I can push my cultivation progress to the end

After delving into it, Li Hai discovered that the unknown skill called "Crimson Dragon Claws" was actually the informational representation of the mechanical arms on Zeng Ying's personal interface.

Moreover, these mechanical arms were not as simple as they appeared, merely being sturdy and having sharp claws.

In fact, they possessed special functions such as retractable claw blades, expandable arm armor, elbow thrusters, high-pressure flamethrowers, and high-energy rapid-fire cannons.

Especially the so-called high-energy rapid-fire cannons hidden deep within the structure of the two mechanical arms, which could continuously fire high-explosive warheads at a speed of a thousand zhang per second, enough to pose a threat to many Iron-level and even some Thousand-Army-level martial artists.

It was too cyberpunk.

More interestingly, the skill corresponding to these arms, "Crimson Dragon Claws," did not have any evolutionary system.

It belonged to… an extremely rare non-system skill.

That is to say, Zeng Ying, who possessed this skill, would not gain an additional cultivation system, but only a new entry characteristic—[Mechanical Level 2].

That's right, these mechanical arms, which were obviously man-made, could actually grant someone entry characteristics.

This situation completely shattered Li Hai's cognitive understanding of skills, entries, evolution… and various other concepts.

Could mechanical modification also be considered evolution?

What shattered his understanding even more was that Zeng Ying, the owner of these Crimson Dragon Claws, didn't even know that the things attached to his body were pure scientific mechanical creations, and only thought they were some kind of ancient divine weapon.

Yes, according to Zeng Ying, these arms were not made by people today at all.

Instead, they were excavated from the mountains by a department called the Divine Armory of the Great Jing Dynasty, and there was more than just one or two of them.

This made Li Hai sink into deep thought.

He was intensely confused about which era of civilization the Great Jing Dynasty should be equated with.

He remembered that when he first transmigrated to this world, Li Hai naturally assumed that it was just an ordinary ancient world.

But the appearance of firearms made him think that it might be a world with a technological development level similar to the Ming Dynasty or the early Republic era.

However, a series of seemingly familiar things, such as the electric lights and electric water heater in the Zhou Family Manor, the large elevators at the Demon Slayer Division's outpost in Niujiao Town, the mold-making machine for the school officer's tokens in the underground training ground, some unfamiliar construction machinery in the corners of the Wolf Den stronghold, and the power transmission network covering all levels of the Wolf Den underground palace, made Li Hai's understanding of the technological era of this world increasingly blurred.

Finally, after seeing these mechanical arms, it became completely chaotic.

Think about it, a world where streetlights, radios, televisions, penicillin, and submachine guns do not exist or are not widespread actually has practical and safe mechanical arms… It's just too absurd.

Fortunately, the information mentioned by Zeng Ying, such as the Divine Armory and the Crimson Dragon Claws being excavated from the ground, quickly saved Li Hai's cognition.

He instantly understood why this world was so strange.

Because the development of science and technology in the Great Jing Dynasty, which ruled this Yuzhou world, did not rely on scientists at all, but on… archaeological excavation.

After understanding this, everything became clear.

Originally, there were a lot of prehistoric civilizations in this world, so it was normal for the Great Jing Dynasty to dig out some prehistoric relics and use them as ancient divine weapons.

Because even if they didn't understand the operating principles, as long as the quality of the prehistoric technological civilization relics was good enough and durable enough, it wouldn't hinder the humans of this era from using them.

Anyone can use them.

However, because of this, Li Hai couldn't help but start to suspect that his pair of freely retractable steel whips… might be a product of prehistoric nanotechnology.

Shaking his head suddenly, Li Hai thought of another question.

Since Zeng Ying's personal interface and the "Crimson Dragon Claws" skill could be seen by him, it meant that he could copy and learn them, and even consume strongman fragments to upgrade them.

Then, if he upgraded this skill all the way to level ten or twenty, wouldn't he become a… pure mechanical lifeform?

If it could, then what kind of evolutionary path would this be, mechanical ascension?

Li Hai dispelled all kinds of distracting thoughts, and after learning all of Zeng Ying's skills in an instant, he enveloped the entire Demon Slayer Division stronghold outside the huge tent with his perception.

Then he discovered that the other dozens of Demon Slayer school officers in this stronghold were all just ordinary martial artists at the Energetic Body Circulation level.

It was just that these martial artists had also cultivated Qimen techniques, so they had more methods than ordinary martial artists, and they were also more difficult to deal with.

For ordinary people, a few Iron-level martial artists plus dozens of Energetic Body-level martial artists, and all of these martial artists had also cultivated Qimen techniques, this lineup might be considered luxurious.

But in Li Hai's opinion, this lineup was as weak as children playing house.

He was very puzzled by this, and couldn't help but murmur in his heart:

"Excluding the unknown Commander Gai for the time being, how did these few martial artists who are only at the Iron Bone level become the backbone of the Demon Slayer Division?

Tsk~ If it's really so trivial, then what should I, a Grandmaster-level, be considered, directly the big leader?

This joking inference made Li Hai, who had never been a social leader in either his previous life or this life, a little unbelievable.

So he guessed again:

"Could it be because the Qulong Mountain area is located in a remote and sparsely populated area, resulting in low top-level combat power and low average combat power.

So the Demon Slayer Division here is forced to pick the tallest among the dwarfs, so that even Iron-level martial artists can stand alone?"

…

Putting aside those wild thoughts, Li Hai learned that the Commander Gai Fagai, who had jurisdiction over all the Demon Slayer school officers in the entire Qulong Mountain area, was still on his way here and had not yet arrived.

So during this period, Li Hai began to talk and communicate with those few Demon Slayer school officers.

It was also through this exchange that Li Hai belatedly realized what level his strength was positioned in after arriving in this world.

It turned out that even in the Great Jing Dynasty in the north, martial artists of his Grandmaster level were already solid high-level figures, not some small chickens that anyone dared to offend.

Even if it was not Grandmaster, even the Thousand-Army-level martial artists who had initially reached the supersonic lifeform level were enough to dominate one side.

This is really too un-fantasy!