The Team

Fichal Estuary lay more than 400 kilometers from the Gray Eagle Tribe...

Just as the sky began to brighten in the morning, Zhang Tie set out with the Gray Eagle Tribe's party. By a little after two in the afternoon, after six or seven hours of nonstop travel, the Gray Eagle Tribe's party finally arrived at Fichal Estuary.

Fichal Estuary and Snow Wolf Lake lay in two completely different directions. Snow Wolf Lake was northeast of the Gray Eagle Tribe, while Fichal Estuary was northwest of it, with roughly 500 kilometers between them.

Along the way, Zhang Tie finally experienced the long-distance running ability of a rhinoceros horse firsthand and thoroughly indulged his craving to be cavalry. After being tempered over those 400-plus kilometers, his Horsemanship improved again. At this point, Zhang Tie no longer needed his hands to control the reins; he could drive the rhinoceros horse entirely with his legs.

For any cavalryman, freeing one's hands while atop a mount was the first step toward possessing combat power.

Zhang Tie had not expected this trip to the Ice and Snow Wilderness to unexpectedly give him some practice in Horsemanship, one of Hidden Dragon Hall's six required courses, and he was in high spirits. Though he knew that the so-called Horsemanship course at Hidden Dragon Hall certainly would not be as simple as letting him ride around without falling off, and would surely include many combat techniques on mounts, various riding maneuvers, and standardized cavalry training, who cared? He could take those things slowly. Zhang Tie also refused to believe that, as the sole inheritor of the Great Wilderness Sect, there would be any mount he could not handle...

So Zhang Tie rode with great delight! To everyone else, this was a march; to Zhang Tie, it was practically