I can push my cultivation progress to the end

“Uh… a good person?”

Looking at Li Hai's fierce face and his overly burly figure, the Daoist hesitated and said, “You… you don’t really look like one.”

“Stop digressing.”

Li Hai said bluntly, “What are you doing here? And…”

He grabbed a handful of talismans and raised them in front of the Daoist's eyes: “What are these things?”

“Hey, hey, brother, don't be so aggressive.”

The Daoist smiled and explained in a slow voice, “This place is haunted, you should know that.”

“I know.” Li Hai nodded, “I’ve already destroyed them.”

“So I was planning to… ah? What did you say!”

The Daoist had just uttered a few words when he was stunned by Li Hai's casual remark.

Then he quickly asked, “Brother, you said you have… exterminated the ghosts in this evil, Yin land? Really?”

“It’s true.” Li Hai said indifferently, “There's no point in fooling anyone about this.”

“Hoo~” The Daoist breathed a long sigh, “That’s very good, very good indeed.”

After saying that, he straightened his clothes and respectfully gave Li Hai a deep bow.

“Eh?” Li Hai asked in confusion, “What are you doing?”

“Little Daoist Zhang Miaoji.”

The Daoist raised his head and said sincerely, “On behalf of the common people here, I thank you, brother.”

“No need, no need~”

Li Hai waved his hand and laughed heartily, “Hahaha, I just happened to pass by and saw it, so I destroyed them on the way. I didn't think too much about it.”

“Is that so? It seems there are many things you don’t know, brother.”

Zhang Miaoji explained, “As the saying goes, vengeful spirits are all filled with ferocity. If no one provokes them and they haven’t tasted blood, it’s still okay. They usually just stay in the place where they died and don’t leave for a long time.

But once they harm someone and taste blood, or are teased by the living, the ghosts will become extremely ferocious, and then take advantage of the night when Yin energy is strong and Yang energy is weak to leave the place of death and run rampant, killing and harming people in the surrounding area.”

Then he pointed to the surroundings: “And places like this evil, Yin land where we are, are even more prone to breeding a large number of ghosts.

If they just stay here, it would be fine, but today, Guo Laohan, who governs this Wubao area, must have developed some kind of brain disease, and he actually set fire to this Yin land in a frenzy.”

Speaking of this, Zhang Miaoji couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: “All ghosts hate bright fire. If even one evil ghost survives under the raging fire, with its terrifying ferocity that has been stimulated, it will be a great disaster for the people in the surrounding area.”

Hearing this, Li Hai said thoughtfully, “So, I’ve essentially eliminated a ghost disaster in advance?”

“More than that.”

Zhang Miaoji stroked his beard and said, “I made some observations earlier and speculated that the survivor here is likely to be a ghost that retains its intelligence. This kind of conscious ghost is much more terrifying than stupid ghosts.”

“Hmm~”

After casually stuffing the dozen or so yellow papers into his pocket, Li Hai touched his bald head and said, “Alright, well… if there’s nothing else, I’ll be leaving.”

Anyway, he has already learned all the Daoist's skills, so what's the point of staying here?

He learned quite a lot, and Li Hai was very satisfied.

“Hey, wait.”

Zhang Miaoji quickly grabbed his arm and smiled ingratiatingly, “Don't rush, brother, we still have things to talk about.”

“Talk about what?” Li Hai curled his lips, turned his head back, and said, “Make it quick, I'm very busy.”

“Okay, okay, brother, it’s like this.”

Zhang Miaoji explained, “You, do you want to kill more ghosts in the future?”

Moreover, your martial arts should have reached the level of steel bones, otherwise you wouldn't be able to defeat that fierce soul.”

“And then?” Li Hai said calmly, “Continue.”

Zhang Miaoji straightened his clothes again and said seriously:

“I, Zhang Miaoji, am an unofficial talent scout for the Great Jing Demon Slayer Division. I hereby formally invite you to join our division, to slay ghosts and demons, and to benefit the world.”

As he spoke, he bowed again.

“Demon Slayer Division?”

Li Hai asked strangely, “Are you from the Jing Dynasty government? How did you come to Qulong Mountain? Isn’t this a no-man’s land?”

To this, Zhang Miaoji only smiled:

“Brother, you don’t know, the ‘three-no’ isn’t that it can’t be managed, but that they are too lazy to manage it. If our Great Jing wants to manage it, this Qulong Mountain… everyone will obey.”

Speaking of this, he added: “The most important thing is that the Demon Slayer Division basically doesn't care about worldly affairs, such as border defense and officialdom changes. They only care about slaying ghosts.”

“Oh~” Li Hai nodded in understanding, “That’s quite a pure organization. Then you must have a lot of information about ghosts in various places, right?”

“Of course.” Zhang Miaoji smiled, “That’s what we specialize in.”

“Hmm, what about the benefits?” Li Hai asked.

After listening to the Daoist's words, he was quite tempted, and the tempting thing was the ghost intelligence.

“About the benefits.”

Zhang Miaoji explained, “As long as you join our Demon Slayer Division, even the lowest-ranking wooden-level captain will receive nine hundred taels of silver per month!”

Li Hai had no idea what nine hundred taels of silver represented, but seeing how proudly he said it, he estimated that the purchasing power of this silver was not low.

“Money is not important.”

Li Hai asked again, “The most important thing is whether there are many experts in your Demon Slayer Division. I like to fight against experts the most.”

If there are experts, it means there are new skills, which also means his strength will increase.

So Li Hai must ask clearly, otherwise, if there are only rookies inside, joining would just be a waste of time and energy.

“Then you’ve come to the right place.”

Zhang Miaoji smiled proudly, “The Demon Slayer Division is a first-class martial arts organization in the world, with countless experts. It's not comparable to those martial arts sects at all.

Not only that, but the Demon Slayer Division also has extremely abundant resources such as cultivation methods, weapons, armor, and elixirs. As long as you can successfully slay ghosts, you can get them all…”

“Alright! No need to say more.”

Li Hai raised his hand to stop Zhang Miaoji, and said simply, “I’ll join the Demon Slayer Division, is that okay?”

“Haha, good!” The Daoist smiled happily, “Not easy, I’ve recruited another great talent.”

As he spoke, he took out a pre-written letter from his sleeve and handed it to the puzzled Li Hai:

“This is a letter of introduction. Go southwest all the way until you reach Niujiao Town in Zhoujiabao, eighty li away. There is a Mingtang Hall there. Find a person named Master Cha and give him this letter.”

“Oh~” Li Hai took the letter, glanced at it, and put it in his pocket. Then he asked, “What about you? Where are you going?”

“Me.”

Zhang Miaoji tidied up his hexagram banner and said with a smile, “Of course, I will continue to travel around and recruit talents.”