"Sister, they..."
Ming Li glanced indifferently at the pale youth beside her and said, "They are all murderous villains, and their deaths are well deserved."
Su Ran, "But, Sister..."
Ming Li rubbed the youth's head and looked at the bodies scattered on the ground, her eyes devoid of emotion. "Xiao Ran, one cannot be too soft-hearted, or you won't know how you died."
Hearing this, Su Ran's mind flashed back to the night the Su manor was annihilated. His originally panicked eyes gradually calmed down. "Sister, I understand."
"Mhm." Seeing the change in the youth, Ming Li nodded with satisfaction and said, "Let's go, let's go meet the leader of the mountain stronghold."
They hadn't walked two steps when a burly man with a scar on his face, carrying a saber, led a group of subordinates over.
Seeing the bandits lying in pools of blood, the burly man's eyes darkened, and he asked in an unfriendly tone, "Who killed them?"
Hearing this, Ming Li frowned and said unceremoniously, "Are you blind?" Besides the siblings here, was there anyone else...
Hearing Ming Li's words, the man's unfriendly gaze fell on her. "Little brat, what did you just say!"
Meeting the man's fierce gaze, Ming Li was completely calm. A large iron hammer inexplicably appeared beside her.
Ming Li casually waved her hand and said lightly, "Don't kill them."
The large iron hammer trembled slightly, and the next second, it violently flew towards the group of bandits...
After a round of miserable screams, the large iron hammer wiped the blood off itself and returned to Ming Li's side.
Ming Li put the large iron hammer back into her spatial dimension and, pulling Su Ran, walked unhurriedly into the leader of the bandits, who was writhing on the ground and howling.
"Was it you bandits who massacred the entire Su family?"
Looking at the little girl in front of him, who resembled a demon, the leader of the bandits gritted his teeth, his killing intent impossible to hide. "Bitch! I will not let you go!"
Ming Li frowned and muttered to herself, "It shouldn't be them."
With that, she waved her hand and pulled Su Ran away from there.
After the two left, a flash of silver light, a splash of blood, and the people on the ground instantly lost their lives.
"Are you scared?"
Hearing Ming Li's words, Su Ran nodded, then shook his head and said, "I am, but they are bad people, so I'm not scared."
Ming Li smiled. "Xiao Ran, do you want to become stronger?"
Su Ran froze, looked up at Ming Li, and asked, "Become as strong as Sister?"
Ming Li raised an eyebrow. "You want to become as powerful as me?"
Su Ran nodded. "Yes, then I can protect Sister. But... Sister, you are an immortal, and I am just a mortal. Sister, you probably don't need my protection, right..."
Ming Li raised an eyebrow. "Who knows?"
...
After that, Su Ran followed Ming Li and flattened two more bandit hideouts.
It was already afternoon, and they still hadn't found the group of bandits. Ming Li was getting impatient. She summoned the system from her spatial dimension and asked, "How many bandit hideouts are there here?!"
The system glanced at the system display screen and said, "Four."
Hearing this, Ming Li said expressionlessly, "Where is the last one?"
The system pointed in a direction. Seeing this, Ming Li narrowed her eyes, stuffed the system into Su Ran's arms, and then carried Su Ran towards the direction the system indicated.
The two soon arrived at the last bandit hideout.
Looking at the mountain stronghold below, Ming Li narrowed her eyes, and her figure flashed, disappearing into the air.
"Who are you people? Where did you come from!" Two men with large sabers blocked Ming Li and Su Ran, asking with a frown.
Ming Li sensed the bloody aura on them and narrowed her eyes dangerously, asking, "Do you know how the landlord Master Su of Dong Village died?"
Hearing Ming Li's words, the two men squinted warily. One of them asked, "What relation are you to him?"
He heard that the Su landlord's family had two children, and when the Su family was massacred, those two children seemed to have escaped...
Thinking this, the man gave the other man a look, and the next second, they unnoticeably moved closer to Ming Li and the other.
Seeing this, Ming Li pulled Su Ran behind her and asked, "Did you massacre the Su family?"
Seeing that the two did not speak, Ming Li frowned, drew her sword, and with two thuds, they fell to the ground...
Hearing the commotion from this side, some bandits shouted from nearby. When they received no response, they came forward with their sabers, but there was nothing in the spot except two unpleasant puddles of water...
Su Ran looked at the small bottle in Ming Li's hand and instinctively swallowed. "Sister... is this the legendary corpse-dissolving water?"
Ming Li raised an eyebrow. "You know?"
Su Ran, "I saw it in a picture book before."
Ming Li, "..."
After a moment of silence, Ming Li took Su Ran directly to the room of the leader of this bandit stronghold.
The leader of the bandits, who was in the middle of "exercising," was startled by the two children who suddenly kicked open the door and burst in. He quickly pulled up his pants. "Who are you!"