Danwu Refining Spirit

Chapter Ninety: The Great Thief, Gu Zhenfeng

"boom!"

The beam of light in the night sky suddenly accelerated, and a starlight as thick as a bucket pierced through the roof and entered Xiao Chong's body. Some of the scattered starlight surrounded the lynx, who was stunned by the roar.

"Ah!" Xiao Chong felt an immense force surge into his body, and the indescribable pain made him suddenly open his eyes.

A stranger stood before him, holding a short sword, and made a move as if to stab him.

"An assassin!" Xiao Chong reacted immediately and opened his mouth to shout.

However, the starlight that had surged into his body was too strong. He could only let out a few hoarse "hoarse" sounds from his throat, but he couldn't utter a sound. Even his body felt as if it were bound by an invisible force, unable to move at all.

Could it be that he had been too arrogant these past few days, and now the heavens were going to punish him? To Xiao Chong's horrified gaze, the stranger's body was rapidly brightening, as if it were about to become transparent.

"Boom!"

The next moment, the stranger's body exploded like an overinflated balloon. Splattered blood and flesh covered the walls, making Xiao Chong feel as if he were in a slaughterhouse.

Danger averted!

By the time the fat man and his gang arrived after hearing the noise, the starlight had completely dissipated, and Xiao Chong was finally able to move again.

"What...what's going on?" the fat man stammered, staring at the bloodstains and bits of flesh on the wall.

Xiao Chong wiped his face to remove the filth, and said with lingering fear, "Someone tried to assassinate me, but luckily I reacted quickly and turned him into a human flesh char siu bun."

"Are you... alright?" Yin Feng asked with concern.

Xiao Chong forced a laugh and said, "What could possibly happen to me? Didn't you see the assassin has already turned into a pile of minced meat?"

"Did I tell you? Did someone really attack the camp?" Seeing that Xiao Chong didn't seem to be in any trouble, the fat man interjected, "But why do I feel like this isn't over yet?"

"He really is a jinx; good things never come true, but bad things do!" After witnessing the fat man's amazing abilities, Xiao Chong was about to tell everyone to go back and rest, but the fat man's words made him a little uneasy.

"It's not impossible. Yin Changkong just left this morning, and this happened tonight. It seems like someone is targeting us! We'd better be careful."

Xiao Chong muttered to himself for a while, then called everyone over and said, "Then let's not sleep tonight. Everyone should prepare more weapons suitable for night fighting, just in case. When Uncle Yin returns tomorrow, we won't have to worry about any danger."

"Alright, I'll take some men and make the arrangements right away. If anyone really attacks the camp, we'll make sure they can't leave." Yin Feng agreed and told everyone to go their separate ways.

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In a valley more than ten miles away from the Xiao family's mine, a cold wind blew by, and the bandit suddenly sneezed.

"How many years has it been since I last sneezed after reaching the Martial Life realm?" Sitting in a sheltered spot, a sense of unease suddenly arose in his heart.

"Could something have happened to Lynx? The other party's martial arts master is not here. Given his cleverness, nothing should have gone wrong."

A gust of wind grew increasingly uneasy, so he ordered the team to be assembled and shouted, "Let's go!"

"We should have left earlier, we're going to freeze to death in a minute!"

"Yeah, it's so cold today."

"It's pitch black here, and we're just going to starve. Once we take them down, we'll definitely need to have a good meal to replenish our strength."

The bandits, who had been waiting impatiently, received a gust of wind's order and got up cursing. They crowded together in a chaotic mess and began to head towards the Xiao family's mine.

A distance of a dozen miles is not far, especially since these bandits are all martial arts practitioners and are used to traveling in the mountains all year round, so they are very fast and arrived in just half an hour.

When they were about a hundred feet away from the Xiao family's mine, the bandits stopped at the signal of a gust of wind.

A dark cloud had somehow obscured the night sky, hiding the moonlight and starlight behind it, leaving the sky pitch black and devoid of any light.

"The Lynx must have failed. I don't know if it escaped or was killed. If it had succeeded, this place wouldn't be so quiet." A gust of wind stared at the silent Xiao family mine in the distance and quickly made a judgment.

"Caw!" Startled by the bandits, a night owl let out a chilling cry as it flew over their heads, taking the opportunity to defecate.

A gust of wind made me feel something drip onto my forehead. I reached up and touched it, then brought it to my nose and smelled it. Suddenly, my expression froze. Luckily, it was pitch black, and no one saw me.

"Winning the lottery like this is really bad luck. It doesn't seem like a good omen." A gust of wind felt disgusted.

I was about to send my men back, but then I realized I was really unwilling to do so.

This thief surnamed Xiao is unruly. He not only beat up his own second-in-command, but also stole more than a million taels of silver and a restaurant. He's so angry that he'll probably never be able to sleep well again.

Moreover, he had led a group of men, enduring hunger and cold for more than half a month, and finally waited for the enemy's martial arts master to leave. If he missed such a good opportunity, there would never be a better chance in the future.

