Actually, before he even entered the arena, Li Hai already knew what Shan Xiuran’s secret weapon was.
It was an anti-matter cannon—heaven knows why it survived from prehistoric times through countless years without exploding, and was then coincidentally discovered and safely excavated by the Divine Armory from some unknown underground ruins.
Moreover, the people from the Divine Armory later even figured out its exact function and applied it to actual combat.
Hmm, that statement isn't entirely accurate.
It should be said that it was already equipped and ready to be used, but Li Hai intercepted it.
He didn't just intercept the physical object.
On the virtual information level, Li Hai also intercepted all of Shan Xiuran's skills, learning them completely.
So, Li Hai is very clear now that although this small cannon barrel contains only a very, very small amount of anti-matter, the energy it contains is equivalent to a full 180,000 bolts of lightning.
Even if only one-tenth of such a vast amount of energy were constrained by a force field and fired at an extremely high speed, a regular Martial Dao Grandmaster caught off guard by this blow would most likely die on the spot.
Even if they were lucky enough to survive, they would probably have half their body blown apart, becoming completely crippled.
But Li Hai is no ordinary Grandmaster.
He has far too many ways to avoid or ignore this so-called anti-matter cannon attack.
One of the simplest methods is to switch his own species form.
For example, if Li Hai, in his human species form, is accidentally damaged, all his skills that can only be possessed and used by a human will downgrade to zero.
However, his species form will instantly and automatically transform into a Ghost, Yao Beast, Spirit Monster, or Living Spaceship, and then he will re-enter the scene with full health in a new form.
And as for the species form that has been rendered useless, Li Hai can manually upgrade it back to full level in the System interface while maintaining and using his current other species forms, thereby allowing him to switch back to it again.
So, in a sense, Li Hai has more than one life, and the life that has been consumed can be restored at any time, anywhere, without cost.
This is also the fruitful result of Li Hai's thorough research into the System's functions during this period.
Putting that topic aside.
Earlier, while learning all of Shan Xiuran's skills, Li Hai had also learned all the skills of Oriental Smile, Zheng Beihong, and He Shengtian before entering the arena.
In fact, it wasn't just them.
All the skills possessed by the more than one thousand spectators from the East, West, South, and North Military Regions, the Divine Armory, the Special Operations Division, and the Military Intelligence Division—all these Jing Dynasty departments and units present at the Tianjiao Ranking arena—were completely learned by Li Hai, one by one.
So, after Li Hai's skill bar length experienced an explosive growth in the Demon Slayer Division's Cultivation Technique library last time, this time his skill bar length also saw a huge increase.
At the same time, all of this also transformed into Li Hai's foundational strength, further broadening the boundaries and depth of what is called Cultivation and what is called power, making him even stronger and more extraordinarily divine than before.
And Li Hai's extraordinary nature also made everyone watching the scene feel what extreme shock was: just one person, a mere eighteen-year-old, almost unknown, callow youth, could overwhelmingly instantly kill He Shengtian and the other three, who were all renowned talents among the younger generation of the entire Great Jing Dynasty.
It's simply… incredible!
It's utterly… inconceivable!
On the surrounding stands, someone coughed in surprise and asked, "Who is this Li Hai from the Demon Slayer Division's master? Why is he so strong?!"
Someone was righteously indignant: "This isn't an instant kill anymore; this is… this is pure slaughter!"
Someone was filled with anger and resentment: "How many years have we cultivated Oriental Smile of our Special Operations Division, and he was… he was actually killed by this Li Hai!"
Someone shook their head and sighed: "The gap is too big; the gap between He Shengtian and the other three and Li Hai is… truly too great!"
Someone frowned and mused: "I'm just curious, where on earth did the Demon Slayer Division dig up this Martial Dao monster?"
"Martial Dao monster?" Someone nodded in agreement after pondering, "Yes, besides the word 'monster,' what other word can describe this Li Hai?"
"So, what Realm is this Young Military Supervisor of the Demon Slayer Division currently in?" Someone asked with surprised inquiry, "Grandmaster Mid-Realm, or… High-Realm?"
"No, far from it!" Someone immediately retorted, "Neither Grandmaster Mid-Realm nor High-Realm could possibly suppress the arena's Rune Array to the point of nearly shattering with just invisible might, so I suspect—"
That person responded in shock: "You mean—Perfect Grandmaster?!"
Hiss~
As soon as these words came out, everyone around immediately gasped.
An eighteen-year-old Perfect Grandmaster?
That's insane!
Does he have to be so Heaven-Defying?!
Just as everyone in the surrounding stands was arguing and discussing, a series of songs heavily flavored with curry descended from the sky, rudely invading everyone's ears.
And accompanying the appearance of this strange music, a cockroach-shaped brown wooden airship rapidly flew from the horizon, passing over the stands and arriving above the arena.
With the appearance of this airship, a pungent, unbearable stench also appeared, covering the entire venue.
"It stinks!"
"It's so smelly!"
"Ahhh, I can't stand it anymore!"
Li Hai couldn't stand it either, so with a single thought, the vast sky suddenly became filled with rolling black clouds, lightning, and thunder, and dozens to hundreds of scorching white lightning bolts descended with a rumble, fiercely striking the wooden airship.
Boom!!
In an instant, the airship was shattered by a hundred violent lightning bolts, exploding into thousands of charred black fragments that flew in all directions with rolling black smoke.
"How dare you destroy my spaceship! I, Hasmi, will eat you alive!"
At this moment, a black-skinned alien man emerged from the slowly falling airship wreckage, roaring as he descended from the sky and swiftly attacked Li Hai on the arena below.
And the robot host, after witnessing this scene, quickly grabbed the microphone and began to broadcast:
"Oh~ Ladies and gentlemen, we can see that the Lian Zhou Monk contestant, Hrinik Hasmi, has now arrived and is about to attack the Demon Slayer Division contestant, Li Hai—"
Li Hai, on the arena, naturally saw all the skills of this Lian Zhou Monk at a glance.
But he didn't want to learn any of them; he just wanted to quickly kill this stinky guy and get the Wu (Martial) Hall Ge Zai to appear so he could claim the Tianjiao Ranking reward.
So, Li Hai had no intention of holding back and directly threw a large number of Fourth Realm spells at Hasmi, who was descending from the sky.
