The Nine Cauldrons

Book 3 Chapter 55 Overestimating One’s Own Capabilities

The next morning, at Hua City, many people gathered in front of the station where Teng Qingshan and company resided.

“Dear Lord.” Yang Ta called out cheerfully. “Everyone’s elite war horses will be kept here temporarily. Everyone can ride these mediocre Yellow-Maned Horses to head into the Blazing Mountain from here!” There were many cheap Yellow-Maned Horses in front of the mansion. At the sight of this? Many warriors of the Gui Yuan Sect frowned.

It was unbefitting for them to ride Yellow-Maned Horses.

Ji Hong coldly said, “We will be setting up our camp in the Blazing Mountain! Since we will be there for one or two months, if we were to bring our top grade war horses there, there would be warriors who covet them! Alright, everyone get on these horses and we’ll set off!”

More than eighty men mounted the war horses at Ji Hong’s command.

Not just these eighty over men. Yang Ta also ordered 10 servants to mount the horses.

“When we reach the Blazing Mountain, these ten servants will take care of your daily necessities for these one to two months.” Yang Ta smiled and said as Teng Qingshan and company left Hua Cheng and quickly went on their way to the Blazing Mountain.

Although the Yellow-Maned Horse was a cheap horse, it could still gallop 300 to 400 Li distance daily. It took them about four hours for them to reach the foot of Blazing Mountain from Hua City.

When they arrived, it was already noon.

At the foot of the mountain, tents of various sizes had been set up. There were also quite a number of warriors near the tents, and they chatted happily in small groups, as if it was a large-scaled gathering. When the men from Gui Yuan Sect arrived, they immediately attracted the attention of many warriors.

“Look, those are men from Gui Yuan Sect! The one leading them is one of the four commanders, Ji Hong!”

“Tie Yi Hall is here, so is Gui Yuan Sect. I reckon that not long later, even the men from Qing Hu Island will be coming. How would the small sects from Xuyang County be able to compete with them?”

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Amongst the discussions, there were many people who could recognise famous people, but they were right. Bigger sects such as Gui Yuan Sect and Tie Yi Hall had close to ten thousand core disciples alone, in addition to having an army of warriors. Not forgetting that they had countless numbers of outer disciples……The smaller sects in Xuyang County probably would each only have a few hundreds of men. How could they compare with the bigger sects?

“Set up camp!” JI Hong commanded.

Immediately everyone dismounted and the members of the Black Armored Army, as well as the core disciples and elites from Gui Yuan Sect, all went to help the ten servants set up tentages!

The many tentages were quickly secured, each of them large enough to accommodate ten men.

A total of twelve big tentages, with two of them catered for the ten servants to rest in. In the future, these servants would be in charge of the preparation of food and such. Teng Qingshan and company could focus on their search for the Black Fire Spirit Fruit in peace.

“Qingshan, the number of people isn’t considered much. At one glance, there are only two to three hundred people! ” Teng Qinghu contemplated the surroundings as he spoke. Teng Qingshan also took a glance at their surroundings, noticing the warriors who were scattered around. “Cousin, it’s daytime now, many martial artists are in the Blazing Mountain, looking out for that adolescent Red Scaled Beast!”

Teng Qingshan had also been here three times over the past two to three days.

He was aware of the alarming numbers of warriors that had gathered here.

A small number of warriors stayed in the inns, while most of them stay at the foot of the mountain, with almost all of them selecting an area near to Jin Jia Village, which was also located at the foot of the mountain.

Although the circumference of the Blazing Mountain has a distance of about 60 to 70 Li, everyone firmly believed that the location of the nest of the Red Scaled Beast, as well as the Black Fire Spirit Fruit, would be located near Jin Jia Village. Afterall, the range of Blazing Mountain was so large and there were numerous villages located at the foot of the mountain. Why did the Red Scaled Beast solely target members from Jin Jia Village?

The reason would be that — Jin Jia Village was located the closest to where it stayed!

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“Everyone gather!” Ji Hong called out from a short distance away.