Chapter 6: Bandit Army

  In the dark and mysterious secret chamber, Lin Xiao didn't know how long he had been here.

  Lin Shan's cultivation was far superior to his, and the acupoint that had been struck still hadn't fully recovered even now. As soon as Lin Xiao felt he could mobilize his true energy again, he hastily began circulating it to force open the blockage, wanting to quickly unblock the acupoint and recover his ability to move.

  I don't know how much time has passed, I don't know what the outside world has become, I don't know if Lin Shan and the others at Hui Chun Tang are still alive. All sorts of worries make Lin Xiao's heart feel like it's being fried in oil, he almost fainted several times from a surge of blood to the head. Fortunately, when Lin Shan pressed his acupoints, she also took this into consideration, and several acupoints just happened to control Lin Xiao's blood and energy, so even if he was anxious, he could only sit here quietly and clearly, lost in thought.

  The stubborn Longqing true energy continuously impacted those few sealed acupuncture points, and finally, Lin Xiao vaguely heard a few extremely faint sounds transmitted from within his body. His body was now able to move again.

  "Father!" Lin Xiao immediately let out a sharp cry and stumbled towards the direction of the secret passage.

  He had been sitting for a long time, and his blood circulation was extremely poor. As soon as he took a step forward, he fell to the ground with a thud. After rolling over several times, he still couldn't get up.

  "No rush, no rush. Father's divine power is unparalleled, and it will definitely not be inferior." Lin Xiao constantly reminded himself not to be impatient, he slowly mobilized his true energy, slowly unblocking his blood vessels, slowly restoring his body's flexibility and vitality, and only then slowly stood up. Taking a deep breath, feeling the unobstructed flow of true energy, Lin Xiao quickly rushed out of the secret library.

  The secret passage opened, and Lin Xiao jumped up more than two zhang high, lightly landing on that patch of black toxic soil. As soon as he jumped out of the ground, he sensed it - the atmosphere around him was off.

  As he glanced around, Lin Xiao couldn't help but feel a pang of distress in his heart. In the backyard of Hui Chun Tang, there were rows and rows of burly men wearing crimson clothes, each one staring at him with fierce eyes.

  Among them, there were eighteen burly men wearing crimson armor, surrounding a taishi chair. On the chair sat a man over eight feet tall, also clad in crimson armor, exuding an aura of majesty and authority that seemed to expand in all directions. At his feet was inserted a massive three-pointed two-edged knife with a hilt as thick as a small bowl. The entire blade was forged from a strange blood-colored metal. Lin Xiao merely glanced at the knife once before feeling a sharp pain in his eyes, prompting him to hastily turn away.

  "Hmm, a little cub!" The burly man slowly spat out a fruit pit from his mouth and said in a deep voice: "Damn it, I've been waiting for two days and two nights, thinking there's something good underground. Turns out it's just a little cub that hasn't even grown all its fur! Blood Thirteen, go take a look, what's inside that hole."

  A burly man with a thick beard walked out from behind the eighteen robust men wearing crimson armor, and approached the edge of the black soil. He furrowed his brow, gazed at the shiny black mud, and carefully sprang into action, jumping into the secret passage. Lin Xiao tightly pursed his lips, watching as the giant man's massive body descended into the passage like a cotton ball, without making a single sound.

  After a while, Blood Thirteen jumped out again, panting, and shouted loudly: "Kui Shou, not even one fart!"

  The bearded big man shook his head, very dissatisfied and said: "Not a single fart? Then, can only use this little doll to top the jar. You, are you from Hui Chun Tang?"

  Lin Xiao clenched his teeth and stared at the burly man with a curly beard, saying nothing.

  A burly man with a thick beard furrowed his brow, then suddenly slapped his thigh and burst out laughing: "Haha! I get it now, kid. Don't worry, I'm not the Black Blade who slaughtered your people in Guihua City. I am the 'Overlord', have you heard of my name? In the past three years, within a radius of over 2,000 miles, shouldn't my reputation be well-known? Overlord, Overlord, haven't you ever heard of me?"

