Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Cao Yue stood up and said to the village chief and the surviving villagers,
âVillage Chief, take care of yourselves in the future.â
The village chief sighed and hesitated before saying, âLittle Yue, take care too.â
The village chief took out a fist-sized stone from his pocket. âOne should practice thrift at home but be amply provided while traveling. I have nothing to give you. Take this. It might be useful in the future.â
The stone looked like a small mountain, exquisite and small.
Zhou Shu glanced at it, and his heart skipped a beat. Thereâs such a good thing in Boundary Bridge Village?
âThank you, Village Chief.â Cao Yue didnât decline and accepted the stone. âIf thereâs a chance in the future, Iâll come back to see everyone.â
After thinking for a moment, Cao Yue knelt on the ground again and kowtowed to the village chief.
The people in the village were all his elders. He had grown up with all of them.
The death of the people from Boundary Bridge Village was a huge blow to Cao Yue.
The village chief nodded and cupped his hands at Zhou Shu. âMr. Cao Shu, weâll leave Little Yue in your hands from now on.
âIf thereâs a chance in the future, I hope we can meet again.â
With that, the village chief led the surviving villagers into the mountains without hesitation.
âVillage Chief, may I know your name?â Zhou Shu asked.
âDong He.â The village chiefâs voice came from afar. He was clearly just an ordinary villager, but his heroic aura was not inferior to that of martial artists.
Heâs a good man, Zhou Shu thought.
Seeing the figures of the people from Boundary Bridge Village disappear into the distance, Cao Yue put away the sadness in his heart and rubbed his eyes. He looked at Zhou Shu and said, âUncle, weâ¦â
âWeâll wait for the Dong family here.â Zhou Shu rubbed Cao Yueâs head. âAre you afraid?â
âNo!â Cao Yue gritted his teeth. âIf they dare to come, Iâll kill them all!â
Cao Yue clenched his fists.
He still had the power of the Eight-Nine Arcane Art in his body.
âCultivate well. When you truly master strength one day, no one will dare to bully you anymore,â Zhou Shu said unhurriedly. âNow, youâre still no match for the Dong family.
âWeâre staying here to buy time for the village chief and the others.â
Zhou Shu looked into the distance. âOnly by letting the Dong family chase after us will they not go after the village chief and the others.â
âI understand.â Cao Yue nodded.
His eyes darted around before he quickly walked to the side. With a snort, he picked up a huge rock and moved it to Zhou Shuâs side. âUncle, sit down and rest for a while. Iâll clean this place up.â
Before the village chief and the others left, they had buried everyoneâs corpses.
But they didnât care about the knights of the Dong family.
In addition, there was a mess everywhere. It was really an eyesore.
Cao Yue quickly threw the corpses of the knights and mutated beasts aside and cleaned up the surroundings.
Zhou Shu nodded slightly.
Although they were only here temporarily, and there was no need to clean up so cleanly, Cao Yueâs character was obvious.
To be so serious over such a small matter, Cao Yue was a promising talent.
Boom!
Cao Yue cleaned up the surroundings and ran to the houses of the villagers not far away. Soon, he returned with tea.
At this moment, a roar came from afar.
More than ten powerful figures flew over.
âThey reacted a little slower than I expected,â Zhou Shu said indifferently. âLooks like the Dong family is nothing much.
âCao Yue, letâs fight them back and then go.â
âUncle, there are more than ten of themâ¦â Cao Yue said hesitantly. âIâm not afraid. Itâs just that I might not be their match.â
If not for the village chiefâs help, he wouldnât have been able to defeat those knights.
Now, there were almost twice as many people as before, and they seemed to be even stronger than the previous knights. Cao Yue knew his limits. He didnât think he could defeat so many people.
âItâs just a dozen Earth Immortals.â Zhou Shu had a calm expression. âThey donât even have a proper connate divine weapon. It wonât be difficult to defeat them.â
The spears in the hands of the previous knights could even be bent by Cao Yueâs punch. In the human race, not to mention Earth Immortals, even first-rank martial artists would disdain using such spears.
Coupled with the speed at which the reinforcements of the Dong family arrived, the strength of the Dong family was obvious.
âTake out the stone the village chief just gave you,â Zhou Shu said indifferently.
âInject your spiritual essence into it and throw it at the knights.â
Cao Yue was a little puzzled, but he still did as he was told and took out the fist-sized stone.
According to Zhou Shuâs instructions, he mobilized his spiritual essence and injected it into the stone.
Cao Yue had never cultivated the Martial Dao before, so he knew nothing about divine weapons.
In his daze, Cao Yue injected almost all his spiritual essence into the stone.
âGo!â Cao Yue swung his arm around, aimed it at the knights, and threw the stone over.
Boom!
A dazzling light exploded, and then Cao Yueâs eyes widened.
The stone swelled with the wind and instantly turned into a towering mountain that smashed toward the dozen or so Dong family knights with a monstrous aura.
Boom!
The dozen or so Dong family knights were terrified, but the mountain blotted out the sky and didnât give them a chance to escape.
Boom!
The ground shook, and the mountain smashed the more than ten Dong family knights to the ground.
Blood flowed from the bottom of the mountain. The knights were dealt with just like that.
Cao Yue was dumbfoundedâ¦
In the distance, Dong He and the others, who were walking into the mountains, turned around and looked in the direction of Boundary Bridge Village.
âVillage Chief, am I seeing things? Did a mountain land in our village just now?â a villager said while rubbing his eyes.
A hint of seriousness flashed across Dong Heâs eyes. âYou didnât see wrongly. That should be Mr. Cao Shuâs divine ability.â
âDivine ability?â All the villagers were shocked. âIs he human? He can move a mountain?â
This was completely beyond everyoneâs understanding.
âMove a mountain? Perhaps.â Dong He still had Zhou Shuâs power in his body. He knew that moving mountains was easy for him.
âMr. Cao Shu has attracted the Dong familyâs attention. Letâs walk faster. Once we enter the mountains, weâll be safe,â Dong He said loudly and quickened his pace.
They didnât notice that when the mountain appeared, in the direction the people from Boundary Bridge Village were advancing, an arched bridge had appeared deep in the forest..