Zhu Xuan moved fast to deal a heavy injury to Blood claw, but he suddenly used his movement technique and gained distance away from Zhu Xuan.

He stopped and looked at the dead bodies of Tiger claw and others. He was seething with anger and charged at Zhu Xuan instead of retreating. He formed claws in both of his hand and attacked with ferocity. Zhu Xuan tried to attack him with a lightning Qi, but blood claw dodged that and with his other hand went straight for his abdomen and hit it straight. He flew off with severe internal injury and fell down in a distance.

He got up and moved to avoid another attack from blood claw. He knew he was in a very critical situation. Even though, both of them are injured severely, loss of one of his hand created a handicap for Zhu Xuan.

He thought hard while dodging the frenzied attacks of blood claw and suddenly he remembered something he neglected "I thought his hands are different from the other leaders because he achieved a higher stage in his technique than the leaders, but what if that wasn't the reason and it is because he cultivated his body with metal element and that helped him advance in that unknown technique."

As he thought of that, he tried to form a lightning net with one of his hand. But forming a lightning net was slow and not effective with just one hand. He got a step slow because of that and another hit from blood claw landed on his body. This time he flew with his few ribs broken. He got up with pain and spit blood from his mouth.

He felt grateful for properly practising the Earth element defence technique, without that he would have died long back. It helped avoiding major serious injuries for him. When he was feeling grateful, he suddenly got another idea "What if I use lightning Qi to form a layer around my body like earth element Qi."

He immediately started forming another lightning net slowly, but instead of throwing it towards blood claw, he started making it spread and form a layer around his body and completely covering himself with it. Another attack came right at the moment, but Zhu Xuan didn't dodge this attack and formed a sword with lightning to slash at blood claw's chest.

Blood claw jolted in shock when his hand touched the layer on Zhu Xuan's body and impact of his attack reduced and only caused a minor injury for Zhu Xuan.

Zhu Xuan pressed on attack with all his strength. Blood claw used his movement to gain distance from the attack range of the sword, but he didn't expect Zhu Xuan to throw the sword at him. It hit him perfectly and he stopped his movement in shock. Zhu Xuan reached at him with full speed and formed a lightning ball and threw it right in his chest above his heart.

He reached and tackled Blood claw with his legs so that he can't escape and formed another lightning ball and pressed it above his heart. Blood claw's heart ruptured and he started bleeding all over. He attacked with pain and frenzy at Zhu Xuan, but Zhu Xuan endured the pain and didn't let go of Blood claw; he increased his lightning Qi multiple times and injected it in Blood claw's heart.

His heart suddenly burst out not able to take the amount of lightning Q infused in it and Blood claw died while struggling miserably.

Zhu Xuan let go of Blood claw and fell right beside him exhausted.

After few minutes of resting, he got up and swallowed some healing pills. He know he can't stay here for long with his injuries. He moved towards other dead people and looted their possession, but he was confused when he didn't find anything with Blood claw. Then he remembered Blood claw came in frenzy because of his sudden attack and he might have left everything in his house.

Zhu Xuan looked at Blood claw's house in the distance.

He figured all of Blood claw's treasures should be in his house. So he dragged blood claw's body and walked towards his house. He believed if some surviving bandits came and found blood claw's house closed and blood claw's missing, they will think their commander was in a fight and currently recuperating from his injuries inside his house and won't disturb him.

He entered the house and locked the door. He searched the entire house and didn't find anything worth in Blood claw's place.

"Maybe he hid it somewhere where no one can find, like a hidden room. Let me heal my injuries first and then I will search thoroughly." He thought. Even though his hand will take from a week to ten days to heal completely, he should heal his other injuries to be ready for another battle just to be safe.

He sat in a stone bed and started circulating his Qi and healing himself while taking more healing pills. Few hours passed and most of his injuries were healed, except for his broken bones and internal injuries. He got up and started searching the house again with more detail, looking for any hidden room or mechanisms, but he failed to find any such treasure room.

He started thinking "Where could this guy have hidden his treasures? Maybe he hid it somewhere else and not at his house? Wait, something is not right. Even though he was in an urgency to move towards the direction of the fight, cultivators are bound to carry at least some pills with them all the time. But he didn't have anything with him."

Suddenly he thought of something and rushed towards Blood claw's body with anticipation. He looked at his hand and found a ring. It was a silver ring with a strange symbol that looked like a tree of life in Earth.

He got too excited looking at the ring and carefully removed it from Blood claw's hands. He tried to inject his Qi into it, but found it was blocked by some force. He thought about a while, and with excitement he pricked his fingers and let some blood on the ring. It gave a buzz sound and absorbed the blood; he tried to inject his Qi again and this time he found a space of big room filled with treasures about the size of five cubic meters filled with treasures.

Zhu Xuan laughed out loud and jumped in joy like a kid.

Since he transmigrated to this world, there are many things he was looking forward to, and one of it was getting a spatial ring. He read too many novels in Earth to know about the awesomeness of spatial ring. But he was disappointed to realise that no one was wearing any spatial rings and thought maybe there are no spatial rings in this world.

But after searching many books in the library, he found spatial rings are available, but they are extremely rare to be owned by any random cultivators. According to the records, there were only less than twenty known spatial rings in the entire Lei Shu kingdom. So he always dreamt of getting himself a spatial ring one day when he is powerul.

But, never did he expect to get one so suddenly and that's why he is jumping in joy like a small kid. He didn't care about not receiving rewards for this mission anymore or the size of the spatial ring, all he cared about was now he owned a spatial ring.

After jumping up and down for a while, he calmed himself down and looked into the spatial ring again.

He found variety of resources inside the spatial ring, especially tens of high grade elemental stones of different categories. He also found various weapons, numerous pills, techniques and mantra scrolls, and herbs and rare treasures some of them he had no clue what they are and how to use them. He also found few chests filled with gold bars.

He was happy that he has so many materials and he doesn't need to worry about any resources for quite a while for his cultivation. More than that, he was happy that he doesn't need to carry all his things with him and store them in his spatial ring.

After verifying everything, he moved towards the prisoner's area inside the stronghold. He learned from other bandits, on the day he infiltrated, that all the young men and women they captured from villages were sent to the prison and only the leaders and the commander were allowed inside. Even they didn't know, why they had captured so many people and what happened to them inside the prison.

He moved fast towards the prison and found it was locked by a bizarre mechanism with a key hole. He searched the spatial ring and found a key that fit the key hole.

He unlocked the prison entrance and entered inside, but he stood there shocked by the scene he saw inside the prison.