“Indeed, brat. And you have walked right into our territory. We built this road and planted these trees, so hand over all your wealth and treasures as compensation to use it. Or you can try to resist, hahaha, I heard there is a shortage of pretty-faced young ones in the slave market. You will fit right into it.”
Shen Yuan’s eyes flashed, “Slave market? Where is this slave market you speak of?”
He didn’t know that there was a slave market in this world, ‘Seems like the cultivation world is darker than I thought, sigh.’
The leader looked at him as if he couldn’t believe what he heard, “Bahahaha, brothers, you heard what this brat said? Hahaha.”
The bandit’s laughter became even more wild as they heard his question.
Meanwhile, Shen Yuan didn’t move an inch from his place and patiently waited for them to answer, since from the looks of it the leader was a chatty one.
“Each city has a slave market you naive brat. I don’t know how you were raised up that you don’t even know such basic stuff. You just need to visit the black market to find whatever you want.” The leader finally ceased laughing and told him about it.
Shen Yuan nodded his head and spoke, “I will spare your life as my token of thanks for sharing this knowledge, if you don’t want to die, then scram!”
The leader and the other lackeys got silent as they looked at him as if he were an idiot.
“I told you all that so you won’t die as a curious ghost. Not because I’m kind enough to let you live. And now you dare to ask me to scram? The sheer arrogance… I should end you for that alone!”
Shen Yuan chuckled lightly, “And I wanted so much time talking with you lot to see if I can gain something interesting. Looks like I found where to go next, so now your lives are worthless.”
The leader felt his anger rising at being seen in such contemptuous manner by a brat, “Surround this little bastard!”
He ordered his lackeys, who moved fast to surround Shen Yuan, there were hundreds of them, and the weakest was in the peak Foundation Establishment Realm, and the majority of them were in the Inner Sea realm, while the leader and his vice leader’s were in the Origin Core Creation Realm.
Shen Yuan observed their cultivation bases as he felt that he could overpower them all without any issue, even before he was able to fight Peak Inner Sea Realm cultivators, now with his cultivation base boosted and the enhancement of Primordial Vessel Cultivation Art, even calling him hundreds of times stronger than before would be an understatement.
Shen Yuan’s eyes flashed with a cold light as the bandits surrounded him. He didn’t move to stop them, just standing calmly in his spot.
As the hundreds of bandits surrounded him, he felt surprisingly calm, with his high cultivation base, even his confidence surged.
The leader sneered looking at how Shen Yuan stood rooted to the ground, “What’s this? The brat is scared shitless! Hahaha, we haven’t even started yet.”
Shen Yuan didn’t respond and calmly looked at the bandits, he cracked his knuckles, and he smiled calmly which sent shivers down the spine of some of the bandits.
“You will wish you had taken my offer.” He said softly, his voice carrying a dangerous intent.
At that moment, one of the bandits lunged at him from the side, a sword aimed directly at his throat. He moved like lightning, his hand flashing out, and caught the sword between two fingers.
The bandit’s eyes widened in horror as he saw Shen Yuan catch his sword with only two fingers, unable to comprehend how this young brat was this strong.
“Too slow,” Shen Yuan’s voice softly traveled in the forest, making the bandits feel cold. He flicked his hand back, sending the bandit flying into a tree.
The force of the impact broke the tree and sent the bandit crashing through it. He picked up the Sword which the bandits dropped and threw it straight at the struggling bandit who was trying to get up.
The sword stabbed his back, impaling him on the ground, he struggled for a while before dying.
All the other bandits paused in their steps, feeling the horror of their comrade’s death, they were unsure of how to proceed when the leader screamed, “Charge at him! Do not falter, he will be exhausted soon! Kill him then!”
The bandits hesitated no longer and surged towards him. Shen Yuan utilized his movement technique to move like a phantom, he dodged the flurry of attacks.
His movements were precise and almost lazy as if he was toying with them. Whenever a bandit came close, he would use other bandits as his shield, having them pull back their attacks.
He didn’t stop there as he started actively attacking them as well, hitting their joints and making them lose balance.
He wasn’t even fighting properly, he was just toying with them since he was much stronger and faster than them.
They continued to surge towards him trying their best to at least hit him, but none were successful as they felt their fear growing.
The bandit leader shouted as he also felt his feet turning cold, “What are you idiots doing!! Attack him! Haah!”
He also joined the crowd with a shout, fully displaying the cultivation base of an Origin Core Creation Realm cultivator, his vice leaders also joined as they unsheathed their weapons and released their Origin Core Creation Realm cultivation base.
Shen Yuan noticed them from afar as he got a bit more serious, even though he felt not a hint of threat from them, he didn’t want to take them lightly as he had never fought with an Origin Core Creation Realm cultivator.
He swiped his hand and decapitated tens of bandits, forcing all of them to step back in horror.
‘Hmm… This Sword Intent is really useful, I can infuse my qi with my intent to make it even sharper than most swords.’ he thought to himself as he glanced through the horrified crowd, finally settling his gaze on the bandit’s leaders.
They paused as even though they didn’t want to fight with this monster, the Scar-faced leader spoke in a heavy tone, “Young Man, we should drop this matter. It won’t be good for all of us if we continue fighting.” He conceded a little, which only made Shen Yuan chuckle.
“Too late, should have backed off when I gave you the chance. Now it’s no longer up to you if you want to leave or not.” He raised his hand and made a provocation gesture towards the bandit leaders.
He didn’t wait for them to attack first this time. He sprinted towards them, reaching their location before they could react, and punched the scar-faced leader in the guts, sending him flying but not killing him in one blow.
He then jumped and kicked two of the three vice leaders on their sides. Sending them flying into the crowd of bandits as well. The last one stood on the spot, staring at Shen Yuan with wide eyes, he didn’t have much time to react as Shen Yuan slapped him in the face and sent him flying.
