Chapter 77: Stunned
Lai Tou Ba widened his eyes, staring at that streak of silver light, utterly terrified.
Fast!
Too fast!
So fast that Lai Tou Ba couldn’t react at all, getting directly smashed in the face by a fifty-tael silver ingot.
“Bang”.
A muffled sound.
Lai Tou Ba didn’t even let out a scream before collapsing headfirst to the ground.
Dead.
Lai Tou Ba’s face was smashed to a pulp, and he stopped breathing the moment he hit the ground.
With Ji Qing’s current profound internal energy, how could Lai Tou Ba, who didn’t even know any martial arts, possibly block the silver ingot he threw?
“Looks like he couldn’t catch the silver.”
Ji Qing said calmly.
As if this was just a trivial matter.
“Ah…”
“You… you dare kill Lai Tou Ba?”
“Does Hunter Tiger Village want to rebel? If the chieftain finds out, he’ll slaughter your entire village…”
The two mountain bandits following Lai Tou Ba were equally terrified.
They had thought coming down the mountain was an easy job, but how did they end up running into such a disaster?
“Get down here.”
Ji Qing shouted loudly.
His voice, infused with internal energy, instantly shook the two mountain bandits until blood poured from their seven orifices, and they both collapsed to the ground.
“Great Hero, spare our lives…”
The two mountain bandits finally faced reality and knelt on the ground kowtowing one after another.
Clearly, they had encountered a Jianghu expert.
However, the words of these two mountain bandits still caused a stir in Hunter Tiger Village.
Fear was spreading.
Especially since Lai Tou Ba was already dead, Pan Long Fort was bound to seek revenge.
When that time came, the entire Hunter Tiger Village would face utter destruction.
“Gr… Great Hero, you’ve killed Lai Tou Ba—what will happen to our Hunter Tiger Village?”
“Lai Tou Ba was just this humble one, but Pan Long Fort’s wrath is something our village can’t withstand.”
“What do we do?”
The village had over a hundred or two hundred people, big and small.
Now they all faced utter destruction.
“Don’t panic.”
Ji Qing swept his gaze over the crowd and slowly said, “I’ll go to Pan Long Fort and wipe it out! As for the ‘mountain god’ that demands young boys and girls, it’s most likely a demon, and conveniently, I have some means to exorcise demons. I’ll handle the demon as well, so you won’t have to suffer from mountain bandits or demons anymore!”
As Ji Qing’s words fell, the entire Hunter Tiger Village fell silent.
“Village Chief, the silver ingot from Lai Tou Ba’s head goes to the village, as payment for saving our lives.”
Ji Qing had also considered giving banknotes to Hunter Tiger Village.
But the banknotes were worth several hundred taels.
For a poor village, suddenly getting such a large sum of silver might not be a good thing.
Fifty taels was just right.
The Village Chief said shakily, “Great Hero, you’re just one man, but Pan Long Fort has over a hundred fierce and strong men. As the saying goes, two fists can’t beat four hands—you going alone is too dangerous.”
“Old Yang, you take the village’s hunters and follow the Great Hero into the mountains. The Great Hero is wiping out the mountain bandits to protect the people—we can’t just watch him risk it alone!”
The Village Chief thumped his walking stick.
Though the Village Chief was older, he wasn’t muddled at all when it came to important matters.
Old Yang stepped forward upon hearing this.
“Good! I’ve had enough of this Pan Long Fort. Since the Great Hero is willing to step in, Hunter Tiger Village isn’t full of cowards!”
Old Yang basically gathered all the hunters from the village.
A total of nearly forty men!
This was almost the entire combat power of Hunter Tiger Village now.
Ji Qing didn’t stop them and instead admired Hunter Tiger Village’s courage a bit.
Moreover, though he wasn’t afraid of Pan Long Fort alone, there might be oversights allowing some mountain bandits to escape.
But with this group of hunters from Hunter Tiger Village, it would be different.
Besides, it was a good thing for these hunters to come along.
Once Pan Long Fort was wiped out, the fort’s belongings would go to Hunter Tiger Village, enough to let them make a fortune.
“Let’s go.”
Ji Qing mounted his horse, while the people of Hunter Tiger Village holding the two mountain bandits headed toward Pan Long Fort.
The mountain paths were very difficult to traverse.
The group walked for nearly two hours before finally sighting Pan Long Fort.
Looking from afar, Ji Qing saw Pan Long Fort built halfway up the mountainside. It didn’t have particularly dangerous terrain, but backed by the “mountain god,” no one dared to attack it.
“Great Hero, Pan Long Fort is right ahead. They have a watchtower, and so many of us approaching will definitely be spotted.”
Old Yang said softly.
“No problem. Have these two mountain bandits take me in.”
“I’ll deal with the bandits in the watchtower, then you all come in.”
“Alright, we’ll follow the Great Hero’s lead.”
Old Yang nodded in agreement.
He also knew that martial artists in the Jianghu could come and go as they pleased with lightness skill.
Since Ji Qing dared to charge into Pan Long Fort alone, he must have real skill.
Thus, Ji Qing brought the two mountain bandits and slowly approached Pan Long Fort.
The two mountain bandits trembled in fear. They had just reached the fort gate when someone in the watchtower shouted, “Hold it—where’s Lai Tou Ba?”
Ji Qing couldn’t be bothered with any sneaky plots.
They were already at the fort gate—why complicate things?
Ji Qing casually grabbed a handful of pebbles and flung them toward the watchtower.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh”.
The pebbles smashed hard into the mountain bandit in the watchtower.
“Ah…”
The mountain bandit let out a scream.
The two mountain bandits immediately tried to run, but Ji Qing casually palmed them to death.
“Swish”.
Ji Qing unleashed his lightness skill and instantly darted into the fort.
At this moment, the fort was already in some chaos.
But many mountain bandits still glared ferociously at Ji Qing.
Leading them was a one-eyed burly man draped in tiger skin.
“Who are you, daring to charge into Pan Long Fort?”
“Where did this kid come from? Courting death!”
“After all this time, there’s still someone who doesn’t know better? We’ll keep him alive later—Third Master, I want to torture him properly…”
“Looking at his getup, he must be a Jianghu person. What, trying to play hero? And dressed in such rags—could he be from the Beggar Clan? Hahaha…”
These mountain bandits all laughed, not taking Ji Qing seriously at all.
With over a hundred of them, were they afraid of one man?
What’s more, they knew they had the “mountain god” behind them.
Forget one Jianghu person—even ten or a hundred would die!
“Slap”.
Suddenly, the leading burly man slapped “Third Master” across the face.
“Great Chieftain, you…”
Third Master was baffled.
The other mountain bandits also widened their eyes.
They didn’t know why the Great Chieftain suddenly hit Third Master.
But the Great Chieftain offered no explanation.
When he saw the man before him, his eyes widened.
Black clothes, conical hat, long saber.
Too familiar!
Though the black clothes and conical hat were somewhat tattered, there was no mistake.
Moreover, he had clearly seen the man’s face—it was unmistakable.
“Thud”.
The Pan Long Fort chieftain, notorious for his ferocity and able to scare children from dozens of villages around, knelt down just like that.
Third Master was stunned.
All the mountain bandits were stunned.
And the hunters from Hunter Tiger Village who had rushed into the fort saw this scene and were equally stunned.
