The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

Shuoji

Saying goodbye to Quinn, Lestara and Hualuo who walked together all the way, and Sona, the girl who has only known each other for less than a day, but let Lothar never forget, Lothar embarked on a new journey, all the way over the mountains Cross the sea and continue to the eastern part of Ionia.

Swain really didn’t lie to Lothar. Although he didn’t know what the reason was, the song by Sona did reduce the cold pain on Lothar’s body a lot.

But in the end, it was just a reduction. The cold pain was not eradicated. As time passed, it gradually returned to the original pain.

“Why are you still following me?” Lothar pressed his hand firmly on Akali, who had just run to the fruit farmer’s house to pick plums, and squeezed her fingers hard.

“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!” Akali punched Lothar hard, “It’s a pity that I even helped you get plums, you white-eyed wolf!”

“Say, why didn’t Kenan take you away? He really isn’t afraid of any danger you might run into with me.”

“Hmph! This girl is smart and agile, she is not afraid of anything!”

“Who was it that was afraid of thunder last night and insisted on getting into my bed and sleeping with me?”

“That’s… I thought it was Kenan who came looking for me, but who would have thought that it was Fanyun Jiao and Gang Leiqiu who were fighting…”

Lothar recalled the exaggeratedly large thunderstorm last night. The nearby mountains were all baptized by thunder, and they could feel tremors wherever they stood.

“Don’t say you weren’t frightened.” Akali was chewing plums. The girl didn’t know why, but after saying goodbye to Quinn and the others, she was always in a good mood. After more than a month, she was bouncing around all day, very happy.

“How could I be frightened.” Lothar said contemptuously, “I have experienced more terrible thunderstorms before, and it was still in the middle of the thunderstorm.”

“Just blow it.” Akali climbed onto Lothar’s back and strangled his neck. “Tell me, apart from Kenan and those two big dragons, who can make that kind of noise?”

“A bear.”

“Ah” Akali was stunned.

No matter how much Akali asked, Lothar didn’t say anything more.

“Tell me, tell me, tell me!” Akali twisted Lothar’s ear, but he was unmoved. He just grabbed Akali’s calf so that she couldn’t kick his ass.

“I’ll tell you when you behave better.” Lothar talked about the conditions.

But Akali suddenly fell silent.

“Smelly girl” Lothar looked back at Akali.

“There!” Akali suddenly pointed to a tree beside the road, “There is a dragon on it!”

“Dragon” Lothar hurriedly turned around to look, holding a few blood crystal throwing knives in his hands, “Where are they?”

“Disappeared!”Akali kept patting Lothar’s shoulder, “It was still there just now! Keep staring at us!”

Section 127

Losa searched for a long time but couldn’t find it: “Are you sure you saw it?”

“Really! A very small dragon, emerald green!”

“Could it be that you see snakes as dragons?”

“It seems…it doesn’t look like…” After Lothar said this, Akali herself was not quite sure.

“Okay, it doesn’t matter whether we misunderstood or not, and he didn’t attack us.” Lothar rubbed Akali’s head, “Should arrive at the destination soon.”

“Oh…” Akali still looked at the tree with concern.

Lothar continued walking, and the mountains in front of them were gradually revealed in front of their eyes.

A very long staircase spread along the mountain, leading directly to a temple on the mountain.

“Why do Ionians like to build places like temples to the top of the mountain?” Lothar threw Akali off his back, “Aren’t you tired from climbing?”

“You don’t understand.” Akali proudly said with her hands on her hips, “There are spirits on the mountain, and the higher the mountain, the stronger the spirit. And the way to climb the mountain can also test the determination of the aspirant, which is also a part of practice. ”

“So do you like it?”

“Of course I don’t like it. My legs will break when I walk.”

“Do you know why I put you down?”

“Ah!” Akali finally realized it, but Lothar was already laughing and rushing forward.

“Hey! Wait!” Akali chased after him angrily, “Stingy!”

Two people, one big and one small, chased and ran up the mountain steps, leaving behind the sound of laughter echoing in the forest.

Lothar uses blood magic to control the blood flow and heart rate. Even if he runs at full speed for a long time, he will not feel chest pain and leg aches.

But Akali didn’t have this ability. Gradually, her little arms and legs struggled to run, and she followed Lothar out of breath.

“Surrender?” Lothar turned around and asked, “Surrender and I will carry you.”

“Ha…ha…ha…” Akali lay down on the stone steps, “Surrender and surrender…Quickly carry me…”

Lothar lifted Akali on his back and continued to climb.

