I can push my cultivation progress to the end

Li Hai had already mastered the "Demon Subjugation True Art" for seizing the Soul-Mimicking Ape.

He completed this step in just a few seconds.

However, it took him a full ten minutes to adapt to and smoothly use the Soul-Mimicking Ape's body.

The reason it took so long was that when he actually used the demonic ape 'clone,' which had gradually transformed into Li Hai's appearance and height, he found it to be quite sluggish.

It was not as convenient as described in the "True Art."

It felt like controlling a virtual character in a low-quality game through a screen, always jerky and awkward.

There was no sense of touch, smell, or taste, only sight and hearing.

In particular, the reaction speed of Li Hai's main body's perspective far exceeded that of the clone's perspective, making him feel even more uncomfortable.

"Whatever, it's just a disposable item, I'll just have to bear with it."

Shaking his head, Li Hai mobilized his mana, rolled up the demonic ape "clone," and sped all the way towards the side hall.

And so, some time later.

He appeared with the demonic ape clone outside the still-operating interdimensional portal.

"Mmm~ Let's begin."

Li Hai's main soul moved, and the demonic ape clone, which had been sitting cross-legged in front of the interdimensional portal with its eyes closed, suddenly opened its eyes, stood up straight, and strode towards the black, floating sphere.

After taking a few steps, the demonic ape clone stopped just a foot away from the black sphere.

"After entering the black sphere, walk forward a hundred steps and stop, survey the surroundings and memorize them, then walk a hundred steps to the left and stop, survey—"

This was the instruction Li Hai was giving to the demonic ape clone's soul, in case contact was lost after crossing space-time and no information could be obtained.

Immediately after the instructions were given, Li Hai controlled the demonic ape clone and immersed himself in its perspective, striding forward and entering the black sphere with his entire body.

Buzz—

Instantly, Li Hai (clone) found that the surrounding scenery had changed dramatically.

Behind him was a swirling vortex of dazzling light, while above, below, left, and right was a bright passage seemingly made of countless spiraling starlight, and this passage was not far away, with another vortex of dazzling light at the end.

"Very good, no disconnection."

Li Hai (clone) was very excited and strode forward again, running all the way towards the end of the passage.

Soon, after running only a few dozen steps, he rushed into the vortex.

Accompanied by a faint sound of air currents, the scenery around Li Hai (clone) suddenly changed drastically, from the original starlight brilliance to a silent silver-white.

He quickly surveyed his surroundings and found that this alien world he had arrived in, in all directions, including above his head,

was completely sealed off by shiny silver metal plates.

At the same time, in each corner of the ceiling above this enclosed area, there were many black cameras installed.

Surrounding Li Hai (clone) and the interdimensional portal behind him, which was still operating, were various kinds of scientific instruments that he couldn't understand.

Finally, around these instruments, there were scattered groups of a dozen white scientists in lab coats, staring blankly at Li Hai (clone).

Seeing this, Li Hai was shocked: "Damn, am I back on Earth?"

But after only a moment of shock, he was once again completely shocked by the almost identical personal interfaces of these white vampire scientists—

Character Name: Unknown Level: Vampire → Citizen Skills: "Dagon Bloodline," "Blood-Eating Regeneration (Fragmented)," "Spiritual Awareness (Fragmented)"

Entry Characteristics:

Strong Shard: None Because having another species form is like having an extra life, Li Hai, in addition to being shocked, used his thoughts to learn all the skills of these white vampire scientists.

But just as Li Hai was doing this, a door suddenly cracked open in the metal wall not far away, and a team of soldiers in black combat uniforms and helmets walked out, aiming their guns at him and firing continuously, turning the demonic ape clone into a sieve and collapsing it to the ground.

Immediately afterward, Li Hai's clone's perspective suddenly darkened.

"!"

In the Grand Jing Central Capital's Junior Military Governor's Mansion, Li Hai's eyebrows were raised, and he laughed in anger, "Good, good, good, not saying a word, just opening fire, huh? Fine, you just wait for me."

After saying that, he angrily shifted his thoughts again, transferring his perspective into the Guiyou Grotto Heaven.

That's right, Li Hai decided to cultivate another Soul-Mimicking Ape clone and send it over.

It's just that before going this time, he had to arm it.

And his conclusion was that the strength of this unknown vampire from another world was very low.

It might only be a little stronger than ordinary humans, and its physical strength would definitely not be stronger than a professional athlete.

But interestingly, the energy contained in this otherworld vampire's body—let's tentatively call it blood energy—its overall strength was surprisingly comparable to a Qi Circulation Realm martial artist whose physical strength far exceeded theirs.

To put it bluntly, even though the vampire and the martial artist were at the same level, the vampire's stats in all aspects were much worse, just like playing a game and leveling up without increasing base stats.

Even more interestingly, when Li Hai continued to exist in the Yuzhou world in this weak vampire species form,

he was surprised to find that his overall strength, including attributes such as strength, defense, and agility, had all begun to slowly increase.

While increasing, this vampire body was also greedily and frantically absorbing the world's essence, like a starving ghost who hadn't eaten for seven or eight days.

From this absorption and increase, Li Hai roughly estimated that in just ten days, the total strength of his body in the vampire species form, along with its other attribute values, would be completely on par with a Qi Circulation Realm martial artist, and might even be superior in terms of self-healing and speed.

From this, a guess arose in Li Hai's mind.

And Li Hai, also bringing the second demonic ape clone, once again appeared in front of the interdimensional portal.

Since suffering a loss in that other world three days ago, Li Hai immediately pried out the golden ball battery inserted into the base slot of the interdimensional portal, in order to prevent that other world from launching a reverse invasion.

Although he wasn't afraid, it was a matter of having the initiative in his hands, which he had to seize.

In short, for this second demonic ape clone, in order to avoid being shot as soon as it went over, Li Hai specially applied multiple powerful spells to it.

Giving it the strength, physique, defense, agility—and other characteristics—of a Steel-level martial artist for several days.

And he also stuffed a pile of pre-customized yellow talismans into its pocket.