I can push my cultivation progress to the end

It was from this bandit's mouth that Li Hai gradually learned that the so-called 'Rogue Alliance Land' was a derogatory term given to this place by the Jing Dynasty people.

The people of the Rogue Alliance themselves usually referred to this place as… the Martial Realm.

The full name being, the Rogue Alliance Martial Realm.

As for the desert where Li Hai was currently located, it was called the 'Hundred Rivers Territory'.

It belonged to the Northern Wilderness, Eastern Plains, Western Fields, Central Earth, and Southern State, one of the five regions of the Martial Realm, the Northern Wilderness.

Located at the northernmost end of the Martial Realm, it was closely connected to the Two Realms Mountain Range that enveloped the entire Martial Realm.

At the same time, from the bandit's mouth, Li Hai also learned that the mountain passage he had previously walked was not the only road connecting the realms.

Besides that road, there were actually hundreds of mountain passages.

And the exits of these roads were all connected to one or more narrow and long canyons.

Thus, under the penetration of hundreds of long and narrow sandstone canyons, this desert land was cut into a disorderly and fragmented state.

Over time, this desolate territory became known as the Hundred Rivers Territory.

According to these bandits, hidden in a corner of this vast and desolate Hundred Rivers Desert was a sect called the Blade Soul Valley.

However, this Blade Soul Valley, rumored to be one of the Three Saints and Nine Sects of the Rogue Alliance Martial Realm, was unknown to anyone except the members of this sect.

Li Hai himself didn't care about these things. He just wanted to find a large sect as soon as possible, fight his way in, and then find the sect's leader, beat him up first, and then ask him if he knew An Pingxi and where Xuan Nie was.

Perhaps influenced by the manic spiritual energy of the outside world, or perhaps because he was already burning with anger, Li Hai now only wanted to kill people.

The best target, of course, was to find An Pingxi and give him a good beating. If he couldn't find him for the time being, it wouldn't be impossible to find another target to make do with.

Subsequently, after asking these bandits about the location of the only large city in the Hundred Rivers Territory, Li Hai prepared to kill all these bandits who had disregarded countless lives.

But perhaps out of curiosity, before taking action, Li Hai asked these bandits a question:

"Do you regret becoming bandits?"

Upon hearing this question, these bandits, who were kneeling on the ground waiting to die, all shook their heads decisively, saying that they did not regret it.

Seeing the bandits in this state, Li Hai couldn't help but ask strangely:

"Just because you became bandits, you will die later, so why don't you regret it?"

Unexpectedly, these bandits asked strangely in return: "Die is die, why regret? What's the use of regretting?"

Upon hearing this answer, Li Hai suddenly realized what the general character of the people in the Martial Realm was.

That is, the people in the Martial Realm are still afraid of death, but they will still be bad to the end, and regret is absolutely impossible.

"Good, bad in an open and aboveboard manner."

Li Hai gave a thumbs up and praised, "You are more courageous than many so-called experts in the Jing Dynasty."

After saying that, he held the crimson steel whip and swept it in a circle, blasting all the bandits kneeling on the ground waiting to die with one whip, turning them all into piles of bloody flesh, with no survivors.

Afterwards, Li Hai habitually pinched his fingers and formed a seal, wanting to use a levitation technique to fly into the sky.

But unexpectedly, he… he actually failed.

Not believing in evil, Li Hai then cast spells repeatedly.

But to his surprise, no matter what kind of spell he used, as long as his mana appeared outside, it would instantly lose control and disintegrate and disappear.

It was as if this Rogue Alliance Martial Realm extremely disliked magic.

In this regard, Li Hai boldly speculated that this may also be due to the excessive mania of the spiritual energy in this realm, so manic that it could not tolerate mana being in it.

So, helplessly, Li Hai could only abandon the spells, relying on his two legs to constantly pedal and step on the air, all the way with explosive sounds and whistling winds, speeding towards the only large city in the Hundred Rivers Territory, a hundred and eighty miles away - Hundred Rivers City.

After rushing through a hundred and eighty miles of sky like a thunder god spreading electricity, Li Hai quickly arrived at Hundred Rivers City, which, according to the bandits, was actually the largest place for selling stolen goods in this area, both openly and secretly.

It was only after arriving at this city and entering the city that he realized what a valiant folk custom was.

Just after walking into this Hundred Rivers City, in just a short while of leisurely strolling, Li Hai actually witnessed twelve or thirteen incidents where people were punching and kicking each other for ridiculous reasons such as "What are you looking at?" "What's wrong with looking at you?".

And the passers-by showed no surprise at all, even too lazy to take a look, as if this was a common occurrence.

However, Li Hai also found that, like this kind of fight caused by verbal disputes and gazes, it usually only ended with each person suffering some superficial wounds and shedding some blood.

But this did not mean that there were no death matches. They still existed. At least Li Hai witnessed one.

Those were two louse-bearded strong men, who were originally good friends, but they fought each other with knives and axes just because of the question of who would pay the bill for drinking.

In the end, one died and one was injured.

The injured one limped away, laughing loudly amidst the applause and cheers of the surrounding spectators.

But the dead one was swarmed by several beggars who had been waiting by the roadside, dragged to a corner of the street, and then quickly stripped naked and thrown into the nearby dirty water ditch.

Li Hai, who was passing by the roadside, casually glanced and found that there were more than one corpse floating in the ditch.

And not only men were like this, but the women in this Hundred Rivers City were also all fierce.

Li Hai saw a person with a pointed mouth and monkey cheeks in the crowd on the street, grinning lewdly and reaching out to touch a young girl walking in front.

Immediately, the girl seemed to sense something, looked back, and without hesitation, angrily cursed and pulled out a dagger from her waist, stabbing it fiercely into the chest of the person behind her.

One knife was not enough, she even stabbed three knives in a row, until she knocked the person to the ground, then wiped the blood off her body and continued to stroll the street as if nothing had happened.

And the wretched man who was stabbed to death on the ground would also be dragged away by the beggars waiting by the roadside, and finally stripped naked and thrown into the stinking ditch, becoming another nameless floating corpse.