Peerless Tang Sect: Becoming a God Through Medicine

Chapter 129 Endless Internal Strife

The three of them walked and stopped frequently, occasionally setting up camp to admire the magnificent landscape of the Sun and Moon Empire.

This was undoubtedly a waste of life for Xiao Hongchen, but Meng Hongchen, who rarely left Mingdu, didn't care what her foolish older brother thought.

Since we've finally managed to get away for a while, we should naturally have a wonderful picnic and feast. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a waste of Lin Nuo's excellent cooking skills that he's specially trained?

Laughing as she hunts, Arno cooking, and Miss Dream recording the beauty of life.

It took the three of them a full week to travel from Mingdu to the border of the Mingdou Mountains, where they witnessed the meat grinder battlefield where the Sun Moon Empire and the Star Luo Empire had been locked in a stalemate for four thousand years.

Under the immense energy of the collision of continental plates, a large mountain range three thousand meters high rose up on the border between the two countries, which was originally a coastline. The Sun Moon Empire and the Star Luo Empire each occupied one side of the mountain range and have been confronting each other here for four thousand years. In the conflicts and frictions, large and small, countless soldiers from both countries have been killed or wounded.

As they approached the border, a powerful, bloody, and chilling aura of steel swept over them, filling the three with awe.

A country's border troops always deserve the respect of their own people.

Lin Nuo and his two companions stood at attention for a while before the Sun Moon Empire's border patrol team arrived. With high-altitude detection soul tools and soul master teams patrolling Haiyue City, the border was naturally even more heavily guarded.

This was to prevent imperial personnel from smuggling themselves in, as well as to prevent their own citizens from engaging in smuggling.

The three of them did not deliberately conceal their whereabouts, and when the border patrol team found them, they did not show much hostility, but only conducted a routine check.

Then Lin Nuo took out his Earl's token, while Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen took out the crest of the Hongchen family.

After verifying the authenticity of the identification tokens, the patrol team leader stood at attention and said, "I'm sorry, sir! I didn't recognize you just now!"

"It's alright. We need to leave the Empire to hunt souls in the Star Dou Great Forest. Please allow us to pass," Lin Nuo said.

“Understood. The three of you may travel freely across the Imperial border, but please be careful of the Star Luo Empire's army. We are sorry, but we cannot provide escort.” The patrol captain nodded and then waved to his men.

"All personnel, listen up! Lift the alert!"

Led by the patrol team leader, the three crossed the border blockade of the Sun Moon Empire and arrived at the border between the two countries. Due to their sensitive identities, the patrol team parted ways with Lin Nuo and his companions here, while the three of them crossed the border and entered the territory of the Star Luo Empire.

All I can say is that for professional matters, you really need to find professionals.

The border troops patrol every day, and they know exactly where the roads are passable and where it is easy for people to smuggle themselves across.

The two countries are not completely blockaded from each other. There are certain roads that are tacitly understood channels for communication between the two countries. In some ways, the Star Luo Empire even welcomes people from the Sun Moon Empire to smuggle into Star Luo territory.

Lin Nuo and his group took this route and did not encounter any patrol teams from the Northwest Army Group of the Star Luo Empire along the way.

However, in order to remain completely hidden, Lin Nuo secretly used his domain soul skill to cover all three of them when they approached the border of the Star Luo Empire, perfectly disguising them with the plants.

Perhaps that's why they weren't discovered.

"It's a pity I couldn't get a look at our empire's border troops. I'd really like to see what a real army is like." Xiao Hongchen glanced back at the direction where the Sun Moon Empire's border troops were stationed, and then at the direction where the Star Luo Empire's troops were stationed at the peak of the Mingdou Mountains. He spoke with some regret.

His specialization in soul tools is somewhat similar to that of He Caitou, both focusing on absolute heavy firepower suppression.

However, he didn't study fixed-position soul tools much. His focus was always on soul tools that relied on quantity, such as the Mayfly Cannon and the Explosive Ray. Combined with his martial soul, as long as he set up the core magic array, he was an army all by himself.

The battlefield was undoubtedly a perfect fit for him, and the army was a place he had longed for for a long time. "It's okay, there will be opportunities." Lin Nuo patted him on the shoulder.

He did want to take out the level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannon shell that Jing Hongchen had given him and fire it at Dai Hao, but considering that this would cause the two countries to go to war directly, he gave up the urge to set off fireworks and hear the noise.

"Alright, alright, this place isn't fun anymore, let's go." Xiao Meng dragged the two idiots away from the border of the Star Luo Empire and quickly ventured into the interior of the Douluo Continent.

……

a few days later.

After a journey filled with eating and playing, the three finally arrived at the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Looking at the primeval forest before him, Xiao Hongchen questioned his existence: "Meng, can we go back a little faster? This kind of tourism is simply a waste of my time and life, hindering my development in metalworking and forging, and dampening my enthusiasm for soul-guided technology!"

"Hmm? Is it because Arno's cooking is bad?" Xiaomeng asked, tilting her head in confusion.

"Uh...no." Xiao Hongchen shook his head.

"Is it because the scenery along the way isn't beautiful?" Xiaomeng asked again.

"Uh...not really." Xiao Hongchen shook his head again.

"Was the trip too tiring and not relaxing enough?" Xiaomeng continued to ask.

"..." Xiao Hongchen opened his mouth, his face turning bright red, "A dream! This has nothing to do with any of this, you wouldn't understand!"

"Come on, bro, you're such a jerk!" Meng Hongchen rolled her eyes and complained, "Don't you and Arno have anything else to do besides cultivation and forging? You're either meditating or hanging out in the studio all day long, I think you're both going to rot!"

"How did this get dragged into me again?" Lin Nuo pointed to himself in confusion.

"Don't talk!" Meng Hongchen covered Lin Nuo's mouth, continuing to verbally attack Xiao Hongchen, "You're not happy about coming out to play? Except for leaving for a while when we're getting soul rings, don't you feel suffocated staying in Ming every day?"

Laughing at the world, I am speechless.

He didn't feel anything when this kind of thing wasn't brought up normally, but now that Meng Hongchen brought it up, he realized that his daily life seemed to be a bit too tense.

So much so that he now feels unbearably anxious even when he has just a few days of free time.

This wave is a result of being consumed by anxiety and internal conflict due to one's own actions.

"Okay, I guess I really should stop and rest for a while." Xiao Hongchen waved his hand weakly.

During the month that Lin Nuo spent acquiring his seventh spirit ring, he made almost no progress in forging. The more he tried to figure out spirit forging, the more he got stuck in an insurmountable stalemate in terms of spirit communication.

"Let's treat this Soul Hunt as an outdoor trip. After all, Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears aren't easy to find," Lin Nuo said with a smile.

Internal friction needs to be released.

(End of this chapter)