After almost two hours of trying to imitate Lili's footwork, Feng lay down on his back with a pair of legs truly shivering non-stop from pain.

Not even once did he succeed!

The best was a turtle speed imitation of the motion and even that felt like electricity never stopped teasing Feng's joints.

"Woof...."

Storm got up and started to lick Feng's face when she found out that he's not getting back on his feet.

"I'm alright girl, Y...you, Night you monstrous thing, never bite this area ever again. My family jewels are an absolute forbidden place, challenge it again and i'll poke your butt."

As he enjoyed Storm's care, Feng discovered that Night was aiming for his groin as his next challenge.

Snatching the little pup up he started to reprimand him for his bold attempt.

"Grrr... Bark..."

Storm lightly patted the little pup with her forelimb when she saw him still adamant about challenging Feng again after the man released him, pinning him to the ground and tickling his belly with her tongue solved the problem.

After having fun bullying little Night for a while with Storm, Feng hugged the wailing pup to his chest and rested his head on Storm's fur to sleep.

Soon the other three pups burrowed into his sleeves and comfortably rested their heads as well.

The weather was starting to change, wind picked up and the temperature lowered badly before dawn.

"If I sold 25 chickens for 5 bronze coins then my profits will only amount to 2.5 coins, if the journey takes more than 3 days then it will be 6 days for a round trip. How long will it take me to save a single gold coin? Do I have to ask auntie Qing if I can take some products on credit? Sigh, I better take a look at Obsidian city first. Deciding can come up later."

Feng said to himself as he looked at the stars in the sky, he was changing by the day and his earlier self was becoming stranger to him.

Faced with the cold truth, the constant wake up calls of the surrounding dangers and the other possibilities of harm, made him forcefully seek to change his helpless situation.

He was alone, without Storm and her pups he would be the man riding a horse with low grade horsemanship.

Oh, the man with the chicken boxes!

How could we forget his immense amount of wealth?

Feng gave it a simple estimation in his head, if it was a 6 day round trip from Rock city to Obsidian city on his horse.

Then it will take Feng about three months to collect that sum of money, of course he will have to do the first few journeys on his own then buy a horse cart when his merchandise increase.

That will further slow him further, then when his merchandise increase further he'll have to hire people to help him and that will require payments.

Which will further limit his earnings and slow him some more on each round trip between the two cities, but in 3 months or maximum of 4 months he'll collect the money.

After meeting the scorpion once he arrived in this world, then experiencing creating the ZhuQing Material with Liling.

Feng felt hidden attachment to that demonic beast's body parts, especially after wearing it's shell remains on his skin for a few days now.

The sword general Lian gave him was excellent, but he saw many people use two swords in the movies.

Why not?

The more the merrier.

He closed his eyes as he fantasized about himself wearing two swords and beating up those who wants to take his life.

"Grrr...."

"Huh! What is it girl?"

Feng woke up as Storm got up on her feet, his head fell on the ground from her back and his face is full of sand.

Asking Storm who stood at attention and stared at the foot of the mountain as he wiped the dirt off of his face, Feng looked down and noticed a few figures sneakily moving under the cover of rocks.

The campfire Feng made was currently off and it was completely dark, making it worse was the cloud that covered the moon in the sky.

It wasn't even a full moon and the light it gave was meager, Feng wasn't like Storm and blessed with night vision now that the moonlight is out he only saw a blur outside the range of 10m.

Hurrying to place the sleeping pups in the sack then dragging it behind a rock to hide it, Feng put on his soft helmet and soundlessly unsheathed his only weapon.

Taking off his green robes and covering the pups with it to keep sleeping soundly, if Thunder woke up then it will be really bad.

Now Feng was completely blending in with the darkness in his soft armor.

Feng stood next to Storm and looked wherever she looked to count the enemies, more than 30!

This is bad, really bad.

Feng looked at Storm's back and had this crazy idea, since he couldn't locate these intruders on his own and he was bound to make unnecessary noise if he walked on his own then riding on her back would be best.

She was large enough and strong enough to support his weight for a time, patting her back Feng slowly mounted her.

Storm was nervous apparently because it was the first time such a situation happened with anyone on her back, but Feng's calming massage on her neck and shoulders eased her agitation.

