The sky gradually dimmed.
The personnel of the caravan would gather the carriages together, leaving at least three people to stand guard, and feeding the horses fodder could not be neglected.
Then they began to light fires to cook food.
The manager would specially separate Tie Li’s food from everyone else’s.
After preparing it, he delivered it into the cabin.
A large meat steak, a large bowl of rice, plus a small saucer of dried fruit.
After everyone ate and drank their fill, they started to rest.
The night watch personnel were divided into two batches; one batch was responsible for the first half of the night, and one batch was responsible for the second half of the night.
Tie Li didn’t need to keep the night watch.
If there was danger, someone would come to notify him.
But he couldn’t sleep completely at ease.
He had to maintain vigilance at all times, especially during the night.
As a Spirit Master, Tie Li’s physical strength was definitely superior to ordinary people.
In the quiet night, some faint sounds could be captured by Tie Li.
For example, right now, the sound of horse hooves came from afar.
The sound was still very faint, maybe several miles away, but Tie Li definitely heard it.
Coming out from the cabin, Tie Li stared at the direction of the horse hooves with a serious face.
“Lord Spirit Master, did something happen?”
“There’s a group of people riding horses, approaching towards us.” Tie Li said.
The sound became clearer and clearer.
Tie Li could even judge their numbers based on the sound.
Seventeen horses.
If it’s one person per horse, then it’s seventeen people.
Hearing this sentence, Manager Ma immediately woke up everyone in deep sleep, taking out long swords from the carriages one after another.
When going out, how could they not bring some weapons for turning the tables?
Getting closer and closer, everyone in the caravan heard the sound of horse hooves stepping on the ground.
“Not good, it’s horse bandits!” Manager Ma’s face was serious.
He glanced at Tie Li beside him; this was their reliance.
“Hahaha, Boss, there’s a big fish.”
“With so many goods, it will definitely fetch a good price.”
“Just don’t know if there are any dames to play with, hehe.”
Tie Li’s gaze swept across the horse bandits.
Just as he judged, seventeen people.
The leading bald big man had his upper body exposed.
A gruesome knife scar extended from his cheek all the way to his abdomen, adding a bit of ferocious aura to him.
“Leave the carriages, hand over the money on your bodies, looking at the face of your Wind Snow Commerce Guild, I can spare your lives.” The bald big man rested his large machete on his shoulder, his face full of disdain.
He didn’t think this group of caravan would dare to fight to the death with him.
Seeing the horse bandits’ posture, everyone in the caravan subconsciously looked at the manager.
The manager’s gaze was entirely on Tie Li’s body.
Tie Li could sense the spirit power fluctuation on the bald big man’s body, but in this group of horse bandits, he was the only Spirit Master.
The burly men of the caravan were considered good hands among ordinary people.
He wondered if they could deal with the remaining horse bandits?
“Manager Ma, if I can hold off the big man, can you guys deal with the remaining horse bandits?” Tie Li came to the manager’s side and asked quietly.
Hearing this sentence from Tie Li, Manager Ma’s heart settled.
If Tie Li was willing to take action, there was a chance of winning.
What he worried about most was this young Spirit Master failing to bear the pressure and withdrawing cowardly.
“We can!”
Getting an affirmative reply, Tie Li made battle preparations.
Taking advantage of the bald big man not reacting yet, Tie Li suddenly erupted, summoned his forging hammer martial spirit, and aimed directly at the leading bald big man.
“Do it!”
Manager Ma immediately drew his large sword.
The caravan crowd received the order and swarmed up, not a single person retreating.
They were a team, and the cooperation and trust between each other were guaranteed.
The bald big man was stunned for a moment first, and after reacting, immediately revealed an expression of violent rage.
“I gave you a chance, it’s you looking for death yourselves.”
The bald big man’s rough body shape became burly, his height instantly grew to two meters, and his body was covered in layers of thick brown fur.
Two white spirit rings floated beneath him.
He was a two-ring Great Spirit Master, his spirit power level was higher than Tie Li’s.
There was only a moment of hesitation in Tie Li’s eyes, not fearing the opponent’s strength.
His own was a hundred-year spirit ring, the additional attributes far exceeded the opponent’s.
The opponent’s only advantage was spirit power level.
Looking back at the bald big man, a touch of shock in his eyes could not be waved away.
The two ten-year spirit rings beneath him lit up with white light one after another.
Strength Boost!
Defense Boost!
Ten-year spirit rings only granted him a five percent attribute boost.
Forcefully swinging out his large machete, it produced an ear-piercing collision with the forging hammer.
“Clang, crack”
The bald big man’s martial spirit was a Bear.
His strength and defense were both outstanding, but Tie Li, who had the blessing of a hundred-year spirit ring, was not inferior to him in clashes of strength.
With both people’s strength equal, the quality of the weapons became crucial.
A small notch was knocked out of the edge of the large machete, and cracks spread to the surroundings of the blade body along the notch.
The electrical arcs on the forging hammer were conversely blocked by the thick fur.
“Bang”
Unable to withstand the strength of the two people, the large machete completely shattered, turning into dozens of fragments.
The bald big man threw away the knife hilt in his hand without hesitation, and a pair of bear claws attacked towards Tie Li’s head from both sides.
Tie Li’s figure shrank downward, and while avoiding the attack, successfully landed on the ground.
The forging hammer in his hand smashed towards the horse’s front limbs.
The horse let out a miserable cry.
Losing the support of its front limbs, its whole body fell forward, throwing the bald big man on its back out.
For a time, the bald big man lost control over his body.
A pair of pigeon egg-sized pupils suddenly enlarged, and the oncoming hammer face aimed directly at his face.
“Boom”
“Buzz”
A strong strike successfully hit.
At this instant, the hammer body emitted an ultra-high frequency vibration, shattering his skull.
White liquid flowed out from his hollow ears.
Seeing the bald big man die tragically under Tie Li’s iron hammer, the remaining horse bandits lost their will to fight and immediately turned their horses around wanting to escape.
But the burly men in the caravan were all good hands.
How could they let go of such a good opportunity?
They took the lead to hack at their horses.
Tie Li crouched down and groped around inside the big man’s clothes.
His face showed joy.
Sure enough, he felt it.
The ancients did not deceive me.
He pulled out three money pouches, all filled with quite a few coins inside, feeling quite heavy when picked up.
Quietly putting them into his shirt, everyone in the caravan had also roughly ended the battle.
Unfortunately, a few horse bandits still fought desperately and escaped.
Manager Ma just saw the scene of Tie Li ‘looting corpses’, and greeted his subordinates to search the corpses of the horse bandits.
Tie Li returned to the carriage, originally intending to inspect the harvest, but didn’t expect Manager Ma to come over carrying a dozen or so money pouches.
“Lord Spirit Master, many thanks to you this time.
These money pouches were all scraped from the horse bandits’ bodies.”
So good at handling matters?
I was embarrassed to open my mouth, and he delivered them right in front of me.
But Tie Li wasn’t someone who ate alone either.
He took all the gold spirit coins inside the dozen or so money pouches, and let him take the rest to distribute to everyone.
Actually, the gold spirit coins added up in these money pouches were not even five.
Most of them were silver spirit coins and copper spirit coins.
After this incident, everyone in the caravan generated a lot of goodwill towards this young Spirit Master.
Tie Li was very happy, because the harvest this time was very large.
The gold spirit coins obtained from the horse bandits added up to a full forty-seven, and there were also thirty-one silver spirit coins.