Lu Ming and Siliuer rode their horses and continued to march towards the Hardy Academy.

Lilith sat in front of Lu Ming, riding a horse with Lu Ming, and she found that as long as Lu Ming touched something, she could also reach it.

This made her very happy, and her two little hands kept playing with the horse's mane.

Lilith didn't know how old she was, but her mind was no different from that of a child.

When she came out for the first time, she would ask about everything she had never seen in the forest. Lu Ming would answer her patiently, and as a rookie in this world, Lu Ming got an unprecedented sense of accomplishment.

Excited to learn from Siriel that he was already a trainee swordsman, he finally took his first step on the path of cultivation.

If a trainee swordsman wants to break through and become a real swordsman, he needs two conditions: one is the strength of his mental power, and the other is the mastery of his spiritual power.

The former can be improved through continuous meditation, but because each person's aptitude is different, the speed of improvement of mental power will also be different.

The latter requires constant exploration and practice of mental power.

Once these two conditions can be met, then Lu Ming can become a real swordsman, and at the same time, he will be able to cultivate the exclusive power of a swordsman, Dou Qi.

Now because of his lack of spiritual power, he can't perceive the power of the elements at all, let alone fight qi.

Therefore, Lu Ming hurried during the day and meditated at night during this time, without a moment's pause.

It is not feasible for ordinary people to practice like this, it will cause a huge burden on the body, and Lu Ming, who has fused the demonic heart, has no worries.

And with the continuous improvement of mental power, the physical functions have become more active, and the spirit has become more abundant, as if some kind of sleeping power is awakening.

After a week-long meditation, Lu Ming's spiritual power is no longer small, and with his continuous practice, Lu Ming can attach his spiritual power to his hands, making his fists more destructive and defensive.

These days, Lu Ming also asked Xiliuer for swordsmanship, and took some time out to practice basic swordsmanship and footwork during the day.

Soon the group came to a wide river, called the Bentham River, also known as the Mother River by the people of the Gelug Empire.

The Bentham River originates from the Gordon Plateau in the southern part of the Euros Empire, and runs diagonally through the northwestern part of the Duchy of Seine and the entire Gelug Empire.

The river in front of him was about a thousand meters wide, and the center of the river was turbulent, and it was impossible for Lu Ming to swim through it with his current strength.

So Lu Ming and his entourage traveled a few kilometers upstream of the Bentham River, where there was a Caesar Bridge.

Speaking of this bridge, there is also a piece of its history.

Caesar Adams, the founding emperor of the Grew Empire, began to care about people's livelihood after completing the initiative of unifying the divided empire.

People on both sides of the Bentham River could only travel by ferry, and it was very inconvenient to transport goods and people.

So he summoned the Guardian Knights who helped him conquer the country, the Mountain Knights, which had more than a thousand powerful cultivators, as well as two Swordmaster-level captains.

They quarried boulders from nearby mountains and trimmed them with powerful repairs, all under the direction of a group of outstanding craftsmen.

There was even a powerful alchemist who was too fast to lay down the piers in the center of the river.

The central deck was made of an alchemist's synthetic material, light and strong enough to withstand the passage of many wagons.

Even with such a strong builder, it still took a full five years, and the amount of money spent was huge.

But there is no doubt that they were successful, and the bridge was successful.

In the 500 years since the bridge was built, it has helped countless people pass through. In honor of Julius Caesar's exploits, people took the initiative to petition Julius Caesar to name the bridge after him.

Within 500 years of the founding of the Gelug Empire, four more bridges were built over the Bentham River due to the improvement of the ability to use magic devices.

However, the magic device needs to be constantly renovated, and even the pedestrians on the bridge have had many accidents, but this Caesar Bridge has not been renovated or had a single accident in 500 years, so it has been praised by people.

A closer look at this stone bridge, which is recorded in the history books, is to be truly infected by it, which is very shocking.

The bridge deck is more than 10 meters wide, enough to ensure the safe passage of two parallel carriages, with a length of more than 700 meters, and there are 32 bridge piers below to support.

Riding through it, Lu Ming was full of admiration for the founding emperor of the Gelug Empire.

The bridge is a main road leading to Hardy City, so there are a lot of pedestrians crossing it.

Just as Lu Ming and the others were crossing the avenue and taking a shortcut again, they suddenly heard the sound of a fight in front of them.

Lu Ming rushed forward quickly, only to see a group of goods merchants fighting with a group of masked bandits with weapons.

The caravan consisted of six mercenaries and eleven robbers, and their fists were no match for their hands, and soon the mercenaries were covered with multiple scars.

