CHAPTER 62
-4 Days Later-
In the forest, you can hear crisp sounds of sticks and leaves being step on while someone is running. Birds and other small creatures were disturbed by the sound and hid inside their little homes.
"Ha...ha...ha, Young Miss I promise we will survive this" A woman with light dark skin in her twenties was running away from someone while holding a little girl in her hands.
The woman had full pretty lips, her gray colored eyes shines brightly under the shadows of the forest, her face shape is like a diamond, and she had the ideal nose for every women her age.
Her gray colored hair was pushed back by the wind as she ran through the Forest surrounded by trees. She wore an upper breast plate that exposes her stomach, where her belly button resided, thus making her look sexy.
Coupled with her skirt like faulds, she looks absolutely stunning.
"D-Daiyu, when are we going to get home?" The little girl asked while she was sniffing. The little girl had cute small lips, beautiful round pair of blue eyes, small nose, and a cute round face. She was wearing a blue colored noble garb, with a blue cape with hood in it.
"We will have to escape those bandits before we can return to the City" Daiyu softly said to the Little Girl.
Earlier when they were traveling in the Noble Caravan, they were ambushed by a gang of bandits.
She thought she could take care of it by herself, but she never expected them to have two Gold Core Cultivators.
She was a Gold Core Cultivator herself, but taking on two other Cultivators of the same stage, she can't do that.
Everybody in the Caravan died, except for her and the young miss.
She had to leave her comrades in arms, just to survive.
She carried the young miss while running, because she was still too weak. She knows she can survive this, If she just leave behind the young miss, but at what cost? She will be hunted down by the City Lord, she will make her comrades die in vain, and most of all, let a small child get rape by some bandits.
She can't do that, that will go against her morals. She is a Knight under the City Lord's care, so she would fulfill her duty even if she died while doing it.
Suddenly an arrow struck her right leg, and the one following that struck her left leg.
"Gah!" She fell down on the soft dirty ground as the arrows burrowed deep into her legs.
The ones chasing her finally caught up to her. One of them was holding a silver long bow, with some arrows lace with poison sticking out of his arrow pouch and the other one was bald guy with a large belly.
She tried to get up, but it was futile. She seems to have lost control of her entire body.
"Don't bother moving, I laced my arrows with paralyzing poisons. So you wouldn't be able to move for awhile, and we can have enough time enjoying your body" The one holding the bow said with a disgusting smile.
"You are really a genius, big brother" The bald one praised his brother.
"Stop flattering me, I know you want the little girl" The big brother said.
"You really know me best, big brother" The bald one praised his brother again.
While the two of them were talking, Daiyu analyze the situation.
'Right now I can't move my body, so that will stop me from doing anything else. The only thing I could do now is to make the young miss run as far as she could and hope for the best' She thought gravely.
"Daiyu" The little girl said her name in worry.
Daiyu look at her intently and said in a soft yet hard voice "Young Miss, I need you to run away as far as you can, if you spot someone try to ask him for help. Leave me here, I'll think of a way to get out of this mess"
The little girl was petrified in fear as she heard her big sister Daiyu say that.
"But Daiyu-"
"No buts, move on now" She pushed the little girl to make her run away.
But the little girl just hugged her and stayed by her side.
"Well well, what a drama we're seeing here" The big brother said.
"By the way big brother, when will we dig in?" The bald one asked his brother lewdly.
"You can now" The big brother said with a smirk.
The bald one ran towards them, like a hungry wolf about to eat a young sheep, he took away the little girl from Daiyu.
"No please, don't do that to her. She is still too young" Daiyu cried out.
"That's the whole point, I LOVE little girls" The bald one said lewdly.
He started ripping her clothes off, but as he was doing that, he felt like hundreds of blades was sticking out of his back.
He turned his head slowly and saw many blades sticking out of his back.
And before he even realize it, he was already dead. Every blade hit every vital organs in his back, that was the reason he died almost instantly.
"Hei Lu!" The big brother yelled worriedly and ran towards his brother's corpse.
He kneeled down on one leg and check for his brother's pulse.
When he felt no pulse coming from his brother, he stood up and yelled angrily around the forest.
"Where are you!? Come out here and fight me like a man!"
Suddenly his shadows produce a pair of shadow arms, it look extremely creepy as it crawled up to his neck.
A man appeared wearing a white mask with two holes for the eyes. He was wearing a black hood-like robe, making him look extremely sinister.
"You are not worth fighting, you are only worth being killed by your own shadow" The Man said coldly without looking at him, as the man walks towards the little girl.
"Hey, don't you dare ignore me!" The big brother said angrily, but his own shadow suddenly started strangling him.
"Kuh! Gah!" He held his throat to stop whoever is strangling him but it was futile, because he can't touch his own shadow.
