Legend of the Heavenly Swordsman
Ch.142 - Next Destination

"Young Master Tang, what place do you want to go to that requires a map of this Eastern continent?"

Ye Kong brought a large star leather scroll from behind. He had not expected Fu Chen to come back to him in the near future, the young man had even made an offer.

Fu Chen intended to hand over ten bottles of the Sacred Fox Sweat liquid in anticipation if he did not return quickly from training. Supposedly with that resource the Gold Star organization can produce pills that have been promised for several years.

Actually Ye Kong was still hesitant to accept it, other than the expensive price Ye Singsui himself was still not finished researching the liquid. But Fu Chen said to not have to pay for those ten jade bottles, the young man intended to invest with those ten jade bottles.

Ye Kong would reconsider Fu Chen's proposal, but there was no harm in storing this liquid first according to Ye Kong.

"I don't know for sure where I'm going, Mr. Ye. Therefore I want to look at this map to determine it." Fu Chen smiled gently and began to unroll the animal skins that were on the table.

"Ah so yes.." Ye Kong smiled awkwardly, after the incident that this young man experienced of course he would not easily tell his purpose to others.

Ye Kong then simply observed Fu Chen who was looking at the map carefully. This man had no idea that Fu Chen was actually just pretending to read the map.

Fu Chen only memorized the path that he thought was useful while waiting for Dou Huang. In fact Fu Chen wanted to immediately ask Dou Huang because he had spent five minutes observing the map, but Fu Chen paused the intention of not wanting to disturb his teacher's concentration.

"Ah..", Dou Huang sighed softly after a few minutes of silence, he then muttered, "So that place is still not pictured on the map."

"Teacher, are you done?" fu Chen asked while slightly raising an eyebrow.

"Yes, you can return the map to him." The Dou Huang then disappeared after uttering it, it seemed that barking a map of this size was also a troublesome thing for the man.

"Sir Ye, thank you for your help." Fu Chen handed the map back and bowed his body.

"Don't think about it, may your day please Young Master Tang," Ye Kong replied with a friendly smile.

Fu Chen also replied thus before leaving the shop, not forgetting Fu Chen bought a beast hide to repaint the map that Dou Huang had copied. The animal skin could generally last a long time therefore Fu Chen chose it.

No matter how many times Fu Chen observed his teacher, he could not help but be stunned by the old man's skill. Each stroke of his brush was indeed soothing, Fu Chen hoped that he could learn it as well one day.

"Teacher, where are we going?" Fu Chen asked curiously while observing the map, he had left the Capital some time ago riding on a horse.

The horse that Fu Chen was riding was white and slightly muscular, he bought the horse just to save energy and continue his training during the trip.

"That place is not on this map," said a short Dou Huang, the man sitting behind Fu Chen and facing the opposite direction.

"Then... how?" Fu Chen raised an eyebrow, he was quite surprised to hear the location he was about to head to was not on the map.

'Does this continent change after 3,000 years?' inner Fu Chen while observing the map back.

"Look, I already know the location.the map is just a guide." Dou Huang then floated to the front, "Our next destination is here."

Dou Huang pointed to an empty spot that was on the outskirts of the beach. The map illustrates that the area designated by Dou Huang is only an uninhabited forest, but that is not what surprised Fu Chen.

"Meng Empire?" Fu Chen frowned, not expecting that the place he was going to go to would be that far, this would be the first time he crossed the Empire's borders.

Dou Huang said that this exercise would be long enough, so he asked Fu Chen to prepare himself to separate from the outside world.

"Our journey is still far away, so it's best not to relax too much." Dou Huang again gave advice.

"Good."

Fu Chen spurred his horse with a heart that was beating faster than usual, for some reason he started to feel nervous at the thought of this trip.

At the swift rain accompanied by lightning tonight, there were rumbling sounds and clanking of weapons from behind the trees near the forest. The voice sounded faint, the rain as if it did not want to let the two people who were fighting make a noise that rivalled it.