This is a small game between him and Akali. The one who surrenders first every day must satisfy the other party’s requirements. Lothar usually asks Akali to teach him more Ionian language, and Akali has a lot of tricks, asking Lothar to accompany her to catch unicorns, grab monkey wine from the mountain monkey group, and so on.

The steps of the mountain were very high. Lothar ran for several hours without reaching the top of the mountain until the scorching sun was in the sky.

Akali hugged Lothar tightly. The icy cold feeling coming from his body made Akali not feel hot even under direct sunlight, so she narrowed her eyes comfortably.

“The benefactor, please stay.”

A child’s voice suddenly sounded from above, and Lothar raised his head in surprise, because he hadn’t sensed that someone was approaching in advance.

Standing on the top of the steps was a boy in a monk’s robe, who looked about the same age as Akali, holding a Zen stick in his hand, with an extremely delicate appearance, and full of aura in his eyes, he couldn’t tell whether he was a boy or a girl for a while.

“The two benefactors came to Shuoji Temple, why?” the boy asked, his figure clear and pleasant.

Lothar patted Akali’s butt, and the girl jumped off his back knowingly.

Lothar recalled what Swain wrote to him. He clasped his hands together and bowed slightly towards the boy: “This little master, dare to ask the Dharma name.”

The boy blinked and saluted Lothar with palms together: “I don’t dare to take the name of the Dharma. I have the name of Huining.”

“Master Huining.” Lothar bowed again, and Huining followed suit.

Akali rolled her eyes, and said in her heart: “The monk is troublesome, with so many etiquettes, it is better to balance the sect…”

“The purpose of saluting is to show respect, not to be redundant.” Hui Ning said suddenly.

Akali was startled: “He’s talking to me.”

Behind Hui Ning, a small green figure emerged and wrapped around his Zen staff.

“Ahhh!” Akali pointed at the Zen stick, “Luosha, Luosha! That’s the dragon I just told you to peek at us!”

It is indeed a very small dragon. If it didn’t have horns on its head, beards on the tip of its nose, and a green body like jade, it would really look like a little snake.

It was the first time Lothar saw such a small dragon, and he couldn’t help staring at it curiously. The little dragon was not afraid, so he just looked at it.

“Why did the benefactor come here?” Hui Ning asked again.

“Then why did Master Huining let this dragon peek at us from the foot of the mountain?” Lothar asked back.

Hui Ning lightly shook the Zen stick, and the little dragon got into his sleeve and disappeared: “The little monk didn’t intend to spy on the benefactor, but the little monk’s dragon felt that the benefactor was different from ordinary people, and went alone out of curiosity, not at the behest of the little monk.”

“Dragon…” Akali remembered what the big sisters of Huajie taught her, and remembered seeing Luosha taking a bath, with a weird smile on her face.

“The dragon is not what you think, it’s just the lies of the woman in Liuxiang.” Hui Ning said suddenly again.

“Annoying.” Akali turned her head, “This guy can really read my mind.”

Lothar looked towards the top of the mountain, Shuoji Temple was in front of him, and so was his hope of healing.

“Master Hui Ning can see that there is something wrong with me.”

Hui Ning stared at Losa for a moment: “The benefactor is very cold. Just standing in front of the benefactor, I feel like I have stepped into the cold winter.”

“As Master Huining said.” Lothar said sincerely, “I heard that there is a master in Shuoji Temple who can solve my problems, so I came here.”

Hui Ning looked at Losa and nodded slightly: “Well, the benefactor is very sincere, dare to ask the benefactor which master he wants to find?”

Lothar said a name: “LiMaster Qing. ”

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Shuoji Temple is the most famous martial arts temple in Ionia.

Most martial arts and magic inheritances in Ionia are quite closed and conservative. Some will only select a small number of disciples, some will only be passed on to blood relatives, and there are many secret inheritances of a single lineage. But Shuoji is a relatively open monastery, with many disciples, as long as those who seek the Tao are sincere, almost all comers are welcome.

Shuoji Temple was also one of the few forces that actively responded to the war against Noxus during the invasion of Noxus. Many monks under the sect provided a very important force for Ionia to resist Noxus.

Shuoji’s monks are good at using fists and kicks. It is said that their bodies can be tempered until they are invulnerable. But they are not only good at hand-to-hand combat, otherwise it would be difficult to get on the battlefield. The Spear of Shoji is their signature weapon, a long-handled sharp blade that is required for all monks.

There is another very interesting rumor in Shuoji. It is said that there is a unique inheritance in Shuoji Temple – Shenlong.

——Excerpt from Izreal’s “Ionian Travels