625: Episode 29: Qin City Leaps Forward, Chapter 197: Group Healing (Part 1)_1 625: Episode 29: Qin City Leaps Forward, Chapter 197: Group Healing (Part 1)_1 After the fierce battle, continuous travel had left the Qin City Warriors extremely exhausted.
Just as Ye Yinzhu had given the mand to rest on the spot, providing the warriors with a momentary respite, a Horned Hawk Knight arrived with a special message.
About thirty miles ahead, a camp had been spotted.
“What kind of camp?” Ye Yinzhu asked with a frown.
At that moment, his own condition wasn’t optimistic either.
As the leader, not only did he play an extremely important role in the bat, but he also exhausted much effort in manding.
The God-killing Crossbow’s shot had left him depleted, not entirely drained but his Seventh Rank Zi rank Douqi and magic were nearly spent.
Two hours of travel had sequentially struck at his tired mind.
“Master Oliveira has personally gone to scout it,” replied the Elf Soldier, respectfully.
Having learned from a recent lesson, Oliveira had bee more cautious.
Although Ye Yinzhu was primarily responsible for the fact that they had fallen into an enemy ambush, the lack of detailed reconnaissance by the Horned Hawk Knights due to carelessness also played a significant part.
Upon the sudden discovery of changes ahead, Oliveira decided it was best to personally conduct the reconnaissance.
Ye Yinzhu immediately issued orders for the troops to rest on the spot, forbidding the lighting of fires to cook and to use dried rations for food.
At this time, he had already broken out in a fine layer of cold sweat on his back.
If the camp ahead turned out to be another trap prepared by the enemy, then the losses in another battle could not be as simple as those they experienced in Phaedra City.
It wasn’t long before Oliveira returned on a dragon.
“Big brother, what’s the situation?” Ye Yinzhu asked eagerly.
Oliveira’s expression seemed a bit strange, and with a wry smile, he shook his head and said, “I don’t know how to describe it.
This could be an opportunity for us, but it might also be a trap.”
Ye Yinzhu looked at him with anxious and puzzled eyes.
Oliveira said, “The camp that appeared ahead is vast, its size can even pare to the Flore supply center that we attacked when we first entered the Flore Empire.
However, this camp is peculiar.
There are about twenty thousand guards, almost all patrolling around the perimeter, which is tightly defended.
Inside the camp, though, there are mostly large wagons pulled by Unicorns.
From the outside, these wagons seem to be loaded with supplies and forage, particularly with food.
If these really are supplies and forage, I estimate that they could support an army of several hundred thousand.”
After hearing Oliveira’s words, Ye Yinzhu frowned and said, “Could it be a convoy assembled by the people of Flore, preparing to move to the front to support a new assault on Milan?
The people of Flore really have vast capabilities; so quickly they are able to assemble such a substantial convoy in addition to supporting the frontline consumption.
It seems we have underestimated Flore.
If this supply convoy appears in front of us, maybe it’s another trap set by the people of Flore.
If those wagons hold soldiers instead of supplies, then we might be in trouble…”
“No, it doesn’t seem like a trap,” Oliveira said with a resolve that seemed hard-won.
“Oh?” Ye Yinzhu’s expression shifted to surprise.
Oliveira spoke solemnly, “It’s strange enough that such a huge supply fleet has appeared, but what’s even more strange is that the twenty thousand guards are not Flore Soldiers.
According to their banners, they’re from the Landias Empire and Boya Kingdom.”
“What?” Ye Yinzhu was shocked, remembering the Dragon Knight he had encountered in Phaedra City and the Landias Empire and Bo Pang Allied Forces.
He felt a sinking feeling in his heart.
“Could it be that Landias, while maintaining great pressure on the Milanese front, could still spare troops and supplies for the Flore people?
If they have their support, the situation in the recently stabilized eastern line looks bleak.”
Oliveira said with a bitter smile, “Although I least want to see this happen, I have the same thoughts as you.
But I wonder, if these supplies are for the Flore, why would they appear here?
This is already beyond the Capital Market Zone of the Flore Empire.
And not even a single Flore soldier is present.
Yin Zhu, if an ally was sending you this much material, would you do it this way?”
Ye Yinzhu thought for a moment and said, “There’s something fishy about this, it’s probably not that simple.
Blind guessing won’t do us any good.
It looks like we’ll have to go and see for ourselves, try to find some information.
Besides, even if this is a piece of fat meat, with our current condition, we wouldn’t be able to swallow it.
Big brother, keep a few Horned Hawk Knights on alert and let the others rest.
Right now, we must focus on regaining our strength.”
The situation of resting on the spot remained unchanged, but the emergence of the supply convoy ahead was only fully known to Ye Yinzhu and Oliveira.
In a perilous situation, Ye Yinzhu’s impatient mood gradually calmed down.
