A week had passed…

It had been a week since Zheng-Fu had left Blossom Meadow City. He had seen many people along the way, but never even a monster. He did not know why he did not see any monsters along the route. It made him think that he was on a safe route…

Even though the route was monster-free, it was full of bandits who would wait to attack and rob the caravans. Zheng-Fu got the information from the caravans that were accompanied by the mercenaries. The bandits usually captured everyone from youngsters to elders and sold them as slaves. Anyone who refused to agree with them would be whipped or killed. The women would be raped and demeaned…

Zheng-Fu did not meet any bandits over the week on the route. It was safe and clear…

"Whoa! Where have the people gone? They were all over the road a minute ago!" Zheng-Fu was startled to see no one else on the road. That was because he was thinking about things back at his clan, and he didn't realize he had taken a path that no one else had taken…

About fifty lis away, about twenty fully armed bandits were hiding themselves in the bushes so no one could see them…

"Boss! Someone is coming this way!"

"What!? What did you say?"

"A boy is coming our way. He dresses well too. It looks like he is rich, boss!"

Hahaha!

"Finally! Heaven has sent us a victim after waiting for a whole week. Hahaha!"

The group of men by the bushes was a group of bandits led by a tall and handsome man. The bandits in the group used to be soldiers. They ran away from the army, so they had to turn themselves into bandits. They were unlucky that they had to run away from the famous bandits in the area where they used to work. Up until now, they had not met anyone who could be their victim.

When one of the bandits said that Zheng-Fu was coming their way, the members of the group got very excited. They did not realize that they were about to meet Death…

"Tsk! Twenty people?" Zheng-Fu sensed that a group of bandits led by the tall and handsome man was waiting for him about fifty lis ahead of him. "They must be bandits. Lower-level bandits!" Zheng-Fu was surprised to see that the highest energy level of the bandits in the group was at the fifth level of the Foundation Building stage.

The rest of the energy levels ranged between the first and third levels…

"I know what I should do!" Zheng-Fu thought of something and let out a light smile. Then he sat down on the ground…

"What is he doing?" One of the bandits said with confusion…

"How do I know? I just saw him with you!" said the bandit next to the bandit who made a comment…

After confusing the bandits with his act, Zheng-Fu did not wait to take out a big bag of money from his spatial ring. Then he poured the money on the ground instantly…

Crank! Crank! Crank!

A large number of monster crystal coins were lying around Zheng-Fu. He poured out monster crystal coins with the utmost fun. It made the bandits who were watching him gasp. They widened their eyes the minute they saw the money. They did not care what Zheng-Fu was doing because they were happy to see that much money on the ground…

"Look! That kid is pouring money out just for fun!"

"That's right! This is good for us. Let's go get the money, boss!"

The bandits could not stay still when they saw the pile of money around Zheng-Fu. They only wanted to go take care of Zheng-Fu and take the money. However, the boss of the bandits did not feel the same way. His experience with the military army told him that what he saw was not right and as it seemed…

Even though he wanted to think differently, he still thought that it was strange that a kid would walk the route by himself. And it was even stranger when the kid poured just for fun like that…

"Wait! I think it's too fishy!" The tall and handsome bandit stopped his men from running to Zheng-Fu…

"Fishy!? How, boss?"

"Don't you think it's strange that a kid would come into a forest by himself and pour money on the ground all of a sudden?" said the boss of the bandits, pointing his finger at Zheng-Fu…

"Don't think too much, boss! He's just a rich kid who knows nothing. He might get lost, boss!" said one of the bandits…

Smack!

"Hry! Why did you hit me!?"

"Did you hear what you said? Do you think that makes sense, Baldy!? I agree with Boss. I think the kid was trying to lure us out," a big-bodied bandit said…

"Lure us out? What do you mean by that?"

Smack!

The bald bandit got another smack from the same guy who smacked him when the bald bandit asked another question. The actions of the two prompted the group to get out of the stressful situation and laugh…

"You're this stupid. That's why you have no wife! Let me tell you about that kid. He might be someone that the authorities sent to get us," the big-bodied man said firmly…

"Oh… I see. So, it means that we can't go get the money from him, right?"

"Right! That's what I mean. Am I correct, boss?"

