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Chapter 120 Acting Alone, One Big Win

Lin Feng suddenly realized that the bandit leader was named Tao Xingye, and he was a member of the Demonic Sect.

No wonder no one has ever known the name of the bandit leader.

Snake slave Tao Xingye, leaning on a snake staff, stood atop a tall tower in the city. "Hong Baichuan, I never expected you to lead your troops here today. Heaven has decreed your death."

As Hong Baichuan flew, he pointed forward with two fingers, and a sword aura several meters long flew out from his fingertips, shooting towards the leader Tao Xingye.

"Hahaha, even a defeated opponent dares to speak so arrogantly."

Tao Xingye waved his snake staff, and a snake-shaped stream of true energy flew out, colliding with Hong Baichuan's sword-wielding true energy.

With a deafening roar, the two streams of true energy collided and exploded, sending shockwaves sweeping across dozens of meters.

Lin Feng felt a strong wind rushing towards him, making it hard to breathe.

It seems these two have a past grudge and want to take this opportunity to settle it.

When gods fight, mortals suffer.

Lin Feng led Sun Yu and the others to hide far away, while they dealt with the bandits they encountered and searched for Zhang Xiaoyu.

Before long, the group found Zhang Xiaoyu.

Zhang Xiaoyu, who had multiple injuries, was rinsing her mouth next to a well.

Zhang Xiaoyu's eyes were glazed over, and he was somewhat absent-minded. His mind was filled with the woman in red and a sentence she had said: "The Bloodthirsty Demon Art will either advance or regress. As long as there is no complete technique, sooner or later the demonic art will backfire and turn you into a monster that only knows how to suck blood."

Seeing that Zhang Xiaoyu was covered in injuries, the group quickly went over to check on her.

Lin Hu looked at the several tears in Zhang Xiaoyu's clothes and asked worriedly, "Brother Zhang, how are you?"

Zhang Xiaoyu shook her head. "I'm fine."

Lin Feng noticed that Zhang Xiaoyu's soft armor had been pierced, indicating that she was seriously injured.

Zhang Xiaoyu had just drunk the blood of two more bandits, and her injuries had healed considerably.

Lin Feng knew that Zhang Xiaoyu must have been drinking blood when he saw her rinsing her mouth. After drinking blood, her injuries should be fine.

Lin Feng said, "Brother Zhang, how about we take you out of the city?"

Zhang Xiaoyu shook her head again, "This opportunity is once in a lifetime."

It would be a real shame not to take this opportunity to make more contributions.

My injuries are not serious, and this place is quite safe.

"Don't worry about me, go into the city and grab as much loot as you can, kill as many bandits as you can."

Sun Yu looked at Lin Feng and said, "Boss, you do the work yourself. We'll just scatter some bandits around here."

Even without us, you can still achieve more.

Zhao Youcai, whom our General Zheng Tiejun brought along, is here to steal credit. Since the general is personally leading him, he won't be short of credit.

"Boss, you need to earn more credit, or someone will take your position."

Zhou Haitao also said, "Yes, brother-in-law."

The relationship between the two seemed unusual; they appeared to be fellow disciples.

Moreover, Zheng Tiejun didn't mention taking us along; he only took Zhao Youcai.

Lin Hu also said, "Brother, don't worry, we'll be fine as long as we stick together."

Lin Feng frowned and pondered after listening to what the others said.

It seems Zheng Tiejun is going to strongly support Zhao Youcai.

After this incident, the position of city lord will definitely be vacant. If Zheng Tiejun really becomes the city lord, then the position of general of the Ma Yi Guard will be vacant.

Zheng Tiejun promised to recommend him for the position of general in the Ma Yi Wei (a type of imperial guard), but that was just a verbal promise.

Now the question is, can he really be given the position of General of the Hemp Guard?

The General of the Hemp-Clad Guard wielded too much power, much like the Embroidered Uniform Guard, enabling him to investigate the city lord's mansion, the city guards, and the government offices.

If I were Zheng Tiejun, I would definitely give the position of General of the Hemp-Clad Guard to someone I absolutely trust.

Does Zheng Tiejun trust his subordinate whom he has only known for a few months, or does he trust his fellow apprentice who has been with him for many years?

The outcome is probably self-evident.

