I can push my cultivation progress to the end

Crack!

Crack, crack!

Heavy cumulonimbus clouds, thunder and lightning.

Beneath the dreary, rainy sky, the boundless wilderness stretched out like a giant blanket towards the horizon, extending to the very edge of the earth.

And the chilling wind and rain, making this heaven and earth even more gloomy, were blowing from the increasingly dark horizon.

Blowing millions of withered yellow grasses on the earth, shivering up and down, like the waves of the sea, undulating endlessly.

Occasionally, a few jagged trees stood tall, swaying in the wind and rain, resembling grimacing ghosts, adding a touch of gloom to this wilderness.

But this gloom was torn to shreds in the next second by a figure flying from the end of the horizon, whistling like a meteor.

That's right, this figure is Li Hai, rushing forward at full speed.

Boom!

Carrying a rolling, roaring white sonic boom cloud, he pierced through layers of rain, bringing a long string of steaming water vapor, and suddenly sped across the boundless wilderness, like a sickle, forcibly plowing a thick crack between the endless, desolate yellow grass below.

This scene was clearly the fierce wind pressure bursting out when Li Hai was speeding through the air, creating a hideous scar on this wilderness.

But precisely because Li Hai's speed was too fast, this thick crack, with grass leaves flying and mud splashing, was like an endlessly growing earth dragon, instantly following his figure, smashing rocks, splitting trees, and piercing through the entire wilderness, reaching the other horizon submerged in the vast wind and rain.

However, although he caused such a commotion, Li Hai himself did not care about these things.

Only because he was currently recalling the information about the Black Wolf Bandit's leader... that is, Zhou Hu's master... Lang Yunsheng, which he had obtained from Zhou Hu and Zhou Yugen.

And in the mouths of these two father and son, this person's image was completely different.

In Zhou Hu's eyes, Lang Yunsheng was a generous, heroic, and supremely skilled martial artist, worthy of his respect and devotion.

But in his father Zhou Yugen's eyes, Lang Yunsheng was a shameless, despicable, and filthy old beast, whom he couldn't wait to cut into a thousand pieces and tear limb from limb.

The reason why Lang Yunsheng had such different evaluations in the eyes of the two father and son was closely related to his little-known personal habits.

His habit was to like other people's wives.

Yes, the same virtue as Cao Cao.

And Zhou Yugen's hatred for Lang Yunsheng was related to this.

Even more interestingly, decades ago, when Zhou Yugen was still a young and energetic teenager, he had studied martial arts under Lang Yunsheng.

Yes, Zhou Yugen was also Lang Yunsheng's disciple; he and his son were fellow disciples.

At that time, Zhou Yugen had a childhood sweetheart who grew up with him, and together they became disciples under Lang Yunsheng, becoming senior brother and sister.

Then, after several years of learning, the two, whose feelings grew deeper, naturally made a marriage agreement.

But when the two officially got married after a few more years, Lang Yunsheng became interested in his disciple—Zhou Yugen's junior sister.

Using some kind of bizarre method, Lang Yunsheng actually hooked up with Zhou Yugen's wife in a short period of time, and maintained this relationship for as long as three years.

Zhou Yugen was completely unaware of this.

Until three years later, Lang Yunsheng, in order to seek excitement, deliberately took advantage of Zhou Yugen's return home...

In short, Zhou Yugen was so stimulated that he left home and didn't return, living a drunken life outside for half a year before he barely recovered.

But when he returned home, he discovered that his wife was actually pregnant, and had been pregnant for half a year.

A great shame!

Just as Zhou Yugen was humiliated and furious to the point of near madness, Lang Yunsheng appeared in a timely manner, and threatened him with the lives of the entire Zhou clan, forcing him to accept his wife and the unborn child.

Due to Lang Yunsheng's power, and taking into account the safety of the entire clan, Zhou Yugen had no choice but to agree.

Several months later, his son Zhou Hu was born, and he began a tortoise-like life that lasted for more than ten years.

During these ten years, Lang Yunsheng would appear in Zhou Yugen's home at any time, and would not avoid him at all, sometimes even forcing him to guard the door, even leaving the door wide open for him to watch.

For nothing else, just to carry the stimulation to the end.

Suffering such a great shame, Zhou Yugen naturally had no attachment to this family, and would not give Zhou Hu any good looks, even feeling that his head was flashing green just by looking at him.

Therefore, Zhou Hu, who grew up under this kind of coldness, naturally had no affection for his father Zhou Yugen, and even vaguely harbored hostility.

Just like that, when Zhou Hu was in his teens, Lang Yunsheng actually personally came forward and took him as a disciple.

Since then, Zhou Yugen, who had completely severed contact with the Zhou family, officially began to engage in the business of trafficking people, until he was captured by Li Hai.

And Li Hai, who had a general understanding of Lang Yunsheng, commented on him:

"He even made people guard the door, even made people watch, tsk, a genuine dog bandit, a beast among beasts."

Li Hai, burning with murderous intent, dared to guarantee that Lang Yunsheng had definitely done more than one such disgusting thing that ruined human relations, maybe many, many things.

As for evil deeds such as robbing homes, killing people, and setting fires, there was no need to think about it; Lang Yunsheng had definitely done countless of them.

Therefore, for this kind of old beast whose mere existence pollutes the air, there is only... kill, kill, kill, kill!

Just as Li Hai was full of murderous intent and wanted to fly even faster, the scene on the shore of a lake a few miles away made him, who accidentally glanced there, immediately stop and halt his steps.

...

"Li Lake Salt God above, this is this season's tribute, please bless our Yu Family Village with no disasters, a bountiful harvest, and prosperous offspring!"

On a quiet lakeshore, nearly a hundred villagers knelt down with their hands clasped together, and after an old man shouted the prayer aloud, they followed suit and prayed sincerely to the lake:

"Salt God, please bless us with no disasters, a bountiful harvest, and prosperous offspring!"

After the prayer, two men walked out from the villagers, walked step by step to a small boat leaning against the lakeshore, bent down, reached out, lifted the wooden buckets on the ground over their heads, and poured them towards the pair of children, a boy and a girl, who were inexplicably sleeping soundly in the center of the boat.

Whoosh~

Suddenly, a large handful of gray, coarse salt covered the two children.

Then the two men repeatedly poured down the second and third buckets of coarse salt, completely covering the two children, leaving no gaps.

After completely covering the boy and girl with salt, the two men shouted in unison, pushing the boat, wanting to push the boat off the shore and onto the lake.

But just then, a roar louder than thunder descended from the sky:

"Stop!"