Reversing the Milky Way

As Bai Cheng raised his arm, he struck the bandit in the neck with his elbow.

It's important to know that the neck is the most vulnerable part of a human body. Bai Cheng chose to attack there to kill the enemy with one blow. After all, he still had to deal with the other bandits. If they were allowed to leave alive, who knows how many more ordinary people would die under their blades.

Finally, after a few more breaths, Bai Cheng had killed all the fleeing bandits. If you think about it carefully, this could be considered the second time he had officially killed someone in this world. After half a year of contact, he found that there was no distinction between good and bad people here. Everyone had their own beliefs. And the instructors in the school would never tell you whether it was right or wrong. The core idea they taught was only one concept, which was to help you survive as much as possible in this cruel world.

Bai Cheng had returned to the spot where Hao Motou had been, and the power of the fragments within him had dissipated. However, Hao Motou had vanished from the spot, having escaped while Bai Cheng was dealing with his subordinates.

Seeing this, Bai Cheng's eyes grew even fiercer. After a series of internal struggles, he decided he couldn't let this guy go. He then began a careful exploration along the path of the jungle where Hao Mo had disappeared.

Following the constantly broken branches along the way and the footprints on the ground, Bai Cheng chased after them for nearly five minutes. At this point, he also noticed that in the jungle not far ahead, there were still broken branches and the sound of leaves scraping against each other.

Immediately afterwards, he saw a blurry figure a hundred meters ahead, fleeing forward at an extremely fast speed; it was Hao Motou.

Upon seeing this, Bai Cheng leaped high into the air with a burst of lightning beneath his feet. Like an arrow, he launched a flying kick towards Hao Motou.

At that moment, Hao Motou, who was running, also felt a chill. He immediately noticed Bai Cheng attacking from behind. So he quickly turned around and held his long sword in front of him, blocking Bai Cheng's kick. However, Bai Cheng's kick was quite powerful, and he only managed to stop after sliding for more than ten meters.

Once he regained his senses, he looked at Bai Cheng in front of him with a horrified expression.

"Damn it, it's only been less than fifteen minutes, and this kid caught up so quickly? I'll give it my all!"

Upon realizing this, Hao Mo quickly changed his expression, transforming into an Oscar-winning actor as he wept bitterly at Bai Cheng.

"Wait! Wait a minute! Bai Cheng, please forgive me, I promise I'll never bother you again."

As he described his figure, he slowly moved backward, his facial expression contorted in an extremely exaggerated way, and even tears flew from the corners of his eyes.

The scene before him left Bai Cheng speechless with astonishment.

"Oh? What's wrong? Didn't you just say I walked right into a trap? Well, I'm standing right in front of you now!"

As he spoke, Bai Cheng slowly approached Hao Motou, while Hao Motou kept backing away. However, when Bai Cheng wasn't paying attention, Hao Motou secretly reached his other hand behind his back.

"I! I was wrong! Please forgive me this time!"

As he spoke, he kept moving his body backward.

Finally, Hao Motou leaned against a large tree behind him and slowly stood up.

Bai Cheng had already noticed the subtle movements behind his back, and he instantly prepared himself mentally. However, Bai Cheng's face remained remarkably calm.

"Oh, really? Then if you call me grandpa, I'll let you go today!"

As he spoke, Bai Cheng secretly began to activate the power of the fragments within his body. Upon hearing Bai Cheng's words, Hao Mo's tearful expression clearly changed.

Suddenly, he leaped into the air, as if releasing all the power he had been holding back, and quickly rushed in front of Bai Cheng. He swiftly drew a gleaming silver dagger from behind his back and instantly stabbed it towards Bai Cheng's neck.

At this moment, there was no trace of the previous weeping and wailing on his face.

"Kid! Die!"

As the words fell, the dagger was already only inches away from Bai Cheng's neck, and Hao Mo's face was beaming with the smile of a victor.

