After five days of driving, Zhao Yu calculated that it had been almost a week since he escaped from Vortex Town.

During these days of traveling, Zhao Yu would also practice the swordsman profession at night. He longed to become a true swordsman and thus avenge his mother.

And Shen Mengting will naturally supervise on the side. She is very strict with Zhao Yu, and she is also trying her best to help Zhao Yu practice. However, Zhao Yu's failure was really annoying, and he couldn't even touch the minimum foundation.

Shen Mengting remembered that when she was at the beginning of the trial swordsmanship, there were many things that she didn't even need to talk about. And to Zhao Yu, he talked about it again and again, but he still couldn't figure it out.

For this reason, Shen Mengting really took the criticism to the extreme. Several times, she directly pointed at the tip of Zhao Yu's nose and scolded angrily. Words such as 'unproductive' and 'waste wood' also abound.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Yu's longing for swordsmen has decreased a lot. His enthusiasm for learning is also waning. Sometimes, he even thought that Shen Mengting was targeting him and deliberately venting the anger of being tired from hurrying on.

This emotion had been swelling during the rush, and it had reached its highest point on the seventh day, and Zhao Yu had a feeling of giving up.

Riding on Nassa's horse, they came to the plain. The plain is surrounded by woods, and it can be said that the plain is a pothole embedded in the forest. Because there are few trees, this place can be called a plain.

The overall area of the plain is not large, and it is estimated that it is only a few hundred square meters. However, it is really an excellent choice to rest in this establishment.

Shen Mengting opened the map and looked at it for a while, and a happy nod was displayed, "Well, not bad." From here, it will start to get lively, and we are almost out of the great forest in the southwest of Saran. ”

"Really?" Zhao Yu replied casually.

Shen Mengting's eyes were still fixed on the map: "Of course." Just getting out of the forest means we're hundreds of kilometers away from Vortex Town. She followed the map route and saw that the nearest town to the north of Uzumaki and Jiaoshan was Akita Town.

She then shook the map with her hands: "Look! I don't think it will take us two or three days to reach the nearest town, Akita Town." ”

Zhao Yu tilted his head. Besides Vortex Town, he was completely unfamiliar with the names of other towns in Saran.

Now that they had found the right direction, there was no need to rush any more, and besides, the two of them had traveled several kilometers the day before. I'm a little tired now.

"Then let's rest here for half a day!" Shen Mengting said and dismounted.

It's not even noon yet, and Shen Mengting estimates that it's probably around ten o'clock in the morning. Shen Mengting's judgment comes from the observation of the sun. When the sun shines on a certain tree, how long it will look, Shen Mengting can preliminarily judge the time.

"Aren't you going to hurry?" Zhao Yu's face was slightly surprised, "What time is it?"

"I know that. But now we need to take a break. Shen Mengting lowered her face, judging from the eyelids she rolled, it seemed that she was not in a good mood.

"Okay then!" Zhao Yu lowered his head. He thought he'd be sleeping next to this damn tree again tonight.

Zhao Yu now hates the woods very much, not to mention the mosquitoes, and there are particularly disgusting insects. It's still his old home. At this time, he was surprised that he would like the tiled house that he once thought was extremely dilapidated.

There is a fault on the upper and lower sides of the plain, and the height of the fault is about the height of a person's chest. Shen Mengting led Nasa here. It's a good place to sleep, much more comfortable than leaning on a tree trunk.

"Hey, what are you still doing on Nasa's back? Why don't you come down quickly?" Shen Mengting rolled her face and glared at Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu's mouth turned into a 'Ou' character and began to try to go down to the ground. Because there is a bulge fault next to him, he only needs to calm his hands on it this time, and he will dismount with a casual roll. He came to the upper fault and patted his soiled clothes and pants again. This is also the first time that he has dismounted without Shen Mengting's help.

Shen Mengting was currently thinking about going to the nearest town, and she was looking left and right at the map in her hand.

Zhao Yu was bored, so he picked up his sword and walked to the nearest tree. There are very few trees in the plains, and they all seem to have taken root in one place alone. Zhao Yu shook his head at this lesson and looked at the trees a lot.

