Peace Order
Chapter 275 - 128: King of Light Cavalry, Breaking Army Meets Shaking Light_2

Chapter 275: Chapter 128: King of Light Cavalry, Breaking Army Meets Shaking Light_2

So the children began to laugh, Qi Bi Li smiled and nodded, and the children started to divide the food among themselves, carefully sipping the soup before they ate the meat, which had a flavor disliked by people from the Central Plains. The donkey hadn’t been fanned, the bleeding was poorly handled, and the cooking was far from exquisite.

The meat still reeked of rawness that wouldn’t dissipate, but to them, it tasted as if it were the most delicious thing, their eyes shone with delight. Li Guanyi glanced at the young Khan sitting beside him, and Qi Bi Li said with a smile, "Being able to save these children on my last day before leaving Chen Country, I can go back with a clear account to my elders."

Li Guanyi asked, "You’re leaving?"

Qi Bi Li hummed in affirmation and said, "The Emperor invited me to stay, offering me a dukedom and a princess, but he didn’t say how he would bring my folks over to the borderlands of the Central Plains. The young prince of the Dangxiang and the living Buddha from the Western Regions both plan to stay."

Li Guanyi cast his gaze downward, he actually knew well the Emperor’s method of weighing options, so he knew from the start that Qi Bi Li was not going to get what he hoped for; even so, he wished this young man could have his desires fulfilled.

Qi Bi Li said, "Officials from Chen Country asked me if I wanted to stay, telling me that the Western Regions are bitter and cold, the land beyond the frontier is poor and desolate, and it’s better to stay here with beauties and gold, a life without worries."

"The road to Jiangnan, oh, the Central Plains are truly wonderful."

"Even I feel that the boiled meat I used to love eating as a child now tastes gamey, ah. The wind here is good, the grass and water too, even the breeze carries the scent of water, the willows sway, the girls are beautiful, but..."

The young Khan sat amidst the children, patting his scimitar, his smile tranquil:

"It’s spring, the grass back home is about to sprout. When it covers the earth, there will be purple blooms. When the wind blows, the grass will bend, and the rivers flow through my homeland, glittering like gold."

"The cattle and sheep are crying for nourishment, it’s time to take them grazing."

"That’s my true home."

Li Guanyi said, "Why not come find me?"

After some thought, Qi Bi Li answered, "...It’s not as simple as that, if I come to you, wouldn’t it trouble you too much, make the Saint Emperor wary and displease him?"

Li Guanyi closed his eyes for a moment and said, "Do you have paper and pen?"

Qi Bi Li responded, "There’s no need for that, I..."

But Li Guanyi tore off a piece of his robe.

Qi Bi Li was silent; he wasn’t dense, and as he watched the youth before him, his lips trembled slightly. Li Guanyi reached out to take a stick of wood from the iron pot, grinding it on the ground into a sturdy makeshift pen, and then he wrote on his torn robe. He summoned Hunjian and said:

"Go to the place where they found me just now, give this to an uncle who likes eating salt-baked peanuts, that uncle’s name is Zhao Dabing. Ask him for a big handful of salt-baked peanuts and then have Brother Zhao deliver this to the Turkic Seventh Prince Mansion, to a man as beautiful as a fair maiden."

The Turkic Seventh Kings hold influence over the lands atop the Western Regions, commanding vast expanses of grassland.

He was hoping to stand on his own, independent of his father’s tent who was a Divine General.

So he desired the trade routes of the Xue Family.

After the incident where the Seventh Prince ’saved’ Li Guanyi from Yue Qianfeng’s hands had begun settling, the trade between the Xue Family and the Turkic territories, which just happened to pass through the Western Regions, began. Even if only a fraction of such a grand affair were revealed, it would be enough to sustain several thousand households of the Tiele Tribe.

The child ran off happily.

Li Guanyi watched his retreating figure then turned to look at the Khan of the Tiele Tribe, observing the curve of the scimitar at his waist, and asked, "Qi Bi brother, is that the blade you’ve been practicing with?"

Li Guanyi proposed, "How about we have a little practice match?"

Qi Bi Li quieted down and said, "I am stronger than you."

Li Guanyi responded with a smile, "Just a comparison of moves, how about that?"

Qi Bi Li took a deep breath, his face lighting up with an easy and forthright smile, saying, "Alright!" He took off his curved knife, still in its scabbard, while Li Guanyi lifted the sword in his hand, pointing at the Khan before him, as the children scattered around them.

Wearing somewhat dirty clothes, they sat there, holding bowls and stuffing meat into their mouths with their hands, sucking on their fingers.

Qi Bi Li’s scimitar pointed at the youth before him, and he reached to touch the ancient, millennium-old wolf-tooth pendant around his neck. Without showing his true strength, he just said softly, "Be careful."

The youth across from him smiled.

Li Guanyi made a light hop, his footsteps nimble, and Qi Bi Li was stunned.

This was——!!!

The moment Li Guanyi’s stepping skills changed, he went from stillness to explosion, darting into range in an instant. With his sword still in its scabbard, he slashed as if with a curved knife, Qi Bi Li swayed, his scimitar meeting the blow.

But at the moment of contact between blade and sword.

The youth’s sword, as if transforming into a scimitar, like a butterfly along Qi Bi Li’s blade’s Jin Qi, shifted, and Li Guanyi’s Military School stepping skills suddenly seemed incredibly agile and light. In the moment of turning, Li Guanyi withdrew his sword, his finger lightly tracing Qi Bi Li’s back.

Qi Bi Li paused in his step, seemingly realizing what this was.

This was the most complete core of Golden Scimitar Jin Qi from five hundred years ago.

He turned and swept his blade.

Li Guanyi’s ’scimitar’ similarly bounced off Qi Bi Li’s blade, leaping, his movement technique shifting, once again brushing Qi Bi Li with his finger. As Qi Bi Li gradually loosened his restraint, his scimitar technique unfolded, fierce and disciplined.

But Li Guanyi had fought with the Third Prince of Tie Le more than once.