I can push my cultivation progress to the end

"Impossible! You… you, a ghost… why do you possess a missive from the Demon-Slaying Division?"

The old man with the surname Cha was initially shocked, then he sternly shouted, "Could it be that you, this evil spirit, murdered Zhang Miaoji and forcibly stole the missive to deceive us…?"

"Alright, alright, don't get so agitated, old man."

Li Hai shook his head and transformed back into a living person right in front of the old man, leaving the latter completely dumbfounded.

"You… how did you turn back into a human?!"

Clearly, the scene had caused some confusion in his mind, and the old man began to ramble incoherently, "I'm on the verge of death, so… so I'm hallucinating."

"No, this is not a hallucination."

Li Hai fabricated an explanation, "I am indeed human, but I possess a bloodline power that allows me to temporarily transform into a ghost."

Subsequently, he briefly recounted how he had slaughtered evil spirits in the haunted Guo Family Fortress and how he had encountered Zhang Miaoji, and so on.

"Alright, I understand."

Due to his extreme weakness, the old man didn't want to expend too much effort trying to discern the truth from Li Hai's words. He simply asked, panting, "In short, you are a human and not a ghost. Knowing that is enough."

Having said that, he laboriously retrieved from behind him a jade box, no larger than half a palm and covered with strange talismans, and said intermittently:

"This is a Soul-Binding Cocoon, a kind of arcane artifact. An hour ago, I imprisoned the ghost that was wreaking havoc here within this artifact."

After speaking, he handed the jade box to Li Hai, and also painstakingly reached out to pass over an ancient book.

"The shocking upheaval at the Ox Horn Town outpost this time is by no means accidental. Someone must be maliciously plotting behind the scenes, otherwise such a large area of haunted land could not have appeared out of nowhere without any warning. It's just that I am now powerless to investigate this matter."

He looked at Li Hai with a pale face, "Carry this Soul-Binding Cocoon with you. To prevent any unforeseen circumstances, you should hide for now and not show your face. Headquarters will send people to investigate this place. They will arrive in a few days, and you can hand it over to the Demon-Slaying Commandant from Headquarters then.

Also, this book is the roster of personnel at this Demon-Slaying Division outpost. Just find a blank page and carve your name on it, using your finger to carve it."

"Carve with my finger? Alright."

Li Hai took the book and casually flipped through it, discovering that the pages were made of a rather hard, non-metallic and non-jade material. An ordinary person would probably not be able to leave a complete name with a carving knife, let alone carve it with their finger.

But for Li Hai, this was a piece of cake, or rather, for any martial artist at the Energy Circulation level, this was an easy task.

Thus, in the blink of an eye, Li Hai's name was carved onto a certain page of the roster with his finger.

Strangely enough, as soon as he carved his name, the roster immediately flashed with light, as if it had been activated.

Seeing this, the dying old man spoke again:

"Congratulations, you have officially become a member of the Great Jing Demon-Slaying Division. Somewhere in this training ground is a device that should have already cast and printed your commandant token. You can go find it yourself later."

After shouting these words, the old man suddenly lost all vitality and died on the spot.

"Until the very end, I didn't know if you were Master Cha."

Li Hai sighed with complex emotions, then immediately transformed from human to ghost, and his ethereal figure passed through the many obstacles to reach the outside.

Afterwards, he did not follow the old man's last words and leave this place immediately, but instead began to wander around this quiet and dark training ground.

"Since this is an organization's outpost, there should be a warehouse or something."

Muttering to himself, Li Hai's eyes scanned around, trying to find anything of value.

Perhaps due to his wild instincts, he quickly discovered what might be the outpost's warehouse in a corner of this wide training ground.

In this warehouse, several rows of iron cabinets were neatly arranged.

Although most of the cabinets had been flattened into scrap iron due to the collapse of most of the warehouse, and the contents inside were also broken and deformed, making it impossible to see their original appearance,

there were still a few iron cabinets that had survived, successfully preserving the items inside.

Opening one of the iron cabinets, Li Hai found it neatly stacked with thousands or even tens of thousands of yellow talismans.

"Good stuff."

He nodded, raised his palm, and the words 'Helplessness' lit up, instantly taking the iron cabinet into the Guiyou Grotto Heaven.

Then, opening the second iron cabinet, which contained various archives and documents, Li Hai casually flipped through them before throwing them into the Grotto Heaven as well.

The third iron cabinet contained sets of folded black uniforms, which were the double-breasted leather outfits worn by those Demon-Slaying Commandants earlier.

"To be honest, these clothes are quite good-looking."

With a thought, Li Hai also took this iron cabinet into the Grotto Heaven.

The fourth iron cabinet contained pairs of black boots that matched the commandant uniforms.

Needless to say, since they were from the same series, Li Hai naturally took the entire cabinet.

Then, there were the remaining fifth, sixth, and seventh iron cabinets.

These contained silver notes of various small and medium denominations, a considerable number of medicine bottles, seven or eight arcane artifacts of unknown function, and a pair of bamboo节 steel whips that flickered with dark red light.

All of this was taken into his possession.

No, the pair of bamboo节 steel whips, which were clearly very extraordinary, were hung around Li Hai's waist on the left and right.

In short, he was enjoying looting the supplies.

At the same time, Li Hai also discovered that in the corner of this collapsed warehouse, there was actually a token printing device that the old Demon-Slaying Division man had mentioned earlier.

"So, the old man's intention was to have me discover this warehouse and then take everything away."

Thinking this, Li Hai walked to the device and found that a token with residual warmth had already come out of its tray.

He picked it up and saw that it read—

[Name: Li Hai]

[Number: 3527]

[Title: Wood-Rank Commandant]