First Kill

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"Young master Ye, I think we should leave now that we've got what we wanted." Zhen Pao said tidying up his things.

"Yes Young master, it wouldn't have been easy without you." said Zhen Ping smiling.

"Young master Ye, let's hurry before other people find this place." Zhen Pao urged when he saw Ye Mo standing still with no intention of leaving.

Laughter echoed as three figures emerged from the surrounding trees, two men and an old lady.

"Why are you in a hurry to leave? Did you discover any good thing?" The muscular man with a knife scar on his face asked with a smile.

"Ah, this country bumpkins did not put us in their eyes at all, well I have been craving for fresh blood for sometime now, hopefully your blood will be enough to quench my thirst." the other man carrying a saber on his back said licking his lips evilly.

The Zhen brothers were appalled, their souls almost left their body. The Blood Drinking Bandits. Their infamous name was renowned across the towns and the smaller cities. Looking at the Zhen brothers face, Ye Mo knew they were in danger.

He asked in a low voice, "Who are they?"

"They are the Blood Drinking Bandits, they operate in the towns and even some smaller cities. They are known for stealing, killing and looting weaker cultivators of their resources. They kill at the slightest disagreement." Zhen Yu explained in a low voice.

" How many members did they have?" Ye Mo asked in a low voice.

"Three members. They are the three members." Zhen Ping answered in a low voice.

"What! Just three members! Why aren't the righteous cultivators taking action, don't tell me they are scared." Ye Mo asked baffled.

"Keep your voice down Young master Ye, don't look down on the three members, they have killed more than 500 spirit cultivators and it is said that they have a powerful backing that dither cultivators from confronting them." Zhen Ai said in a low voice.

"Are you done with your chit chat? You forgot to tell that young brat that we torture before killing.

"Back to business, where is the Soul Cleansing Fruit?" The muscular man asked.

"What is that? We've never heard of it." Zhen Ping denied quickly.

"Don't be so worked up, we know you have the Soul Cleansing Fruit, that stupid beast delayed us quite a bit, we should have gotten here earlier." the man carrying the saber smiled.

"What are you implying?" Zhen Yu asked his eyes widening slowly.

"Simple. We got the map, put the scent lurking powder on it and dropped it in the black market and here you are." the saber man explained smilingly.

The Zhen brothers were covered in cold sweat, so it was their plan all along. Zhen Pao gnashed his teeth in rage, he asked in a shivering voice, "Why did you do that? You are clearly more powerful than us, why didn't you come to take the fruit yourself?"

" Oh! We needed someone to clear the path for us, you helped us test the waters. Is there anything wrong in that? You should feel honored." the man carrying the saber laughed sinisterly.

"Where is our Soul Cleansing Fruit? You rascals." He roared.

"What's that? Your name wasn't written on it, when did it become yours?" Ye Mo asked looking at the man carrying the saber.

"Yo, this brat is quite brave. Not knowing the word death." the saber man laughed.

"What a group of shabby bandits, it is you that don't know the word death." Ye Mo retorted fearlessly.

"What a sharp tongued brat, I will disember your flesh and feed it to the dogs." laughed the saber man.

"Even the dogs won't eat your flesh, I will just dump it the streets maybe the worms might find it palatable." Ye Mo laughed.

"You.. You... Very good, you have angered me, I will make you die a painful death." The man carrying the saber said in fury.

"How dare you? Even the King of bandits don't talk fart in my presence. Who gave you the audacity?" Ye Mo roared angrily.

Fu Liehuo was startled by Ye Mo arrogance. The Zhen brothers were speechless, why would Young master Ye be arrogant? They were facing a bandit group that value no life.

Su Zhao, the muscular man watched on quietly, "Kid, where are you from?"

"Your grandfather is a kid. How dare you call me a kid! I know what you are getting at but don't worry am an orphan, I don't have any powerful background or master, feel free to do whatever you want." said Ye Mo with an evil smile on his face.

