Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 62 Foolish Husband and Wife
Under the silvery moonlight, a bat bird, not much bigger than a basketball, was dancing and moving through the air in geometric zigzag patterns. They are spirits of the darkness, but unfortunately, the moonlight tonight is too bright.

With a "whoosh," an arrow flew by and pierced the bat's body. A tall cavalryman jumped off the Thunder Smoke Beast, picked up the still struggling bat, cut open its belly with a dagger, crushed the entrails that fell to the ground with his leather boot, and then disappointedly threw the bat away.

Such scenes were happening all the time, and as time went on, Wu Tong could no longer hide the disappointment in her eyes.

"Old Zhou, take your men and leave."

Lieutenant Zhou shook his head and said, "I'll check it again for you."

Wu Tong shook his head and said, "The wasteland is in chaos now, it would be better for you to stay in Chuyun City. Besides, after the next crescent moon ends, winter will come, and you still have a lot to do."

"Aren't you going to look for Long Ling anymore?"

"Keep searching. It takes at least a year for a dragon spirit to fully integrate with a human or beast. It's only been a hundred days since the dragon spirit descended to Tianzhu Mountain. We still have time. I've already sent people to the Grandmaster's Mansion to retrieve the spirit-finding insects. They'll arrive in five days. A targeted search is far more efficient than the current blind search."

“Since you have made up your mind, I will leave the Heavenly Eye to you. The Black Armor Army should not stray far from the city.”

Captain Zhou was a very decisive person. Seeing that Wu Tong had made up his mind, he summoned a Thunder Smoke Beast and, after the Black Armor Army assembled, quickly led the team away.

Zhang Min climbed off the bird's back and approached Wu Tong, saying, "This is the first time Senior Brother has failed."

Wu Tong shook his head and said, "Failure is inevitable. No one can win all the time. It's better to come sooner rather than later. At least it lets me know that I am not an invincible general like King Huo."

Zhang Min bit her lip and said, "Senior brother, I still want to keep an eye on that pig demon."

"Why? You should know that he is not a pig demon."

Zhang Min stomped her feet like a young girl and said, "He's a pig demon."

"Alright, alright, he's just a pig demon. But let me tell you, the fact that a country bumpkin could make someone like you, who has been undergoing the most rigorous and effective training in Dragon City since the age of two, flee in such a sorry state shows that this person has a very high potential and is a precious asset of the Han Dynasty. You can tease him, but don't take his life."

"He's just a wild boar demon! Senior brother, there's no need to think too highly of him."

"We should cherish those who are qualified to go to Tiewei Pass."

Yun Ce, along with E Ji and their chestnut horse, had been standing by the stream for a long time. Several times, the chestnut horse tried to lower its head to drink, but E Ji stopped it by holding its head.

After a long time, when the sky had turned blue, a dying bat floated down the stream from upstream.

Yun Ce stepped forward, pretending to open the sluice gate and release water. He used his foot to lift the bat out of the water. As soon as the bat came out of the water, its body began to shrink rapidly. In the blink of an eye, it became a skeleton. Yun Ce pinched the skeleton with his hand, kneaded it into powder, and then casually sprinkled it into the stream.

A small red ball happily crawled up and down Yun Ce's body, trying to find a hole to crawl into. However, when it passed Yun Ce's left wrist, it got tangled in the seven or eight silver threads on the wristband and was forced to move towards the wristband.

Yun Ce immediately sensed that the air was filled with sadness. He looked down again to check and found that it was the dog bullying the dragon ball, so he stopped paying attention to the sadness.

The wristband had long since opened its mouth, and inside were sharp, barbed teeth that were trembling violently, as if it was getting impatient.

In the end, the red dragon ball, which was not much bigger than a ping-pong ball, went into that mouth. Yun Ce could even see that the dragon ball, which was originally as red as an egg without a shell, was not only crushed to pieces by that mouth, but also the wisps of golden light in the middle were also swallowed up by that mouth.

Perhaps the good stuff went into someone else's stomach, because Yun Ce himself didn't change at all. He exerted his strength, and his right hand turned into a dragon claw again. After moving it around a few times to test it, he found that there was no change.

I thought that if I got another Dragon Ball, I might be able to cover my whole body in dragon scales and become invincible. But now it seems that I was just dreaming.

With the large bird gone from the sky, Yun Ce carried E Ji onto his horse and galloped towards Chuyun City. At this point, the farther he was from the scene of the incident, the lower his suspicion would be.

As dawn broke, Yun Ce caught up with the black-armored army. They were resting by a stream, taking off their armor and eating by the water in their cloth robes. Some even took off their boots and leisurely soaked their feet in the water.

There were no large birds in the sky or on the ground, which meant that Zhang Min's wife wasn't here.

Their warhorses also had their saddles removed and drank the water from the people's foot bath downstream.

Yun Ce looked around and saw no one on guard, appearing to be quite unsuspecting.

He didn't want to deal with these people, so he had Eji sit on the horse while he led it to rest under the shade of a tree in the distance. He would wait until they left before continuing on his way.

A cavalryman eating from a wooden bowl saw that Yun Ce was leading a Thunder Smoke Beast, so he walked over with his bowl, looked the chestnut horse up and down, and said, "This Thunder Smoke Beast isn't under any restrictions. How did you get it to carry your woman?"

