Mo Wuji saw a young girl dressed in red staring at him, this young girl had clear eyebrows, although she was not as good looking as Wen Manzhu, her figure was extremely well-proportioned. It was clearly a thin waist, but it gave Mo Wuji a feeling of strength.
This young girl must be Han Sheng An’s precious daughter, Han Ning, Han Sheng An had an old look about him, Mo Wuji thought that his daughter must not be too young, but he didn’t expect that she was still such a petite young girl.
“I am none other than Mo Wuji, meet Miss.” Mo Wuji clasped his fist and gently returned. He would not answer as to whether or not he had Yao Kang in his sights.
“Since you are the guard of my Han Mansion, why did you fail to arrive at the early order?” Han Ning’s tone suddenly became stern.
Mo Wuji’s face revealed a look of injustice, “Back to Miss, I thought that was the dinner bell. Thinking that I’m a newbie, how can I grab breakfast with others? I was about to let the others finish eating before I went, but I didn’t realise that it was the bell for the morning order assembly. If I had known that, I would have been the first to come to the martial arts training ground.”
Chang Hongcai, who called Mo Wuji up, was furious, saying, “I almost tore down your door before I called you up. You kid actually spoke in such a literal manner, so damn shameless.
It was just that Chang Hongcai could only be upset in his heart, for him to come out and testify against Mo Wuji, he wasn’t that bold. He had witnessed Miss ordering someone to break the limbs of a house servant and then throw them onto the street to feed the dogs. As long as Miss didn’t continue to ask, sometimes it was better to do more than less.
Han Ning instead nodded, ”Today I’m going to the Thunder Mist Forest, I heard that you know a little about pharmacology, and I’m going to take you there with me, do you dare to go? I can tell you in advance, the Thunder Mist Forest is very dangerous, my Cheng Yu Kingdom’s eleventh prince once took people to the Thunder Mist Forest, and in the end, the entire army was wiped out, and not a single person returned.”
She didn’t feel that Mo Wuji was lying. Mo Wuji had just come here, and with the fact that he was once from a county king’s family, he naturally wouldn’t fight with a bunch of household servants over a mere breakfast. As the eldest miss of the Cold Mansion, how would she know that the breakfast in the Cold Mansion was actually still very early. She would only have breakfast after all the household servants had finished their morning tasks.
Mo Wuji immediately put on a straight face and said, “Although I, Mo Wuji, am afraid of death, but to be able to follow my lady’s side and contribute, not to mention the Thunder Mist Forest, even if it’s a mountain of daggers and flames, I dare to go through it.”
He was very clear that no matter how much he didn’t want to go along, he had to go. If he couldn’t leave an impression in front of Han Ning, it was expected that the next time Han Ning went out, then there would be nothing left for him. As for the Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly that was going to the Imperial Capital in a few months, it was even more irrelevant to him, Mo Wuji. At the same time, he also sensed that Han Ning’s call for him to go along to the Thunder Mist Forest had nothing to do with his slight knowledge of pharmacology. He just couldn’t believe that Cold Sheng An wouldn’t tell Cold Ning his details, but he had said that he didn’t know pharmacology.
The reason why Han Ning was staring at Mo Wuji was because her old man told her that Mo Wuji should be of some use to her. Now that Mo Wuji’s answer had really satisfied her, she casually said, “Since that’s the case, then you can stand aside.”
After saying that, Han Ning dropped her gaze on the stout man at the head of the team, “Peng Shouguo, help me pick eight more people, together with you and Mo Wuji there will be exactly ten people, we’ll set off right away.”
This stout man standing at the head of the queue was none other than Peng Maohua, the Chief Protector of the Cold Mansion’s Escort Courtyard, after hearing Cold Ning’s words, he hurriedly stood out and bowed, “Miss, would it be a little bit too little to pick only ten people to go to the Thunder Mist Forest?”
Han Ning said indifferently, “This time, we’re just travelling around the edge of the Thunder Mist Forest for a few days, looking for a medicinal herb in the meantime, we don’t need to go deeper in.”
“Yes.” Peng Maohua replied in response before staring back at the hundred or so guards standing side by side and said, “Yu Zhi, Chang Hongcai, Ding Bu’er, Chai Jiu ……”
The ten people were quickly chosen, what Mo Wuji did not expect was that Ding Bu Er was also chosen.
Ding Bu Er dizzily walked to Mo Wuji’s side seemingly before he realised, and immediately whispered in Mo Wuji’s ear, “Brother Mo, it must be because of you that I was chosen by the First Protector.”
