THE LIGHTNING EMPEROR

The Moon Shadow Group

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Fang An stepped his feet through the not-so-crowded streets, the few people who passed by him would definitely stare at Fang An with astonished gazes.

Of course the center of attention of everyone who passed Fang An was Fang An's hair color which was entirely white.

Usually the color of the hair will be the same as the color of the eyebrows, but Fang An's eyebrows are actually black like people in general.

"I don't know how vast this Green Mainland Continent is, is it the same as the Continent I used to be or smaller?" feng Huang's voice spoke to comfort Fang An so as not to get bored.

"I also don't know teacher, after all this is for the first time I'm going to travel far!" replied Fang An.

"If you see the people who cross paths with you, it seems like there is a village ahead, maybe we can stop by the village to stay over!" said Feng Huang.

Fang An looked at his father's gift ring then he glanced towards the large wood that was a bit away from the road.

"I'll see the contents of this ring first," Fang An muttered then he turned towards the direction towards the large wood.

After being behind the huge wood, Fang An tried to see the contents of his Earth storage Ring.

There were about 110 Ziyuan and dozens of gold coins as well as several tens of silver coins, another balm of change clothes, and two Spiritual Swords.

"This Ziyuan must belong to my father as well as a few others, they are all willing to give their Ziyuan for my travel purposes!" muttered Fang An.

Fang An leaned his body towards the west, where the sun was already very inclined and soon it would be dark.

"We can find lodging in a nearby village, this money is more than enough for my trip!" fang An said then he got up and continued on his way again.

The longer the people passing the less, while the sun is already getting lower in the west direction.

"Is there no village ahead?" muttered Fang An who was starting to feel worried, all this time he had never slept in the wild, except when he did a retreat in the waterfall.

"Son, where are you going?" a middle-aged woman greeted Fang An from behind.

"I want to go south, madam?" fang An replied after turning around and looking at the Woman.

"Yes I know you're walking south, but I'm asking your destination son! Or are you lost?" ask the woman.

"Not really!" replied Feng An.

"You're just alone? Be brave enough also for a child as young as you to travel alone, just like this, I happen to be going to Tinsang village, how about we both go there?"

Fang An thought for a moment then he nodded without feeling the slightest suspicion.

The two of them ended up walking together towards Tinsang Village, while the woman observed Fang An closely.

"What's your name, son?"

"Fang An mistress!" replied Fang An.

"Fang An's..! My name is Xia Yishi," said the woman with a gentle smile.

"Miss Xia, are you from Chang Lan City?" ask Fang An.

"No, I come from a village a little far south, I went to Chang Lan city just to see relatives, and now I'm going home!" replied Xia Yishi.

Fang An simply nodded, while Feng Huang spoke to Fang An from inside his necklace, "Be careful Fang An, don't easily trust people you just know, you better stay alert," said Feng Huang.

"Good teacher!" replied Fang An.

Just as the sun was setting, the two of them had reached the outskirts of the village which was quite densely built, the village was unlike the small Shengming Village.

"Are you going to stay at the inn too?" asked Xia Yishi.

"True Madam!" replied Fang An.

"No need to find an inn, I happen to have a friend here, so you come with me to stay there!"

"Thank you Madam, but I'll stay at the inn!" said Fang An who subtly refused.

"Madam, I know the goodwill of Madam, but I don't want to trouble the madam and the madam's friend!" fang An said that he refused because he still remembered his teacher's warning.

"Of Fang An, if you don't come, tomorrow I will travel alone again, well if we meet, otherwise who will be my traveling companion tomorrow? Moreover, my village is still very far away, therefore I need a chatter friend rather not lonely, so would ya?" Xia Yishi continued to force Fang An.

"If tomorrow we are indeed paired to meet and travel together, then tomorrow we will definitely meet again Madam! Now I say goodbye, and thank you for traveling together!" fang An said as he cupped his hands together and turned to leave.

"You're young, but your vigilance is very high, young man, it's a shame that unique young man I have to let go!" xia Yishi's words made Fang An stop his steps and turn towards Xia Yishi.

