Echo Mountain was not a single mountain peak, but a unique mountain range formed by hundreds of strangely shaped mountains that were connected to each other.
Echo Mountain was located at the junction of the second-rate sects, the Hundred Chi Gate, the Qingcheng Sect, and the Emperor Qin's Kingdom. It was a chaotic place that no one cared about.
In the Echo Mountain Range, there were a total of 19 bandit groups. The leader of each bandit group was an expert in the Martial King Realm.
Among them, the 18 bandit groups belonged to the Echo Mountain Bandit Group, which was the strongest in the Echo Mountain Range and had the longest inheritance, and was supported by a powerful force.
These 18 bandit groups could act independently and freely choose the targets to rob and kill. However, the Echo Mountain Bandit Group had the absolute power to supervise, mobilize, appoint, and punish these 18 bandit groups.
He Ruyu introduced this information to Yu Haoran in detail on the way to Echo Mountain.
Yu Haoran already had some understanding of the 19 bandit groups and the power structure of the entire Echo Mountain Bandit Group in his previous life.
Since he already had some understanding, he still listened patiently because Yu Haoran wanted to know more about the Echo Mountain Bandit Group and the complicated forces behind it. He wanted to see which forces intervened in it and whether the Hundred Chi Gate had the strength and opportunity to intervene.
"Ru Xin, according to the information I learned, it seems that the Echo Mountain Bandit Group has a very close relationship with many second-rate and first-rate sects. They even have the support of top sects. Am I right?"
After listening to He Ruyu's introduction for more than 10 minutes about the internal information of the Echo Mountain Bandit Group, but she did not reveal the situation of the various forces behind it. Yu Haoran could not help asking.
After thinking for a while, He Ruyu finally said helplessly.
"Haoran, after all, I used to be the leader of the Echo Mountain Bandit Group. I have a deep relationship with the entire bandit group. I can tell you some things, but please forgive me. I can't tell you the deeper secrets for the time being."
"Forget it. Anyway, we won't have much interaction with the Echo Mountain Bandit Group in the future. It doesn't matter whether I know these secrets or not!" Yu Haoran waved his hand and said against his will.
In recent decades, the main reason why the Hundred Chi Gate's strength had been declining continuously was because the factional struggles within the sect were too intense.
The main reason why the factional competition could not be suppressed, in addition to the ambitions of the peak masters of each faction and the support and instigation of the elders behind them, was also greatly related to the Echo Mountain Bandits.
The Hundred Chi Gate was located in the southwest direction of the Profound Sky Continent. It was considered a relatively remote and backward location. In order to increase the strength of the sect, they had to continue expanding their territory to the east. In other words, they had to get closer to the center of the Profound Sky Continent.
However, this mountain range just happened to block the expansion of the Hundred Chi Gate's influence.
If the Hundred Chi Gate wanted to expand its influence to the Qingcheng Pai and the Emperor Qin's Kingdom, it would be impossible to bypass Xiangshan. Therefore, it was inevitable that they would have the most direct conflict with the Xiangshan Bandit Group.
According to the information that Yu Haoran had learned, the Hundred Chi Gate had launched at least five large-scale expeditions in the hundreds of years after the establishment of the Echo Mountain Bandits.
However, the result of each expedition was that the experts of the Hundred Chi Gate returned in defeat. This caused the strength of the Echo Mountain Bandits to become stronger and stronger, and their reputation to become greater and greater.
It was also because the sect's influence and strength could not continue to expand and improve that those peak masters put their excess energy into factional struggles.
As a shrewd woman, how could He Ruyu not see that Yu Haoran's indifferent attitude just now was just an act? She was afraid that he was eager to know the deeper secrets of the Echo Mountain Bandits for the sake of Chu Zhongyu who had just taken office.
However, when she became the leader of the Echo Mountain Bandits, she once swore by the rules of heaven that she would never reveal the deepest secrets of the Echo Mountain Bandits for the rest of her life.
