Chapter III: Soldiers and Bandits

After a night of practice, the sky was slightly bright, Zhang Han had already gotten up and came to the small courtyard, holding a wooden stick in his hand, and a set of strange swordsmanship was played in his hand when the wind was whirring.

This set of swordsmanship is exactly what Zhang Han got from Xiao Haoran.

The exercise left by Xiao Haoran is a sword technique, called Haoran Sword Qi Duel, which is also a rare top exercise.

The cultivation conditions of the secondary sword technique are very harsh, and the cultivator must have a righteous spirit, but those who are not correct in their mental skills are difficult to get started when they practice this skill, and the heavy ones will die of revolting, which is extremely domineering.

Somewhat similar to Zhang Han's family legend of the Ten Thousand Worlds Emperor Sutra, this exercise also pays attention to a transformation, from the initial introduction of righteous qi into the body, to the subsequent cultivation of righteous qi, the correction of qi, and finally to achieve a mouthful of righteous qi in the body, and the supreme failure to destroy the world's treacherous evil.

When he was on the Blue Star Road, Zhang Han often went in and out of major famous families, read the Three Classics and Five Books, and had already developed his own heroic righteousness in his body, so cultivating this sword was also twice the result with half the effort.

In addition, within the Blue Star Fragment, Zhang Han would go in to receive a inheritance almost every day these days, and each of these exercises and supernatural powers, each of which leaked out, was a treasure that could attract countless people to fight for it frantically.

Putting down the wooden stick in his hand, Zhang Han walked out of the small courtyard and came to the open space in the village, at this time there were still more than 20 clansmen practicing the military martial arts fist that Zhang Han passed on to them, and every move and style was full of murderous aura.

"Your Highness!" the villagers saluted, and Zhang Han nodded in response.

Walking straight to the front of a seven-person team, Zhang Han looked at the flames covered by the fists of the people in front of him and asked, "Wang Lin, have you cultivated the internal fire?"

The young man who was playing military fists listened to the voice of the patriarch, and immediately stood up and smirked: "Yes, Your Highness! ”

"Well," Zhang Han nodded with satisfaction, after these days of understanding, he found that these are worthy of the major famous families of the Blue Star Empire, and their cultivation comprehension is quite high, and everyone's strength is the same day by day.

Zhang Han thought that the inheritance he had obtained from the great powers was far more than that, and in the future, he would have to select some top-notch people to teach some Dan Dao, formations or something, so as not to waste the life's work of the ancestors.

Taking off his shirt, Zhang Han also practiced military boxing in the open space on the side, although his body looked a little thin, but he practiced boxing was strong and powerful, and every move and style was like a tiger ambushing, and the momentum was amazing.

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The coolness of late autumn is refreshing, and the demon beast mountain range also shows a golden color, Zhang Han and others have been here for half a year.

On this day, Zhang Han looked at the hundreds of people gathered in the village square in front of him, but his eyes were very solemn.

"Have you found out?" asked Uncle Kui at the front of the crowd.

Shaking his head, he saw Uncle Kui frowning and said, "There is no one alive in the whole village, but the injuries should be man-made." ”

"Who would be so cruel? Kill all the people and animals, even the elderly and children. Zhang Han said angrily: "No, we can't sit still like this, we finally found a few villages on the outskirts of this mountain, and we haven't had time to ask anything, the other party has been brutally killed, and if it goes on like this, maybe this tragedy will happen to us one day." ”

Listening to Zhang Han's words, everyone fell silent, and after half a sound, Uncle Kui stepped forward and said: "There seems to be a village in the northwest, we must be careful when we go, we don't know who the enemy is." ”

Zhang Han nodded with a serious face: "No matter who it is, it threatens everyone's safety, I will definitely get rid of them one by one." ”

After a brief farewell to the villagers, and some dry food, Zhang Han and the others said they would leave.

Three days later, on the edge of a small stream in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, there were more than a dozen people repairing here at this time.

This group of people in various colored robes and carrying silver swords were Zhang Han, Wang Lin, Wu Qing and others.

On this trip, Zhang Han only took away a small number of seven people in the village, except for Wang Lin, Wu Qing and others, most of the remaining five people were also after the generals of the Blue Star Empire.

Zhang Han sat on the edge of the stream, wiping a three-foot long sword in his hand with a piece of animal skin, which was forged from the Iron Spirit Mine that Ajie had brought back not long ago.

Coincidentally, there are still a lot of iron spirit ores in the iron ore veins discovered by Applejack.

This iron spirit ore is a kind of spiritual material, which can forge spirit treasure-level instruments, if it weren't for Zhang Han's knowledge of refining weapons in the inheritance he obtained, otherwise they wouldn't even be able to melt the spirit ore.

It is precisely because of this that the seven people who traveled with Zhang Han this time were equipped with spirit weapons.

"Your Highness, come and drink some water. Wang Lin handed over an animal skin bag and said.

"Well, good. Zhang Han nodded in response.

Putting down the water bag, Zhang Han wiped his mouth and asked, "Wang Lin, how far is this place from the village that Uncle Kui said is true?" ”

Listening to Zhang Han's question, Wang Lin thought for a while and said, "According to the speed at which we are moving forward, if nothing else, it will take half a day to go forward." ”

After a long groan, Zhang Han got up calmly and said, "Tell the brothers, hurry up and repair, we must rush to the village you said before dark." ”

Everyone nodded in response.

Zhang Han and the others have been going around and around in the mountains for more than half a month, and now they have found a rare place with people, and Zhang Han can't wait to consult.

As the sun set, Zhang Han and the others finally came to the mountain village after half a day's journey.

