2: Chapter 2 Carrying Her Up the Mountain to Become a Bandit's Wife?

Before the "tree" in his mouth could be "planted," the Second-in-Command's eyes fixed on the Woman in Red, his breath hitching in his throat.

The group of howling bandits behind him also seemed to be under a paralysis spell, their gazes frozen and weapons hanging in mid-air.

Beautiful.

Too damn beautiful!

The woman before them had disheveled hair and blood at the corner of her mouth, but her face was as white as congealed fat, and her features were even more exquisite than the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady their Mountain King had spoken of.

Especially that cold temperament and figure; they realized that the words they had heard from the Great King to describe women weren't enough to describe even a fraction of her.

"Courting death!"

The Woman in Red's eyes turned cold.

Such filthy Mortals, on a normal day, wouldn't even have the right to appear within a hundred miles of her. How dare they surround and stare at her today?

"Die!"

She forcibly gathered her Qi, flipped her fair wrist, and barely managed to gather a faint glimmer of spiritual light in her palm, preparing to strike downward.

However, before the palm wind could be released, the internal Qi surged within her chest.

"Pfft!"

Her old injuries flared up, and the breath she had gathered instantly dissipated, her vision going dark.

At this critical moment, where the old strength had faded and new strength had yet to arise.

"Clang—!!"

An extremely dull sound of metal clashing against iron suddenly exploded by the stream.

"Whoa! What a hard head!"

Behind the Woman in Red, Chun Xiaobai held a black iron Sap as thick as an arm with both hands, maintaining the Splitting Mount Hua posture. The black iron was suspended a foot away from her head, and his palms were numb from the shock.

This sensation...

It didn't feel like hitting a person's head; it felt like smashing a security door.

Seeing the head in front of him about to turn, Chun Xiaobai swung the black iron rod again, preparing for another blow.

However, the Woman in Red swayed, her eyelids rolled back, and whether out of anger or because her injuries were too severe, her body went limp and she fell straight to the ground.

"I told you, This Great King has natural Divine Power. How could anyone withstand it?"

"Bang!" Chun Xiaobai kicked the Woman in Red's buttocks and retracted the rod.

Then, he waved his hand with grand ambition.

"Boys, tie up this rich lady!"

Chun Xiaobai waited for a few moments, and seeing no movement, he looked up.

He saw these guys, every one of them with their eyes practically falling out onto her, drool trailing three feet long from their mouths.

"A bunch of embarrassing fools, haven't you ever seen a woman?"

Chun Xiaobai was furious and went up with a flying kick.

"Bam!"

The Second-in-Command cried out in pain and flew out sideways, knocking over a large group behind him.

"Ouch, Great King!"

The bandit woke up as if from a dream, scrambled to his feet, looked at the unconscious peerless beauty on the ground, then at the dark iron rod in his king's hand, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Great King! This is a peerless beauty; how could you actually bring yourself to do that?"

"Can a peerless beauty be eaten for dinner?"

"Wait!" Chun Xiaobai turned back and glared. "Is this the kind of compassion we bandits should have?"

He looked towards the end of the official road and reminded them.

"Hurry up! This kind of fat sheep usually has a background. If you dawdle and her Family brings the officials here, you'll be the ones covering my retreat!"

While urging them, he couldn't help but rub his still-numb palms.

The sensation from that strike just now was truly bizarre.

It didn't feel like a head made of flesh, but more like a single piece of forged steel; it made the gaps between his bones ache.

Has this woman practiced the Iron Head Technique?

"Great King, Great King!"

The scar-faced Third Leader didn't listen. She grabbed Chun Xiaobai, pointed at the Woman in Red on the ground, and said excitedly.

"Look at this figure! Her waist is so thin you could pinch it, her buttocks are as round as a millstone, and this chest—it’s enough to feed ten sons! Isn't this the standard Lady of the Fortress you've been talking about every day?!"

Two lackeys, showing great initiative, flipped the "hostage" over on the ground to face upward.

