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Chapter 23: End of a bad night

  The bandit grabbing Feiyan's neck said to Jian.

  “You better surrender, boy. I’m out of patience for this. I don’t even care how much this girl is worth anymore. Keep annoying me, and I’ll make her blood stain this ground just like I did with her father’s!”

  Feiyan's body trembled at the mention of her father.

  “Alright, please don’t hurt her!” Jian gritted his teeth and dropped his sword.

  The two bandits who had been fighting them, with satisfied smiles on their faces, advanced toward Yi Jian to deliver a fatal blow.

  But at that moment, a shout came from behind them.

  The one-eyed bandit screamed, feeling intense pain in his back. The pain was so severe that his hand lost its strength, and he let go of Feiyan. He looked back to see what was happening and saw a small girl holding a knife that had been plunged into his back.

  The bandit groaned and tried to punch Yue.

  She quickly withdrew the knife and stabbed him again in the back. But using sheer willpower to endure the pain, the bandit clenched his fists and tried to nd a punch on Yue.

  She pulled the knife back and retreated.

  The one-eyed bandit grabbed his sword and tried to strike Yue in fury. But she was too fast for him.

  Taking advantage of the surprise of the two bandits facing him, Jian retrieved his sword. He tried to cut the nearest bandit, but there was no energy left in his body.

  The bandit was able to react and easily dodge Jian’s strike.

  The other bandit struck Jian’s legs with a club, causing him to fall to the ground. As the bandit was about to crush Jian's skull, something emerged from the shadows without him noticing.

  After killing the three bandits at the ravine’s exit, Tristan returned to the center of the fight. He hid behind the rocks, observing everything, waiting for an opportunity.

  Tristan charged toward the bandit with the club!

  The bandit paused his attempt to crush Jian's skull due to the sudden change in events. He reacted too slowly when a child somersaulted towards him and slipped between his legs. Soon, he felt his legs lose strength, and a warm liquid ran down his thighs to his feet. He fell to the ground, screaming in pain.

  Tristan looked at the remaining bandit.

  At that moment, Jian grabbed the bandit from behind, his arms wrapping around him like a snake.

  Seizing the opportunity, Tristan delivered a horizontal kick to the bandit’s stomach, slicing his body open and causing his insides to spill out. The bandit fell to the ground in agony before dying.

  Jian colpsed to the ground in exhaustion, gncing at Feiyan before losing consciousness.

  Tristan turned his gaze to the one-eyed bandit, the st one still capable of fighting. Tristan thought:

  ‘If I leave now, this guy probably won’t be a threat to me. He’s injured and has no allies left.’

  ‘But these bastards made this night very irritating for me. It would be a shame to leave this matter unfinished.’

  Tristan began to walk towards the one-eyed bandit.

  ‘What the hell happened here? We had the numerical advantage, we had the terrain in our favor, and we successfully carried out the ambush. But... why am I the only one still standing?’ The one-eyed bandit thought indignantly.

  ‘Did I underestimate these cultivators?’

  The leader of the mountain bandits saw a small child walking towards him. He was so small and thin that he probably wasn’t more than 8 years old. Sweat was dripping from his face, and his wet bck hair was stuck to his skin. The child had bandaged arms, and several wounds and bruises were all over his body. He was breathing heavily, as if he were on the verge of colpsing.

  But his eyes, on the other hand, were devoid of emotion. The child looked at him like a wolf staring at its prey as he slowly walked towards him.

  ‘This is all madness,’ the one-eyed bandit thought.

  “Haha, this world is madness.”

  The bandit removed his hand from the wound on his back that he was trying to staunch. He gripped his sword with both hands and then ran towards Tristan, gathering the little vital energy left in his body.

  Tristan also ran with everything he had.

  He thought, ‘I have less than 10% of my essence left. This attack will decide everything!’

  Tristan jumped as high as he could and spun his entire body to deliver a horizontal kick to the enemy's neck.

  Thinking Tristan’s action was foolish, with a crazed smile on his face, the bandit prepared to slice the child’s leg with a vertical strike. He put all the strength of his dying body into it.

  But Tristan’s Dark Bde wasn’t like the others this time. A much rger and denser mist of Darkness enveloped his leg, forming a bde nearly 15 cm (6 in) long.

  [Dark Bde] had evolved to rank 2!

  The bck bde on Tristan’s leg struck the bandit’s sword, cutting it in two in mere seconds.

  Then Tristan’s bck bde sliced through the bandit’s neck, sending his head flying through the air.

  Tristan fell to the ground, completely exhausted but still watching the bandit’s head fly and spin before hitting the ground.

  “Dusk!” Yue shouted and ran toward him.

  She caught his exhausted body and asked,

  “Are you alright?”

  Tired, Tristan said with effort,

  “Yes! This damn night is over!”

  After catching his breath for a few minutes, Tristan managed to stand up.

  When Zhou Lan appeared, Yue ran to her grandfather and hugged him, trembling from having stabbed another human being for the first time and from what had happened that night. She buried her face in his chest.

  Zhou Lan hugged his granddaughter tightly, relieved that she was safe.

  Liu Feiyan approached her father’s corpse, kneeled beside him, and pced her head and hands on his chest. Tears filled her eyes, wetting her beautiful face.

  Tristan looked at the scene, thinking, ‘Hmm, would it be too rude to take the beast crystal back in this situation?’

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