Outside the yurt was cold wind, but inside the yurt was warm. Teng Qing Shan drank hot milk tea, ate a large piece of mutton and had a big bowl of hand-pulled noodles.

  Although it's not as exquisite as the dishes from all over the country, it's also satisfying to eat and makes one feel comfortable all over.

  "Big brother!" A young man wearing a gray sheepskin coat walked into the yurt.

  The originally cheerful Chapu, who was chatting with Qing Shan, suddenly turned gloomy when he saw the man enter: "What brings you here?"

  "Hmm." The young man glanced at Teng Qing Shan, and upon seeing the tattered cotton-padded jacket on him, his eyebrows furrowed slightly. However, he still spoke with a smile, "Big brother, my days are really tough. A few days ago, some sheep went missing again, I don't know who stole them. These days are really difficult!"

  Chabu furrowed his brow: "What's going on, speak!"

  "It's still great, brother!" The young man chuckled and said, "Brother, lend me some money. After I sell the cattle and sheep, I will definitely pay you back."

  "Hmm, what? You still haven't paid back what you owed last time." The child said in a dissatisfied and low tone.

  The woman eating next to him immediately pulled the child back, glaring at him. "I'm telling the truth!" The child muttered and didn't dare say anything else. The young man seemed completely unbothered, smiling at Chabu with a full face.

  Zhang Zhu pulled out a piece of silver from his pocket, about half an ounce, and threw it over.

  "Thank you, big brother! I will definitely return this money. Definitely!" The young man was overjoyed and repeatedly said so.

  " Humph, don't thank me! If it weren't for your father asking me to take care of you, I would have kicked you out long ago! Remember, go practice swordsmanship with the Slan brothers more often! Don't be idle and gluttonous all day!" The young man had already lifted the door curtain and was responding as he walked out.

  "Father, where did he put the sheep? Just a few days ago, I saw him slaughter and eat a lamb!" The child said reluctantly.

  Chabu glared at his son: "Jida, remember, that's your uncle!"

  "Uncle Jidda isn't useless!" The child said with his head raised.

  Teng Qing Shan could only lower his head and eat, he didn't like to interfere with household chores either. Every village had people who were good at eating but lazy. For such people, the general mountain stronghold or tribe would marginalize them.

  "Clang!"

  "Clang!"

  A loud crashing sound came from outside, Teng Qing Shan's ears moved and he couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Zhab Brothers, what's going on outside?"

  Nacha didn't even have a chance to speak, his son hastily said: "It's the men from our tribe competing! It must be Uncle Slan and the others, they practice their knife skills very hard every day. Uncle Slan and the others are really formidable! I also learned knife skills from Uncle Slan!"

  "Oh?" Teng Qing Shan put down his milk tea cup, smiled and stood up, "Zhab Brothers, I'm full too. Thanks for the treat!" He said, putting two taels of silver on the table.

  Nacha picked up the two taels of silver and handed them back to Tong Qing Shan: "Brother Huhe! This is just a casual lunch, it's not worth much money. These two taels of silver are too much! I can't accept it!" Nacha wanted to hand it over to Tong Qing Shan, but Tong Qing Shan stretched out his right hand to block Nacha, and Nacha couldn't get close!

  "What great strength!" Zhab exclaimed in surprise.

  "Two taels of silver are nothing to me!" Teng Qing Shan laughed and said, "Cha Bu brothers, if you think highly of Huhe, then take it."

  Cha Bu was taken aback and couldn't help but smile wryly. The other party said it like that, if he didn't accept it now, it would be looking down on the other party.

  "Alright, I've accepted it." Zhang Wuji said immediately, "Hua Brothers, aren't you curious about the trial outside? Let's go take a look together."

  "Go." Teng Qing Shan smiled and nodded.

  "I'm going too!" The grassland children scrambled up in a flash.

