Chapter 1888 - 1892: The Star of the Bandit World
Bu Yu, January 16, Year Two.
The Jiuyao team was still battling on this day.
However, at this moment, they had entered into a state that was nearly frenzied!
That was—I just want to fight, regardless of who the opponent is, I will fight to the end!
They started to not care about their opponents or their battle objectives, fighting solely for the sake of battle!
All the forces that appeared in front of them would be crazily overwhelmed by them and then massively looted!
Strangely enough, under such looting, the casualties in their ranks weren’t as high as imagined; instead, more and more bandits began to join them.
At first, Jiuyao was also suspicious and puzzled by this strange state!
However, after the explanations from his sworn brothers, Blackbeard and Lu Fei, he came to terms with it!
Yes, bandits across the world are like one family. Following him, Jiuyao, they could recklessly plunder any force that appeared before them. Why wouldn’t these bandits join?!
If it were up to him, he would join immediately too!
After all, the enormous wealth was there for the taking, making one almost crazed with excitement!
So, with his heart’s knot untied, Jiuyao became even more reckless!
He even found that through continuous battles and plundering, his cultivation surprisingly improved, which made him even more eager to conquer on this path of looting!
And when Jiuyao’s army was wildly looting, naturally countless refugees began to flee everywhere.
From above, it looked like a vast, boundless wave.
However, the refugees mentioned here referred to cultivator refugees, not mortal refugees.
Because there was a certain degree of separation between mortals and cultivators on Sword Island. Although cultivators could still take whatever they wanted from mortals, generally, cultivators were not allowed to live in the same place as these mortals.
Similarly, Jiuyao’s bandit army naturally disdained looting those mortals.
What was there to compete for with those mortals?
What could they give them?!
So, in a sense, Jiuyao’s bandit army was quite a non-disturbing-to-civilians force.
But these cultivators weren’t as lucky; they fled madly, rushing to surrounding forces.
Of course!
Among these fleeing cultivators, tens of thousands of Iron Cavalry were included, along with tens of thousands of local forces’ cultivators.
They followed these refugees and began to openly enter each city.
Once they entered the cities, they started acting as informants and spies.
When Jiuyao’s bandit army approached, they would send messages to Jiuyao’s army, making Jiuyao’s attacks smoother and crazier!
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Bu Yu, January 23, Year Two.
Ten days had passed since the beginning of Jiuyao’s plundering.
Each of these ten days he fought heartily and then plundered fiercely.
And when he looked back, he suddenly realized—damn! When did I conquer such a vast territory?!
How vast was this territory?!
Well, it was half of Sword Island!
Yes, it was just this crazy, this suffocating reality!
Jiuyao, being surrounded, unknowingly had taken over half of Sword Island!
And his bandit army also expanded to a whopping seven hundred thousand without him realizing it!
Yes, a complete seven-hundred-thousand strong cultivator army!
This was definitely a force capable of shaking the heavens and the earth!
Of course, four hundred thousand of them were from Gourd Island.
And the remaining three hundred thousand were true Sword Island inhabitants who chose to join Jiuyao!
Someone might ask, where are those high-level cultivators?
Why is no one managing this?
How did they just let a single bandit conquer half of Sword Island? Isn’t this a feudal system? Shouldn’t there be high-level cultivators on half of Sword Island?
Yes, of course, there were!
They certainly wouldn’t want a mere Jiuyao to flaunt so proudly!
However, they couldn’t leave!
Because, Gourd Island also had high-level cultivators!
The one-on-one stalking and entangling, what could they do?! They were also quite desperate!
Where did these cultivators come from?!
Which force cultivated them?!
With such strength, they should have already been a dominant force. Why were they now causing them trouble?!
Though their hearts were full of doubts, clearly, no one answered them!
Someone else asked, could Jiuyao sweep through the entire Sword Island so easily?!
No, of course not!
Even though half of Sword Island had fallen, there was still the other half!
The other half of Sword Island, after countless times trying to get orders from the Sword Master but never hearing back, finally erupted in silence!
Damn it! A mere bandit acting arrogant?!
When the elders of Sword Island were away, did the monkeys become the kings of the mountain?!
Seven hundred thousand cultivators, quite amazing?!
You’re still just a bandit!
Immediately, the leaders of the other half of Sword Island issued orders, all their fiefdoms sending troops to attack Jiuyao and reclaim Sword Island!
At the command, the wind rose and clouds surged, and the other half of Sword Island immediately entered a state of preparation!
Yes, they were gathering an army to attack Jiuyao’s army, not deploying high-level cultivators to wipe out Jiuyao.
Even the leader of this gathered force couldn’t surpass Jiuyao’s cultivation too much, slightly higher was fine, but not a direct crushing!
That was the rule of Sword Island!
Subordinates could fight to the death. High-level cultivators of the home force could subdue them, but high-level cultivators of other forces absolutely could not lightly attack the forces. Otherwise, the world would be in chaos!
As long as those high-level cultivators weren’t reckless, Sword Island would remain stable!
These high-level cultivators could only be used as a last resort, as a strategic deterrent!
Thus, the entire atmosphere of Sword Island began to turn tense and hostile.
Half of Sword Island was scorched earth in the wake of Jiuyao’s bandit army!
While the other half of Sword Island entered a frantic state of preparation, countless cultivators were forcibly recruited into the army, becoming fighting soldiers!
This led to Jiuyao hearing that the other half of Sword Island was gathering all its forces to campaign against him, leaving him utterly bewildered!
Damn?! What was going on?!
How did he, Jiuyao, inexplicably become the public enemy of Sword Island?!
How could the entire other half of Sword Island be exerting its full force to attack him?!
But soon, amidst Blackbeard and Lu Fei’s laughter, Jiuyao too burst into hearty laughter!
Who cares, let them come, fight if they must, whom has he, Jiuyao, ever been afraid of?!
Moreover, as a bandit, to one day become the public enemy of the world was simply the hero of the bandit world!
He, Jiuyao, was definitely the brightest star in the bandit world!