Summoning Card Talisman

"Stay here," Yu Qingyan ordered Little Spring as she pushed open the carriage door, her elegant robes billowing as she stepped out.

Her spiritual energy flared faintly, a subtle warning to whoever dared to interrupt their journey.

In front of the carriage stood a group of scantily clad men, holding odd weapons such as scythes, sickles, and axes. No matter how she looked at it, these were nothing more than bandits.

Yu Qingyan's sharp gaze swept over the ragtag group of bandits. Their weapons were crude but there was a look of desperation in them, it was as if they had been driven to do this for survival.

She recalled a report from their Pavilion's sentinel regarding the bandit hideouts within the Abyssal Forest.

They're the ones holed up inside it who were ambushing merchant caravans or anyone they could rob on the nearby road.

With the recent activity within the forest, they must've been driven out and resorted to this.