Chapter 28
The Hundred Thousand Mountains were huge, with forces of many different kinds. In the most dangerous area there were even primitive tribes who didn’t respect any morals or rules. They would kill every outsider they met.
Along with this, there were ferocious beasts of prey and monsters in the mountain areas.
This was one of the reasons why the Jiang Mansion didn’t easily allow Jiang Chen to go on an adventure there.
The Liulin River was the longest river in the Hundred Thousand Mountains. It flowed through various parts of the mountains. The narrowest part was only 15 feet wide, and its water was only up to one’s ankle.
In contrast, the widest section was thousands of feet wide and had a huge waterfall with many segments.
Jiang Chen squatted by the river. He lowered an iron flask into the water and filled it, then took it out and sipped at it.
This was the fifth day since he had left the Jiang Mansion. The Southwind Ridge was already some distance away.
Jiang Chen made sure he knew his target’s location and rushed in the direction Uncle Li had pointed him towards.
When he arrived at the water forest, it was already late afternoon. Fortunately, the people of the Tribe of Thunder were still there.
The water forest had been a normal forest, but due to its terrain, the river water seeped in little by little, and in the end, the forest and the river were integrated together.
Jiang Chen was squatting in the water. He noticed the bonfires on the opposite bank. They were burning corpses, all from the Jiang Mansion.
The tribe was still cleaning the battlefield!
A man of the Tribe of Thunder was ready to leave, furs packed in oilcloth on his back, humming happily at the same time.
The Tribe of Thunder knew little about practice. They were very backwards in martial arts methods and techniques, so they weren’t very powerful. However, they were super skilled with arrows.
Jiang Chen didn’t want to be exposed to them easily. He was observing carefully to locate the young girl.
Soon, he saw a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old girl, tied up.
It looked like they hadn’t done anything to the girl yet, but she was extremely scared.
All of a sudden, a youngster of the Tribe of Thunder came up to the girl with two big men. One of them carried the girl on his shoulder, and they walked towards the forest.
Other people of the tribe shouted at the youngster out of envy. They obviously knew what he was going to do.
The young man smiled complacently and pulled his pants up a little bit, as if he were already too impatient to wait.
Jiang Chen saw his chance and followed them quietly.
He entered the forest from the other side. The two big men were standing in front of a tree as guards.
The girl’s hands were tied to the tree, with her back to the youngster.
He had already taken off the girl’s trousers and was touching one of her fair thighs.
Jiang Chen was approaching quietly. He jumped at the young man the moment after the latter took off his pants.
He couldn’t move at will since the pants at his feet trapped him. Jiang Chen stabbed him in the heart.
“Ugh!”
The two big men turned around and saw the sword pierced in the heart of the youngster. They started to cry out in grief.
Jiang Chen untied the girl’s hands quickly and dragged her to run away.
To his surprise, the two tribal men didn’t chase him at all. They were squatting beside the youngster and crying for him.
“He’s the chief’s son,” the girl said in a low voice, still scared.
Then she looked at Jiang Chen incredulously and said, “Are you Child Chen?”
Jiang Chen didn’t answer her. His heart sank when he realized that these barbarians were serious followers of traditions. They thought the chief’s family had the blood of gold.
And Jiang Chen had killed someone with the blood of gold!
A big man took out a horn and started to blow it.
Instantly, two big men walked towards him aggressively. A fiery anger was burning in their eyes.
The two of them were both in the completed preliminary stage of the Gathering Yuan State. One of them was holding a big knife, the other an axe.