I can push my cultivation progress to the end

Immediately, Li Hai began selecting from the first martial art in his skill bar, "Five Animal Qi Gong," and proceeded sequentially like a general inspecting his troops.

"Beast Intent Demon Claw," "Raging Bull Fist," "Iron Fan Palm"...

It wasn't until Li Hai selected "Hercules Throwing Elephant Skill," a technique specifically for training physical fitness and strength, that the system issued another reminder:

The number of selected fusion techniques has reached the limit (twelve).

Upon seeing this message, Li Hai stopped selecting without a word and began the technique fusion.

Instantly, the twelve techniques on his personal panel blurred and transformed into twelve clusters of light, merging with each other.

In just a moment, the twelve techniques, "Five Animal Qi Gong," "Beast Intent Demon Claw," "Raging Bull Fist"... "Hercules Throwing Elephant Skill," completely vanished.

Replacing them was a new technique called "Demon Ape Giant Elephant Skill."

"Demon Ape Giant Elephant..."

Li Hai's eyes gleamed. "Let me see just what mysteries you hold."

As he muttered, all the information about this "Demon Ape Giant Elephant Skill" instantly flooded his mind.

Boom~

Massive and complex information rapidly flowed through Li Hai's mind.

In an instant, he completely learned and understood everything about this technique.

Overall, this martial art technique, comprising nine levels, integrated most of the basic characteristics of those twelve martial arts.

Such as enhancing overall physical strength, deepening hand deformation, increasing hand toxicity, improving body defense, refining beast sense accuracy... and so on.

Furthermore, this technique elevated all of these aspects to a higher level.

Those who reach this level can maintain peak physical condition for as long as one hundred and eighty years, only experiencing decline in energy and mental collapse at the moment of death after that long period.

This level, in the records of "Demon Ape Giant Elephant Skill," is called the Demon Ape Body.

The so-called 'body' (功体), literally means a powerful physique that has transformed and been born in order to bear and exert all the effects of a powerful technique.

The specific process is that when a martial artist cultivates a martial art technique to a very deep level within their body, it will cause a series of subtle transformations deeply aligned with this technique to be born from the smallest level.

Once this transformation occurs, it will change various aspects of the body layer by layer, from small to large, eventually causing a qualitative change from quantitative change, so that the martial artist's entire body, from head to toe, inside and out, undergoes drastic changes.

In this way, one can reach an even higher level of martial arts beyond the Steel Bone realm—the 'Defeating a Thousand Soldiers' realm (辟易千军之境).

As the name suggests, once this realm is reached, a martial artist can become a true one-man army on the battlefield.

They will possess hundreds of thousands of pounds of strength, speed exceeding sound, and terrifying defense to match both.

Not to mention sword slashes or firearm volleys, even army encirclements and heavy artillery bombardments will not be able to cause effective damage to a thousand-soldier-level martial artist; instead, they will be wantonly slaughtered without resistance.

"Good! Awesome! Powerful!"

Excited, Li Hai immediately pushed the "Demon Ape Giant Elephant Skill" from the zeroth level to the end of the technique, the ninth level, in one go.

Boom!

Instantly, Li Hai's body suddenly swelled, making him, who was already extremely robust, look even more inhuman.

At the same time, dense black spots rapidly grew out of Li Hai's originally smooth scalp. Once these spots appeared, they grew into thick, stiff strands of hair, stopping only when they reached his waist.

Finally, Li Hai's original jade-white skin also changed, becoming dark bronze in color, shiny, and the texture became rough and tough like scales and armor.

Furthermore, large patches of blurred blood-colored纹路 were also scattered throughout his skin.

In short, after Li Hai mastered the "Demon Ape Giant Elephant Skill," he no longer looked human at all.

Li Hai, possessing an inhuman appearance, adjusted the state of his internal organs, meridians, skeleton, and other aspects, then suddenly opened his eyes and scanned all directions.

Whoosh—

If anyone were present at this moment, they would feel as if a bolt of lightning had struck from the dim void above, illuminating the entire dilapidated training ground below with a blinding white light, banishing the darkness.

This layer of earth-shattering white light lasted for half a breath, and then disappeared completely as Li Hai blinked.

This is 'Eyes like Lightning,' one of the characteristics of a thousand-soldier-level martial artist.

It is not that light can actually bloom from the pupils, but rather that Li Hai's mental power is too strong, resulting in a mysterious phenomenon.

Then, Li Hai grinned, bared his teeth, and suddenly exhaled a gray-white breath:

"Hoo~"

This breath, like a heavy arrow, shot out rapidly for several dozen feet as soon as it appeared, breaking a slender tree stump about half a foot thick that had risen from the ground in half.

This is 'Breathing Arrows,' and like the previous 'Eyes like Lightning,' it is also one of the characteristics of a martial artist in this realm.

However, this characteristic demonstrates the unparalleled power of the martial artist's lung function.

After Li Hai exhaled this turbid air from his body, he willed to open his personal interface, which had already been updated many times—

Master Name: Li Hai

Level Tier: Orthodox Martial Arts → Defeating a Thousand Soldiers, Bloodline Supernatural Power → Mid-Grade, Ghost Path → Fierce Spirit, Arcane Arts → Spiritual Outing

Skills: "Demon Ape Giant Elephant Skill," "Blood-Soaked Submerged Heart," "Ghost Body Soul Skeleton," "Evil Spirit Earth Drawing Yin Method (Fragment)," "Evil Fiend Descending Yin," "Grievance Fiend Extinguishing Yang," "Moon Marrow Chain Shaping Technique," "Searching for Ghosts and Monsters," "Yin-Yang Eyes," "Qi Observation Technique," "High-Level Yuan Breath Yang Refining Method," "Lifespan Reduction Yuan Cutting Technique," "Heavenly Scorching Yang 引阳术," "Upper Yuan Town Spirit Talisman (Fragment)," "Yin Gathering 崟岌," "Southern Xinjiang Zou Clan Poison Arts Outline (Fragment)," "Raging Flood Dragon Whip," "夭纤诡荑," "Red Dust Gathering Yin Method (Fragment)"

Lexicon Traits: [Strong Soul Level 3] [Fingers and Claws Level 3] [Berserk Level 2] [Wild Nature Level 3] [Ghostly Body Level 2] [Strange Appearance Level 2] [Double Fiend Level 2] [Iron Body Level 3] [Stone Heart Level 3] [Inspiration Level 2] [Yang Absorption Level 2] [Concentration Level 2] [Mana Level 2] [Yin Absorption Level 1] [Breath Concealment Level 1] [Toxicity Level 3] [Brute Force Level 3] [Rage Level 2] [Technique Level 1] [Demon Finger Level 2] [Evil Thoughts Level 2]

Strongest Fragments: None

Looking at the dense array of various skills and lexicon traits on the panel, Li Hai couldn't help but laugh loudly:

"Hahahaha, I... am so damn strong now!"

After laughing, Li Hai raised his head and looked at the dark tunnel above, and said in a low voice:

"The matter here is over, it's time to return to the surface."

Having said that, he circulated his thick and dense Demon Ape True Energy into the pair of bamboo-section steel whips he was holding tightly in his palm, activating one of the magical abilities that came with the divine weapon.