Now, she had finally found her happiness with great difficulty. She did not want to break the oath and lose the happiness that she had yet to fully obtain.
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With Hei Xiong exerting his full strength, Yu Haoran and He Ruyu successfully arrived at the periphery of Echo Mountain in less than an hour.
Looking at the endless mountain range that had not changed much from the memory of his previous life, Yu Haoran's heart was filled with emotions.
In his previous life, although he had only stayed in the Echo Mountain Bandits for three months, it was precisely because of the experience of these three months that not only did it allow him to truly experience the baptism of a big scene, but it also gave him a deep understanding of the sinister and complicated nature of human nature.
This kind of spiritual sharpening was the main reason why his mental state cultivation could always be far higher than his own cultivation in the future cultivation.
At the same time, it was also because of the experience of these three months that he understood the cruel environment outside the Hundred Chi Gate's sphere of influence. It allowed him to adapt to the fear and uneasiness after leaving the Hundred Chi Gate in the shortest time possible, thus officially starting to rise from the Tianxuan Continent.
"Haoran, if you want to enter the Echo Mountain Bandits, in addition to passing through the territories of the eighteen bandits, there's also a small path that only the Great Leader knows."
When He Ruyu saw Yu Haoran who was deep in thought, she thought that he was shocked by the strange environment of Echo Mountain, so she did not disturb him.
She waited until Yu Haoran came back to his senses before she reminded him.
"This is your base camp. I'll listen to you!" Yu Haoran nodded and agreed.
They went around to the south side of the Echo Mountain Range, in front of a dense forest that was not very big, but the trees were quite luxuriant.
"Haoran, there's an underground secret passage in this dense forest. It can directly reach my bedroom in the headquarters of the Echo Mountain Bandits at the fastest and safest speed," He Ruyu said with a hint of arrogance as she pointed at the forest in front of her.
"I'm afraid that this secret passage was built by the Great Leader of the Echo Mountain Bandits in the past!"
Yu Haoran said sarcastically as if he could not stand the arrogance in He Ruyu's tone when she talked about the Echo Mountain Bandits.
"No matter who built it, I'm the only one who knows about this secret passage now," He Ruyu rolled her eyes at Yu Haoran with dissatisfaction and stepped into the dense forest.
In this regard, Yu Haoran could only smile bitterly. He could not help but doubt the words that He Ruyu once said when she was forcing him to marry her.
"You're a woman who's three years older than me, and you're hugging a golden brick. If you marry me, you'll only live a happy life!"
Now, the two of them had not officially established a relationship, but she had already begun to show her overbearing side. If they really got married, then wouldn't he be completely suppressed by her?
It seemed that he had to stick to his heart for their relationship in the future.
Shaking his head, Yu Haoran drove the messy thoughts out of his mind and stepped into the dense forest.
The area of the dense forest was not large. It only took five minutes to reach the center of the dense forest.
He Ruyu, who had entered the dense forest in advance, was standing in front of a big tree with a diameter of about a bucket.
Hearing the sound of footsteps behind her, He Ruyu turned around and a trace of apology flashed across her face.
However, she did not explain anything. She just took out a piece of yellowish tree bark from her Storage Ring and directly stuck it on the tree trunk where the bark was missing.
As the yellowish tree bark stuck tightly on the tree trunk, a gap that could allow a person to pass through opened up in the middle of the tree trunk.
"Follow my footsteps closely!"
Twisting her body to remind Yu Haoran, He Ruyu took off the tree bark that she had just stuck on the tree trunk and stepped into the gap.
The secret passage that led to the Echo Mountain Bandits' headquarters was directly connected to all the peaks and went straight to the Echo Mountain Bandits' headquarters.
Therefore, after entering the secret passage, under He Ruyu's lead, the two of them only spent more than ten minutes to reach the entrance of the secret passage.
"Wait a moment!"
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