Chapter 49 Return to Family (Part 1)

  In this era where human lives are as insignificant as ants, every bandit has at least a dozen lives on their conscience, if not more.

  Every month, the bandits of Fuwei Gang would organize large-scale raids three times, committing all sorts of atrocities. Whenever they encountered villages that resisted fiercely, they would often slaughter everyone in the village.

  In one year, the number of collective arsons, killings, lootings and robberies has exceeded thirty times.

  In their spare time, the horse thieves would often form small groups and rob passersby in remote areas, taking both money and women. They never spared any woman with a good figure.

  As long as you've been in the Fu Wei gang for more than a year and have ten lives on your hands, you'll definitely be more than enough.

  Xuantian knew that these horse thieves, every time one escaped, it was a disaster for the ordinary villagers, so he guarded the gate of the camp and did not let the horse thieves from Fuwei's gang escape.

  The lightness skill of the bandits was no match for Xuan Tian. A 15-meter high fence, they could jump over it in one try.

  However, the gate was blocked by Xuantian. Now even the gate is still closed, and even if they broke through Xuantian's blockade, they would still need to open the gate to get out. With this time, it would be enough for Xuantian to kill them more than ten times. Breaking out from the gate is basically impossible.

  However, Xuan Tian's killing intent was overwhelming, and he killed the horse bandits of the Fuwei gang, causing blood to flow like a river. These bandits were terrified and knew that staying in the mountain stronghold would only lead to death. Even if they couldn't jump over the fence all at once, they still climbed up onto it one after another.

  Xuantian stood still at the gate of the village, his hand holding the Frost Snow Sword shining brightly. With one slash, a sword aura suddenly shot out and struck a bandit thirty feet away from Xuantian, who had just climbed over the fence, severing both his arms and causing him to fall down.

  The sword energy transforms into a sharp edge, this is the high-level master of the Innate Realm. With the Innate True Qi inside his body, he can use the Innate True Qi to drive the sword energy and achieve such a feat. The attacking power of the sword's edge is over a hundred times stronger than that of the sword energy.

  The sword energy is ultimately a stream of air, and after leaving the sword, its attacking power is greatly weakened. Even if it cuts through a person's body, it may only cut through skin and flesh, but it will not be able to sever an entire arm.

  Jianmang, on the other hand, is a condensed sword energy that has taken on a tangible form, causing damage that is not like a stream of air cutting through, but rather a real sword slash, with a substantial attacking power, only slightly weaker than an actual sword.

  Xuantian's cultivation had reached the 9th level of Wudao, and his Xiantian Gong practice had reached the 6th layer, just one more level to achieve great perfection.

  Although Xiantian Gong is powerful, it originally requires cultivation to the seventh layer to possibly have the aura of Xiantian True Qi and reach the level of Jianqi Huamang. However, the white jade small sword in Xuantian's Mianxin obviously raised the quality of Xuantian's sword energy by a notch.

  Just like the sixth stage of Martial Realm, Xuan Tian suddenly released his sword energy. However, releasing sword energy was something that only a martial artist at the seventh stage of Martial Realm could do. This was clearly due to the white jade small sword in his brow, which allowed Xuan Tian's internal energy to transform into sword energy and attack, greatly increasing its quality.

  Xuān Tiān's sword energy was still very faint and illusory, like a warrior who had just reached the edge of Sword Energy Transformation in the Pre-Heaven Realm.

  The Xiantian realm's warriors, as their cultivation increases, the sword energy becomes more refined and condensed. It is said that powerful Xiantian realm warriors can condense the sword edge into a tangible form, almost indistinguishable from the sword body's attacking power. With one slash of the sword, the sword edge shoots out thousands of feet, taking the enemy's life from thousands of feet away.

  Xuantian Station was at the entrance of the village, its position remained unchanged. However, with each sword strike from Hanshuai Sword, the sword energy condensed into a sharp point, and wherever the sword point reached, the horse thieves climbing on the fence were either beheaded, had their arms severed, or were cut in half and fell off the fence.

  The gate of the village was located in the center of the fence, and the farthest distance from left to right was only about 100 steps. As the nearby horse thieves were beheaded and fell to the ground one after another, Xuan Tian's sword edge cut out, farther and farther away, until it finally reached the end of the fence, cutting down all the horse thieves more than 100 steps away.

  The sword's range reached fifty or sixty steps, and it was already quite scattered. Beyond a hundred steps, it was almost completely illusory, becoming a mere sword aura. However, its attacking power remained high, not cutting off the horse bandit's hands and feet but inflicting wounds that pierced through skin and flesh, leaving him seriously injured.

  The sword energy was spread out for a hundred feet around him, this is also something that only a warrior of the Innate Realm could accomplish.

  Whether it was Sword Qi transforming into a sharp edge or Sword Qi traversing a hundred steps, Xuan Tian's strength could basically be compared to that of a martial artist who had just entered the Pre-Heavenly Realm.

  In the world of martial artists, those who can enter the Xiantian realm have a power and mastery of martial arts that is vastly different from others. They are usually referred to as Xiantian experts.

  Unsheathing sword energy and transforming it into a sharp edge is extremely exhausting for one's internal energy. Even if one is an innate master with innate true energy within their body, they still cannot continuously use the sword edge to attack, especially when the distance of the sword edge attack is farther away, the exhaustion will be even more severe.

  Xuantian unleashed his sword energy, beheading over 40 horse bandits. He then began to feel that his internal energy was insufficient and couldn't continue using his sword energy to attack, or else he would exhaust himself to death and suffer from dizziness.

  On one side of the fence, the horse thieves who climbed up were basically cut down by Xuan Tian. On the other side, there were still dozens of horse thieves climbing on the fence, and even two of them, who had reached the ninth level of martial arts, had already jumped over the fence.

