Martial Arrogance Dragon Soul-Chapter 497 - 461: The Intruding Bandits

Nightfall gradually descended.

Tuling Village, nestled within the mountain forest, became completely quiet after being enveloped by the night.

The lights in each household were extinguished one by one.

Outside the houses, only the howling mountain wind remained after entering winter.

However, at this time, a band of mountain bandits suddenly appeared outside Tuling Village.

There were roughly more than thirty people, all riding tall horses, each holding a gleaming broadsword.

This bandit group was the infamous Black Horse Gang from the nearby mountains.

The leader of the Black Horse Gang was named Feng Chenghong, and the band of mountain robbers following him were basically martial artists with a foundation in martial arts.

"White Wolf, are you sure the item is in this village?" Feng Chenghong asked the person beside him.

The bandit known as White Wolf nodded, "It should be correct. I once passed by accident and saw the Xuanwu shadow appear in Tuling Village."

"If the senior from the Lion Eagle Sect didn’t speak erroneously at the auction—then that item is definitely in Tuling Village!"

White Wolf spoke with certainty.

"Good! Then regardless... we will slaughter Tuling Village to the ground today, turn it upside down, and find that item!"

"Brothers, charge!"

"Kill!"

This band of mountain bandits surged into the quiet Tuling Village like a torrent.

The tranquility of Tuling Village was violently shattered in no time!

Before long, all the villagers were herded to the open space in the middle of Tuling Village.

Many villagers were already wounded; these mountain bandits were cruel and ruthless, resorting to violence at the slightest disagreement, and even hacked a few people to death on the spot.

At this moment, each and every one of the villagers from Tuling Village was seething with anger yet utterly helpless.

These mountain bandits were all ruthless characters, and there were even formidable martial artists among them.

Qin Qing was also in the crowd.

He had been cultivating and therefore did not know about the invasion of Tuling Village by these bandits right away.

But by the time he became aware, villagers from Tuling had already been killed.

One of the killed villagers was named Su Lingfeng, who had joked with Qin Qing during the day; he had a simple smile on his face, a very honest man.

At this moment, Qin Qing restrained himself, for he had yet to ascertain the purpose of these intruders in Tuling Village.

"Among you, who is the village chief of this village?!"

The leader among these bandits scanned the villagers of Tuling with an eagle-like gaze.

"It is I! I am the village chief of Tuling Village!"

An elderly man walked out from the crowd.

This elder was named Su Wu, whom Qin Qing would call Seventh Grandpa following Su Wanqing.

"Get over here, old thing!"

A bandit commanded coldly.

This bandit looked to be in his twenties, was a Great Martial Master of the Divine Might Realm, with an air of arrogance and a sideways glance at Su Wu.

"Yes, sirs. What brings you to our Tuling Village in the dead of night?"

Su Wu stepped forward and bowed, "If it is for money, our Tuling Village will offer everything we have. Please, sirs, don’t harm the villagers of our village!"

The bandit leader sneered and said, "We are from the Black Horse Gang!"

Upon hearing Black Horse Gang, Su Wu and the other villagers of Tuling all went pale.

They had all heard of the Black Horse Gang; famous in this area for several hundred miles, the gang was notorious for its pillaging and atrocities.

However, Tuling Village had been spared due to its remote location deep in the mountains and the village’s own hunting team, so the Black Horse Gang had never troubled them before.

"I am Feng Chenghong, the leader of the Black Horse Gang!"

The leading bandit continued, "Today, I am here to find an item."

"This object is called the Black Tortoise Jade!"

"Since you are the head of Tuling Village, you should know where this thing is, right?"

Upon hearing Feng Chenghong’s words, Su Wu’s complexion changed instantly, and he immediately shook his head, "Sir, I have never heard of any jade. Our Tuling Village is a poor hamlet, and we don’t have such treasures!"

The moment Su Wu spoke these words, Feng Chenghong’s face turned instantly cold.

"Nonsense!"

"Do you think I don’t know that the Black Tortoise Jade is in your village?"

"I advise you to bring out the object now, or else, I will slaughter every villager in your village one by one!"

By this time, Qin Qing had understood.

These men were mountain bandits, not people sent by Zhao Wuji to search for him.

Moreover, these mountain bandits had come to Tuling Village to find an artifact called "Black Tortoise Jade."

"Brother."

At this moment, Su Wanqing leaned on Qin Qing, tightly clutching his arm, shivering with fear.

These mountain bandits had a fierce and ferocious look, with very sinister expressions.

"Don’t be afraid, Xiaoqing, with your brother here, no one can bully you!" Qin Qing whispered reassuringly.

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"Sir, we really don’t know anything about Black Tortoise Jade."

"Our Tuling Village has been inhabited generation after generation, living off hunting, and very few people ever leave the village..."

A young villager spoke up; it was Su Wu’s son, Su Yin.

However, before Su Yin could finish speaking, Feng Chenghong sneered and suddenly grabbed his arm!

Crack!

With a light twist from Feng Chenghong, Su Yin’s arm was directly broken, with the fractured bone protruding out, marrow still dripping...

"Ahh..."

A heart-wrenching scream burst from Su Yin’s throat.

He trembled with pain all over, his body shaking uncontrollably, and his face contorted with muscle spasms, veins bulging and protruding.

"Old fool, still unwilling to speak? Then I’ll start by killing him!"

Feng Chenghong sneered at Su Wu, grabbing Su Yin’s head, ready to crush it!

"Stop!"

At that moment, Qin Qing stepped out from the crowd.

He looked coldly at the group of martial artists that had broken into Tuling Village.

"What did you say?" Feng Chenghong seemed not to have expected anyone to dare to stand out at this time and even speak to him in such a tone.

"I said, let him go!"

Qin Qing looked coldly at Feng Chenghong and said.

Qin Qing’s words made all the Black Horse Gang’s mountain bandits freeze in place, staring at Qin Qing as if he were an idiot.

No one expected someone to be foolish enough to stand out and tell their boss to stop!

This was nothing short of seeking death.

Then, there was the thunderous laughter of these mountain bandits.

In their view, the young man who had stepped forward must have had a problem with his brain.

"Hehehe... who do you think you are to tell our boss to stop? You say stop, and he’ll just stop?"

A martial artist beside stood up and walked toward Qin Qing with large strides.

Then, he reached out with a hand directly toward the back of Qin Qing’s neck, as if an eagle catching a chick, trying to pin Qin Qing down.

He thought Qin Qing was also a villager of Tuling, like the others, a martial artist who hadn’t practiced.

So he was very complacent, thinking that with this grab, he would be able to capture Qin Qing easily.