Riding Hard

Ling Yi urged his horse on, galloping along the main road the duchy had repaired within the past few years. As he watched the scenery on either side race backward, he could hardly keep his spirits from soaring.

Sometimes, no matter how firmly one trained the mind, the neural stimulation caused by hormones secreted by the body was one of the traits rooted in the human species.

What people called freeing their nature often meant letting their actions follow the impulses those hormones stirred in their bodies.

At that moment, Ling Yi made no effort to suppress his nature. He immediately waved to Ye Luo and his brother Yue Qing behind him, who were driving the carriages, and shouted, "Brother Ye, Brother Yue, I'll go on ahead! We'll meet again in Wood Plant City!"

Before Ye Luo and Yue Qing could react to his call, they saw Ling Yi open his mouth once more.

"Ah Feng! Ah Xin! Ah Yin!"

At his three successive calls, Zhang Mufeng, Qingqiu Xin, and Long Yin shouted back in unison, "Brother Yi!" "Brother Yi!" "Brother Yi!"

Ling Yi laughed. "Let's go!"

"Yes!" "Coming, Brother Yi!" "All right!"

Ye Luo, driving a carriage, and Yue Qing, riding beside him, exchanged glances as they watched Ling Yi take the lead on horseback, with the three youths riding after him.

"Th-this... they're leaving just like that?" Ye Luo felt his liver quiver inside the belly that had only been stitched up a few days ago.

Yue Qing nodded blankly. "Yeah, they're gone."

"No..." Ye Luo turned mechanically toward his younger brother and asked again, dumbfounded, "He... this... Young Brother Ling and the others, they're really leaving just like that?"

After asking, he raised a hand and pointed behind himself.

Inside the carriage behind him were two large