Mortal: I became invincible after becoming sworn brothers with Han Li.

As consciousness gradually returned, Li Yunfan regained control of his body and hurriedly used his divine sense to examine the condition within his body.

Upon seeing this, Li Yunfan couldn't help but gasp, his heart filled with bitterness.

At this moment, he was not only weak and bloodless, but even the meridians in his body were somewhat atrophied by the cold air. Most importantly, due to the damage to his soul and the excessive consumption of spiritual power, his cultivation level had dropped by a small realm!

"It's good that I survived..." Li Yunfan sighed inwardly, trying to comfort himself.

Only then did he begin to look around and try to figure out where he was.

What came into view was a damp cave several meters in size, emitting a faint light. The cave walls were covered with water droplets formed by condensation, and water droplets were falling from the cave ceiling from time to time. Even the air was filled with a faint moisture, just like a water cave.

The cave was extremely simple; apart from him and the large rock beneath him, there was nothing else.

This made Li Yunfan frown. This place didn't look like it was inhabited, so why was he here?

Just as he was wondering to himself, a rustling sound suddenly came from outside the cave. Li Yunfan immediately closed his eyes and only released some of his divine sense to observe.

As the sound drew closer, Li Yunfan's divine sense finally got a clear look.

It turned out to be a strange creature, neither human nor demon!

Its upper body closely resembles that of a human male, but its skin is covered with extremely fine scales that shimmer with iridescent colors in the dim light. Its hands have only three fingers, connected by webbing. Furthermore, its ears are fin-like structures, and its pupils are vertical, like a cat's eyes.

The lower half of the body, below the waist, is a dark green, ten-foot-long tail covered with scales, which looks very similar to a snake's tail.

When Li Yunfan first saw its appearance, he was almost startled and thought he had fallen into the cave of a transformed demon. However, after scanning it with his divine sense, he found that the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the other party were only equivalent to those of a Qi Refining cultivator, which is the stage of a level one demon beast.

This left him completely baffled. He had never seen any record of such a monster in any ancient texts. He wondered if this was what it looked like, or if it was truly an eighth-level demon!

At this moment, the monster wriggled its long tail and came to Li Yunfan's side, circled him twice, made a series of "gurgling" sounds, and then left the cave.

Upon seeing this, Li Yunfan immediately attached his divine sense to the other person and followed the other person's figure as they slowly emerged from the cave. The scene outside immediately appeared in his mind.

It turned out that the cave he was in was actually built on top of a much larger cave, which was a hundred feet in size. Dozens of small caves had been carved out of the surrounding cave walls, and a smooth passage had been opened up on the outside.

These caves are all the same size and have the same layout, with only a flat, large rock inside. However, no monsters live in them at this time.

After pondering for a moment, he withdrew his divine sense from the demon and ventured out of the cave, intending to investigate the place thoroughly.

But just a few feet away from the cave, his divine sense was locked onto by another, even more powerful divine sense. Li Yunfan was startled. Before he could react, the powerful divine sense released its lock and sent him a telepathic message.

"Come...here...find...me..."

The voice transmission sounded like that of an old woman, and it was intermittent, as if she was having great difficulty speaking. But to Li Yunfan's surprise, the other party was speaking a human language!

After transmitting the message, the divine sense retreated like a tide.

Although Li Yunfan did not know the other party's exact cultivation level, judging from the feeling of the other party locking onto him with their divine sense just now, they were much stronger than the Core Formation cultivator from the Chan family who wanted to kill him. This meant that the other party was at least at the late Core Formation stage!

He took a deep breath, withdrew his consciousness, opened his eyes, got up from the rock, and walked out of the cave.

The monster seemed to have received instructions from the other party and was swimming towards them.

When it saw Li Yunfan walking on two legs, its pupils dilated instantly, and a very curious expression appeared on its face.

Seeing this, Li Yunfan smiled slightly, walked up to it, lifted one foot and swung it, then switched to the other foot before standing still.

The monster opened its mouth as if it had seen something extraordinary, then grinned, nodded to Li Yunfan, mumbled something incoherently, and looked at him with expectant eyes.

A strange look appeared on Li Yunfan's face. Although he couldn't understand what the demon was saying, he couldn't help but guess from the expectant look on its face that the demon was treating him like some kind of rare toy.

Seeing that Li Yunfan was standing still, the demon looked puzzled, looked him up and down, and then turned around to lead the way.

Seeing this, Li Yunfan couldn't help but feel a little amused and exasperated. After letting out a sigh, he followed the demon out of the cave.

Outside the cave was an even larger cave, with numerous openings in its walls—more than a hundred in total. In the center, there was a pool of water over ten zhang wide, from which wisps of white, chilly air emanated.

Following the smooth passage on the cave wall, the demon led Li Yunfan to a larger cave at the bottom of the cave.

Upon entering, Li Yunfan saw two other demons with human bodies and snake tails. However, their upper bodies resembled those of human women, while their hands, ears, and eyes were the same as the demon who had led the way. The only difference was that they had two round objects covered in scales on their chests.

The two female demons were quite different in size. One was slightly larger, about the same size as the male demon, while the other was smaller. However, both of them looked very young and did not resemble the type to speak in the voice of an old woman.

The male demon who led the way entered the cave, crossed his arms in front of his chest, leaned forward slightly, and made a series of muttering sounds, as if he were reporting something.

The larger female demon also made a gurgling sound after hearing the demon's voice, and then the male demon turned and left the cave.

Then the female demon looked at Li Yunfan and spoke in the human language again, though it was still somewhat difficult and intermittent.

"Why...why...are...you...here?"

Looking at the young face of the female demon and hearing the old woman's voice, Li Yunfan felt a pang of heartache.

Although he didn't know what kind of monster the other party was, nor how the other party would deal with him, his cultivation level had fallen and he was seriously injured, so even if he wanted to resist, he simply couldn't.

So he could only tell the other party that he had jumped into the cold cave passage.