"The lady is finally coming down, haha! Now put your weapon down brat or we might end up hurting you… You as well little lady, I don't want to hurt you even more, Hehe!"
Seeing Chu Yang taking out his spear along with Qing Yi coming down from the tiger demon beast, the leader of the bandit group did not seem careful at all as he called out to the two of them. Focused mostly on Qing Yi as the other bandits began to slowly move closer to the two of them with their weapons in hand.
"Qing Yi-"
About to say something as he watched Qing Yi prepare to attack the group of bandits, Chu Yang quickly stopped himself and decided not to interfere.
No matter what, the fate of the bandits did not matter, and he was not eager to take away the fight that Qing Yi had clearly wanted for herself.
But will she be okay…?
Chu Yang could not help but feel a bit worried, as he had never seen Qing Yi fight with anyone other than him back in the sect and it was not easy to kill another human, Chu Yang could still remember the first time he had taken another humans life when he was escaping from the Black Rose Sect… It was not something he wanted to go through again…
And from what he had learnt about Qing Yi and her life before entering the Flying Sword Sect, Chu Yang knew that the most she had dealt with before the entrance examination, was some demon beasts raised by her family.
Nothing on the same level as another human being…
With this in mind, Chu Yang tightened his grip around his spear as he kept his eye on Qing Yi as she began walking over in the direction of the bandit groups leader. Ready to jump over and help her in case something happened.
"Hehe, want to fight me?"
Smiling creepily at Qing Yi as she walked over towards him, the leader of the bandits loosened the sword he had been carrying and made a threatening motion with his sword towards the approaching Qing Yi while the surrounding bandits laughed at the display.
Qing Yi did not pay any attention to what the bandit leader said, as she arrived in front of him.
Swish~
Before anyone around managed to react, Qing Yi swung her sword and directly killed the bandit leader.
"…"
The surrounding bandits froze on the spot and an eerie silence slowly began to fill the surroundings as they could not understand what had just happened.
Did their leader just die? And to a single attack by the petite lady they had been making fun of just a moment ago…
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"She killed leader!"
"What should we do?!"
"Let's run away! She is probably one of those powerful cultivators or something!"
"If that is the case, is it not just better for us to beg and hope she will let us live?!"
The silence was only interrupted by the sound of the bandit leaders body falling onto the ground, as the bandits that had just surrounded Qing Yi and Chu Yan began falling into chaos as they had no idea what to do.
It was only after seeing that Qing Yi did not move from her previous spot after killing the bandit leader that some of them took the opportunity to run away. Thinking that she might have decided to let them go.
Whoosh!
The rest of the bandits soon followed suit as they began escaping in all directions. Not willing to stay around Qing Yi for even a second longer, their previous thoughts about what they had planned to do, had completely disappeared as the only thought left in their mind was getting away safely.
"Hm?"
Chu Yang observing from the side was surprised at how easily Qing Yi had killed the bandit leader but felt something was wrong as she didn't move even after the other bandits had begun trying to escape.
Swoosh~
Worried that something might have happened, Chu Yang moved his spear as he went after the escaping bandits. Planning to deal with them first, so as to not leave any trouble for future travellers using the same road as them in the future.
"Argh!"
Soon the tragic cries of the escaping bandits sounded out all across the plain as they slowly feel one by one to Chu Yang's spear.
…
"D-demon!"
"Says the bandit…"
Ptch!
Piercing through the heart of the last bandit, killing him instantly, Chu Yang turned back in the direction of Qing Yi still standing in front of the bandit leader's dead body.
"Are you fine…?"
Not knowing what to say as he made it over towards Qing Yi, Chu Yang reached his hand forward to touch her shoulder, but the moment he touched her, Qing Yi's body suddenly seemed to lose all its strength as she fell towards the ground.
Whoosh!
Stepping forward to support her body, Chu Yang was surprised to find out that Qing Yi's entire body was shivering in his arms.
"You don't have to feel bad about it… Just think about what would happen if you were weaker than this bandit!"
"…"
Not saying anything after listening to Chu Yang, Qing Yi's face was still hidden as she shivered but she notably began to relax her body more.
If they were indeed weaker than the bandits, the outcome would have been terrible!
Even worse, bandits like this would normally not care about anything, like sect's, kingdoms or even empires. In the worst-case scenario, they would just tend to escape to another place if they ended up offending someone before they could find out about it…
"Sleep… Get some rest for now!"
Saying this as he watched a completely unfamiliar side of Qing Yi, Chu Yang gently patted her head as he felt her shivering slowly stop and after a few minutes a calm sound of breathing could soon be heard.
The mental stress of killing another human for the first time was simply too much for her to easily take in. Completely different from killing a demon beast who could not talk and was not really from the same race as her.
"Looks like she is asleep…"
Standing still with Qing Yi in his arms, Chu Yang for the first time ever, gently smiled at Qing Yi as he carried her over towards the tiger demon beast. Ready to leave the dozen or so bandit corpse behind.
"What in the world are you doing!?"
Roar?
The tiger demon beast that had been doing nothing this entire time, roared in a confused tone upon hearing the surprised voice before turning to look over at Chu Yang caring Qing Yi in his arms. Not understanding why Chu Yang had called out in such a surprised tone.
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A well chewed through human leg from one of the now dead bandits fell out of the tiger demon beast's mouth in the process of turning around. Landing only a few centimeters away from Chu Yang.
"Spit that out! And did those beast tamers not teach their demon beasts not to eat humans!? Perhaps this tiger demon beast was just recently captured or something…?"
Listening to what Chu Yang said, the tiger demon beast understood absolutely nothing.
The only thing it picked up on, was the fact that the human did not like it eating the other humans on the ground.
Gulp!
So, with no time to spare, the tiger demon beast swallowed what it had left in its mouth. Not forgetting to quickly swoop up the leg that fell out of its mouth earlier and swallow it together with the rest before innocently looking over at Chu Yang.
"Hah… I will have to tell those beast tamers about this after getting back to the sect so they can correct this behaviour…"
Shaking his head as he realized the demon beast in front of him did not understand a single word he had just said, Chu Yang decided not to pay any mind to it and just remembered to inform the beast tamers about this when he and Qing Yi returned to the Flying Sword Sect.
After all, tamed demon beasts eating humans was a no go and would need to be fixed immediately!
What would the beast tamers do if the demon beasts back in the Flying Sword Sect suddenly felt a bit hungry and decided that the disciples taking care of them looked like quite a delicious snack…?
To be honest, Chu Yang did not even know why the beast tamers would even allow such a demon beast to go out…
Back when they had visited the Stable for a demon beast, they had clearly told them that they were disciples of Elder Xuan… Could it be that the Beast Tamers had just made a mistake…?
"No use thinking about it for now…"
Muttering this to himself as he looked down on Qing Yi's beautiful sleeping face, Chu Yang soon got back onto the tiger demon beast while making sure that Qing Yi was laying comfortably.
"Go!"
Roar!
Ordering the tiger demon beast, Chu Yang and the sleeping Qing Yi officially entered the territory of the River Sect!