Chapter 1734 - 640: Chivalrous Heart and Courage

On the ancient road, horse hooves kicked up dust.

The flag with the word Shunfeng fluttered in the wind, rustling loudly.

It slowly made its way from one end of the ancient road.

Yang Xiaoyun sat beside Su Mo, calculating with her head lowered:

"In one day, we travel a maximum of fifty li.

"If we exclude the time delays, from here to Imperial Court Mountain, it would take exactly half a month.

"But now, there’s still over a month until the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

"Even if we encounter some troubles and are delayed slightly, it shouldn’t affect the journey."

Su Mo nodded and glanced at Wei Ziyi who was running on the ground, and couldn’t help but laugh:

"I reckon this journey won’t be peaceful.

"The Shunfeng Escort Agency’s reputation isn’t easy to maintain.

"When that Old Leader was alive, the operation was already declining.

"And the mess caused by the Young Leader further tarnished the name completely.

"With such a reputation, I doubt any mountain or village will give us respect.

"We’ll just have to rely on Old Chen and the others to fight our way through."

Wei Ziyi, annoyed by Su Mo’s gaze, retorted:

"If you want to talk, just talk, why keep staring at me?"

"After all the tea you drank yesterday, can’t I look at you for a couple of seconds today?"

"Stop it... you’re just making fun of me."

Wei Ziyi snorted:

"You promised to let me be the Chief, have you ever seen a Chief running alongside the carriage?

"At least, you should have prepared a horse for me, right?"

"Meanwhile, I could practice my Qinggong."

Su Mo chuckled:

"If you keep slacking off, your Qinggong might end up worse than Xiao Xiao’s."

"I..."

Wei Ziyi was about to protest, but upon reflection, found the statement to be somewhat true.

Zhen Xiaoxiao’s Qinggong used to be poor, too heavy, she couldn’t jump high.

But even before achieving Great Success in Whale Swallowing Skill, she could leap several zhang high and land gracefully, like a divine power descending from the sky.

Now slimmer, the height of her jumps is incomparable to before.

Competing solely in jumping with her, one might not necessarily outperform her.

Suddenly feeling a bit frustrated.

Little Situ sat at the back of the carriage, listening to their banter, couldn’t help but cover his mouth and laugh.

Meanwhile, with a leap, Su Mo was on the ground:

"Alright, change shift, you sit for a while, I’ll move my muscles."

"That’s better."

Wei Ziyi immediately filled with delight, flew onto the cart and sat down, let out a long breath, as if the hard cart beam was a throne.

Su Mo smiled:

"I’ll go scout ahead."

"I’ll go with you."

Upon hearing this, Yang Xiaoyun’s eyes lit up.

Initially, during their first escort, they traveled alone.

Later, squads led the way and scouted.

Rarely did they themselves advance to inspect the route.

Seeing Su Mo’s interest now, Yang Xiaoyun immediately felt intrigued.

Wei Ziyi paused, surprised:

"I want to go too!"

"Stay put."

Su Mo glared at her:

"Have you seen so many squad members acting at once?"

"I..."

Wei Ziyi was momentarily speechless but couldn’t help saying:

"Can you take me next time?"

"Alright."

Su Mo agreed and then, with a few steps forward along with Yang Xiaoyun, reached Chen Dinghai’s side, cupping his fists courteously:

"Vice Leader, we’re off to scout ahead."

Chen Dinghai, hearing this, felt his legs trembling, the horse’s back was almost burning his backside.

Suppressing the urge to kneel before Su Mo, maintained his ’Vice Leader’ composure, nodded lightly:

"Go ahead."

At that moment, he felt his face seemingly growing bigger.

"Understood."

Su Mo and Yang Xiaoyun exchanged glances and executed Divine Transformation, swiftly departing.

Wei Ziyi, sitting on the cart, watched their departing figures with envy.

Turning back to glimpse at Little Situ:

"What are you thinking?"

"Oh... I’m thinking about Miss Xuan Yuan."

Little Situ replied softly:

"Her Other’s Heart Gu has just been extracted. She originally wanted to come with us, but Brother Su didn’t allow it, asked her to rest well at home for a while.

"I left her some tonic medicine.

"With the care of the East, South, West, and North sisters, she should be fine..."

"If she’s fine, then why keep thinking about her?"

"... I just feel that Miss Xuan Yuan seems to have something on her mind."

Little Situ spoke to this point and slightly shook his head:

"Maybe I’m overthinking it..."

At this moment, he looked at Wei Ziyi, smiled, and said:

"Brother Su is really good to you."

"Ah?"

Wei Ziyi’s face suddenly turned red:

"You, you shouldn’t talk nonsense. When has that Old Demon been good to me?"

"He couldn’t bear seeing you running, and even changed shifts with you.

"The excuse he made wasn’t even thoughtful, you’re smart but just act dumb in front of Brother Su, how can you not see through it?"

"Ah?"

Wei Ziyi paused and suddenly felt that Little Situ’s words made some sense.

Her cheeks inevitably warmed.

Couldn’t help but glance at Little Situ:

"When did I act dumb... He’s also very good to you, isn’t he?"

Both girls glanced at each other, feeling their faces flush, unable to say anything further.

Listening to the sound of horse hooves and wheels, each fell into silence.

...

...

Su Mo wasn’t aware that two girls in the convoy were lost in thoughts. Now he and Yang Xiaoyun were standing on a tree branch.

Watching a chaotic skirmish on the narrow path.

A group of mountain bandits were attacking a convoy.