Lan Hua landed a hundred feet away from the two, quietly watching the battle between the girl and Wang Hong.

He could already tell that both the girl and Wang Hong were highly skilled in cultivation.

The girl was covered in purple Dan fire and her cultivation was at the sixth level of the Dan God Realm, while Wang Hong was covered in blue Dan fire and his cultivation was at the third level of the Dan God Realm.

As a person from the Half-Heaven Realm, Wang Hong naturally knew of the existence of Sin Island.

He also knew that the punishments on Sin Island for those who were captured were truly worse than death.

"Hmph, I'd rather die than go to that sinful island where even the dead wouldn't want to stay!"

After saying that, Wang Hong raised his long sword and slashed down, a sword aura more than ten feet long cutting towards the girl.

The girl neither dodged nor evaded, but instead raised her palm and slammed it towards the blade's energy.

A more materialized purple peacock charged towards the blade energy, seemingly capable of shattering anything, completely obliterating the incoming blade energy.

The purple peacock continued to charge at Wang Hong, forcing the latter back several steps.

Wang Hong coughed up a mouthful of blood, his face turning deathly pale, and exclaimed in alarm:

"How do you know the Peacock King Technique? This is the ultimate skill of the Seven-Colored Peacock, a spirit beast!"

The girl pouted and snorted, "I can't be bothered to answer you. Since you've chosen to die, then die!"

She leaped into the air, surrounded by a purple aura.

A giant peacock enveloped him and then charged toward Wang Hong on the ground.

Wang Hong was taken aback, realizing that the girl had used a deadly move from the Peacock King Technique.

So he gripped the knife with both hands, and a powerful aura soared into the sky, actually exuding a trace of knife intent.

Several swords slashed towards the sky, entangled with the purple peacock, and collided to create countless streams of light.

boom!

Peacock finally broke through the layers of blades, and the girl struck Wang Hong in the chest with a palm strike, causing him to cough up blood.

The girl struck successfully, then flashed back to where she stood firmly five zhang away.

Wang Hong's heart meridian was struck, his tendons and veins were shattered, and even his primordial spirit was damaged.

Suddenly, a ball of blue light flew out from Wang Hong's body. Without the slightest hesitation, he directly abandoned his physical body.

"Trying to run? No way!"

The girl seemed surprised by the decisiveness of the person she was about to capture. She reached for her waist with her right hand, and a long red whip flew out.

The long whip shot out and instantly grew larger, encircling Wang Hong's primordial spirit in one fell swoop.

Wang Hongyuan's spirit was already damaged, and now that he was trapped by the long whip, he was truly filled with despair.

The thought that his primordial spirit would only dissipate if it entered the eighteen prisons of Sin Island led him to consider a mutual destruction.

The primordial spirit, which had been struggling to escape, suddenly turned back and rushed towards the girl.

The girl's pretty face turned pale with shock, and she didn't know what to do for a moment.

Lan Hua had already planned to make a move when Wang Hong's primordial spirit appeared, and had secretly drawn a thunder talisman in her palm.

"Die, you little hag!"

"No way!"

Lan Hua struck out with her palm, and the lightning in her palm, like a suddenly leaping serpent, slammed into Wang Hong's primordial spirit.

"ah!"

The heart-wrenching screams echoed throughout the outskirts of Qingyang City.

The collapse of one's primordial spirit is a pain no one can endure.

The girl's eyes turned cold, and with a single whip strike, she shattered the primordial spirit that was on the verge of collapse, causing it to vanish into the world.

Putting away the whip, the young woman gently patted her chest with her delicate hand, let out a long sigh, and touched her forehead, only to find that she was covered in a cold sweat.

"Is the young lady alright?" Lan Hua asked with a slight smile.

The young woman clasped her hands in a fist salute, tilted her head, and said, "Thank you for saving me, brother. I have no way to repay you!"

A smile appeared on her pretty face, and two dimples immediately appeared at the corners of her mouth. Paired with her charming cherry lips, she was truly a beauty in the making.