He released the wounded Qin City Warriors from the Life Storage Gems, among whom the most severely injured turned out to be the War Behemoth Glacis.
Glacis was severely exhausted and had pletely fallen into a deep sleep.
After Zi’s explanation, Ye Yinzhu understood his current situation.
During this time, Glacis had never consumed enough food, and his body was not at its peak even before the battle.
The final burst of rage in the battle had drained almost all his energy, which caused him to fall into this deep sleep.
The best method to help him recover now was to consume a significant amount of energy.
The best way would be through food, but the food Ye Yinzhu had brought with him was far from sufficient to replenish Glacis.
manding the injured and exhausted warriors to sit around him, Ye Yinzhu took a deep breath and quickly absorbed the energy from the air through the Divine Source Magic Robe, focusing it within himself.
At the same time, he took out an Ancient Zither from the Sumeru Divine Ring.
The zither was made of paulownia wood, coated with deer horn lacquer, purple as chestnut shells, with golden inlays and jade tuning pegs, featuring a round dragon pond and an oval-shaped phoenix marsh.
The strings below the seven tuning pegs shone black, with a snakeskin-like pattern throughout—fine in the middle and broken ice pattern on the forehead.
Above the round pond, “The Great Sage’s Legacy” was inscribed in cursive script.
It was, indeed, the Ancient Zither with the best virtue of the Great Sage’s Legacy.
As he caressed the strings, Ye Yinzhu whispered softly, “Mount Yi’s Paulownia, Empty Mulberry Material, the phoenix sings to the autumn moon, the crane dances on the Jade Terrace.” His voice seemed soft, but it clearly reached the ears of every Qin City warrior around him.
It was a harmonious and pleasant voice.
Zi and the Behemoth Beasts were doing somewhat better, but the warriors from the other legions had widened their eyes because they could distinctly feel that these simple sixteen characters somehow made their emotions calm.
The Druids felt the greatest impact.
Being one of the races closest to nature, at this moment, they discovered that with the chanting of the sixteen characters, Ye Yinzhu’s presence underwent a transformation.
He seemed to bee one with nature, his zither, and everything around him.
This strange sensation spontaneously aroused a strong feeling of kinship in the hearts of the Druids.
With his left hand’s thumb and index finger pressing down, he invoked the pose of “calling rain with the cooing of turtledoves,” and with his right hand’s index and middle fingers, he used the “Valley Stream Pose” to start the melody.
The zither music, subtle and reserved, wafted into the air, tenderly mastered with control over its varying pace and intensity, a soft and deep melody that perfectly expressed the nine virtues of the zither.
The mellow and translucent notes of the zither beautifully performed the qualities of wonder, antiquity, clarity, smoothness, tranquility, roundness, evenness, purity, and fragrance.
The soft and mellow melodies awakened the most primal vitality in Qin City Warriors, seemingly blooming with the elements that vibrated in the air to the rhythm of the tune.
Zi smiled softly and sat cross-legged beside Ye Yinzhu.
Though his body was much larger than Ye Yinzhu’s, at that moment, it felt as if he were just a Zither Child, solely devoted to Ye Yinzhu.
A faint amethyst glow had already started to blossom with Ye Yinzhu’s initial chanting of the sixteen words, and as the music played, this faint purple light gradually intensified, spreading in halos around him.
Gradually, the Qin City warriors all closed their eyes, unknowingly listening intently to the enchanting melody with their hearts.
Even the typically coldest Grim Reaper Dragon Wolf Cavalry and the wildest Behemoth Beasts had their breaths softened by the tune at this moment, pletely immersed in the deep purple glow.
Most Qin City warriors had witnessed the terrifying power of Ye Yinzhu’s zither when used for attack, but they had never experienced the effects of the music in healing.
Right now, they truly felt the power of the Zither Emperor.
The Mountain Giants felt the strongest influence.
As Ming came to know Ye Yinzhu better, he understood more why Zi had chosen Ye Yinzhu as a partner for a life-bound contract of equals.
On the surface, it seemed like Ye Yinzhu borrowed a lot of power from the Amethyst Behemoth, but only Ming, who was a Divine Beast like Zi, knew that in fact, it was Zi who was benefiting more.
Although the Amethyst Behemoth was the leader among the Four Sacred Beasts, it also had the slowest growth rate.
However, since meeting Zi, Ming noticed that Zi’s advancement was not only fast but much faster than his own growth in the past.
And this was clearly because of Ye Yinzhu.
The mountainous energy contained within the zither music astonished even a Divine Beast like the Mountain Giant, for the energy was not Ye Yinzhu’s own but derived from nature itself.
Any Mage who cultivates magic has to base it on drawing more Magic Elements.
And where do the Magic Elements e from?
Clearly, from the air, amidst the heavens and the earth.(To be continued, if you want to know what happens next, please visit .
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