Chapter 43 Climbing the Mountain
After Su Yuan arranged for Meng Yunqiao, he leaped like the wind and in a few jumps he was next to a shifty-looking bandit and snatched the sword from her hand.
He swung his fist and suddenly attacked his opponent. With a loud "bang", the man flew out and hit his companion, crushing him.
When the bandit leader saw that her plan was ruined and that there was someone skilled in martial arts in the other team, the arrogance in her eyes turned into fear, and she gave orders to her men in a hoarse and sinister voice.
After killing Su Yuan, he also joined the massacre.
Su Yuan realized that he had achieved his goal and the bandits' attention was all on him. He used his sword to harvest the heads of the bandits who were rushing up to him, while leading them to retreat into the woods nearby.
During this period, Su Yuan killed dozens of bandits with her sharp sword skills, but she herself was not much better off. She was attacked from the back and had a big cut on it.
The bloody hole, deep enough to see the bone, was torn with every movement she made. Bright red blood oozed out, staining Su Yuan's sky-blue robe red. Blood flowed down the hem, dripping onto the ground.
Su Yuan was in so much pain that she broke out in a cold sweat. She caught a glimpse of Meng Yunqiao riding away on his horse, no longer paying attention to them.
He paused for a moment, then moved as lightly as a flying object, sneaking among the bandits. He took advantage of the bandits' unpreparedness and slit their throats in the blink of an eye, taking their lives.
After a fierce fight, only more than ten bandits were left after being wiped out by Su Yuan. Now they were surrounding the bandit leader, pointing their knives at Su Yuan with fear on their faces, and unconsciously retreating backwards.
Su Yuan was like a cold-faced killer, pressing forward step by step, his narrow eyes filled with gloom and coldness.
She shot a cold blade at the bandit leader, raised her eyebrows and said sarcastically:
"Why, weren't you the one who was shouting for war just now? Now you're hiding behind your men. Are you... scared?"
The bandit leader was provoked by this and did not rush forward rashly. This woman's body movements were too strange, and fighting alone would be courting death.
Her eyes were filled with hostility, and she waved her hand gloomily, ordering her men:
"Come on, kill this vicious woman."
Seeing her subordinates cowering and frightened by Su Yuan, she kicked them in anger. The person closest to them sneered and said:
"You are a bunch of idiots. Don't you see the situation clearly? If we don't fight to the death, this woman will kill us all. Charge, charge—"
After saying that, the bandit leader rushed out first with a knife in hand. He attacked fiercely, wielding the knife with great force, slashing and stabbing at Su Yuan.
Su Yuan did not retreat. He faced the bandit leader head-on, blocking him. Using the two swords as a fulcrum, he leaped into the air, spun around, and kicked hard at the person who had attacked him.
Taking the opportunity to teleport, he appeared behind the bandit leader in an instant. Su Yuan grasped the hilt of the knife, inserted it into her back and then quickly pulled it out.
The bandit leader groaned, looked down in disbelief at the tip of the knife that pierced his chest, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fell straight to the ground face down and died.
Su Yuan quickly killed the remaining bandits with her sword. In an instant, she was the only one left alive.
Su Yuan threw away the blood-stained sword, endured the severe pain in his back, stumbled and hid behind a big tree and sat down.
She took out medicine from the space, drank two bottles of liquid to replenish her physical energy, then took off her clothes and applied special medicine to the wound. The bright red blood that was constantly oozing out was stopped instantly.
Su Yuan wrapped the bandages, changed into clean clothes, and leaned his shoulder against a tree to catch his breath.
When her sight fell on the robe on the ground that was soaked in blood and had turned bright red, her eyes darkened, and the coldness revealed in her black eyes almost solidified into a substance.
"Heh." Su Yuan sneered, a calculating look flashing in his eyes.
So much blood has been shed, it has to be made up, right?
She closed her eyes to rest for a while, and then opened them again, looking somewhat excited.
Su Yuan put the bloody clothes back into the space, took out a piece of cloth to cover his face, and walked quickly towards the place where the fierce battle had just taken place.
She's going to rob!
At the foot of Banshi Mountain, at the junction of the woods and the wide road, blood flowed like a river, corpses were everywhere, broken swords were half buried in the red soil, and the air was filled with disgusting blood.
Su Yuan strolled among them and picked up the corpses.
Oh no, pick up jewelry from corpses.
She carried a large sack, pausing from time to time to use the point of her sword to pick up large gold chains, jeweled rings, and money bags from the bodies.
Su Yuan thought the money was dirty, so after collecting all the money, she opened each purse, pointed it at her large sack, and poured a lot of copper coins and silver coins into it.
She left nothing behind except for her broken sword and knife, like a swarm of locusts. In the end, she even ran over to turn the bandit leader over, knocked the gem off her hat, and threw it into a large sack.
Su Yuan weighed the half-filled large sack and muttered to himself:
"I've finished collecting the small things, now it's time to do the big things. I've shed so much blood, and this little bit is not enough to fill my teeth."
She had a smile on her lips, but there was no warmth in her eyes. She looked up at the gloomy sky, raised her eyebrows and sighed:
“It’s time to go up the mountain!”
After saying this, Su Yuan dragged the huge sack filled with tons of garbage and walked deeper into the woods.
Half-stone village.
Above the sky, the sea of clouds is rolling, like clouds and fog.
Rows of stone houses are built on the top of the mountain, surrounded by earth walls. The overall structure is square, with a two-story stone building in the middle that is particularly eye-catching.
In the kitchen of the mountain village, Su Yuan sat on the beam, watching the bandits cooking below with indifferent eyes.
A woman with a big black mole on the corner of her mouth was scooping water into the pot with a ladle while chatting with the thin woman who was lighting the fire:
"Wang Qian, add more firewood so we can cook dinner faster. The Third Master will be back soon and might be hungry."
Wang Qian glanced at the woman with the big black mole speechlessly and sneered:
"Oh, I think you want to get some benefits, it's a good idea. She is so stingy, how can she give you any money?"
Big Black Mole rolled her eyes at Wang Qian, her hands moving without stopping, noticing at all that the clear water in the gourd was gleaming with light. She continued:
"If not this, what else can we do? Recently, the Third Master has been stealing work from our subordinates. How can I have fun without money?"
"The men in the mountains are tired of playing around. I'll save up some money and go down to Yingchun Tower to have some fun, hehe."
Wang Qian's eyes lit up when he heard this. He put down the firewood, sipped his saliva, and said:
"If you want to go, take me with you. I'm afraid of being caught by the soldiers if I go alone."
Big Black Mole laughed evilly, licked his thick lips and said:
"Sure, sure."
As the two continued to talk, about half an hour later, the white rice in the pot was ready.
Wang Qian put down the tongs and shouted to his cooking companion not far away:
"Sister Dong, the rice is ready here. When will it be served? Has the Third Master returned?"
The woman called Sister Dong looked at the sky outside and sighed:
"The Third Chief hasn't come back yet, so let's prepare the meal as usual. The Second Chief is in charge of the village's groceries. If she finds out that we're delayed in the kitchen, she'll probably get mad."
Wang Qian said "OK" and asked Big Black Mole to help carry the wooden barrel, then went out with everyone in the kitchen to serve food to the bandits in the mountain village.
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