Chapter 975: Chapter 949 All Slain
“Hmph, how nice your words sound. Your deceitful faces can only fool an ignorant fool. Do you think you can trick us? Of those captured and taken up the mountain by you, who can escape the fate of death?”
“We can stand and die, but we will never kneel and live. If you want us to surrender, you better keep dreaming. You mountain bandits of Ox Demon Mountain, you bastards, if you have the guts, just kill us. You’ve committed countless atrocities, your crimes are evident, and sooner or later, the Yanshan Sect will send powerful cultivators to destroy you.”
“Even if we die, we’ll take a few of you down with us.”
The villagers of Shou Mountain Village are united, preferring death over submission, with indomitable courage.
This spirit is truly admirable.
The leading bandit sneered coldly, “What a bunch of ignorant fools, if you want to die, I’ll fulfill your wish.”
A figure suddenly rushed out, blocking the way of the leading bandit, coldly staring at the bandit. The leading bandit, upon seeing these eyes, felt as if struck by lightning.
This feeling immediately angered him. How could he, a cultivator at the late-stage Fundamental Realm, be frightened by the gaze of a mere child? This is simply disgraceful.
Seeing the figure rushing out, the villagers of Shou Mountain Village all changed their expressions.
“Little Hong, didn’t we tell you to leave? Why did you come back?”
“Little Hong, why are you so foolish?”
The village chief was also so angry he almost vomited blood, his vision went black, feeling as if struck by lightning. In his rage, he trembled all over.
Niu Hong is the last hope for Shou Mountain Village, but this child is too stubborn—
Niu Hong glanced back, tears sparkling in his eyes, saying, “Village Chief Grandpa, I’m sorry, forgive me for not being able to abandon you all and survive alone. My life was brought back by Village Chief Grandpa, given by everyone. I have nothing to repay, today if I die, I want to die with you all. Justice prevails, good is rewarded and evil punished, Ox Demon Mountain has committed countless evils and will face retribution sooner or later.”
“Sigh—” The village chief sighed heavily, shook his head, speechless.
“Oh dear, tsk tsk tsk, what a touching scene, it almost makes me want to cry. Hmph, what nonsense justice prevails, I kill indiscriminately, the number of people who’ve died by my hand is not less than hundreds, why haven’t I faced retribution? What Yanshan Sect, hmph, you few wretches are dreaming of Yanshan Sect protecting you, utterly delusional. Yanshan Sect, an Immortal Cultivation Sacred Land, would hardly care about us small-time bandits. Haha, so you’d better accept death willingly.” The leading bandit said.
The villagers of Shou Mountain Village all showed resolute faces, prepared to perish together with the enemy.
Even if they die, they must fight to the death.
United as one, this power is the strongest.
“Hmph, good and evil will be rewarded, it’s not that it’s not coming, the time has not yet come. When the time comes, retribution will arrive. And your retribution has come now.” A cool voice suddenly echoed out, resonating like the Great Dao bell, from an unknown source.
Upon hearing this voice, everyone was taken aback.
Especially the bandits, each frightenedly looking around, the leading bandit also peered around, gripping his bloody knife tightly, brow furrowed, filled with vigilance: “Who? Who is it? Come out quickly!”
The villagers of Shou Mountain Village also looked around in astonishment, but there was no figure anywhere. Where did this voice come from?
Who could this voice belong to?
Could it be a cultivator coming to save them?
The villagers, who were initially overwhelmed by despair, now seemed to glimpse a ray of hope, a ray of light.
“Hmph, just a group of ragtag small-time bandits dare to utter such words. Dare to act wildly in my Yanshan land, do you truly think the Yanshan Sect will not punish you? In my Yanshan land, we can’t allow you petty ones to cause commotion.” That voice thundered again, still heard but unseen.
What—
Someone from the Yanshan Sect?
Upon hearing this, the bandits were greatly frightened, their faces becoming pale and unpleasant.
The villagers of Shou Mountain Village also rose with excitement. If an immortal from the Yanshan Sect truly came, they would be saved.
The leading man, although filled with fear inside, worried he’d actually provoked a Yanshan Sect cultivator, still suppressed his terror, shouting loudly: “Bluffing, a coward who doesn’t dare show his face, yet claims to be from the Yanshan Sect, truly shameless. If you have the guts, come out, I’ll kill you.”
The leading bandit was also trying to bolster his courage.
“Since you want me to come out, just as you wish.”
As the words fell, only a sharp Green Sword beam was seen shooting over, with a speed so fast that even the eyes couldn’t follow.
Whoa—
With the Sword’s Sharpness, the leading bandit immediately sensed the breath of death descending upon him. He only saw a flash of light in front of him, then a chill struck, as if the glow directly pierced his brow.
