Chapter 3 Bandits
Lin Mo spent a month practicing, and with the help of elixirs, his realm was raised from the sixth level of body refining to the eighth level.
The Bodhi sword technique that he had only been slightly proficient in before has now been cultivated to the proficient level, and he has also gained a deeper understanding of the sword technique.
The use of a knife requires only physical movement, such as leaping over long distances, with quick eyes and nimble hands. It also requires the knife to be changed with the body while advancing, retreating, dodging, jumping and tumbling, and the body and the weapon to be coordinated.
It's just that there is no suitable light skill now, so he can only use the most clumsy method to use the internal energy of Yi Jin Jiangu Zhang to make his footwork more flexible in short distances.
However, Bodhi swordsmanship is mainly based on heaviness, and Lin Mo specializes in cutting. Although he has not yet reached the level of releasing sword energy, he also has a certain momentum of taking the lead.
Today, Lin Mo went out for a walk and was thinking about how to complete the system's tricky task. There were no villages near Jinyang City, so even if he wanted to kill innocent people, he had no target.
Use poison? I can't afford poison with this little money, and even if I buy it, I need a lot of it. As for taking action in the city, the situation is so chaotic now, and I want to fish in troubled waters with my little strength? I'd better forget it.
While passing by an inn in Jinyang City, Lin Mo saw some people dressed in guild attire having a meal inside. He heard the news about a bandit gathering place called Erhuzhai nearby. He called the waiter of the inn, paid a few coins and easily found out the information about Erhuzhai.
Since the power of Jinyang City has reached saturation, ordinary bandits dare not attack at will, and can only target some small families and chambers of commerce nearby.
Erhuzhai was formed in the last month by a group of bandits from other places who occupied the nearby Jinyang Mountain and gathered some scattered bandits in the surrounding area.
It is said that Li Hu, the leader of Erhu Village, is an outer disciple of Yiqihui, one of the eight major gangs. He was expelled from the village because he was lazy and had no ambition to make progress.
Because one of his uncles was a deacon in the inner sect, his martial arts were not abolished, but he was only asked not to commit crimes in the name of the Yiqi Society.
Otherwise he would be killed without mercy. His strength is not higher than that of the marrow refining master, and some of the small bandits he has gathered are also small minions around the fifth level of body refining.
It is also said that they had recently offended the Hu family and were beaten by an inner sect steward of the Hu family. If it were not for the uncle of the head of the family, they would have been eliminated long ago.
Hearing this, Lin Mo secretly wondered whether the news was released intentionally by the Hu family, hoping to take the opportunity to cause trouble for the Erhu Village. However, the strength of the bandits in the Erhu Village was just enough for him to deal with.
After all, he had the main mission to complete, so after thinking it over again and again, Lin Mo decided to go to Erhu Village to investigate. After all, bandits like these would have some savings , so it would be a good opportunity to rob their rich to help his own poor.
It’s just that the involvement of this loyalty society might be a bit troublesome, but the loyalty society will always prioritize loyalty.
Even if the inner door deacon wanted to cause trouble, he would never dare to use the guise of the Yiqi Society. Thinking of this, Lin Mo found out the location of the stronghold and headed towards it.
At this time, Erhu Village was in turmoil. The minions below all demanded to go to the Hu family for revenge, but the big boss Li Hu, who was sitting on the throne, had a gloomy face. It seemed that he had no place else to go and had to come here as a bandit.
The more crucial thing was to find out the news of the opening of a long-hidden underground palace in Jinyang City. In order not to attract the attention of the other eight gangs, they established a stronghold nearby in this way.
But he didn't expect that he would be disrupted by the minions he randomly gathered soon after he arrived.
These bandits thought they had found a backer, and when the steward of the Hu family came to discuss something, they started to speak wildly.
As a result, he offended the Hu family. To the Yi Qi Society, the Hu family was just an ant that could be crushed to death at will, but to him, who had achieved perfection in the tenth level of body refinement, they were already a behemoth.
Thinking of this, Li Hu began to have a headache again. He fought with the Hu family's steward and was evenly matched, but after the battle he was also warned by the Hu family.
If a poor kid like him does anything out of the ordinary, he will be targeted by the three major forces in Jinyang City. Besides, his own strength is not enough.
So he sent away the gang of bandits in the meeting room and started his retreat.
Lin Mo reached the halfway point of Jinyang Mountain and had already discovered some outposts of Erhu Village. However, judging from the sparsely populated and low morale of the troops on the opposite side, he thought that with his current strength of the eighth level of physical training, he would not be discovered.
There were a total of twenty people in the four sentry towers, and their strength seemed to be at the fourth or fifth level of body refining. Lin Mo quietly moved towards a sentry tower, and quickly killed two bandits under the tower with lightning speed. He then went up the tower ladder and killed the remaining three bandits in the sentry tower in just a few encounters.
