My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

Li Chen gave a low shout in his heart.

A faint yet pure purple-gold lightning flashed across his palm.

"Snap!"

The hardened demon wolf crystal core shattered instantly under the influence of this wisp of lightning.

The violent and turbid demonic energy inside had no time to run rampant before it was forcibly crushed and purified by the power of the purple-gold lightning, which represented the heavenly punishment.

Finally, only a stream of extremely pure, attribute-free spiritual energy remained.

Following Li Chen's palm, like a stream of water meeting rain after a long drought, it quickly flowed into his parched meridians.

"Comfortable!"

Li Chen let out a long sigh of relief.

Although this was just the crystal core of a low-level demonic wolf, the amount of spiritual energy restored was pitifully small.

But the feeling of fullness as that power returned to his body finally put his mind at ease.

"It...it really absorbed it?!"

Jiang Qingxue and Jiang Liyue were so shocked by what they saw that they forgot to breathe.

This completely overturned their decades-old common sense about cultivating immortality!

Li Chen ignored their shock.

He swiftly dug out the remaining crystal cores of the few remaining demonic wolves and absorbed them completely, just like he had done with the other wolf.

In his dantian, a small, faint ball of golden elixir essence finally condensed again.

"This efficiency is still too slow."

Li Chen stood up and shook the blood off his hands.

Sunrise and sunset, time flies. The three of them have been traversing this boundless primeval forest for three whole months.

During these three months, Li Chen would take out pure spirit stones from his soul space every day and give them to Jiang Qingxue and Jiang Liyue to absorb, helping them recover their strength.

He himself went on a killing spree, relying on hunting monsters and forcibly absorbing the power from their crystal cores to restore his depleted true essence.

One night during the journey, Li Chen was sitting by the campfire, roasting a piece of sizzling, oily meat.

A chubby tabby kitten with stripes resembling fish bones from a past life suddenly emerged from the bushes.

The little guy wasn't afraid of people at all. He walked straight to Li Chen's side, affectionately rubbing his leg with his fluffy little head, meowing and begging for food.

Looking at the clingy and adorable little ball of flesh, Li Chen couldn't help but feel a pang of tenderness in his heart.

"Are there really such adorable little creatures in this Demon Realm? Perfect, I'll take them back as a gift for Si Zi. That girl will be so happy to see them that she'll want to sleep with them."

But who would have thought that, in the short time Li Chen turned around, this little devil actually sneaked to the place where he had piled up his spoils of war, and ate most of the high-level demon cores and a pile of crystal cores that he had placed aside, just like candy!

After eating and drinking its fill, the little tabby cat let out a burp, curled up into a fluffy ball, and fell fast asleep, clearly entering a deep sleep to digest the enormous amount of energy it had stored up.

Looking at the heavy, fast asleep kitten, Li Chen was racking his brains trying to figure out how to get it along on the road.

Jiang Qingxue walked over and whispered to her younger sister, "Liyue, give that ancestral bead to Young Master Li."

Then, she looked at Li Chen, her eyes filled with sincere gratitude: "Young Master Li, you have saved our lives, and we have no way to repay you."

"This bead contains a secret, capable of holding living things. It's perfect for housing this sleeping kitten. Consider it a small token of our appreciation, and we kindly request that you accept it, young master."

Li Chen didn't stand on ceremony; he took the bead and carefully put the kitten away.

The three of them traversed the boundless primeval forest for three months. Every day, Li Chen would take out spirit stones from his soul space for the two of them to absorb and restore their strength, while he himself relied on hunting monsters to absorb crystal cores to recover. After three months, they finally saw the city.

He raised his head, his gaze passing over the layers of primeval forest, and looked towards the vast city built in a huge basin in the distance.

The city was entirely constructed from massive white bones and black boulders.

Countless sharp bone spikes stood on the city wall, radiating a bloodthirsty aura that seemed to reach the heavens.

This is the nearest orc city-state to them, Bloodrock City.

"Let's go."

A strange smile curved the corners of Li Chen's lips.

"There are too few wild monsters in this desolate wilderness; they're not even enough to fill a tooth gap."

"Let's go to that city and pull off a big heist."

The Jiang sisters exchanged a glance, both seeing deep worry in each other's eyes.

In the cities of the Demon Realm, there are definitely high-ranking demons stationed there.

If the three of them rashly go in, wouldn't they be like lambs to the slaughter?

"Young Master Li, this is too risky," Jiang Qingxue advised.

"Don't worry, I have a brilliant plan."

Li Chen smiled confidently.

With a slight thought, the sliver of spatial law he had just recovered was instantly activated.

A silvery-gray light enveloped the three of them.

The distortion of spatial forces completely concealed their human aura.

Not only that.

The refraction of light also created the illusion of two fluffy fox ears and a bushy fox tail above and behind them.

"That's called infiltration."

Li Chen touched the realistic fox ears on his head and nodded in satisfaction.

"From this day forward, we are the noble fox-human hybrids."

"Let's go into the city and find out about that boundary node."

The three of them swaggered out of the forest and headed towards the heavily guarded Bloodrock City along the wide dirt road.

however.

They didn't realize it.

In this orc city-state filled with savagery and bloodshed, simply relying on a disguise is far from enough.

Sometimes, an outstanding appearance can be a fatal disaster.

Half an hour later.

The city gate of Bloodrock City.

Two rows of minotaur guards, each three zhang tall and wielding enormous spiked clubs, were roughly inspecting the demons entering the city.

Li Chen and the other two stood in the middle of the line.

Just as they were about to step through the city gate.

A wolf demon leader, riding on the back of a giant black wolf and clad in heavy armor, suddenly stopped.

He sniffed twice with his huge wolf nose in mid-air.

Then.

A pair of eyes, gleaming with greedy green light, stared intently through the crowd at Jiang Liyue and Jiang Qingxue's alluring figures, which, even with their disguises, could not conceal their captivating beauty.

The wolf demon leader licked his sharp fangs, a lewd, maniacal laugh spreading across his lips.

"What a beautiful and charming fox spirit."

He clamped his wolf's belly and blocked the city gate, pointing his long whip at the Jiang sisters without any politeness.

"You two, stop!"

"I suspect you are spies. Come with me to the manor tonight. I will personally conduct a thorough...body search!"