It was from this bandit's mouth that Li Hai gradually learned that the term "Xia Alliance Chaotic Land" was a derogatory name given to this place by the Jing Dynasty people.

The people of Xia Meng (Chivalrous Alliance) themselves usually called this place the Martial World.

The full name was Xia Alliance Martial World.

As for the desert region where Li Hai was currently located, it was called Baiqu Commandery.

It belonged to the Northern Wilderness jurisdiction, one of the five regions of the Martial World: Northern Wilderness, Eastern Plains, Western Wilderness, Central Land, and Southern Border.

It was located at the northernmost tip of the Martial World, closely connected to the Two Realms Mountain Range that encompassed the entire Martial World.

At the same time, from the bandit's mouth, Li Hai also learned that the mountain passage he had previously taken was not the only way to cross into this world.

Beyond that path, there were hundreds of other mountain passages.

Furthermore, the exits of these paths were all connected to one or more narrow, long gorges.

Thus, with hundreds of long, narrow sandstone gorges running through it, this desert region was fragmented and chaotic.

Over time, this barren land came to be known as Baiqu Commandery.

According to these bandits, in a certain corner of this vast and desolate Baiqu Great Desert, there was a School named Knife Soul Valley hidden.

However, this Knife Soul Valley, rumored to be one of the Three Sages and Nine Sects of the Xia Alliance Martial World, had no known specific location except to its own members.

Nevertheless, after the bandits' chattering, Li Hai was fortunate enough to obtain a precise clue to find the whereabouts of this School.

This clue was: it was rumored that all martial arts of Knife Soul Valley required human lives as fuel to refine one's Saber Intent, and thus, every member of this School was extremely bloodthirsty.

Therefore, it was said that more than half of the various great bandits, formidable brigands, and mounted robbers who roamed the entire Northern Wilderness came from Knife Soul Valley; for example, the boss of these bandits, Xiong Hei Weiqi, happened to be a member of this School.

Hence, in a sense, Knife Soul Valley was the top academy of the bandit and mountain bandit world; anyone who graduated from there was absolutely a master of slaughter, a true hardened bandit in the making.

Li Hai himself didn't care about these things; he just wanted to quickly find a large School, fight his way in, then find the Sect Leader of that School, beat him up first, and then ask him if he knew Anping Xi and where Xuan Nie was.

Perhaps influenced by the turbulent Qi of the outside world, or perhaps already seething with rage, Li Hai now only wanted to chop people down.

The best target, of course, was to find Anping Xi and give him a good beating, but if he couldn't find him temporarily, it wasn't impossible to find another target to make do.

After clarifying the location of the only major city in Baiqu Commandery from these bandits, Li Hai prepared to kill all these bandits who had carelessly taken countless lives.

But perhaps due to curiosity, before acting, Li Hai asked these bandits a question:

"Do you regret becoming bandits?"

Upon hearing this question, all the bandits kneeling and waiting for death decisively shook their heads, indicating that they did not regret it.

Seeing the bandits' reaction, Li Hai couldn't help but ask strangely:

"Because you became bandits, you will die soon, so why don't you regret it?"

Unexpectedly, these bandits also asked back strangely: "If we die, we die. Why regret? What's the use of regretting?"

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

That is, people in the Martial World would still fear death, but they would also remain bad to the core, and regret was absolutely impossible.

"Good, openly wicked."

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

With that, he swept his crimson steel whip in a circle, exploding all the kneeling bandits with one whip, turning them into piles of bloody paste and flesh amidst continuous explosions, leaving no one alive.

Afterward, Li Hai habitually formed hand seals, intending to use an aerial spell to fly into the sky.

But unexpectedly, he—he actually failed.

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

But what surprised him was that no matter what kind of spell he used, as long as its magical power appeared in the outside world, it would instantly lose control, then disintegrate and disappear.

It was as if this Xia Alliance Martial World intensely disliked spells.

Li Hai boldly speculated that this might also be due to the overly turbulent Qi of this world, so turbulent that it could not tolerate magical power within it.

Thus, out of helplessness, Li Hai could only abandon spells and rely on his two legs constantly pushing off the air, with continuous sonic booms and rolling wind whistles, speeding towards Baiqu City, the only major city in Baiqu Commandery, located one hundred eighty li away.

After speeding for one hundred eighty li across the sky, like a thunder god unleashing lightning, Li Hai swiftly arrived at Baiqu City, which, according to the bandits, was the largest black market in the region, both openly and secretly.

It was only upon arriving at and entering this city that he truly understood what it meant for the local customs to be fierce and robust.

Just a short while after entering Baiqu City and leisurely strolling around, Li Hai witnessed twelve or thirteen incidents where people fought each other with punches and kicks for absurd reasons like "What are you looking at?" and "What if I'm looking at you?"

And passersby walked by without any surprise, not even bothering to glance, as if it were a common occurrence.

However, Li Hai also noticed that such fights, which started over verbal altercations and glares, usually ended with only superficial injuries and a bit of blood, then fizzled out.

But this did not mean that there were no death matches; there still were, at least Li Hai witnessed one.

It was between two bearded strong men who were originally friends, but merely over the issue of who would pay the bill for drinks, they fought with knives and axes.

Ultimately, one died and one was injured.

The injured man, limping, laughed and walked away amidst the applause and cheers of the onlookers.

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

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

And it wasn't just men; the women in Baiqu City were also individually fierce.

Li Hai saw a person with a pointy mouth and monkey cheeks in the crowd on the street, smirking as he reached out to touch a young girl walking ahead.

Immediately, the girl seemed to sense it, turned around, and without hesitation, angrily pulled out a dagger from her waist, fiercely stabbing the person behind her in the chest.

One stab wasn't enough; she stabbed him three more times, until he fell to the ground, then wiped the blood from her body and continued shopping as if nothing had happened.

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