I can push my cultivation progress to the end

The Xia Alliance, or 侠义盟, is simply an abbreviation of the Righteous Alliance, as Li Hai learned from the numerous documents in the Demon Slaying Division's database.

This so-called Righteous Alliance has existed for even longer than the Great Jing Dynasty.

According to historical records, this alliance, established jointly by various sects, can be traced back to the early days of the pre-Xuan states, more than three thousand years ago.

However, it was not until the establishment of the Great Xuan Dynasty, which prioritized imperial power and began to severely oppress various sects, factions, and wandering martial artists within its borders, that this loose and weak alliance organization absorbed many sects and martial artists who fled from the Great Xuan territory.

In just a hundred years, it rapidly grew stronger, so strong that it could temporarily rival the Great Xuan Dynasty.

From then on, a vast area in the southwest of the Great Xuan border was completely occupied by the Righteous Alliance, becoming a land ruled purely by martial arts experts without a king or emperor.

Coincidentally, the Great Jing Dynasty, which overthrew the Great Xuan Dynasty, also prioritized imperial power during the imperial era.

It decreed that any martial artist in the realm who did not serve the Jing Dynasty would be regarded as a rebel.

Those who refused to submit would face continuous pursuit and assassination until death.

This harsh situation persisted until the Great Jing entered the era of co-rule by various kings, which brought some relief.

However, the space for relaxation was still limited overall.

Martial artists within the Jing Dynasty still needed to register with relevant departments and were subject to various restrictions in their daily lives.

The second path was to directly leave the Great Jing and escape into the chaotic land of the Xia Alliance, to embrace the martial arts society that valued courage and fighting.

In fact, throughout the thousand-year history of the Great Jing, many martial artists have done just that.

Some of them were unruly and loved freedom, prioritizing not being controlled, so they would eventually take the initiative to step into that chaotic land.

Others had violated the law and committed crimes but did not want to submit to the law and be punished, so they had no choice but to flee the Great Jing and escape into the territory of the Xia Alliance.

In short, despite saying so much, Li Hai was still completely ignorant and did not fully understand the true situation in the chaotic land of the Xia Alliance.

This was because there was hardly any information about the internal affairs of the chaotic land in the numerous documents in the Demon Slaying Division's database.

It was only vaguely recorded that the people of the Xia Alliance were very resistant to and even hostile towards the Great Jing.

It was also recorded that the Heavenly Will, Earthly Intent, essence, and spiritual energy of that region were all very different from those of the Great Jing.

Therefore, the internal rules of heaven and earth and the natural ecology of the Xia Alliance region may also be completely different from those of the Great Jing.

"Completely different—"

Li Hai, sitting in his chair in the Azure Sky Ark, thought, "How different could it be? Hmm~ There must be many Grandmaster-level martial artists in this chaotic land of the Xia Alliance.

There may even be unrivaled overlords, otherwise, how could these Xia Alliance martial artists be able to rival the Great Xuan and Great Jing Dynasties?"

Just as he was pondering, the Azure Sky Ark slowly decelerated and stopped in the vast sky.

He immediately knew that he had arrived at his destination.

Baolan Province, southwest.

In front of a severely damaged group of buildings, a plaza about four thousand seven hundred miles from the edge of the chaotic land of the Xia Alliance, among the continuous mountains.

Qiu Zhenglong, the tall and sturdy commander of the Demon Slaying Division headquarters, was standing quietly on the plaza with a group of Demon Slaying Captains, each with a solemn expression and not saying a word, as if waiting for the arrival of a big shot.

The reason for being so solemn and respectful was that the big shot who was about to arrive here today was none other than Li Hai, the Young Military Supervisor who was now considered to be extremely powerful in the Demon Slaying Division and was also known by many as the number one martial arts grandmaster in the world.

While waiting for Li Hai, the Demon Slaying Captains of Baolan Province were filled with heavy, worried, and uneasy thoughts.

As a result, the atmosphere of the entire plaza became much more heavy and stagnant.

In this heavy atmosphere, the Azure Sky Ark slowly descended from the sky and steadily landed at the end of the plaza.

Immediately, Li Hai, with his hands behind his back and a blank expression, slowly walked out of a door on the surface of the Sky Ark.

At the same time, hundreds of heavily armored strong men, all of Steel Grade, also orderly disembarked from the other doors of the Sky Ark.

After disembarking, they silently lined up behind Li Hai, following him step by step towards Qiu Zhenglong and the others.

After seeing so many Steel Grade martial artists appear at the same time, Qiu Zhenglong and the others in the Baolan Province branch of the Demon Slaying Division immediately changed their expressions and their eyes were shocked.

They were shocked at where this Young Military Supervisor had found so many Steel Grade private soldiers?

Their number was even greater than the number of Steel Grade martial artists in the entire Baolan Province branch of the Demon Slaying Division.

But this group of people did not know that these private soldiers were not found, but were mass-produced by Li Hai through the "Transformation Skill" during this period.

As for the candidates used, they were precisely the people from Ox Horn Town in Dragon Mountain.

Since that day, after being pulled back to the human world from the Yellow Springs Road by Li Hai, the hundreds of thousands of common people in the entire Ox Horn Town and even Zhoujiabao had respected and worshiped him to the extreme, and were grateful to the point of tears, even willing to be his servants.

So, when Li Hai himself returned to Ox Horn Town and expressed his intention to recruit a hundred young men as private soldiers, the entire town went completely crazy.

Not only were they ecstatic to be able to live within the Great Jing, but they were even more ecstatic to be able to serve and repay Li Hai under his command.

So, in just one day, a hundred young men who had finally won after fierce competition.

Under the extremely envious eyes of everyone else, they boarded the Azure Sky Ark with their families.

They went to the Great Jing Central Capital with Li Hai, and in the days that followed, they were transformed and promoted into Steel Grade martial artists, which they had never dared to imagine before.

After walking to Qiu Zhenglong, Li Hai did not wait for the other party to say a word before coldly issuing an order to the hundred Steel Grade martial artists from Ox Horn Town behind him:

"Arrest this Qiu Zhenglong for me!"

Upon hearing Li Hai's order, the hundred martial artists rushed out without hesitation.

They surrounded the bewildered Qiu Zhenglong, and without fear of his terrifying strength at the Thousand Army level, they walked forward one by one, holding ropes and quickly binding him on the spot.