"What does Madam mean?" ask Fang An.

Xia Yishi smiled widely then he raised his hand up and instantly, there was a net that fell down from above covering Fang An's body.

Fang An was clearly shocked and did not have time to dodge so he was trapped inside a large and wide and extremely strong net.

"What does this mean, madam? Why did you arrest me?" fang An asked as he tried to break away.

Xia Yishi chuckled softly after which six people suddenly just came and stood beside Xia Yishi.

"It looks like the catch this time is very good Xia, I'm sure there will be many merchants who will give a high price to buy this youngster!" said one of the burly middle-aged men.

Since they were still on the outskirts of the Village, so there was no one there except Fang An and Xia Yishi and his six friends.

"Take me off..! I'm not a tradable child" Fang An said as he rebelled.

"Shut up boy..! Sao Suo, quickly drag this child to the headquarters and enter him with the other captives," Xia Yishi said.

Hearing that, Fang An tried to rebel, only that the net was too strong, too strong, and from the situation Fang An already understood that he had been captured by a group that often kidnapped children to be sold as slaves.

Fang An remembered that there used to be one of the children in his village who disappeared, after which the residents immediately looked for him, but not also found, Fang An was convinced that the boy must have been kidnapped by an unknown group.

Fang An was dragged with his net into one of the houses, after arriving inside, one of them opened a beam on the ground and it turned out that there was a staircase leading down.

They took Fang An to a rather dark and stuffy room, after that Fang An was thrown into the room then the door from the iron bars was tightly closed and then wrapped around a large chain and in the key with a Magic Spell Paper.

Fang An tried to get out of the net, after trying for some time, he was finally out.

Fang An was surprised when he looked around him, because in the prison-like room there were about 13 boys from boy and girl, some were the same age as him and some were older, too, even worse, there were three small children who were around 6 to 8 years old.

"Are you all victims of their abductions?" ask Fang An.

One of the older children nodded, the 13 children were all thin, it could be seen if they were malnourished until their shoulder bones were clearly visible.

"Friends, there's no point in rebelling, we all here can't do anything, if anyone dares to try to escape, they don't hesitate to kill us!" said one of the girls who was older than Fang An.

"What do they really want?" ask Fang An.

"They catch us for sale to merchants to be laborers or servants, usually those who would buy from far away, he said, and they will come here to choose for themselves who they want to buy, if the chosen child refuses, they will be dragged into the torture chamber and then will be flogged until the skin is peeled off, if they still don't want to, then they'll whip us to death!" said the other boy.

"What a cruelty they are! Don't any of you have the ability to resist?" ask Fang An.

"There used to be one boy who had the ability of a Cultivator, otherwise the boy said that he was at the Yu Zao Level 7 stage, if not wrong, but the young man died from daring to fight, let alone the kidnappers said the boy was a Cultivator who was at the Yu Zao stage and the strongest one was at the Yu Zhi stage, said the child was a Cultivator who was at the Yu Zao stage, after telling us, the young man tried to help us free, but the young man had to die, and his body was hung in front of us to rot after that they brought his body to give to the Three-tailed Wolf!" one of them told me.

Fang An was pensive at the thought of it, he did not expect that his self who had just stepped foot adventuring would be greeted by such a big problem.

"The child thief group, what exactly is the name of this group?" fang An murmured yet everyone could hear Fang An mutter.

"This is the Moon Shadow Group!" answer one of them.

"This is Fang An's first test, this time you should be able to free yourself and save all of them, I know this is very risky, but this is where you should be able to hone your thinking skills, how do we get out and save them? If you get caught later, then you should be able to use your wits to fight them all!" said Feng Huang.

"Is this exercise included?" ask Fang An.

"Yes! Real combat training, as well as brain training like playing chess!" replied Feng Huang.

Fang An smiled wryly, actually he felt a little if there were some people who had abilities in the room, only that Fang An had not been too able to measure the abilities of others.

"I'll try to think about it teacher!" fang An said after that he looked at all the children who were looking at him closely, of course their gazes were more focused towards Fang An's hair.