I can push my cultivation progress to the end

As he spoke, Long Hanshui slowly took out a thin jade disc, only half the size of his palm, from his bosom, and with a casual push, sent it floating lightly into Li Hai's palm.

Then he said again:

"This is your reward this time—a Hegemon-level cultivation technique. Take it back and study it carefully. The contents of the technique are all inside.

But remember, this jade disc can only be viewed once. After that, all the contents inside will be completely cleared.

At that time, you can keep this jade disc if you want, or break it at will if you don't.

Alright, no need for further ado, I'm leaving."

After saying that, Long Hanshui rose into the air and soared into the sky.

In an instant, he disappeared into the dragon-shaped sky-boat hovering quietly at the end of the sky.

A moment later, the sky-boat sailed towards the end of the horizon and soon disappeared into the vast sea of clouds.

Throughout the entire process, he didn't exchange half a word with anyone else, appearing extremely arrogant.

Yet everyone present didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this.

They only regretted in their hearts that they didn't have the chance to see more of the demeanor of a Hegemon of the ages.

And Li Hai, after receiving the jade disc, immersed his mind in it and began to quickly browse the various information inside.

At the same time, the mechanical host standing on the high-altitude floating platform spoke again, announcing the successful conclusion of the Heaven's Pride Ranking Competition and asking everyone present to return to their respective homes.

Thus, the four major military regions, the Divine Armaments Department, the Special Operations Department, the Military Intelligence Department, and the Demon Slaying Department—these eight departments, totaling over a thousand people, began to leave this place one after another, preparing to ride their own sky-boats across the vast Gobi Desert and return to the heartland of Great Jing.

But within this vast crowd leaving the venue, Dan Xiuran's younger sister, Dan Xiuxiu, and Dongfang Xiao's junior sister, Keqing, suddenly turned their heads at the same time before leaving, casting a deeply hateful and resentful gaze at Li Hai on the arena.

And it was this kind of gaze that was caught by Li Hai, who had just finished reading all the contents of the jade disc and happened to raise his head.

In an instant, Li Hai released more than a dozen kinds of insidious and vicious curses aimed at destroying and harming souls and minds,

and allowed these curses to silently cross hundreds or thousands of feet, silently sinking into the bodies of Keqing and Dan Xiuxiu who were walking away.

Under the terrifying effect of these poisonous curses, all the memories of the two women would begin to blur in just a quarter of an hour,

after two quarters of an hour, the thinking and perception of the two women would collapse, and after three quarters of an hour, the souls of the two women would completely melt and disintegrate, eventually becoming two empty, soulless, living dead.

Cruel? Perhaps.

But only by doing this could Li Hai's heart be at peace.

"Vice Commander!"

At this moment, Gai Fu and Gong Shuohong walked over quickly, laughing and congratulating Li Hai. The others in the Demon Slaying Department naturally didn't want to be left behind, and they quickly came over to surround Li Hai, constantly saying all kinds of flattering words.

And Great Commander Feng Heyue, leaning on his dragon-head staff, stood outside the crowd, watching Li Hai with a smile on his face from afar.

In the boundless sky, the Azure Sky Boat was flying at top speed.

Sitting in a cabin inside the sky-boat, Li Hai was carefully studying the strange cultivation technique stored in the jade disc in his mind—the 'Celestial Key Scripture'.

No, strictly speaking, this 'Celestial Key Scripture' is not a martial arts technique in any literal sense, but more like a—key.

A key that can connect all the martial arts learned by a martial artist in this life and completely integrate them into one, a kind of extremely complex, difficult, profound, and obscure method.

And according to Long Hanshui's message in the jade disc, as long as one can raise one's realm and cultivation to the Great Perfection of the Grandmaster level before the age of one hundred and fifty,

and then use the 'Celestial Key Scripture' to completely break down and perfectly integrate all the martial arts techniques that one has cultivated over the past hundred years,

one can suddenly break through the layers of obstacles and step into the realm of the Hegemon of the ages.

Therefore, in a sense, there is actually no martial arts technique in this vast world that can allow a martial artist to universally enter the Hegemon realm from bottom to top.

There is only the Great Perfection Grandmaster nurturing hundreds of scriptures and independently creating a technique, and then naturally entering the Hegemon realm in the process of creating this technique.

That's why Long Hanshui's personal interface has so few orthodox martial arts techniques, because all his original techniques have been melted away by himself, and in the end, only one Hegemon-level technique remains—the 'Heaven-Penetrating Earth-Piercing Method'.

And that 'Heaven-Penetrating Earth-Piercing Method' is only qualified to be cultivated and used by people of the Hegemon of the ages level. It can be said that this is a logical barrier between the Martial Dao Hegemon and the many martial artists below the Hegemon level.

If you don't become a Hegemon, then even if you get a Hegemon-level technique, you can't cultivate it.

But if you want to become a Hegemon, you can only create a Hegemon-level technique yourself, and gradually become a Hegemon step by step in the process of creating this technique.

As for that 'Celestial Key Scripture', it is just a small 'tool' that can slightly reduce the difficulty of creating a technique.

Whether one can successfully create a technique and ascend to the Hegemon level in the end still depends on the martial artist's own talent, comprehension, and perseverance.

But these intricacies are meaningless to Li Hai, who has a system.

Because as long as he wants, he can completely achieve the purpose of upgrading by consuming powerful fragments.

Or he can directly push the 'Heaven-Penetrating Earth-Piercing Method' learned from Long Hanshui to the full level, and then complete the promotion in the same way.

It's just that Li Hai doesn't want to do that for the time being.

"According to Long Hanshui's message in the jade disc—"

In the cabin, Li Hai, sitting cross-legged on the ground, pondered quietly, "As long as there is an orthodox martial arts technique at the Great Perfection Grandmaster level as the foundation, and then merge three or five other lower-level Grandmaster-level techniques.

Finally, merge seven or eight other martial arts techniques of lower realms, and you can meet the minimum requirements for creating a technique.

Of course, if more techniques are integrated on this basis, then the created technique will be even stronger.

I have already reached these requirements now, and even far exceeded them, so—should I try to create a technique now?"

Li Hai was a little eager to try, wanting to know how strong the technique created with his current foundation would be.

But then, thinking that there are still many, many old geezers in this world who deserve to have their fragments exploded, he suppressed his throbbing heart again and calmed down again:

"No need to rush, now is not the time. I'll praise him for dozens more fragments, and then it won't be too late to merge the techniques."