This seems to be an old tree! Zhao Yu gradually changed from looking at it squarely to staring. The trunk of the old tree is very thick, and its height is soaring into the sky. Zhao Yu raised his head and slowly moved back. When he saw the highest part of the old tree, he covered his forehead because the sun above his head was too dazzling.

This is really a sturdy tree!" Zhao Yu sighed.

Suddenly, he thought that if he could cut down this old tree, wouldn't that prove that he was very powerful? Zhao Yu's eyes flashed a little light, and his facial expression gradually moved closer to the evil smile.

Squinting his eyes, he pulled his sword out of its scabbard. He also needed to hold the sword in both hands at the moment, as he simply couldn't hold a sword with one hand for even a few seconds.

Zhao Yu threw the scabbard to the side, and held the sword tightly in both hands and pointed at the old tree in front of him.

Hehe, hey, let you see how powerful I am! Zhao Yu pursed his lips, his eyes widened like a light bulb.

Taking a deep, even, even breath, he suddenly breathed through his body. Feeling the sensation of the aura crashing, he clenched the hilt of the sword with the greatest strength in his life.

"Ahh......h

However, just as the thunder and rain are small, the sword is only shallowly cut into the bark of a tree. Zhao Yu's face changed drastically and he raised his back behind him. It was too humiliating, and he let out an 'ah' in disappointment, and wanted to pull out his sword.

But somehow, the sword was embedded in it, so he couldn't pull it out.

What's going on?" Zhao Yu shrank his head and looked at the point where the sword and the tree trunk had touched. It's weird, I cut it a little bit, why can't I pull it out?

He tried to draw his sword with all his might. But no matter how hard he tried, the sword remained motionless. He even used his feet for this. He kicked directly into the trunk of the tree, and his body was in the air. He grasped the hilt of his sword in both hands and pulled it back with all the strength of his milk.

But the sword just can't be pulled away from the trunk, and it doesn't even show the slightest distance of pulling. He increased his strength, and his body arched backwards in disobedience. In the end, not only did he not draw his sword, but he even fell backwards with both hands loose due to inertia.

Sitting directly on the ground, he screamed 'ouch'.

What the hell, how could such a thing happen? Zhao Yu stood up angrily, thinking that he must pull the sword out of the trunk. He straightened his posture and touched his hands to the hilt of his sword again.

Okay! This time I must pull it out. He sighed deeply, kicked his foot on the trunk, and began to exert his force backwards like a tug-of-war. He gritted his teeth and moved backwards. He could see that his hands were exposed with green tendons, and he had adjusted his breath to the highest point.

"Pull ...... Yes...... Come out ......," he muttered to himself.

Because of the exertion, he had difficulty breathing, and the vision he saw became blurry. Gradually, a misty blur appeared around his eye sockets, and this blur was still rushing towards the middle of his eye socket.

Ah! No, can't you push harder? Zhao Yu thought so. The strength he used seemed to have reached a critical point. Then, he felt a strange blue glow flicker.

Just as he wondered if it was a hallucination, the blue light had spread to both of his arms.

Zhao Yu came to his senses and stopped exerting his strength. But even when he relaxed, his vision returned to normal. The blue light was still crawling up his arm and body.

This...... This......

Zhao Yu grew his mouth in surprise, only to find that the blue light was swimming towards the hilt of the sword he was holding.

......

At this time, Shen Mengting was still looking at the map, she was not only looking at the location of Akita Town, but calculating all the distances in the future. She took a pen out of her clothes, and after biting off the cover with her mouth, she placed the map directly on the upper fault and decided to draw a predetermined route on it.

After coming out of Akita Town, they estimated that they were still half the distance from Kiyose Castle. In other words, they are almost halfway through the journey. Akita Town is located in the middle of Uzumaki Town and Kiyose Castle, so after buying some supplies in Akita Town, you don't have to go to other towns. As long as they were in the countryside, they would hardly be found by the Sauron pursuers.

