I can push my cultivation progress to the end

“Huh?!”

As soon as Gai Fu said this, everyone present was stunned and looked at him.

Feeling the gazes of the centurions, Gai Fu smiled softly:

“Is it strange? Do you think it's unusual that I, who have always highly recognized Centurion Li's martial arts talent, would now question him, is that right?”

Hearing this, Gong Shuo Hong and the others exchanged glances before nodding in agreement.

“Heh heh, alright then, let me tell you the answer.”

Gai Fu turned around, looked at the demon-slaying centurions in the tent, and said slowly, “I think, you all have probably forgotten that the 《Heavenly Lotus Earthly Saint Scripture》 was never a martial arts technique, but a proper ancient esoteric scripture.”

Everyone was first stunned, then they all suddenly realized.

That's right, the 《Lotus》 Scripture is a technique of the esoteric school, and has nothing to do with martial arts.

Even if Li Hai's martial arts talent is heaven-defying, what does it have to do with esoteric techniques?

After understanding this, the gazes of the crowd towards Li Hai in the light screen involuntarily produced a hint of doubt and pity.

Pity him, he was ultimately going to do something futile.

Also pity Zheng Dashan's family, they were ultimately going to die.

Li Hai, couldn't change their tragic fate.

Even Gong Shuo Hong, who had always admired Li Hai, couldn't avoid being influenced and began to have a trace of doubt about his attempt to deduce the technique this time.

At the same time, Li Hai, who was being subtly questioned by everyone, had already shifted his perspective into the Gui You Cave Heaven.

Since he had to pretend for half an hour, he couldn't just do nothing and sit there, right?

So, he might as well take advantage of this time to 'recharge' the cave heaven with some soul bones and unlock a few more rooms.

After entering and exploring each of them, Li Hai discovered that these two buildings were a desolate ice lake of about ten miles in radius and a dilapidated alchemy room.

Regarding the ice lake, Li Hai roughly explored it and found no precious relics.

So, he temporarily stopped paying attention to it, thinking of exploring it again when he was interested one day.

As for the dilapidated alchemy room, which was only a dozen feet wide, Li Hai carefully explored it and surprisingly found something good.

There were two round pills, one red and one blue, carefully preserved in unknown crystal blocks.

Apart from these two, all the other pills stored in porcelain bottles or various blood vessels were found by Li Hai to have turned into foul-smelling black sludge after opening them.

This was obviously completely spoiled, deteriorated by the long years, and had changed from pills to poison. As for the two well-preserved pills, Li Hai also found a seal-script jade tablet, similar to a medicinal instruction manual, somewhere around them.

Judging from the blurred handwriting on it, the red pill was called Earth Longevity Pill, and its effect was to increase lifespan by three hundred years.

Three hundred years of lifespan, to be honest, three hundred years is equivalent to the complete lifespan of an ancient dynasty in the Dragon Kingdom on Earth.

If this pill were taken to Earth, whether in ancient times or modern times, it might cause a war.

The other blue pill was called Heavenly Muscle Sacred Bone Pill, and its specific medicinal effect was to optimize the physical body and enhance strength and power.

As for how much it could improve, it was not written in detail on the jade tablet.

However, Li Hai had a feeling in the dark that if he swallowed this pill, the improvement in body strength and power might be very considerable. After taking the two pills, Li Hai returned to the side hall and began another round of bone 'recharge'.

As for the soul bone used, it was naturally the one 'enthusiastically' presented by Qian Qiulong.

When Li Hai carefully ground this obviously larger soul bone into powder and painted it into the red light scroll, the entire side hall immediately recovered again and connected to another new building.

This building was the Armory.

After entering it, Li Hai discovered that after the long years, this armory, whose size was no less than the side hall of the Rejection Palace, was now full of wreckage and scrap iron, and almost nothing complete could be seen when he swept around.

However—after delving into this garbage dump and carefully rummaging through it, Li Hai finally found a 'big thing'.

It was a huge humanoid object with four arms and two feet, lying flat on the ground, completely covered by many old and rotten objects.

After cleaning up all the debris and garbage on this object, Li Hai realized.

It was actually a well-preserved, antique, dark green bronze-colored humanoid mech, about five feet tall.

That's right, it was a mech, not a robot.

The reason for being so sure was that there was a cockpit deeply embedded inside the chest of this big guy, which was covered with reliefs and runes.

It was just that the cockpit, which was spherical as a whole, was a bit too small, with a diameter of only about three feet. A normal person would have to shrink their entire body to get in.

However, Li Hai quickly found the reason for the overly narrow cockpit.

In this small cockpit, he found a swollen skull that had been completely petrified.

At the same time, the skull was densely packed with complex wires and thick or thin metal supports in all directions, up, down, left, and right.

Seeing these, Li Hai instantly understood that this was a 'wetware' mech made specifically for a single head.

The deformed skull, which was already petrified, was the original pilot of this bronze mech when it was still alive, perhaps thousands or tens of thousands of years ago.

As for how the former high-level officials of the Rejection Palace managed to keep only a head alive and thinking normally, and transplant it into the mech to exist for a long time, Li Hai was too lazy to investigate. He was not a scientist.

At the same time, Li Hai was not in the mood to explore.

Because he suddenly found a book of unknown techniques made and written with unknown materials in a corner of the place where the mech was lying flat—《Heavenly Lotus Earthly Saint Saving Suffering and Rescuing Tribulation Scripture》in its entirety.

“Good! Saved a fragment!”

Filled with joy, Li Hai devoted himself to this technique.

With the 【Study Hard】 system, he turned the pages very quickly, almost comparable to a genius who has mastered the quantum wave speed reading method.

So, after a period of time, Li Hai completely learned this technique and hung it on his personal interface skill bar.

After thoroughly learning this technique, he immediately understood its specific power.

To put it bluntly, once you have learned and fully cultivated this 《Lotus》 Scripture in its entirety, you can break through several realms all the way to the fourth level of the esoteric school—the realm of capturing wind and seizing electricity.

At that time, almost all diseases and poisons in the world can be easily dispelled by the practitioners of this scripture.

At the same time, anyone who has died for no more than five days and whose corpse and soul are intact can also be revived by its caster.

What surprised and delighted Li Hai even more was that all of the above were only the positive powers of this scripture.

It could actually be used in reverse, and then turned into a world-shocking evil technique.