These days, Chen Xuantian has been feeling quite depressed.

It’s not that he’s very reluctant to part with his grandmother, it’s just that he didn’t manage to save her, and instead was saved by someone else. It doesn’t make him particularly happy.

Perhaps also because at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, he got a face full of spoilers from Liyu Head and Octopus Head in turn, caught a glimpse of the big hand behind the scenes, and truly realized his own insignificance. He witnessed the vastness of the world and the distant skies.

Thus, as a small and weak human, Chen Xuantian naturally fell into the nihilistic abyss: "It’s over, it’s all over, we’re all gonna die, lying flat, what’s the point of trying," unable to extricate himself.

Moreover, having used a Yellow Heaven Talisman Seal to escape from the Netherworld Spring, his lifespan once again barely reached the limit. The hard-earned Divinity Transformation Treasure, like flowing ramen, passed before his eyes and was snatched by Old Dong. Naturally, Chen Xuantian became even more displeased, momentarily stuck in a demonic barrier.

So, muddle-headedly climbing out of the abyss, Chen Xuantian was too lazy to calculate his path, too lazy to escape. He just walked aimlessly, killed randomly, and wandered along the Chidao, heading straight to Nine Yin Mountain until he suddenly snapped out of it at Guangxia Mountain.

After all, he remembered that years ago, Tie Dan arranged for someone to deliver goods and buried some treasure in the forest at Guangxia Mountain. Maybe there are Elixir Pills that could save his life? Heaven doesn’t leave a path, does it?

Thus, thinking like this, Chen Xuantian dug in the Maple Forest for quite a while. In the end, unexpectedly, after digging three pits, he found nothing but turned over a family of crazies who died under his sword, occupying the pit directly.

Occupying it was fine. They even left a baby for him to take care of; what the hell...

"Do you drink milk?"

Anyway, stimulated sharply by these three crazies, Chen Xuantian finally snapped out of the demonic barrier, asked the baby in the swaddle, and the baby ignored him. So he shrugged and turned to ask those around him,

"Hey, do any of you have milk?"

A group of bandits squatting by the bonfire, looking at each other, noting that everyone’s pecs are big, but not a drop of milk, shameful,

"No, no."

"We really can’t do this..."

Chen Xuantian was displeased,

"You’ve been robbing for years, can’t even snatch a woman? What’s the point of being a bandit? Might as well be a laborer!"

The bandits sighed,

"We are laborers, couldn’t find work, had to turn to banditry."

"Being laborers didn’t get us wives; being bandits didn’t get us wives. Life is bleak."

"I’m curious, my dad used to farm and found a wife. Why can’t we find wives, working hard, plundering?"

"Women work at rich people’s homes!"

"Makes sense..."

"So we should rob big households! Only big households have money, food, and women! Let’s steal money, food, women!"

"But we can’t beat those who work for the rich masters. That’s why there’s no work. The masters don’t keep idle people..."

"Uh... Working half-day doesn’t get them money or women. Why not join us to rob the wealthy?"

"Maybe some have ideals, believe working will lead to greatness, tomorrow will be better?"

"Foolishness! Who believes such nonsense?"

"I believed it, thought working honestly would save up to marry Little Cui."

"...Did you marry her?"

"No, Little Cui told me to use my urine to see what I am, not to hinder her being thirteenth concubine for wealthy household, plus no pay, chased out by dogs..."

"Oh~ brother~"

"Alright alright! Enough with this nonsense!"

Chen Xuantian was annoyed by the bandits he encountered.

What? Where did the bandits come from?

Hell if he knows where the bandits came from! He doesn’t know them! The sky is high, the earth is vast, the path is long!

He was just coincidentally walking with strangers bandits!

Ahem, ignoring trivial matters, Chen Xuantian calculated impatiently, pointed to the south,

"Go one mile south for milk, you go steal some."

The bandits were stunned, looked at him,

"Milk?"

"Really..."

"Why us?" 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Chen Xuantian spread his hands,

"I have to change his diaper, anyone trade with me?"

The bandits didn’t want to change the diaper, so they rushed out, soon realizing the pointlessness.

Wait, changing a diaper isn’t our business??

But they came, a mile isn’t far, bandits want milk-given woman...

A while later, Chen Xuantian held the baby’s leg, cleaning the baby with Xuanming True Qi, the bandits returned carrying a knocked-out she-wolf,

"Hey! Monk! Fooled us! No woman! Just wolves!"

"He said milk, you’re shouting woman, eat fast, the baby starved silent."

"Hey! Whose side are you on?"

"Come on brothers, compromise, she-wolf’s the same."

Chen Xuantian let the baby suckle, glanced at the bandits, said calmly,

"You’re heading to Nine Yin Mountain to learn swordsmanship."

Why else take this path to Central Plains? Save the world?

The bandits openly discussed,

"Brothers were nobles, recruited by the court, built roads, were unpaid, land taken by wealthy, found a mountain, charged tolls, bridge fees, carried escort goods over mountain, earned tough money."