She turned out to be a beautiful young woman in her late twenties, and Lan Hua was almost stunned.

"Brother?"

Seeing that Lan Hua did not respond, the young woman said again, "My name is Yang Yuwei. May I ask your name, sir?"

Baxia slapped Lan Hua, which finally woke him up.

He quickly clasped his hands in a fist and palm salute, saying, "My name is Lan Hua, please don't be so polite, young lady!"

Yang Yuwei smiled beautifully, "Mountain wind blows the moonlight, what a lovely name."

"Could you be the alchemist and archer Lan Hua who has recently gained fame?"

Lan Hua nodded with a smile.

"So, why did you pursue me in the first place?" Yang Yuwei asked, tilting her pretty face.

"Naturally, it's to return the favor to your hips..."

Before Baxia could finish speaking, Lanhua cut him off.

"Brother Hua, why are you stopping me?"

Yang Yuwei stared at Lan Hua's shoulder, scrutinizing it thoroughly, until Baxia felt a chill run down his spine.

"You truly are a dragon prince, not a tortoise or a turtle!"

Baxia retorted, "You're the turtle! Your whole family are bastards!"

Yang Yuwei didn't bother arguing with Baxia. She tossed her hair and then sat down on the grass.

Lan Hua gave an awkward smile, "I just saw how heroic you were, so I followed you here to see how you caught the thief!"

"What a shameless bastard!" Baxia muttered under his breath.

Yang Yuwei actually set up a fire and started roasting a rabbit.

"I haven't had a decent meal in days because I've been chasing this guy, so I have to treat myself today!"

After saying that, Yang Yuwei skillfully spun the rabbit around.

Lan Hua sat opposite her and smiled, "Miss Yang, what did the person you were chasing do wrong?"

Yang Yuwei snorted, "He committed a serious crime. That Wang Hong killed the entire small sect in order to cultivate the One-Word Blade Slash Technique. It's truly outrageous!"

Sin Island, upon learning of this man's heinous crimes, posted a bounty, and I accepted the mission!

Lan Hua nodded slightly and said, "I see. Miss Yang, what kind of sect is this Sin Island, and why does it target evil cultivators like this?"

Yang Yuwei said, "To be precise, Sin Island is not a sect."

It's more like a law enforcement agency in the Half-Heaven Realm that governs the criminal law of cultivators, located in the center of the South China Sea.

Although the Half-Heaven Realm has the mortal court of the Great Xia Kingdom, it has no control over cultivators.

Once a cultivator commits evil deeds in the human world, measures must be taken to capture and bring them to justice; Sin Island plays such a role.

Cultivators who have grievances can also seek redress on Sin Island!

Lan Hua asked curiously, "Are there many bounty hunters who join Sin Island, and are they all very skilled?"

Yang Yuwei corrected, "First of all, bounty hunters do not belong to Sin Island; the relationship between the two is merely a contractual one."

Secondly, most bounty hunters are independent cultivators.

"I've been doing this for three to five years, and I've never seen a Yuanxiang Realm expert become a bounty hunter."

Why is that?

Yang Yuwei laughed and said, "Are you silly? They've all reached the Yuanxiang Realm, so naturally they need to find a way to overcome the Heavenly Tribulation. They don't have time to be bounty hunters!"

Lan Hua asked curiously, "What if a Yuanxiang Realm expert commits evil deeds?"

Yang Yuwei pouted, "It's not that great, anyway, we can't catch them."

However, just because he can't be captured on Sin Island doesn't mean no one will deal with him!

"According to Miss Yang, there is an organization that is one level higher than Sin Island?" Lan Hua asked.

"Indeed, in the center of the four continents of the Half-Heaven Realm, there is an ocean called the Central Sea."

In the heart of the ocean, there is an underwater island, extremely mysterious, also known as Fairy Island.

Every ten years, the Immortal Island surfaces, and then sends out Yuanxiang Realm experts specifically to capture top-tier experts from the Half-Heaven Realm!

"Island of Immortals?" Lan Hua was taken aback.