Upon hearing Li Hai’s words, Leng Ying’s expression grew even stranger.
She then directly said, “If someone dies, they can just be born again, what’s the big deal? For example, in my family, I have nineteen older brothers, seven younger brothers, twenty-three older sisters, and ten younger sisters, so even if I die, it’s not a big problem.”
“What?!”
Li Hai was immediately shocked, then quickly asked, “No—how did your mother give birth to so many? That’s a full sixty people!”
“That’s very normal.”
Leng Ying said indifferently, “In this world, every household usually gives birth to sixty or seventy children. Some women are even exceptionally gifted and can give birth to one or two hundred babies.”
“I don’t quite understand.”
Li Hai’s face was full of disbelief. “Doesn’t your mother feel pain when giving birth? Doesn’t she need to observe a confinement period? How many babies does she give birth to at once?”
“Confinement period? What’s that?”
Leng Ying asked back strangely, “Also—pain? Why would giving birth hurt? I’ve never heard of such a thing. As for how many babies in one birth—usually six or seven, but it’s not uncommon for there to be ten or twenty in a single birth.”
“So that’s how it is, I seem to understand.”
Li Hai shook his head and sighed, “It seems your Martial World’s midwives are very hardworking.”
“Midwives?”
Leng Ying frowned, “Do you mean old women who help with childbirth?—We don’t have such people here.” Without waiting for Li Hai to ask, she proactively explained much information of this kind.
It was also under Leng Ying’s narration that Li Hai gradually learned how outrageous the pregnant women in this Xia Alliance Martial World were.
It can be said that in this world, almost all women do not experience so-called difficult labor problems, nor do they experience any pain during the ten-month pregnancy.
At the same time, when in labor, they do not need help from others and can give birth smoothly on their own.
And after giving birth, the mother can quickly recover to a vibrant state. Forget about confinement, she can even carry sand and bags and work in the fields.
What’s even more outrageous is that the babies born by these “superhuman” mothers are almost all super-large infants weighing over twelve jin, which means they are all like double-jointed Dragons.
And these small double-jointed Dragons all possess incredibly strong survival abilities. Even if they only have rice paste instead of milk, they can still grow up healthy and strong.
As for why these mothers in the Martial World are so powerful, Li Hai could only speculate that it must be due to the overly turbulent Qi of this world.
Vast desert dunes stretched endlessly, like giant Dragons winding and curving.
Yet, in this dry, barren, boundless expanse, there was surprisingly a large oasis, spanning a hundred li.
It was like an emerald, suddenly and beautifully set amidst the swirling yellow sands.
And this beautiful, emerald-like oasis was Li Hai’s destination—the Knife Soul Valley School’s headquarters.
Standing at the edge of this oasis and looking inward, one could see hundreds of thousands of date palm trees and palm trees, swaying in the wind, their green branches dancing lightly, as if respectfully welcoming honored guests in formation.
At the same time, beneath those many trees, tens of thousands of vibrant flowers were scattered like stars, red like fire, pink like twilight, white like snow, each one striving to bloom, each one exhaling fragrance.
Thus, rich floral scents intertwined and permeated, like invisible mists, circulating through every inch of the oasis.
If one were to pass through layers of fragrant mist and walk towards the center of this oasis, they would find the surrounding terrain gradually lowering, eventually becoming a sunken basin shrouded in mist.
Around it, trees grew lush and green like a verdant screen, almost completely isolating the basin from the outside world, like an independent Small World.
And Knife Soul Valley was built in this mist-shrouded ‘Small World’.
“We’ve arrived, Knife Soul Valley is right here.”
At the edge of the hundred-li oasis, Leng Ying gazed steadily at its interior for a moment, then turned to Li Hai beside her and said, “My task is complete. You can let me go now, right?”
Hearing this question, Li Hai pondered for a moment, then asked, “Since you started your career, how many people have you plundered in total?”
“How many people?”
Leng Ying thought for a moment, then smiled sweetly, “Too, too many, I can’t even remember anymore.”
“Is that so?” Li Hai said “Oh” and nodded, “Then you must have killed quite a few old people, children, and women too, right?”
“This…” Leng Ying said indifferently, “If not a thousand, then at least eight hundred.”
“In that case…”
Li Hai said calmly, “You also have a path to death.”
With that, he drew his steel whip and, with one strike, cut the utterly stunned Leng Ying in half at the waist, her blood and flesh splattering as the two severed halves flew hundreds of feet to the north and south.
Bang!
After a dull thud of falling to the ground, the nearly dying Leng Ying, with only half her body remaining, howled in agony towards the sky: “Ah ah ah ah! You broke your promise! You said you’d spare my life! You’re not a man!”
“Heh heh heh~”
Li Hai slowly put away his steel whip, sneering repeatedly, “I didn’t break my promise. Perhaps you didn’t hear clearly before. What I said was—to pay the price with your ‘current’ life, meaning the ‘current’ from before, not the ‘current’ of this moment, oh.”
Lying on the ground, growing weaker, Leng Ying immediately roared in pain upon hearing this:
“Ah ah ah ah, you despicable, shameless scumbag! You dog-like bastard! I curse you to die without a burial place…”
!
Before she could even finish her words, Leng Ying was shocked to see dozens, even hundreds, of crimson whip shadows roaring fiercely from Li Hai’s direction, tearing through the wind and shattering dust as they rapidly shot towards her.
Whap! Whap! Whap! Whap!
Then, after a series of flesh-splattering sounds, the world in her eyes fractured into pieces, darkening and blackening, finally vanishing into nothingness.
“A cackling, malicious bitch.”
Glancing askance at the bloody pulp a hundred zhang away, Li Hai sneered with a grin, “Letting you live this long was already a great act of mercy from me, your master. And you still want to cling to life? Bah! Are you worthy?”
With that, he turned and stepped towards the interior of the oasis.
Thud~ Thud~ Thud~
And as Li Hai’s steps grew faster and faster, the ground beneath his feet was trampled and shattered, shaking incessantly.
A few seconds later, Li Hai, who was speeding towards Knife Soul Valley, had even become a blur, and began to stir up visible howling wind gusts and Dragon-like whirlwinds.
Whoosh~ Whoosh~ Whoosh~
And the many trees and flowers around him, which he swept past, were all torn apart and spun into the sky, turning into a dense, dark cloud of flowers and grass mist.
Finally, after traveling dozens of li at high speed, just as he was about to reach the towering tree wall at the edge of Knife Soul Valley, Li Hai lifted his foot and stomped heavily on the ground.
Boom!
The earth suddenly shook three times, and he also leaped hundreds of zhang into the sky.
Then, suspended in the sky, Li Hai slightly adjusted his body angle, then stomped the air, accelerating downwards towards the magnificent cluster of buildings below—the Knife Soul Valley headquarters.