedately, the scout staying a bare couple hundred feet ahead of the rest of the team. Wu Ying understood his reluctance to travel too far, for the dense woods shrank the range of an individual’s spiritual sense. What use was a scout that could not report back?

On the other hand, Wu Ying cared little for such concerns. The entire group was slow-moving on their horses, even if Bich Trang seemed to exude a low-grade wood aura whose focus was less on plants but creatures, benefiting the steeds they rode upon such that they were able to travel without slowing.

Even suppressed, the combined auras of the group exerted a subtle pressure upon the world. External chi swirled, drawn in by Wu Ying’s Cyclone’s Breath method and, on a more localized basis, the studious bookworm Phuong Vy.

Wu Ying had been surprised when he recognized the gentle touch of a fellow moving cultivator in play, though her method seemed more localized, the chi she drew upon more general. Unlike his technique that drew exclusively upon wind chi, she took in everything but strained it through her meridians to alter it to suit her needs.

That was not the only surprise the army unit had brought with it. It had taken Wu Ying nearly the entire day before he’d noticed the bird that had been watching them high above. It was because of its constant presence that Wu Ying finally noticed it gliding high above them. No bigger than a small dot in the beginning, when the creature landed at night, its true size was apparent.

Wings flaring wide, the bird—a raptor of some form, Wu Ying assumed from the turn of its beak—opened its massive wings, landing on a nearby fallen tree trunk light as a feather as the group prepped for the night in their chosen clearing. Seated with its wings folded, it looked only half the size of one of their horses, though its wingspan easily dwarfed the beast. In fact, if not for the gentle pull and pulse of the colonel’s aura, their steeds would have bolted at the new, predatory presence.

“Yours?” Tou He asked as Bich Trang approached the bird, a hand fishing in a storage pouch by her side to extract strips of meat to feed the raptor.

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