The waterway from Bajun to Jiangxia takes at least fifteen days, and everyone takes a boat for sixteen days. They have not yet reached Jiangxia, but it is indeed not too far from Jiangxia City.
But this is a distance that is difficult for Zhang Xuezhou and others to reach.
The merchant group was reduced from eleven to eight, and someone brought the corpse back to Shujun City, leaving the group with only seven people.
As of now, there are only four people left in the entire business group.
Zhang Xuezhou, Dong Zhongshu, Zhao Liang, and horseman Zhang Bayang.
Zhang Xuezhou's body is intact now, but he will definitely lose control of his body tomorrow.
However, Dong Zhongshu seemed to have forced himself into the Solitary Realm, which had serious consequences, and he fell into a coma after attacking his heart against blood.
As for Zhao Liang and Zhang Bayang, they were both injured. They were treated with Zhang Xuezhou's Taiqingzhen technique and stabilized their injuries. However, one of them was weak and the other lost too much blood.
"We have to find a place to adjust!"
Zhang Xuezhou felt that this journey was no less dangerous than his previous long journeys.
According to the current situation of everyone, it is impossible for this kind of team to march forward regardless of whether they take the small road or the main road.
"We...we..."
For a moment, Zhao Liang really wanted to give up the trip north.
Without leaving Shujun City, he is the county lieutenant of the one-third acre of Shujun City. He can mobilize nearly twenty experts in Shujun City. In Shujun City, he can be said to have face, dignity, and status.
After leaving Shujun City, Zhao Liang realized how insignificant he was.
Whether he is healthy or unhealthy, the comparison makes no difference.
During the continuous journey, the various situations they encountered were obviously beyond the scope of what Zhao Liang could deal with.
If this kind of thing happened even once again, Zhao Liang felt that he would not be able to survive it.
Looking at the bodies that had to be hastily buried on the river bank, he felt that he might be buried like this one day.
Compared with that bleak end, staying in Shujun City and slowly enjoying the scenery of life may not be too bad, even if the mana in his body is intertwined and the body cannot use its strength, and even if his life span is shortened by ten or twenty years, it will still be
It is better than dying on the journey.
This is very different from Zhao Liang's imagination of traveling thousands of miles in a carriage to seek medical treatment.
Now, no one in their team is normal.
"What, you want to go back to Shujun City?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.
"A little bit!"
Zhao Liang nodded and then pointed to the waterway he came from.
"But I know I can't go back!"
After nearly two months of travel, if you can't ride a horse, it will undoubtedly take longer to return.
And Zhao Liang also lacks the ability to go alone.
He now needs to work together as a team, and more importantly, he needs to take advantage of the strengths of each person in the team.
Only by desperate efforts can he find his true hope.
"Zhang Bayang and I will watch over you in the next few days until you return to normal," Zhao Liang said.
"I've checked a radius of more than ten miles. There is a relatively hidden place over the hillside here. If we stay there for a few days, we should be able to enter Jiangxia City by carrying a bamboo raft down!"
The big ship was destroyed, and the carriages and horses were submerged in the river. Only some cloth, silk, salt, and property carried by the disciples of the Beast Control Sect were still left on the bamboo rafts.
Zhang Xuezhou locked the bamboo raft and threw some supplies back to the river bank.
The business group is now in name only, and Zhang Xuezhou feels that everyone can only be a salesman carrying a heavy load.
He was used to being a savage in the past, so he didn't mind this kind of thing too much.
"The Beast Control Sect is setting up the Dragon Gate Formation here, will they be nearby..."
"Don't worry about those defeated generals!"
Zhang Xuezhou waved his hand.
Dong Zhongshu killed Su Fang with one blow and killed more than ten Beast Controlling Sect disciples with a wave of his hand. The remaining Beast Controlling Sect disciples who fled in the river were insignificant.
Rather than actively looking for trouble, Zhang Xuezhou felt that these Beast Control Sect disciples were more afraid of them looking for trouble, so they would stay far away, and would quickly give up even if there was any territory nearby.
"The most important thing for us right now is to get Master Dong to wake up!"
Zhang Xuezhou pointed at Dong Zhongshu, whose body was soft and hot, and felt that Dong Zhongshu might have suffered some sequelae from the impact of the realm.
But he had never heard of anyone who would die instantly due to the sequelae after breaking through the realm.
This made him feel that Dong Zhongshu could still be saved, and he could even recover his body functions through resting slowly.
Compared to the time when he and Dong Zhongshu were together, now that Zhao Liang and groom Zhang Bayang were taking care of them, the situation was better than he imagined.
If Dong Zhongshu cannot wake up in these two days, he will not starve to death in the next few days.
A group of several people crossed the river bank and passed through the mountain woodland. Zhang Xuezhou didn't stop until they turned into a valley on the hillside.
Although he is an unqualified hunter, Zhang Xuezhou feels that this kind of terrain rarely encounters ferocious beasts, and it can provide a certain degree of shelter, making it a good place for hunters to temporarily spend the night.
