Chapter 71: Subdue

"Brother, look at her body. She's definitely a top beauty!" One bandit shouted as he swung his blade at Yun Qianxue, causing the latter to retreat nonstop.

"Everyone, work hard! We will have a good time tonight!" Another bandit yelled excitedly. His eyes were glued on Yun Qianxue's seductive curves, unable to move away.

Yun Qianxue kept avoiding all the incoming attacks and occasionally fought back. Without discussing beforehand, Yun Qianxue still knew Yun Lintian's thoughts and played along with his plan. Otherwise, these vulgar men would've been reduced to pieces already just by looking at her with that lecherous gaze.

Sun Qiang observed the situation for a while before he concluded — these two didn't have other companions. He rushed forward, locking on Yun Lintian. His aura surged, and a flame lit on his long, sharp blade.

Yun Lintian saw Sun Qiang coming for him, but he still didn't change his routine as he continued to act. He waited for the right moment to catch Sun Qiang off guard.

Sun Qiang was relatively strong compared to other bandits. He had strength at the ninth level of Essence Profound Realm, only below Wu Zuo, the first level of Spirit Profound Realm. 

With Yun Lintian's current strength, he could fight Sun Qiang head-on, but in the premise, Sun Qiang didn't have any forbidden spell.

"Die! Thousand Blades of Flame!" Sun Qiang shouted and brandished his flame sword at Yun Lintian. The flame blade in his hand produced a thousand flame blade shadows, charging at the target.

Despite facing the scorching heat radiated from Sun Qiang's blade, Yun Lintian could feel a warm breeze instead. He was puzzled slightly but understood it was related to his Profound Vein and The Sun.

Yun Lintian executed a newly learned movement technique, 'Shadow Step' from the Shadow God Scripture. Instantaneously, his figure blurred into a black mist and disappeared on the spot, causing Sun Qiang's blade shadows to miss the target.

Boom!

Sun Qiang's flame blade struck on the ground, instantly vaporized the surrounding snow into white mist. At this moment, he knew he had messed up. Yun Lintian had clearly baited him into action. He hid his strength for all this time!

Roar!

Before he could put up a defense, Sun Qiang heard a majestic dragon roar behind him as he felt a tremendous force struck on his back.

Puff!

Blood splashed over the place. Sun Qiang saw a virtual blue dragon passed through his body, and that was the last scene he saw before his consciousness faded away completely. A large hole could be seen in his chest. All of his internal organs were wholly devoured by Yun Lintian's Dragon Fist.

"B… Brother Sun!" The surrounding bandits had an unbelievable look as they stared at Sun Qiang's corpse. Fear crept into their hearts, making them shiver uncontrollably.

"Argh!" When they were stunned by the fall of Sun Qiang, a misery scream rang out on the side, bringing them back to their sense. 

When they turned to look in the sound's direction, and their faces turned ghastly paled as they saw Yun Qianxue beheaded her opponents one by one effortlessly. Only at this moment did they realize they had been toyed with all along.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

Whoever Yun Qianxue pointed her finger at, their head was instantly pierced by a deep blue light shot out from her finger. Compared to the past, Yun Qianxue's current strength was ten times higher. Even when she was in the tenth level of Essence Profound Realm back then, it could not compare to her current sixth level at all.

Yun Lintian seized this chance to make a move while the bandits were panicked. With their hearts occupied by overwhelming fear, the bandits could not fight back properly and were killed by Yun Lintian with little effort.

Five minutes later, not a single bandit was left behind. All the captive women looked at Yun Qianxue and Yun Lintian in awe. When they came back to their sense, they started crying and knelt on the ground, expressing their gratitude toward Yun Lintian and Yun Qianxue endlessly.

"Get up. Don't do this. Take care of the children first." Yun Lintian quickly set up a fireplace, taking out food and hot water for them.

Yun Qianxue looked at the scene without saying anything. She was accustomed to this kind of event since she was young. Being a woman in this cruel world was considered a misfortune, especially with a beautiful appearance. If they didn't have the strength to protect themselves or were born with a weak background, their lives would be misery.

Bang!

Suddenly, Wu Zuo's body fell from the sky and landed beside Yun Qianxue, causing the captive women and children to shudder in fright.

Yun Huanxin descended on the group and kicked Wu Zuo, who was barely alive, toward Yun Lintian and said plainly, "He's yours."

Yun Lintian looked at Wu Zuo's miserable appearance. He immediately understood why it took Yun Huanxin so long to come back. It turned out she was busied torturing Wu Zuo for all this time.

"S… spare me." Wu Zuo uttered weakly. Earlier, he was sleeping peacefully under the warm quilt. Who would have thought there was a woman who suddenly appeared out of nowhere and tortured him without giving him a chance to say anything.

Yun Lintian used his feet to flip Wu Zuo's body. He stared into the latter's eyes and said, "I have a question for you. If your answer can satisfy me, I will spare you."

Wu Zuo tried his best to nod his head, but his injury was too severe. He could only let out a low hum in reply.

"When did you discover the abnormally on the crops?" Yun Lintian asked.

Wu Zuo struggled to answer, but he could not say it out because of the injury. Yun Lintian looked at Yun Huanxin with a helpless expression, and the latter shrugged with an innocent expression as though she did nothing.

Yun Lintian had no choice but to give Wu Zuo a healing pill. After a while, Wu Zuo had recovered a bit. He glanced at Yun Lintian, Yun Qianxue, and Yun Huanxin, trying to figure out their identities.

Yun Lintian slapped Wu Zuo's face and said coldly, "You don't have to waste your brain thinking. You will never know our identities. Just answer my question."

Wu Zuo wiped a trace of blood from his mouth and replied, "It happened around two months ago along with the first snow. I don't know what happened exactly, but all the crops wilted immediately upon coming into contact with the snow." He took a deep breath and continued, "It's not limited to this place. It happened everywhere around the Sky Fall Nation."