Book 3 Chapter 54 Guan Lu
During Teng Qingshan’s childhood, the Teng Jia Vige and the Li Jia Vige had once fought over water, and had sent out three of their strongest men topete.
At that time, Li Jia Vige’s ‘Li Jinfu’ had shocked the nsmen of Teng Jia Vige when he used a Wolf Fang Mace that weighed 120 Jin. Teng Qingshan clearly remembered that violent man to this day.
“Lieutenant Teng, you... you know me?”Li Jinfu was somewhat amazed. Currently, Teng Qingshan’s fame within the ck Armored Army was extremely high. Moreover, now that Li Jinfu had spent all these years in the ck Armored Army, and had married a wife who’d given birth to his son and daughter, he would go home every two to three years to visit his rtives.
Of course he would know the genius of the neighbouring vige, “Teng Qingshan”.
However, Li Jinfu didn’t know whether the opposite party knew of his existence. Li Jinfu had left his home when he was 18 years old, which was almost 13 to 14 years ago. Right now, Teng Qingshan was only 17 years old. In other words, when Li Jinfu had entered the ck Armored Army, Teng Qingshan was only about four years old.
How would a four year old child still remember him? Moreover... he even recognized him!
“Li Jinfu! In the past, your Li Jia Vige and my Teng Jia Vige fought over water, and at that time, you defeated my uncle. I still remember the event quite clearly.” Teng Qingshan said with a smile, “I never would’ve thought that after all these years, we would be fated to meet each other once more.”
“Lieutenant Teng, you still remember after so many years. Your memory is astonishing.” Li Jinfu smiled.
Several years had passed by, and Li Jinfu was no longer a man filled with an animal’s wildness; instead, he’d gradually transformed into a calm individual.
“Haha ......Qingshan, you and Jinfu are fellow vigers!” Ji Hong said with a smile, “Jinfu is the sergeant of my personal guards. His spear art is also quite good, and his strength canpare to some normal centurions. Alright, let’s head inside first. You two can talk to each otherter!”
A group of people busily walked toward the hall.
Teng Qingshan learned just now that Li Jinfu was a sergeant among Ji Hong’s personal guard.
A division had 1500 men organized into 15 one hundred-man teams. Among the 15 one hundred-man teams, the most elite one hundred-man team was known as the general’s personal guard. This was themander’s own team of personal escorts. Of course they were the elite! A sergeant in the personal guard was much stronger than a sergeant in a standard hundred-man team.
Inside the spacious hall, there were more than 80 people assembled. Commander Ji Hong sat on the seat of honor, the highest position. To his left and right satmander Guan Lu and Teng Qingshan respectively.
In this hall, there were centurions, sergeants of the personal guard, and some core disciples with high status who sat beside Ji Hong, Guan Lu, and Teng Qingshan. Other than these eighty people, the rest stood against or near the wall.
“Li Jinfu? Haha, I am Teng Qinghu from Teng Jia Vige.” Teng Qinghu merrily talked with Li Jinfu with a low voice. Seeing a fellow viger, Li Jinfu was obviously happy, and kept discussing with Teng Qinghu in a low voice.
“Cough!”
A low and deep cough brought quiet to the entire hall instantaneously. Commander Ji Hong’s cold face swept over therge group of people before he coldly said, “As of right now, news that an adolescent Red Scaled Beast was born has been spreading throughout the world like wildfire. Furthermore, the adolescent Red Scaled Beast appeared in the zing Mountain, which isn’t far from Qingzhou. Right now, experts are being drawn to the zing Mountain, and martial arts masters from at least Yangzhou and Qingzhou will show up! Therefore......When the timees and an expert appears, we disciples from the Gui Yuan Sect can’t act arrogantly and domineering. Of course, towards those who dare to annoy us, we definitely won’t show any mercy! Understood!?”
“Yes, My Lord!”
The people present replied loudly, full of discipline.
“Mm.”Ji Hong slightly nodded his head, and immediately fixed his gaze on Teng Qingshan and Guan Lu. Then a smile appeared on his face, “Qingshan, Guan Lu, the Sovereign has assigned us to obtain the ck Fire Spirit Fruit and the ck Fire Spirit Root, as well as the scales of the Red Scaled Beast. What do you think? Speak your thoughts, and let us hear them.”
