Jun Changxiao returned to the remote mountain forest he had passed through earlier. He intended to rob those warriors who robbed others and take back all their spatial rings!

He called it by a fine name:

If you show no mercy to others, then I’ll show no righteousness to you.

Bang!

Bang!

In the earlier area, several robber warriors had already started fighting with the small team of warriors in the forest.

Due to the disparity in strength, the small team had already fallen into a disadvantage.

Whoosh!

Jun Changxiao rushed over using Cloud Striding Steps, empty-handedly seized the robber warriors’ weapons with bare hands, and kicked them to the ground one by one.

Their strength was only at the early Wutu stage, so killing them would be as easy as turning his hand.

Suddenly aided by a master who helped them escape their predicament, the small team’s warriors’ eyes immediately filled with gratitude.

“This young friend…”

The leader cupped his hands and said, “Many thanks for your assistance!”

Jun Changxiao said, “Seeing injustice on the road and drawing one’s blade to help—this is what people of the jianghu should do.”

Everyone was filled with solemn respect.

These days, chivalrous and righteous people were truly rare!

The leader wanted to speak, but Sect Master Jun said, “This place is overrun with fierce beasts and isn’t suitable for lingering. You all should leave quickly.”

“Great kindness needs no words of thanks. Farewell!”

The leader hurriedly left with several members.

After they had left, Jun Changxiao stepped on the robber warrior lying on the ground playing dead, his gaze cold as frost as he said, “Hand over your spatial rings, and I’ll spare your lives.”

If the warriors who had left heard this sentence, they would definitely collapse!

Big brother.

Are you really seeing injustice on the road, or do you want to rob them!

“I… I’ll hand them over…”

Several warriors realized their lives were threatened and hurriedly handed over the spatial rings on their bodies.

There were quite a few—over ten rings in total. Clearly, they had robbed many others.

“Get lost.”

Sect Master Jun’s purpose was the spatial rings. Since he had obtained them, he naturally wouldn’t be cruel enough to kill them.

……

“Damn it!”

After several warriors clutching their stomachs escaped, they squatted under a tree, seething with anger.

“Big brother!”

One person said, “I can’t swallow this grievance!”

“Damn it!”

The boss angrily said, “Daring to rob us from the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps—that pretty boy doesn’t know what’s good for him!”

On the Xingyun Continent, there were many forces, such as families and sects, and another type of organization called mercenary corps.

At the beginning, when I participated in the xuanhuan BOSS writing contest, I wanted to write a novel where the protagonist was a mercenary corps leader who led a bunch of underlings to various dungeons to fight monsters.

Later I chose the sect master route, which led to the current Iron Bones Clanging Sect.

Am I proud of myself?

The mercenary corps on Xingyun Continent were similar to Earth’s mercenary corps, mainly taking commissions from others.

But they also needed large amounts of martial dao resources, so coming to the mountains to hunt fierce beasts became their primary means of livelihood.

Of course.

Mercenary corps members were mostly recruited from independent cultivators and weren’t as professional as sects, so their overall strength wasn’t high.

Currently, the three most well-known major mercenary corps could only compete with fifth-rate sects in terms of level.

The Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps that this warrior mentioned also had some strength, with nearly a thousand members. The higher-ups’ cultivation was quite formidable, and they were active year-round in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.

This mercenary corps not only focused on hunting fierce beasts but also on robbing independent cultivators. They could be called a tyrant of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.

“Gouzi.”

The boss said hatefully, “Contact the nearby people and gather them together. We can’t let that guy escape!”

“Yes!”

The subordinate called Gouzi took out something similar to firecrackers, raised it high, and a streak of flowing light shot upward.

“Hm?”

Jun Changxiao, who hadn’t walked far, looked up and saw the flowing light flash through the gaps in the trees, murmuring, “One arrow pierces the clouds, and thousands of troops come to meet?”

He didn’t pay it any mind and continued examining the dozen or so spatial rings he had just obtained.

Don’t look at how Sect Master Jun had just entered not long ago, but from the two groups of robber warriors alone, he had already obtained many crystal cores, medicinal materials, and ores.

Unfortunately, there were no wind-element crystal cores.

Nor were there any medicinal materials or ores suitable for refining pills and equipment.

“Alas.”

Jun Changxiao said, “I can only search for them myself.”

……

Afterward, members of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps from other areas saw the signal and gathered together one after another.

In a moment, fifty or sixty people had assembled.

“Little Ding.”

One person said in a deep voice, “What happened?”

“Vice Captain Zhang.”

The one called Little Ding clutched his stomach and said, “Some guy robbed us!”

Mercenary corps were generally divided into teams, with each team having a captain and one vice captain, along with fixed members.

This Vice Captain Zhang was the vice captain of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps’ Third Team. His strength was quite formidable, having already reached the third-grade Wushi cultivation level.

The several people robbed by Jun Changxiao, as well as the warriors who had assembled, all belonged to Third Team members.

Vice Captain Zhang angrily said, “He ate a bear’s heart and leopard’s guts! Daring to rob our Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps!”

“Lead the way.”

He said coldly, “Let’s go find that guy.”

Little Ding said, “The captain and second brother and third brother haven’t arrived yet. Should we wait for them to come together?”

That kid’s strength was formidable, so he naturally hoped to bring more manpower to let the other party understand that seeing injustice on the road and drawing one’s blade to help required paying a price!

“The captain and the others should have entered deeper areas. Let’s pursue first to prevent that guy from escaping,” Vice Captain Zhang said.

“Also good.”

Little Ding hurriedly led the way, chasing in the direction Jun Changxiao had left.

“It’s the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps!”

“Why are they assembling so many people?”

“Each one looks fierce and malicious. Could it be someone offended them?”

Vice Captain Zhang led his people in a grand display through the mountain forest, immediately alarming many small teams.

……

Jun Changxiao retraced his path, continuing forward toward deeper areas. Whenever fierce beasts rushed over, he easily killed them and took their crystal cores.

Before long.

He arrived at the area where he had killed the three people earlier.

Right at this time, Vice Captain Zhang arrived with dozens of subordinates.

Little Ding pointed at Jun Changxiao and angrily said, “It’s him!”

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The mercenary corps members rushed over with agile movements, surrounding Jun Changxiao, each one glaring with fierce and malicious eyes.

“Vice Captain Zhang!”

Just at this moment, one member pointed at the corpses nearby and exclaimed in shock, “It’s… the captain!”

“What?”

Vice Captain Zhang walked over and recognized at a glance that the corpse really was the captain!

It turned out that the three warriors Sect Master Jun had killed earlier were the captain of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps’ Third Team and his two brothers.

It must be said, quite fateful.

“Kid.”

Vice Captain Zhang looked over and angrily shouted, “You killed them?”

“That’s right,” Jun Changxiao said.

As soon as these words came out, the fifty or sixty Third Team members immediately blazed with fury!

Vice Captain Zhang summoned a pair of battle axes, his eyes full of killing intent as he said, “A killer pays with his life, a debtor repays his money!”

Though he said this with his mouth, his heart was secretly delighted.

With the captain dead, couldn’t he himself get promoted to full captain?

Eliminating the murderer who killed the captain and reporting back to the corps leader would surely earn him a reward!

Hahaha!

Kid, you’ve helped me so much. To show my gratitude, so… you should still go die!

Jun Changxiao didn’t know the other party’s inner thoughts and simply said indifferently, “Insufficient strength—deserves death.”

These words had not a single flaw and were very much in line with the law of the jungle.

“Enough nonsense!”

Vice Captain Zhang took a step forward, his two battle axes carrying tremendous force as they chopped down, angrily shouting, “Take your life!”