Then he used the same method to clear out the bandits in the remaining three watchtowers.
This killing has calmed Lin Mo down a lot. After looting the spoils, he heard bustling footsteps. Hiding in the dark, Lin Mo discovered that it was a group of ten bandits, who were probably going out to rob.
When this group of bandits passed a watchtower, they found that the original sentries had been killed, so they split into two groups and began to explore the remaining three watchtowers.
When a group of five bandits came to the watchtower where Lin Mo was, Lin Mo took the lead and killed the leader of the group with a single strike of the sword. The remaining four were obviously so startled by the sudden attack that they were unable to react for a while.
Lin Mo then turned around and swung the sword in his hand to kill another person.
At this time, the other side reacted and started to fight with weapons in their hands. Judging from the moves of these bandits, they were just some basic martial arts. One of them was startled and shouted loudly to the other team of bandits.
Lin Mo blocked the weapons of the remaining two people casually and at the same time used his internal energy to chop off the heads of the two bandits. Then he took a step forward and killed the last one with a powerful blow.
But another group of bandits also heard the sound and started to move in this direction. Lin Mo was surrounded by five people in an instant, so he subconsciously used the Bodhi Sword Technique.
According to legend, Bodhi Sword Technique is the basic sword technique of the Bodhi Court of Shaolin Temple. It emphasizes defense rather than killing. The big sword is suddenly wielded with great force, and all the moves are either blocked or broken.
Then, with a casual counterattack, he could kill one person by hitting his vital point. The remaining four people also felt that this person was not easy to deal with and had already considered retreating, but Lin Mo came here to kill people.
He moved his feet, pushed away the weapons of the three men, and chopped them hard, splitting one man in half. The bloody scene immediately shocked the other three.
One of them was about to turn around and run away, but Lin Mo seized the opportunity and slashed his head with a knife, and at the same time he turned around and killed another person. The remaining bandit was so scared that he became incontinent and could only kneel down and beg for mercy.
Lin Mo shook off the blood on his knife and asked, " Report the detailed number and strength of the village, as well as the specific situation of your boss."
The bandit naturally knew everything and said, "My young man, there should be about thirty people in the village, most of them are about the fifth level of body refining, and only the boss is at the tenth level of body refining. However, the boss has suffered some internal injuries and is now in seclusion.
He came here a month ago, but has been practicing in the mountain village for this period of time. He occasionally lets a few of us go out to get information and check if there are any recent changes in Jinyang City. I don’t know about other things. Please spare my life, young hero!"
When Lin Mo heard this, he knew that he could not ask any more questions. With a flash of knife light, he walked towards the mountain. At this time, the system voice came, "Ding, mission completion status (30/100) "
By this time, the sky was gradually getting dark. Lin Mo saw torches lit up in the mountain stronghold from afar. It would be very difficult for thirty people to assassinate without being discovered, but the success rate of this would increase a lot after dark. Besides, the bandits were not an army, and their morale and discipline were extremely poor.
Lin Mo changed into a bandit's outfit and walked towards Erhu Village. There were only two bandits chatting at the door. As it was dark, the other party could not see Lin Mo's face clearly. They just thought that he had gone out to rob the escort and came back because of something.
When Lin Mo was five steps away from the two men, he quickly activated his skills and arrived in front of them in an instant. A flash of knife light instantly killed one of them.
Before the other man could react, he stabbed the knife into his chest. After confirming that the two were dead, he threw their bodies into the woods nearby.
Lin Mo looked around the interior of the village. It was very simple, with just a few rooms lined up. The larger one in the middle might be the meeting room.
It was almost time for a break, and the lights in two rooms completely disappeared. Lin Mo sneaked in and quickly dealt with the other party. Five people in one room were already asleep, and the grunting sounds fully covered up the sound of the knife cutting across their throats.
After taking care of these two rooms, the remaining people also died in the same assassination method by Lin Mo. The problem now is that only Li Hu is left. Although there is a difference of two levels between the tenth level of body refining and the eighth level of body refining, there is still a big difference in strength.
Lin Mo found a cleaner room and began to practice Qigong and regulate his breathing. Perhaps due to the killing, he successfully broke through to the ninth level of physical training before long.
Many battles also brought a lot of insights. At least Lin Mo now knows how to kill someone quickly.
After finishing his work, Lin Mo looked at the meeting room. As the other party's leader Li Hu was in seclusion and the remaining bandits were assassinated by him, the village was now so quiet that only the whistling sound of the wind could be heard.
Then Lin Mo waited until his physical and mental strength recovered to the best, then walked towards the conference hall.
