I can push my cultivation progress to the end

After leaving Li Lake, Li Hai was like an arrow shot from a bow, speeding through the clouds and sky, carrying heavy gray-white sonic booms as he flew towards the distant horizon.

His destination was the lair of Lang Yunsheng, the chief of the Black Wolf Bandits—a stronghold called Wolf Den.

Li Hai learned from Zhou Hu and Zhou Yugen that this so-called Wolf Den was located in a continuous mountain range thousands of miles away in the direction he was heading.

The area was full of overlapping peaks, treacherous terrain, and cliffs, making it an excellent defensive position. It was also close to rivers and lakes, providing abundant water and seafood.

Therefore, the Wolf Den, located in that area, not only housed thousands of bandits belonging to the Black Wolf Bandits but also gathered many vicious criminals who had fled from the Great Jing in the north and the barbarian tribes in the south.

As a result, various evil deeds such as murder in the streets, public dismemberment, extortion, robbery, and selling stolen goods occurred frequently in every corner inside and outside the Wolf Den every day.

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It can be said that there were no ordinary people in that Wolf Den at all. Even if there were, they would soon be bullied to death by evildoers.

Those who could stay there for a long time were basically all scum and villains, with varying degrees of wickedness, strength, and weakness. The fierce and evil ones enjoyed good food and drink, while the others were treated like cattle and horses.

However, as far as Li Hai was concerned, he didn't care about this or that. Anyway, they were all villains, and it would be best if they all died.

"It doesn't matter, whether it's a small villain or a big bad guy..."

Li Hai, who was speeding through the clouds, grinned and said, "I'll kill them all."

While flying, he also subconsciously glanced at his personal interface.

In the column for Strongest Shards, there was still a large "1" hanging.

Yes, after killing the Salt God and obtaining this Strongest Shard, Li Hai did not rush to use the shard and upgrade on the spot as he had done before.

He chose to save it up and not use it for the time being.

The reason for this was because, after thinking about it for a while, Li Hai had gradually understood the acquisition mechanism of this important 'system currency,' the Strongest Shard, and what the general gameplay was all about.

First of all, since it was called the Strongest Shard, then this kind of shard was naturally closely related to the concept of the strongest.

However, what kind of person counts as the strongest?

According to Li Hai's speculation and summary, the so-called strongest were those who were comparable to him.

In fact, according to Li Hai's observation,

the enemies who were able to grant him shards along the way were basically all living individuals who were at the same level as him, or slightly higher or slightly lower.

From this, Li Hai deduced that if he leveled up again,

no matter which system he leveled up, as long as his overall combat strength had a clear leap, such as reflected in the characteristic column, that is, a certain characteristic reached level 4,

As the name suggests, everything weaker than the protagonist belongs to ants, those as strong as the protagonist are fellow Daoists, and those stronger than the protagonist, no matter how much stronger, are seniors.

And now, the enemies that allow Li Hai to drop Strongest Shards are precisely only the level 3 fellow Daoists who can contend with him, such as the Salt God, and the level 4, level 5, and higher-level seniors who surpass him.

Yes, although Li Hai defeated the Salt God very easily, under the system's judgment mechanism based on the characteristic factor, the two of them were equals.

To put it more bluntly, it means that the highest levels of the many characteristics they both possess are on par at the level 3 level, so they belong to the same level.

It's just that although they are at the same level (level 3 characteristics), Li Hai is much more comprehensive than the Salt God (more characteristics), and each aspect is also higher, so he ultimately obtained a Strongest Shard from the Salt God.

Therefore, it can also be foreseen that once Li Hai pushes himself to a higher martial arts realm above that of a Conqueror of Thousands.

If he wants to obtain Strongest Shards again, he can only go to find those who are equally powerful as him, but are also rarer, those above Conqueror of Thousands.

But this would bring a serious problem.

If Li Hai seizes a cultivation system, such as orthodox martial arts, and just keeps leveling up regardless.

When he levels up to the top, to the end, to level seven, level eight, or even level ten, and becomes the absolute number one in the world, then who should he go to to get shards at that time?

Could it be that he would just stay stuck at that level and not level up anymore?

That won't do, people will really die.

Think about it, the unknown root cause that led to the collective demise of a large number of prehistoric civilizations, as well as the mysterious death realms and other dimensions that are unknown where they exist, and... the so-called Golden Apocalypse, which made Li Hai feel pain to the point of near-death just by looking at its name.

None of these are easy to deal with, and they are all so dangerous that it makes one's scalp tingle.

Therefore, one must not stagnate and must level up to a level far higher than everyone else in this world to be safe.

So, after experiencing the 'baptism' of the many materials inside that prehistoric iron box,

Li Hai's real goal now is no longer as simple as being the so-called number one in the world.

But... how can he protect his own life in the face of the huge crisis that may descend sometime in the future?

"Save up shards, save up hundreds or thousands of them."

Li Hai muttered to himself while speeding through the sky, "And then I'll directly level up to the realm of blasting hundreds of millions of stars with one punch. At that time, those gods and ghosts should have no way to deal with me, right?"

Just level 3 characteristics have allowed him to evolve into a supersonic life form capable of wreaking havoc in Earth's society.

What kind of terrifying power would level 100 or even level 1000 characteristics have?

Li Hai was very much looking forward to this.

Traveling through the sky, he imagined the magnificent scene after he had leveled up all his characteristics to hundreds or thousands of levels, and couldn't help but hum softly.

...

Seen from high above, the winding and undulating Qulong Mountain Range, stretching for thousands of miles, looks like a thick artery.

The many large and small branches extending from this vast mountain range twist and turn, resembling dense capillaries.

And the main camp of the Black Wolf Bandits—Wolf Den—is located in the layered mountains formed by several of these 'capillaries' converging and braiding together.

But unlike normal fortresses and towns, Wolf Den, from a distance, looks more like a huge... collection of illegal buildings.