The Long Road of Ten Thousand Paths
Chapter 54

Desperate Straits

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But by the time they mounted their horses, Li Qi had already vanished without a trace!

Besides, they could not ride their horses into the water.

Li Qi thanked Uncle Liu several times in his heart.

Wave-Pushing Strength was an enormous advantage against people who could not swim.

It was precisely because of this that the Wave-Pushing Gang could remain safe. After all, both the Mighty Gang and the Water-Horse Gang were formidable in a fight, but once they entered the water, the Wave-Pushing Gang stood undefeated.

He followed the current downstream.

The sound of hooves continued behind him. Sometimes, they even rushed ahead of Li Qi, trying to cut him off.

The soldiers refused to give up, swearing to cut off Li Qi's head!

But this was a pitch-black mountain road. Li Qi flowed downstream as though traveling on a highway, while they could not do the same on horseback.

If they had been riding Dragon Steeds like Old Ma's, capable of leaping ten zhang at a time, even surrounded by cloud qi as they soared lightly through the air, Li Qi would never have escaped.

But their horses were merely ordinary spirit steeds.

Leaping three zhang was already their limit, let alone ten.

Thus, although they raced swiftly through the mountain forests, it was difficult for them to keep pace with the winding river.

If the river had run in a straight line, Li Qi definitely would not have been able to outswim them.

But... this was the mountains. There were waterfalls.

Whenever Li Qi encountered a waterfall, even one ten zhang high, he dared to jump straight down. There would be a pool below, after all, and it would not be too shallow.

Divers dared to leap from ten-meter platforms. His physique was more than twenty times

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