I can push my cultivation progress to the end

“Donglin Garden, sounds a bit like a garden, tsk, doesn't sound too impressive.”

Somewhat disappointed, Li Hai clicked his tongue and looked up at the entire main hall in front of the desk.

Then, he saw that the black mist that had permeated from a doorway on the left side at the far end of the main hall had completely disappeared.

What replaced it was a narrow, long stone corridor.

Without much hesitation, Li Hai's figure flashed, and he flew across a hundred zhang distance into this suddenly appearing narrow corridor.

After rushing another few hundred zhang, he reached the end of the corridor.

And when Li Hai pushed open the bronze door at the end, a vast but desolate wilderness came into his view.

Despite being called a 'Lin Yuan' (Forest Garden), Li Hai couldn't see any decent trees anywhere.

There were only sparse, yellowed, withered grasses and cracked, gully-filled land.

In short, a scene of desolation and death.

“It's probably because of the lack of maintenance.”

Li Hai stepped into the wasteland, slowly walking and looking around, wanting to find anything unusual.

But he was disappointed.

After that, Li Hai walked a full ten li.

That hazy palpitation was the result of this reaction.

“Forget it, forget it, since I have nothing to do, I'll just keep walking and see what I encounter.”

Thinking this, Li Hai patiently continued walking.

And after he walked another five or six li, he finally saw something completely different from the dead trees, withered grass, and broken monuments.

It was... hundreds upon thousands of soldier corpses, wearing dark black heavy armor and holding various weapons, deathly silent yet not decaying.

At first glance, they looked like a group of defeated soldiers who had encountered a difficult battle and were all killed.

They lay quietly in various places in the vast wilderness in front of Li Hai, ninety-nine percent of them were in a damaged state with missing arms and legs, or missing heads and broken waists.

Only a few scattered corpses barely maintained their limbs intact.

However, even so, the armor and weapons worn by these corpses were still covered with cracks and holes, looking very miserable.

But this was only what Li Hai saw; the truth was long gone, disappearing into the mists of history.

“A land of corpses... what value could there be?!”

Li Hai frowned, somewhat displeased, but still walked into this land of corpses, looking around, wanting to find some useful items.

Such as martial arts techniques or spell secrets, or at least some gold and silver.

But he was disappointed when he looked.

Not to mention any techniques or secrets, Li Hai wandered around for a while and searched through more than a dozen corpses, but couldn't even find a copper coin.

However, he also made an unexpected discovery, that is, these so-called corpses... were actually all non-human.

No, that's not right.

It should be said that these corpses were simply robots.

Previously, the distance was too far, and there were withered grasses covering them, so Li Hai couldn't see clearly, but as soon as he got closer, he discovered.

The broken openings of these corpses didn't contain flesh and blood, but complex and precise mechanical devices.

And what connected and wrapped these machines weren't colorful wires or circuit boards, but pieces of jade of various shapes, sizes, and colors, and these jade pieces were also engraved with extremely complex symbols and patterns, looking both mysterious and ancient.

Not only were there runes on these jade pieces, but there were also runes on the surrounding machines, whether intact or not, but there were fewer and sparser than on the jade pieces.

At the same time, the precise machinery inside the holes in the surface of these corpses wasn't entirely made of metal, but mostly of strange materials such as bone, wood, porcelain, and even stone, with metal only accounting for a small part.

“What does this mean, ancient robots? Mechanical puppets?”

Seeing this situation, Li Hai couldn't help but think of a web novel he had read in his previous life—'Infinite Horror'.

There seemed to be something in there called... what was it called, Yellow Turban Warriors, which were created by cultivators using some kind of rune technology.

Li Hai suspected that these wasteland corpses were a kind of Yellow Turban Warrior, a combat tool manufactured by the Underworld.

“But no matter what, these robots are now damaged, so what use are they to me?... Alas~~ what a waste of time.”

Shaking his head, Li Hai sighed and slowly walked out of this land of corpses.

But after walking a few steps, as he passed a burly corpse holding a door-sized saber with half of its face missing, the corpse suddenly opened its eyes and quickly sat up.

“Eh?!”

Li Hai immediately stopped, staring at the awakened half-faced corpse, “You... you can still wake up, is it because you were close enough to me and then activated?”

After hearing the sound, the half-faced corpse immediately turned its head to look at Li Hai.

Then, in the next moment, it quickly propped itself up and knelt on one knee towards Li Hai with a thud, and said in a muffled voice:

“Gui You Cave Heaven Demon Subduing Warrior Number 3970, greets the master!”

“...Very good, very spirited.”

Li Hai, who was secretly happy to have an extra follower, smiled brightly, “I want to know, do you recognize me as your master now because of the Tinder Plan of the Underworld's higher-ups?”

“Reporting to the master.”

The Demon Subduing Warrior said in a deep voice, “This subordinate has lost past memories and does not know what the Tinder Plan is. I only know that you are the master of Gui You Cave Heaven, and therefore my master.”

“Okay.”

Li Hai clicked his tongue, “Then it seems that there is no way to know what happened in the Underworld back then, by the way...”

Then he pointed to the Demon Subduing Warriors lying all over the place and said: “Are there any of your companions who haven't been scrapped like you? Can you find them? It's too troublesome for me to walk over and activate them one by one.”

“Reporting to the master.”

The burly warrior respectfully said, “This subordinate can find and activate all the Demon Subduing Warriors who have not been scrapped, please wait a moment, master.”

After saying that, he turned and ran towards a certain direction with a series of afterimages and explosions, his speed was no less than Li Hai, a top-notch Steel-grade martial artist.

So the hundreds upon thousands of Demon Subduing Warriors on this wasteland, in terms of martial arts skills and physical strength, are very likely... no weaker than Li Hai.