Once he did so, he hurriedly took the spatial ring of the officer, his hat and boots and then ran off in a direction while putting his ears out.
Now, he had deployed his Enhanced Hearing to listen for any footstep that might be approaching him from far.
And as he ran, all that was in his mind was to leave the town, since he strongly felt that it was no longer safe for him to stay in.
So, with his Enhanced Hearing, he tried to perceive the sounds of grasses or leaves from branches of trees that would be swaying in the breeze or wind blowing past them. He wanted to use this as a compass to find his way into the forest, then maybe a valley which was what he was really looking for.
Not long, with his Super Hearing ability, he was able to locate a place that seemed like hundreds to thousands of trees grew there. He was able to know this using his Echolocation ability which created clear images of what produced those sounds in his head. So, he was able to use them to determine were a large forest was located.
He then headed for that place where he saw in his mind that large numbers of trees grew in.
Not long, he arrived there and began to walk past the trees to go to it far depth.
But before he tried to do so, he shot up towards the branch of a tree and sat down on it.
He then communicated with his Animal Spirit "Blood Wolf God, how do I revert from my vampiric form to my usual human form?" He asked urgently.
"Simple. Just think of changing. And you will revert back to your normal human form" His Animal Spirit answered.
"Oh, okay" Xiao Lin said.
He then thought of changing back to his human form. And to his surprise, his body immediately transformed.
His unusually long hair which was blood-red in color, instantly turned dark in color and returned to it previous length before his vampiric transformation. Same with his thick, diamond-lustering claws which grew shorter in length to become ordinary fingernails again. Basically everything about him reverted. However, his skin color didn't change. It remained as it were, pale in color, like that of a person that was many steps closer to his death.
Seeing that he had reverted, more like partially reverted, Xiao Lin nodded his head and then leaped down from the large tree branch to continue moving towards the heart, the center of this densely-populated forest.
***
Not long as Xiao Lin moved at a high speed towards the center of the massive forest, a huge, resplendent ray of Spiritual Energy suddenly shot towards him from afar.
Xiao Lin's eyes widened in shock from the immenseness of the Spiritual Energy attack that was suddenly launched at him. And as an attack that could kill him, since he could perceive the annihilating power possessed by the Spiritual Energy ray from where he was, Xiao Lin didn't bother to defend himself from it as he quickly launched himself many feet above the ground and instantly executed an aerial cartwheel above it, cleanly evading the attack in the process.
Then when he firmly landed back to his feet from his execution of the high-altitude Aerial Cartwheel to evade the unexpected attack, a large number of people dressed in black and wearing masks suddenly appeared before him with Bows, Crossbows, Spears, Blades and other sort of weapons in their hands pointed at him.
Then someone who was towering in size slowly descended from the air to the ground and looked at Xiao Lin with a cold gaze in his eyes that also had a concealed expression of shock in them.
This person was surprised at how Xiao Lin dodged his attack. That was a nice evasion skill that Xiao Lin exhibited. Besides, Xiao Lin's jumping power was bewildering, since he easily achieved a height that only a 7th-layer or 8th-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage cultivator should be able to achieve. But Xiao Lin easily did it while being a 3rd-layer Spiritual Ascendant. It was very puzzling to him. But he wouldn't know that Xiao Lin had Increased Physical Strength due to being a Vampire.
"Brat, who the heck are you and what in the name of bloody hell do you want in the Blackheart Forest?" The man asked with unbridled harshness in his tone.
Xiao Lin looked at the man and guessed that he was the one that fired that immense Spiritual Energy ray at him, as only he should be able to put out such an enormous ray of Spiritual Energy as an attack due to the cultivation level that he was, which was the Spiritual Firmament Ruler stage, a cultivation stage that one would enter when one breaks through the 11th-layer Spirit Earthking stage; a stage which lies just above the Mortal Spiritual stage.
And Xiao Lin who had long realized that this must be a bandit group, had a dangerous smile creep up in his heart.
'Finally!!'
He screamed inwardly with an eye that shone with great lust within for all that he wanted and greatly desired, and these were: men, resources, power and fame.
He then pictured himself killing this bandit group leader and the others who will stand in his way to becoming the leader of this group, and then be worshipped in awe, dread and reverence by the rest of the bandits.
'Well, that's a really long way to go. But I will eventually get there someday. And I will kill absolutely everyone that will stand in my way to seizing the throne of authority to becoming the leader of this group of bandits.' He said inwardly while concealing his ominous intent from leaking out from him.
He then quickly gave a bold response to the questions that he was asked by the bandit group leader.
"Actually, I ran into this forest from a particular town because I killed two Nightwatch government officers who were after me for stealing something from a house that belonged to mortals." Xiao Lin said as he twisted the truth, causing both the leader of the bandit group and the rest of the bandits to open their mouth wide in shock.
"Kid, you did what?" The bandit leader asked again to confirm what he heard.
"I killed two government officers that were on patrol this night. Then I decisively ran into this forest to hide myself away so that I wouldn't be captured and incarcerated by other government officers who are already out and would be looking for me now with wrath and vengeance exuding unboundedly from their bodies." Xiao Lin answered.
The bandits heard this and couldn't help but be shocked again. Same with the bandit group leader who began to look at Xiao Lin with an indescribable gaze in his eyes.
"How did you do that?" The bandit group leader asked.
"Well, I have my own methods. But it was with unceasing and sudden, unexpected attacks that I could take them down." Xiao Lin responded.
"Do you have proof of what you did? I don't want to entirely believe all that you are saying" The bandit group leader said.
Immediately the bandit group leader asked this, the rest of the bandits looked to see if Xiao Lin would be able to provide evidence of what he claimed that he did.
Xiao Lin smiled.
He then produced the two hats and boots that he took from the two officers that he killed.
Once Xiao Lin dropped these items to the ground for everyone that had eyes to see, the bandits and their leader had their sharply gazing eyes to widen with intense shock.
"These are government officer's hats and boots." One said to the others who only nodded their heads in agreements. Then they deeply inhaled with total belief of what Xiao Lin mentioned appearing in heir hearts.
"Kid, we are a bandit group. Would you like to join? With us, you would be safe!" The bandit group leader quickly said without thinking twice.
"Yea, I have realized that since and would love to join. But, would I be able to get lot of benefits from this group if I join?" Xiao Lin replied and then asked his own question.
Haha!
The bandit group leader laughed raucously.
He then said "Sure. There are lot of benefits to be obtained. You won't regret joining this group of mine. Besides, we treat ourselves as brothers in this group, unlike in other groups where they treat their men as actual slaves. So, you would want to join this group and not any other group? Haha!"
The bandit leader spoke and ended his statement with a laugh.
Xiao Lin nodded.
"Alright. I will join." He said.
The bandit group leader nodded his head.
He then asked "What would you like to be called?"
"Bloodfang" Xiao Lin responded.
"Hmm. That is a dreadful name. I like it." The bandit group leader said and grinned.
He then said "Alright Bloodfang. Welcome to the Heavensvault Bandit group."
Xiao Lin nodded his head.
He then said "Thank you for accepting me into your bandit group. And I promise to make the biggest and largest contribution to the development of this group."
Hahahaha!
The bandit group leader and the rest of the bandits broke into raucous laughter.
"Well, it's easier said than done, kid. You are still far from surpassing the achievements that each of us have made. So, buckle up, as you are in for a really long ride of extremely dangerous adventures that is filled to the brim with near-death experiences. Haha!" Someone came forward and said with laughter while Xiao Lin only nodded his head with an indecipherable smile hung on his lips.