"Why did boss leave our hidden stronghold, he's been gone for six days now" A simple headed bandit said in the middle of a large forest with curiosity to the other bandits alongside him, there was a total of nine bandits who all looked brutish and sinister, eight of them were mortal, but one was a cultivator, his composure was more elite, with an air of a superiority amongst the others.

"Do you remember when one of our brother came back alone looking scared, rumors had it his group was wiped out by a green beast in the shape of a human, and all but him made it out alive, he says that he had a treasured flower in his hand but it was stolen by the demon, and when he described the flower to boss, boss went ecstatic, charging to Huzan Village where the demon trails led to, but before he could reach it, the infamous Granny Tzuki appeared to stop him, they had an all-out fight, but in the end both of them retreated with light injuries as they were even in strength"

One of the bandit said with an exaggerating tone as he continued to talk about the fight between his boss and the old lady in more details and so on but was then suddenly cut off by someone forcefully.

"I heard that boss then decided to find out where the flower was found but all there was, was a tombstone that says 'Here lies my grandfather' apparently the flower was dug from that tomb because our brothers thought that there were treasures buried there, no corpses were found in that grave, only that one precious flower which was already stolen, boss was unsatisfied which this result so he trashed the grave and went to find some help outside of the country to take care of that old hag and that trashy village, boss would be back in around two weeks"

The obviously more powerful bandit said cockily with a sharp piercing voice as he had more inside knowledge then everyone one his brothers, they all felt annoyed at this show off, all of them were jealous as they wanted the power he had and to be in the inner circle of the Silver Wolf Bandits.

Ruffle ruffle

"Whose there!" That same cocky bandit suddenly said with vigilance, all the other bandits also went on alert, looking at the area where they all heard some ruffling, it was a large green bush beside a tree in the distant.

One of the men decided to check it out, walking slowly towards a distant bush, he held his sword up high getting ready to swing downwards, but before he could get to the bush he paused. The other bandits were impatient, yelling out for him to hurry up, but the bandit with cultivation went extra vigilant because that man who went to check out the bush suddenly turned around clutching his throat with wide open eyes, as if he suddenly couldn’t comprehend what has happened.

The other bandits suddenly quieted down as they soon became dumbfounded as they saw the man’s throat burst out in blood, no matter how he clutched his throat, there was no stopping the continuous flow of blood, he fell to the ground lifeless as blood splattered the ground.

Everyone couldn’t help but brandish their weapons, there were only eight of them alive now, four of them went to charge after their fallen brother, but something silver flashed in front of their eyes, and before they knew it, they too went kneeling, clutching their neck in disbelief and then out of the corner of their eyes was a little girl who looks to be only twelve years old who stood out of the bush with burning fury in her eyes.

This was of course Ling Tong, not long after her and Fang Li had done their seven days of training, they set of to find some enemies to fight and hone their skills, and after a few hours of searching, they found this group of bandits wandering around the forest and decided to hide so they could tail them secretly, Fang Li decided to stay hidden, just to see where Ling Tong is at in terms of fighting abilities, but he would step in if things seem too dire for her.

Ling Tong couldn’t contain her anger when she had heard that their organization was planning to kill off Granny Tzuki and her entire village, so she went ahead to kill them due to rage, her fingers dance as she bend the wires to her will, returning the shuriken’s that she had just thrown. Once she got her weapons back she decided to run away, this caused the four remaining bandits to chase after her for revenge, after all she was only an ordinary human girl with no cultivation, they believed their five brothers who already died, fell to her due to carelessness.

They chased closely, and they were catching up, but Ling Tong just threw out her shuriken at a perfect moment when she was briefly out of their sights for just a second, the bandits were unable to see her due to the many bushes and trees blocking their sight, and all of a sudden, a few silver flashes came charging through the bush that Ling Tong had disappeared through, this move didn't kill the bandits immediately, they dodged the shuriken just barely, they laugh cockily as they saw through this move, but the shuriken’s suddenly stopped in midair for only a hair of a second before returning to the back of their heads, this move killed three bandits, leaving only one left.

This was the bandit with cultivation, Fang Li observed him to be around Human Qi Realm level 3 and Human Body Realm level 4, this bandit had blocked the shuriken easily with his sword, and then pulled on the barely visible thin wire that is connected to the shuriken with his bare hands.

Oof

Ling Tong stumbled forward due to the force, he was much strong in body strength which made her fall forward onto the ground.

