I Am Immortal In The Cultivation World novel Chapter 31

Chapter 31 Northern Frontier City

In the dense forest. Countless mountain bandits hid secretly and stared coldly at the prisoner carriage below.

Woo-chirp

A rather rhythmic bird cry sounded. The bandit’s eyes flashed with bloodlust as he darted out from behind the rocks, underbrush, and trees.

“Brother, lend me some clothes.”

A voice sounded behind a mountain bandit. Before he could turn around, he fell silent.

Zhou Yi changed his clothes and circulated his Dharmic powers to use the Bone Changing Technique. After changing his face shape, he used a disguise technique and looked 70-80% similar to the dead mountain bandit.

At this moment

The imperial guards on the mountain path had already noticed something strange.

When the commander of the imperial guards, Yang Shou, saw the birds in the mountains flying away in shock, he waved his hand to signal for the army to stop and ordered the scouts to scout the mountains.

After waiting for a long time without seeing any scouts return, he had determined that there was an ambush in the mountains.

“Form up and face the enemy!”

Yang Shou led the elite imperial guards and quickly gathered the prisoner carriages, setting up a circular formation to await orders.

“Hahaha! Heavens above! I am the protector of the Heavenly King. Today, I will kill all of Butcher Li’s clansmen and sacrifice them to the Heavenly King!”

Deafening laughter rang out. Then dozens of boulders flew from the mountain and rained down on the army.

“A catapult!” Yang Shou exclaimed. Before he could evacuate the army, the huge rock had already fallen on his head.

The boulders that were thrown down from the mountain were so powerful that no one could withstand them. They smashed into the crowd and screams rang out. After three or four consecutive rounds of boulders, the imperial guards’ formation was broken up.

“Kill! Kill…”

On both sides of the mountain, there were at least thousands of people.

Yang Shou shouted, “Line up, line up!”

The imperial guards barely managed to regroup. Arrows rained down on them as they suffered heavy casualties.

“Kill the enemy!”

Despair flashed across Yang Shou’s eyes. He was not afraid of the number of enemies, but he had other guesses. There were at least a dozen catapults and organized archers. How could mountain bandits or rebels afford to raise them? The other party was clearly using their background as a pretext.

The moment the imperial guards and the mountain bandits clashed, they sensed something amiss. The elite imperial guards trained every day, but their strength was no match for the bandits.

After Yang Shou killed a few bandits with his spear, he could see even more clearly on the horse that the imperial guards were already retreating

“I can’t die like this!”

The commander had already thought of retreating. How could his soldiers fight to the death? It was unknown if they were doing it on purpose or if they had forgotten, but there were no bandits blocking the way. Therefore, after Yang Shou took the lead to escape, the imperial guards fled in all directions.

The bandits’ target was the prisoner carriages. They did not chase after the imperial guards and slaughtered the prisoners with their weapons.

The Li family members in the prisoner carriages were shackled and could not resist at all. They could only watch helplessly as they were slaughtered.

In the forest.

Zhou Yi carried the young Li Hong and stood on a branch.

“Time to go. We’ll check the corpses later. Maybe we’ll find something unusual.”

While the imperial guards were fighting with the bandits, Zhou Yi took advantage of the chaos to rescue Li Hong and left a bandit with a similar figure and a broken face on the prison cart.

“Senior, wait a moment. I want to see my clansmen die with my own eyes so that I can remember this hatred even deeper!”

Li Hong did not cry or grieve. He listened to his mother, brothers, and loved ones scream and die under the knives of the bandits.

A moment later.

The clansmen of the Li family were all dead. The bandits opened the prison carriages and displayed the corpses one by one.