Some of the trees around them seemed to have fallen in one slash, while raindrops began to hurt on their forehead because of the movement they were doing too fast.

The middle-aged man had a long beard and the muscular man in his opponent appeared to have been drenched in blood. The fight between the two has been going on for a long time, seen from the circumstances around them that have been badly damaged.

The strength of the two men could be said to be balanced because they did not seem to stop exchanging attacks. The breaths of the two had been hunting for quite some time now, with the injuries they had received so far, both of them were not sure that anyone had managed to survive despite having won the fight.

Meanwhile, a young man seemed to be observing their fight from a considerable distance away. The young man was silent on the back of the horse he was riding, he sharpened his gaze because the rain slightly blocked his view even though he had worn caping.

The young man had no intention of interfering in his second fight, he himself had realized that the two people would end up dying. He was observing their fight just to just add insight.

"We'd better find a place to shelter, aren't you worried about your horse?" dou Huang asked Fu Chen who was still fixated on the fight of the two warriors.

"Teacher, don't you think that swordsman skills are amazing? He was even able to make difficult movements quite easily." Fu Chen did not turn his face away, this was a rare opportunity to see a great swordsman who fought at the risk of his life.

"Huft.. It's impressive, but your sword style doesn't suit him." Dou Huang sighed softly, if he had reached his destination then he would have shown even more formidable movements to Fu Chen.

Fu Chen was only speechless at Dou Huang's remark, it was indeed true but he wanted to observe the swordsman's game to increase his knowledge.

On the other hand, the swordsman who uses a stick weapon is no less powerful. The swordsman was able to retaliate and fend off the sword slashes so quickly with movements that Fu Chen did not understand.

"Ah no-!" Fu Chen was choked when the sword used by the swordsman was thrown, the young man instantly shut his mouth when he realized his voice had come out, he did not want to make the two swordsmen realize its existence.

"The end is over." said Dou Huang, who was observing the fight, he had no choice but to get tired of waiting for Fu Chen.

The swordsman was still trying to withstand the successive blows that the swordsman had launched. But it left both his hands shattered. And in order to end his attack, the swordsman threw his weapon at the head, causing the swordswoman's head to explode.

The wand-swordsman then took a few steps back to maintain his balance, his vision began to blur, it seemed like the swordsman would not last long because the wound he got was also quite serious.

"Amazing battle," Fu Chen murmured with a wide smile, he had never seen a high-level swordsman fight like this before, "Teacher, are they Sacred warriors?"

Fu Chen then approached the bodies of the two warriors to check on his condition. He was slightly disappointed that he was unable to measure the strength of these two people.

"No.." Dou Huang shook his head, "They are still one level below the Sacred swordsman, I didn't notice clearly but it seems like they have only entered the early stage of the Sakti swordsman."

Dou Huang felt that warriors in his day and age were not much different. Dou Huang could judge if these two warriors had no particular motive other than to determine who was stronger between the two.

Fu Chen started to feel awe, he had fought against the intermediate stage warrior King before but after seeing the fight earlier made Fu Chen realize that his strength was still too weak.

"So this is a huge difference of every level." Fu Chen muttered.

"Put these two swordsmen's weapons over their bodies, this is a form of respect for these two warriors."

Fu Chen nodded slowly, but before that he wanted to ransack the bodies of the two warriors first. Looking for something that is not yet known the result is fun according to Fu Chen.

But after some time searching the swordsman's second outfit, he found nothing of value other than a leather pouch containing piles of gold coins.

"This.." Fu Chen frowned as he observed the gold coins he had obtained, "I just found out if the currencies of the Song and Meng Empires were different, it seems like I have a lot to raise money like this going forward, considering the place I am heading to is the Meng Empire."

Fu Chen then kept the leather bag, so far he had never used the gold coins of the Tang clan. The money that Fu Chen used to use was Tang Shu's savings stored in the Village.

Fu Chen opened the artificial map of Dou Huang, he coated the map with qi energy so as not to get wet from rainwater. "Well, how far is it to get to the border."