Like an adept hunter and nocturnal animal, Storm started to lower her posture slightly and take cover behind stones and rocks to hide her body.

As Feng and Storm became absolutely silent he started to hear faint murmurs carried by the chilly wind of the night.

As Storm moved right to encircle these intruders Feng found one of them crouching behind a rock and taking sneaky looks up trying to figure out the numbers of the people by the campfire, but he seemed to see nothing in the dark.

It was a man covered in a black cloak and holding a dagger in his hand and a short axe on the other.

'Good girl she got to his blind spot discreetly' Feng slowly dismounted from storms back and patted her neck to calm her worry.

The man was 4m ahead and completely unaware.

Inching closer with very careful steps, Feng pointed his shaking hand carrying the sword forward at the man's back then pressed his whole body forward as he closed his eyes.

"Ughh.... Mmmfff"

When Feng heard the loud voice he quickly gathered up his courage and opened his eyes, with gritted teeth and a heart filled with a mix of raging emotions Feng stretched his hand and covered the man's mouth as he pulled the sword out from his heart.

As he felt the man's last throes of death he hurried to push him on his back and stifle the sounds coming from his mouth, after 10 seconds he saw the faint light leave his panicking eyes rolling everywhere and closed his eyelids with the same shivering fingers.

"Huff.... Hubb.... Huff...."

"Biao..... Oy it's me Dong.... Shit I can't raise my voice answer me, did you get their numbers?"

As Feng was taking his breathing after that horrible experience because since he started to inch closer to the man he didn't take a single breath, he heard a very faint whispering sound coming from behind another rock 15m away.

Storm had her eyes on that area since Feng dismounted her back and he was sure there was another man nearby.

Patting his heart to calm down Feng carefully returned to Storm's side and got on her back, she again circled the other rock and kept herself in the blindspots of the man who tried to whisper earlier.

Feng took a look at the clouds covering the moon and knew that he still got time to dispose of this man before moonlight shines again, taking a couple of breathes to calm, he tiptoed towards the man and did the same like previously, but this time Feng covered the man's mouth first before pushing the sword tip at his heart with a full body weight thrust.

This one was holding on to fear life and tried to bite Feng's fingers with his teeth, thankfully the gloves made the pain of the man's death bite minimal to Feng otherwise he would've lost a finger or two.

Taking advantage of the darkness before it scatters by moonlight, Feng dragged the body behind a rock and took Storm to hide themselves.

He puked once he rested his body as he remembered how he just took two men's lives with his sword, if it wasn't for the blood on the sword blade then Feng wouldn't have believed what he just did was real.

After calming down slightly he took a peaking look at the men from his higher point of view, they were separated to individuals or twos and scattered in a line as they tried to quietly ascend higher.

Only one large man had two others next to him and looking at the moon waiting for it to get covered in clouds, seems like both Feng and that gang were waiting for the darkness.

Sighing in relief, Feng started to rest his mind that got stretched taut with emotions and rested his back on the rock.

'I killed twice, Zhu Feng who never threw a punch killed two men. And there's about 30 more waiting to kill me, once they find out what I did they won't show the slightest bit of mercy on me. It's either kill or be killed now, Shadow isn't the best of horses if I tried to run on his back they might've better horses. Even with my soft armor if they ganged up on me i'll be dead, I need to take them one by one quietly. The individuals first then the teams' as Feng started to sink in the reality of the situation he started to watch the clouds and the men down closely, his brain started to make up the best way to survive the night.

"Let's go Storm"

Whispering after getting on her back, Feng made her head for his first target by pulling her ears gently left and right.

The teams of two men were 5, add the trio then that's 13 targets for later.

Feng counted 16 individuals and there might be more hidden from his eyes back then, he felt his heart turn into frost and his apathetic mode when he got hurt or bullied started to appear.

Killing one after another Feng killed 7 more men before loosing tracks of the other individuals as they climbed higher, now he was forced to either start taking out couples or wait for them to reach his camp and gather together.

'I guess Storm will be helping me as well' Feng thought as he targeted the first two from their left side.

He got down from her back and pulled her forelimb to follow him this time and Storm did crouch down and follow with light steps, Feng tightened his grip on the sword as he planned on beheading the first then piercing the other as fast as he can.

"Eh.... ugh.... Amb..mnfg..."

"Snap... Crunch..."