"You brat, I'll make you pay for all you done, don't think about dying, I will take you to the secret hideout and torture you until you wish you were dead!" The Bandit shouted ruthlessly while charging forth with all his might and with the boost of his cultivation, small gales of wind was summoned around his body, he seemingly increased in speed drastically, appearing before her in an instant.

He was aiming to sever one of her hands before capturing her, but once he cut down, her reaction was fast, all the training that was drilled into her by Fang Li came into motion, and as she breathe in, she rolled sideways once she felt danger, narrowly dodging the sword blow as it struck the earth with force, leaving a small sword mark into the ground.

Fang Li found two quality that was extremely obvious inside Ling Tong, perception and precision which were shown here in this fight, she could easily kill commoners like her, even murderers like bandits who have some fighting experience, but even they had never fought against hidden weapons, the speed of the shuriken’s were too fast for their eyes which resulted in some being killed instantly and others in only two moves, only the one with cultivation had seen through it.

"You can't run away from me!" The bandit said with a craze expression, his body was trembling with rage as he missed his attack, if any person saw him not being able to suppress a mortal twelve-year-old girl, wouldn't they laugh in his face?

Ling Tong felt anxious, this fight was going to turn badly for her, it was going to turn into a melee fight, which was something she didn't want to face for now, so she prepared to run, grabbing a handful of dirt and throwing it towards his face as she got up, the bandit couldn't help but chuckle once he saw this.

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"Hummmpft useless" He mumbled before ignoring the dirt and running after her, and due to his increase speed, he easily caught up to her.

AHHHHHHHHH

Ling Tong couldn't help but scream out when she felt someone pull on her hair, she was dragged backwards by that pull and held up in midair, she tried to free herself, but the bandit got a hold of her neck, squeezing it lightly in his grip, she couldn't help but feel her throat tighten, she coughed out for air as she flail her arms and leg in despair. But she then remembered she had another shuriken left, she then started to reach for it with all her might, but the bandit caught wind of what she was trying to do, he smirked in disdain before lifting her up even higher. 

"I wouldn't had expected someone like you would make so much trouble, I better teach you a lesson" The bandit said with a sinister tone before throwing the little girl like a ragdoll into a nearby tree, Ling Tong couldn't help but cough out blood as her body was smashed into the tree, her limbs spangled and lightly broken, she had only trained for one week so her body is obviously only a fraction bit stronger than before, but ultimately she still a young commoner with a weak body, she was easily taken down by a cultivator.

Fang Li watched this with a wince on his face, he thought maybe he should had stepped in earlier, so he came out of hiding.

"Ah, I have to thank you, now I know where Ling Tong is at, I will have to change up her training routine a bit" Fang Li said out in a loud voice, attracting the attention of the bandit, he flinched in alarm as he hadn't sense someone watching, but once he saw the speaker, he relaxed his guard down a bit before chuckling.

"You must be that green beast, it is good that you came to me, now you can hand over that flower and then you can leave with your life!" He said arrogantly. looking down at this young boy in front of him, he only heard that this boy killed a few of his brothers, but they were all commoners, why would he be afraid of this guy?

"Oh, that flower? I ate it this morning, it was very delicious, the most delicious salad I have ever eaten," Fang Li said while rubbing his stomach, his face was that of remembrance and yearning, obviously he was trying to enrage the fool with this lie, and it worked, that bandit went red with rage and was trembling from disbelief.

"Do you know what you have done! You wasted something precious! Trash, I will cut open your guts and pull out whatever remains of that flower and I will eat it so I can advance!" The bandit shouted out while spitting saliva.

"You want to eat my feces? Sorry man I'm not into that" Fang Li said while raising one of his eyebrows towards the bandit while shaking his head left and right.

You....

But before the bandit could finish, he saw a green flash rush towards him, he was momentarily distracted by the boy’s word that he didn't notice that the boy had already made a move.

"Dynamic Entry!" Fang Li smiled, showing a flash of his pearly white teeth before his foot connected to the face of the bandit, breaking his nose and knocking him out instantly, Fang Li couldn't help but be dumbfounded, the fight was over already? After that enlightenment, he had mastered all the Rock Lee techniques he currently has, he can even improve them, Fang Li felt that he could do three swift kicks in one with Dynamic Entry, but here he only needed to use one kick this time.

Ling Tong also couldn't believe what happened, 'Just one kick....' She thought while biting her lips to get through the pain, she saw the whole thing, her limbs were only broken lightly, and her head didn't suffer any major damage so she was conscious, hearing Fang Li speak at that time made her sigh in relief, she then forced herself to watch the fight between her master and the enemy so that she could learn something, but who knew that the fight would be over just like that. 

