19 True Martial Brothers! (1/2)
|3rd Person POV|
(The next day, morning)
After the mercenaries had a brief breakfast, they once again continued their journey. The route they took this time around was much more tranquil than the one from yesterday. Along the way, they encountered Magic Beast attacks twice but both were dispatched quickly without much effort.
The group finally arrived at their destination just as the sun had risen completely. It was a sunken basin that was covered with numerous medicinal plants.
There were many different types of medicinal plants growing within the sunken basin. The aroma of herbs diffused into the air and gave one a refreshed feeling if they were to inhale it.
”Everyone, let's set up camp here. Please refrain from damaging the medicinal herbs…” Yi Xian turned around and gently smiled as she gracefully wiped the perspiration from her forehead.
Hearing the Fairy Doctor's words, all mercenaries immediately responded loudly and quickly began to put up their tents enthusiastically. *Ahem!* Not that tent… That one, yes that one…
As they were setting up camp, Yang Lei whistled in his heart, ”Damn, just a few words from Xian Xian, and she's already got all the mercenaries wrapped around her finger…” As he hammered the stake into the ground, he smirked, 'Hehe… Xian'er is already mine… I wonder how many hearts would be broken?'
It seemed that the position the Fairy Doctor held in the mercenaries' hearts was much higher than he had expected. Yang Lei began to wonder if he could find a way to manipulate these mercenaries…
Shaking his head, Yang Lei observed Yi Xian who had started instructing the medicinal herb gathering team on the unearthing of the medicinal plants. Her pale white dress swirled gently in the wind as she gently instructed the herb gatherers, her gentle and kind face enchanting all
”Fairy Doctor, are you okay? Your face is red…” A herb gatherer was about to ask for help when he saw her strange expression. 'So alluring…' he thought as he stared at her in a daze.
”I-I'm okay…” Yi Xian turned away and fanned herself with her slender hand and said, ”It's a little hot…” Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Yang Lei chuckling with his martial brother, Xiao Yan.
When Yang Lei noticed that more people were looking at the Fairy Doctor than he wanted, he decided to stop teasing her and began to walk around the sunken basin, deep in thought…
As Yang Lei walked around, he whispered to Yao Lao, ”This sunken basin has a much denser and concentrated energy compared to the other regions.”
”Of course. If there wasn't such a dense and concentrated energy, how would there be so many different medicinal herbs growing here?” Yao Lao scoffed as he stroked his beard slowly.
”Well, then tell me: what is making the energy gather and condense here?” Yang Lei walked around a pair of enthusiastic herb gatherers who were frantically shouting over an herb.
”Uh, I don't know…” Yao Lao said embarrassedly. He suddenly shouted, ”That's not a fair question!”
”Hehe… maybe you shouldn't have acted so smart and knowledgeable,” the student didn't hesitate to bring the teacher down a notch. When Yao Lao heard this, fake tears of anguish dripped down his beard…
According to what Yang Lei had heard from others, the basin was extremely vast and its central terrain was still mostly unexplored by the Thousand Medicinal House. The area that the mercenary group were staying at was only the exterior periphery of the extensive basin.
Yang Lei examined the entire exterior zone with Xiao Yan beside him, but they did not find any medicinal ingredient that Yao Lao needed. Yao Lao shook his head and glanced into the pitch-black interior as he poked his shrunken head out of the black ring. He sighed, ”Seems like I'll have to wait…”
After a brief silence, Yang Lei and Xiao Yan returned to their campgrounds. Although Yang Lei could hold his ground against two or more beasts at a time, Xiao Yan couldn't.
”You should return to your tent. I'm going to have a chat with someone,” Yang Lei stopped outside of Xiao Yan's tent. He patted his junior martial brother's shoulder as he turned away.
”Brother Yang, is it… that man from last night?” Xiao Yan hesitated. Yang Lei had already told him about the scheming Mu Li and the man who had monitored him all night.
”Yep,” Yang Lei nodded, ”His true cultivation is a 7-star Dou Zhe. I'll be able to handle him myself…” Although he didn't explicitly say it, both brothers knew what he meant: you are too weak right now!
”Brother Yang!” Xiao Yan gritted his teeth as he looked up at his martial brother's vanishing back and said, ”I will catch up to you! I will become your sharpest blade!”
”Xiao Yan!” Yang Lei turned around and his eyes flashed angrily. ”I don't lack subordinates! I don't want some mindless cronies that do what I say! What I want-” he took a deep breath, ”-are martial brothers! Martial brothers that are willing to defy the heavens, reach the top with me!”
”Martial brothers?” Xiao Yan whispered. Indeed, Yang Lei had recruited him under the title of martial brother. Back then, he hadn't taken it seriously. But now, he was starting to think…
”I hope that when I stand at the top, my martial brothers would be there with me. On the other hand, if my martial brothers reach the top, I would be there to keep him from being lonely as well!”
”I hope that when I am powerless and helpless, my martial brothers will be there by my side!”
”True martial brothers share hardship; true martial brothers share success! True martial brothers entrust their own lives to each other! To become true martial brothers, one needs to go through tribulations and trials!” Yang Lei's voice was filled with hope and passion as his piercing eyes stared at Xiao Yan. Suddenly, he coughed and added, ”Of course, we need good women too…”