Thinking of this, Shen Mengting bit the root of the fountain pen.

Next, Shen Mengting scratched her cheek with the root of the pen again. She was thinking about the route out of Akita Town. Draw a circle around the town of Akita, and she lines north toward that circle. She didn't necessarily line against the mainland, but occasionally changed the route on the road to through the woods.

Eventually, she carved out a route that was both safe and close.

Well, that's it!Shen Mengting nodded at the map. After she put away the map, she thought of Zhao Yu again.

What about Zhao Yu? Where did this kid run again? Shen Mengting then thought of looking around. However, just as she looked up, an unknown sound burst out. It was like the sound of two objects colliding.

What's wrong?Shen Mengting turned her head to look at the source of the sound. Just behind her left, a huge tree was falling. Zhao Yu was actually standing there at the moment.

What the hell is going on? Shen Mengting hurriedly ran towards that place.

The tree is slowly deflecting to one side, and the roots under it seem to be half completely gone, which is also the main culprit for the loss of support for the tree. The tree snapped and snapped, and its top branches swayed as they swayed.

"Hey, you...... Be careful!" Shen Mengting shouted.

The direction in which the big tree fell was exactly where Zhao Yu was standing below. Shen Mengting rushed over there.

Zhao Yu was a little stunned at first, but when he saw a towering tree coming towards him, he hurriedly hid to the side. The tree was lifted headlong into the ground. Along with the sound of falling to the ground, there was a cloud of flying dust.

"Zhao Yu!"

Zhao Yu seemed to be completely stunned, and he looked at his hands in surprise.

"Zhao Yu, what's wrong?"

Just when Shen Mengting ran to Zhao Yu's side, Zhao Yu suddenly swung his arms like crazy.

"Ahh......h It's really ...... Ah, that's too much?"

"What's wrong?"

"You didn't see it, it's just ...... Yes...... It's incredible!" Zhao Yu shouted exaggeratedly, and he even made weird movements such as jumping and beating his thigh.

What's wrong with this kid? Shen Mengting felt more and more weird. She wondered if Zhao Yu had gone mad.

"I can't imagine that I have such strength...... Yes...... Becoming a swordsman is just around the corner. ”

"What the hell is going on?" Shen Mengting grabbed Zhao Yu's hands and tried her best to suppress his excitement.

"I ...... I'm ......" Zhao Yu glanced at the sword on the ground. Carried away, he picked up the sword and waved it in front of him, "I actually cut down this big tree." ”

"What?" Shen Mengting didn't seem to believe her ears, she looked at the fallen tree, and then looked at the sword in Zhao Yu's hand, "You said you cut down this big tree?"

"That's right!" Zhao Yu nodded excitedly, "You didn't see that scene just now! It's so spectacular! I used the best strength in my life to cut down that big tree, and then ...... Then my breath turned into a blue light. Then I cut down the tree. Really, it's amazing. It's amazing. ”

Speaking of excitement, Zhao Yu was about to make a slashing move forward. But at the moment when he raised the sword above his head, his entire body staggered backwards because he couldn't hold the sword steadily. Eventually, he forced his way around, and the sword fell forward and slashed to the ground.

"I can't believe it, it's amazing. I can actually cut down such a stout tree, does this prove that I have reached the qualification of a junior swordsman?" Zhao Yu's face was full of nervous excited smiles, and his head was still trembling slightly.

Regarding Zhao Yu's boasting, and then thinking of his ugly action just now, when he couldn't even hold the sword steadily, Shen Mengting had reservations. She frowned and glanced at the roots of the tree.

"Zhao Yu, you said you cut down this ...... just now" Shen Mengting's gaze wandered on the fallen tree again, "Is this towering tree?"

"Yes! Of course. Zhao Yu jumped down, "Do you need me to repeat more......?"

Shen Mengting rolled her eyes: "It's really fake, you won't be bragging!"

"Really!" Zhao Yu kicked the direction of the root of the big tree with his foot, "I cut it off." I remember that I was able to make the breath glow blue, and then I cut down the tree. ”

"Blu-ray?"

