Chapter 231: 231

Unbeknownst to him, the entire night had passed and the eastern sky at this time was already quite bright . The stars and moon above his head were now hidden in the clear and blue magnificent sky .

Yan Liqiang saw the female disciple from the Wise Ruler Sect appear, and only then did he slump to the ground and start panting heavily without a care for his image .

Since he had been tense during the life or death crisis, he really couldn’t feel anything just now . The moment he relaxed, the exhaustion of fighting all night finally caught up to him . ‘Burnt out’ was the phrase he would use to describe what he was feeling right now from his previous life . Every inch of his body, from his head to his toes, felt sore and painful . Even lifting his arms required a great deal of effort . . .

He first ambushed and killed Aligujin at the Hui Clan Gathering . Then he sprinted several tens of kilometers, disposed the old sinister Shatu man, and then he found himself being pursued to only end up fighting in deadly battles .

Yan Liqiang didn’t even remember exactly how many kilometers he had run tonight, how many people he killed, or how many times he clashed with the Blackwind Bandits .

Goddamm*t, he didn’t expect the day of him being wilder than John Rambo would come!

Yan Liqiang couldn’t help but laugh self-deprecatingly .

The dawn breeze blew from the valleys in the distance, causing the grass in the plains to sway like undulating sea waves . Yan Liqiang shivered when he felt the breeze . Only now did he realized that his clothes were almost drenched again, not sure if it was from his sweat or the dew from the bushes .

He had to find some food . He could recover his strength as long as he could quickly replenish his stamina and his calories . Otherwise, it’d be terrible if he encountered any more dangers .

Yan Liqiang truly understood how valuable life was after experiencing death once . While thinking, Yan Liqiang clenched his teeth and got up unsteadily . However, as soon as he gained stable footing, his legs slightly gave way beneath him . The ground felt like marshmallows and he was about to fall .

Fortunately, a hand grabbed him in time and held him up .

The figure of the female disciple from the Wise Ruler Sect appeared beside Yan Liqiang in a flash and steadied Yan Liqiang who was on the verge of collapsing .

“Don’t move…” The lady glanced at the wounds on Yan Liqiang . She then stuck the longsword she was holding into the ground and retrieved a medicine pouch from her waist . She took out a medicine bottle from the pouch, then ripped her sleeve off . While biting on the sleeve, she further ripped it into smaller strips of fabric and started dressing Yan Liqiang’s wounds .

Yan Liqiang was currently in a pathetic state . Apart from a few cuts from the recent battle, his clothes were quite torn from fleeing through those thorny bushes . In total, he had about twenty wounds of various sizes all over his body .

This was Yan Liqiang’s first time being this close to the lady . He could smell a faint fragrance coming from her . When the lady’s cold yet delicate fingertips came into contact with the skin around his wounds, Yan Liqiang felt as though he was electrified . Every strand of hair on his body stood on its end .

Yan Liqiang remained still as he allowed the lady to dress his wounds . His body was completely stiff . He secretly checked out the lady’s facial features — her eyebrows, eyes, and nose perfectly complemented each other . She was very attractive looking, yet she exuded an icy aura that shunned people from a thousand li away . She also exuded a trace of sorrow and obstinance . . .

Feeling the silence in the atmosphere between them, Yan Liqiang took the initiative to strike up a conversation as the lady didn’t seem to be much of a conversationalist either . “I guess we are kind of like comrades in arms after the incident tonight . I am Yan Liqiang! What’s your name?”

The lady didn’t lift her head up . She just continued dressing Yan Liqiang’s wounds attentively . She only serenely uttered her name a few seconds later . “Mo Ziye…”

“How did you find your way here?”

“You left traces behind along the way…” Mo Ziye’s voice remained quite monotonous .

Yan Liqiang thought about it and started laughing . Indeed there were a lot of traces left behind . The Blackwind Bandits he killed all the way up to where they currently were made the best road signs . The two Blackwind Bandits who chased after him cut their way through thistles and thorns, so they left quite a lot of clues behind too . Indeed, it wouldn’t be too difficult for an observant person to find their way here . Yan Liqiang just didn’t expect Mo Ziye to recover so fast, figure out that he was being pursued, and even make it in time to rescue him . Although this lady had an icy front, she was actually a loyal and compassionate person . If she wasn’t worried for Yan Liqiang’s safety, she wouldn’t have gone through so much trouble of tracking him down after waking up .

Mo Ziye’s movements were skillful and efficient . In just the blink of an eye, she had attended to Yan Liqiang’s deepest knife wounds .

After dressing Yan Liqiang’s wounds, Mo Ziye noticed that Yan Liqiang’s right arm was abnormally swollen . “What’s with this arm?” She gently pinched Yan Liqiang’s arm, causing him to draw a sharp breath .

“That guy you just beheaded was about to progress into a Martial Master . So he had the ability to project his vital Qi . When I was fighting with him earlier, his vital Qi got to me and I ended up with this…”

After listening to Yan Liqiang’s explanation, Mo Ziye examined Yan Liqiang’s swollen arm again . She then retrieved another medicine bottle from her pouch and handed it over to Yan Liqiang . “These are the Five Dispersion Pills from our Wise Ruler Sect . Just take two of them and you’ll be fine…”

Yan Liqiang accepted the medicine bottle and carefully poured out two orange-red pills . He immediately swallowed both of them in one go without any hesitation, then closed the bottle and handed it back to Mo Ziye .

