Chapter 58 Keeping Promises
On the return journey, Li Dingguo was alone, so he rode his spirit beast warhorse at a very fast speed.
It was a journey of about thirty miles, and in less than a quarter of an hour, we had already returned to the east gate entrance of the county town.
This speed is not even the limit speed of the spiritual beast Dark Horse.
This time he let the horse go at full speed and finally experienced the power of the spirit beast warhorse.
The big black horse he was riding was just a low-grade dragon-scale horse.
I wonder how swift those high-quality and top-grade Jiao-scale horses, or even Dragon-scale horses, are!
At this time, the city gate that had been open during the day was not closed. He nodded to the soldiers guarding here, then rode his horse into the county town.
As soon as I returned to the gate of the Wang family compound, I saw a dozen cooks driving a horse-drawn carriage, delivering meals to the soldiers of the Youth Camp.
He raised his head and looked around the courtyard in front of him, and found that Liu Wenxiu, Zhang Huier and their team members had all returned. He believed that their two teams had gone out of the city for actual combat training today, and the process might be relatively smooth.
Of course, it is also possible that the trip is in vain.
After all, there aren't many monsters and demons near towns where humans live.
Especially finding the right target is not that easy.
No matter what, young warriors like Liu Wenxiu and Zhang Huier are just rookies at the first level of martial arts.
You can't defeat the powerful monsters and demons, and you dare not provoke them.
Even if they are first-level monsters, if there are more of them, people like Liu Wenxiu would not dare to attack them.
Instead, you have to worry about your own safety and try to avoid them.
"Boss, hasn't Xiangzi come back yet?"
Li Dingguo had just arrived at the stable on his big black horse. As soon as he dismounted, he heard footsteps behind him, and then Tang Guangqiang's voice rang out.
"Aqiang, stop yelling!"
Li Dingguo glared at him and said, "I've arranged for Xiangzi to do something for me. It will probably take him ten days to come back."
"Don't spread the word, or you'll cause us trouble."
Tang Guangqiang has a simple mind and is not cunning. Li Dingguo does not want to tell him the truth now.
"You and Xiangzi live in the same room. You should be careful and try to conceal the fact that Xiangzi hasn't come back. Don't tell anyone else. Otherwise, you will cause trouble for both of us."
"If anyone wants to cause trouble for Xiangzi, let him come directly to me."
Arranging things for Xiao Douya and the others was something he wanted to do and had to do after he had acquired certain abilities and free time, and no one could change his decision.
This is his bottom line.
He is not a cold-hearted person by nature, and he always has his own bottom line.
In fact, to outsiders, this is not a big deal and it is also human nature. It’s just that Li Dingguo doesn’t want to cause any trouble.
"Oh, Boss, I'll remember this and I won't tell anyone."
Tang Guangqiang always followed Li Dingguo's lead. Li Dingguo held a great prestige in his heart. His solemn words just now almost frightened Tang Guangqiang, and he immediately nodded in agreement.
"Okay, wait here for me. I'll take the big black horse to the stable and feed it some spiritual herbs and water."
"Then, the two of us will go have dinner."
He waved to Tang Guangqiang, and walked towards the stable leading the big black horse.
When he finished tinkering, he and Tang Guangqiang returned to the courtyard, where they saw other young warriors starting to eat dinner.
Fortunately, I made it in time.
After dinner, Li Dingguo returned to his room. He was taking his spare clothes and toiletries, preparing to go to the bathroom to take a shower, when Ai Nengqi walked in staggeringly.
"Dingguo, the king didn't come today, and no one dared to ask about you. I strictly kept my promise and didn't tell anyone about your whereabouts."
"What? I, Ai Nengqi, am still a nice guy, right?" Although he was a little curious, since Li Dingguo didn't want to say it, he would not go into details.
It’s not a big deal anyway, just a trip out of town alone!
Even if the king found out, he would just gloss over it and not get to the bottom of it.
What's more, the king has already said that from today on, unless there are special circumstances, their orphan camp will have a high degree of freedom.
As long as it does not hinder the improvement of one's own cultivation and does not affect the training progress of the military formation, everything else is a minor problem.
"Thank you, Archie."
Li Dingguo smiled and joked with Ai Nengqi, then took his things and walked out of the room, striding towards the bathroom.
Soon, the sound of hurried footsteps sounded behind him again. Without looking back, he knew it was this guy, Ai Nengqi, who also came to take a shower with toiletries.
In a while, they still had to go to the primary school nearby to take cultural classes with two teachers, so they had to hurry up so as not to be late.
We have already missed a whole night yesterday, so we can't skip classes again today.
As for Cao Yongxiang not coming back today, Li Dingguo will find an excuse later and ask for a few days off for him.
……
"Whoosh!"
On a bare, undulating hill, a group of more than a dozen young warriors were closely chasing a desperate monster running ahead.
Who would have thought that this big guy would suddenly turn a corner and run towards a very steep, almost right-angled cliff on the side, and then he would ignore the natural danger and make several consecutive leaps, and quickly run to the top of the cliff and disappear!
"Boss, shall we continue to chase him?"
"Yes! This one-horned long-haired goat is so powerful in climbing over mountains and crossing rivers that even so many of us can't catch up!"
"Fortunately, although the one-horned long-haired goat leader ran away, the two level one intermediate monsters that it brought with it were successfully killed by our sudden ambush. We have been busy for most of the day today, and we have finally gained something."...
This group of young warriors were none other than Li Dingguo's team, who had left the city early in the morning to hunt monsters.
As a result, after finally finding three level one monsters that were suitable for attack, one still escaped, which was very depressing.
"never mind."
Li Dingguo and the others stopped chasing, waved his hand and said to them, "Your speed is simply not enough to catch up with the other party. It's useless to chase them."
"Tang Guangqiang, you lead our team members first, and then take the two level one intermediate stage monsters, the one-horned long-haired goats that we just killed, back to the county town."
"My cultivation is much higher than yours. Go chase this one-horned long-haired goat leader and see if I can catch up and kill it!"
Li Dingguo looked up at the sky and continued, "It's almost 3 . now, which is still early. Regardless of whether I succeed or not, I will return to the city in time in the evening, so you don't have to worry."
"Okay, boss!"
Tang Guangqiang nodded, then left with the thirteen boys in his team, somewhat frustrated.
They knew that with their current strength, they could not catch up with the monster leader who was extremely fast and had a strong ability to escape.
If he continued to act together with Li Dingguo, he would not only be unable to help, but would be a burden to him instead.
When Tang Guangqiang and the others disappeared, Li Dingguo's eyes flickered, and he no longer hid his cultivation. He raised his spiritual spear, carried a set of spiritual bow and arrows, and rushed forward. His speed increased by more than 30% compared to the previous pursuit!
Before, it wasn’t that he couldn’t kill this level one peak demon beast leader, but he had other plans and intentionally let it go temporarily.
How could he forget what he promised Cao Yongxiang yesterday?
Now that I have the opportunity, I will of course bring back enough cultivation resources for Xiao Douya and the others as promised.
So as not to waste their precious time for cultivation, and also delay my own plans that have already made some progress.
The combat skill he practiced, Thunder Archery, finally broke through to the minor success stage today. As long as he could catch up with the one-horned long-haired goat again, he was confident that he could kill it with a single arrow.
The steep cliff in front of him, which was almost at a right angle of 90 degrees, could not stop Li Dingguo who was using his full strength. He just flew up and down continuously, and climbed over it after a while!
He activated his concealment and breath-concealing skills to their full potential, and walked away silently, disappearing in a moment...
(End of this chapter)