  Xuān Tiān took a deep breath, sank his dan tian, and with a burst of energy, he sprang into the air, soaring to a height of over ten meters in an instant.

  Compared to his peak state, Xuan Tian's current internal force has only two or three tenths left, and his strength can only be exerted at around 70%, unable to jump over the fence in one breath. However, Xuan Tian is obviously much faster than those horse thieves in jumping over the fence.

  With a push of both legs against the railing, he borrowed force and his body shot up more than three meters again. Then, with another borrowed force, he leaped over the railing and sprinted towards the two martial artists at the ninth level of Wu Dao like a cheetah in pursuit.

  Two martial artists of the ninth rank were frightened out of their wits and hastily parted ways, rushing into the mountains and forests on either side.

  After more than a dozen breaths, Xuan Tian caught up with one person. The sword light flashed, and the man dodged too late to be pierced through the chest by a single sword. Turning his head back to look at another, he had already rushed into the mountain forest on the other side, disappearing from sight.

  Unfortunately, it finally escaped!

  Don't pursue a desperate enemy. Xuantian deeply understood this principle. Since the opponent had entered the mountain forest, even if Xuantian's agility was stronger than his, the probability of catching up was extremely low.

  Cheetahs are suitable for running in open grasslands. Once they enter the jungle, their speed is greatly restricted. The same applies to Leopard's Shadow Technique.

  What's more, there were even more horse thieves who climbed over the fence and escaped from the mountain stronghold.

  Xuantian's figure flashed, and he rushed towards the escaping horse thieves, his sword energy surging horizontally, its light flashing. The horse thieves who had just climbed over the fence fell dead under Xuantian's sword.

  There were still a few horse thieves on the fence, who were so frightened that they fell down. Xuan Tian rushed to the gate and swung his sword, cutting off the horizontal wooden beam blocking the gate. The beam broke with a loud crash, and Xuan Tian stepped forward, pushing the gate open.

  The remaining few horse bandits in the village were so scared that they urinated and fled immediately.

  These few people, the strongest is only a martial artist of the seventh rank of the Martial Path, otherwise they would not have fallen to the last by jumping over the fence. How can their speed be compared with Xuan Tian?

  Several miserable cries rang out, and soon, except for a martial artist of the Seventh Realm who was knocked to the ground by Xuán Tiān, all the horse bandits had met their demise.

  Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Xuan Tian's footsteps were a bit unsteady and he stumbled. In this battle, more than 200 horse bandits from Fuwei Gang almost all died at the hands of Xuan Tian. Even though Xuan Tian was far stronger than the horse bandits, his hands were soft, and his internal energy was almost exhausted.

  The only pity is that a horse thief escaped and this scourge was not completely eradicated.

  However, the Fuwei gang was uprooted and expelled from then on. An escaped horse thief would find it difficult to stir up a big storm unless he joined another powerful force. The ordinary people in the nearby area could finally live in peace for a while.

  Xuantian each swallowed a medium-grade Condensed Qi Pill and a Marrow Cleansing Pill, then immediately sat down on the ground, closed their eyes, and began to regulate their breathing.

  About half a time, Xuan Tian opened his eyes and stood up. All the fatigue in his body was gone, and his internal strength had recovered.

  Jian Xuantian stood up, and the Martial Dao Realm Seventh Layer cultivator who had been knocked to the ground by Ma Zei's single finger trembled with fear all over his body. His lower body was even more terrified, and he urinated a large patch on his pants, still unaware of what was happening.

  Xuān Tiān didn't even give him a glance, and directly started searching the nearby corpse of the horse bandit. He collected dan medicine, silver notes, or any other valuable items.

  On the Wild Horse Ridge, all those killed by Xuan Tian were elites of the Fuwei Gang. The bandits had higher cultivation levels, so they also carried more silver notes on them. Those who stayed in the mountain stronghold had much less, only one or two thousand taels of silver notes, and a small amount of elixirs.

  However, there are many horse bandits in the mountain village, and some of them are also from the Wild Horse Plains who escaped back. They basically have a cultivation level of seven or eight layers of martial arts, and the silver tickets on their bodies are similar to those of the horse bandits killed in the Wild Horse Plains, with the least being several thousand taels and the most being tens of thousands of taels.

  Before long, Xuan Tian searched all the bandits' corpses and gained more than 600,000 taels of silver notes. Moreover, he obtained a large pile of elixirs, which were packed in bundles, with a total value of over 300,000 taels.

  After doing all this, Xuan Tian came to the horse thief who had been sealed with acupoints and inquired about everything in the Fuwei Gang, such as the warehouse where materials were stored, or the treasury where silver was stored, the residences of the first master, second master, and third master, etc. These places might all have a large amount of treasure hidden within them.

  The horse thief was so scared that he lost control of his bowels and bladder, and under Xuan Tian's questioning, everything about the Fuwei gang came out.

  Xuantian was furious when he heard this, and it turned out that the Fuwei gang had specially built a prison in their stronghold to detain the kidnapped civilian girls and young women, with over a hundred people being held captive to serve the needs of these bandits.

  Xuantian's sword ended the life of that horse thief, and he didn't bother to search for treasure, heading straight for the prison cell. Today, the Fuwei Gang is in great danger, all the horse thieves have rushed out, wanting to escape, and basically no horse thieves exist within the stronghold anymore.

  Xuantian opened the cell where civilian women were detained, released everyone, took them to the stable, gave each of them a horse, handed out some silver tickets, and let them ride back to their villages to find their relatives.

  After those civilian women left with gratitude, Xuan Tian went to the treasure house of Fu Wei Gang where they stored goods and money.

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