  "Haha, let's go." Teng Qing Shan laughed and held the child's hand, walking out of the yurt. He followed the direction of the sound with the robust man 'Zhabu', heading northeast...

  As he went deeper into the tribe, Teng Qing had an estimate of the size of the entire tribe: "The entire tribe has just over a hundred tents! There are large and small tents. However, judging from this... The population of the entire tribe should be less than a thousand. It's a small tribe."

  At this time, Teng Qing Shan had already seen the two people on the grassland in front of him, who were currently competing with each other in knife techniques. One person was tall and sturdy, with a tiger's back and bear's waist, while the other person was lean and thin like a wild wolf. The knives used by both of them were curved knives commonly seen on the grasslands.

  Hoo! Hoo!

  The two dodged nimbly, constantly crossing each other. From time to time, they would give each other a ruthless slash, without holding back at all.

  "Cheers!"

  "Hah!"

  Both of them had hot air on their faces and stared at each other tightly.

  "This method is good, using a wooden knife! And the wooden knife is also wrapped in sheepskin. Even if you use force to chop, at most it will only hurt people." Teng Qing Shan nodded secretly.

  Next to him, Chabu smiled and said: "Hoho, brother. How about the strength of our tribe's good men? The one who is a bit thinner, that is our tribe's number one good man 'Sulan'. He has killed more than ten horse thieves, and he himself was not injured at all! Moreover, even the women of the 'Wan Shi Tribe' are willing to marry Sulan brother!" Chabu's face was full of pride and self-satisfaction.

  "Not bad, very impressive." Teng Qing Shan praised with a smile, "Your knife skills and internal energy, where did you learn them?" Teng Qing Shan could tell at a glance that these two had learned internal energy. Otherwise, their movements wouldn't be so fast.

  On the vast land of Kyushu, many ordinary people have no chance to learn internal energy! However, in this small and humble Qianlian tribe, the two who fought were both masters of internal energy. It was astonishing to Tan Qing Shan: "In my previous visits to those tribes, I just ate and left. I didn't notice whether they practiced internal energy or not!"

  "Nei Jin? Knife skills?" Zhabu laughed, "On the vast grasslands, it's only our northern tribes that can learn Nei Jin and knife skills! Those in the central and southern regions can't learn them."

  Teng Qing Shan stared at Cha Bu in surprise.

  "These knife methods and inner strength are the messengers of Tiānshén Mountain, given to each of our tribes!" Chābù said with great reverence. "The messengers of Tiānshén Mountain have given us hope! And they also said that if we can lift the 5,000-jin giant stone, we can enter Tiānshén Mountain and live on Tiānshén Mountain!"

  Teng Qing Shan was shocked from the bottom of his heart!

  Five thousand catty giant stone?

  It's on the vast land of Kyushu, being able to lift a 2,000-jin giant stone is considered a second-rate martial artist. Lifting a 10,000-jin giant stone is a first-rate martial artist! Being able to lift 5,000 jin, even among second-rate martial artists, is extremely formidable. Like the Black Armor Army of the Guiyuan Sect, ordinary squad leaders have such strength.

  "This Tian Shen Mountain, actually dares to give the internal energy manual and knife method to all the surrounding tribes. And doesn't worry about the manual being spread leading to the emergence of forces that can overthrow it! This audacity is astonishing!" Teng Qing Shan thought to himself, on the vast land of Jiuzhou, no sect would casually disseminate their internal energy manual.

  On the green lawn.

  The two heroes in the tribe finally distinguished between victory and defeat.

  "Surrender! I give up!" The tall and sturdy man was pinned down by his opponent's knee on his back, pressed onto the ground.

  "Uncle Slan is the most powerful!" The children beside Teng Qing Shan excitedly shouted.

  Teng Qing Shan smiled and patted the child's head, then turned to Cha Bu and said: "Brother Cha Bu, I still have things to attend to. I'll take my leave first!"

