I can push my cultivation progress to the end

Not long after Li Hai entered the old house, clusters of raging fire inexplicably appeared everywhere within.

At the same time, looking out through a small window, he discovered that the sky outside had inexplicably turned to night, and the looming village houses were also ablaze with roaring flames.

In that blood-red firelight, extremely shrill screams constantly echoed.

It was as if this village had instantly returned to that night, decades ago, when it was tragically destroyed by fire.

“Is this the lingering resentment of A-Su at work, or is something else causing trouble?”

These small flames posed a negligible threat to Li Hai.

Therefore, enduring the raging fire, he began a thorough search of the old house, leaving no stone unturned.

Fortunately, the area of this house was not large, not even as big as any of the wing rooms in Guo Laogou's courtyard.

Therefore, Li Hai didn't expend much effort before finding something suspicious here—a cellar.

However, this cellar was neither deep nor large, containing nothing but some old sundries and broken vegetable jars.

An ordinary person finding this might have to regretfully turn back.

But when Li Hai came down, he seemed to sense something and directly used his illusory form to pass through the rock and earth, reaching a depth of thirty feet below the cellar floor.

There, a stone coffin, whose age was unknown, was buried.

And within the coffin, among the humanoid pile of withered bones, lay quietly an ancient token that made Li Hai's heart tremble...

“Could it be…”

Leaving the ghost eye's perspective, Li Hai stood on the rocky slope, gazing at the ancient token in his palm, engraved with the words 'Naihe,' and pondered, "Is this the origin of the ghost cultivation methods that A-Su practiced?”

He could clearly feel that this token contained some kind of secret or power, but he couldn't find a way to access it.

Because besides the words 'Naihe,' there were no other inscriptions or mechanisms, making it impossible to figure out how to unlock its secrets.

“Could it be, I need to drip blood to claim ownership?”

Li Hai frowned and complained, “Isn't that too cliché?”

Despite his complaints, Li Hai, with no other options, could only try to laboriously cut his overly tough skin with his sharp nails, creating a tiny bit of blood to drip onto the token.

However, it had no effect.

The token didn't react at all.

Afterward, Li Hai tried several other methods.

But whether he pulled out hair, cursed, shouted 'Open Sesame,' or submerged it in soul power, all were ineffective.

“What to do? Do I need to split it open?”

Frustrated, Li Hai used his wild and brutal true energy to strike the token fiercely with a claw.

Bang!

The ground cracked, creating fissures, but the token lying in the center of these mottled cracks remained undamaged.

Not only undamaged, but it even began to flicker with a faint glow… Wait!

“It's glowing?! Red light with a hint of black.”

Li Hai quickly picked up the token from the ground and held it in front of him to observe carefully, “Strange, why didn't anything work just now, but now it reacts after I hit it hard? Could it be that you're really a cheap thing that needs to be beaten?”

As he muttered to himself, the token once again subsided, dimming down.

Seeing this, Li Hai threw it on the ground and stomped on it hard.

Bang!

Instantly, the area where the token lay was stomped into a crater the size of a washbasin.

But this time, the token didn't react again.

“Damn it!” Li Hai cursed inwardly, “Why doesn't it work again?”

Then, he calmed down and began to think carefully.

“Just now, after I struck the token with energy, the token began to glow, and then I struck it again… Wait!”

Li Hai seemed to have thought of something, “Energy? True energy?”

He immediately circulated his true energy, not striking, but slowly immersing it into the token.

Buzz—

Seeing the reaction, Li Hai continued to immerse his true energy into it with excitement.

After continuing for half a minute, a voice, both male and female, ethereal and cold, appeared in his mind:

“The Naihe Prefecture Guo Clan's inheritance token has been successfully activated. Do you wish to enter the inheritance grotto?”

“Yes!”

Li Hai answered without hesitation in his mind.

“Entry application received. Physical transfer will now begin,” the cold voice sounded again.

Buzz—

In an instant, the black and gray earth and the misty sky in Li Hai's vision quickly blurred and disappeared.

What replaced it was an ancient and magnificent, vast palace.

This great hall was quiet and empty, filled with the heavy aura of time.

“What exactly is this…”

Li Hai walked in the hall, raised his head and looked at the surrounding palace walls, looking at the murals that had faded severely, curious and puzzled, “What kind of place is this?”

Touching the thick stone pillars supporting the palace ceiling, looking at the blurred reliefs on the pillars, he felt that everything here was filled with a sacred and strange atmosphere.

The reason he had this feeling was because, even though these reliefs and murals were mottled and unclear, Li Hai could still understand what they wanted to 'say' with his eagle-like vision.

These reliefs and murals depicted demons and monsters rampaging in the human world, causing widespread suffering, and then countless people, unable to endure it, rose up in resistance under the leadership of heroes from all walks of life.

Killing day and night, sacrificing countless lives, they finally used blood and fire to subdue demons and monsters, and used swords to eliminate ghosts and monsters, allowing the entire world to return to peace.

In addition to this theme, Li Hai found that the reliefs on the stone pillars and the murals on the palace walls also depicted that even after the human world was at peace, demons and monsters would still occasionally cause trouble, causing innocent people to die tragically.

Therefore, the heroes who led the masses to resist in those years reappeared and summoned talents from all walks of life to form a team, running around the human world to slay demons and eliminate monsters.

Then, Li Hai also discovered that some broken reliefs and murals depicted that this team, which traveled everywhere to slay ghosts and destroy demons, although possessing many heroes with amazing martial power and various secret treasures, did not seize the highest power in the world.

Instead, they retreated and hid outside the world, silently traveling in all directions to protect the peace of the human world.

Finally, the reliefs and murals that Li Hai found depicted that this team had been lurking in the vast sea of humanity, and even if dynasties changed and the world changed, they still had not changed their original intentions, still silently slaying ghosts and eliminating demons, and still maintaining the peace of the human world.

“What a righteous organization! All heroes and good men!”

Li Hai raised his head, put his hands on his hips, and laughed heartily with excitement, “Leaving without a trace after the task is done, concealing merit and fame, damn, that's too cool, I, Lao Li, also want to do this!”

He acted on a whim, and after seeing these murals and reliefs, he became excited and wanted to find this organization to join, and then go and slay ghosts and monsters to his heart's content, and then…

“Eh, wait a minute~”

Li Hai suddenly scratched his head, “I seem to be a ghost too, this…”

Buzz—

At this moment, a hazy red light suddenly flashed on the table at the head of the hall, dozens of feet away from him.