Within the spacious hall, pure white, boiling air currents, visible to the naked eye, continuously rolled forth from Li Hai, who was seated cross-legged with his eyes closed, stirring up the dust on the surrounding few feet of ground, causing it to constantly fly up and down.
Actually, Li Hai had completely finished the Cultivation of the two great Cultivation Techniques in the blink of an eye, reaching the Peak.
The current situation was merely a slight manifestation caused by the surging flow of the overly vast True Force within his body.
Although 'Force' could not strike various objects through the air like Innate True Qi in Wuxia novels, it had to physically hit an object to be effective.
However, if one cultivated their Force to an extremely high level like Li Hai, they could, through the circulation of True Force within their body, induce high-frequency vibrations in their body, and then use these vibrations to cause the air outside the body to undulate and vibrate, ultimately creating the effect of boiling and rolling air as seen just now.
This was something only a top-tier Steel Grade Martial Artist could achieve.
Aside from this external phenomenon, Li Hai's body also underwent extremely strange changes after completing the Cultivation of the Iron Bucket Clockwork Manual.
His physique had grown another circle, reaching a height of two meters, and his skin had suddenly turned a bloodless jade-white, completely devoid of any pores.
The most peculiar thing was that Li Hai's hair, eyebrows, and all body hair had completely fallen off, scattered all around.
“What the hell…”
Li Hai touched his bald head and grumbled with a wry smile, “Cultivating directly turned me into a monk, that’s just great.”
To be honest, only Li Hai himself thought he looked like a monk.
His appearance was already fierce and overbearing; now, with no color in his face and no eyebrows, at first glance, he didn't just look like a big villain, but rather like a super-sized evil ghost who had just escaped from hell.
“Let’s test the quality of this Cultivation Technique.”
Li Hai mumbled as he extended a thick finger with a long, sharp nail and plunged it into the rocky hall wall beside him.
Whoosh~
Without much effort at all, the finger sank into the wall up to its root, as if plunging into tofu.
Then, Li Hai used this finger as a knife, and with a series of piercing friction sounds, he forcibly cut out a perfectly round hole the size of a washbasin in the thick wall in front of him.
“There’s no sensation of pain or heat, it’s as if these rocks have lost their inherent strength.”
Withdrawing his finger and stroking it, Li Hai mused, “No, they haven’t lost it. It’s because my current body is too hard.”
As his thoughts turned, he opened his personal interface—
Master Name: Li Hai
Rank Tier: Zhengchuan Martial Arts → Steel Tendons Iron Bones, Bloodline Divine Power → Medium Grade, Ghost Dao → Fierce Soul
Skills Possessed: Five Animal Qi Gong, Beast Intent Demon Claw, Blood Soaked Submerged Heart, Ghost Body Soul Remains, Evil Spirit Earth Drawing Yin Method (Incomplete), Evil Star Descending Yin, Resentful Spirit Extinguishes Yang, Wild Bull Fist, Iron Fan Palm, Iron Bucket Clockwork Manual, Moon Marrow Chain Technique
Entry Traits: 【Strong Soul Level 2】 【Finger Claw Level 2】 【Berserk Level 2】 【Wildness Level 2】 【Ethereal Body Level 2】 【Strange Phenomenon Level 2】 【Twin Fiends Level 2】 【Iron Body Level 2】 【Stone Heart Level 2】
Strong One Fragment: None
“Iron Body and Stone Heart, they must have come from the Iron Bucket Clockwork Manual.”
Li Hai thought thoughtfully, “Although I’m still in the Steel Tendons Iron Bones Realm, with two additional Level 2 entries, I can clearly feel my combat power has jumped a notch, even capable of beating my former self, tsk~ interesting.”
From this, he understood that the level of one's Realm might not fully represent the extent of their combat power.
Even if he remained in a certain Realm, as long as he Cultivated enough powerful martial arts of the same Realm and accumulated enough entry traits, he could still continuously improve his strength.
Immediately, Li Hai raised his head to look at the wall in front of him, touching the large circular section with obvious cutting marks, and then applied sudden force.
Thud!
With a muffled thud, the circular wall block was forcibly pushed out by Li Hai, leaving behind a pitch-black round hole.
Strangely, the heavy thud just now came from far behind Li Hai.
So he followed the sound and saw that a circular hole had also appeared in the opposite hall wall, dozens of feet away, and the inside of the hole was also pitch black.
At the same time, at the base of the hall wall that had a large hole, a circular stone block with jagged edges lay quietly.
Li Hai understood at a glance.
“Haha, interesting.”
Grinning, Li Hai raised his arm and extended it into the dark, secluded hole in the hall wall in front of him.
Then he turned his head to the back, and indeed, he saw a thick, jade-white arm extending from the hole in the opposite hall wall.
That's right, it was his hand.
“Truly amazing.”
Li Hai smacked his lips as he withdrew his arm, “I wonder what mysterious method was used to achieve all this.”
“So…” He touched his bald head, “How do I get out?”
Li Hai glanced around, thought for a moment, then strode towards the black table and picked up the red glowing scroll.
After lingering here for so long, he had already roughly guessed that the hall he was currently in should be that small rectangular pattern in the scroll, which was the so-called Guiyou Cave Heaven side hall of Naihe Prefecture.
As for the righteous organization to which this side hall belonged, its name should be Naihe Prefecture.
As for the other buildings outside this hall, judging by their lifeless and dilapidated appearance, it was likely due to internal strife or external enemy invasion, in short, they were destroyed.
“Doesn’t matter, it has little to do with me.”
Li Hai looked around and mumbled, “This place isn’t bad for a mobile warehouse, it can hold a lot of stuff.”
Immediately, he unhesitatingly permeated the red glowing scroll with True Force.
“Since the naihe token reacts to True Force, then this scroll might also react. There’s no harm in trying.”
That’s what Li Hai thought.
Facts proved that his idea was correct.
When Li Hai infused True Force into this scroll, a large amount of vague and fragmented information suddenly appeared in his mind, and along with this information, a very familiar clear and cold voice appeared:
“Do you want to be transmitted outside Naihe Prefecture?”
“Yes.”
Li Hai’s eyes sparkled as he replied in his mind.
Whoosh~
Instantly, a large gray vortex unfolded on the scroll, swallowing him whole.
…
Outside, on the black-ash-covered rock slope deep within the You Forest ruins, the naihe token lying quietly on it suddenly vibrated slightly.
Buzz—
Suddenly, Li Hai’s figure flew out from this ancient token, growing from small to large, from ethereal to solid, and landed steadily on the rocky ground a zhang away.
“Whew~~”
Li Hai let out a long sigh, “The information hidden in that painting… it’s truly spectacular.”
His previous casual guess was correct; the organization to which that hall belonged was indeed named 【Naihe Prefecture】.
And the Domain where that grand hall was located was, astonishingly, a secluded Cave Heaven existing outside the Human Realm.