Mo Ziye didn’t accept it . Instead, she just shook her head and gave the entire bottle to Yan Liqiang as a present . “Keep it . If your arm still isn’t better by tomorrow, take two more!”

“Thank you!” Yan Liqiang stashed the medicine bottle close to him .

“You’re welcome . I should be the one thanking you!” Mo Ziye looked straight into Yan Liqiang’s eyes . The look in her eyes slightly wavered and her voice contained a tinge of emotion . “Thank you for carrying my senior martial brother’s body all the way out there at a time like that too…”

“I was scared that you would come after me if I abandoned him there!” Yan Liqiang sighed . “We can’t bring the dead back to life . Besides, the old Shatu man who killed your senior martial brother died . With that, I guess he was avenged for . Try to get over it . “

As soon as Mo Ziye heard Yan Liqiang’s words, a sorrowful expression returned to her face . Tears welled up in her eyes once again, but she was trying to fight them back . Yan Liqiang walked over to the headless Blackwind Bandit’s corpse . He crouched down beside him and started fumbling around the corpse .

“What are you searching for?” Mo Ziye couldn’t help but ask .

“I’m searching for something edible . I’ve had a tough night . If I don’t eat something, I won’t be able to keep up!”

“I have some here…”

“No, save it for yourself . You’ll need it too . These Blackwind Bandits may be wretched, but there’s nothing wrong with their supplies and food rations . I’ll just find something to eat from them . I’m pretty sure you won’t be able to eat anything they have . . . “

While speaking, Yan Liqiang managed to find a big piece of air-dried beef jerky inside a small leather pouch on the Blackwind Bandit’s corpse .

When these Blackwind Bandits were out to commit a crime, weapons and rations were necessities they carried with them . Thus, if they were hungry, they had something to reach for immediately . Being able to eat anytime while traveling would not cause any delays .

In Yan Liqiang’ previous life, he would never eat something he found on a corpse . However, after so many experiences in this life, he got mentally stronger .

Yan Liqiang wolfed down his food . In a flash, he finished half of the one-jin beef jerky he found .

With such high-calorie food in his body, Yan Liqiang’s exhausted body slowly regained some strength .

Mo Ziye was very patient . She just sat beside Yan Liqiang and watched him devour his food in silence, neither speaking nor rushing him .

By the time there was only half a piece of beef jerky left, Yan Liqiang suddenly recalled Goldie’s ‘heroic contribution’ earlier . He beckoned Goldie, who was in the bushes, over and waved the beef jerky he was holding in the air . “Come Goldie, have some food…”

Goldie was lying on the ground . The previously fierce expression on its face from earlier had been completely replaced by a pitiful look . Goldie just whimpered and didn’t come over .

Sensing something odd, Yan Liqiang went over to his dog and spread the bushes apart . Upon a careful look, he realized that Goldie had broken one of its hind legs as a consequence of biting the Blackwind Bandit on his thigh . The man’s kick to Goldie from earlier had broken its leg . Goldie was just really intelligent; it half-crouched on the ground to bare its teeth at Yan Liqiang’s enemy, trying to help intimidate his opponent despite its broken leg . . .

Yan Liqiang was suddenly so moved that tears nearly fell from his eyes . He patted Goldie on its head and fed it the beef jerky . He cast a glance at Mo Ziye . “S-Sister Mo… Do you have more of the medicine you gave me just now?”

Mo Ziye was probably five or six years older than Yan Liqiang . So he thought for a moment and decided to address her as Sister Mo .

“This is your dog?” Mo Ziye took a few steps closer and looked at Goldie who was on the ground .

“That’s right . It’s a very smart dog and got hurt in order to save me . That medicine of yours probably works on dogs too, right?”

“Take it . Just apply it on the wound and wrap it up . The medicine will slowly seep inside!” Mo Ziya took out the medicine bottle from earlier and handed it to Yan Liqiang .

Yan Liqiang accepted the medicine and ripped off a big piece of his sleeve . He then poured some medicine on Goldie’s broken leg and wrapped its short leg up with the fabric .

Although Goldie’s broken leg had been wrapped up, it still struggled to walk properly as it was slightly laming with only three legs .

Upon seeing this, Yan Liqiang quickly went back into the grassland and retrieved his outerwear which he had used as a decoy earlier . He fashioned it into a stretcher and used it as a canvas to carry Goldie . He sheathed the Black Scale, then stashed the Blackwind Bandit’s scimitar, which could withstand the might of the Black Scale, before he left the place with Mo Ziye together . . .

The sky was slowly turning bright . On their journey, they didn’t encounter another Blackwind Bandit .

“Sister Mo, on the way here, did you meet any Blackwind Bandits?”

“I did meet about ten of them . I killed them all…” Mo Ziye still had an icy look on her beautiful face . Yet, she seemed to have accepted the way Yan Liqiang addressed her . . .