Chapter 136 Hell's tone was extremely gentle as he said, "May you live to be eighteen..."
When her gaze fell upon the direction from which wisps of smoke were rising, she immediately flew towards that direction.
The place wasn't far from her; in just a couple of breaths, she arrived near the spot where the smoke was rising.
She stood on a tree branch, her face deathly pale, with a few drops of bright red blood on her lips, which only made her lips appear even paler. Clearly, her health was in dire straits.
But at this moment, she completely disregarded her own health, staring intently at that area, searching relentlessly.
It was a cleared-out area.
On the open ground, dozens of burly men were lying, sitting, or standing. They all had some injuries, and gleaming machetes were placed beside them. They seemed to match the bandits the couple had mentioned earlier.
In the very center of that open space, a bonfire was burning.
A burly man sat by the campfire, fiddling with something in his hands and muttering to himself, the meaning of which was unclear.
Li Xianghuan's eyesight is not as good as before. In the past, she could see what the person was doing at a glance at this distance, but now she has to squint to barely see clearly.
The burly man was using a sharpened twig to skewer chunks of meat from some unknown animal.
The pieces of meat were still bloody, and some of them twitched slightly as they were skewered, looking very fresh, obviously from animals that had just been slaughtered.
Although she could roughly see what he was doing, she couldn't tell what kind of meat it was.
Therefore, after a moment's thought, she broke off a branch, lightly touched the ground with her toes, and gracefully landed beside the campfire.
The moment she landed, the spiritual energy she released caused the campfire to explode like fireworks, and the sparks that flew out burned several people who were close to the fire, causing them to scream in agony.
She ignored the others and focused her gaze solely on the burly man who had been skewering meat but was now staring blankly at her.
On the ground to the other side of the man, a fur was spread out.
Li Xianghuan hadn't seen the fur before because the angle had limited her view of the other side of the big man.
At this moment, she stared at the fur, scrutinizing it carefully from head to toe.
Although the fur had been completely peeled off the body and head and laid flat, it was not immediately possible to tell what kind of animal it was.
But from the furry head, one can vaguely discern what it looked like in life.
She stared in the direction of the furry head, raised her hand and gestured a few times, then suddenly froze in place.
While she was stunned, everyone else snapped out of it.
These people didn't care how this person had appeared; seeing that she looked sickly, they assumed she would be easy to manipulate.
It's unclear what those people were thinking, but after exchanging a smile, they disregarded their injuries and stood up, approaching Li Xianghuan.
The closer they got, the more excited they became, especially after smelling the herbal scent on Li Xianghuan. Several of them couldn't help but lewdly laugh, rub their hands together, and reach out to touch her body.
However, before the first person could even touch her chest, Li Xianghuan grabbed his wrist.
Li Xianghuan's gaze remained fixed on the fur, as if she hadn't quite come to her senses yet, but this didn't hinder her movements at all.
With a sudden squeeze of her hand, those around heard a sickening sound of bones cracking, accompanied by the person's scream.
These people used to make a living by robbing and plundering, and they had seen a lot of people. They immediately realized that Li Xianghuan was definitely a tough guy.
Therefore, no one dared to laugh anymore, and they all grabbed the machetes on the ground and aimed them at Li Xianghuan's Xianghuan.
"Damn it! How did such a crazy woman with such high martial arts skills appear? Who provoked her?! Didn't I tell you not to come down the mountain and cause trouble?!"
"Big brother! None of us have gone down the mountain!!"
"Never mind her! There's only one woman, but there are dozens of us brothers. What are we afraid of?!"
"Go! I've never seen anything this strong before. It'll definitely taste better than those whiny wretches!"
They outnumbered her and were in a much worse situation than Li Xianghuan. In addition, her complexion was terrible and her breathing was unsteady, making her look like she could be easily subdued.
But when they actually started fighting, they realized they were wrong.
This woman, who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, was all alone, yet she handled dozens of people with ease, as if it were nothing to her.
Moreover, she was ruthless. The tree branch in her hand seemed fragile, but with a swing, it could easily break the long knives in their hands. This was not a skill that a normal person should have!
Someone shouted, "She's from the cultivation world!" In any case, after discovering Li Xianghuan's almost superhuman abilities, everyone else turned and ran.
Some of them, while running, cursed, "Damn it! What did I do to deserve this?! I just came here to rest, and I've already messed with people from the cultivation world!!"
The man's companion was about to speak, but before he could open his mouth, he was interrupted by a wave of heat.