However, the smile on his face vanished abruptly the next moment. The silver dagger in his hand sparked a dazzling burst of light as it touched Bai Cheng's neck. Then, with a loud "bang," the dagger shattered into pieces the instant it touched Bai Cheng's neck, the broken blades slicing across his face at incredible speed.

Only then did he suddenly realize that a layer of blue striped light had appeared on Bai Cheng's neck, and the dagger he was holding was now just a hilt.

"This! This is impossible! My dagger is at least a mid-grade magic weapon, even sharper than the Frost Moon Blade in my hand. How could you be completely unharmed?!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng simply twisted his neck.

"Hehe, nothing is impossible. Don't even mention your broken dagger, I can block even a weapon of a higher level."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Cheng's fierceness was undisguised. In an instant, he sprang up and delivered a powerful elbow strike that landed squarely on Hao Motou's face. With a few cracking sounds, Hao Motou flew straight backward, crashing into a thick tree before coming to a stop. Even the Cold Moon Blade in his hand fell to the side.

After picking it up, Bai Cheng slowly approached Hao Motou, whose face was now unrecognizable. In the attack just now, he could feel that Hao Motou's body was vastly different from the other bandits. After all, Hao Motou was a martial artist who had reached the Great Perfection of Body Refinement Realm and had trained his body to the extreme.

At this moment, Hao Motou covered his face with one hand and stood up shakily.

In his vision, blood had already stained his world red, and the excruciating pain in his face made him fall to the ground again.

"You! You can't kill me! Please, please let me go!"

However, Bai Cheng remained expressionless, carrying a long sword, and slowly walked up to him.

"Let you go? Have you ever let go of those you killed?"

"You! You can't do this! Our boss won't let you get away with this!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Cheng's precious sword flashed with a cold light. With a powerful swing, Hao Mo's blood-stained head flew into the air. Blood stained the surrounding jungle like raindrops. After doing all this, Bai Cheng let out a deep sigh of relief.

"Phew~, finally killed this band of bandits. Fortunately, it seems that half of the spiritual energy in the fragment is still left. However, judging from what he just said, there seems to be a leader among these bandits. Tsk, never mind, let's go back and see if we can catch a spirit beast."

He then raised the Cold Moon Blade in his hand and examined it carefully. He saw that although the blade had a nick, it was still spotless after the murder, and even had a slight chill emanating from it.

Bai Cheng had shed his mysterious fragment state and curiously ran his hand over the blade. However, the next moment, a stinging sensation came from his hand, and he discovered that a five-centimeter-long wound had been cut in the center of his palm, with blood gushing out continuously.

Bai Cheng frowned upon seeing this.

'Wow... is this a mid-grade magic weapon? If it weren't for the protection of my fragment's power, being cut by this weapon would basically mean certain death. Although there's a gap in the weapon, I happen to be lacking a suitable weapon right now.'

Thinking of this, Bai Cheng bandaged his hand and returned to the area around the lake. He followed the tracks of the spirit beasts and finally found a large flock of pheasants in a thicket.

As evening fell, Bai Cheng returned to his usual spot on Mirror Moon Lake, carrying a pheasant he had subdued on his back. After looking around, he found the spirit-storing pearl hidden nearby, along with several spirit-dispersing talismans.

After activating the Spirit Storage Pearl, he slowly walked into Mirror Moon Lake.

However, hundreds of meters away in the sky, Han Yu, who had just arrived at this place by following the tracking compass, watched Bai Cheng's figure enter the pool with an icy expression.

"Good lad! I didn't expect you to have something like this. I'd like to see where you're headed!"

As he flew on his sword to the sky above Mirror Moon Lake, he followed the movement of the light spot on the tracking compass in his hand.

Gradually, he followed the light spot to the central island of Jingyue Lake, and at that moment, the light spot on the compass where Bai Cheng was located also stopped.

"Hmm, why did we stop? Are we going to get ashore here?"

