Regarding the Possession of the Soul-Mimicking Ape.
Li Hai, who had long mastered the "True Devil Subjugation Art," 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 the ape's 'Clone,' which had gradually taken on Li Hai's appearance and height, felt incredibly sluggish when actually used, completely lacking the convenience described in the "True Art."
It felt like controlling a virtual character in a low-quality game through a screen, always jerky and incredibly awkward.
There was no sense of touch, smell, or taste, only sight and hearing.
Especially since Li Hai's main body's reaction speed was many times faster than the Clone's perspective, the clash between the two made him even more uncomfortable.
“It doesn’t matter, it’s just a one-time use item, I’ll bear with it.”
Shaking his head, Li Hai activated his magic power to envelop this ape 'Clone' and galloped towards the side hall.
And so, after some time.
He appeared with the ape Clone outside the world-crossing door, which was still operational.
“Hmm~ Let’s begin.”
With a thought from Li Hai's main soul, the ape Clone, which had been sitting cross-legged with its eyes closed in front of the world-crossing door, suddenly opened its eyes, stood up straight, and began to walk step by step towards the black floating sphere.
After walking a few steps, the ape Clone stopped at a distance of only one foot from the black sphere.
“After entering the black sphere, walk a hundred steps forward and stop, look around to memorize the surroundings, then walk a hundred steps to the left and stop, look around—”
This was Li Hai setting instructions for the ape Clone's soul, to prevent losing contact and failing to obtain any information after crossing time and space.
Immediately, after the instructions were set, Li Hai controlled the ape Clone and, immersed in its perspective, took a big stride forward, entering the black sphere with its entire body.
Buzz—
At that moment, Li Hai (Clone) found the surrounding scenery suddenly changed dramatically.
Behind him was a constantly spinning vortex of dazzling light, and above, below, left, and right was a blazing passage that seemed to be formed by countless spiraling starlight, and this passage was not far, its end being another vortex of dazzling light.
“Very good, no disconnection.”
Li Hai (Clone) was greatly invigorated and stepped forward again, running all the way to the end of the passage ahead.
Then, after only running a few dozen steps, he rushed into that vortex.
Accompanied by a faint airflow sound, the scenery around Li Hai (Clone) suddenly changed dramatically, from the original dazzling starlight to a serene silver-white.
He quickly looked around and found that this alien realm he had arrived in was completely enclosed by gleaming silver metal plates on all sides, including above his head.
At the same time, in the various corners of the ceiling above this enclosed area, there were many black cameras installed.
And surrounding Li Hai (Clone) and the still-operating world-crossing door behind him, various Unknown yet impressive scientific instruments were placed.
Finally, around these instruments, there were more than a dozen white scientists in white coats, scattered in twos and threes, staring blankly at Li Hai (Clone).
Upon seeing this, Li Hai was immediately shocked: “Damn, did I return to Earth?”
But after only a moment of shock, he was completely astounded again by the nearly identical personal interfaces of these white scientists—
Character Name: Unknown Rank: Vampire → Citizen Skills: "Da Ggun's Bloodline" "Blood-Eating Regeneration (Incomplete)" "Spirit Body Detection (Incomplete)"
Entry Traits:
Fragment of a Strongman: None For the reason that having one more species form means one more life, Li Hai, in his shock, immediately learned all the skills of these white Vampire scientists with a thought.
But just as Li Hai was doing this, a door suddenly opened in the metal wall not far away, and a squad of armed soldiers wearing helmets and black combat suits walked out, aiming at him and firing continuous shots, turning this ape Clone into a sieve and collapsing it to the ground.
Subsequently, Li Hai's Clone perspective suddenly darkened.
“!”
In the Young Military Supervisor's Mansion in Da Jing Zhong Jing (Great Jing, Central Capital), Li Hai's eyebrows both shot up, and he laughed in anger, “Alright, alright, you don’t say a word and just shoot, huh? Fine, you guys just wait.”
After speaking, he angrily shifted his focus again, moving his perspective into the Guiyou Cave Heaven.
That's right, Li Hai decided to mature another ape Clone again and send it over.
However, before going this time, it had to be armed.
Thus, another three days quickly passed.
During these three days, Li Hai simultaneously matured the Soul-Mimicking Ape and roughly studied the newly acquired Vampire species form.
His conclusion was that this Unknown Vampire species from another world was inherently very weak.
Perhaps only slightly stronger than ordinary humans, and in terms of physical robustness, it would certainly not be stronger than a professional athlete.
But what was interesting was that the energy contained within this otherworld Vampire, let's temporarily call it blood energy, its overall strength was surprisingly comparable to Martial Artists of the Qi Flowing Rank, whose physical strength far exceeded theirs.
To put it bluntly, even though both Vampires and Martial Artists were at the same Rank, the Vampires' stats in all aspects were significantly lower, as if playing a game where you only level up but don't increase your basic stats.
Even more interestingly, when Li Hai continued to exist in the Yu Continent world in this weak Vampire species form,
He was surprised to find that his overall body strength, including attributes like strength, defense, and agility, all began to slowly increase.
While increasing, this Vampire body also continuously and greedily absorbed the essence of the outside world, 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 more days, the total strength of his body in the Vampire species form, along with other various attribute values, would completely equalize with Martial Artists of the Qi Flowing Realm, and even surpass them in terms of self-healing and speed.
Thus, a guess arose in Li Hai's mind.
And Li Hai, carrying the number two ape Clone, appeared once again before the world-crossing door.
Since taking a hit in that other world three days ago, Li Hai immediately pulled out the golden sphere battery that was inserted into the world-crossing door's base groove, in order to prevent that other world from launching a reverse invasion.
Although he wouldn't be afraid, this was a matter of having the initiative, and it had to be seized.
In any case, for this number two ape Clone, to avoid being used as a target as soon as it went over, Li Hai specifically applied multiple powerful spell arts to it.
Allowing it to possess the characteristics of a Steel Grade Martial Artist—strength, physique, defense, agility, and so on—for several days.
And he also put a pile of pre-customized yellow talismans in its pocket.