“Since Hong Kong in this world has Jiang Tiansheng and Jiang Tiansheng, then there must be Chen Haonan, Shan Ji, Ugly Kun, Crow, Wan Chai Gun God, and Dongxing Yaoyang, right?”

Li Hai secretly muttered, “This is truly a story where the founder of the Hongxing Gang practices Qi Gong, then seemingly gains special abilities, and the person who taught him martial arts was a bodyguard of Chang Kaishen during the Republic of China era.”

“No… this is generally a Hong Kong comic style setting, right? So what kind of world have I Transmigrated into? Why is it so strange?”

As an 80s kid in his previous life, he had naturally watched the “Young and Dangerous” film series, and had even briefly read some of the original comics.

So, when Cai Tianju spoke of these things, Li Hai instantly reacted.

He suddenly realized that the complexity and strangeness of this world might far exceed his previous conjectures.

“Could it be that the Western world is a horror movie mashup, while the Eastern world is a low-level martial arts Hong Kong comic mashup?”

Just as Li Hai was contemplating, Cai Tianju in front of him smiled and said,

“In short, Anthony, I am truly overjoyed to meet you here today.”

Li Hai regained his composure, shook his head, and chuckled, “Mr. Cai, you are so much older than me, it’s a bit inappropriate to call me ‘brother’.”

“What’s inappropriate about it?”

Cai Tianju said indifferently, “Both of our Qi Gong were taught by Master Zhang Shan Gui. In a certain sense, we are like Senior Brothers. So even if I am decades older than you, we can still call each other brothers.”

“Haha, good, that makes sense.”

Li Hai laughed heartily, nodded in agreement, and said, “Then from now on, you can call me Anthony, and just for that, I’ll look out for you in the future.”

“By the way, if that’s the case, you shouldn’t be short on money, right? So why did you travel all the way across the ocean to Los Angeles, USA, to open a martial arts school?”

“Alas~”

Cai Tianju sighed, “It’s a long story. In short, I have a great feud with Wang Jiu, the big boss of Kowloon Walled City.”

“I couldn’t beat him, so I could only leave Hong Kong and run to the US. As for opening a martial arts school, I was simply too bored and wanted something to do, so I just went back to my old profession.”

“Wang Jiu, huh?”

Li Hai chuckled, patted Cai Tianju’s shoulder, and said, “It’s alright. When I have time, I’ll take a trip to Hong Kong and deal with him for you.”

“Hmph~ Let’s not.”

Cai Tianju refused, “That crazy guy’s martial arts are too strong. He’s a Shaolin apostate. His body is so hard that ten machine guns firing at him wouldn’t break through, and he has several powerful special abilities backing him up. He’s difficult to deal with.”

Li Hai was not annoyed by the implicit disbelief in Cai’s words; he merely smiled and said no more.

At this moment, the host, Lind, who had finished the contestant interview segment, walked onto a temporarily erected high platform and loudly announced to all the contestants through the microphone:

“Contestants, the top 100 qualifying rounds of our “Psychic War” officially begin now!”

As soon as he finished speaking, eighty Volvos slowly drove out from various entrances of the venue.

Finally, they neatly branched out into four rows, stopping around all the contestants on all four sides.

At the same time, four teams of staff also walked in from each side, dragging four long rows of electric curtains, completely separating the eighty cars from all the spectators.

Subsequently, the host, Lind, began to loudly announce the specific rules of this preliminary competition to all viewers in front of their televisions and all contestants on site.

This competition was called “Guess the Person in the Box,” and the rules for winning were very simple.

That is, all contestants needed to choose one of four areas to participate, and then within twenty seconds, find which of the twenty cars in their current area had a person hidden in its trunk.

As for whether the time was too tight, in fact, once the competition officially started, all vehicle surfaces would have numbers affixed to them, and contestants only needed to shout out the corresponding number to complete the competition.

Just shouting a number would only take a few seconds.

If you could do it, you could; if not, it meant your ability was lacking, and it had nothing to do with whether there was enough time.

And after announcing all the rules, the host, Lind, loudly said,

“Alright, the competition rules have been announced. Now, who wants to be the first to compete?”

As soon as he finished speaking, many contestants raised their hands and shouted, “I do!”

Looking at the boisterous situation, Lind turned his head and humorously said to the camera,

“It seems our contestants are very confident, but there are simply too many people, so let’s use the oldest and fairest method—drawing lots!”

He clapped his hands, and immediately, three other hosts ran out from around the venue with smiles, while a team of staff also ran into the arena carrying four large drawing boxes.

After choosing sides, the four competition areas within the football stadium were all neatly filled with two hundred and fifty people each.

“Alas~”

In one of the competition areas, Cai sighed, “More than two hundred people, how long will this drawing take?”

Li Hai smiled and asked, “Are you in a hurry?”

Cai nodded, “A little, I’m a bit hungry. I suddenly want to go back to Chinatown for some dry-fried beef noodles.”

“~” Li Hai said, “Now that you mention it, I’m craving it too. How about this, you go first, then I’ll go second, and when we’re done, we’ll go to Chinatown together for some beef noodles.”

“Huh?” Cai looked at him strangely, “How do you know I’ll be first and you’ll be second?”

“Didn’t I awaken my special ability?”

Li Hai said straightforwardly, “One of my abilities is Divine Thought. It’s just paper slips, I can easily control them.”

“What?!”

Cai Tianju looked at him in shock, “You actually awakened such a rare ability?!”

“Rare?” Li Hai said strangely, “I think it’s quite common. Many people should have it, right?”

“No, no, no, it’s not common at all!”

Cai quickly shook his head and said, “Young man, you might not know, but in the past hundred years, the only martial artist in the entire Chinese land who has thoroughly practiced Qi Gong and finally awakened Divine Thought is Li Jinglin, the Sword Immortal of the Republic of China.”

“It was by relying on this mysterious ability that Li Jinglin earned the title of Sword Immortal, because he could truly control ten jin of weight from a distance, and extend his Divine Thought up to ten zhang away.”

“This means that once Li Jinglin wields his sword, a radius of ten zhang around him will be his attack range. Anyone who comes will die.”

“Sword Immortal Li Jinglin? He’s a historical figure, I know him. So Li Jinglin also had special abilities? So he was actually a Psychic Sword Immortal! This, this is truly—too interesting.”

Li Hai was also very shocked by Cai Tianju’s words, but then he said disappointedly, “But, the famous Li Jinglin… that’s all he could do?”

“Huh~” Cai was stunned, “You, what do you mean?”

“What I mean is—”

Li Hai admitted, “He’s too weak.”