Chapter 19: Eliminating Bandits
The bandit leader took a deep breath, walked forward a few steps, and then looked at Liang Zifeng seriously. Seeing Liang Zifeng holding a long thin knife, dressed in black, and looking at him calmly, the bandit leader knew that he had misjudged him before.
He now had some doubts about which big family Liang Zifeng came from. The children of these big families usually had some means of hiding their own cultivation. He could not sense the internal energy of Liang Zifeng, so it might be that it was hidden.
"I wonder which family this young man is from? We have no grudge against each other. Isn't it too harsh for you to attack me?" asked the bandit leader with a frown.
"Haha." Liang Zifeng was stunned for a moment, then asked the bandit leader, "I'm very curious, why did you come to the mountains instead of going to normal villages to rob? These mountain people are all refugees, how much can you rob?"
The bandit leader was furious when he saw that Liang Zifeng didn't take him seriously at all, and began to threaten him in a somewhat harsh tone.
"Boy, no matter which big family you are from, I advise you to quit while you are ahead. If you anger me, no one will know if I kill you in this deep forest."
"Oh? How come no one knows? Aren't he and them human?" Liang Zifeng pointed at the servile villager who betrayed him and those frightened villagers, and asked in surprise.
"Hahaha~"
The bandit leader suddenly laughed, his face gradually became ferocious, and suddenly he chopped the villager who wanted to be his lackey to the ground with a knife.
"How can a dead man be considered a human being?" The bandit leader shook off the blood on his knife, then waved his hand and shouted, "Go! Chop this guy off!"
The bandit leader was very cunning. After he shouted, the other bandits rushed towards Liang Zifeng, but he took a step back and looked at them with a serious face. He found that facing the siege of the bandits, the boy was not afraid at all, but smiled instead.
As if he had made some decision, the bandit leader took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms and held it in his hand, then looked at Liang Zifeng who was being besieged, but did not take any further action.
Of course Liang Zifeng would not wait for the bandits to attack him. He drew out his Tang sword, suddenly turned around and attacked a bandit on the left. When the other party chopped at him subconsciously, he dodged the chopping knife by turning sideways, and used the inertia of his sideways rotation to swung the sword in a circle. The Tang sword cut directly into the back of the bandit's neck.
When Liang Zifeng came behind the bandit, the bandit's head just rolled to the ground.
Those ordinary bandits were too weak for Liang Zifeng, who possessed mental power. After just a moment, only the eight bandits with internal strength were left. However, the bandit leader still did not join the siege. Liang Zifeng didn't know what the other party was thinking, but he didn't care too much.
After fighting with seven bandits for a few minutes, Liang Zifeng discovered that the ranks of these seven bandits were not high, but they were much stronger than ordinary people, and their reaction speed and agility were much higher than ordinary people.
The bandit leader who was watching the fight nearby seemed relieved. He felt that the strength Liang Zifeng had revealed now was still within the range he could handle.
The bandit leader poured a dark red pill from a small porcelain bottle, swallowed it in one gulp, threw the empty bottle away, and then joined the siege with a machete.
With the addition of the bandit leader, Liang Zifeng felt a lot more pressure, so he became serious and guided his special inner force to flow through his limbs and brain.
Then his strength and speed increased two or three times, and his brain's reaction became much faster. He instantly killed the two bandits who hadn't reacted in time.
"Good boy, you are so insidious. You are at the peak of the seventh rank, but you are pretending to be at the eighth or ninth rank. However, you are dead today. I will teach you a lesson for meddling in other people's business!" The bandit leader said gritting his teeth when he saw Liang Zifeng kill his two ninth-rank subordinates in an instant.
Liang Zifeng did not respond. While dealing with the attacks of the other five bandits, he sensed in his mind the strength he had just displayed. He now had an idea of what the strength of the 5th rank was.
"Brothers, hold him back for a few seconds for me."
The bandit leader jumped out of the battle circle, shouted to the other bandits, then closed his eyes, held the knife with both hands, as if he was planning some big move.
Liang Zifeng frowned, thinking that he had to fight quickly and decisively. If he continued to practice, he might fail. So he secretly used his mental power to influence the weapon of a bandit and took the opportunity to kill him. Two breaths later, another bandit was mysteriously killed.
"Shu~"
Suddenly, a voice that Liang Zifeng was extremely familiar with rang out. Without time to react, he instinctively injected his internal energy into the Tang sword and swung it towards the bandit leader. A crescent-shaped sword energy was instantly generated and shot out.
"Boom~" a sound like an explosion was heard.
"You bastard! A mid-level master pretending to be a low-level one. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at by the people in the martial arts world?" After the explosion, the bandit leader suddenly pointed at Liang Zifeng and cursed angrily.
Liang Zifeng was speechless at the bandit leader's accusation, and then he suddenly felt that the Tang sword in his hand seemed to be about to collapse.
He didn't have time to say more, and directly swung out four swords in succession. The four sword auras instantly cut all the bandits, including the bandit leader, in half, and the Tang sword in Liang Zifeng's hand turned into powder and fell to the ground.
Liang Zifeng looked at the powder on the ground with some disappointment and sighed slightly. This was the first Tang sword he made with his own hands, and he felt a little reluctant to part with it.
Shaking off unnecessary emotions, Liang Zifeng walked to the body of the bandit leader, bent down and picked up the heavy machete.
"Sure enough." He used his mental power to explore the machete, and as he expected, it was a very high-quality weapon, much better than his Tang sword.
Then he collected the weapons of the seven bandits with internal strength one by one. After detecting them, he found that they were indeed good things with quality exceeding that of ordinary weapons.
After collecting the weapons, Liang Zifeng used his mental power to scan all the bodies of the bandits and the surrounding areas, but found nothing valuable, so he complained in his heart, "Poor bastard."
Just when Liang Zifeng was feeling a little disappointed that he hadn't gained anything, he heard a lot of footsteps not far away. He turned around and saw the villagers were so scared that they dared not move, and some even subconsciously took a step back.
The thatched hut was still burning and the rain had stopped at some point. Liang Zifeng walked up to the villagers of Liujia Village.
"Remember to send people to patrol and keep watch around the village next time, otherwise who can you count on next time?"
"Yes, yes." Several villagers in front nodded hurriedly, and then began to thank Liang Zifeng for saving their lives with other villagers.