198 Dark Blue As the Waist I (2/2)

”In fact, I have been very curious what kind of person on earth you are.”

Situ Yilan turned around at the lake, gently tilting her brows and very interestedly looking at Ning Que's face. She said, ”My father had read your files in Military Ministry, but only told me some gists about you and refused to tell me too many details. When I was anxious to ask, he only said that if the future I had an opportunity to fight with you, I should listen to you on everything. I rarely heard my father had such a high evaluation on others. What exactly have you done in City of Wei?”

”I'm really proud to be evaluated like this by General Yunhui.”

Ning Que gazed over her shoulder, with his eyesight falling on the blue lake surface. He thought of those years in City of Wei and said after a moment of silence, ”In City of Wei, I mainly did one thing.”

”What's it?”

”Killing Horse Gang.”

”I heard the Wilderness' Horse Gang was the most aggressive one. Even Golden palace's cavalries are not willing to provoke them.”

”Not so exaggerated. But Horse Gang's composition is very complicated, including real Horse Gang and foodless refugees. I saw refugees from northern Yan in Shubi Lake. Such a long distance, I don't know how they climbed over Min Mountain. You'd never think the most powerful Horse Gang I ever met was actually the one disguised by Golden palace's cavalry.”

”Golden palace's cavalry? You winned or they winned?”

”I said I only did one thing, killing Horse Gang. If they won, how could I kill Horse Gang?”

Ning Que looked at her and said, ”I think the reason why General Yunhui said those words to you is that he presumably knew that I was good at killing for surviving in the Wilderness. In fact, this is not rare.”

Situ Yilan looked at him and said, ”You're amazing, for staying alive after killing so many Horse Gangs.”

Ning Que said, ”I don't deny it at this point. It's said that cultivator is the strongest one in the world. But in terms of those cultivators I've met, if they were put in the Wilderness, they definitely couldn't survive as long as they encountered a Horse Gang with one hundred men.”

”But you still want to be a cultivator.”

”Because I can kill. If I became a cultivator, I would be able to be a cultivator who could kill.”

After a short moment of pause, Ning Que said with a smile, ”I've always had an idea. You promise not to spread it outside.”

Situ Yilan showed a great interest and said, ”I promise. Go ahead.”

Ning Que went to the lakeside and looked at the dark blue lake that extended to the far northern side. He said, ”A cultivator does have a strong personal power. But in my opinion, these cultivators in the world don't know how to kill.”

Situ Yilan thought for a long time before she frowned and asked, ”Is killing... the killing?”

Ning Que looked at her and continuously asked a few questions, ”How to spend the least effort to kill? How to kill the opposite when your strength is far less than the enemy's? How to use the environment, wind and even sunshine to kill? How to squeeze the last effort to kill in the case of serious injuries? How to kill without being killed?”

Situ Yilan shook her head, thinking she would pick up a bow and an arrow to shoot or a podao to cut when she met grassland cavalries in the Wilderness. There were not so many methods at all.

”If killing is so complicated, can you teach me?”

”This kind of thing can not be taught. If you kill more people, you can naturally learn it. Therefore, frontier fortress camp is the best place to practice the killing, and cultivators rarely cultivate in barracks.”

Ning Que said, ”Fortunately or unfortunately, I have lived in City of Wei military village for many years. And I think this is why General Yunhui felt that I was not bad, and also something you can't understand for now.”

Situ Yilan looked at him and curiously asked, ”You are the first disciple of the Second floor of the Academy to come to the frontier fortress for practice. Do you want to cultivate in the barracks?”

”If I had the chance, of course I'd be willing to try on the battlefield with the ability of a cultivator.”

Ning Que moved his steps again, walking along round white stones on the lakeside to the east, and self-deprecatingly said, ”But now it looks that, neither Tuyang City nor the imperial court will give me this opportunity.”

Situ Yilan looked at his back and shook her head.

Ning Que quietly watched the dark blue lake, the reflections of trees and clouds in the water far away, and the depths of the Wilderness that could not be seen with naked eyes. He felt his fingers more and more itchy.

No one knew whether any cultivator made a special trip to cultivate on the battlefield. But he was really interested in this idea. However, what really made him tickle was not the idea, but some very simple things.

In the Wilderness, he sniffed the smell of horse dung coming from the wind and the faint smell of unknown grass burning. He felt that every part of his body was slightly trembling as excitedly as the three long knives behind him. It was difficult to suppress his desire of rushing into the depths of grassland on a horse and cutting down one after another enemy with a knife.

Unfortunately, this faint blue lake in front was not Shubi Lake.

No one knew the name of the lake around Dongsheng Stockaded Village among grassland barbarians. It was as slender as a waist, extending from here to the depths of the far north Wilderness, whose end could not be seen. Because the lake was too deep, it was glowing with dark blue luster, like the sapphire that was melted and condensated into filaments.

”This is a salty lake. We can't drink its water. So we didn't camp here.”

Situ Yilan looked at Ning Que who quietly looked at the lake and raised her arm toward the mountains in the faraway lakeshore. She said, ”When the barbarian riding troop invaded the South in the past, they came from that forest all of a sudden. But no grassland people have been near here these days.”

Ning Que looked at the faintly visible woods in the fog and asked, ”Can we go through now?”

”If crossing that forest, we'll arrive at the east line of the Yan army. In order to avoid any trouble, we didn't go through it too often. Of course, they did not often come through it, either. Both parties agreed to ignore it.”

”Have you seen those people?”

”What people?”

”Young masters of all countries coming for West-Hill Divine Palace's order, such as Sword Garret, White Pagoda.”

Situ Yilan shook her head and said, ”I've never seen them. But after the encounter with riding troop last time, Dongsheng Stockaded Village has despatched the army to exile that tribe. However, they encountered Papal Cavalryman of West-Hill Divine Palace.”

Upon listening to the words of ”Papal Cavalryman”, Ning Que turned around and asked, ”Then what happened?”

Situ Yilan thought of the scene at that day and still felt somewhat angry. She said with a sneer, ”It is clearly a battle of our Dongsheng Stockaded Village, and we have basically wiped out the enemies. But those Divine Hall cavalries who have looked on coldly as bystanders rushed forward in the final moment.”

”They wanted to grab the military glory?”

”Right, they cut off many leaders' heads. Wang Ying quarreled with them but didn't win.”

Ning Que said, ”I thought Wang Ying has become much mature in the battlefield. I didn't expect he was still so childish.”

Situ Yilan annoyedly said, ”Do you think he should not quarrel with them?”

”Of course not. What can we get even if we had a big quarrel with them? We used to fight with enemies in Shubi Lake. If the people of Seven Cities Fortress came to grab the military glory, we never quarreled with them.”

Ning Que looked at the calm lake. He shook his head and said, ”We directly draw a knife to chop them.”