Thinking of this, Gu Zhenfeng gripped the large iron mace in his hand tightly and whispered to his men, "Everyone, take advantage of the darkness and sneak over quietly, but be careful not to fall into their ambush."

After saying that, he took the lead and walked at the very front of the group.

They were getting closer and closer to the mine. When they were about twenty or thirty feet away, there was still no movement in the Xiao family's mine, except for a dead wind lamp at the gate that was swaying back and forth in the wind.

"Am I being paranoid? Is the other party not actually on guard?" Looking at the few faint stars peeking out from the clouds in the night sky, Gu Zhenfeng was somewhat doubtful.

Just then, a low and rapid sound suddenly rang out from ahead, like a sharp object slicing through the air.

"Watch out, there's an ambush ahead!" a gust of wind shouted.

But it was too late. A row of cold stars flashed in the darkness, and a dozen crossbow bolts whistled as they rushed into the crowd.

"Ah..." Amidst a chorus of howls and screams, more than a dozen bandits fell, and the crowd immediately descended into chaos.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh..." Another round of gunfire followed. After several more bodies fell, the bandits finally got smart and all lay down on the ground.

"Shields up! Crawl forward!" After the initial panic, one of the bandits' leaders finally came to his senses.

"Snatch! Snatch! Snatch..." The crossbow bolts continued to ring out, but this time they all struck the shields, and no bandits were injured.

Perhaps seeing that the crossbow bolts had lost their effectiveness, the person who fired them stopped and ceased the futile attack.

Under the cover of their shields, the bandits slowly advanced. One zhang, two zhang... ten zhang, getting closer and closer to the mine.

"Quickly, brothers in front, keep up the cover, those behind, hurry up and follow, as long as..." The leader, sandwiched among a group of bandits, kept urging them on.

Before he could finish speaking, the shield bearers at the very front suddenly cried out in alarm. The foreman looked up and saw that a section of the ground in front of him had collapsed, and the unsuspecting shield bearers had all fallen into the deep pit.

"what!"

"Ouch!"

"My foot... um!"

The shield bearers who fell into the deep pit were dazed and confused. They struggled to climb out, but were pinned down by a dense rain of arrows.

"My God! There's an ambush!" One of the bandits was so frightened that he screamed and turned to run away.

But he hadn't run more than a few steps when a huge iron mace weighing over a hundred pounds suddenly flew from behind and slammed heavily into his back.

"Ugh..." After being struck by the iron hammer, the bandit spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with shattered internal organs. His body was thrown more than ten feet away, and he was clearly going to die.

"Charge forward! Anyone who dares to run away in the face of battle will suffer the same fate as him!"

Seeing that the enemy hadn't even shown themselves yet, and their own men had already lost nearly half their strength, a gust of wind arose in anger. With his iron mace, he instantly felled the deserter who was affecting morale.

His weapon was quite unusual; the head of his iron mace was as big as a bucket, and a chain more than ten feet long was attached to it. At the end of the chain was a ring that could be held in the hand.

Seeing their leader's rage, the bandits immediately fell silent, howling as they charged forward. After another dozen or so were shot down by crossbow bolts, the bandits finally reached the Xiao family's barracks.

"Charge! Whoever is the first to rush in will be richly rewarded!" The squad leader brandished his long sword and pointed towards the barracks.

Just then, countless torches suddenly lit up the dark open space in front of the Xiao family's barracks, illuminating the space as if it were daytime.

The leader was suddenly blinded by the bright light and involuntarily squinted, but he couldn't see anything clearly. All he could hear were screams of agony.

As their eyes gradually adjusted to the firelight, they saw another pile of corpses lying around them. Not far away, a row of wooden planks a foot thick stood upright, and someone was shooting crossbow bolts through the gaps in the planks.

Seeing this, the leader wanted to run away, but when he thought of the power of the iron hammer, he didn't dare. He could only hunch over and tremble as he looked back.

"Get out of the way!"

Just as he was hesitating, the leader suddenly heard a gust of wind shout, and immediately, as if he had heard the most beautiful celestial music in the world, he scrambled to hide behind the gust of wind.

The wind has completely gone berserk!

He had originally planned to take advantage of the darkness to catch his opponent off guard, but who could have imagined that the other side was well-prepared? Now, before he could even get off to a successful mission, more than half of his brothers had already been killed. How could he not be furious?

"Ha!" A gust of wind howled, dodging several crossbow bolts flying in his face, and he swung the large iron mace in his hand in a wide arc, striking the wooden plank in front of him.

"Boom!" A loud noise rang out, wood chips flew everywhere, and wooden planks collapsed one after another, smashed into pieces by the large iron hammer.

"We've been waiting for you for a long time!" Five or six figures stood up from behind the collapsed wooden planks. The young man who spoke first was Xiao Chong.

"Boy, you first robbed Tiger Two, and now you've killed so many of my brothers. Today is your death day!" A gust of wind shook the large iron mace and roared at Xiao Chong.