I can push my cultivation progress to the end

"Thirty thousand?"

The merchant's eyes popped out at this, "No way? Can Oxhorn Town even hold that many bandits? And... thirty thousand people to rob a mere town, isn't that a bit..."

"Stop arguing."

The fatty frowned impatiently, "If you're like this, I won't tell you."

"Okay, okay, thirty thousand it is."

The merchant chuckled, "You tell, continue telling."

"Mm."

The fatty nodded in satisfaction and continued, "Just now, that damned Star of Calamity, Li Rentu, kicked down the door and barged into the Ruan family mansion, and then screams kept coming from inside."

"Ah?" The merchant was stunned, "So this Li Rentu... is just killing people indiscriminately? That's not right, isn't he a great hero?"

Hearing his question, someone next to him immediately interjected, "Blood Twin Whip wouldn't kill people randomly, that old Ruan must have done something evil in secret."

"That's right, Li Rentu would never kill people randomly."

A thin, wiry youth also chimed in, "A few days ago, in Nan Jingzi Village near my aunt and uncle's house, he also killed someone who appeared to be a benevolent landlord, but in reality, he was a scoundrel who dug up graves, stole the corpses of people's ancestors, and even stole children to make elixirs! If Great Hero Li hadn't killed that man and revealed his crimes, we'd still be in the dark."

"Not just that, there's more."

Another boisterous man also spoke up, "Three days ago in our Dachang Village, Great Hero Li also caught a sorcerer who was pretending to be a deity and tricking people into sending their children to him as disciples. Later, Great Hero Li announced that he was deceiving people everywhere, taking their children to refine some kind of magical artifact."

"And my wife's grandmother's side..."

"And my brother-in-law's son-in-law's family..."

"And..."

In a short time, these onlookers began to chatter, recounting Li Hai's deeds of slaying various demons in different places these days.

But the narrators' earnest expressions, as if they wanted to swear an oath, made a considerable portion of the audience firmly believe them.

Just as everyone was happily chatting, Li Hai strode out of the Ruan family mansion, carrying a bloody human head with half a spine.

The townspeople and passersby who had been chatting lively just now, upon seeing the head he was carrying, immediately began to discuss in surprise:

"Heavens, isn't that Old Master Ruan, Old Man Ruan's father?"

"That's right, the old man seems to be frail and has difficulty moving around, he doesn't usually go out."

"Could it be that this old man really did something evil?"

"I don't know, let's hear what Great Hero Li has to say."

Li Hai walked to the entrance of the Ruan family mansion, casually threw the head on the ground, and surveyed the densely packed townspeople and passersby in front of him, to his left, and to his right. He then loudly announced:

"Fellow villagers of Red Flower Town, I, Li Hai, hereby announce that I have killed the entire Ruan family, old and young, a total of twenty-eight people, today.

The reason for killing the Ruan family is that everyone from top to bottom, even ten-year-old children, participated in human trafficking in this area.

Furthermore, Ruan Yunying's father, Ruan Xuan de, an old demon who has lived for one hundred and seventy years, has forcibly taken the livers and fetuses of seventy-eight pregnant women from villages around Red Flower Town in the past hundred years, just to refine medicine for longevity."

As soon as Li Hai said this, the crowd present was immediately in an uproar, and then filled with righteous indignation:

"I really couldn't tell, that Old Master Ruan was actually so vicious!"

"That's right, it's not enough to kidnap people's pregnant wives, he even dug out their livers and unborn children, that's too much!"

"A demon! Great Hero Li is right, what else could he be if not a demon."

"Hey, I suddenly remembered, I seem to have heard about this, saying that a wife was heavily pregnant at home, didn't go anywhere, and disappeared for no reason."

"I've heard of it too."

"Yes, yes, I've heard people talk about this kind of thing, back then it was rumored that there were child-eating ghosts stealing people everywhere."