A breeze brushed past the woman's hair, and Chun Xiaobai's eyes froze.

Gulp!

He couldn't help but swallow. Without a word, he immediately crouched down and reached for the Woman in Red on the ground.

With a flick of his fingers, he cleanly pulled out an Emerald Jade Hairpin tucked into the woman's hair.

"I'm rich...!"

Chun Xiaobai wiped it with his sleeve, and seeing its good quality, he happily tucked it into his robe.

His gaze shifted, and he fixed his eyes on the woman's fair, slender neck, where a translucent red gemstone pendant hung.

He reached out to pull it.

To his surprise, the thin cord was exceptionally strong and didn't break; instead, it tightened around the unconscious woman's neck, making her brow furrow.

"Tsk, this thin cord is actually stronger than hemp rope!"

Chun Xiaobai muttered. Having no time to undo the knot, his gaze moved to her fair wrist.

On her wrist was a deep purple jade bracelet. The body of the bracelet was covered in golden Oracle Bone Script that seemed to float like ghostly talismans; it was clearly an ancestral heirloom.

"Give it here!"

Chun Xiaobai tried to slide it off that soft, boneless little hand, but... it didn't come off.

He tried again, but it was still stuck at the base of the thumb.

"She must have worn this since she was a child; it can't be pulled off at all." Chun Xiaobai's brow furrowed as he stared at the hand.

"Should I just chop this hand off?"

"Uh!!!"

The drooling bandits around him... were stunned.

They really didn't know whether to say his self-control was monstrous or that he was utterly heartless and wasteful.

With such a beautiful woman, he could actually refrain from touching her and instead want to chop off her hand?

Chun Xiaobai ignored their ignorant gazes, gestured a couple of times, and eventually shook his head.

However, looking at his expression, he didn't seem to be pitying her, but rather frustrated that he didn't have a sharp enough blade on hand, worried he might damage the bracelet.

"Forget it, I'll find a kitchen knife when we get back to the fortress."

Chun Xiaobai gave up on the bracelet and looked at her bulging waist.

According to the dressing habits of this world, this position was usually the waistband for storing banknotes and loose silver.

"So bulging. Could she be from some big Family, running away from a marriage with the funds?"

Chun Xiaobai focused and activated his [Tongbao Divine Eye], a purple light shooting straight into the sky.

"Jackpot!"

"Wealth enough to rival a country really is here!"

He immediately reached into her waistband and began searching up and down. Sure enough, he felt something hard.

Just as he was about to pull it out, his fingertip suddenly stung, as if something had bitten him.

"Crap, is there an embroidery needle hidden inside?"

Chun Xiaobai immediately put his finger in his mouth to suck on it, then observed it, finding that his finger seemed to have been pricked by a nail.

His vision was also a bit dizzy.

He quickly shook his head. "Damn it, I've been working day and night lately; my body has become weak."

To avoid being pricked again, Chun Xiaobai pulled open her outer garment. He suddenly noticed a dozen or so dark heads crowded in a circle, staring intently at his large hand wandering around that slender waist.

Gulp.

Someone, quite pathetically, swallowed a thunderous amount of saliva.

"Whoa!" Chun Xiaobai paused his movements.

He immediately pulled his hand out and pointed at his subordinates' noses, cursing:

"What kind of looks are those? Do you have any professional ethics?"

"We bandits also have to follow the rules of the road: seek wealth, not lust!"

Chun Xiaobai stood up grumbling and shouted.

"Retreat! Back to the mountain!"

Worried that if this woman woke up and couldn't accept being seen naked, leading to him being forced to kill the hostage, he decided to handle it after returning to the mountain.

As soon as he spoke.

Chun Xiaobai bent down, grabbed the belt of the peerless beauty who could outshine heaven and earth, lifted her up, and hoisted her onto his shoulder.

It was all in one smooth motion.

That beautiful face happened to hang limply behind Chun Xiaobai's buttocks, bouncing with his steps as they headed towards Black Wind Stronghold.