Chapter 17: Encounter in the Jungle
He Yiming left Zhuangzi with the five Zhuang Ding assigned to him and rushed towards the county seat.
After seeing his own section of the road, he vaguely guessed that this time the siege and search basically had nothing to do with himself.
Because if you get along with each other, the idiot also knows that you can't just swagger past the county road. But if this person is an idiot, then he will definitely not be able to escape from Linqiu County and still be alive and not caught. Therefore, unless it is Hu Bin's hot-headedness, it is absolutely impossible for him to meet him.
took a look at the five Zhuang Ding around him, they were all the most elite candidates cultivated in the village.
Except for those families, there are very few people who can cultivate to the point of internal strength. There are hundreds of servants and strong men who cultivate for them in Hejiazhuang. He Wude was not weak to them, and he had also taught internal strength cultivation techniques, but because the cultivation conditions were different, and under conscious control, it was already a great thing to be able to cultivate to the third layer.
The five Zhuang Ding who followed him all had a three-layer peak internal strength cultivation, and each of them was proficient in at least one combat technique.
This point is different from the requirements of the younger brothers, the three generations of disciples like He Yiming, who have not broken through the fifth layer of internal cultivation, are not allowed to contact any combat techniques. And when these Zhuang Ding are in the third layer of internal strength, they will be awarded the simplest combat skill. In this way, although their combat effectiveness has indeed improved a lot, it is already difficult to achieve anything higher on the path of internal strength cultivation.
This is the difference between direct descendants and ordinary Zhuang Ding, basically all families will choose to do this.
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With the Cheng family's arrival, they traveled for half a day and finally came to the predetermined location.
This is a post station leading to the county road, and it can be regarded as taking care of each other when you stop here.
Since it was close to the county seat, of course he wanted to see his parents, but after inquiry, he learned that the two of them were not in the county seat, but also joined the search team.
Although he regretted it in his heart, he also gave up the idea of entering the city, and asked the Cheng family about the news about Hu Bin.
In Taicang County, there are three cultivator families, namely the He family, the Xu family, and the Cheng family.
Among the He family and the Xu family, each has a master who has reached the tenth level of internal strength, and in a remote county town, this is already the absolute peak of combat effectiveness. Although the Cheng family does not have a master of tenth-level internal strength, their family is the oldest family in Taicang County, and its power in the county is deep-rooted, far from being comparable to Hejiazhuang, which was founded by He Wude, an outsider.
Even the city guard of the county seat today is also from a member of the Cheng family.
However, if it weren't for this, He Wude would not have been able to give the Cheng family face like this and send all the sixth-layer disciples in the family out to help.
And through private understanding, He Yiming finally understood why the Cheng family would capture or kill a wanted criminal so sparingly.
Because Hu Bin committed a heinous crime and was sentenced to beheading, he fled immediately, but when he fled, he actually killed Shangguan on the spot. This is definitely something that the imperial court cannot tolerate. At the same time, the Shangguan family who was killed had also privately promised many benefits, which was the real reason why the Cheng family was so concerned about this matter.
After waiting for more than a day of idleness in the post station, the initial excitement has long since disappeared.
If he had known this, he might as well have cultivated slowly at home.
He was not the only one who saw through the impossibility of Hu Bin coming here, even the five Zhuang Ding under his command and some ordinary officers and soldiers in the post station understood this, so the atmosphere in the entire post station was not tense.
He Yiming finally couldn't bear it anymore, and after giving an order to his subordinates, he left the post station and went to the back mountain.
Although this post station is built on the official road, but the environment of Taicang County is not thousands of miles of Pingchuan, behind the post station, there is a continuous mountain range, He Yiming is bored in every way, suddenly interested, so he will enter it.
But he didn't know that just half an hour after he entered the mountains, there was an urgent report that Hu Bin had fled along the trail in the back mountain.
Several Zhuang Ding and the officers and soldiers in the post station looked at each other, and hurriedly divided half of their men into the back mountain to look for He Yiming, but how could they find him based on this.
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After He Yiming entered the mountain, he was suddenly like a fish entering the sea, shuttling quickly in the mountains and forests.
