“Good, good, good, what a good old beast!”

Li Hai grinned chillingly, “Using children’s corpses to make Magical Artifacts, you truly are… a stinking bastard!”

“Hm?”

Lang Yun-sheng was momentarily confused, “I don’t understand what you’re saying…”

“No need to understand, just die!”

Li Hai instantly swung his steel whip, unleashing dozens of whip shadows, instantly blasting the pathetic child corpse Puppet, which contained a part of Lang Yun-sheng’s mind and will, into a large pile of white ash.

And as the bloodless corpse ash fell onto his shoulder, he seemed to vaguely hear a childish voice:

“Thank you… Uncle…”

Li Hai immediately understood.

This voice was not an illusion, but… the lingering obsession of that child corpse.

This realization immediately ignited the fury in his heart, as well as boiling killing intent.

“Lang Yun-sheng.”

Li Hai said coldly, “You truly deserve to die.”

With that, he suddenly stomped, collapsing the ground beneath him, and with a roaring wind, he pierced through the hazy black mist, charging towards the high sky.

Swish—

After reaching a thousand feet in the sky, Li Hai looked down at the Wolf's Nest below and realized that the stronghold had now transformed into a pitch-black mist domain, making it impossible to know where Lang Yun-sheng was hiding.

“It seems… ”

He murmured indifferently, “Then I can only transform into a Spirit Monster.”

That’s right, Li Hai decided to transform into a Spirit Monster, using its power, which was vastly different from that of a Human Martial Artist, to thoroughly search the entire Wolf's Nest and find Lang Yun-sheng, who was hiding somewhere.

And the most suitable Spirit Monster for this task was the vine monster from earlier.

Thinking this, Li Hai suddenly changed his form from human to monster, his entire body abruptly expanding thousands of times, transforming into a massive vine monster composed of countless intertwining dark green vines, and plummeted from the high sky towards the Wolf's Nest below.

Bang!

After plummeting a thousand feet and hitting the ground heavily, Li Hai instantly dispersed all his vine limbs, which, like pythons, drilled into the earth through various cracks and fissures.

At the same time, these vines, after burrowing underground and drilling holes everywhere, also began to frantically absorb countless nutrients from the surrounding soil through the “Root Node Tracing” skill, self-propagating and growing.

Thus, new vines grew out from various parts of the old vines, breaking through the skin and extending further, burrowing through soil and rock.

During the spreading, Li Hai even opened up Cave Heaven portals on each of the vines, beginning to frantically devour everything above and below ground in the entire Wolf's Nest.

So, whether it was the incomplete corpses, the collapsed buildings, or even the various parts of the massive vine monster that was also hiding and burrowing underground.

All of them, under Li Hai’s high-frequency, cutting ‘gnawing’ and devouring, controlled by him to open and close incessantly on his vine limbs, transformed into torrents of fragments that fell into the vast wilderness of Gui You Cave Heaven Donglin Garden.

Under normal circumstances, a vine monster would never possess such an exaggerated ability to proliferate and spread; it couldn't do it itself, and naturally, Li Hai, who possessed its various abilities, couldn't either.

But hell, Li Hai was not only ruthless to others, but also ruthless enough to himself.

Throughout the entire process of all his vine limbs growing and expanding in all directions, as soon as Li Hai discovered that his overall spreading and expansion had reached its limit, he would unhesitatingly use the Cave Heaven portal to sever and devour his old vine limbs, leaving behind large areas of completely ploughed and searched pits and caves, while new vines continued to proliferate and grow, splitting off the next batch of brand new vines.

Therefore, that unlucky vine monster was rapidly consumed during Li Hai’s ‘territorial expansion’ process, eventually disappearing into thousands of Cave Heaven portals and exploding into a strong fragment.

And when those snake-like vine limbs rapidly moved and climbed, gradually extending to the center of the Wolf's Nest stronghold, Li Hai finally discovered Lang Yun-sheng’s hiding place.

To be precise, it was a massive underground palace located beneath the Wolf's Nest stronghold, connected to the surface and underground by several spiral alleys.

After his vines broke through the soil and rock to penetrate into the interior of this underground palace, Li Hai discovered through his countless eyeballs.

In this underground palace, which had more than ten layers, each spanning a hundred feet, all the tables, chairs, beds, and daily necessities, even water, electricity, and lighting, were completely available.

At the same time, hundreds of female bandits meticulously maintained the operation of the entire underground palace.

Subsequently, after coiling around and crushing these female bandits one by one, Li Hai discovered that in some secret rooms on the third, sixth, and ninth floors of this underground palace, there were piles of bones and scattered human limbs.

What was horrifying was that these blood-stained bones and fragmented limbs showed obvious traces of being roasted, boiled, and cut.

So the answer was obvious, that Lang Yun-sheng… he actually cannibalized, and the number of people he had eaten was definitely very considerable.

“Truly… disgusting.”

Accompanying the cold voice, Li Hai, who had transformed back into human form from a Spirit Monster, slowly shifted his gaze from the severed limbs and broken bodies to the entrance of the secret room, a dozen feet away.

There, at some unknown point, stood a black-robed child with a smiling face.

That’s right, this was another child corpse Puppet controlled by Lang Yun-sheng.

“What, ~”

Lang Yun-sheng said with a smile, “Are you also interested in ‘vegetable people’?”

“Vegetable people?” Li Hai said coldly, “You treat people as vegetables?”

“Why not?”

Lang Yun-sheng said airily, “Some people are born to be eaten. If they are not eaten, wouldn’t it be a waste of their natural good taste…”

Before he finished speaking, a crimson whip shadow swiftly struck, blasting him into a pile of dust.

But no sooner had he finished striking than Lang Yun-sheng’s hateful voice resounded again:

“Look at you, why hit a Puppet? I have plenty of those, and I don’t feel bad if one or two are destroyed.”

“Where are you?”

Li Hai looked around, following the voice, “Why isn’t there a Puppet this time?”

“No need to look, in this underground palace I can make my voice appear in any corner, there’s no need for a Magical Artifact to appear, and…”

Lang Yun-sheng’s voice came from all directions, “I am not in this underground palace at all right now.”

“Then where are you?” Li Hai asked in a deep voice.

“I’m up there, in the Wolf's Nest stronghold that you smashed to pieces.”

Lang Yun-sheng’s voice came again, “Tsk tsk tsk tsk, I have to say, Li Hai, you are truly not simple. I originally thought you would slowly grope your way here from the ground, and then enter the underground palace.

But I didn’t expect that you could transform from a human into a Spirit Monster, and coincidentally, exactly like my vine monster.

To be honest, I have never heard of such a mysterious Dao technique, and I don’t know where you learned it.

I can only say that the world is indeed full of wonders.”

Accompanying Lang Yun-sheng’s sigh, countless dense blood-red threads appeared out of thin air, wrapping Li Hai’s secret room layer upon layer, both inside and out, appearing almost like a blood hell at first glance.