Discussing methods and strategy was a highly important matter.
However, Ji Hong obviously recognized that Teng Qingshan was one of the leaders of this elite team. In fact, although Teng Qingshan was a lieutenant, his status normally couldn’t bepared to Ji Hong and Guan Lu, who weremanders. However, after Teng Qingshan had sessfully killed Meng Tian, the entire Gui Yuan Sect began to hold him in high esteem.
An expert of the 《Earth Ranking》 didn’t need to prove his strength.
“The scales of the Red Scaled Beast?” Puzzled, Teng Qingshan looked towards Ji Hong. “Commander, if that Red Scaled Beast has eaten the ck Fire Spirit Fruit, it isn’t very likely that we’ll be able to kill it.”
“Haha, Teng Qingshan. The Sovereign meant that we should kill the Red Scaled Beast if it hasn’t yet eaten the ck Fire Spirit Fruit, and obtain its scales.
If it manages to snatch the ck Fire Spirit Fruit, then we will do everything in our power to find a way to snatch the ck scales that it will discard during its transformation,” Ji Hong exined the details.
Teng Qingshan inwardly nodded.
“Martial Granduncle!” Guan Lu finally opened her mouth. Her voice was extremely cold, and the expression on her face didn’t change, “When will we set out?”
“No need to hurry.” Ji Hong replied with a smile, “ording to the information, that adolescent Red Scaled Beast is still in its growth period. It has to wait until at least January before it can mature and reach a length of over twenty Zhang. The ck Fire Spirit Fruit will definitely grow after the adolescent Red Scaled Beast matures. This is thew of nature. Therefore, we have until at least January.”
The nature of the world was indeed full of mysteries.
When the Red Scaled Beast was born, its whole body was ck. Day after day, it grew with an amazing speed, and reached a frightening mass after several months. Once it ate the ‘ck Fire Spirit Fruit’, its entire body would turn from ck to red. Afterwards, it would be a dreadful monster that even innate masters would fear.
The ck Fire Spirit Fruit was also ck during its growth, and would turn red upon reaching maturity.
It was said that the Red Scaled Beast and the ck Fire Spirit Fruit were two entities that would always be born in unison.
“Martial Granduncle.” Guan Lu opened her mouth and said, “I think we should set out before January. Regardless of whether or not that Red Scaled Beast ate the ck Fire Spirit Fruit, our mission is to obtain its ck scales. Therefore, I think it would be ideal if we go earlier and kill the adolescent Red Scaled Beast during its maturation stage! Although the scales will probably be a bit worsepared to the scales of a fully matured Red Scaled Beast, at least we will be able to guarantee that the adolescent Red Scaled Beast will be unable to eat the ck Fire Spirit Fruit! Moreover, once that beast grows over twenty Zhang long, it will be very tough to kill!”
Ji Hong was startled.
Suddenly, he burst outughing: “Guan Lu, what you said is right! Adolescents truly have sharper minds. If we kill the adolescent Red Scaled Beast now, we’ll indeed have more benefits with no harm!”
Slightly surprised, Teng Qingshan looked at Guan Lu, who returned his gaze. Staring for a moment, she coldly asked Teng Qingshan, “Lieutenant Teng, what do you think?”
“I approve of themander’s method,” Teng Qingshan replied.
Ji Hong immediately announced loudly, “Everyone present, listen closely. We will rush to zing Mountain early tomorrow morning! Today, everybody should rest well. The soldiers of the ck Armored Army will not need to put on their heavy armor atop zing Mountain, nor will they need to ride a horse. Therefore, you don’t need to bring a horse or heavy armor; wearing leather armor will be enough.”
“Yes, My Lord.” Everyone present received the order.
“You can leave now.” At Ji Hong’smand, the group of people immediately walked out of the hall. The mansion’s dedicated servants led the people to their respective residences.
In the hall, only Teng Qingshan, Ji Hong, and Guan Lu remained.