He instinctively stopped, wiped the warm liquid from his face, and only after seeing the bright red on his palm did he belatedly look at his companion lying on the ground.
His companion looked completely bewildered, as if he had no idea why he had collapsed.
It wasn't until he saw his shoulder, where he had lost his arm, that the belated pain swept over his brain, and he finally let out a desperate, piercing scream.
The man still standing looked at his companion's severed arm. Amidst the flesh and blood, a striking white was clearly visible—the color of his bone…
The man's screams didn't last long. Suddenly, a tree branch was buried deep in his temple, and his screams stopped abruptly.
After that, his body twitched a few times and then became completely still, with only his eyes still staring intently in his direction, as if waiting for him to save him.
The person felt like running, but for some reason, their legs were frozen in place, unable to move an inch.
Then he saw the man who had buried the branch in his companion's head slowly squat down, pick up a bloodstained broken knife, and look up in his direction.
The moment Li Xianghuan's gaze fell upon him, he felt as if he could no longer breathe. His whole body began to tremble uncontrollably, and he kept muttering words that he himself did not understand—perhaps begging for mercy, or perhaps an apology…
But he had no idea how to beg for mercy or apologize, since they hadn't done anything since arriving here...
Then, he saw Li Xianghuan slowly stand up.
She did look very unwell; after standing up, she coughed up blood twice.
But after she finished vomiting blood, she seemed to have returned to normal, and slowly raised the broken knife and placed it against his neck.
Then, she gave him a very bright smile and said in a very gentle tone, "May you go to the eighteenth level of hell."
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There were dozens of bandits in total, but they all died at the hands of Li Xianghuan.
The last bandit had escaped to the mountainside, and just when he thought he was about to escape, he heard an unusual sound of wind behind him.
He subconsciously turned around and saw Li Xianghuan's blood-stained figure. He was instantly shocked, stumbled, and fell to the ground.
After he fell, he hurriedly got up, still trying to escape, but upon noticing the person who had walked up to him, he knelt down in a panic, tears streaming down his face, crying out, "Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I have an eighty-year-old mother and a one-year-old daughter..."
Before he could finish speaking, his voice suddenly stopped.
His terrified eyes revealed a hint of confusion. He tried opening and closing his mouth repeatedly, but found that he still couldn't make a sound.
It wasn't until he looked down and saw the long knife buried in his heart that he realized why he had suddenly been unable to make a sound...
He spat out several mouthfuls of blood, and when he looked up again, he saw that Li Xianghuan had bent over at some point, and a blood-stained, deathly pale face, like that of a demon, was close to him.
Then, under his gaze, the corners of that face slowly stretched to both sides, revealing an extremely insane smile, but the voice was very gentle as it said to him, "You're going to hell too."
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After the last person fell, Li Xianghuan slowly walked back to the open space where the campfire was still burning.
Her gaze swept calmly over the blood and corpses scattered on the ground, her face expressionless. She simply walked woodenly toward the pile of skewered meat, ready to be grilled.
She walked up to the pile of meat and slowly peeled the skewered pieces off the stick.
Then, she grabbed a handful, held it up to her eyes, and examined it closely, as if trying to confirm whether the meat was indeed cut from the sweet fermented rice balls.
However, these pieces of meat were cut into roughly the same size, making it difficult to even put them back together, let alone tell with the naked eye what these pieces of meat looked like when they were alive.
Finally, she gave up studying the pieces of meat and instead picked up the black fur soaked in blood from the ground.
She tried her best to piece the fur back together to find evidence that the fur and the pieces of meat did not belong to the fermented rice balls.
But just by covering the skinned head with the fur-covered part of the fur, you can already see the shape of the fermented rice balls.
Therefore, continuing to fight would only be a waste of time and energy. Even if she sewed the corpse back together, it wouldn't change the fact that it was a sweet fermented rice ball.
Li Xianghuan had clearly realized this as well. She stopped piecing together the corpse in front of her and simply held the severed head, staring blankly at the eyes that had lost their luster.
She didn't know how long she stayed there, but suddenly she started vomiting blood again.
This time, she vomited far more blood than before, and it only gradually stopped when the vomited blood contained small pieces of flesh.
Clearly, her body is now at its limit, with her internal organs severely damaged. She probably feels excruciating pain even when she breathes.
But she couldn't care less about her pain at that moment. She just grabbed pieces of meat from the basin and stuffed them into the black fur, as if she wanted to put all the meat back into the fur and take it home.
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