"I know a little more clearly, the second son of the Lao Lei family in Hutou Village encountered this incident in his early years, he lost his wife who was seven months pregnant. He even went crazy for a while, and now he's still muddled. When he sees people on the road, he kneels down and kowtows, mumbling and begging people to return his wife to him, so this matter... could it be that it was done by the old demon Ruan?"

"Definitely!"

"He's a beast, it's too easy for him to just die like that."

"That's right, he should be cut into a thousand pieces!"

"Alas, we have to thank Great Hero Li, if he hadn't taken action, we wouldn't know anything."

"Yes, yes."

After quietly listening to the crowd's discussion and their gratitude to him for a while, Li Hai once again said loudly:

"Everyone, let's not talk too much about idle matters. In short, the Ruan family has committed heinous crimes and has been completely exterminated by me. Their criminal evidence has also been completely searched out and placed in the courtyard of the Ruan family mansion. When the Red Flower Town militia comes later, please inform them, and so~ farewell."

"Ah, is Great Hero Li leaving already?"

"Great Hero Li, please walk slowly, thank you, Great Hero Li, for acting righteously!"

"Great Hero Li, why don't you stay for a while, how about I host and treat you to a drink?"

"Forget it, do you think he's short of your drink? Hey, Great Hero Li, I see that you're alone, you don't have a wife yet, right? Hehe, I happen to have a daughter, what do you think..."

"Old Wang, how can you have the nerve with your daughter looking like that."

"Hey, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Ignoring the surrounding noisy crowd, Li Hai turned around and was about to leave this place.

But at this moment, a thin, wiry youth suddenly pushed through the crowd and quickly ran out, kneeling in front of Li Hai.

He said loudly, "Great Hero Li, your martial arts are astonishing, and your chivalry is unparalleled. I... I admire you very much, can... can you accept me as a disciple? I'm very quick at cooking and doing chores, I also want to be like you, to eliminate violence and bring peace..."

"Sorry."

Li Hai said indifferently, "I have no intention of accepting any disciples, you should look for someone else."

Having said that, he moved and walked around the youth, heading into the distance, leaving the youth kneeling in place with a blank expression.

The crowd present, upon seeing this scene, also instantly quieted down, wanting to see how the situation would develop.

Just as Li Hai had walked a few dozen feet away, the youth suddenly shouted loudly from behind with extreme reluctance:

"Wait!"

Although the shout was loud, Li Hai's footsteps did not stop at all.

"Great Hero Li, you... there are so many evil people and evil deeds in this world, how can you possibly eradicate them with your strength alone?!"

The youth quickly stood up and chased after him, shouting as he chased, "Your skills are so great, why don't you establish a sect and teach disciples to have more manpower? A group of heroes upholding justice is always better than you, one hero..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Hai suddenly stopped and turned around.

The youth was intimidated by his tall figure and didn't dare to speak further.

Li Hai looked at him indifferently, then looked at the crowd in Red Flower Town not far away, and said in a calm voice:

"Let you all know, everything that Li has done, whether good or evil, has never been for the sake of the people of this world, but... only for my own pleasure."

After saying that, his body suddenly narrowed and darkened, turning into a lonely shadow of a crescent moon, instantly disappearing from here.

Leaving only the youth standing there in a daze, and the people present looking at each other without speaking.

......

Several miles away, the Red Flower Town ferry crossing was very busy with boats coming and going.

Here, Li Hai stood tall, looking into the distance, wanting to cross the river.

But at this moment, a person he was quite familiar with, thousands of feet away, slowly walked off a docked ferry with a group of travelers.

"Doctor Zhao?"

Li Hai instantly appeared in front of this person, surprised, "How did you come all the way from Oxhorn Town, six hundred miles away, to this place?" (Doctor Zhao appeared in Chapter 46)

"Ah? Is... is that you? It's Lord Li!"

The travel-worn Doctor Zhao was stunned when he saw Li Hai, then immediately knelt down, weeping and kowtowing to him, crying as he kowtowed, "Wuwuwuwu, Lord Li, Oxhorn Town... everyone in the town... they're all dead!"