Shi Lang crouched and walked closer to the person farthest from the leader. However, he was not confident in his plan of action. The terran sat down and began to ponder. Suddenly, he thought of something and stood up from his position. He dusted his clothes and walked towards the center of the place.
The immortal lords all sensed the arrival of someone, and they opened their eyes. They were surprised to see a young man standing in the center. They all wanted to attack him, but Shi Lang smiled and said, “Shura domain.”
The entire group of people was surrounded by blood-red fog. They could sense the suppression, and Shi Lang said, “Before you dimwits lose your senses and start attacking, hear me out. Or, killing you all is not a hard task.”
Shi Lang’s domain could change colors. The bandit leader said in a hoarse voice, “So, you are the one who killed my beasts?”
Shi Lang nodded and said, “I am the one who killed them. If not, I would not have been able to talk to you.”
The bandit leader asked, “Alright, I will kill you after you finish speaking.”
Shi Lang smiled and said, “Well, that was what I wanted to discuss.”
The moment he finished speaking, his eyes flashed red, and the leader was struck in a daze. Shi Lang turned around and met everyone’s gazes. He smiled as they were all stuck in a daze. Shi Lang did not use any brutal massacre scene to delude them. He created a scene where he was still talking to the guys.
After setting up the illusion, Shi Lang knew he could not kill any of them abruptly. If he were to attack, the illusion would break. He was confident in taking down ten of them together but was unsure about the rest. So, the terran dripped twenty-six drops of blood on the ground, and his clones instantly appeared around the bandits.
They all picked up the machetes and other weapons placed around the bandits and then swung them at the necks of the bandits. Twenty-six heads separated from bodies and fell to the ground with a dull thud. The domain that Shi Lang had cast was broken, and the fluctuation caused his control to weaken.
The mental integrity of the Immortal Lord was strong enough for him to break away from the dwindling illusion. The first thing he saw were the corpses of his brothers. His eyes turned blood red, and his body shivered. The man placed the demon egg aside and stood up to look at Shi Lang.
He shouted, “Die!”
The next moment, he vanished from his spot and appeared before Shi Lang. He said, “Fire Fist.”
His fists were covered with fire instantly as he punched Shi Lang’s face. The terran was still smiling faintly and tilted his head to the side, and the fist moved past his head. Shi Lang said, “Lightning Palm.”
His palm was covered with lightning, and in a swift motion, the palm landed on the bandit leader’s shoulder. The impact was strong, and it shattered the joint bone of the latter. The bandit leader frowned and took two steps back, but Shi Lang did not chase him. He stood at his point, and the bandit leader said, “Silent Wind Killing Formation, come forth.”
Shi Lang’s smile vanished, and the bandit leader said, “You came here and destroyed all my efforts just like that? Do you think I will let you go? No! You should stay here and accompany my brothers to the afterlife, you pathetic shit.”
The terran did not listen to the threats. He was analyzing the threats of this array formation. Shi Lang could not help but raise his brows. He knew how killing formations worked. However, this formation used the spirit energy to condense wind into blades and fire in the void, decapitating everything that stood in the way of the blades.
The most fascinating aspect of this array was that the attack was silent. The wind blade did not create any loud voice or spirit fluctuations because the wind was made up of wind. Shi Lang suddenly turned to the side and sensed a sharp wind cut through the void before him.
He was surprised, and compared to him, the bandit leader was shocked with his eyes wide open. He could not believe that this guy could dodge the attack this easily. Shi Lang thought for a bit and then shook his head. This whole time, he was moving around, avoiding the blades that showed up in his sensory map. Shi Lang had been using his domain in addition to his sensory ability.
He was thinking if he should also learn to deploy this array later on, but thinking how weak it was, he scrubbed the idea and shook his head. Then he walked up to the corpse of a bandit and shoved it off the stone chair. He raised his leg and kicked the stone chair. The stone chair exploded into rubble. Under the rubble, a spirit stone was buried.
Shi Lang picked up the spirit stone as big as a fist and kept it inside his space ring. The spirit stone was a node of the array formation. One of the key spirit stones that powered the array. However, now that the power source chain had broken, the array failed.
There was only one thought in the mind of the bandit leader, ‘Run!’
Shi Lang did not bother asking him to stop or anything. He just took out his spear and threw it like a javelin at the back of the bandit leader. Soon, the enemy was impaled into a black tree. The terrifying thing was that the person was still alive. Shi Lang could sense that there was no treasure here, and he did not see any space rings on the hands of the bandits either.
He picked up the beast egg on the ground and put it inside his space ring. He came close to the bandit leader, and the first thing he did was to kick his spine and then place his hand on the dantian of the enemy. The next moment, a blood-curdling wail echoed in the black forest.
Shi Lang asked, “Can you tell me where is the treasure you have looted all these years?”
The bandit did not speak. Shi Lang said, “The bloodshed here will attract the beasts soon, and they will tear you apart as you watch it. If you can tell me where the treasures are, I will give you an easy death. Otherwise, you know better how cruel humans can be.”
The bandit leader shook his head and said, “You can try all you want, but I will never give up the things my brothers worked for. I will never betray them, even if the outcome is a painful death.”
Shi Lang nodded and said, “Since that is your decision.”
He raised his palm and placed it on the bandit leader’s head. Then he quickly swept through all the memories this guy had in his mind. Shi Lang located the treasure and snapped his neck. The terran took out a spare space ring and stored all the corpses. After all, he needed to turn these in to get the reward. He sighed at the situation and headed to the deeper part of the forest.
Shi Lang came to a swamp and stood under a tree. This tree was the only tree with a faint fragrance. This fragrance was what the Bandit Leader had left here by scattering the powder of Beast-repellent medicine and a spirit restriction formation.
Shi Lang figured this powder was left here so the demons did not bother the bandits when digging the stash out. He also used his hands and dug out some mud under the tree. 𝞸𝓥𝔩𝒩xt.𝐂𝒐𝗆
After a few minutes, the mud was completely dug out, and Shi Lang dragged the box to the surface. The terran opened the chest and found a few things lying inside. Unity appeared beside him, saying, “I am taking these swords to eat.”
Shi Lang nodded without carrying about anything and frisked through the booklets. He found a few low-level spirit and spirit attack techniques in these books. The terran stored the treasure chest away and moved around the swamp.
The bandits were clever and did not put all their eggs in one basket. Soon, he dug out the mud under seven more trees. He gained about a million spirit stones and a few rare herbs.
After he cleaned things up, Shi Lang left the place. He decided to leave the place and go to the Tiexian City. On the way out of the woods, Shi Lang could not help but think how apt he was in killing.
His skills from his past life, like sudden attacks and assassination, had enhanced greatly after his training in the federal army. When paired with the skills that he learned after getting the Shura Sutra, he was a killing machine.