On this road, especially around Luoyang Slope, there are undoubtedly bandits, but those who would prey on travelers are small groups of bandits.
In these bandit groups, the leaders are often martial artists, while the majority are ordinary people, nothing but riffraff.
Only those driven to desperation become bandits, and it's those types who would resort to targeting penniless travelers for robbery.
The leader of a small bandit group would at most be a martial artist at the Six Viscera Realm, or even just a powerful ordinary person.
After all, if they had martial arts skills, they could find a livelihood anywhere and wouldn't need to stoop to being a small-scale bandit group.
Even if there were many martial artists at the Five Viscera Six Viscera Realm or ordinary people, they would still be insignificant in front of these two.
By the time it was three in the afternoon, the two of them leaned against a large tree, gathered dry grass and branches, and constructed a simple bed.