Feng did succeed in beheading the first man and only pierced the second on his stomach, before the man got to finish his word Storm closed her jaws on his neck and lower jaw and pinned him down on his back underneath her claws.

With a single twist of her neck the man's neck snapped and his skull caved in.

"What was that sound? Old Yang little Tang."

Feng knew he was going to be discovered soon because the moonlight was about to shine again.

He decided to take the one who spoke and leave.

One man slowly and warily looked around as he came closer, since the gang wore black cloaks Feng took one and wrapped it around him.

When the man arrived 3m from him he willingly exited the cover of the rock and appeared in front of him, the man stopped in place because he was startled by Feng's sudden appearance.

"Shhhh...."

Before the man spoke Feng placed a finger on his mouth and gave him the quietness gesture then waved him to follow and returned to the cover behind the rock.

When the startled man saw this strange sight he hunched over and took careful steps towards Feng, but he got pushed from behind to the ground by something heavy.

Before his face hit the ground his neck was between Storm's canines and he couldn't make a single sound.

"Let's go, you did very good girl."

Feng bent over and collected the weapons of the three men and got on Storm's back and hurried her to leave.

When the moonlight shone the men stopped moving, then they found that their numbers are clearly less than what it's supposed to be.

The team of three men nervously gave gestures to the men around them to try and quietly move and see what is delaying their partners from ascending with them, in 5 minutes the first body was discovered then another and 5 bodies of the 12 men Feng killed were found.

All of that happened as he hid 70m away from his nearest target and watched with two apathetic eyes, the difference between Feng's eyes now and when he killed the first man was the difference between a civilian who never held a knife and a stone cold-hearted assassin with a hundred kills under his belt.

"Whistle...."

The tall man with exaggerated arms and fists whistled loudly and his men gathered towards him, Feng wasn't very mistaken with his earlier estimations of the gang cloaked in black.

They were 22 men and someone was nearby him, getting the idea he quickly patted Storm and got up to join them he was wearing one of the black cloaks he decided to get bold or he won't be able to kill these fuckers who robbed him from his sleep.

"Stay, good girl."

When Storm tried to follow he stopped her and patted her head.

"Whine...."

"Watch my back.... Good girl."

Then he arranged his cloak and hid the stain of blood from the wounding pierce in the fold, when he made sure nothing was wrong Feng hunched his body and followed after the man nearby him towards the tall man who seemed to be the leader.

"Only 24 of us! Where's the rest?"

The tall man asked as he kept giving the surroundings vigilant looks and hatefully glared towards the campsite.

"Biao is dead as well as Dong, over there old Yang and little Tang's bodies beside another one of our own but his head was crushed I couldn't recognize him."

Feng toughened his voice and made it deeper, then spoke in a low tune as he pointed the places he killed these five men to the gang boss.

The black cloak helped in hiding his soft armor and helmet and luckily another cloud started to cover the moon after he spoke.

"Damn, did anyone see how many they're?"

The gang kept looking at each other after the boss asked.

"Useless trash, 10 of us died without any of us seeing a single enemy. They're not ghosts who disappear into thin air, stay together and keep a close watch at your surroundings. We'll climb together."

The tall man punched the ground in frustration as he did his best to keep his voice down and not to yell at his men.

The two dozen men started to go up in pairs with the trio around the center ten were right and ten were left.

"This is the first time our mist bandits suffered such a loss, boss bone crusher must be enraged."

The man next to Feng whispered faintly as he looked towards the tall man to their left.

"I'll try to go up and take a close look."

"Be careful..... Mmmg.... Spurt...."

Feng surprised the man as he spoke when they were hidden behind a rock.

"Boss bone crusher must be enraged."

"You kidding! Of course he's, as the newest boss amongst the nine leaders of the mist bandits gang he was hoping to get a huge haul from this mission. Now after losing so many men, first boss is surely going to scold the shit out of h..... Mmmfgh"

Then Feng started to be the first to initiate a conversation with the bandits and catch them off guard when there's an opportunity.

Without the boss called bone crusher noticing he finished the entire right flank and sneaked towards the left flank, before the moonlight appeared he took out one of the group members from the left and took his place.

Moonlight shined at the mist bandits gang as they stood in the campsite looking at Shadow and the few boxes containing 30 something of chickens.

