I can push my cultivation progress to the end

The two hurried into the courtyard and arrived at Guo Huaijin's corpse.

After examining the body, their expressions turned grave.

"The old master was killed by having this tube inserted into his heart, forcibly draining his blood," the thin man said thoughtfully, "The person who did this was very efficient, without the slightest hesitation."

"None of that matters," the fat man said anxiously, "The key is that the Second Master will be furious when he finds out about this. If he vents his anger on us, we're done for."

"It won't happen," the thin man reassured him, "Although the Second Master is cruel and murderous, he's only like that to outsiders. He's always been loyal to his brothers."

"No, no, no," the fat man shook his head, "I think we should consider this carefully…"

Before he could finish speaking, a gust of fierce wind rushed towards them.

Its speed was so fast that the two couldn't react at all.

Crack ~ Crack ~

After a series of crisp sounds, the two groaned and knelt weakly on the ground.

They looked down and found that their knees had been hit by several palm-sized pieces of wood, causing them to cave in. The force of the impact was so great that the wood fragments were embedded in their flesh.

These two were tough enough. After suffering such injuries, they didn't even scream, only glared fiercely around, trying to find the enemy's踪迹.

"Such fierce eyes, they must have killed many people," a lazy voice said as Li Hai's figure appeared in front of them.

He looked down at the two of them and asked in a calm voice:

"I ask, you answer, is that a problem?"

The thin man didn't answer, but instead raised his head and stared at Li Hai's face, sneering coldly:

"You don't even know who we are, yet you dare to attack us. Heh ~ You're finished, kid."

The fat man glanced sideways at Li Hai, and also said coldly:

With that "huh," Li Hai casually pulled out the copper tube from Guo Huaijin's chest, and without looking, he fiercely inserted it into the thin man's thigh, piercing through his calf and into the ground below.

"Ah, ah, ah!!" This was too ruthless. The thin man couldn't hold back anymore and began to scream.

But after only a few screams, Li Hai slapped him on the head, causing him to roll his eyes and faint.

But after only a few seconds of unconsciousness, the long tube piercing through his thigh and calf was forcibly pulled out by Li Hai, tearing flesh and skin, and inserted into his other leg, again piercing through his thigh and calf into the ground.

"Ah, ah, ah, I give up, I give up!" The thin man wailed, snot and tears flying, "Sir, please don't torture me anymore! I'll answer whatever you ask!"

The fat man, who had witnessed all of this, was so frightened that he kept silent, and quickly smiled obsequiously at Li Hai:

"Me too, me too."

"Same as what?" Li Hai sneered, pulled the copper tube from the thin man's leg and smashed it down, smashing the fat man's right hand, which was supporting him on the ground, into a bloody mess.

This immense pain, far exceeding the pain of ten fingers connected to the heart, caused the fat man to roll on the ground in agony, almost passing out.

And the culprit of all this—Li Hai—stood in front of the two with his arms crossed, and began to ask them questions:

"I ask, you answer, is that a problem?"

"No, no!" The two shook their heads repeatedly, "Sir, please ask!"

"Good." Li Hai nodded, "Where do you come from, and whose subordinates are you?"

"We are from the Black Wolf Bandits!" the two answered in unison.

"Black Wolf Bandits?" Li Hai raised his thick eyebrows, "Are you a gang of bandits?"

"Uh ~ Sort of," the fat man replied, "But our scale is larger."

"Larger?" Li Hai asked again, "How many people are there?"

"More than ten thousand people," the thin man replied.

His face was a little off, pale and pale.

Obviously, it was caused by the excessive blood loss from the wound on his leg.

"D… Sir," the thin man stammered with difficulty, "Can… can I bandage it? I feel like I'm about to…"

Bang!

A loud explosion.

Li Hai grabbed the copper tube and smashed the thin man's head in mid-air, splattering white and red all over the fat man's head and face.

"Okay, now you don't need to bandage it," Li Hai casually threw away the copper tube, clapped his hands, and looked at the fat man, "I overheard you saying outside that Guo Huaijin is your Second Master's father-in-law, is that right?"

The fat man stared blankly at the headless corpse lying on the ground, swallowed, and replied tremblingly:

"N… not his father, his father-in-law. Old Master Guo married both of his daughters to the Second Master."

"Oh ~" Hearing this, Li Hai immediately laughed, "What an old dog who sells his daughters for glory, quite the social butterfly."

After laughing, he continued to ask:

"What's your Second Master's name, where does he come from, how is his kung fu, and what about the Big Master? Also, tell me about the situation in this Crouching Dragon Mountain."

Faced with this pile of questions, the fat man thought for a while and then began to answer slowly:

"Our Second Master's name is Zhou Hu, originally from Southern Xinjiang…"

From his narration, Li Hai gradually learned that the so-called Black Wolf Bandits were not as simple as bandits and mountain bandits, but a black armed force active in the vast Crouching Dragon Mountain Range under his feet, with a fixed territory and considerable elite military strength.

As for the Second Master named Zhou Hu, he was one of the core figures of this armed force. His martial arts realm was suspected to have reached the Steel and Iron Bones level, the same realm as Li Hai.

At the same time, it was also from this fat man's narration that Li Hai learned that the world he was now in was called Yuzhou, and the Great Jing Dynasty ruled most of Yuzhou.

Regarding the information of the Great Jing Dynasty, the fat man didn't know much, only that the entire Jing Dynasty had two capitals and thirteen provinces.

The Crouching Dragon Mountain Range, which stretches for thousands of miles and where Li Hai is now located, is located in the southernmost Yunkang Province of the Jing Dynasty, and is one of the many mountain ranges within its territory.

Interestingly, the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range happens to surround and protect the southernmost end of Yunkang Province, so nearly half of its mountain body has extended beyond the Jing Dynasty.

In other words, the northern side of the entire Crouching Dragon Mountain Range is actually the southern border of the Jing Dynasty.

At the same time, because this area of Yuzhou adjacent to the southern end of the Great Jing Dynasty has no formed country, not even a small country, and each region is densely forested with many snakes, insects, and miasma.

Therefore, the vast mountainous area of the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range, with its complex terrain and far from the prosperity of the Central Plains, has become a chaotic place completely free from the control of official forces.

And the Black Wolf Bandits are one of the best in this no-man's-land.