He spread a roll of cloth on the ground as a place to stay, and put Dong Zhongshu on it.
After gathering some dry firewood and lighting a fire, everyone roasted dried meat, dry food and other items to fill their bellies and restore their strength.
Zhang Xuezhou studied the unconscious Dong Zhongshu for a while. When the Taiqing Zhenshu spell had no effect, he waved to everyone and went to patrol the surrounding area.
Although Zhang Xuezhou was carefree and said he didn't care about the disciples of the Beast Control Sect, he still had the mentality to guard against the slightest possibility.
If the disciples of the Beast Control Sect were to drive the beasts in the middle of the night and take a few bites, it would be a bloody misfortune.
He walked out of the valley, with feathers on his arms sticking out, and then jumped into the air, his whole body flying quickly into the air.
After crossing the forest and then passing through a large mountain, a village that was beginning to take shape suddenly came into view.
Compared with the concave valley, the terrain here is undoubtedly excellent. If you use Feng Shui to explore, you may be able to find a good Feng Shui hole.
At this time, there was still the sound of tinkling and banging in the village, and several thin figures were constantly sawing and building wooden houses.
The relatively uniform tattered costumes of the builders allowed Zhang Xuezhou to instantly tell that this was the newly established mountain gate belonging to the Beast Control Sect.
Although Zhang Xuezhou's exploration was relatively far back, by the time he flew here, several Beast Controlling Sect disciples who had escaped from the river were able to rush back to the village.
These people fled in panic, and then entered the village in a hurry and ran into chaos.
Zhang Xuezhou watched in the air for dozens of seconds. It wasn't until someone called for a hound to start a fight with his fellow sects that he was sure that Su Fang, the leader of the Beast Control Sect, had been lost. The gang began to break up and flee for their lives due to civil strife.
This allowed Zhang Xuezhou to fly high in the sky without falling, but to wait for the matter to settle.
The fight lasted only a moment, and the disciples of the construction team also put down their work and began to join in the fight.
No one dares to joke about such a thing, but when it comes to doing such a thing, everyone knows that they need to separate and run for their lives.
Having been surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court, these people are very familiar with doing this kind of thing.
There are those who know they are not good enough and run away after getting a small advantage, there are also those who strive to kill their fellow disciples to seek the greatest benefit, and there are also those who watch from afar and wait to take advantage of others.
Standing high in the sky, Zhang Xuezhou brought many disciples of the Beast Control Sect into his sight.
"Hahaha, the Beast Control Manual is mine. In ten years, my cultivation will definitely lead the Beast Control Sect to glory!"
At the end of the bloody fight, a middle-aged man with five fingers cut off supported the hound and laughed wildly while holding a dragon-shaped jade in a pool of blood.
But his manic laughter soon became mute.
A short arrow shot by blowing air hit his throat. The blackening of his neck obviously meant that the short arrow was smeared with poison.
He held his throat and looked at the direction of the arrow with a look of disbelief.
After commanding the hound to bite the opponent, the middle-aged man sat on the ground with his eyes wide open.
"It's true that dog bites dog. A school of thought has fallen to this level!"
Circling down from the sky, Zhang Xuezhou retracted his wings.
He looked at the middle-aged man who was so frightened that he was rolling on the ground, and he couldn't help but shake his head.
The Beast Control Sect, which had a few remaining members a few moments ago, was almost completely destroyed in a short period of time, leaving only a few weak disciples who saw the opportunity and left early.
Zhang Xuezhou was just doing reconnaissance to determine the safety of the camp in the next few days.
But when the middle-aged man laughed and yelled wildly, Zhang Xuezhou also heard the inheritance of the 'Beast Control Manual' in the air.
He had no intention of cultivating the 'Beast Taming Manual', but considering that Zhang Shu and others in Shu County City lacked the corresponding magic inheritance, Zhang Xuezhou felt that this kind of inheritance jade from the destroyed sect would definitely be sold at a good price.
He stepped on the ground and walked towards the middle-aged man step by step.
"Mine, mine, this is all mine, my Beast Control Sect!"
The middle-aged man covered his throat and made a reluctant sound.
He looked at the jade that was forcibly taken away from his hand, and stretched out his hand to grab Zhang Xuezhou.
That was a distance that he couldn't reach no matter what, and it was also a distance that made him despair.
"Zhang Cigong, you little bastard, you have caused the destruction of our Beast Control Sect inheritance. I will curse you underground to not have a good death in this life..."
As he cursed through gritted teeth, the middle-aged man's eyes widened and he clutched his throat and fell down, leaving only his limbs twitching from time to time.
"Zhang Cigong?"
The familiar name came into his ears, and Zhang Xuezhou took another look at the young man who was rolling and fighting with the hound.
A face mixed with mud, water and blood came into Zhang Xuezhou's eyes, mixed with the familiar faces in his memory.
"Zhang Xuezhou!"
The deer-cutting knife chopped off the dog's head. When the young man on the ground got rid of the dog's corpse and quickly rolled up and made a defensive posture, he obviously recognized Zhang Xuezhou, whom he had not seen for several years.