  Ba Wang Ling Ba Tian, his reputation is indeed very big. He ranks second on the black list of the Great Yuan Kingdom's Wulin Spectrum, with extremely high martial arts skills and 8,000 "Ba Wang Zu" troops under him, a very powerful and fierce bandit army. However, his style of doing things is different from that of the Black Knife Bandits, who leave no chicken or dog alive wherever they pass, whereas Ba Wang Ling Ba Tian only seeks wealth, and any city he has swept through will not even be left with a single copper coin, but he rarely takes people's lives.

  There is only one exception: when there are famous martial arts masters in this city, those masters will inevitably be unlucky.

  Anyone who has ever fought with Ling Baoyan ended up spending three years in bed before barely recovering their mobility.

  Ling Ba Tian's words seemed to have some effect, Lin Xiao nodded slightly and said lightly: "I've heard that you're just a bandit leader."

  "Hah!" Ling Ba Tian slapped his thigh and laughed, "Haha! I'm still the leader of a bandit group! However, this bandit only seeks wealth, so it's slightly better than Black Knife's gang. This time, I just swept through Guiying City and heard that Black Knife's gang had taken over Guihua City, so I came to see if I could make some gains. The result is..."

  Ling Ba Tian laughed maniacally: "The Black Knife Gang left over 300 lives on this black earth, yet they couldn't find anything underground. They simply gave up and left, but I'm curious! So I brought my men to guard here for two days and two nights, and sure enough, I waited you out."

  Dahai wiped his mustache and smiled: "Are you from Huichuntang?"

  He pursed his lips and nodded, "Yes!" Not admitting it was useless. Anyone could tell that he was from the Hui Chun Tang just by the fact that he had managed to emerge from such a secretive underground tunnel in their backyard. And he must be an important figure, otherwise such a secretive tunnel wouldn't have been hiding just him alone.

  "Can you use medicine? Can you treat external injuries? Various marching diseases, can you handle them?" Ling Batian stood up, smiling at Lin Xiao.

  "Agreed! Agreed! I'll take care of it!" Lin Xiao gazed at Ling Ba Tian with a gloomy expression, unsure what he meant by asking these questions.

  "Great, great!" Ling Ba Tian laughed and nodded, "You're not very old, and your medical skills aren't that impressive either. However, having a military doctor is better than none. From today on, you'll be the army doctor for 'Overlord's Pawn', if any of my brothers get sick or injured, it's all on you."

  "Me?!" Lin Xiao's heart was filled with rage, how could he possibly use his medical skills on these evil bandits?! Even if they weren't the Black Knife Bandits who attacked Guihua City, they were still bandits!

  "Don't refuse! Otherwise, you're dead for sure!" Ling Ba Tian lazily looked at Lin Xiao and said faintly: "The people of Hui Chun Tang, no, the entire city of Gui Hua are all dead. You are the last bit of root left in Hui Chun Tang. If you also die, Hui Chun Tang will really be extinct. You don't want things to become like this either, right? So, obediently be Lao Zi's military doctor!"

  Leaving Lin Xiao no room for refusal, two burly men clad in crimson armor stepped forward and seized him.

  The small package at his waist was also pulled away by a strong man.

  Lin Xiao was about to take a big gulp of wine when he suddenly felt a shock at the back of his head, only to find himself knocked unconscious by a burly man in a crimson armor.

  Ling Ba Tian looked at Lin Xiao with a hint of sympathy, shaking his head and saying: "Knock him out for now, don't let him see the miserable state of the city, or else this little kid will go crazy. After this period is over, he'll be fine."

  Shaking his head, Ling Batian suddenly pulled out his three-pointed twin-bladed knife and slashed at the air: "Alright kids, let's move out! We've wasted two days, time to find some fun! The Third Prince has sent word that 'Flying Cloud Pass' is blocking the way for his army. The guardian of Flying Cloud Pass is from a nearby village, we need to go burn down his hometown!"

  The tyrant's troops withdrew from the city of Guihua one after another.

  Lin Xiao thus became the military doctor of the Overlord's Guards!