"..." Yun Wuji's left cheek twitched as he fixed his gaze on the short, bald man. A mix of disbelief and disgust appeared on his face. Why is there always a guy like this in every group of bad guys?

  'I'll grind his bones and mince his meat ter,' Yun Wuji thought. Thankfully for this guy, Yun Wuji wasn't as extreme as he used to be. Otherwise, he would have shown him just how close dogs could be to humans. Instead, he'd settle for redug him to a lump of flesh.

  'Sigh, I've grown softer these past few years. Who made me be such a nice guy?' Yun Wuji thought hypocritically. Putting on a terrified expressioumbled back a few steps, waving both hands frantically as he shouted, "Lords! Lords! Please spare my life! I'll give you everything I have!"

  "Hehe, I thought with his dashing looks, he'd at least have some guts, but he's just a spineless coward!" one of them sneered, pointing at Yun Wuji and ughing ptuously.

  "Hahaha! What do you expect a lowly Sn Profound Realm cultivator to do? Fight back?" another one ughed loudly, joining in.

  "Brat, don't worry. If you serve Daddy, I'll spare your life. Puahahaha!" The short baldy, eyed Yun Wuji's lower body greedily, his voice filled with an obse ugh.

  "Pah! Gutless coward!" The bloodied man spat in disdain upon seeing Yun Wuji's performance. He the the bandits with a fierce expression, "e at me! Daddy will take at least one of you down with him!"

  "Bastard!"

  "You're half a step from the grave, and you still dare to utter such words!"

  "That's right! Daddy here will kill you!"

  His words infuriated the bandits, but despite all their fierce threats, none of them actually took a step forward.

  They were all despicable lowlifes, too afraid for their lives. How could they possibly charge in mindlessly and die? That would be too stupid, even for idiots like them.

  All the wealth and women they had accumuted would be taken 'care off' by their "rades"!

  Their boss looked at them, his eyebrows twitg in frustration. With a disdainful gre, he scolded, "Useless bunch! Step aside, I'll finish him myself!"

  "Boss is making a move!"

  "Boss is mighty!"

  "Bastard, with the boss making a move, you're dead meat!"

  The bloodied man's expression turned grim. He ched his sword a slightly. His cultivation was lower than the boss's, and even if he were in full health, he knew he stood no ce of beating him.

  Most of his injuries had also been inflicted by this guy. Every time he was about to deliver a fatal blow to one of the bandits, this bastard would always strike him first.

  "..." While keeping a terrified expression, Yun Wuji closely observed their movements, all while cirg his profound energy.

  The boss casually held his saber and stomped the ground with a loud boom, ung himself toward the man. With a powerful swing, he sshed downward with his sword.

  The man gripped his sword with both hands, blog the attack. His legs bent from the force as the collisio a powerful shockwave erupting from their csh, pushing the surrounding bandits back a few steps.

  Yun Wuji, still maintaining his act, was thrown backward, tumbling a few dozeers away.

  The dead bodies were sent flying like ragdolls, tumbling through the air. The man g them from the er of his eye, and a fsh of pain crossed his face.

  "Yood! But unfortunately, the gap between realms is not something anyone cross!" The boss the man, then grinned before sshing with his saber again.

  The maed quickly, blog the saber attack with his sword, resulting in another shockwave! The blow rocked the grouh them, sending vibrations through the air.

  "Ora! Ora! Ora! Block it again! How long you keep blog, hahaha! Ora! Ora! Ora!" The boss tio attack furiously, his ughter booming as each strike came faster and harder.

  "..." Yun Wuji observed them closely, his body trembling and his expression filled with fear. Anyone who saw him would think he was just a weak, good-looking gigolo.

  At this moment, the bloodied man finally couldn't hold on any lohe boss's saber was about to pierce his chest.

  Rumbling Heaven!

  Boom!

  Suddenly, Yun Wuji's expression turned cold. Blood-red light erupted from him as he opehe gates of his heretic god's veins. Almost instantly, he appeared behind the bandit boss!

  "What?!!" The boss had just stabbed the bloodied man in the heart with his saber when suddenly a blood-red hand pierced through his back, emerging from his chest.

  "Ah... ahh... you... you!" He slowly lowered his head and saw the hand holding his still-beati.

  Yun Wuji ched his hand, crushing the heart into pieces.

  Smack!

  Casually, he pulled his hand from the bandit's chest and baded him, sending the boss flying and smashing into the short baldy.

  "Argh!" The bald guy let out a blood-curdling cry as his bones cracked from the impact.

  "Boss!!!"

  "What...what happened?!"