A mercenary was directly plunged into the abdomen by the bandit leader with a sword, and fell to the ground without knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Without thinking about it, Lu Ming flew down directly from the horse, pulled out the black iron long sword at his waist, and joined the battle group to fight with the bandits.

Siliuer didn't step forward to help Lu Ming together, these robbers were just ordinary people, and they didn't even have mental fluctuations, so they just used them for Lu Ming to practice.

Lilith floated in the air and kept cheering Lu Ming on, constantly waving her little hands.

Lu Ming's sudden addition increased the confidence of the caravan mercenaries, although there was only one person, but looking at the way he made a move, he had some strength.

The robbers were panicked because of this halfway killer, and they were relieved to see that Lu Ming was so young and that he didn't have a fighting spirit when he attacked.

The bandit leader divided two people to deal with Lu Ming, and the pressure on the mercenaries was instantly reduced.

Because Lu Ming was in too much of a hurry to help these people, he forgot for a while that he already had spiritual power, and instinctively relied on pure martial arts to fight the robbers.

These robbers are too weak for Lu Ming, and Lu Ming's body is far beyond ordinary people because of the demonic heart.

The powerful perception ability made the movements of these bandits very slow in Lu Ming's eyes, and it was easy and casual to avoid their attacks.

The robbers have no martial arts at all, and have always relied on the strength of the crowd to rob fiercely and despicably. And never against a strong caravan.

Lu Ming gradually calmed down, and suddenly remembered the mental power that he had put aside, so he controlled the mental power to attach to his wrist.

He didn't have enough mental power to attach to the entire long sword, so he had to take this method.

The strengthening of his wrist strength made Lu Ming swing his sword more quickly, and the momentum sank, cutting off the weapon of one robber with one sword, and then swinging another sword to cut off the long sword in the hand of another robber.

Lu Ming didn't do it ruthlessly, he didn't want to kill these robbers. In fact, he never killed anyone.

The robber looked at the short sword in his hand in a daze, Lu Ming didn't give him a chance, kicked him to the ground, and the black iron long sword slashed downwards and landed on the robber's neck accurately.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the bandit leader abandoned his companion and fled with the rest of the people, disappearing into the distant forest in an instant.

Seeing that the crisis had been solved by the young man in front of them, the mercenaries stepped forward to thank them, which made Lu Ming embarrassed.

At this time, a middle-aged man stepped down from the carriage behind the caravan, with the joy of getting out of trouble, and thanked Lu Ming for his help with the mercenaries.

It turned out that the middle-aged man who claimed to be Michael was the head of the caravan, and he had no martial arts skills, so he could only hide in the carriage and did not dare to come out when the robbers came.

Two mercenaries tied up the fallen bandit, leaving three mercenaries to check on their wounded companions.

However, they found that Charlie, who was badly injured, was breathing weakly and left this world shortly after.

This made everyone present feel depressed, and the five mercenaries looked at the robber captives with resentment and hatred in their eyes, and the anger of revenge burned in their hearts.

Michael told everyone that he was going to pay Charlie, who had died, a pension to Charlie's family, and that he deserved it.

This sentence softened the expressions of the mercenaries present slightly.

Michael wanted to pay Lu Ming a reward, but Lu Ming refused. Seeing injustice, pulling out a knife to help is what you should do, and you shouldn't be paid.

Michael didn't insist again, and according to his years of vision, he could see that the teenager in front of him and the boy who was silent and didn't like to talk were not ordinary people.

Lu Ming was curious about meeting the robbers. Upon inquiry, he was surprised by a fact.

The Gelug Empire practiced a feudal system, with multiple marquis and earls under the jurisdiction of each region, and the nobility was unified under the jurisdiction of the imperial family.

The marquisate and earldom were divided into a number of small domains under the jurisdiction of the viscounts.

The Viscount's strength was not strong, the number of private soldiers was small, and there were only a few cultivators under his command, which were generally used to protect the safety of himself and his family.

There are some people who don't want to work for money and food, and feel that it is too hard to work all day to get that little money.

So they wandered around, trying to find something good to do that would be effortless and could get money.

Over time, these people became lazy and cunning, and in order to survive, they had to become robbers.

As long as they don't rob the village, the viscounts won't care, and these robbers are familiar with their surroundings and it is difficult to destroy them all.

At the same time, they will not find themselves to find the nobles and the big chambers of commerce, but only pick a few commoners and small traders. They don't usually cause a fatality, like this one, but it was an accident.

Therefore, the robbed commoners and petty traders can only consider themselves unlucky, and even if they react to the local nobles, they are only perfunctory.

The robber who was caught was silent, as if he knew his fate, and his eyes were gloomy.

Lu Ming sighed lightly, said goodbye to everyone, and embarked on the journey to Hardy Academy again.