"Yeah, but I think we should keep an eye on the kid. If no one comes, we'll see what to do next," said the tall and handsome bandit, making sure everyone in the group waited to see the situation. Zheng-Fu, on the other hand, continued to play with the coins…

Ten minutes had passed…

"It's been ten minutes now, and no one has come. I think the kid must be stupid or something. Let's go get his money, boss!" The bald man cried out after waiting for ten minutes. He kept an eye on Zheng-Fu without blinking all the while…

"Wait! It's only been ten minutes. We can't be sure if that's part of the plan to catch us." The boss of the bandits remained the same with his words. The bald man just had to bite his fingernails and wait further…

An hour had passed…

"I can't stand it anymore!" The bald bandit yelled after an hour had passed by. He had bitten all his fingernails, except for his toenails, and had not gotten to do anything but wait. The man started to pick up his weapon and prepare to dash toward Zheng-Fu, but then…

Whoosh!

Zheng-Fu and the coins around him disappeared all of a sudden, in front of everyone's eyes. The bald bandit, who was about to make an attack, had to stop and withdraw to his group in fear…

"What just happened?"

"Did you see what I just saw? Or am I being crazy?"

"I did. I saw what you just saw!"

The bandits felt goosebumps all of a sudden when Zheng-Fu disappeared before their eyes like he did not exist. The boss of the bandits also felt fearful, but he had to maintain his leadership, so he acted normally. Then he felt cold all of a sudden and turned around to look behind him out of fear…

"What is it, boss?" The tall and handsome bandit prompted his men to ask out of curiosity…

"Nothing! It was a mistake." The boss of the bandits pretended to tell his men that there was nothing wrong. But as the boss of the bandits finished the sentence, the group heard high-pitched cries like the cries of a small kid. Then the voice changed to the voice of an old man before changing again to something different.

The group of bandits heard many kinds of voices in the bushes where they were hiding…

"Help me! No! Don't kill me! Don't kill me! Please, don't hurt us!"

"Ghost!"

The minute the bandits heard the cries and moans, they dished their weapons and hugged one another instantly. The boss of the bandits also joined the group. Even though he was the boss of the group, he was only about twenty-seven to twenty-eight years old. The rest of the group were also around the same age…

Grab!

"The ghost grabbed me! The ghost just grabbed me!" One of the bandits shouted in fear when he felt someone grab his leg…

Smack!

"It's not a ghost! You stepped on my toes!"

"Really? Tee-hee!"

"What should we do, boss? I think we should run. We can't stay like this!"

The bald bandit's suggestion prompted everyone in the group to agree with the idea. They prepared to run away, but they had to change their minds when they saw something walking toward them. It was something two meters tall and walked on four feet…

"That's…!"

Roar!

"A monster!"

The bandits got down on their knees with no energy left in them when they saw clearly that a two-meter-tall monster was coming toward them…

Clomp! Clomp! Clomp!

"You guys don't look like someone who could be a bandit."

All of a sudden, a boy's voice sounded, followed by a shadow next to the monster. The bandits got even more startled when they saw that the shadow was that of the kid that they had seen earlier, whom they planned to rob. The kid was Zheng-Fu, and the monster, of course, was Jin-Tian…

"Let us go, please!" One of the bandits pleaded in a disrupted voice. His legs were shaken violently out of fear…

"Let you go!? Can you give me one good reason why I should let you go?" Zheng-Fu said while looking at the bandits with a cold look. What the bandits did not know was that Zheng-Fu was laughing at them inside…

"Well…"

The bandit who pleaded for his life did not know any good reason for Zheng-Fu to let him go. He did not even have any money to exchange for his life…

"We will fight for our lives!" The boss of the bandits thought that since there was no way for them to run, he decided to shout to build morale in the group. However, it was a futile attempt. It made the rest of the group more fearful…

"Boss…"

"We don't want to die yet. Please help us."

"That's right, boss. We haven't actually robbed anyone. Does that mean we're not bandits?"

"Please deal with the kid for us, boss."

Smack! Smack!

All of a sudden, the same big-bodied man smacked the bandits who asked the boss to protect the group. Then the man said…

"Are you mad? How could you ask our boss to do that when he is the one who has saved our lives until today? You guys are so…"

Rustle!

"That's enough, Xiao-Ming! I'll take care of this. You take the rest of the group with you and get out of here. If the next life is real, I hope I will see you guys and get together again," said the boss of the bandit, looking at the rest of the group like a winner. Then he turned to look at Zheng-Fu with a firm look and said…

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