Instantly, he felt his vitality rapidly diminishing, consciousness swiftly fading.
“Am I—dying?” The leading bandit’s eyes widened, filled with terror.
His mouth, unable to move, couldn’t utter a single sound.
Until his death, the leading bandit never saw what the person who killed him looked like.
This sudden scene also stunned everyone present, leaving the whole place in a deathly silence, as if time had stopped.
Everyone’s gaze fell upon the leading bandit’s figure, who was directly slain by a single sword strike.
Young, appearing only twenty-four or twenty-five. He looked incredibly handsome, with a few hints of a relaxed smile on his face. Standing there at that moment, he exuded an unparalleled grandeur, as if an Immortal had descended.
In everyone’s eyes, Tangyu seemed as powerful as an Immortal.
No one quite understood what happened, nor did they know where he emerged from, yet he simply killed the leader of the group, a late-stage Fundamental Realm cultivator, on the spot.
Terrifying, truly terrifying.
The other bandits, seeing Tangyu, turned pale with fear, feeling anxious and sensing danger, as if gazing upon death incarnate.
Meanwhile, the villagers of Shoushan Village were each thrilled, overjoyed. They could hardly restrain themselves from immediately bowing down to thank the Immortal for his arrival.
They, too, genuinely saw hope for survival.
Niu Hong also fixed his gaze on Tangyu, his eyes flashing with unusual emotions. Such an Immortal cultivator was the kind of existence he revered and emulated. He had always harbored a dream of becoming such a powerful cultivator so that he could protect the villagers of Shoushan Village.
Tangyu sheathed his sword, his gaze sweeping over the other bandits who were petrified, and he said with a frosty smile, “Do you not mind that there’s no retribution? Now I’m giving you what you deserve. The blood on your hands and your heinous crimes justify your deaths dozens of times over.”
“Run!”
“Quick, run!”
The bandits finally reacted, each scrambling to flee, scattering like birds and beasts, abandoning any semblance of formation, each concerned only for their own escape.
More than forty bandits fled in all directions, completely devoid of fighting spirit, their courage long shattered.
Faced with such a formidable disciple of the Yanshan Sect, even their leader would have no choice but to flee.
“Heh heh, you want to run, as if you could escape, that would be an insult to us disciples of the Yanshan Sect. In our eyes, you’re nothing more than ants.” A voice rang out again, a figure blocking one direction – it was Zhuang Qian.
And from two other directions, two figures appeared, Yu Feng and Zi Cang also emerged, cutting off the bandits’ retreat.
Tangyu and his three companions guarded four directions, forming a completely enclosed trap.
Indeed, with just Tangyu’s strength alone, it was impossible for these bandits to escape.
“What, there are actually more disciples of the Yanshan Sect, not just one person. How could this be? No, no, I don’t want to die!”
“Finished, we’re truly finished. We really provoked disciples of the Yanshan Sect, didn’t the leader say the sect wouldn’t pay attention to us? How did this happen?”
“Spare me, sir, I was forced to join Ox Demon Mountain.” One bandit threw away his weapon and knelt down.
Soon, many other bandits also abandoned their weapons and knelt, each begging for mercy.
In the end, all the bandits knelt down, no longer daring to flee, their only hope for survival was to beg for mercy.
“Spare us, Immortal, we are mere lackeys, following orders from others, we don’t want this.”
“Yes, Immortal, we haven’t killed anyone, I’m a new recruit to Ox Demon Mountain.”
The pleas for mercy did not cease, each bandit portraying themselves as pitiable.
Tangyu snorted coldly, “Your crimes merit death; forgiveness is impossible. Begging is futile. Today, all of you must descend to Hell, where true repentance awaits.”
It’s over—
We’re going to die—
No—
I regret it!
But regrets are useless; there is no regret medicine to take in this world.
With a motion of Tangyu’s sword, beams of Sword Force burst forth from his blade, transforming into Swords of Energy, slashing towards the bandits.
“Puff puff puff puff—”
The Energy Sword Beams directly pierced into the bandits’ vital areas, and one by one, figures collapsed, not even able to utter a final scream, nor could the bandits resist. In merely a blink of an eye, all the bandits perished beneath Tangyu’s sword.
One strike, and all bandits were slain.
Such strength left the villagers of Shoushan Village stunned, amazed, and astonished beyond measure, their reverence for cultivators growing ever more fervent.
This is the method of the Yanshan Sect cultivators?
Absolutely, terrifyingly powerful.
After slaying the bandits, Tangyu sheathed his sword, they were nothing but a pitifully weak group, killing them was naturally effortless.