Chapter 10: Chapter 10 South Mountain_1

This time, three choices were prested directly in front of Chu Yuan.

The first choice was to let the bandits continue to grow. This is impossible, for it would undermine the majesty of the Emperor. It could stir up public stimt and ev result in the loss of reverce for the imperial authority.

The second choice was to sd the Forbidd Army to annihilate them, a seemingly good choice, where Chu Yuan would just wait in the palace for news from the Forbidd Army.

However, the third choice got Chu Yuan thinking deeply. To personally eliminate the bandits would be dangerous, but great rewards come with great risks.

"This outbreak of banditry..."

Chu Yuan tapped his fingers on his desk, saying, "Should I let the Forbidd Army handle it? But I trust myself more."

"Ding! The host has chos option three and has gained one hundred Destiny Points."

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The Southern Mountain located a hundred miles outside the Imperial City, with a continuous range and miasma all a, is riddled with snakes, rodts, and ants.

There are steep mountains everywhere, so ev masters in the Original Spirit Realm who can fly would find it difficult to cross the Southern Mountain.

Before the establishmt of the Great Wu Dynasty, there were many bandits within the Southern Mountain. However, wh the Great Wu Dynasty was founded, the first Emperor led the God-martial Army to wipe them out, and there has not be any in decades.

"Southern Mountain!"

Chu Yuan arrived at the Southern Mountain and looked at the mountain ranges shrouded in mist.

There were no main roads to the Southern Mountain, only rugged trails.

Wh Chu Yuan tered, the strong smell of blood wafted with the wind, and from time to time, he could see corpses on the mountain.

These corpses were dressed in common clothes and not highly skilled, mostly at the body-nurturing and channel-oping levels. They were probably hunters, killed by bandits and discarded here.

The Southern Mountain housed many beasts. Some small villages were stationed here, but the arrival of these fierce bandits brought massacre to many villages, which were left deserted and in ruins.

"All those who dare to cause trouble under the foot of my Great Wu Imperial City must be eradicated!"

Chu Yuan looked at the second seal on his Emperor's Sword.

(695 million/ billion)

Previously, the Emperor's Sword was still short of 300 million people's aspirations, but now it was still short of several ts of thousands.

"The willingness of all beings fluctuates, any rebellion or death will correspondingly reduce the willingness," the system reminded.

Chu Yuan understood that those who became bandits or established themselves as kings would no longer belong to the Great Wu Dynasty and would no longer provide the willingness of all beings.

"Yo! Another one's coming up the mountain. And a young lad at that, does he want to eliminate bandits too? Watch me take his head and hang it atop the mountain stronghold. This Southern Mountain is our territory now!"

Chu Yuan's eyes were icy, and the Sword of the Human Emperor slashed out a sword light ts of meters long, cutting through Scorpion and the t-odd bandits at the waist in a sweep.

"Ding! Host completed Option One, earned a hundred Destiny Points."

After killing these bandits, Chu Yuan whooshed a few ts of meters away in a flash, traversing rocky mountain path as if it was flat g, unaffected in the least.

His Emperor's Sword at his waist let out a resonant hum. This was a unique attribute of the Sword of the Human Emperor, capable of ssing the breath of human beings.

Guided by this sse, Chu Yuan arrived deep into Southern Mountain within half an hour.

"Such a strong smell of blood."

Chu Yuan frowned. This smell of blood had grown so thick that it became tangible, refusing to dissipate.

Following this sct of blood, he searched through it, suddly seeing a grand pit under a cliff, where lay numerous bodies stripped of armor, stacked together haphazardly.

From the traces left by these corpses, Chu Yuan recognized them as garrison soldiers!

In addition to the Divine Abilities Army and the Martial Guard, Dawu also had a million-strong Forbidd Army stationed in the Imperial City, the Border Army guarding the borders, and the garrison and provincial forces within each prefecture.

These are the garrison soldiers from Wudu.

Wudu is the capital of Dawu.

Although the garrison soldiers didn't possess the combat power of the Forbidd Army, several thousand of them form a battalion. That they were all killed by a group of bandits was practically an impossible feat.

"No wonder the Prefect of Wudu had to report the situation, requesting the Forbidd Army to take action. The death of a thousand garrison soldiers is indeed not the work of ordinary bandits."

Chu Yuan smirked.

The original spirit realm could control a battalion, and a battalion of garrison soldiers usually had several masters of the original spirit realm.

How can so many experts suddly appear?

Capable of wiping out an tire battalion of garrison soldiers.

He moved with agility, leaping among the mountains, with the Sword of the Human Emperor at his side, Chu Yuan could sse the location with the dsest human qi. Suddly, he stopped in a dse forest, catching sight of what lay ahead.

Ahead, three large mountains clustered together to form a hidd giant pit, with only a narrow trance, making it easy to defd and hard to attack.

Inside that pit, Chu Yuan saw at least a few thousand m through his Thunder Eye, all clad in armor. The aura they emitted wasn't that of mountain bandits, instead seeming more like a trained army stationed there.

[Option One: Turn a and leave. The situation is unclear, and a well-trained army is definitely not something one person can deal with. Earn a hundred Destiny Points.]

[Option Two: Quietly note down the location, return and call for troops and gerals. Earn a hundred Destiny Points.]

[Option Three: The hero goes solitary. March right in alone to avge the one thousand garrison soldiers and uncover the truth about these bandits. Earn a hundred Destiny Points.]