At dusk, the group of elderly people returned to the village. They cried and yelled, denouncing the bandits for their cruelty.0

If Li Banfeng had been present, he would have tried to talk some sense into them no matter what. It was only natural that he was cruel. How could he rob people without being cruel?4

The villagers had tried both soft and hard approaches to deal with the bandit problem, but none of them had worked. Several villages discussed the matter and decided that they had to ask the Sage's disciples to step in.0

The offerings they had prepared for the Sage had been snatched away by bandits. Surely, the Sage's disciples couldn't just stand by and do nothing!0

However, the Sage's disciples were not easy to deal with. If anything displeased them even slightly, they would hit people.0

Nevertheless, the villagers were sincere in their devotion to the Sage. They could endure beatings and scoldings alike, all for the sake of showing their sincerity to the Sage.0

They knelt for a long time in front of the disciples' gates, refusing to rise. They just kept begging the disciples to report the situation in the villages to Sage's Peak.0

Now it was the disciples' turn to feel troubled. The villagers were expressing their sincerity to the Sage, and as the Sage's...0