"That's right. I turned up what you're talking about to the maximum. Then the blue light popped up out of nowhere. Then, the blue light spread to the sword. At last. Zhao Yu's face was a 'haha' laugh, this was the smile he had shown for a long time in these days, "I felt that there was infinite energy in the sword I clenched, so I cut down this big tree." ”

Shen Mengting still didn't have time to digest what she heard. She looked at the tree and found that it was three or four meters in diameter. Because the trees are lonely in the plains all year round, and seem to be isolated from the surrounding woods, if it were not for the fact that they are unusually strong and good at absorbing nutrients from the land, they would have withered and died.

So if you want to cut down this big tree, ordinary junior intermediate swordsmen can't do it. Even like Shen Mengting herself, she couldn't cut it off in an instant, but she had to urge the energy in her body and send out a swordsman skill such as a shock wave to break such a thick trunk in two.

Therefore, she really couldn't believe what Zhao Yu said.

Probably seeing Shen Mengting's thoughts, Zhao Yu immediately removed the smile on his face, "Hungry! What's wrong? Don't you believe what I said? Do you think I'm bragging?"

"Zhao Yu, I'm not skeptical that you lied to me, but in reality, if you say you can cut down this tree, it's almost impossible. ”

"How do you know it's impossible? You're underestimating me. ”

"Since you couldn't even hold your sword steady just now, I really can't believe you can cut down such a big tree. ”

Zhao Yu looked angry, "Wow! What a terrible thing you say! If you don't believe it!" he thought hard, and then stomped on the ground, "Then that's it! I'll show you how to cut down trees, okay?"

"Well, that's a good idea. Shen Mengting clasped her arms with both hands, "You can try again." If I do cut down a big tree then, it will stop me. ”

Zhao Yu said the word 'good' firmly when he heard this. He looked around for a while, looking for a suitable target. However, the other trees on the plains could not enter his eyes. Although some of them are quite stout, compared to the one that Zhao Yu cut down just now, it is simply the difference between children and adults.

"The trees here are all too small, so we went to the woods and chose the big one. “

Shen Mengting twisted her neck quickly, but still listened and followed.

Zhao Yu dragged the sword towards the woods in the distance, he still couldn't hold the sword, how could this make Shen Mengting believe his words.

There were a few big trees in the woods near the edge of the plain, and Zhao Yu quickly chose an old tree that was even thicker than before.

"Alright, that's you. Zhao Yu hooked the corners of his mouth and stroked the trunk of the old tree.

Shen Mengting showed a disgusted face in the rear, she thought that this kid is really here? Don't be ugly and cry when the time comes!

"Look at it! and see how I cut down this big tree. Zhao Yu made quite confident remarks. He swallowed, then rubbed the hilt between his hands. During this time, he also handed over his breath evenly.

Okay! It's time to move the real thing! Zhao Yu gradually straightened his chest. He's ready to breathe.

With a blow that stretched out of his chest, he jerked his sword up. Aiming at the trunk of the tree, he slashed at it quickly.

The sword struck the trunk of the tree, and slashed into the trunk of the tree. The dust on the bark flew, and the branches and leaves above shook tightly.

But that's it. The sword that Zhao Yu slashed caused a little skin wound to the big tree. After shallowly embedding a little bit of the trunk, the sword remained motionless. Although Zhao Yu was still exerting his strength, the blade of the sword was not embedded in the trunk of the tree, even if it was one or two centimeters.

"Ah...... Ah......h

Shen Mengting next to her put on a disdainful face when she saw this, she hugged her arms and leaned on a certain tree next to her.

Zhao Yu was still distressed that he didn't exert his strength, and he used a few violent blows one after another, but the effect was almost none.

"Oops! this ...... What the hell is going on? Why is the strength so bad?" When he saw that he could no longer penetrate into the trees, he let go of the hilt of his sword completely.

What the hell is going on?Zhao Yu looked at his hands and slowly retreated.

There was no blue light at all, and his aura was not strong at all.