Michael ignored him and carried the little girl on his back.
Michael look at the female knight and their eyes met for a moment before she felt her entire world suddenly turned cold.
His eyes was like an abyss, a deep abyss that will pull you through his grasp. She felt an extremely dangerous feeling towards this man, but at the same time she felt safe.
"Who are you?" Even though she was paralyzed, her throat still somehow works.
"I am Michael Wilson, a Disciple of the Azure Sect. Who are you?" Michael replied and asked her a question.
"I am a Knight from the City Of Grass, Fan Daiyu. I was on a mission to protect the little girl your holding from the bandits, while she was traveling, but unfortunately, we were ambushed by those guys you just killed" She said sadly.
"So your destination is the City Of Grass too?" Michael asked her.
"Yes" She replied.
Michael thought about inviting them but he shook his head.
'No, they won't be able to keep up with my speed, I'll just give her the antidote for the poison and leave' Michael thought.
Michael put down the little girl next to Daiyu and put a pill on Daiyu's soft plushy mouth.
After a few seconds, she stood up like nothing happened.
She dusted off her body before she look at him and said with sincere gratitude "Thank you for saving the both of us, without you I don't know what would've happened to us. But please can you accompany us to the City Of Grass, because I'm scared that something might happen to the young miss, I'm sure the City Lord will give you a handsome reward for saving his daughter"
She had high hopes that he will accept it when Michael opened his mouth, but his next words cause that hope to crumble.
"No, you are too weak, you will only be a bother" Michael said harshly.
Michael turned around to leave, when the little girl, who has been staying quiet this whole time, grabbed his leg.
Michael look down on the little girl and asked "What do you want, little girl?"
"Can you please protect me?" The little girl boldly asked.
Michael softly smiled and simply replied "No"
"Pleeeease" The little girl insisted.
"No means no, little girl" Michael softly said before bent down and flicked her forehead softly, so that he won't hurt her.
"Ow" She fell to her butt and rubbed her forehead slightly.
Michael patted her head before he turned around to leave.
Suddenly the little girl spoke in a bold tone "My father will give you 2 Million Gold Coins, if you were to accompany me there safely"
Michael stopped in his tracks and his eyes turned back to the little girl.
"Is that a promise?" He asked her with a green light glinting from his eyes.
"I promise" The little girl promised.
Michael called out to Chang Ying. "Chang Ying! Come here"
"Yes Master" A giant western white dragon shot out from the Forest trees.
The Wester Dragon landed behind Michael, and it bowed to him.
Previously, Chang Ying was around a 100 Feet tall, now her height increased by 30 Feet, making her more larger than ever.
The reason? She broke through the Nascent Soul Stage 3 Days ago, but Michael received the Tribulation for her to upgrade his Lightning God Manual.
Michael was able to level up his Lightning God's Manual to level 2, because of Chang Ying's tribulation.
The Lightning God's Manual has a total of 20 Levels, the further he levels it up the harder it becomes to upgrade
Chang Ying also unlocked her Spiritual Root, they were surprised to find out it was a White Flame Spiritual Root. With that Spiritual Root, she can heal other people with her flames, which was strange because dragons are known to wreak havoc from time to time.
Spiritual Root can only be unlocked when a Cultivator enters the Nascent Soul Stage, the Spiritual Roots can appear in many quantities.
Like for example, 7 Spiritual Roots were found on a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator when he broke through. He later became a legend in the 5 Empires.
The Spiritual Root have 5 levels, Damaged, Low, Average, Elite, and Royal.
But that doesn't mean quality can beat quantity. For example, if a person have all the 5 basic element for his Spiritual Roots and all of them are just average and another person has a Flame type Spiritual Root Royal Level, then the one with the Royal Level will win.
The Qi Sea will also be unlocked when a Cultivator breaksthrough Nascent Soul Stage.
The Qi from the dantian will be Stored in the Qi Sea when the Cultivator breaks through the Nascent Soul Stage.
The use of Qi Sea is to speed up the Cultivators used of techniques and it will become more and more efficient as the Cultivator increase his Qi and strength.
And also, they will be able to use their consciousness to see what's inside their Qi Sea, like for example they find a Legendary Sword who has a consciousness inside it, the consciousness of that sword will be transferred to the Qi Sea unlike in the dantian.
The Western White Dragon bowed it's head behind Michael and asked.
"What can I do for you, Master?" Chang Ying asked.
"Fly us to the City Of Grass" Michael ordered as he jump on Chang Ying's back.
"As you command Master" Chang Ying obeyed.
Both Daiyu and the little girl was shocked to see a dragon like that obeying Michael.
"C'mon you two, what are you still doing there? Hop on" Michael invited them.