If an ordinary person wanted to pass through this Azure Dragon Pass, they would need to complete a series of tedious and complex procedures.
They would also need to have an interview with the pass officials before finally being able to enter the Great Jing territory.
However, Li Hai was not a commoner without any identity; he was an official member of the Demon Slayer Division.
So, as soon as he took out that Demon Slayer Commandant token, under the astonished gazes of those waiting to pass, he proceeded smoothly.
He passed through layers of checkpoints without issue, arriving at the other side of the Azure Dragon Pass—within the Great Jing Dynasty, at Rui Chuan City, the southernmost border city.
After officially stepping onto the land of Rui Chuan City, which belonged to Great Jing, Li Hai clearly felt that the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi here was much purer and cleaner than in the Shilong Mountain region.
It made him feel that the circulation and operation of the True Force within his body were extremely smooth and comfortable, as if even his Realm cultivation, which had been stagnant for a long time, was eager to Breakthrough to a higher level.
To draw a comparison, it was like a native of the Central Plains returning home from an oxygen-deprived plateau, feeling incredibly comfortable breathing.
It was also like a person who had long yearned for the light of a lighthouse, finally stepping onto American soil after a long journey, feeling that even the air was sweet.
“I seem to be—”
At the main entrance of the Azure Dragon Pass, Li Hai closed his eyes slightly and murmured, “I’m really about to Breakthrough.”
Whether it was due to external stimulation or some inexplicable Opportunity, at this moment, his Martial Arts Realm—suddenly broke through.
In an instant, Li Hai’s bones, internal organs, muscles—and even his entire body—underwent a drastic transformation.
Boom—
His mental perception range suddenly expanded, and the range of his remote force projection also expanded from a thousand zhang, inch by inch, foot by foot, to two thousand zhang.
At the same time, his physical strength also surged tenfold from two thousand square catties, reaching an astonishing two hundred million catties.
By this point, Li Hai’s Martial Arts Realm had broken through from the Initial Realm of a Grandmaster to the Middle Realm of a Grandmaster.
That’s right, the Void-Reality Grandmaster Realm actually has more than one level.
Above the Initial Realm is the Middle Realm, above the Middle Realm is the High Realm, and the highest level is Perfection, totaling four Realms.
However, what was quite strange was that in Li Hai’s personal interface, his highest-level attribute entries were still Level 4 and had not changed.
This was interesting.
Although Li Hai’s physique, mental power, and physical strength had greatly increased, there was no change at the attribute level. This shows that the gap between different levels of attributes is far greater than the gap between different Realms in the Martial Arts system.
And much greater.
However, Li Hai had no great interest in pondering this point.
Because all his thoughts had shifted to another question.
This question was that he no longer had a Zhengchuan Martial Arts Cultivation Technique to cultivate.
Although Li Hai possessed many Cultivation Techniques, among the Zhengchuan Martial Arts system Cultivation Techniques, especially those of the Void-Reality Grandmaster level, there was only that one “Heavenly Return Demonic Fist Scripture.”
However, even if this scripture was cultivated to the Peak, it only reached the Initial Realm of a Grandmaster.
The higher Realms beyond this completely exceeded the overall framework of this Cultivation Technique.
Therefore, if he wanted to better utilize the power and extraordinary abilities of the Middle Realm of a Grandmaster, Li Hai would have to find another Cultivation Technique that matched this Realm.
Or, he could directly consume a fragment to forcibly upgrade the “Heavenly Return Demonic Fist Scripture” to the Martial Arts Realm level corresponding to a Level 5 attribute.
But that would be too wasteful.
Currently, Li Hai only had a mere 11 powerful fragments, at most enough to raise his attributes to Level 15, which was still far from the hundreds or thousands of levels he desired.
If he didn’t have enough “old farts” to “explode gold coins” for Li Hai by then, it would be troublesome.
“No matter, once I arrive at the Zhan Mo Si Headquarters, a mere Cultivation Technique will be easily acquired.”
Laughing, Li Hai walked forward with large strides along the road, facing the sunlight.
Unlike the dilapidated, old, and wild Shilong Mountain area.
Upon entering this city belonging to the Great Jing Dynasty, Li Hai felt a distinct modern atmosphere.
The so-called modern atmosphere was a feeling unique to an industrial civilized society: one of safety, stability, and orderliness.
Comparatively, it was somewhat like suddenly crossing thousands of miles from a backward, barbaric Southeast Asia plagued by warlords and bandits to the well-governed, advanced metropolis of Dragon Country.
The various elements that constituted this feeling were the flat, straight roads under Li Hai’s feet, the green plants planted on both sides of the road, the streetlights standing next to the green plants, and at the end of those rows of streetlights, the towering skyscrapers that rose up one after another in front of Li Hai’s vision.
On the vast facades of these buildings, composed of glass curtain walls and metal lines, the blue sky and white clouds flowed like water, reflecting and illuminating the soft, bright or dazzling, piercing daylight.
Like a series of intricately arranged exquisite melodies, playing a magnificent movement named technological civilization.
Yes, the true face of the Great Jing Dynasty—was not the feudal society Li Hai had previously imagined, but rather an incredibly mature modern civilization, full of the flavor of Earth society that Li Hai yearned for.
Here there were no suffering common people living precarious lives like grass, no cruel and vicious bandits rotten to the core, and no ignorant, barbaric, bloody, and evil cult sacrifices; everything was so prosperous, stable, and orderly.
Thus, with a joyful expression, Li Hai soared into the air, like a nimble bird, without any hurricane or sonic boom, silently crossing hundreds of zhang and flying through the city’s high-rise buildings.
As he flew, Li Hai retracted his mental perception that had been covering the outside world, trying to see only with his physical eyes and appreciate the surrounding scenery firsthand.
The wind whistled and shuttled between the buildings, carrying the city’s scent, brushing against his face.
But strangely, from this oncoming wind, Li Hai did not feel much vibrant human aura, as if this urban area adjacent to the Azure Dragon Pass only had tall buildings but no citizens.
And just as Li Hai was wondering about this, a strange, monotonous electronic voice came from a distance, entering his ears:
“Beep beep~ High-energy reaction detected, suspected superhuman individual.”
“Beep beep~ High-energy reaction detected, suspected superhuman individual.”
The electronic voice grew faster and faster, from far to near, finally reaching Li Hai’s front.
So he slowly opened his eyes and looked intently at what was before him.
He found a large rotary-wing drone hovering in front of him, entirely silver-black, about ten feet in diameter, with a simple and crude structural framework, an iron cabinet machine gun suspended below, and a bright silver, eyeball-shaped Unknown device tied to its upper end.
And when Li Hai’s gaze fixed on this drone, the machine quickly shut off its electronic voice, then rotated once, facing him and revealing a large yellow talisman pasted tightly on its metal casing.
“Hello.”
The ink brush patterns on the talisman shimmered with faint light, and a human voice came through, “I am Li Jianshan, a patrolling police officer of the Great Jing Dynasty’s Rui Chuan City Superhuman Management Bureau, serial number 3598.”