Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Being Mocked by a Horse
Origin Currency was the currency used for transactions in this world. As a coachman, I earned only two to three hundred a month. To compete and immediately get 100, only a fool would refuse.
If it had been the Suxiang Horse from before it died, I wouldn’t have been sure, but this guy was already dead. The only reason he could move and jump was due to the Way of Spiritual Awakening. Let alone ordinary killing intent, even if he were to charge into battle and get chopped dozens of times, he wouldn’t feel the slightest fear or take a single step back.
Seeing that he agreed, Mo Yanxue’s lips slightly curled up, but the smile vanished in an instant. If you weren’t paying attention, you wouldn’t notice it at all. Then her cold voice continued, “Liu Mingyue, you heard him. Since you want to compete, I’m more than happy to oblige.”
“Good! I thought you might be too scared!” Liu Mingyue’s eyes gleamed.
She deliberately sought trouble and oppressed the other party because she was very confident in her Dao Li, fully assured of her victory.
Dao Li had been on the battlefield, had seen and adapted to the true aura of slaughter. It would be an embarrassment if he lost to a still immature colt.
She turned her head and glanced at the foolish coachman, then sneered.
By letting this guy decide, there’ll come a time for you all to cry.
On the side, Yu Feng couldn’t help coming forward, lowering his voice, “Miss Mo, isn’t it a bit too frivolous to agree so readily?”
“If we lose, we’ll just penalize him!” Mo Yanxue chuckled lightly.
Yu Feng was stunned, then suddenly realized, and looked at the girl in front of him with admiration.
Under the circumstances just now, not competing would definitely affect their reputation, but losing would have an even greater impact. Letting a subordinate decide would focus the blame on them. Even if they lost, it wouldn’t embarrass her too much. Winning, on the other hand, would highlight her wisdom.
Thinking of this in such a short time, it was no wonder she was known as a genius throughout Baiyan City…
He turned his head and glanced at his sister. At that moment, Yu Xiaoyu was standing in front of the Suxiang Horse, whispering encouragement to it, completely oblivious to the conflict between the two women…
Yu Feng couldn’t help but shake his head.
Both claimed to be among the three beauties of Baiyan City, yet why was there such a big difference?
“Let’s begin!”
Ignoring the opponent’s sadness, Liu Mingyue gestured with her hand. A black-clad subordinate came forward and respectfully took the Moyun jade stone. The palm of his hand suddenly burst into cyan-gray Force of Origin, flowing like water and completely invading the stone.
“This must be the Force of Origin…” Zhang Xuan nodded silently.
On the Master Teacher Continent, cultivators refined zhenqi and zhenqi; in the Source World, one needed to forge Origin qi through the Source Pool to convert into Force of Origin. With this power, one could gradually become stronger and gallop across the world.
The man before him was clearly a cultivator who could forge Origin qi, also known as an Origin warrior.
After the infusion of the Force of Origin, the Moyun jade stone seemed activated, emitting an aura and spreading a fierce battlefield killing intent.
Whoosh!
Feeling this aura, the onlookers’ hearts beat faster, sweat poured from their foreheads, and they hurriedly retreated several dozen steps, leaving a large circular empty space.
The battlefield’s aura of killing and fighting was nothing to strong cultivators, but it was somewhat difficult for these students, who hadn’t even entered school, to withstand.
Placing the Moyun Jade Stone on the ground, Liu Mingyue looked at Mo Yanxue and Yu Xiaoyu, “I’ll go ahead and wait for you two!”
After speaking, she drove her horse into the area around the jade stone and quickly reached about ten meters away.
Though the evil aura here wasn’t very dense, it was enough to distress an average horse, causing it to panic.
Yu Xiaoyu was just about to move forward when she saw Mo Yanxue shake her head and turned towards the youth not far away, “Zhang Xuan, since you agreed, why don’t you compete with Miss Liu?”
“Yes!”
For 100 Origin Currency, Zhang Xuan didn’t demur either. He jumped onto the horse’s back, flicked the reins, and walked towards Liu Mingyue, quickly reaching about ten meters away from the Moyun jade stone as well.
“A colt that has never seen battle dares to compete with me? Dream on!”
With a light laugh, Liu Mingyue steered Dao Li forward, immediately advancing five steps.
Now, being less than five meters from the Moyun Jade Stone, the intense aura of slaughter surged crazily towards them, and the tall horse couldn’t help but tremble.
Even though it had experienced the battlefield, facing such a powerful mental oppression, it too was nearing its limit.
“Dare you come?” The head raised again as Liu Mingyue looked towards Zhang Xuan.
Although similarly within the range of the killing intent, sitting on horseback, Dao Li blocked 99.9% of it, leaving only 0.1%, which hardly amounted to anything.
“I’ll try…”
A hint of panic appeared on his face as Zhang Xuan squeezed the horse, guiding Suxiang to move within a ten-meter range.
In an instant, the killing intent surged into his mind. It wasn’t much, but for ordinary people, it was enough to cause a certain psychological pressure.
Of course, for Zhang Xuan, to say nothing of this bit of killing intent, even if it were a thousand or even ten thousand times stronger, it wouldn’t affect him at all. However, since his current identity was that of a coachman, it was better to keep a low profile. Otherwise, if he just charged ahead, it would seem too false…
Thinking this, he stopped Suxiang and struggled painfully himself…
Acting, he was serious about it.
“Entering within ten meters, the Suxiang horse showed no great panic, it’s undoubtedly a thousand-li horse…”
“Worthy of Miss Mo’s beloved horse, indeed impressive, but that’s as far as it goes. Even the most formidable thousand-li horse, having never been on a battlefield, reaching this point is the limit!”
Those who understood the situation began to analyze.
Hearing these words, Yu Feng couldn’t help but nod his head.
He too had never been to a battlefield, but he had experienced the killing intent and knew the pressure it exerted on soul energy. For the Suxiang horse to approach within ten meters without showing fright was already beyond imagination.
Mo Yanxue also couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
She knew her own horse quite well; achieving this much was no small feat. It seemed that this Zhang Xuan really had some skills, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to tame such a wild horse so well.
“Although still bound to lose…”
Mo Yanxue sighed inwardly, “But to enter within ten meters without losing composure is already a success!”
At that moment, she realized that Liu Mingyue had come prepared, deliberately luring them into agreeing to this competition, just to make them lose face.
Having no choice but to agree, she had never thought about winning. All she hoped was not to lose too disgracefully.
“Barely coping upon entering, and you still dare compare with me…”
Seeing Suxiang stop, Liu Mingyue wore a mocking expression, but before she could finish her sentence, she saw the Suxiang horse, which stood still and somewhat panicked due to the impact of the killing intent, suddenly shake its head and continue moving forward.
One step!
The horse’s face kept twitching.
Two steps!
The horse’s face looked fierce.
Three steps!
The horse’s face crumbled.
At this moment, both horse and rider had reached Liu Mingyue, less than a meter away.
“…”
Liu Mingyue was stunned.
The horse clearly looked nearly incapable as it shook its head, and the rider seemed unable to endure, almost on the verge of dying, yet it still managed to catch up? And it seemed to still have strength to spare?
Liu Mingyue clenched her teeth, “A horse that has never been to battle, six meters was already its limit, I don’t believe it can be on par with me…”
Just as she trembled her arm, about to drive Dao Li to continue forward, she saw the nearby stallion lift its foot again, already coming close, completely on par with her.
Her eyes widened, she turned her head to look, and immediately saw Suxiang’s large face, less than half a meter away suddenly opened its mouth, revealing a string of gleaming white teeth, almost as if…
mocking!