"A horse and a few birds! Where's the rest of the men?"

When bone crusher saw the miserable camp he gritted his teeth until they groaned then he discovered that his men's numbers halved in the span of half an hour, finally he couldn't endure his frustration and shouted at the two men next to him.

They looked down at the area and notice two bodied which Feng couldn't hide properly.

"Boss bone, look that's one of our men and there as well."

Fear started to creep inside the gang leader and he checked the black horse with nothing but a saddle on his back then the area that looked desolate, he wanted to tell his men to search the area but that didn't help earlier then their numbers lowered even more when they clustered together.

This time without enough time for the gang leader to make up his mind, clouds started to cover the moon again.

"Stick close to one another."

Bone crusher said with a panicking tune when he looked at the moon, he pulled his cloak and his bald head and dark complexion appeared in front of Feng.

One horizontal scar from the chin to the ear at his left cheek, large nose that got punched in his face with wide snouts.

His weapons were a couple of iron knuckles with three pointy spikes, long arms and puffy chest and back muscles visible through his tight top.

He was more than 2m tall and kept his eyes at his surroundings cautiously as he relaxed his arms.

One by one the men started to pull their cloaks and Feng had to do the same or he'll be suspicious.

Swords, blades, daggers and short axes, one even had a shield on his back and a one handed flail with a dangerous looking metal ball attached to the end by a chain.

Before the others got to notice his different attitude he acted like he's taking his cloak off as well and the others turned their attention towards the surroundings, with one swift swing Feng slit the throat of man carrying the shield and flail and continued to pierce the heart of one of bone crusher's two close men.

The hand holding the cloak threw it at two men to the left to blind their eyes and he hurried to make two clumsy swings at their bodies before they react to the sudden attack.

"Goaacch..... Ughhh..... Blfgh.... Aaaahhhh....."

In two seconds Feng killed 4 men of the 12 men from the gang.

"Watch out! He's the enemy.... Omfffhg...."

"My arm...."

"Growl...."

"Niegh...."

As chaos descended on the gang Feng ran away to hide in the darkness from them before they gang up on him, when the gang turned their attention towards him Storm jumped on a sword user and tore his sword wielding arm off.

The gang leader bone crusher was the most unlucky of the 8, surprisingly Shadow gave the man's back a ruthless double back kick with his hoofs.

Before bone crusher continued his words he flew 8m then fell face first on the ground, knocked out cleanly and his back imprinted with two lucky marks.

The numbers became 6 after Storm snapped her victim's neck then growled at the 6 scared men who lost their leader earlier than expected.

"Run."

Before the first man said it he saw the others scatter faster than him.

Feng found a blind fool come his way and he double handedly did a baseball bat swing at his midsection, the man fell in two parts at the floor and Feng was surprised by the sharpness of the sword in his hand.

He wanted to leave a wound on the man that would prevent him from going afar as he focus on stopping the others from leaving the mountain, yet he severed the man in half in a clean cut.

Storm handled another one and followed after the third while Feng went towards the man who ran towards the area he hid the pups in, the man noticed that Feng was following him and panicked.

After all Feng never took of his soft helmet and was resembling a devil being in his black attire, coupled with the horrors of the night and the amount of people who died.

The mental pressure on top of the bandit's fear made the man run faster than Feng.

'Fuck, is he bolt or something! This man is fast' Feng thought as he felt his legs tire out, but he was happy that the man didn't go towards the pups and continued to run further up the mountain.

The area ahead was a dead end and the man was bound to find out after Feng corner him.

"Huff.... it can't be like this, I refuse to die like this."

The moonlight shined on the man's ferocious expression and bloodshot eyes as he watched the high rocks blocking his path of escape, he was scared out of his mind and disparate for dear life as he watched this black being looking like a man come near with a sword bloodied by his gang member's blood, despair started to grip him by the neck.

"What do you want? Just what do you want? Don't come near me, don't come any closer."

The man gripped his sword with one hand then started to throw rocks and stones at Feng as he gave empty threats full of begging.

'That really tired me out, my physical capabilities are very bad. I need to train my body and grow stronger, fuck! That one actually hurt a bit' Feng was trying to catch his breath as he walked slowly towards the cornered man, he completely ignored the stones and rocks coming his was and only made sure they don't hit the eyes.

