He sighed internally as he thought, ‘Haah, looks like my strength mastery is pretty good, I was able to hold back enough to not kill him in one blow.’
He stood straight, “How weak, you guys can’t even withstand a single blow, and you wanted me to hand over my treasures?”
His voice carried disdain as he looked at all the bandits and their leaders.
The Scar-faced leader stood up again and grimly looked at Shen Yuan, “Don’t be too arrogant so soon, we haven’t even used our full strength to fight yet.”
With that, he signaled the vice leaders to gather around him, “Our specialty is the formation which we have learned from an inheritance site, it is called The Black Serpent Formation.” He declared, his voice low but filled with pride at his formation.
As he finished speaking, the rest of the bandits and vice leaders gathered behind him, making a formation as if a serpent was sleeping. Shen Yuan watched with an amused smile on his face.
The Scar-faced leader berated in a cold tone, “This formation is not something a brat like you can understand. It gathers all our strength in a single cultivator, increasing my cultivation to the next level, Extreme Origin Core Realm.”
He paused as his eyes flashed with malice, “You will definitely die from that strike, and even if some of us die due to the recoil of the formation, it doesn’t matter as we can recruit more people.”
Shen Yuan’s amused smile widened into a grin, “Interesting… So this is the trump card you were hiding? No wonder everyone around this area fears you so much. I’m almost impressed by your ability to get this from an inheritance site.”
The Scar-faced leader sneered, “You should be honored that you will die from such an advanced technique brat. This formation has killed numerous cultivators at the peak of Origin Core Creation Realm. Now prepare to die!!”
Everyone started channeling their qi in a particular motion, sending waves and waves of energy toward the Scar-faced leader, “Yes… Yes! This is it! This power! I will end you in one move, brat!!”
Shen Yuan quietly looked at the Scar-faced leader’s increasing cultivation, he felt his heart beating faster, “Finally a worthy challenge, I might be able to see my limit!”
He had a wild smile on his face as he finally unsheathed his sword, “Since you want to finish this in one move, then I shall fulfill your wish.”
He raised the sword above his head as he looked at the charging Scar-faced leader, whose momentum kept rising at an astonishing rate, soon surpassing the limit of Origin Core Creation Realm.
“Take this, you little bastard!! Heavenly Serpent Bite!” he shouted out the name of his technique lightly.
Shen Yuan also muttered the technique name inside his heart, ‘Heaven and Earth Severance: Mountain Cleaving!’
He slashed down from above, his sword infused with his Sword Intent
BOOM!
Cleanly cutting the entire serpent and destroying all the bandits inside it as well. They didn’t even have time to scream before being cut down into little parts.
None of them died with an intact corpse, the worst was the leader, whose entire body disintegrated into nothingness.
“Haah,” Shen Yuan took a deep breath, “Did I underestimate myself, or were those bandits just too weak?”
Yue Lan, who had disappeared before entering the forest, once again jumped stop his head as she replied lazily,
[It’s a little bit of both, you underestimated your strength far too much and even that ugly guy wasn’t that strong, at most his strength was at the Half Step Extreme Origin Core Realm. He overestimated himself, the poor guy didn’t even have time to feel the horror of his mistake.]
Shen Yuan took a moment to reflect on himself and took an estimate of his strength again, “Looks like my strength is at least in the Extreme Origin Core Realm, but I can’t estimate my strength against those geniuses from the Sects since I have never fought one, even back in the training forest, they were from the lowest tier sects.”
Yue Lan yawned lazily,
[You would absolutely be superior to the best geniuses, but you might be challenged due to your young age, so you can still find a challenge among your generation if you don’t improve for a while, which seems quite possible seeing that you have to adjust to your body, it might take a few weeks to a few months. You will reach your location at that time.]
Shen Yuan’s eyes widened as he asked, “Wait you mean I can’t dual cultivate for weeks or possibly months??”
Yue Lan looked at him with a hint of disdain in her eyes,
[Look at you, you should be worried about not being able to raise your cultivation base, not thinking about dual cultivation. And no, you can dual cultivate after some time, no need to wait for that long since your body will be stabilized pretty soon.]
Shen Yuan didn’t so much as blush at her words and sighed in relief, “Phew, good good, I can’t let them wait for that long. But they haven’t left the seclusion as well, so we will wait and see how it goes.”
He then looked towards his front where the bandits were standing before. There was nothing now, only a large crater spanning for dozens of km. All the trees and greenery were destroyed in the sword’s path, not even leaving the soil unturned as the large crater was at least 10km deep.
And even the bandit’s treasures and storage rings were destroyed in that attack.
He shook his head and continued moving forward, “Seems like we will soon reach Green Mountain City, it is just some distance away after leaving this forest.
He went on his way towards the city, totally forgetting the caravan which he traveled together with.
…
Old Luo was in the lead, traveling with his caravan as he entered the forest, he raised his hand to make them all stop, “Listen carefully, from now on keep a low profile and make as little disturbance as you can make, don’t startle the bandits or we will be in for a tough fight.”
He cautioned his caravan members, who all took his advice seriously as they had heard about the notorious reputation of the bandits here.
One of the head guards spoke in annoyance, “I don’t know how they keep getting away from Peak Origin Core Creation Realm experts, most of them either die there or go missing. If we knew about that secret then we could have taken them down long ago.”
Old Luo shook his head, “It doesn’t matter for now, we must safely leave this place.”
They all agreed and began heading inside the forest slowly, it wasn’t completely silent like before when Shen Yuan went inside.
There were the chirping of birds and the growling of beasts. They found this strange as each time they passed through this forest before, there used to be complete silence as if someone had grabbed the neck of a person.
They didn’t mind it much and continued walking further when they finally came face to face with the giant crater which was on the right side of the forest.
Everyone stepped down from their carriages or horses as they walked forward and looked at the scene to see the finer details.
