After this Tianjiao Ranking Competition officially concluded, various news about Li Hai quickly spread to more people through various channels as the more than one thousand spectators returned.
As a result, various titles and epithets such as “Eighteen-year-old Perfection Great Grandmaster,” “Eighteen-year-old Top Fourth Realm Sorcerer,” “Martial and Sorcery Cultivator, Invincible at the Same Level,” “Most Talented in History,” and “Strongest Person Below Overlord” quickly spread throughout the world in a short period.
Consequently, Li Hai was forced to experience what it felt like to be famous.
However, it is difficult to be a celebrity, and even harder to be a man who is famous, rich, powerful, and influential.
Since the Tianjiao Ranking ended and he returned to the Young Military Supervisor’s mansion, dozens to hundreds of invitation cards arrived almost every day, specifically requesting to see Li Hai.
Among these invitation cards, some wanted to invite him for tea, some wanted to invite him to banquets, others wanted to send him money and gifts to curry favor, and some attention-seekers even wanted to challenge him.
Thus, for the next three full days, while Li Hai participated in the Young Military Supervisor’s grand opening ceremony and banquet, he also repeatedly killed more than a dozen uninvited challengers who came to his door.
Subsequently, Li Hai became thoroughly tired of this kind of life.
So, he immediately sought out Commander of the Army Feng Heyue, obtained a map showing the distribution of various evil places in the Great Jing Dynasty, and then left the Young Military Supervisor’s mansion without a word, heading alone to other provinces.
From then on, Li Hai traveled through the wilderness, abandoned villages, and nameless ruins in various provinces, quickly sweeping through and clearing one evil place after another.
This grand sweeping operation lasted for a full month for Li Hai.
Almost every day, he would eliminate more than ten evil places and kill thousands of evil spirits.
Thus, after only one month, all three hundred and sixty-odd evil places in the various provinces of the entire Great Jing Dynasty were swept clean by Li Hai alone.
At the same time, these evil places, which had become completely silent after the great sweep, were also entirely purified and eradicated by Li Hai using a cluster bombardment of exorcism spells, completely dispelling the evil aura and transforming them into normal land.
And when Li Hai completed all of this and returned to Central Capital, his great achievement shocked the entire Demon Slayer Division,
and even more so, the entire Great Jing Dynasty.
It must be known that although Great Grandmasters are powerful, their energy and physical strength are not limitless, and the same applies to Fourth Realm Sorcerers.
Combat is an extremely draining activity.
This kind of consumption cannot be fully replenished by Martial Artists and Sorcerers simply by absorbing external Qi.
Therefore, most Great Grandmasters or Fourth Realm Sorcerers can only engage in continuous intense battles for a few days and nights at most, after which they need to rest and recover for several days to return to their optimal state. And if they were to continuously travel to various places, eliminating more than ten evil places every day, and also completely purifying them,
and even continue this for a full month every single day.
Then they would inevitably express with indignation and sadness: “No, not this kind of thing!”
But now, Li Hai had accomplished this impossible feat.
This made the Great Grandmasters and Fourth Realm Sorcerers across the Jing Dynasty wonder: Is Li Hai’s energy, physical strength,
and magical power truly inexhaustible?
The truth is, they were partly right.
With the support of countless Martial Arts and Sorcery, Li Hai’s magical power, physical strength, and energy are indeed far, far greater than those of ordinary Great Grandmasters and Sorcerers, and his recovery rate is also incredibly fast.
Therefore, he was able to accomplish such an exaggerated feat of long-distance travel across various parts of Great Jing, and sustain it for a full month.
Naturally, the Great Grandmasters and Fourth Realm Sorcerers across the Jing Dynasty had no way of knowing about these things.
But this did not prevent them from giving Li Hai another title: “The Number One in Yu Continent with Five Thousand Years of Endurance.”
Li Hai naturally did not care about these empty titles, because all of his attention was now focused on Guiyou Cave Heaven. More precisely, what he most wanted to do now was to spend all the Soul Remains to unlock new buildings.
This time, in order to eliminate all evil places and thus leave his footprints all over the north and south of the Jing Dynasty, Li Hai also collected tens of thousands of evil spirit Soul Remains.
Although basically ninety-nine percent of these Soul Remains came from the lowest-tier Undead-level ghosts, there were only about a hundred Soul Remains from the higher-tier Fierce Soul-level ghosts.
However, quantitative change can lead to qualitative change.
After spending all of that massive amount of Soul Remains in one go, Li Hai immediately unlocked a total of seven new buildings within Guiyou Cave Heaven.
The first to appear were three dilapidated side rooms.
After a long period of time, the interior of these three small-to-medium-sized side rooms had become extremely decayed.
However, after a thorough search, Li Hai still discovered four Martial Cultivation Techniques.
One was of Great Grandmaster-level, and three were of Thousand Army Grade.
He did not disdain them and learned all four Cultivation Techniques, making them appear in his skill bar.
For Li Hai, who possessed the “Study Hard” System, there was never such a saying as “biting off more than one can chew”; only “the more, the better,” as everything would eventually become his foundation.
Over a long period of time, Li Hai would eventually encounter various kinds of trouble.
Sometimes, certain inconspicuous small skills might be needed to directly and simply resolve those troubles.
And after those three side rooms, Li Hai then unlocked an ancient training ground, square in shape and a thousand zhang on each side.
Similarly, under the ravages of time, this training ground was also extremely dilapidated, piled with a large amount of debris, and at first glance seemed to contain nothing of value.
However, when Li Hai’s spiritual perception covered the entire ground, he discovered a gigantic palanquin with carrying poles at the front and back and wheels at the bottom, beneath the mountain of debris.
This giant palanquin was two zhang long and wide, about one zhang high, and was entirely made of an Unknown silver-black metal. Twelve Qilin patterns of various sizes were carved around its body.
These Qilin were carved lifelike, with all details such as manes and scales clearly visible, and upon closer inspection, the two horns on the head of each Qilin were actually small blades embedded in the palanquin’s body, gleaming with cold light and exuding a sharp aura.
Then, on top of this Qilin giant, there was an eagle-shaped sculpture with spread wings, seemingly about to fly, and a brilliant light constantly flowed from its beak.
From the brilliant light in the eagle’s mouth, Li Hai felt wisps of heaven and earth essence Qi continuously gathering and condensing, faintly even exuding a surging aura similar to a Fourth Realm Sorcery.
He immediately deduced that this eagle’s mouth was likely a sorcery launch platform, a large cannon barrel.
Subsequently, a fragmented jade tablet that Li Hai found in the pile of debris, with engraved text on it, confirmed his conjecture.
Indeed, the mouth of the eagle-shaped sculpture on top of this giant palanquin, named Sky Steel Kirin, was indeed a sorcery cannon barrel.
As for its name, it was called the Shenying Essence Cannon.