  "What's the hurry?" asked Zhang Bei.

  Hong Qingshan was about to speak, but his face changed color and he turned his head towards the south. With his six senses, he could distinguish that there were waves of vibrations coming from the south. It should be the vibrations caused by a large number of horseshoes.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  "Horse thieves! Horse thieves!!!" Suddenly a sharp cry pierced the tranquility of the entire tribe.

  Sulang's face changed as he let out a loud shout: "The elderly and children, get into the yurt! Men, follow me!"

  The men rushed forward, the women followed behind, each face with a look of madness.

  "Kilan, go into the yurt." Nachab pushed his son and strode quickly over. At this moment he had no time to greet Teng Qing Shan.

  Teng Qing Shan also followed the crowd and ran towards the front.

  "It's Kyofu Corps!"

  "Hurricane!"

  "It's a gale!"

  From the southernmost part, a voice of extreme terror came, this terrified scream, as if a large hammer struck the hearts of all the people in the tribe. The men and women of the tribe who were still madly preparing to tear the enemy apart suddenly changed their faces. Even the curved knives that had been raised were withdrawn.

  "Huh? What's going on?" Teng Qing Shan quickly arrived at the front and took a glance.

  At the forefront of the Qilian tribe, a large group of knights clad in silver-gray armor stood still. The tribal chief had already rushed to the front.

  "Respected Lord of the Stormwind Clan." The silver-haired old man in thick robes bowed and said.

  The knight leader on the war horse, his gaze piercing through the cold mask at the tribal chief: "Kelian tribe! One year has passed. Your tribe has more than 800 people, three to four silver coins per person. Not counting the change, you need to pay 2,400 silver coins!"

  "Three or two silver coins?" Teng Qing Shan was shocked upon hearing this.

  In wealthy Yangzhou, the White Horse Gang collected annual fees of only half a tael of silver per person. However, the grassland tribes were much poorer than the nine states. For example, if a family had four mouths to feed, they would have to pay 12 taels of silver! In the grassland tribes, such as this lower-level tribe, a family's annual income was barely enough to scrape together 12 taels!

  "Not eating or drinking is not enough to pay the silver. Is this forcing people to death?" Teng Qing Shan's face changed greatly, "And this Qian Lian tribe, the customs are also quite fierce. However, upon hearing the two words 'crazy wind', they were scared out of their wits. It's no wonder!" Teng Qing Shan saw through it at a glance.

  In front of us, this cavalry team is all wearing silver-gray armor, and the horses are also high-quality warhorses. In the nine states, only the "White Horse Camp" of the White Horse Gang can barely compare.

  "Elder!" The tribal leader suddenly knelt down and begged, "Please, elder, give us the Qi Lian tribe half a year's time. We will definitely make it up, now we really don't have that much silver!"

  "You have no silver, won't you rob other tribes?" The leader on the war horse sneered, "On the vast grassland, a useless tribe like yours doesn't deserve to exist. Since you can't pay up... then it's the old rules!"

  Everyone in the Qilian tribe changed their faces greatly.

  "Spare my life."

  "Spare our lives." Many people knelt down.

  Teng Qing Shan felt that something was amiss, what old rules were they talking about? Cha Bu, who was not far from Teng Qing Shan, also turned pale with fright and knelt down to plead.

  "Brothers, let's begin!" The tribal leader's eyes were cold and sinister.

  "Ahhh~~"

  One by one, the knights let out wolf-like howls and raised their curved blades high. Teng Qing Shan somewhat understood what his opponent's old rules were!

  "Isn't it time to resist yet?" Teng Qing Shan was very puzzled in his heart, at the moment of death, he should have fought back, he looked at Cha Bu, who was kneeling: "No, no——"

  "After having a meal, I'll help you guys once."

  Teng Qing's cold and clear eyes swept towards that group of fierce and wild knights, who seemed like a pack of wolves, wanting to devour the tribe.

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