Chapter 788.
The Sacred Ancestor walks the path.
A procession of hundreds of people traveled through the long tunnels, swords and bows at their sides, carts and horses sparkling.
“Up the heavenly ladder!”
Lu Qi, who walked at the front of the group, was the first to step out of the tunnel, and looking at the traveling path circling up ahead, this middle-aged man with dark and rough skin let out a low roar.
As a veteran guide, he had led the caravan on this road for dozens of trips back and forth.
However, every time he passed by this heavenly staircase, he would be wary and careful.
For thousands of years, the Sacred Ancestor’s Path had continued to expand, extending into countless branching forks.
And the underground world wasn’t just dirt and rocks, there existed a large number of dark rivers, underground caves, caves and even underground canyons!
In the process of opening up the Sacred Ancestor’s Path, one would always encounter these dark rivers and grottoes, some could be bypassed, some could only be forcibly opened.
This was the case with the heavenly ladder in front.
This heavenly ladder was circling and twisting, with a length of more than ten miles, and the road was narrow and rugged, quite bad.
Most importantly, once the caravan encountered an attack on the heavenly ladder, it would definitely be caught in a dilemma, with the possibility of the entire army being wiped out.
The destination of Lu Qi’s caravan was Red Cliff City, and recently, the area around Red Cliff City had frequent activities of roving bandits, and it was said that a caravan had encountered an attack and suffered heavy losses.
According to Lu Qi’s own idea, he should not go to the dangerous area before he was sure that the bandits had been eliminated.
However, his proprietor was bent on having his way and insisted on sending the shipment there.
Lu Qi knew very well that his proprietor would not take such a risk without a high profit.
And there was nothing he could do about it, he had signed the contract and had to follow the arrangement, risking his own life to make the trip.
In order to be safe, before arriving at the heavenly ladder, he asked the leader of the caravan to send two hunters to act as scouts to scout the way ahead.
Once they found danger, they could give timely warning.
As the road was difficult to travel and the group was stretched out, Lu Qi was worried that the carriages behind him would not be able to keep up, so he slowed down his speed.
Just at this time, he suddenly had a strong feeling of heart palpitations.
Lu Qi subconsciously opened his eyes wide and saw a nicker of black shadows appearing in front of him at an unknown time.
There is danger!
This guide opened his mouth and was about to shout, but as a result, a feathered arrow suddenly broke through the air and instantly pierced through his head.
Plop!
Lu Qi fell backwards to the ground.
Before his consciousness was completely plunged into darkness, he was still very puzzled – what did the hunter scouts do?
More arrows came one after another.
Swish swish swish!
“Roving bandits, roving bandits are coming!”
The group on the heavenly ladder was in chaos, some people were hit by arrows and let out mournful screams, some people retreated and dodged in terror, and some people roared forward and tried to launch counterattacks against the sneak attackers.
One of the martial artists was extremely athletic, as he nimbly dodged the incoming arrows and quickly approached the attackers with his long sword in hand.
However, amongst the bandits blocking the caravan, a big man rushed out and wielded his sword to intercept the martial artist.
Between the flashes of lightning and fire, the two men exchanged several rounds of combat, their swords and shadows intense.
However, there was clearly a large gap in strength between the two sides, as the pugilistic man chopped off the merchant martial artist’s longsword in three or two moves, followed by a slash to the other party’s head.
He probed his hand and grabbed the bloody head, yelling towards the still resisting merchant team, “We want wealth and not life, those who surrender will be spared from death, those who are stubborn will be killed without pardon!”
The pugilistic man’s voice was extremely loud, shaking the surrounding mountain walls and dropping quite a lot of rubble and dust.
At the same time, a group of figures wearing black power suits and holding bows appeared behind him, greatly strengthening his deterrent effect.
The merchant team’s side looked at each other in dismay, and many of them put down the weapons in their hands, their will to resist greatly weakened.
It wasn’t that they were weak and incompetent, but the leader of the roving bandits was simply too powerful, the head that was grasped in his hands was none other than the leader of the merchant team, who was also the strongest martial artist in the entire team.
As a result, he was beheaded by the leader of the bandits in three or two blows, so how could they be a match!
Moreover, although the number of the bandits is not large, but everyone is elite and heavily armed, if they fight on, it is also the merchant team’s side that will lose.
Once the bandits were completely enraged by the casualties, who would survive?
Thinking of such a tragic consequence, the leaderless merchant guards dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground.
“Count yourselves sensible!”
The pugnacious man dropped the head in his hand and laughed loudly, “Little ones, let’s open the banquet!”
“Here!”
The group of bandits responded with a roar.
They went forward and kicked the guards’ weapons that were thrown on the ground off the ladder, ordered the wagon drivers in the caravan to reorganize their ranks, and then began to capture the brigands who were following behind.
These travelers followed the caravan for safety reasons, and now that the caravan was finished, they could not be spared, and were forcibly robbed of their belongings by the vicious roving bandits.
There were also people who resisted with indignation, and they were hacked to death on the spot.
With the bloody example, the rest of the people were even more afraid to resist.
“Hahaha!”
Suddenly a roving bandit laughed maniacally, “Boss, look what I found, a female dame!”
This roving bandit had just smashed open the carriage of a wagon, and then grabbed out a delicate woman like a chicken.
“Help!”
The woman struggled desperately with tears streaming down her face.
The next moment, a young man emerged from the carriage and cried out sadly, “Let go of ……”
Click!
The roving bandits swung their swords and cut off his head.
The woman’s pretty eyes widened and she fainted on the spot.
Liu Kou hemmed and hawed and carried her and ran to the front of the pugilistic man, “Boss, you enjoy it first.”
The pugilistic man laughed, “Count yourself smart.”
He nonchalantly grabbed the unconscious woman and threw her onto a nearby rock before unzipping his own pants.
Surprisingly, he wanted to act in public!
The merchant brigands who witnessed this scene all turned their heads and pretended not to see it even though they couldn’t bear to witness it.
Shoo!
Seeing that the shameless scene was about to happen, suddenly an arrow shot lightning fast.
The target was the big man!
The leader of the roving thieves was also outstanding, in the lustful situation even maintained a few points of vigilance, he instinctively sensed the danger and immediately made a move to dodge.
Poof!
The arrow hit the pugilist’s right shoulder squarely, surprisingly piercing right through, creating a fist-sized wound.
Crimson blood spurted out furiously.
“Ah!”
The leader of the roving bandits couldn’t help but let out an agonizing howl, only to have the second arrow follow right behind him, piercing through his throat!
The screams came to an abrupt end, also causing the roving bandits present to be stupefied.
“Enemy attack!”
A roving bandit reacted and shouted with a tearful voice, “Quickly ……”
Plop!
He was shot through the head with an arrow, the arrowhead going in through the left eye and bringing a spray of blood through the back of his head!
The roving bandits were in chaos.
They scattered in fear and fled for cover, hiding behind the wagons, just like the merchants and travelers just now!