His ZhuQing armor was able to negate the pressure and spread it around the armor's surface, it only hurt slightly when one large two heads size stone hit his foot.

"Arghhh i'll fight you to the death."

Finally the man lost his last shred of sanity when he saw the black thing get hit with the rocks without any effect, he didn't even try to dodge any and kept coming closer.

Unsheathing his sword he ran at him and swung downwards while jumped from a stone.

Feng took a step to the side and swung at the man's waist.

"Spurt...."

The man was wounded at his left side and fell on his legs then staggered slightly before doing a roll on the floor to dodge Feng's next rising swing.

"Haah...."

Again Feng took a back step to avoid the sneaky strike at his foot from the man who didn't forget to roll and strike at the same time, now that he's not sneak attacking these people and trying to avoid every single sword swing Feng's inferiority was very apparent.

Feng was sure of the soft armor defensive capabilities but if he fought while relying on it then he'll come to form a habit of that, if he met an opponent who could bypass it's defensive capabilities then he'll only end up killing himself by accident.

Now that Feng's alone with this man he could hone his sword skills and learn from experience, and the man kept getting light wounds one after another as the duel continued.

Finally the maniacal light in the bandit's eyes dissolved and his head cleared up after accumulating enough wounds to keep him from running away.

"Guh..... What kind of monster are you?"

The man asked as he tried to prevent the wound in his left side from bleeding anymore with his right hand and single handedly swinging his sword trying to keep Feng away, he retreated again and again while searching with his eyes hoping for a way out of this place.

"Heh, human same as you, same kind of monster."

Feng spoke and the man was startled as he remembered that voice, it was the same as the man who spoke back then when they gathered at the boss's whistle.

"Fuck! Just what do you want from me? I'll give you all my money, I have two beautiful daughters take them with my 4 women."

The man felt his head go dizzy from the blood loss and started to offer Feng his fortune in exchange for his life.

"Do you have your money with you? Or are you asking me to let you go get it?"

Feng sneered under his helmet at the bandit as he spoke.

"Uh! N...no it's just nearby hidden in a mountain cave...."

"You done?"

"There's gold and precious stones..."

"Then die."

Feng saw the man continue with his bullshit and didn't hesitate to pierce his throat.

He already felt this duel becoming pointless since the man's movements became slow as the wounds on his body accumulated, he took his sword and searched his body for any money and found one silver coin and 30 bronze coins.

"Fuck! A bandit have more than ten times the money I have, I gotta search these fuckers thoroughly."

Feng found the man's clothes worthless and didn't take them, he took the belt carrying the small dagger at his side and sheath at his waist then left.

Feng was enthusiastically running back to his camp to search for more money.

"Huh! Why are you standing on top of this man? Shadow, did you hear me? Stop stomping on him he's already dead, what's wrong with you?"

When he arrived Feng saw Storm sitting with her pups feeding from her belly next to the campfire remains, and Shadow standing on top of bone crusher's body and stomping down at his back over and over again.

From the looks of it and the amount of blood coming out from his mouth it was clearly he suffered from internal bleeding after receiving the double kick from Shadow, the two deep marks on his back were very apparent.

"Groan...."

"Fuck! he's still alive after taking that kick?"

Feng led Shadow by the reins to his food and walked back to gang leader bone crusher, he started searching the man's body and took away the knuckles from his hands.

"Just how shameless can you be! Huh, such a big fellow and dares to wear an inner vest, off you go."

Feng saw some mithril lightweight vest underneath bone crusher's top, he took it off and counted 8 silver and 50 bronze coins in a small leather bouch.

"Being a bandit is that profitable? I got almost 10 silver coins from two people! Shadow, watch this fucker closely."

"Brrrcht.... Neigh...."

Shadow's eyes lit up and he returned to stand on top of bone crusher's body at Feng's order, without the inner vest the tall man's face turned blue under the weight of Shadow's body.

But Feng was disappointed later, only one man had another silver coin on him among the dead the rest of the money he found was bronze coins.

All the bandits wore clothes and not a single metal armor, only one wore some kind of a leather armor but he was beheaded by Feng and his armor was useless.

Another wore a leather boots of the same style as the leather armor Feng found and was confiscated just the same.

Only when Feng placed all the weapons and single leather armor and boots set next to Storm and sat to count his money did he sigh in relief.

