Ordinary people can also be extraordinary

Zhang Chen walked up to the bandit, looked at his confused expression and asked: "Where is your lair?"

He looked up at Zhang Chen with cold eyes and Sima Feng with fierce eyes. He said quietly: "Walk a hundred miles forward from here, there is a valley. Cross the valley and there is a steep mountain in front. That's it."

"Are there other cultivators in your lair?" Zhang Chen asked the question that concerned him most.

"Yes, I saw five of them with my own eyes. They all lived on the top of the mountain and seldom came down." The bandit replied.

Zhang Chen was a little skeptical when he saw that he answered so readily.

"How strong are they?" Zhang Chen asked thoughtfully.

"I don't know about that. I haven't seen them use their skills with my own eyes. I heard from others that they are very powerful and no mortal can defeat them." The bandit said slowly.

Zhang Chen looked at him with a complicated expression. He looked young and didn't have the ferocious aura of a horse bandit. He couldn't help but ask, "Why do you want to be a horse bandit?"

When the young bandit heard this, an inexplicable sadness appeared on his face. He said hysterically: "Whoever wants to be a bandit, I wish I could kill them all."

Zhang Chen was also somewhat enlightened when he heard this, and thought to himself, "So he also hates the bandits, no wonder he answered so straightforwardly."

Then Zhang Chen suddenly had an idea and said, "So you were forced, then do you want to make up for your sins?"

The bandit was a little surprised and asked, "Aren't you going to kill me?"

"I think you still have a conscience and can be saved. If you help us wipe out the horse bandits, we will let you go." Zhang Chen looked at him and said.

"Okay, I promise you, I just want to be able to go home and take one more look." The bandit looked into the distance, lost in thought.

Then he took Zhang Chen and Sima Feng to the bandit's lair. His name was Ding Wen, and he was captured by the bandits. The bandits didn't just rob goods, they also needed to recruit members. So they captured some young people for training, but this training was different from normal training.

The bandits would first starve them for a few days, and when they were about to starve to death, they would continue to deprive them of their conscience, and then let them kill each other. Finally, step by step, they would force them to the point where they could no longer turn back, and they would have no choice but to become bandits.

Zhang Chen and Sima Feng followed Ding Wen and found the bandit's lair very smoothly. Ding Wen pointed to the valley below and said, "Go through the valley and go two kilometers ahead. There are checkpoints set up by bandits on both sides of the valley. We will be discovered if we go down."

Through Ding Wen's introduction, Zhang Chen already knew that there were about 500 horse bandits, most of whom lived at the foot of the mountain. There were also many people who were robbed at the foot of the mountain, while the immortal cultivators basically lived on the mountain and did not live with the horse bandits.

"Ding Wen, under what circumstances would those immortal cultivators take action?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Some cultivators attacked the valley before, and I heard that five of them took action. Unfortunately, I didn't see them fighting." Ding Wen replied.

Zhang Chen frowned and thought to himself, "Don't worry about those horse bandits. The key is that there are at least five immortal cultivators. There are only two of us in the horse bandits' lair. We are definitely no match for them. We should think of a way to lure a few of them out and kill them. This will not only weaken their power, but also help us find out their strength."

"Ding Wen, if you tell them that I killed all those bandits, will those immortal cultivators take action?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Maybe." Ding Wen thought for a moment and replied.

"Then let's make a plan. Ding Wen, you go and report the news. You just say that I killed all those horse bandits by myself. When they ask you about the situation, just tell them what you saw. It's easy to be exposed if you make up a lie. As for how you survived..." Zhang Chen hadn't figured out how to make up this lie yet.

"I have a way. Master, please use the fireball you used before to burn me. Then I will say that I was burned unconscious. When I wake up, I will find that everyone else is dead." Ding Wen said to Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen looked at him with some reluctance and said, "It would be very painful if this fireball burned you."

"This pain is nothing to me. Master, please take action." Ding Wen looked at Zhang Chen with a firm look in his eyes.

Zhang Chen stopped talking upon seeing this and cast a spell, condensing a fireball in his hand. He tried his best to control its energy to ensure that Ding Wen would not be burned to death.

The fireball hit Ding Wen's body and immediately caught fire. Ding Wen rolled over on the ground in pain, biting his lips tightly to prevent himself from making any sound. After a while, because Zhang Chen's input of spiritual energy was very small, the fire was quickly extinguished. Ding Wen's chest was burned and cracked, and blood was faintly seeping out.

Zhang Chen looked at Ding Wen and was very moved. He said to him: "If we can wipe out this group of horse bandits this time, you will have made a great contribution. I will personally send you back to your hometown and help you clarify everything."

Ding Wen nodded, as if he had found his soul, and walked towards the valley with a staggering gait.

Zhang Chen and Sima Feng looked at each other, observed the terrain, and found a place to hide in front.

About an hour later, Ding Wen returned to the bandit's lair. The bandit leader saw that he came back alone and was injured, so he quickly questioned him.

Ding Wen followed Zhang Chen's instructions and only talked about Zhang Chen's situation, and then explained why he survived. The leader of the horse bandits looked alert, as it involved a cultivator, and it was not something he could handle.

He looked towards the direction of the mountain and felt a little frightened. Although he was the leader of this group of horse bandits, the ones who really had the final say were the nine people on the peak.

The mountain is not high, only a few hundred meters, but the top is very large, several thousand square meters, and very flat. Standing on it, you can see the surrounding scenery at a glance. This is also the reason why those people chose to live there.

At this time, the head of the family bravely climbed to the top of the mountain, stood at the door of a house and said, "Master Wang, I have something to report."

A rough voice came from the room, mixed with dissatisfaction, "Come in."

The head of the family quickly pushed the door open and saw a middle-aged man sitting on the bed practicing. Beside the bed was a naked woman who was already dead. She looked horrified and dead in a horrible way. Her entire body had been sucked dry, turning into a mummy.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, not daring to look around, and said to the middle-aged man in front of him: "Master, I just got the news that the two teams I sent out to rob were killed by a cultivator. I would like to ask Master Wang to go and take a look."

The immortal master named Wang opened his eyes and looked at him: "How many of you are here? How strong are you?"

"It is said that he only saw one, but I am not sure about his strength. Only one subordinate survived, and he did not know much about the situation. He only knew that the other party was very young, less than eighteen years old." The boss replied quickly.

"Okay, let the person who survived wait. I will ask him a few questions later. You go down first." After the middle-aged man said this, he closed his eyes and continued to practice.

This person is called Wang Xiong, and his cultivation level is the eighth level of Qi Condensation. He is the second among the nine people, and there is another person who is at the ninth level, the remaining four are at the seventh level, and three are at the sixth level. They were all gathered together by Zhang Luotie who accidentally got the skills of Huanxi Sect because of their poor aptitude, and then used horse bandits to capture women for cultivation in order to avoid the detection of immortal cultivators.

"Yes, I'll get ready right away." The headmaster said and hurried out. He didn't dare to stay in this room for a moment. These immortal cultivators were much more cruel than him, the headmaster, and he was terrified when facing them.