With Li Hai's incredibly sharp eyesight, he immediately spotted the black scarves these people wore on their heads, along with the wolf head emblem on them.
He instantly understood.
These Black Wolf Bandits had come knocking on their own accord, looking for a beating.
As for why these bandits came to Niujiao Town? Or who brought this group here?
Honestly, to Li Hai, none of that mattered in the slightest.
Who was he?
He was a Wood Rank Commandant of the Great Jing Demon Slayer Division, a legitimate official.
And these people, they were a bunch of thieves and bandits.
Does an official need a reason to kill bandits?
"I just had a Breakthrough into a new Realm and my hands were itching, and you just delivered yourselves to my doorstep."
Under the azure sky, Li Hai grinned broadly, "Hahahaha, I don't care what the reason is, I'll slaughter a thousand or eight hundred for fun first, then we can talk."
With that, he turned around and stomped heavily on the air.
Bang!
Explosions reverberated, and waves of Qi surged.
The air within several feet was instantly stomped into a vacuum by Li Hai, and he used this recoil force to rapidly shoot towards the ground below.
Whoosh—
Dozens of feet were covered in an instant.
But just as Li Hai was about to reach the ground, he suddenly roared out a terrifying sonic blast, so intense it was visible to the naked eye, at the bandits below who were looking up at him.
Roar—
In an instant, the dozens to hundreds of bandits closest to him below trembled all over from the sonic blast, collapsing to the ground, bleeding from their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses, their life or death unknown.
And the bandits further away, though not bleeding from their seven orifices, also clutched their ears, screaming and wailing, falling to the ground one after another, losing most of their combat strength.
At this moment, Li Hai finally reached above the ground, like a meteor, he descended with a sinister grin, smashing fiercely into the center of the crowd.
Boom!
As if bombed by a missile, the area several feet around his landing point instantly collapsed by two feet, and the dozen or so bandits standing in that spot were instantly blasted into blood mist and meat paste, splattering everywhere, terrifying the even further-away bandits who cried out in alarm and quickly retreated.
But before these wolf bandits could retreat a few more steps, two crimson whip shadows lashed out from the dust and smoke of the collapsed ground, instantly sweeping an area of ten feet around them like high-speed, oversized propellers, brutally exploding them into large amounts of blood and shattered bones and flesh, splattering the ground everywhere.
It was only after slaughtering these dozens to hundreds of bandits that the churning dust and smoke finally dispersed, revealing Li Hai's tall, strong, inhuman body, and his Killing Intent-filled face.
"Li Hai?!"
Zhou Hu, who witnessed this figure from the high platform in the distance, roared with wide eyes, "The demon from underground is actually him? How could he be so powerful?!"
As a Steel Grade Martial Artist, Zhou Hu's eyesight was naturally not poor.
Although Li Hai had only briefly demonstrated his skills, his terrifying performance, ascending to the sky and descending to the earth like a descending Destroyer Star, still allowed Zhou Hu to discern some of his true capabilities.
He determined that this Li Hai definitely, absolutely... surpassed the ordinary Steel Grade.
"And... what's going on with the commotion underground?"
Zhou Hu gritted his teeth, his pupils trembling erratically, "Was that also caused by this Li fellow? This... this isn't something a Steel Grade Martial Artist can do!"
As his mind was unsettled, Li Hai had already begun his merciless slaughter of the bandits.
"Hahahahaha!"
Under the terrified gaze of thousands of wolf bandits, Li Hai let out a wild laugh, stomping his foot heavily on the ground.
Bang!
The earth trembled, and his entire figure blurred, instantly shattering layers of air, rushing rapidly towards the bandit gathering with a rumbling wind howl.
His speed was incredibly fast, so fast that the strong wind he generated even swept away the closer bandits on both sides, carrying them into the sky, after which they were violently thrown to the ground with twisted bones and broken limbs, dying miserable deaths.
As for the groups of bandits that Li Hai ran into head-on, they couldn't even preserve a single complete corpse, instantly being crushed into blood paste and meat pulp, splattering the walls and ground everywhere.
And the bandits further away in all directions also could not escape their destined demise.
The two crimson steel whips held in Li Hai's hands, constantly sweeping in all directions, were like the King of Hell's death warrants; whoever they struck died, whoever they lashed exploded.
Thus, in a short time, the streets, alleyways, and a wider area of Niujiao Town around Mingtang Pavilion were stained crimson with freely flowing blood, and in various corners of this dark red ground, numerous incomplete corpses lay like tattered sacks.
This horrifyingly brutal scene caused all the residents of Niujiao Town, who were hiding in their homes and only daring to peek through window and door cracks, to close their eyes tightly, unable to bear watching any longer.
And the Black Wolf Bandits who faced all of this were even more terrified by Li Hai's cruel slaughter, screaming, crying, and fleeing in all directions, like spineless quails, only desperately running and not daring to offer the slightest resistance.
"Run, run fast!"
"Help, Second Leader, save us!"
"The monster is coming!"
"Damn it, let's fight him!"
"Ahhh, let's fight him, damn it!"
Among them, dozens of gun-wielding bandits who happened to flee into a dead-end alley, seeing Li Hai leisurely walking towards them with his blood-red steel whips, and realizing they had nowhere left to run, finally broke down, screaming curses and firing furiously at him.
Da da da da da da~
Immediately, a hail of bullets assaulted Li Hai's entire body.
But he neither dodged nor avoided, letting the bullets hit him.
In an instant, his entire body was covered in splashing sparks.
"I don't even feel a slight itch."
Standing amidst the intense gunfire, Li Hai slowly raised his hand, looking at the sparks and dust that exploded when the bullets 'slowly' flew from a distance and hit the skin of his palm, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Have I become a monster?"
As he spoke, he even deliberately widened his eyes, facing the incoming bullets, allowing seven or eight bullet heads to strike his pupils consecutively.
But even with bullets hitting his eyeballs, and multiple consecutive hits at that, it only gave Li Hai a faint sensation, similar to putting eye drops, so weak it was almost negligible.
This couldn't help but make Li Hai sigh again: "It seems I really am a monster now. Hmm, but I like being a monster."
Then he grinned broadly, and with a casual swing of his steel whip, he lashed fiercely forward.
Clang, clang, clang, clang—
After a tearing sound of flesh and blood, those dozens of gun-wielding bandits were severed at the waist by Li Hai's whip, turning into a ground full of mutilated corpses.
"I just heard someone call out Second Leader."
Li Hai flicked the blood off his steel whip, a cold smile on his face, "Could it be that Zhou Hu has also come?"
...
After interrogating a few bandits, Li Hai, following their directions, arrived at a wooden high platform.
But now it was empty, with no one in sight.
It seemed that Zhou Hu was as timid as a mouse and had fled as soon as he saw him from afar.
"I don't believe your speed can be that fast."
Li Hai chuckled lightly, then, holding the pair of steel whips, he casually and fiercely lashed at the ground beneath his feet.
"Dragon Overturning Water, Quake!"