He really was going to be robbed by these rich guys at least if they discovered him first, now, Feng came out on top and reverse robbed the bandits and wiped them out except for the leader.

Without hesitation Zhu Feng wore the mithril vest, leather armor and boots then draped the green robes on top.

Now if Feng increased his strength and speed in the future then with these items assuring his life and boosting his defense, he wouldn't fear going against that captain Li's company alone.

And he's rich!

The sum of money in his small bundle is 10 silver coins and more than 1300 bronze coins, banditry is this profitable!

These guys are loaded.

"I even said trade is the most profitable business! Say that to my sack of potatoes."

Feng shook his head and looked at the blue faced bone crusher underneath Shadow's hoofs with anger filling his eyes, because of this idiot he was targeted and because of this ex-rich idiot he killed almost 30 men in the last couple hours.

If he was forced to kill then it should be taking one life, but, now he was estranged from normalcy and didn't hesitate when he took the last man's life.

He didn't feel a thing!

It felt to Feng like killing one of his chickens, he was blank as he did it.

"Thanks Shadow, i'll buy you lots and lots of fruits and veggies. I promise to get you the best partner when I get rich, go rest buddy."

Slapping the bandit boss's face roughly to wake him up as he held his sword tightly, Feng was even prepared to cut one of the man's arms if he tried anything funny.

"Uah...."

"Rise and shine bitch."

Feng slapped the man's large and smooth bald head when he saw signs of his awakening.

"Cough..cough... What happened? Wher..."

"Shut up, i'll be the one asking questions, each time you lie i'll leave a scar on your body. The bigger the lie the larger and deeper the scar, you're welcome to try my patience."

Feng slapped bone crusher's head and gave his terms while staring at the glaring scar at his face.

"Cough... I don't feel good, I think i'm going to sleep... Gah."

Bone crusher tried to fake fainting and got a scar on his right shoulder.

"What's your name?"

"Zhang Ye... Gah."

Bone crusher's eye became shifty when he answered and another scar decorated his right shoulder, an "X" was bleeding there.

"What's your name?"

"Wen Shoushan... Gah."

"Name?"

"Zhen... Gah."

"Name? This time it will be a finger, only because I'm merciful."

"Xin Qiqiang I swear that's my given name, if senior wishes to change it I wouldn't mind. Please don't take away my fingers, Xin Qiqiang, my name is Xin Qiqiang an orphan from Yan Kingdom. After the war with Hai kingdom my village was raided and I escaped here then joined the mist bandits..."

"Shut up, why did you attack me?"

Feng listened closely and watched every muscle in Xin Qiqiang's face until he's sure that's his name then he changed the question.

"This road is famous for being one of the shortest ones to Obsidian city, since next after this lonely mountain is a rocky maze we usually wait for our victims to enter the maze before robbing them. But this time my rival beat me to take the best hiding spot there, since the rules of the gang is no infighting and all is fair competition I decided to attack whomever is camping here first before making an ambush for winter merchants."

"How many members in your gang?"

"Three thousand... Gah."

"Number and headquarters location?"

Feng added larger and deeper cut on the man's back, right between the lucky marks then asked with a smile.

"1,600, at best 1,600 but the boss Mist Hand said that the gang reached 3,000 the last time we gathered, I really don't know how many men the other 8 leaders have."

Xin Qiqiang was scared out of his wits, this man in green was covering his head and he couldn't read any feedback from him at all.

Not to mention that currently he was extremely wounded and sitting straight was tiring as fighting a tiger or wrestling a bear, he saw the man ruthlessly kill all the men he brought out with him and Xin Qiqiang didn't want to test his patience.

He can give away information about his gang in exchange for his life, but he'll never gamble with his life for that mist bandits gang.

"Headquarters are west of here, after reaching coal mountain go south until you reach bull horn cliffs, the gang is taking the mountainous area west of bull horn cliffs as base. There's spies in all the nearby cities and critical points, once a large force start moving to attack the area, mist bandits will scatter like mist and catching them will be a lot harder."

Xin Qiqiang spoke as his blue face started to pale because of the blood loss the wound on his back plus Shadow's double back kick made the bald man see stars, he was injured internally and externally if he fell unconscious again and this man left him in this state he wouldn't wake up again.

"Please, give me some healing ointment.. cough."

