"Phew... Patriarch, this can't go on." After killing the last opponent before him, Huang Xiao sighed.
They had only been here a few short days, yet countless people had already tried to prey on the two of them.
That was hardly surprising. In this place, a pair was no different from a lone traveler.
How could these people pass up such a fine opportunity?
Although lone travelers might well be very powerful, they could no longer afford to worry about that.
Competition here was far too fierce, and all kinds of supplies were desperately scarce.
They had to rely on plunder to keep going.
"We're already here. We can only keep moving forward," Huo Lian said.
Although they had suffered countless attacks, none of their attackers were particularly strong, and the two of them could still deal with them easily.
Huang Xiao nodded. That was true.
If they turned back now and took a detour through somewhere else, there was no telling how much time it would add to their journey.
Besides, even if they entered from elsewhere, there would always be places like this along the border.
If there was any real difference, it was merely the size of the area.
From what they had seen so far, this region was a large one.
Naturally, it covered such a vast area because the Alliance Domain and the Demon Domain wanted a buffer zone with sufficient distance between them.
In Huang Xiao's view, however, the Alliance Domain must have been the main force behind this arrangement.
Compared with the Demon Domain, the Alliance Domain was somewhat weaker.
Of course they needed a buffer zone like this. The larger it was, the more secure they felt.
As such, the Righteous Path also deliberately gave the people of the Jianghu in this