“Guan Lu!” Ji Hong revealed a smiling face and patted Teng Qingshan’s shoulder next to him, “This time, Teng Qingshan really earned a lot of face for our Gui Yuan Sect! He killed an expert who was ranked on the 《Earth Ranking》! Haha ......Now, who in the world will dare to say that our Gui Yuan Sect’s younger generation is ipetent? Guan Lu, you should learn from Qingshan.”
Guan Lu looked towards Teng Qingshan and suddenly stood up, “Lieutenant Teng, I’ve heard that your spear art is powerful. I would like to exchange notes!”
Teng Qingshan also stood up and looked at Ji Hong with a forced smile.
Smiling, Ji Hong told him, “Qingshan, Guan Lu is one of several experts from the younger generation of our Gui Yuan Sect. She’s cultivating the Earth Level secret technique ‘Profound Ice Sword Art’, and her strength exceeds that of even Zhuge Yun and Yue Song. How about youpare notes with her? I also want to take a look at your spear art.”
Being able to be amander, how could Guan Lu’s strength be weak?
“Is Commander Guan 30 years old already?” Teng Qingshan unexpectedly asked.
Asking a woman’s age was somewhat disrespectful, and Guan Lu slightly frowned. However Ji Hong replied, “She’s not 30 yet!”
“Lord Commander, it’d be better for Commander Guan and I to temporarily pause the matter ofparing notes. If we cross swords and cause one of us to be injured, it would be detrimental to tomorrow’s hunt. Moreover, we will soon bepeting for the ck Fire Spirit Fruit! It would be better to conserve our strength.” Teng Qingshan said. Guan Lu wasn’t 30 years old yet, but her name wasn’t on the 《Rising Phoenix Ranking》.
If she hadn’t even managed to be listed on the 《Rising Phoenix Ranking》, Teng Qingshan wasn’t interested inparing notes.
Unless an individual had reached Teng Qingshan’s level, even if he or she could use 50,000 to 60,000 Jin of strength like Zhuge Yun or Yue Song, it wasn’t worth mentioning to him. Teng Qingshan was only interested in those who were at least at Meng Tian’s level.
Teng Qingshan had not yet forgotten the fierceness of the Blood Moon Saber.
Looking at Meng Tian’s saber art, there weren’t many differences whenpared to Teng Qingshan’s own spear art. He’d depended on his Reincarnation Spear’s superior range to injure Meng Tian, and was only able to kill him because of his terrifying physical strength!
“Lieutenant Teng!” Guan Lu’s expression turned cold.
“Commander Guan, we will leave early tomorrow morning. You should rest.” Teng Qingshan turned his head to look at Ji Hong.
Ji Hong understood Teng Qingshan’s meaning and stood before saying with a smile, “Guan Lu, what Qingshan said is right. We will be busy tomorrow, and from thispetition, an injury might be unavoidable. Alright, right now, there’s nothing left to discuss. You should all go rest for the night.”
Guan Lu coldly looked at Teng Qingshan and said, “Once the business with the ck Fire Spirit Fruit is finished, I will thoroughlypare notes with Lieutenant Teng, and see for myself what good techniques you have!” After finishing her sentence, Guan Lu walked towards the door with big steps.
Smiling, Ji Hong took a nce at the departing Guan Lu and returned his gaze to Teng Qingshan. “Qingshan, rejecting Guan Lu wasn’t a good idea. Could it be that when you saw that she wasn’t on the Rising Phoenix Ranking, you lost interest inpeting with her?” The old Ji Hong saw through Teng Qingshan’s thinking instantly.
Teng Qingshan looked at Ji Hong and replied with a smile, “Lord Commander, Commander Guan wouldn’t secretly ambush me because of this, right.”
“That won’t happen.” Ji Hong shook his head, and immediately asked out of curiosity, “Qingshan, I heard that you possess the Blood Moon Saber. Can you show it to me?”
“Of course.” Teng Qingshan noded.
Ji Hong continued. “Then lead me to your ce.” Ji Hong appeared impatient.
“Now?” Teng Qingshan was somewhat stunned, but he still led Ji Hong to his own residence in order to show the oldmander the renowned hundred year-old Blood Moon Saber.