76: Chapter 76 Setting Off and Encountering Mountain Bandits 76: Chapter 76 Setting Off and Encountering Mountain Bandits The arrival of Elder Zhang seemed to breathe new life into the Mu Family, filling every corner with a thriving vitality.

“Have you heard?

Our Mu Family will have a Pill Master too,” a young member of the Mu Family said to his companion with a beaming smile.

“Yeah, I heard that from now on we’ll get Elixirs every month.

Our cultivation will progress much faster,” the companion replied, equally joyful.

In the Mortal World, where Pill Masters are so precious, the significance of a high-level Pill Master to a family is self-evident.

It could even be said that one could support a whole clan single-handedly.

The Great Elder also had a very good mood, his old face blossoming like a flower, as though he had grown several years younger.

Mu Can watched all this with satisfaction.

The matter that had worried him most was finally resolved.

In a place like Pingyun City, one Elder Zhang could hold up half the sky.

With the matter settled, Mu Can also decided it was time to leave the Mu Family.

He had already delayed for several days, and his heart had long since flown to join Mu Zi-Ang in Jue Ming Valley.

Declining the Great Elder’s offer to see him off, Mu Can bid farewell to Elder Zhang and left the Mu Family alone.

Lightly armed, it took three years for Mu Can to shed the label of a talentless person and embark on a new journey.

Gazing at Pingyun City in the distance, Mu Can felt a wave of emotion.

Born and raised here, the most difficult three years of his life were spent here, and it was also here that the biggest turning point of his life occurred.

Shaking his head, he swept away the last bit of distraction from his mind.

“Huff.” Mu Can let out a heavy breath, lifting his head with a resolute expression on his face.

“What’s the matter, young lad?

Can’t bear to leave?” Purple Cloud asked with a smile.

“It’s just a bit sentimental.

Leaving this time, I don’t know when I’ll be able to come back,” Mu Can said thoughtfully.

“A true man should focus on doing good deeds, without worrying about the future.

The path you must take is long; it’s too early for such sentiment,” Purple Cloud sometimes acted as Mu Can’s friend, sometimes as his mentor.

“Understood,” Mu Can nodded.

“Let’s begin training.

There is no place where one cannot cultivate,” Purple Cloud said with a nod of approval.

Before leaving the Mu Family, Mu Can asked the Elder to forge a set of Profound Iron Armor tailored for him.

The set included armor for the entire body and limbs, weighing over three hundred kilograms.

Standing still while wearing it, Mu Can left footprints an inch deep in the ground.

And his so-called cultivation was to travel while wearing such heavy Profound Iron Armor.

Even a Great Martial Master would have difficulty walking in armor like this, but Mu Can, with only the strength of a Samurai, moved as swiftly as the wind, a testament to the terrifying strength of his body.

Jue Ming Valley was about ten days’ journey from the Mu Family, and Mu Can chose the shortest route.

Dressed in the Profound Iron Armor, he dashed madly, kicking up a cloud of dust shaped like an Earth Dragon on the road.

After running wildly for a while, Mu Can encountered the first batch of people since his departure at the mouth of a valley.

“Stop right there.” A lazy voice rang out, and a group of people blocked Mu Can’s path.

Mu Can stopped and cautiously surveyed the several people before him.

Clad in tattered Armor, wielding homemade weapons, they were a band of bandits looking to rob passersby.

“Why the rush?” The leader, a woman, sat lazily astride a pure white horse, her face showing a languid curiosity.

Even with Mu Can’s eye for quality, this horse was a rare find.

And the person on the horse seemed to possess a wild beauty.

“Hehe, interesting.” Mu Can wore a full smile, actually encountering a roadside robbery, and by a female bandit no less.

“What’s so funny, you little samurai daring to come out here alone.

Don’t you know where this is?” The female bandit fiercely cracked her whip in the air, making a sharp snapping sound.

“Where is this?” Mu Can asked with his head held high, acting like a clueless newbie.

Currently, Mu Can did indeed appear to only have the strength of a samurai, barely stronger than an ordinary person, and his specially made Profound Iron Armor was hidden beneath his clothing.

Such a Mu Can really did look too naive.

“Big Sister, why waste words with him?

Better to catch him and bring him back to the village to help build houses,” said a bandit holding a broken great sword, pretending to be fierce.

He looked like a refugee.

Why call it a broken great sword?

Because it was snapped in the middle.

Mu Can looked around and found that among the poorly dressed cultivators, only the woman had the strength of a basic-level Martial Arts Sect, a modest talent.

The strongest of the rest, clad in tattered clothes, only had the capability of a Great Martial Master.

“I wonder from where this ragtag bunch came.” Mu Can said to Purple Cloud within the Reincarnation.

“Since it’s getting dark, let’s follow them and find a place to rest,” Purple Cloud said with a face barely holding back laughter as she watched the group of bandits.

“Hard labour?

I’ve got plenty of strength for that.

Will there be a wage?” Mu Can asked, head still held high.

The bandits were amused by Mu Can’s words, the female bandit let out a chuckle, and the others gazed dazedly.

“There is a wage, of course there’s a wage,” the female bandit said, quickly putting on a serious face.

“You all aren’t bandits, are you?” Mu Can pretended to be cautious as he glanced at the bandits, while also covering his pockets.

“Big Sister, let’s just let this kid go.

He seems a bit slow in the head, and if we bring him up the mountain to eat without working, our Mountain Village’s supplies really won’t be enough,” said a dirty-looking old man, his face full of misery as he spoke to the female leader.

The female bandit leader looked helplessly at the dirty old man, pointed her whip at him, and said, “Old Wang, you know better than to talk about such things in front of outsiders, right?”

Apparently, the old man had suffered at the hands of the female bandit leader before, as he immediately put on a smile, bowed deeply and said, “Big Sister, you’re right.” “Let’s go, take him up the mountain,” the female bandit leader snapped her whip and spurred her horse to start walking up the slope.

Two bandits, one on each side, tried to pull Mu Can towards the mountain but found that Mu Can didn’t budge an inch.

Mu Can’s Profound Iron Armor was not just for show.

“I’ll walk by myself.” Mu Can shook his shoulders lightly, taking big steps towards the direction the female bandit leader had gone, and the two bandits didn’t feel how it happened but found Mu Can already out of their grasp.

With no other option, they simply gestured helplessly to the others, and the group of bandits also quickened their pace up the mountain.

“Hurry up, if we return late again, there won’t be any food left,” they said while jogging briskly.

“It seems these bandits don’t have it easy,” Mu Can commented, unexpectedly encountering an interesting group of bandits and eager to see what was up the mountain.

“These are bandits?

They feel more like a bunch of beggars to me,” Purple Cloud said, unable to help herself from laughing as well.

Mu Can looked around at the bandits close by and nodded; these bandits didn’t seem that different from beggars.

PS: Thanks to Jiujiu for the five recommendation tickets, and thank you to Feng Ji Yun Qing for the five recommendation tickets.

Continuing to ask for recommendation tickets, seeking favorites, add to your bookshelf to join.