Ye Fan and Jiang Tingting went to rescue the remaining mortals in the oasis, while Lin Xian stayed behind to interrogate the bandit chief.
"I'll talk, I'll talk... if I talk, will you spare my life?"
The bandit chief kept coughing up blood. Before a Dao Palace Realm expert, all his earlier arrogance had vanished. There was great terror in the face of death.
He had thought that, after slaughtering countless people and accumulating boundless resentment, he would not fear death.
But when death truly came for him, the bandit chief trembled and suddenly realized that he was still afraid to die.
Being accustomed to seeing life and death did not mean he had come to terms with his own mortality.
The more people he killed, the more keenly he understood how precious life was, and the less he wanted to die.
"You have until this incense stick burns out. Fail to give satisfactory answers before then, and your head comes off." Lin Xian spoke calmly, set a stick of incense into the red earth, and asked coldly, "Where did you bandits come from, and how long have you been plundering this place?"
"My lord, I really do serve the Thirteen Great Bandits," the bandit chief pleaded spinelessly. "We're subordinates of the Third Great Bandit, Xu Tianxiong. For his sake, please spare me just this once."
"I swear I'll erase all my memories. I won't retain anything about you."
"You really belong to the Thirteen Great Bandits?" A trace of gravity entered Lin Xian's eyes as he snapped, "We've met the Demon Race's Azure Flood Dragon King. He's one of the Great Bandits too. His followers may be arrogant and domineering, but not one of them bullies the weak."
When the Ji Family had attacked, the young demons of the