28 Chapter 28 – Scaring the Bandits (1/2)

Zhu Xuan didn't know how long passed before his feet touched the ground.

He felt dizzy; He sat down and cleared his mind. After a while, he stood up to check his surroundings. He was in a forest, but he was sure this place was not anywhere near Qinglu city. The landscape, forest, trees are completely different.

He realised he has been teleported somewhere he has no clue about from Qinglu city. If he had known, he would have simply stayed in his courtyard and told his aunt he will be undergoing close door cultivation.

He would have been glad if it had been near a city or a village so that he can check where he is, but he realised he is in the middle of nowhere.

He couldn't help but curse loudly ”Where the hell am I?”

He heard Shen Long's voice as soon as he cursed ”You are in the area where the Blood claw bandit group is active. You have one week's time to kill everyone of the bandit group. Once you finish the mission, inject your Qi into the pendant and you will be able to go back. If you haven't finished the mission in a week, you will be taken back to Qinglu city anyway and you will receive penalty.”

Zhu Xuan asked Shen Long once he finished ”Senior Long, so where am I?”

But there was no more response from Shen Long, he waited for a while and realised he was not going to say anything to him. He calmed down and chose a direction to walk. After half a day of walk, he saw smoke rising from a distance. He got elated and realised there must be some people towards the direction. He immediately started running towards the direction of smoke and found a village in the distance. As he got near to the village, he realised it's not smoke from any village activities, but the houses of the village were burning.

He increased his speed to the maximum and reached the village. He was furious when he found dead bodies everywhere; men, women, children, all are brutally murdered. He was boiling in anger when he realised what the bandits did to the whole village.

Suddenly he heard sounds and wails from the other end of the village. He quickly ran towards the direction of sound and found around fifty villagers were chased by more than ten bandits who are swinging the weapons in their hands crazily. He saw a young boy who was running in the back was cut by a crazy bandit and died.

Zhu Xuan ran towards them like a ferocious tiger and started beheading them without a word. The bandits were merely at sixth or seventh stage of body purification, so they didn't stand a chance.

After killing every bandit only Zhu Xuan calmed down. He looked at the remaining villagers and found them scared of him too. He sheathed his swords and explained ”I mean you no harm, please calm down. I was only passing by the village and found these bandits, so I killed them.”

They still didn't say anything to him and was in fear. One middle aged man walked out of the group and said ”Thank you for helping us Young master.”

Zhu Xuan simply waved his hand said ”Not a problem. Are you the only people escaped from the bandits?”

The middle aged man replied with a sad tone ”Yes Young master, we are the only ones alive in the village. But, the Blood claw bandits took some young men and women of our village with them and the few of the bandits you killed just now were left here to kill the remaining villagers.”

When he heard the bandits are from Blood claw bandits, Zhu Xuan confirmed his doubts. He asked the middle aged man ”Do you know where their stronghold is?”

The middle aged man shook his head and said ”I don't know Young master. But I did hear them talking among them, that they are going to the next village few miles away from here to pillage.”

Zhu Xuan immediately got excited and asked ”How long where they gone? And can you tell me the location of the village and how to get there?”

The middle aged man was shocked and said ”Young master, don't go. It's too dangerous, that group has a leader of the Blood claw bandits leading them, and he is very powerful.”