He has a lot of experience in the mountains and jungles. Hejiazhuang is located at the foot of the mountain, where the jungle is far more dense than here.
After turning around, he did not encounter any large animals worthy of his attack, and as for some hares and pheasants, the little ones were not in his eyes.
He shook his head slightly, after all, this is a mountain forest close to the official road, far inferior to the deep mountains and old forests behind Hejiazhuang.
Just as he was about to turn around, he faintly heard a strange sound in his ears.
His footsteps paused slightly, and he listened carefully, and found that there seemed to be some beast running fast not far away, and what really surprised He Yiming was that this beast actually brought him a sense of danger.
He immediately judged that this was definitely not a small animal. Unexpectedly, in this forest, there would be traces of large beasts, and after hesitating, He Yiming's feet exerted force and chased in that direction.
Although the beast's movements were fast, it obviously didn't use all his strength, so He Yiming still chased after it easily. However, when he cautiously approached, he found that the sound of the beast running had been lost there.
He Yiming became more and more cautious, but he had experience in dealing with wild beasts, and knew that this guy must have heard the sound he made when he was chasing quickly, so he became soft.
However, at this moment, He Yiming is full of confidence in himself, his internal strength is only six layers, and when he has not yet cultivated combat techniques, he can already defeat a fierce beast like a fox bear, and now his combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, so naturally he will not take any fierce beast to heart.
If it was in that kind of real old forest, there might be some beasts that made him jealous, but in this environment, he didn't believe that there would be beasts more powerful than fox bears.
In a few ups and downs, He Yiming had already come to the route that the beast had traveled through. Glancing nearby, his heart suddenly lifted.
Because he saw a footprint, although this footprint was extremely faint, it was just left by stepping on a weed, but He Yiming had already determined that this was not the footprint of a beast, but a human being.
He hesitated, took a few steps back, and after a careful observation, his face became more and more solemn.
Through the traces left nearby, He Yiming could already determine that the person who passed just now was definitely a human being, and he was also a cultivator with good internal strength. This cultivator has a certain understanding of the jungle, and he didn't leave too many traces along the way, but this person gave him the feeling that he was quite panicked, otherwise these traces might not have been left.
The powerful internal energy began to flow slowly in his body, and when He Yiming looked up at the front, inexplicably, the feeling of danger in his heart became more and more intense.
Although there was no movement in front of him, he had a sense that danger was approaching.
In his heart, a thought suddenly flashed through him, the man just now did not leave, but approached him, and it seemed that he wanted to find his own trouble.
Although this feeling is a bit evil, He Yiming can be sure that he is not mistaken.
Taking a deep breath of the cold cold air in the jungle, He Yiming's spirit was suddenly lifted. Except for his brothers, he never had a conflict with anyone else.
This is of course because of his age, but more because in this county, not many people dare to be enemies of the young master of the He family.
However, today, he can be sure that the other party will definitely not care about his identity as the sixth young master of Hejiazhuang.
Suddenly, He Yiming's heart was alarmed, he threw himself to his side without thinking, and then rolled on the ground regardless of his identity, until he came to a big tree, and then jumped up as if he had a spring under his feet.
And it was only at this moment that there was a sharp sound of breaking the air in his ears, and there was an extra crossbow arrow in the place where he was originally standing.
After seeing this crossbow arrow, He Yiming's heart was faintly cold, and even his hands and feet seemed to be a little cold.
Unexpectedly, the other party would make a dead hand without even saying a word, if he was shot by this crossbow arrow just now, then there would be absolutely no good end.
Crossbow arrows, this is not something that ordinary people can have, but the standard equipment in the army. However, most of the real Haoqiang families have this kind of self-protection equipment. He Jiazhuang is naturally no exception, and He Yiming has not been in contact with crossbow arrows for a long time, so he can see the origin of this murder weapon at a glance.
His heartbeat suddenly accelerated a lot, and the action just now was definitely a subconscious reaction, if he was a little slower, he was afraid that he would already be seriously injured at this moment.
Looking up in the direction where the crossbow bolt had come from, a strong anger welled up in his heart. The body bent slightly, and it sprang out like a cheetah in the jungle.