I can push my cultivation progress to the end

Inside the vast, empty hall, visible waves of pure white, boiling air continuously rolled out from Li Hai, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed. The dust on the surrounding ground swirled and danced incessantly.

In reality, Li Hai had completely mastered the two great cultivation methods in the blink of an eye, reaching their peak.

The current scene was merely a slight manifestation caused by the overly powerful True Force within his body surging and flowing.

So-called Force, while unable to strike objects from a distance like the Innate True Qi in martial arts stories, must make solid contact to be effective.

However, if one like Li Hai has cultivated their Force to an extremely high level, they can use the circulation of True Intent Force within their body to drive high-frequency vibrations of the body, and then use these vibrations to drive the undulation and oscillation of the air outside the body, ultimately creating the effect of boiling and churning air as seen earlier.

This is something only top-tier Steel-level martial artists can accomplish.

Aside from these external phenomena, Li Hai's body also underwent extremely strange changes after completing the cultivation of the "Iron Bucket Disc Bell Manual."

His physique became even more robust, reaching a height of two meters, and his skin suddenly turned into a bloodless, jade-white color, completely devoid of any pores or marks.

Most bizarrely, Li Hai's hair, eyebrows, and even all body hair fell out completely, scattering around in all directions.

"This is ridiculous…" Li Hai muttered, touching his bald head with a wry smile. "Practicing a technique and directly becoming a monk, is that even okay?"

To be honest, only Li Hai himself felt like a monk.

His appearance was already fierce and tyrannical. Now, with a bloodless face and no eyebrows, he didn't just look like a big villain, but rather like a super-sized evil ghost who had just escaped from the Netherworld.

"Let's test the quality of this skill."

Li Hai muttered, extending a thick finger with a sharp, elongated nail and inserting it into the rocky palace wall beside him.

Chi ~

Without using much force at all, the finger penetrated the wall to the root as if inserting into tofu.

Then, Li Hai used this finger as a knife, creating an ear-piercing friction sound as he forcibly cut out a perfect circle the size of a washbasin on the thick wall in front of him.

"There's no pain or heat, it's as if these rocks have lost their inherent strength."

Li Hai withdrew his finger and stroked it, pondering, "No, they haven't lost it, it's just that my body is too hard now."

While his thoughts were racing, he opened his personal interface—

Master Name: Li Hai

Level Rank: Orthodox Martial Arts → Steel Tendons \u0026 Iron Bones, Bloodline Divine Power → Middle Grade, Ghost Path → Fierce Soul

Skills: 《Five Animal Qi Skill》, 《Beast Intent Demon Claws》, 《Blood-Soaked Submerged Heart》, 《Ghost Body Soul Bones》, 《Evil Spirit Earth Yin Absorption Method (Fragment)》, 《Evil Star Descending Yin》, 《Vengeful Star Extinguishing Yang》, 《Raging Bull Fist》, 《Iron Fan Palm》, 《Iron Bucket Disc Bell Manual》, 《Moon Marrow Chain Shaping Art》

Trait Attributes: 【Robust Soul Level 2】, 【Finger Claws Level 2】, 【Berserk Level 2】, 【Wildness Level 2】, 【Ghostly Body Level 2】, 【Weird Appearance Level 2】, 【Double Star Level 2】, 【Iron Body Level 2】, 【Stone Heart Level 2】

Strongest Fragments: None

"Iron Body and Stone Heart should be from the 'Iron Bucket Disc Bell Manual', right?"

Li Hai pondered, "Although I'm still in the Steel Tendons and Iron Bones realm, with two more Level 2 Traits, I can clearly feel that my combat power has jumped up a notch. I could even beat up my former self. Tsk~ Interesting."

From this, he understood that the level of a realm might not completely represent the magnitude of 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 Trait Attributes, he could still continuously improve his strength.

Immediately, Li Hai raised his head to look at the wall in front of him and, touching the large circular area with obvious cutting marks, suddenly exerted force.

Thud!

With a muffled sound, the circular wall piece was forcibly pushed out by Li Hai, leaving a round, dark hole.

Strangely, the heavy sound just now came from afar behind Li Hai.

So he looked in the direction of the sound and saw that on the opposite palace wall, dozens of feet away, there was also a round hole, equally dark inside.

At the base of the palace wall with a big hole, a circular stone block with uneven edges lay quietly.

Li Hai understood at a glance.

"Haha, interesting."

Grinning, Li Hai raised his arm and reached into the dark hole in the palace wall in front of him.

Then, he turned his head to look back and, sure enough, saw a jade-white, thick arm extending from the hole in the opposite palace wall.

That's right, it was his arm.

"So magical."

Li Hai smacked his lips and withdrew his arm. "I wonder what kind of mysterious means were used to achieve all of this."

"So…" He touched his bald head, "How should I get out?"

Li Hai glanced around and thought for a moment before striding towards the black desk and picking up the red-light scroll.

After lingering here for so long, he had roughly guessed that the palace he was currently in should be the small rectangular pattern in the scroll, which was the so-called Kui You Cave Heaven Side Hall of the Naihe Prefecture.

As for the righteous organization to which this side hall belonged, its name should be the Naihe Prefecture.

Li Hai looked around and muttered, "This place is not bad to use as a mobile warehouse, it can hold a lot of things."

Immediately, he unhesitatingly infiltrated the True Force into this red-light scroll.

"Since the Naihe Token reacts to True Force, this scroll might also react. Trying it won't hurt."

That's what Li Hai thought.

Facts proved that his idea was correct.

When Li Hai input True Force into this scroll, large amounts of blurred and fragmented information suddenly appeared in his mind. Along with this information, there was also an extremely familiar, clear and cold voice:

"Do you want to be transferred to outside the Naihe Prefecture?"

"Yes."

Li Hai's eyes flickered, answering in his heart.

Hua ~

Instantly, a huge gray vortex unfolded on the scroll, swallowing him in one gulp.

…

Outside, deep within the Youlin Ruins, on the black and gray rocky slope, the Naihe Token lying quietly on it suddenly vibrated slightly.

Buzz—

Suddenly, Li Hai's figure flew out from this ancient token, changing from small to large, from virtual to real, and landed steadily on the rocky ground a zhang away.

"Hoo~~~"

Li Hai exhaled a long breath, "The information hidden in that painting… is really wonderful."

His previous casual guess was correct. The organization to which that palace belonged was indeed called 【Naihe Prefecture】.

And the domain where that palace was located was actually a secluded cave heaven existing outside the mortal world.