When they came to a small hill behind the village, they were taken aback by the situation in the village.

"Ahh

"Poof!" came out, and saw that the sergeant did not have any words, and directly shot the old man kneeling in front of him.

Hiding on the hillside, Zhang Han's eyes flashed with a look of surprise, and he slowly turned back to Wang Lin and the others and asked, "What's the matter?"

I saw that Wang Lin shook his head and said that he didn't know, and the scene in front of him also surprised him.

Looking sideways at the front of the mountain village, there were about sixty or so people gathered there.

Among them, more than 30 people were dressed in battle armor, holding swords, and erecting a large flag with a wolf's head printed on it.

The rest of the people were all old and weak women and children, and there were more than a dozen dead corpses of strong men in the open space on the side.

Seeing this, Zhang Han knew that this mountain village was afraid that it had encountered bandits.

Quietly lying on the hillside to observe, Zhang Han found that the number of this group of soldiers and bandits was only about forty people, and the momentum on their bodies should be just ordinary soldiers.

But the cruelty of the means is simply not to treat the people of the mountain village as human beings, and burning, killing and plundering is secondary.

When Zhang Han saw a soldier dragging an eight- or nine-year-old child, he cut off his hands and feet with three knives, put hemp rope through his mouth, and hanged him alive from the locust tree at the head of the village.

It's not the first time I've thought I've done something like this.

"I'll say it again, the war on the front line is tight, and the general has an order, but those who are young and strong in the village who don't want to join the army will be beheaded!

A soldier on a black horse, resembling a squad officer, shouted in the middle of the field.

"Phew, you brutes, a child of seven or eight years old, you have to be taken to join the army, you must not die well!" a woman kneeling on the ground scolded in grief.

"Bold! Dare to confront Elder Wu and seek death!" a soldier stepped forward with a knife and slashed at the woman's head, causing the surrounding villagers to roll and crawl backwards.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Han and the others who were hiding on the mountain also had their eyes wide open, their foreheads were bruised, and their faces were full of anger.

After observing for a while, Zhang Han had already made up his mind to kill these sergeants, thinking that the culprit had been found in the recent tragedies that had occurred in the outskirts of this mountain range.

Without looking away, he looked at the sergeant in the distance, "Draw your sword!" Zhang Han snorted.

"I've been waiting for Your Highness to speak, brothers, draw your sword!" Wu Qing on the side said angrily.

After observing the situation in the village again, Zhang Han gestured to Wang Lin beside him, and then took Wu Qing and another famous family to the village along the edge of the hillside.

At the same time, Wang Lin also took the remaining four clansmen around the direction of the village entrance to ambush.

At this time, there were still more than a dozen soldiers and bandits in the village who were going door-to-door to search for food, and the sound of turning over boxes and cabinets resounded in the village.

"Bang!" A soldier kicked open the door of a wooden hut and strode in, holding a small jar of grain in his arms, and scolding as if to say that the people of this mountain village were too poor to find anything gold or silver.

However, the moment the soldier stepped into the wooden house, a long sword stabbed from his side, and the soldier felt a flash of cold light, and before he could make any sound, he was pierced through the heart.

With a successful blow, Zhang Han took a step forward and gently put the dead body of the soldier into the wooden house.

Lifting the wooden window on one side of the wooden house, Zhang Han turned over and jumped to a dry firewood pile outside the wooden house to hide.

Footsteps were heard, and a soldier came from another wooden house not far away, with a few pieces of dried bacon hanging from his spear.

Not perceiving the slightest vision, the soldier walked to the dry firewood pile where Zhang Han was hiding with a piece of bacon hanging on his hand, and stretched out his hand to pull out the dry firewood on his face, but he knew very well that the people of these mountain villages liked to hide food in such a place the most.

Picking up a pile of dry wood, a cold and unusual face appeared in the soldier's eyes, and at the same time, he felt a tightness in his chest, and a long sword with a flickering cold glow had penetrated deep into his heart.

The soldier hadn't reacted until he fell, and the only thought in his mind was what a sharp blade it was, and even the armor that pierced his body so easily.

Dragging the soldier's corpse into a dry pyre and hiding it, Zhang Han looked sideways at the two wooden houses not far away, and just happened to see Wu Qing and the two men who were with him slashing their targets.

Gesturing to a few wooden houses on the other side of the mountain village, Zhang Han walked over with a solemn face.

He wasn't worried that their movements would be discovered by the large forces outside the village, which happened to be in a dead end from here.

In a wooden house, three soldiers walked out carrying a bag of bound animal skins, and a few animal skins could be vaguely seen in the armor of several people, which were also hidden privately.

The first person stepped over the high threshold and walked out, and the second person walked out immediately, but when the third person walked out of the gate, there was a cold flash under the eaves, and a long sword was inserted straight into the soldier's heavenly spirit cover, and the blood flowing down instantly stained the soldier's face red.

Noticing the slightest movement behind them, the two soldiers in front turned around, but they didn't have time to raise the alarm. "Whew!" With two sounds, two long swords pierced through their backs.

After solving the three people, Zhang Han took the two clansmen to turn over again and came to a wooden house next to it, and soon after, the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the village was gone.

On the other side, in the direction of the head of the village, on top of several big trees, Zhang Lin and four clansmen lurked quietly here.

Under their tree, lay the corpses of three soldiers, these were hidden outposts outside the village, which had been secretly solved by them.

"Come, tell them to move quickly, we must return to the camp before dark. The captain on a black horse looked at the mountain village not far away and ordered.

"Subordinates obey!" a soldier led the way.