Chapter 434 - Huang And Xing (2/2)

He quickly replaced the true spirit stones and used his Qi to activate the boat. After that, all he had to do for the day was looking for the caravan.

He flew for hours on end but did not manage to find the caravan at all.

”They must have taken a different route. Whatever, I will directly go to the city then,” he thought and took a direct route to the west, instead of trying to follow the route.

However, just as he was about to stray from the path, he heard something. Alex looked towards the front and could see some sort of smoke coming out.

He moved his boats in that direction and could finally hear a larger amount of shouting from that area.

”Is that a caravan?” Alex thought when he saw that. There really was a caravan under attack, but it wasn't the caravan he was looking for.

”Bandits!” Alex said when he finally saw what was happening.

He quickly sped up to help the caravan. When he got close, he jumped out of the boat and quickly took it into his storage bag before concealing himself and getting closer to them.

”Damn those bandits. Why are there so many across the empire? I should help those people in the— huh?” Alex was surprised when he finally reached the location of the caravan.

He lifted his concealment and got closer to watch what was happening.

The caravan was indeed under attack and one of the carriages was burning with smokes plumes coming out without stop.

However, the countless shouts didn't belong to the members of the caravan at all.

It was in fact the Bandits. The bandits were currently inside a barrier and were surrounded by green smoke that seemed to hurt them.

Alex looked down towards the members of the caravan and saw them looking at the bandits in horror.

Everyone seemed to be unaccustomed to what was happening, except for 2 people who seemed to be the cause of it all.

Alex looked at their red robes and recognized them, or at least he recognized the sect.

The red-robed man looked towards the Sky to where Alex was and got ready to fight. But then when he saw the Yellow robe on his body, he stopped.

”Xing'er, that man is from Tiger sect, right?” he asked the girl next to him.

The girl turned towards the Sky and saw Alex too. ”Yes, I believe so, Elder brother,” she said.

Alex was surprised that they met each other in such away. He dropped down to the ground and took another look at the men in the barrier.

They were now starting to claw out their faces from all the pain they were suffering. It was a truly inhumane way to kill someone.

But he did not feel any pity, as bandits were known to do such horrible things.

”Fellow Daoist, may I know who you are?” the man said.

”Greetings, my name is Yu Ming. I came to help, but… it seems you don't need my help,” Alex said.

”Ah, these were just minor bandits that thought they could take their chances while the stronger ones were hiding due to the beast attacks.”

”Even if we didn't help, this little caravan could have successfully fought them off. But since we saw them, we decided to help,” the man said.  ”Oh right, My name is Xiao Huang. This is my senior sister, Luo Xing.”

”Hello,” Luo Xing said.

”Ah, yes. I recognize sister Xing. I assume you are going back to Rubyroad as well, right?” Alex asked.

”How… do you know that?” she asked, suddenly getting suspicious. The man named Xiao Huang suddenly flared up his cultivation base as well.

'True Realm cultivator? He did look quite old,' Alex thought.

”Please forgive me for not properly introducing myself. I am a Junior apprentice-brother to sister Luo Mei. She is on a caravan ride to Rubyroad city as well. However, during the beast hoard attack, I got separated from them.”

”I was trying to search for the caravan when I spotted this one,” Alex said.

”You are Mei'er's junior brother?” she asked.

”Yes,” Alex said. ”It's good to finally meet you, Sister Xing. I wanted to speak during the Annual competition, but didn't get the chance.”

”Didn't get the chance? Or did Mei'er just not bother?” Luo Xing asked.

”Uhh…” Alex didn't know what to say.

”Whatever, I need to leave soon, senior brother,” Luo Xing said.

”Ah right. I will finish them off now,” Xiao Huang said and suddenly upped his Qi input in the 10-meter wide barrier.

The speed at which the men died increased by a lot and within a dozen seconds, they were all dead.

Xiao Huang swiped his hands in a gesture and 6 formation flags came flying towards him.

”Let's go,” he said. The Caravan people tried to thank him, but he didn't accept any of it. Instead, he even let those people take the bandit's storage bag.

Just as the two of them were about to leave, Alex called out to them.

”Um, Sister Xing,” Alex called out. ”Would you mind if I go the remainder of your journey with you guys?”