Exploring the forest 3

"What the heck..."

Zach was amazed after using his spirit sence.

"Spirit qi gathering realm!"

There were thirty bandits, with four of them at the low stage of spirit qi gathering realm and two of them at the mid stage of spirit qi gathering realm and the one with the highest cultivation,was at the low stage of foundation establishment realm.

From his luxurious clothes and several jewelry adorning his body,he appeared to be the leader. The rest of the bandits were at the body forging realm.

"Big brother, tonight we are going to have a feast..."

One of the bandit guarding the rear said to his companion.

"Yeah...."

"Just look at all these beauties..."

His companion said as he spanked the woman in front of him,struggling with a large bundle of spoils.

The woman flinged ,she did not make any sound as it would only invite more spanking and groping from the two bandits. Something they derived pleasure of.

Zach could not hold back anymore and let loose of his cultivation,his aura was fueled by his rage.

Both the bandits and the captives were assaulted by an oppressive aura,that sent everyone stumbling on their knees,only the bandit's leader managed to with stand the aura.

The six bandits at spirit qi gathering realm had a hard time to.

"Who are you..."

The bandit leader inquired as he activated his spirit sence before unsheathing his sword,ready to battle,but when he senced Zach's cultivation,he had second doubts.

To him,a lone cultivator in the middle of nowhere was a bad omen,as most of the lone cultivators he had met could fight above heir stage,and here was one,a stage above him.

The bandit leader's mind was on overdrive, trying to find a solution out of this mess. He knew well that he could not depend on their advantage in numbers due to huge gap in individual strength and him fighting against the Zach's was out of the equation.

Zach was about to attack when the bandit leader pulled out a book from his satchel and threw it at Zach.

"That's one of the Mamba bandits cultivation manual,Black Serpent Rebirth..."

Zach halted his approach as he caught the manual...

"Huh..."

"And here I was worried about cultivation manuals for the guards..."

He used his spirit sence to read it before storing it in one of his satchels.

"Thank you for the manual..."

Zach said with a sincere tone.

"I shall treasure this little gift,as for you..."

Swish...

Zach shot out at an incredible speed, a horizontal upper slash cleaved the body of the bandit leader into two equal halves. The man did not even have time to defend.

Shaking his iron sword to get lid of the blood,Zach turned towards the five spirit qi gathering realm bandits. The five fell on their knees,know towing towards Zach.

"Kindly show mercy and spare us senior..."

"We promise to serve you senior till our lifeline burns out..."

The bandits pleaded for a minute as Zach wondered on what to do with then. It was at this moment that he recalled the words of the bandit leader.

The cultivation manual, Black Serpent Rebirth,was one of the Mamba Bandits cultivation manuals. Implying on two things. One,there was at least one or more cultivation manuals among the Mamba Bandits,and second,Mamba Bandits had more members than the ones present here.

"How many members does your group have...?"

Zach inquired from one of the mid stage spirit qi gathering realm bandits.

The man spoke out of hear,he did not want to end like their captain.

"There are five captains of the Mamba Bandits,each of them at the foundation establishment realm, with our captain..."

The bandit paused as he peaked at the bloody remains of his captain...

"Our captain was the weakest among the five,the other four are at the mid stage of foundation establishment realm,as for the chief,he is at the peak stage of foundation establishment realm...."

Zach kept a straight face,but mentally,he was raffled by the bandits. It took him a couple of seconds to compose his thoughts.

"So powerful..."

Zach thought as he looked at the bandits....

"How many spirit qi gathering realm bandits are there,and how many cultivation manuals are in the possession of your group?"

The bandit was quite for a minute,he seemed to be deep in thoughts,

"There are about two hundred bandits,thirty at different stages of the spirit qi gathering realm and six at different stages of the foundation establishment realm..."

The bandit paused as he recalled that his captain was out of the equation...

"Five,our captain was the sixth..."

"As for the manuals,all I know is that each captain is in possession of one,as for the real number..."

The stopped midway as he was taken back by the frightening grin on Zach's face.

"Hahaha..."

"Four more cultivation manuals...."

"I must get them and all their cultivation resources..."

"There all mine..."

"Hahaha...!"

Dark Zach traveled his face,and it took Zach a minute to suppress this side of his. Heavens knew that he was in need of cultivation manuals and resources for his guards,as well as those he chose to nurture, currently that list only had two people in it,Timothy and the herbalist.

"Where's your lair?"

His voice was filled with greed and expectation,by now,he had retreived his spirit sence,as he was not afraid of the bandits acting against their captives. The fear and dread in their eyes was evident,they had even dropped their weapons,and some quick headed captives had already bonded them in ropes.

Zach could read only relief and adoration from the captive faces. When the bandits had attacked,all hope had been lost only to be restored after Zach swooped in and saved them.

"It's located in a clearing two days from here..."

Zach dejectedly sighed,as the bandits lair was outside the two kilometer boundary,just like the a hundred year old oak tree.

"Good thing is that I know have the numbers to upgrade the camp..."

Zach thought as he looked at the captives,there were a hundred and fifty-six of them. Since their settlement was destroyed,he was going to take them all in his camp.

"Now that I have the numbers,all I need are the structures and the cultivation resources for my guards..."

"Thankfully,the bandits will be of use..."

Since there were five spirit qi gathering realm bandits,he planned on using them to help in the construction of his camb,as they were cable of doing thrice the a amount of work as compared to mortals,which would help speed up the development of the camp.