Mo Wuji’s status was instantly upgraded from Brother Mo to Brother Mo in his heart, Mo Wuji was also a little puzzled, according to reason, Ding Bu Er was not qualified to be chosen. He subconsciously glanced at Chief Protector Peng Maohua, and it so happened that Peng Maohua also looked at him and nodded at him.
Mo Wuji instantly realised that this was a gesture of goodwill towards him. It was estimated that this guy thought that he was different from others in Han Ning’s eyes, which was why he used Ding Bu Er to show his goodwill.
“Bu Er, it’s better to call me Wuji, we’re all friends, you’re even older than me.” Mo Wuji whispered.
Ding Bu Er nodded, “Good, Wuji, from now on, you are my Ding Bu Er’s best friend.”
“Everyone pick a horse and get ready, we’ll set off in half a pillar of incense.” Seeing that Peng Maohua had picked out the people, the blue-clothed girl riding on the yellow horse behind Han Ning immediately said.
“This is the personal maid beside the young lady, called Shao Lan, she is very much pleasing to the young lady, we must not neglect her in the future.” Ding Bu Er whispered in Mo Wuji’s ear.
“I’ll go back and get something.” Mo Wuji nodded, even if Ding Bu Er didn’t remind him, he wouldn’t be brain-dead enough to offend the people around Han Ning.
Mo Wuji went back to bring those bottles of Vein Opening Medicinal Liquid with him, he didn’t know how long he would be following to the Thunder Mist Forest this time. He didn’t feel comfortable leaving the medicinal fluid here, once someone found out that these medicinal fluids could open up half of the meridians, he probably wouldn’t be able to rest in peace in the future.
When Mo Wuji returned to the martial arts training ground again, the horse had already been sent to the martial arts training ground and Mo Wuji picked a tall black horse. He had ridden horses and was no stranger to horse riding, after all, this wasn’t some kind of battle.
It was only dawn when the group of twelve people rushed out of Rao Zhou City.
Although Mo Wuji’s horsemanship was not great, these horses had obviously undergone rigorous training, and despite running swiftly, Mo Wuji did not feel much discomfort on the horse’s back.
“Bu Er, why don’t you take a car and ride a horse?” Mo Wuji knew that there were vehicles for travelling here, or mechanically powered ones. It was only logical that using a car would be more convenient and labour saving than riding a horse.
Ding Bu Er heatedly said, “You’ll know after another half a day.”
It didn’t need to be half a day, after just two hours, Mo Wuji understood what was going on. The road was getting more and more rugged, and it was also getting narrower. There was a long stretch of road that was even on the edge of a cliff, the road that was only less than a metre wide made Mo Wuji worried that once the horse’s foot stepped on the ground, there was a high chance that he would fall off the cliff.
Luckily, this section of the road wasn’t very long, and after half an hour, it finally entered the canyon. Mo Wuji was already in a cold sweat. He wasn’t good at riding, plus he survived with great difficulty, so naturally, he didn’t want to be dropped to his death.
It was only when the sky darkened that Cold Ning gave the order to stop.
When Mo Wuji dismounted, he realised that the sides of his thighs were in fiery pain and blood seeped out.
“Are we there yet?” Mo Wuji forced himself to endure the unbearable pain and asked.
“We haven’t reached the outskirts of the Thunder Mist Forest yet, also, have you never ridden a horse before?” Ding Bu Er and Mo Wuji stood closest to each other, and with a glance, he could see that Mo Wuji was injured.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve ridden a horse, let’s go help.” Mo Wuji looked at the crowd setting up their tents and hurriedly said.
Ding Bu Er understood Mo Wuji’s thoughts, once the lady knew that Mo Wuji couldn’t even ride a horse, I’m afraid that going to the Imperial Capital was somewhat up in the air.
It had been busy for more than an hour before Mo Wuji followed the crowd to eat some dry food and entered the tent to rest. The tents were one for two people, and the ten guards’ tents just happened to surround Han Ning’s tent in the middle.
Mo Wuji and Ding Bu Er were the most familiar with each other, so the two of them were naturally in one tent.
“Are you alright, I still have some trauma medicine.” Ding Bu Er handed Mo Wuji a vial.
Mo Wuji waved his hand, “There’s no need for that, why don’t you tell me what the dangers of the Thunder Mist Forest are? Will we be able to arrive tomorrow?”
Ding Bu Er hemmed and hawed, “You don’t have to worry, we’re just at the outer edges of the Thunder Mist Forest, nothing will happen. But you must remember that you can’t take a step inside the Thunder Mist Forest.”
“Why?” Mo Wuji immediately asked.
Ding Bu Er’s face instantly became grave, “Don’t ask why, 90% of those who ventured into the depths of the Thunder Mist Forest, wanting to make a fortune never came out again.”