Su Zhao narrowed his eyes contemplating, he knew that the kid was telling the truth because of a cultivation technique he got by chance. But what gave the brat so much confidence to rebuke them openly.

"You have no money and background, I thought you were smart but you disappointed me. What gave you so much confidence to go against us."

"My confident comes from my fist." Ye Mo said waving his fist.

"Ha ha ha, I must add you are stupid and blind. Are you trying to compare fist? Ignorant." Fei Leihuo carrying the saber laughed.

"I can't compare my fist with yours, it will be akin to an adult bullying a child." Ye Mo with dismissing tone.

"Good, I will let you go if you kowtow thrice and chop off your one right hand." Fei Leihuo stated.

"Really! Very good. Am in a pretty good mood today, drop your belongings and kowtow thrice, I will make you die in one piece." Ye Mo said lightly.

"Ha ha ha. I'm getting to like you more. Those who said that to me are six feets below the ground." Fei Leihuo laughed his face to the sky reminiscing.

"You talk too much, let's get over with this quickly." Ye Mo said combat ready.

Fei Leihuo choked on his words, who had been doing the whole talking?

"Be careful, don't kill him yet, I want to torture him personally."

Su Zhao words snapped him out of his reverie, "Okay, Brother Su."

Ye Mo breathed in heavily, this was going to be his first kill. He had to or he will be the one getting killed. In a world where death was rampant, he had to kill or else he would be killed. His nerves relaxed, gaze became sharp. His aura changed abruptly. Su Zhao eyes widened, he looked at the other young men, when he saw their calm gaze, his instinct told him they had been fooled, he shouted, "Be careful..." but it was already too late.

The huge saber slashed down from the sky with great momentum, the saber suddenly changed trajectory sweeping to Ye Mo's leg, he wanted to chop them off.

The Zhen brothers were quite nervous on the inside, though they had seen Ye Mo killing a spirit beast in just three strikes, they were still fearful when they saw the unexpected sweeping attack.

Ye Mo jumped and pinned the saber to the ground with his feet. No matter what method he used, Fei Leihuo discovered that he couldn't move his saber, it was like a mountain was standing on his saber.

Ye Mo threw a punch at Fei Leihuo head and it burst open like a watermelon. The Zhen brothers sighed in relief, they only saw a afterimage and then an headless Fei Leihuo fell to the ground, he couldn't be deader than dead.

Fei Leihuo until his death was befuddled, all his thoughts was on how he was going to watch the young brat wail and beg for mercy but his thoughts was short-lived. It was a very painful death, just imagine the King of Hell questioning him of the reason for his demise and he put on a confused look 'what! I'm dead?'.

Ye Mo stomach churned, looking at the mess in his front, he wanted to vomit but he suppressed it quickly, it was not an option, it would be quickly discovered that it was his first time killing a human.

Ye Mo tore a piece of his cloth to wipe off the brain matter on his hand, "I told you not to compare your fist with mine but you didn't listen, now see what you've brought upon yourself. If you had kowtow thrice, your body would have been left in one piece. Sigh! The older generation is becoming more senile."

"How dare you! Your death won't be enough to pay for what you have done." Su Zhao roared.

"See another one courting death, kowtow ten times and I will leave your body in one piece." Ye Mo said shaking his head.

"Ha ha ha, you will die a miserable death " Su Zhao laughed in no hurry to take action.

"If the mouth was a weapon, I would have died countless times today, I've changed my mind, kowtow a hundred times and call me your grandfather, your body will be left in one piece " Ye Mo stated seriously.

"Su Zhao. Be careful, I can feel a dangerous aura coming from him." The ever silent old woman warned.

"Wow! Quite a keen sense you have there." Ye Mo said as he clapped his hand in approval, he had felt a sense of threat from that old woman, he wanted to deal with her last.

Su Zhao was shocked, the old lady felt a sense of danger from this brat, he surveyed the young man with a grim face, for a cultivator to give the old lady a sense of danger, they had to be as strong as him.