Past life sage: This life a dual cultivator

Zhan Chen nodded his head after seeing Zhen Wang finishing up the Black wind gang leader. It was according to his expectation.

The feeling of despair gradually lessened and hope started to flicker again in the hearts of women and girls as they saw Zhan Chen and Zhen Wang taking down the powerful Black wind gang.

Zhan Chen walked towards the group of women and girls who were kneeling  on the ground.  He picked up the hands of  one of the girl and removed the rope that was binding her hands together. 

"You are free now", Zhan Chen said to the young girl with a gently who was even youngerthan his current  age. The young girl looked towards Zhan Chen who was looking at her with a clear look in his eyes. 

Zhan Chen pulled her up and looked towards the other girls and women who were stll kneeling  on the ground with their hands tied down together. 

"There is no need to kneel down like this. All of you can stand up and help eachother", Zhan Chen spoke to everyone kneeling on the ground. 

"Thank you young mater", the girl whose hands were untied bowed towards Zhan Chen. She was struggling  to check her emotion as few teardrops still escaped her eyes.

Zhan Chen turned to smile at her and moved towards another girl. Zhen Wang also came to help as both of them helped in removing the ropes of all the women and girls present.

"Thank you warrior"

"Thank you young master", all the women and girls bowed towards Zhan Chen and Zhen Wang. Their expressions were sincere as they really wanted to express their gratitude for rescuing them.

"Relax. All of you can help us in taking care of those girls who were still inside the horse carts", Zhan Chen spoke.

"Young master, we know each other due to proximity  of our villages. We will surely help them as much as we can", an elderly  woman stepped upto reply Zhan Chen.

Zhan Chen nodded his head and moved towards the horse carts kept in a certain distance from the center of the village. 

Zhen Wang also rushed forward to help Zhan Chen. Zhan Chen looked towards  the horse carts and a faint trace of anger appeared in his heart. 

The cultivation world was cruel and Zhan Chen was fully aware of it. But he still did not like it, when innocent non cultivators suffered because of greed and ambition of cultivation world.

There were total four horse carts kept in a distance from the center of the village. All the horse carts were full of young women and girls of nearby villages.

Some had wounds on their bodies and some had ripped clothes as the bandits were cruel to them in their  behaviour.

All of them were looking at Zhan Chen and Zhen Wang with hopeful eyes as they witnessed  how Zhan Chen freed everyone  from the current  village the Black wind gang member had been  attacking. 

"Young master Chen, why can't I  see any men from this village", Zhen Wang asked Zhan Chen  as he approached  towards Zhan Chen from behind. 

"Almost all of them had died and some were gravely injured. Remaining ones were trying  to escape  the Black wind gang with young boys and girls", Zhan Chen replied  after checking  the surrounding area with his soul consciousness. 

Zhen Wang very much wanted to ask Zhan Chen "How do you know?" but he stopped himself after recalling  the inconvenience  deeds of Zhan Chen in the previous night.

Zhan Chem broke upon the lock of the horse cart and helped the women and girls to get down one by one. Zhen Wang also did the same as both of them freed the young women and girls of nearby villages.

"Thank you young master. Thank you for saving us", the girls and women bowed towards  Zhan Chen. Zhen Wang also didn't  what to say as many young girls and women bowed towards him.

"Alright, all of you can take a rest first. This kind of things are mentally challenging. You can return  to your villages after taking  some rest first", Zhan Chen spoke.

The villagers took care of eachother and some of them even slept first due to the exhaustion o such an ordeal. The villagers who were freed in the beginning brought out their stored medicine and food to treat the young women and girls of nearby villages.

"Who of you is Ke Ushi's Mother?", Zhan Chen asked after all the women and girls settled down a little.

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It was already evening when everything related to Ke Ushi and her brother was over. Clear spring valley was an ideal place to take rest. So, the Shen family experts decided to rest for a night in the Clear spring valley. 

It was women's nature to stay clean. So, it was not a surprise  for Zhan Chen when Li Yan, Li Shu and Kai Min made a beeline for the small stream flowing  in the middle of the ground.

Zhan Chen decided to cultivate a little. With the absence of Kai Min and Li Shu, he was entirely free to do as he pleased.

He could  feel some sneaky glances towards him. He turned to look at Ling'er, Su'er and Shen Ruyan's group and smiled towards them. Shen Ruyan was quick to avoid his gaze. Zhan Chen chuckled after seeing  the dodgy look on Shen Ruyan's face. Su'er was also same as she avoided Zhan Chen 's gaze but Ling'er could not avoid Zhan Chen's eyes as a red blush appeared on her beautiful face.

Zhan Chen also turned his eyes to not make others suspicious. He moved a little farther from his place and stopped near a big sized rock. He climbed over it and sat down.

All the distracting thoughts disappeared from his mind as Zhan Chen operated the Clestial yinyang sutra. Moon had yet to move over the mid sky but Zhan Chen could still absorb the yin energy from the cool rays coming from the distant moon.

He stopped absorbing the moonlight after sometime. The divine yinyang diagram on his dantin lit up as it absorbed the yin energy gathered from the moonlight. 

A pure stream of true essene energy gushed out from the Divine yinyang diagram after it absorbed all the yin energy coming from the moon.

Zhan Chen operated the pure stream of true essence energy all over his body. The energy was far from sufficient  to increase his cultivation stage but Zhan Chen could feel visible progress in his cultivation stage. The amount of energy he could absorb from the moon had incresed with the increase in his cultivation base.

Zhan Chen circulated the True essence energy all over his body and did not stop untill the true essence energy completed a few cycles inside his body. 

He opened his eyes and turned to look at the source of curious gazes towards him. The Shen family peak level fifth stage expert smiled towards Zhan Chen after Zhan Chen  turned to look at him and the other fifth stage expert.

He stood up and greeted the Shen family fifth stage experts by slightly bowing his head. Then he turned to look at the other people in surrounding. 

Kai Min, Li Shu and Li Yan had already finished their baths. Both Li Shu and Kai Min were looking more enchanting after finishing  their bath.

Kai Min threw a shy look at Zhan Chen after noticing Zhan Chen  looking  towards her. Li Shu also blushed as she noticed Zhan Chen's gaze on her. As for Li Yan, Zhan Chen only gave her a passing  glance. Li Yan felt uncomfortable  after noticing  Zhan Chen's indifference towards her.

Zhan Chen turned to look at other people but couldn't find Shen Ruyan, Ling'er and Su'er. He spread his soul conciousness and an excited look appear in his eyes after he found out Shen Ruyan, Ling'er and Su'er.

A beautiful scenery was infrnt of him as Zhan Chen saw Shen Ruyan, Su'er and Ling'er taking a bath together. All of them had taken out theur clothers as they were only clad in their undergarments.

Zhan Chen  felt his little brother being excited  as he watched the three beauties taking a bath together. The appearance of Shen Ruyan was especially breathtaking as her undergarments were struggling to hide her natural treasures.

Zhan Chen checked the surrounding  and couldn't  find anyone in the vicinity of Shen Ruyan, Ling'er and Su'er. He noticed old lady Liu Nanxi standing in a distance but her eyes were closed as if she were silently cultivating.

Moreover, she was maintaining a certain distance from the bathing location of Shen Ruyan to not make Shen Ruyan feel uncomfortable. 

"I don't care if she is there. If she is sensible,  she will make way for me", Zhan Chen thought to himself. His figure flashed as he moved towards the opposite direction of the stream.

(To be continued......)