Chapter 24 Principle of Martial Arts <TOC> Chapter 26 Swamp Tiger
Translator: SumTLMan
In the evening, Li Mu poured some water on a towel and wiped his body. He had sweated a lot in the afternoon and was too lazy to return to the Exile Realm to take a shower, so he just wiped himself down.
Just as he was wiping himself, a sharp scream suddenly came from behind. He turned around and saw Li Mei staring at him in disbelief.
“Sorry, sorry.”
Li Mu picked up the clothes hanging on the side and prepared to put them on.
“How could you waste such precious Sun Spring water?”
Li Mei’s small mouth was slightly open in shock.
Due to the difficulty in obtaining water, most people in the wasteland do not take showers. Even those who are clean only wash themselves with river water containing a small amount of radiation. Li Mu used the Sun Spring, which can restore physical and spiritual energy and heal wounds, to take a shower. This was a complete waste.
“I’ve said Sun Spring will automatically refill after it’s used, it’s not a waste.”
Li Mu said indifferently. In the Exile Realm, there was a large pool of Sun Spring, so there was no need to worry about using it for bathing, let alone for raising fish.
“You can wipe yourself down with it too.”
He said as he threw the water jug to Li Mei. Li Mei sweated even more than he did, and although she was a beautiful young woman, she would still smell if she sweated.
Li Mei hesitated for a moment, but could not resist the temptation to try washing herself with the Sun Spring.
“Do you really not need me to accompany you on the hunt?”
Li Mu put on his clothes, got on his horse, and night was about to fall. The beasts and mutated creatures in the swamp were about to come out and move around. He planned to take advantage of the opportunity to hunt and obtain essence.
“No, the radiation in the swamp is currently at a high level, there are no descenders, and there is nothing that can threaten me. Moreover, with the theft, I can leave and no one can catch up to me.”
Fei Lian landed on his shoulder and, with its excellent eyesight, it could quickly help Li Mu find targets.
After leaving the camp, he took the bow from the Exile Realm and held it in his left armpit, with the bowstring pointing upwards. The sword was hanging at his waist. Apart from not wearing armor, he looked like a fierce general who roamed the battlefield on horseback, crossing the wasteland.
Today, there is no mist in the swamp and the sun has vanished from the horizon, making the entire sky a captivating shade of blue.
The roan-colored Dao Lei gallops like a black meteor through the grasslands and shrubbery, moving so swiftly that it appears to be flying, effortlessly jumping over pools and swampes.
Li Mu raises his arm and Fei Lian spreads its wings, taking off into the sky to search for the trail of its target.
He dismounts to a location with a good view and feeds his horse with hay mixed with soybeans that he brought from the Exile Realm.
The fresh hay contains a lot of moisture, so after the horse eats it, it digests and excretes quickly, and won’t feel hungry.
They wait for a while in the meadow, and Fei Lian returns, circling above Li Mu, having found the target.
“Drink!”
The Dao Lei has no harness, but Li Mu uses his staff for leverage and easily mounts, riding off in the direction indicated by Fei Lian.
After traveling about five or six kilometers in the swamp, Li Mu finds the target: a herd of white-maned wild buffalo that are as large as small hills. Some of the strong individuals are as tall as an astonishing two meters six, and more than five meters in length.
Dao Lei is already quite large, and compared to these buffalos, it’s nothing.
Under their shiny black fur, their exaggerated muscles bulge, and their sharp curved horns glint with a cold light.
These white-maned wild buffalos have almost no natural enemies in the swamp, and even the swamp wolves dare not hunt these massive creatures. The buffalos can easily kill them with a single foot and easily kick them into the sky.
These buffalos are very violent. In the swamp area, the number of human casualties caused by the white-maned wild buffalos is even higher than those caused by swamp wolves and swamp tigers. A powerful assault rifle is unable to harm them.
Only the members of the Li family and swamp tigers hunt these temperamental herbivores.
Li Mu tightens his grip on his horse staff, takes a deep breath. His lower body technique is very solid, and he can still use the staff with both hands even without a horse whip.
The buffalo herd has also sensed his hostility and emitted an angry roar. Some of the temperamental buffalos even charge directly towards him.
“Charge!”
Li Mu bravely launched a counter-charge. If it were a regular warhorse, it wouldn’t dare to charge at a behemoth like the white-maned buffalo.
But Dao Lei is not a regular horse, and it became even more excited in the face of the white-maned buffalo.
To face these beasts that needed to be measured in tons, it required great courage. Li Mu was very calm and at the moment of approach, he aimed his lance at the white-maned buffalo’s left chest.
The shaft of the lance violently trembled, and with the momentum, the 60-centimeter-long lance tip, like a breach, easily pierced the rock-solid muscles of the white-maned buffalo.
Even the fur that the swamp wolves could not tear was easily pierced by the fierce momentum.
The mercy between the lance and the shaft blocked the shaft, preventing the lance from penetrating too deeply and unable to be removed.
Li Mu raised his hands and used the power of the shaft to expand the wound and then pulled the lance out.
The sharp lance cut the white-maned buffalo’s artery.
These massive beasts had particularly strong hearts in order to pump blood to every corner of the body. After the artery was cut, Li Mu heard a sound like a high-pressure water gun.
The white-maned buffalo let out a mournful cry and fell to the ground.
【Essence +0.8】
Dao Lei found a gap in the buffalo herd with ease and burst out. The restless buffalo could not touch its astonishing speed.
Li Mu alternated his arms, swinging the lance in circles, and turned back with a stab, looking down with the lance, the sharp lance directly penetrated a white-maned buffalo’s shoulder, cutting off its clavicle.
The white-maned buffalo, which had lost a leg, fell to the ground.
Li Mu roared, picked up the lance, and directly chopped its head off.
【Essence +0.7】
After two of its kind were killed in succession, the entire buffalo herd was in chaos.
Li Mu drew out his horse whip, clamped his legs around the horse’s belly, and opened up the distance between himself and the herd of wild buffalos.
The herd formed a loose circle, trapping the young white-maned wild buffalos in the middle. The strong buffalos in the herd swayed their sharp horns and threatened Li Mu.
Li Mu looked at the trembling young buffalos and was moved.
In the Exile Realm, although the minerals in Xianyin Mountain were abundant, because of the rugged terrain, it was only possible to carry the minerals down bit by bit through manual labor.
With these strong wild water buffalo, it was different, they could easily carry hundreds of kilograms of ore down from the mountain.
Thinking of this, he squeezed the horse’s belly, circled around the herd of wild buffalos, and swung the horse whip in his hand.
Elite infantry formations could withstand the impact of cavalry, but with the limited intelligence and will of these wild buffalos, how could they possibly do so.
Sure enough, Li Mu just swung the horse whip to intimidate them and one of the buffalos broke away from the formation and fled.
When one wild buffalo ran away, the circle was broken and they could only run wild in all directions, hoping to run faster than their peers.
The entire herd of wild buffalos formed a long snake-like line, with the weaker young buffalos and cows falling behind.
Chapter 24 Principle of Martial Arts <TOC> Chapter 26 Swamp Tiger