A Cursed Weapon can't be Stolen [C26]

The Bandit Leader who thought Shu Himo was an easy prey was extremely regretful. Initially, he saw two kids at Body Strengthening realm and sent his underlying to rob them easily, only to find them all dead, afterward, he wanted to take revenge on those two kids, but now, the moment he saw Shu Himo taking out his weapon, he immediately felt Shu Himo's aura completely change, complementing the one of the weapon, it's a pressure that no one under Nascent Soul can truly ignore, and unless they have a tremendous willpower it will still affect them, even if partially.

Now the Bandit Leader as he was underestimating Shu Himo was surely not ready to resist a mental attack, so his body got full of messages telling himself to run, run farther possible, or only death will come to him.

Shu Himo in the other hand once brought out his Scythe of Doom immediately used a stacked [Hopper] dashing and slashing toward the Bandit Leader, who was extremely scared and full of terror but still managed to retreat from the attack biting his own tongue using pain to ignore the fear.

The Bandit Leader kept saying to himself 'It's only a Meridians Strengthening phase, I can't fear him, I have to react!'. A moment later he finally resolved himself and looked straight toward Shu Himo to start a real fight, but what he saw left him startled: the blade of the scythe is only a couple centimeters from himself! Startled he immediately jumped backward, but still, he suffered a deep cut, luckily, as a Dantian Core Formation realm that wound was not capable of lowering his combat ability, so he finally calmed down and begun analyzing Shu Himo:

The child is using a Scythe bigger than himself, and not only that, but he is using it extremely badly, this is a chance for a comeback! Further analyzing, the Bandit Leader noticed an extremely peculiar thing: he is smiling! But that is not a merely normal smile, it's a smile full of ecstasy! Seeing his expression, the bandit leader felt to be a lamb in front of a wolf, why does a child emit this feeling? Why does it seem like if Shu Himo is hunting me?

Shu Himo was indeed hunting him, in fact, not only would he get the first out of ten needed lives, but he also got a quest:

[Abrupt Quest: Kill the Bandit Leader!]

[The Bandit Leader that terrorized many low-level cultivators is now in front of you: revenge all the poor victims that got robbed by his bandit group!]

[Quest Difficulty: B-]

[Quest Reward: Scythe manipulating style: Requiem Dance.]

[Quest Failure Penitence: from nothing to death.]

Shu Himo's greatest weakness is that his ability to manipulate his scythe is bad: how could he not show a great smile upon seeing such a reward? Now he did not even see the Bandit Leader as a person, he seemed more like succulent food saw the moment he was starving!

Keeping abusing stacked [Hopper] he was pressurizing the Bandit Leader, who now was starting to retaliate, he may have been scared but he was still a Dantian Core Formation realm, how could he live in shame of not being able to even retaliate?

Shu Himo was about to use again stacked [Hopper] to dash to the Bandit Leader when he heard the latter starting a chant: he was going to use a magic spell!

"I call Mother Nature;

Lend me your power;

So that I can annihilate my enemy;

Great Earth Arm!"

The Earth in the area immediately started a small earthquake, changing fast its shape, first, it seemed a small hill, barely 1 meter high, then it seemed 5 hills, still small at around 2 meters, but then it's main part came out, revealing it's true form: a giant earth arm! The arm was higher than 10 meters and could move as flexibility as a normal human arm!

Ro Jonhan who was hiding was shocked: this was a high-level Dantian Core Foundation magic spell! Only extremely talented people could use this level of magic!

The arm immediately extended toward Shu Himo, trying to grab him and crush him between its fingers, but Shu Himo immediately dashed laterally using [Hopper], dodging easily the attack. Not giving up, the arm kept chasing Shu Himo, but the latter used then a stacked [Hopper], completely vanishing from view: He was dashing toward the Bandit Leader!

Surprised, the Bandit Leader immediately took out his sword, ready to fight, and slashed immediately toward Shu Himo. This was an extreme mistake.

Shu Himo also slashed toward him, and, once the Scythe touched the sword, the sword immediately got split in half, and the scythe was still slashing toward the Bandit Leader! Extremely startled, the Bandit Leader cursed at the sharpness of the scythe and immediately jumped backward, but this time he was not so lucky to only get a cut: he lost his left arm!

This scared him sh*tless, so he immediately decided to run, but how could Shu Himo let run his prey? Shu Himo immediately trowed the Scythe toward the back of the now running Bandit Leader, hitting completely his leg, binding him to the ground unless he extracted the scythe or cut his own leg.

But now from the Bandit Leader perspective, Shu Himo was still far from himself, while the scythe was in his leg: what if he would steal it and use it against Shu Himo? That would save him!

Ignoring his instinct and the terror coming in his mind from the scythe, he immediately grabbed toward the scythe, taking it and ready to use it against Shu Himo.

Ru Seji who saw this scene from far was startled: how was Shu Himo going to fight? But he then noticed that Shu Himo had a nonchalant appearance, now standing up looking calmly toward the Bandit Leader, he seemed to wait for something.

The moment the Bandit Leader took the scythe, he was about to attack Shu Himo when he immediately felt a voice in his head: Kill Yourself.

He immediately noticed what terrible choice he did, but he had no more time to resolve the problem: he slowly raised the scythe, and then stabbed himself in the torso, instantly killing himself.

Shu Himo, seeing the happening immediately said: "Stupid, a Cursed weapon can't be stolen."

Taking back his scythe, he then noticed that the requirement for the increase in quality is now 1/10, while he heard a familiar

*Ding*

[Quest Success: Kill the Bandit Leader!]

[Quest Difficulty: B-]

[Quest Reward: Scythe manipulating style: Requiem Dance.]

[Imparting knowledge about Scythe manipulating style: Requiem Dance....]

Feeling the knowledge of the new techniques, Shu Himo felt that the way he was using the Scythe was horrible, and almost felt embarrassed about it, now having the knowledge he would still need to practice, but at least he now had a path to improve his ability to use the scythe.

On the other hand, Ru Seji and his master who saw the way the Bandit Leader killed himself due to taking the weapon of Shu Himo, promised themselves to not take that scythe even if Shu Himo offered it personally.