Her image of her master just raised a bar higher, but then she briefly remembered what she had done, she looked around the forest to see all the corpses in the distance, she couldn't help but feel sick to her stomach in realization to what she had done, it was all in a fit of rage, she went with her animalistic instinct and killed them all with what she had learnt.

Fang Li sensed something wrong and comforted her, because he was in that spot just recently, his first kill made him sick, and he is still not use to death and killing, but he knew he had to force himself to get used to it, and he knew the only way to get use to things like this is to experience it more, so he reassured Ling Tong by saying that these bandits deserve what was coming for them.

Fang Li then positioned her to sit upwards as to recover while he goes interrogate the bandit because he wanted to know more after what he overheard from before, that grave that was trashed, was where his grandfather was buried, although the current Fang Li didn't have much personal familiarity with this body's grandfather, the past memories do make it hard for him to ignore any history that the previous owner had.

These memories are a part of Fang Li now, he is using this body, his past memories from his old life, and the memories of this body has fused together, so he is now taking on this identity, he will have to face difficulties in the future including anything to do which his parents death, the trouble with Fang Family Clan and his grandfather who's corpse was not inside that grave, he suspected that the grandfather was not actually dead.

From his memories, he had seen on his grandfather transform some object into something else, such as stones to gold, but it always revert to its original form after some time, perhaps he changed that flower into a copy of himself, a corpse to feign death, but why would his grandfather do this?

"Tell me everything I need to know or else I'll make you wish you were dead!" Fang Li said harshly while standing over the bandit, he had broken both arms and legs of that bandit when he was knocked out as to keep him from moving around needlessly, this made the bandit wake up in pain, screaming for a few minutes until he notice that Fang Li held a kunai over his crotch, itching it closer and closer until the bandit felt a stinging sensation on his bits.

The bandit had cold sweat running down his forehead and hurriedly spilled everything including the hideout whereabouts, how many bandits there were in total, this number was around 300, there were 20 cultivators, 15 of them were the same or in a weaker level then this bandit, the other 5 are stronger, the strongest out of them was the boss right hand man who was level 9 in both Human Body and Qi Realm, Fang Li could only guess the boss's cultivation as the bandit didn't know, Fang Li thought inwardly that he would have to attack in the two week time frame when the boss is not here.

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Fang Li quickly reacted by shouting to Ling Tong to hide her presence, she quickly covered herself and implemented her cloak on invisibility technique, Fang Li thought, that finally some creatures had shown up, they were a pack of grey wolves, around 20 or so, they had fast speed and sharp fangs, they were many times stronger and bigger than the ones on earth, there was one shine silver coated wolf whose aura was emitting outward, a sign of royalty, perhaps a wolf prince, Fang Li could sense its immense killing intent, but not only was the killing intent directed towards him, it was directed towards the hidden Ling Tong, she trembled as she felt the killing intent pressing against her.

Hehehe

The bandit laughed out loud in glee, the reason why was because the Silver Wolf Bandits had a cooperation agreement with the Silver Wolf King in the north, all he had to do was wait to be rescued by the wolves as they have mutual cooperation, they have had for years which built a reasonably solid relationship between the two forces.

Fang Li found this fact out during his interrogation, he couldn’t help but feel more pressure because he now had an extra enemy, by going after the Silver Wolf Bandit, he would also have to fight against the Wolf Clan, the Wolf King should have around the same strength as the Silver Wolf Bandit Boss, but Fang Li also found that Huzan Village has an alliance with the Apes of the South from Ling Tong who spoke up during the interrogation, the Ape King should also be on the same level as the other leaders. But Because the two sides were even, did that bandit boss looked for outside help to tilt the scales.

This Wolf Prince should be around the top of the Human Realm, he didn't know what level exactly but Fang Li knew that he was in deep trouble this time.

Fang Li couldn’t help but complain inwardly, he was in the middle of a brewing war, he needed to gain strength quick, and weaken the enemy forces quickly.

[Killed 1 Hostile Human Realm Cultivator]

[+ 25 Shinobi Points]

Fang Li killed the bandit hurriedly as the wolves surrounded both Ling Tong and himself, he should had known that although the cloak on invisibility technique would be effective against humans, it wouldn't work against beast as they have more sharper senses including their superb sense of smell.

He hurriedly braced himself for this coming fight, his first fight against beasts.