However, just a few breaths later, the light spot on the tracking compass in his hand began to move again, and it kept moving in a circular motion. Although the tracking compass in Han Yu's hand could show the location of the tracking symbol, it could only show the position on a plane, not the horizontal position. At this moment, Bai Cheng was spiraling downwards along the cave below the White Moon Tree, so on the tracking compass it looked like he was drawing circles in place.

Just as Hanyu was wondering, he noticed that the light spot had started moving along a straight path again.

"What on earth is this kid doing? He's just wandering around at the bottom of the lake with the wind-attribute spirit storage pearl, isn't he?"

Immediately afterwards, Hanyu followed the light on the compass and began to move forward. However, after a period of time, he was surprised to find that he had arrived at the shore on the northwest side of Mirror Moon Lake.

"What's going on? Is this kid going to go ashore here again?"

At this moment, he stared intently at the tracking compass in his hand. However, as time passed, he noticed that the light spot on the compass continued to move forward, but he still couldn't see Bai Cheng emerge from the pool.

"What?! What's going on? Could this kid be underground? Oh no!"

Thinking of this, he quickly arrived at the small island in the center of Jingyue Lake. However, a cultivator's divine sense is blocked in water. Unless one has a water-attribute cultivation physique, one can only sense a distance of one-tenth that in the air while underwater.

Fortunately, after cultivating spiritual energy, as long as the spiritual energy in the body keeps circulating, the cultivator can breathe underwater without air. However, because it requires constant circulation of spiritual energy, over time, it will also cause a huge consumption of the spiritual energy in the body.

At this moment, Han Yu immediately erected a spiritual energy shield, wrapped it around himself, and then leaped into the water.

However, after circling around underwater, he found nothing unusual.

'What's going on? Could there be a secret passage?'

After a thorough search, Hanyu finally arrived at the rock wall, where he could feel a faint flow of water coming from the cracks in the rock.

He immediately summoned his longsword, and with a single slash, the rock wall in front of him was instantly cleaved in two. Looking at the enormous, dark opening before him, Han Yu's expression was one of surprise.

"I didn't expect there to be such a hidden passage here. It seems that the kid must have gone in through here."

As soon as he finished speaking, Han Yu continued to maintain his spiritual energy shield and plunged headfirst into it.

Bai Cheng had already walked out from the other exit. The moment he stepped out of the pool, Xiao Huang flapped its wings and ran over.

Upon seeing this, Bai Cheng immediately threw the phoenix-tailed chicken he was carrying on his back onto the ground.

"Little Huang, I specially caught a phoenix-tailed chicken for you this time. I wonder if you like it?"

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Huang immediately ran to the phoenix-tailed chicken and quickly shaved all the feathers off its body.

Then, they simply tore off one of the chicken's thighs.

Just as Bai Cheng was about to observe how the Golden-Winged Thunderbird ate, what happened in front of him the next moment once again refreshed his worldview.

At this moment, a faint crackling of lightning appeared in Xiao Huang's mouth, and a burst of lightning shot out towards the chicken leg in front of him.

However, its power was far less than that of an adult Golden-winged Thunderbird, and the ground in front of Little Yellow only became somewhat scorched.

Immediately after Xiao Huang spat out several more bolts of lightning, Bai Cheng's nasal cavity began to fill with a fragrant aroma of roasted meat.

At this moment, Bai Cheng felt that his brain's thinking couldn't keep up with the scene before him.

"Holy crap, this Golden-Winged Thunderbird can actually roast meat at such a young age. Is its taste really that picky? No wonder it doesn't eat these spiritual plants and fruits."

At this moment, Bai Cheng looked at the fragrant chicken leg in front of him and his mouth watered.

"Come to think of it, it feels like it's been a long time since I've eaten anything else."

Seeing Xiao Huang start to eat heartily, Bai Cheng couldn't help but swallow hard.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Cheng, holding the Cold Moon Sword, came to the Phoenix Tail Chicken and, with a swift stroke, chopped off one of its wings.