  "How could this be?!"

  "The boss is down! We are fucked!"

  The other bandits' eyeballs bulged, nearly popping out of their eyes. They were just about to cheer for their boss for taking down that puy when suddenly that pretty boy appeared behind their boss, peed him, and then cpped his cheek...cough, I mean, smacked his cheek!

  At the same time, the bloodied mahe saber pierg his heart. He didn't feel pain, only fusion. He looked at Yun Wuji and said with difficulty, "You..."

  "You rest in peace. I'll take revenge for you and give you a proper burial," Yun Wuji said in a low voice.

  "Th-thank...you..." The man muttered his st words and closed his eyes. His body colpsed to the ground, dead.

  Yun Wuji looked at the dead man and shook his head. This was the sorrow of the weak, no matter how much they avoided trouble or refrained from peting with arouble would still e to find them.

  He deactivated the Rumbling Heaven gate; the current him couldn't hold it for more than a hundred breaths.

  That boss was at the 8th level of the Divine in Realm, while he was at the 8th level of the Sn Profound Realm. If he were to fight him fairly, it would take some effort to kill him, and with the addition of the other bandits, he might even end up beied.

  Yun Wuji tapped the ground lightly and appeared among the panicked bandits. He spped one of them with such force that it tore his head from his neck, sending it flying.

  The bandit's neck erupted into a fountain of blood before he colpsed to his knees and theo the ground.

  "Run! Agh!"

  "Spare me! Spare me! Agh!"

  Amidst the cries of the bandits, Yun Wuji moved through them swiftly, like a wolf among a pack of sheep, ripping their heads from their bodies with brutal sps.

  Finally, after Yun Wuji stopped, only the short baldy remaianding.

  The short baldy g his headless rades and stumbled batil he fell to the ground, begging for mercy. "Lord! Please spare me! I didn't mean to offend you, please spare me, my lord!"

  "Do you know why I spared your life?" Yun Wuji squatted down and said with a harmless smile.

  "Why?" The short man asked, his voice shaky.

  "Because if I killed you, who would pay the prote fees?" Yun Wuji maintained his harmless smile and spoke slowly.

  "Prote fees? Proteg us from whom?" The ma pletely lost trying to keep up with this terrifying guy and asked in bewilderment.

  Smack!

  "Are you dumb? Of course, it's to protect you from me!" Yun Wuji's smile dropped as he spped the man across the face, sending him rolling across the ground for hundreds of meters.

  "Agh!!!" The short ma out a loud cry of pain. After a few moments, he got up, crawling toward Yun Wuji, too scared to stand. With a smile that looked uglier than g, half of his face red and deformed from the sp, his whole body covered in dirt and blood, he said, "Thank you for the sp, I uand nht, we o pay you for your hard-w prote!"

  "Good! I like smart people!" Yun Wuji nodded in approval, then ordered, "Now go and collect all the good things these trash have."

  "Yes! Yes! Right away, my lord!" The short man quickly nodded, his head bobbing like a chick peg, before rushing off to search through the mangled bodies of his rades. He forcefully opeheir pockets and took out any valuables or resources they had.

  Once he finished with his rades, he ran toward the family they had ambushed, quickly searg through their bodies as well.

  "This is all they had, my lord! I have siowards you as well! Please accept this as a token of my fiveness!" The short man pced everything he had collected in front of Yun Wuji, then, with an ugly smile, he took out all his accumuted wealth and prese to him, hoping to buy his mercy.

  "Hmm, tell me the name of this realm," Yun Wuji nodded after st everything and asked.

  "he short man was startled. Why is this scary guy asking for the name of the realm? But when he saw Yun Wuji frown, he quickly answered, "The name of this realm is the Azure Cloud Realm! We're in the south of the Azure Cloud Realm! The rgest city in this area is Azure Grove City!"

  "Tell me everything you know about this realm," Yun Wuji listeo him and then ordered again.

  "Yes, my lord!" The short man quickly nodded, eager to please. He answered all Yun Wuji's questions without hesitation, even revealing all the small secrets he knew. He desperately tried to dispy his value in hopes that this terrifying figure would spare his life.

  After more than an hour of questioning, Yun Wuji uood his situation. He was in a Low-rank realm called the Azure Cloud Realm, located on the far eastern side of the Eastern Divine Region. He was quite far from the Snow Song Realm, but what surprised him was the name of the realm. "The first pce I stepped on in the Blue Pole Realm is the Azure Cloud ti, and the first pce I stepped on in the God Realm is the Azure Cloud Realm! Iing!"

  'ce? I think NOT!'

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