Yun Ce laughed and said, "Just feed it more."

The cavalryman shook his head, circled the chestnut horse, and said, "This Thunder Smoke Beast was discarded by the army. Selling it to civilians is just for show."

However, this thing is inherently violent, so it's best to put it under a protective barrier.

"Restricted?"

“That’s right. Thunder Smoke Beasts are unpredictable. If you want it to be completely obedient, you should take it to the ‘Beast Training Center’ and ask the trainers there to drive a red-hot iron spike into its forehead. Of course, you must remember to cover one of its eyes while the spike is being driven in, so that its other eye can only see you. If it sees someone else, your Thunder Smoke Beast will belong to them.” Before Yun Ce could speak, E Ji bent down and hugged the chestnut horse’s long neck, saying to Yun Ce, “No, Da Hong is fine like this.”

The cavalryman scoffed, "Ignorant and foolish woman."

Looking into the bright, watery eyes of the chestnut horse, Yun Ce firmly said, "I also think that Da Hong is fine like this."

The cavalryman shoveled all the food from the wooden bowl into his mouth, tilted his head back, and swallowed it down. He then pointed at the chestnut horse and said, "Guess why it's called the Thunder Smoke Beast?"

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "There's no need to know. It's fine. Except for being a little mischievous, it's all good."

The cavalryman laughed loudly and said, "You foolish and ignorant fools who don't know what's good for you."

After saying that, he took the rice bowl and left. Yun Ce took the opportunity to follow him and walked along the main road by the stream.

Eji said angrily, "What right does he have to curse people?"

When they were angry, their voices inevitably got louder, and the cavalrymen resting by the roadside heard them. They immediately burst into laughter, and one of the meddlesome ones even used the cavalryman's words to curse the two of them as "foolish men and women."

Yun Ce has always believed that being regarded as a fool is a compliment, not a denigration. This way, he can rely on his stupidity to do many things that smart people cannot do.

Back on Earth, he had put in a lot of effort to get that two-word evaluation from Yun Linchuan, but in the end, Yun Linchuan scolded him as a "stupid donkey" instead of a "fool".

I thought these two words were similar, but Yun Linchuan taught me a lesson. Don't be fooled by the fact that these two words are only one word different. In Yun Linchuan's eyes, they are worlds apart. Calling you a stupid donkey is just stating the facts, but calling you an idiot means that you are probably an idiot.

A stupid donkey is a living form of stupidity, a momentary stupidity. The word "idiot" completely expelled you from the animal kingdom.

Relying on being called a foolish man and a stupid woman, Yun Ce E Ji successfully passed through the area covered by this group and walked ahead of them, further eliminating the suspicion that she obtained the Dragon Ball.

While Yun Ce was gloating, he was chatting and laughing with E Ji. As E Ji talked about how she would become a rich man after entering Chuyun City, Yun Ce suddenly realized that his left hand suddenly felt like it weighed 10,000 jin.

His left arm dragged his body down with a thud, and the chestnut horse immediately stopped, looking at him with Eji in confusion.

"Dog, get out here!" Yun Ce roared in his heart.

"It's not my fault. It was Egg Master who made the commotion. Lie down for a bit and I'll ask him."

Upon hearing this, Yun Ce had no choice but to turn over, prop his head up with his right hand, and put his left hand on the ground, pretending to be very relaxed.

"There's dog poop on the ground!" Eji screamed.

Yun Ce waved his hand casually.

"What are you doing?"

Yun Ce remained silent.

Eji slid off the chestnut horse and, without hesitation, lay down in front of Yun Ce, just like him, asking, "Is it really that comfortable?"

Yun Ce angrily said, "Don't make a sound, try to comprehend it carefully."

"Oh!"

"Egg Master said it's pretty awesome now, but it hasn't quite mastered the weight distribution yet. It'll be fine once it gets used to it a bit more. You're awesome too. Egg Master said it can carry you around in the future."

"My two gentlemen, now is not the time to show off your skills. The important thing is to hide yourselves and not be discovered."

"Don't worry, Egg Lord values ​​this even more than you do. When it absorbed the other egg, it sensed danger from the outside world through it and put in a lot of effort to shield itself with eighteen layers of protection. Even if a dragon comes, it won't be able to detect its presence."

"Aren't you exaggerating? Its power isn't comparable to that dragon cub Ao Bing, is it? How can a piece of trash who can't even travel in space compare to other dragons?"

"I don't know. I wasn't even aware of what was happening when you met Ao Bing, so it's hard to make a comparison."

Before Gouzi could finish speaking, Yun Ce felt a sudden lightness in his left hand. He stood up, dusted himself off, and said to Eji, who was still lying on the ground, "Ignorant fool."

Eji jumped up and pounced on Yun Ce's back, grabbing his neck with both hands and trying to strangle him to death.

When Yun Ce mounted the chestnut horse again, he glanced back and saw three large birds circling low in the vast sky. Through his binoculars, he saw Zhang Min standing on the back of one of the birds. After increasing the magnification, he could even see that Zhang Min looked somewhat haggard.

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