In truth, Li Chen had long known that hiding atop this stone pillar was nothing short of a slow suicide.
But venturing out rashly, even under the cover of the Shape-Stealing Skin-Painting Divine Ability, would still leave him with a slim chance of surviving.
Had he not been driven to the verge of running out of ammunition and provisions, he would never have wanted to do it.
Perhaps the pressure of life and death was driving him, but Li Chen felt that his understanding of the Shape-Stealing Skin-Painting Secret Art had deepened further this time.
And unlike before, he had managed to slaughter two Servant Demons that climbed up, stripped their skins off, and used those skins as materials for the refinement.
The skins had originally been dripping with blood and carried the chaotic aura unique to demons, but now they had become a natural disguise.
Li Chen performed the transformation, forcing his bones and muscles to change and his body to hunch over. By sheer force, he transformed from an upright human cultivator into a ferocious, ape-like Servant Demon.
He put away the Water Spider. When he handed the other skin to You An, You An was so startled that he nearly pushed him off.
Li Chen said, "Don't move. Hurry, put away your War Armor and put this on!"
"All right." You An hastily complied, and before long, two humans transformed into Servant Demons stood atop the stone pillar.
The Servant Demons they had become were considerably larger than ordinary demons, with more elongated bodies. Anyone with a discerning eye would have noticed something strange, but the clamorous roaring and howling around them still stopped. The many Servant Demons looked up at the pair, whose lower bodies were hidden by the stone pillar, their eyes seemingly filled with