The Red Scorpion

On the fourth day that Fang An and Xiao Chen were in this city, the storm had started to die down. Even though it was still raining heavily, there was no longer any thunder.

Usually when the storm passes, everyone will be filled with joy because they can go back to their normal activities, but the residents of this city are sad and feel threatened.

For the past few days a storm has protected them from the arrival of the Red Scorpions who intend to take their girls and kill all of them that remain. Not a single citizen could rest easy in the face of the trouble that came, the remaining city guards also felt lethargic because they felt that their lives would not last much longer.

"Chen'er, when the Red Scorpion group comes, I want you to stay in this inn." Fang An said as the two of them were eating lunch together.

Xiao Chen shook his head, "Master, this disciple can be of use and help Master finish off the petty robbers. Master can save energy to face their leaders."

Fang An didn't want Xiao Chen to be involved in danger but Xiao Chen reminded him again that even the 100 year old demon did not frighten him moreover only the robbers whose skills were first class warriors and below.

"Come to think of it, Chen'er didn't even flinch when faced with the killers of the Flower of Sin…" Fang An realized that sooner or later Xiao Chen would be involved in many bloody battles as a person living in the martial world but still for Fang An, Xiao Chen is still so young.

Others could think Xiao Chen was 12 or 13 years old but Fang An found out that Xiao Chen was still 8 years old. An 8 year old child with blood on his hands is not a good thing.

Fang An believed that even in the black sect, even a child of Xiao Chen's age who had killed one could definitely be counted on one's fingers and one who had killed as many as Xiao Chen would not be found.

"Master doesn't need to worry, even if disciple kills from a young age, disciple will never forget the disciple's roots of the white school and all of Master's teachings…" Xiao Chen could understand Fang An's concern, he himself would have thought the same thing if he was in Fang An's position. .

Xiao Chen was able to act like this because he had the mentality of being over 90 years old. Xiao Chen was sure that an ordinary human wouldn't be able to kill him at the age of 8.

Fang An had one other worry, namely that Xiao Chen would accumulate a large amount of killing aura if he continued to act this way. When that happened, people would look down on Xiao Chen and Fang An didn't want that.

If someone from the white sect had too strong a killing aura, they would be hard to accept and would often be discriminated against by fellow white cultivators.

Not all warriors wanted killing aura because of that there was a way to reduce the killing aura enveloping the body. Fang An also used this method, during the more than a year he had been in the Valley of the Hundred Swords to teach Xiao Chen, his killing aura had diminished a lot.

"Chen'er has the soul of a wanderer and seems like he doesn't care about the killing aura surrounding him, moreover he has learned to hide the killing aura at such a young age…" Fang An thought.

The technique to hide the murderous aura was more difficult to master than the method of eroding the aura. Seeing that Xiao Chen chose to hide and not reduce the aura, Fang An judged that his disciple had indeed gathered the aura.

Killing aura did have some beneficial uses, one of which was to frighten opponents even if one's killing aura reached a terrifying level it was not impossible to make a mentally weak person lose consciousness just by relying on that killing aura.

"Chen'er, as much as possible there's no need to kill these robbers, you just cripple them and we'll hand them over to the authorities later." Fang An ordered.

Xiao Chen nodded slowly but didn't plan to let any of the robbers he would fight against survive. Fang An's guess was correct, Xiao Chen intended to hone his killing aura because in his previous life he had personally experienced the usefulness of killing aura in battle.

On the other hand, Xiao Chen had no confidence in the authorities. He didn't want to risk letting these robbers live and loose later. Xiao Chen felt that when they were free to return, it was unlikely that these robbers would change their way of life therefore it would be better to finish them off and reduce future trouble.

In the middle of their conversation, the innkeeper's woman suddenly approached, "Master Warrior! They have come!"

Fang An didn't expect the Red Scorpion Group to come now even though the weather conditions were still relatively bad, traveling under these circumstances must have drained their stamina.

"These robbers are overly confident…" Xiao Chen shook his head realizing the same thing.

Fang An and Xiao Chen both returned to their rooms to retrieve weapons before heading towards the city gates.

At the city gate, around twenty guards were seen gathering with weapons and full armor, there were also dozens of residents carrying makeshift weapons. They were no longer able to fulfill the demands of the Red Scorpion Group, thinking that the robbers would kill them too in the end, the villagers chose to fight back.

Fang An and Xiao Chen's arrival caught the attention of the villagers and guards, one of the guards recognized the two.

"If you guys want to leave the city now it's too late, in a few minutes the band of robbers will arrive in this city and won't let anyone off the hook." The guard said to Fang An.

"We came here to help deal with these robbers, do you know their number?" asked Fang An.

When Fang An said he wanted to help, the guards realized Fang An had a sword with him. Getting help from a swordsman wasn't bad so the guard answered Fang An's question.

The guards had seen the movements of the Red Scorpion group from a distance using binoculars, they had come on horseback. The number of robbers is about 100 to 150 people. The speed of their journey is not too fast due to the ground which is still stagnant water and heavy rain.

Fang An immediately directed the guards to form a formation, they would block the robbers at the entrance. Taking on all the raiders at once will be difficult but as long as you are taken on gradually, the number of enemies shouldn't be a problem.

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