He couldn't help but beg for some mercy from this cruel person when he felt death nearby.

"I don't have any."

Feng shrugged and answered the man.

"My horse, I have some on my horse. Cough... Cough..."

The tall bald man started to cough blood after talking so much.

"You have two choices, die here now or return with me to Rock city and confess to general Lian what you just said to me."

Feng didn't move and gave the man his options.

"Cough.... I'll go, please... I'm not feeling well."

Xin Qiqiang fell on his side and started to gasp for breathe.

"Shadow, watch him. If he tries to move, hehe, stomp him to death."

"Neigh....."

Xin Qiqiang trembled like a leaf in a storm when he heard the horse's sound, if he was at his best form Xin Qiqiang would've given this cowardly horse two mighty punches for sneak attacking him.

At that time he was giving the man his full attention because that man just killed 4 of his men under his nose, not to mention the couple dozen men he lost earlier.

Then that horse took him out, cleanly!

When he woke up it would knock him out by endless stomps, if it wasn't for his mithril vest then he would've died.

"Let's go, kids in the sack, last call for train safety."

Feng opened the sack for the pups as he called and obedient Harmony was the first to enter with lowered head, Joy next with a jumping walk, Night while baring his teeth, finally Thunder with begrudging wail.

Feng closed the sack and jumped on Storm's back, they descended the mountain in 5 minutes thanks to Storm's agile feet and perfect night vision.

Feng found 40 horses hidden to the right, 3 of them were warhorses and 6 of them were loaded with supplies.

"It seems like they were really planning on staying here for a long time, stay here Storm or you'll scare these horses to death."

Feng got down and walked the 80m distance on foot, one of these war horses was bound to be the Qiqiang's horse and the other two horses must belong to the other two rich bandits.

In the saddle of the brown warhorse he found a leather bundle with white powder that smelled like medicinal herbs, the rest was dried meat, a knife, spare change of clothes, some fresh fruits and Feng took them to reward Shadow and two dark metal gauntlets but their size seemed smaller for Qiqiang to wear.

Without hesitation Feng put the gauntlets on and decided to rummage through the rest of the horses later, he planned to take Qiqiang back to the general then revisit Obsidian city later after the bandits are wiped.

He took some ropes and tasted their quality before taking them with him and returning to Storm's back, the journey up was harder on the female wolf but she still returned back to camp in 15 minutes.

Xin Qiqiang was on in a critical situation because of the blood loss and mostly because the vicious horse was blowing spit non-stop at his face by repeatedly smacking it's lips, it seemed like the horse wanted him to move so that it would stomp him!

'I'm not moving! Stop scaring me like that' Xin Qiqiang thought as he tried to not let his nerves get the best of him.

Feng was satisfied with Shadow's dedication and he gave him the fruits then tied up Xin Qiqiang before applying the medicinal concoction on his back and right shoulder, as for the strong man overcoming his bound and breaking the ropes? Heh, he can try.

These were bondage techniques, the more he struggles the tighter it will get if he wants to suffocate to death then he can try.

"I'll give you one single advice, don't struggle. At dawn we'll return to Rock city, if I wake up because of any annoying sounds. Heh, i'll take one of your hands."

Feng kept the rest of the healing ointment in the sack and released the grumbling pups to play, then he took fluffy Storm's back as a pillow and slept soundly this time.

Xin Qiqiang felt better this time as the bleeding stopped, he was still hurt internally and felt like his organs got displaced from Shadow's kick.

But after a few days of rest he'll be able to move his body without feeling like a mountain is placed on his shoulders, he knew that the man was asleep but these two animals weren't.

He tamed a mother wolf! His horse is a sneaky bitch who kicks people's backs? The little pups seems to obey his words! He fucking took my gauntlets? First the mithril vest now the gauntlets that I wished to remould to fit my arms, now I'm going to be handed to that famous hero general of Shi Kingdom.

Shameless general Lian Laoci.

'I just hope that my confession about the location of the gang will make my crimes lighter, I never actually operated in Shi kingdom territory and mostly attacked Hai kingdom business for what they did to my village back then. Whatever, working the mines is much better than death, if worse comes to worst then i'll lead them to the gang treasury to bargain for my life' as lay there gasping for breath, Xin Qiqiang made up his mind to go all in to save his soul.