Ultimate Village Doctor

Chapter 526: Chapter 574: Crossing the River

Chapter 574

Having dealt with Pan Hu’s issue,

Long Xiaoshan invited everyone to sit by the campfire and eat rabbit meat, including the two people from the Xue Ling Sect.

These two fellows were also quite unlucky, having been ordered around by Long Xiaoshan all day long, still bearing injuries, and already utterly exhausted—they had been ravenous for a while now.

Long Xiaoshan cut the rabbit meat a few times, leaving the tender parts for the two women and divided the rest, giving half to the others.

A group of people sat by the campfire, eating the juicy, fatty rabbit.

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It had to be said that the meat Hua Die grilled was really great, with those special spices added, it was definitely the best barbecue Long Xiaoshan had ever had. Moreover, the rabbit meat here was much better than outside, fatty but not greasy, with a rich flavor bursting in the mouth with each bite.

He gobbled down three or four jin of meat in one go, his stomach round and full.

After eating their fill, the rain outside continued non-stop.

It was dark again and there was nothing to do, so everyone lay by the fire. After a day of exhaustion, people quickly fell asleep and started snoring, but Long Xiaoshan wasn’t that tired—his stamina was always good.

Seeing everyone else asleep, he stood up, threw a few Jade Talismans into the cave, pinched a trick, and a thick fog rolled in, filling the entire cave in an instant. In the blink of an eye, the fog then disappeared within the cave.

After setting up the Formation, Long Xiaoshan sat down by the fire to meditate.

He had just sat down when he felt an itch on his foot. Opening his eyes, he saw Lan Wan’er teasing his foot with her pale and delicate toes.

Long Xiaoshan gave her a look that said, “Stop it.”

Lan Wan’er cast a flirtatious glance at him, and instead of stopping, she intensified her teasing. Long Xiaoshan couldn’t handle the provocation from this little temptress and reached out to grab her petite foot. She quickly withdrew her foot and gave Long Xiaoshan a giggling smile.

“You little temptress,” Long Xiaoshan pounced toward her.

Lan Wan’er rolled inward with agility, cunning as a little fox, and beckoned to Long Xiaoshan with a curling finger.

The two of them disappeared into the depths of the cave, one after the other.

The night passed.

Long Xiaoshan walked out holding Lan Wan’er.

The people by the campfire were awake.

Each of them had dark circles under their eyes, especially Hua Die, who now had panda eyes.

Long Xiaoshan said, “What’s wrong with all of you? You look so haggard—didn’t sleep well last night?”

Hua Die’s cheeks flushed red and she cast a resentful glance at Long Xiaoshan.

Pan Hu and the two from the Xue Ling Sect had twitching faces, looking at Long Xiaoshan with a mix of inferiority and shock in their eyes.

Indeed, a barbarian. While they were as exhausted as him from the journey, rendered immobile, this guy was up to mischief all night, and still was bursting with energy, making them both jealous and resentful.

They were all human; why was the gap so big?

Pan Hu couldn’t help but glance at Hua Die, feeling heartache. He thought that the Saintess would inevitably become this barbarian’s plaything—and such a robust barbarian at that. The Saintess would have a hard time in the days to come.

The rain outside had stopped, and Long Xiaoshan dismantled the Formation. He glanced at the two from the Xue Ling Sect and Pan Hu and said, “Now that the rain has stopped, I won’t make it difficult for you. Those who want to leave may go.”

The two from the Xue Ling Sect looked at each other and quickly ran out of the cave, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

“And you?” Long Xiaoshan looked at Pan Hu.

“I will go as well.” Pan Hu did not want to stay here and see the Saintess being played with by another man.

Hua Die hurriedly said, “Pan Hu, don’t go. You are still injured, and without your Life-bound Gu Worm, it’s too dangerous for you to go alone.”

When Pan Hu thought about relying on others, especially needing the protection of a barbarian like Long Xiaoshan, he felt even more uncomfortable. He insisted on leaving no matter what. Hua Die could only hand over some of her Gu Insects to him and left him some Elixir Pills, watching him leave.

After sending Pan Hu off, Long Xiaoshan also quickly set off with the two women.

After passing through a forest, a loud rushing sound came into view. When they emerged, they were faced with a rushing river. Because of last night’s downpour, the river was very turbulent.

Long Xiaoshan looked at the water’s momentum and gave up on the idea of swimming across directly. He probably would have been okay by himself, but taking the two women across was definitely not an option. Most troubling was that the water was so muddy, with sand and silt being carried along, who knew what could be in there.

Once a person fell into the water, they would not be able to exert even half of their full strength.

Long Xiaoshan looked around and his eyes lit up. He walked to a big tree with a diameter of two to three meters, pulled out his Flame Precious Saber, and with all his True Qi, struck a blow, a brilliant flash of the saber’s gleam passing by.

The big tree slowly fell. Long Xiaoshan then chopped off a five-meter section from the fallen trunk, split it into two, and hollowed out the center, making a rudimentary canoe.

Long Xiaoshan pushed the canoe to the riverbank and called out, “Wan’er and Hua Die, get on.”

“Will this work? Should we wait until the water calms down a bit before crossing?” said Hua Die, looking worriedly at the crude canoe and the surging river.

“The water won’t go down for a while, and by the look of the sky, it might even rain more. We need to hurry and cross the river,” Long Xiaoshan replied.

“Alright then,” Hua Die said.

The two women climbed onto the canoe, and Long Xiaoshan gave it a strong push. The canoe hit the water, and he then leaped aboard. With True Qi flowing through his feet, he propelled the canoe toward the opposite bank.

The canoe bobbed up and down on the torrential river like a leaf.

However, Long Xiaoshan consistently used his True Qi to keep the canoe steady on the surface of the water, preventing it from capsizing. As the canoe reached the midstream, Long Xiaoshan’s face suddenly changed, and with a forceful stomp on the canoe, it swiftly shot forward several meters. Boom! A monstrous fish, over ten meters long and bristling with sharp teeth, burst out of the water, narrowly missing smashing the canoe to pieces.