After everyone pointed this out, Lin Feng noticed some details: when Zheng Tiejun met Hong Baichuan to claim credit, his expression seemed rather unpleasant.

Lin Feng felt a sense of urgency.

If you don't get the position of General of the Hemp-Clad Guard this time, it will be difficult to get it again in the future.

He said to the group, "Be careful, I'm going out to kill some more bandits."

The crowd urged Lin Feng to leave.

Lin Feng picked up a handful of pebbles and ran in circles toward the city center.

When he encountered bandits along the way, he would throw stones and shoot them dead.

When he ran out of pebbles, he would smash a few stones and get another handful.

During this time, he saved many Iron Sword Army warriors.

After killing about a hundred bandits, he continued toward the city center.

He wanted to search the mansion of the bandit leader to see if he could get some benefits.

Meanwhile, ahead, Hong Baichuan and Tao Xingye were locked in a fierce battle.

Both of them are in the Bone Refining Realm.

The Bone Refining Mirror is the stage where internal energy is transformed into true qi, and one has just acquired the true qi that can be released externally.

Therefore, the aftermath of their battle was far less than that of the teacher and the Shadow Impermanence.

But it's not something Lin Feng can handle either.

Behind the two was the chief's mansion.

Lin Feng intended to go around it, but just as he was about to leave, he discovered a collapsed tunnel ahead.

Lin Feng simply crawled into the tunnel.

He walked along the tunnel towards the chief's mansion, and after walking about a mile, he found an exit leading upwards.

Lin Feng used his lightness skill to jump out of the exit.

After going outside, they found two outer disciples of the Demonic Sect standing next to them.

Both of them were carrying packages, and it seemed they wanted to go into the tunnel.

One of them pointed at Lin Feng and asked, "Whose subordinate are you? How dare you trespass on the chief's residence?"

As he spoke, the man pulled an iron flute from his waist.

Lin Feng didn't waste any words with them and directly shot out two Crimson Gold Glazed Arrows, killing the two men.

Then check the two people's packages.

Hidden in their bundles were over a hundred large silver notes worth ten thousand taels each and several secret manuals.

Lin Feng's hands were trembling as he held the silver notes.

This is a huge sum of money. Qinghe County's annual tax revenue is only a few hundred thousand taels of silver, and he received more than a million taels in one go.

Although the wealthy and powerful families in Qinghe County could easily come up with tens of thousands of taels of silver, those were all their assets.

The official taxes collected were poll tax and land tax, mainly targeting ordinary people, and no commercial taxes were collected.

Lin Feng flipped through the manuals again and discovered that they were actually a complete set.

These include "The Art of Snake Control", "Snake-like Movement", and "Golden Snake Divine Skill".

Lin Feng had just looked at Tao Xingye's attribute panel; Tao Xingye had practiced all three martial arts.

Lin Feng guessed that the two were Tao Xingye's disciples, and they were probably helping Tao Xingye pack his things.

Thinking of this, he decided he didn't need to go to Tao Xingye's residence.

So Lin Feng carried the two people's packs on his back and prepared to jump down into the tunnel to return the way he came.

Suddenly, with a loud bang, Tao Xingye landed not far in front of Lin Feng.

Lin Feng quickly took a few steps back.

Although Tao Xingye looked quite disheveled with his clothes tattered and blood on his lips, he was still a martial artist at the Bone Refining Realm, and I probably wouldn't stand a chance against him.

Tao Xingye looked at the two people lying on the ground, and then at the package Lin Feng was carrying.

The murderous intent in his eyes seemed to be overflowing.

Lin Feng broke out in a cold sweat. It seemed that the two people he had killed were definitely Tao Xingye's apprentices, and possibly even his personal disciples.

Tao Xingye was about to pounce on Lin Feng.

With a loud thud, Hong Baichuan landed between the two men. He looked at Tao Xingye and said, "Snake Slave, your opponent is me."

Hong Baichuan and Tao Xingye got into a fight.

Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief, but he did not leave.

Since he had killed Tao Xingye's disciple, he might as well help Hong Baichuan kill Tao Xingye as well, so that Tao Xingye would not seek revenge on him later.

Lin Feng took out two steel balls from his pocket, waiting for an opportunity to strike.