"The heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys are all present, but the organs are highly mutated. There is also an accessory heart closely tied to demonic baleful energy and Gang Essence."
"The materials compiled by Brother Xin and those veteran rogue cultivators seemed to mention this before. It is the Demons' 'auxiliary heart.'"
Amid the Demon's terrified wails, Li Chen examined its bodily structures one by one, then tried treating it with the "Fire Essence Palm" from the medicine-craft art.
"The healing technique works, proving that it is a Spirit Essence life-form within the same bodily framework."
Crack!
Li Chen severed the Servant Demon's left little finger with a slash, then kicked its knee tendon.
The Servant Demon roared in pain. At the sudden kick, its leg involuntarily jerked forward.
"Its neural responses resemble those of the human body..."
Expressionless, Li Chen slit several of its blood vessels.
"Its blood circulation is the same, too..."
If this Servant Demon could speak, it would surely have cursed eighteen generations of Li Chen's ancestors by now. But whatever curses it hurled, they would inevitably end in tearful pleas for mercy, begging only for a swift death.
Driven by an intense thirst for knowledge, Li Chen had practically carved it into chunks and dissected its entire body.
Afterward, however, he carefully put it back together exactly as it had been, as though servicing a precision Mechanism Puppet.
A few days later, Li Chen again disguised himself with Painted Skin and abducted another lone Servant Demon, repeating everything he had done before from beginning to end.
Next came another species common to the Bitterwind Wasteland, the Spine Demon.
Then came Horned Demons and Earth Demons.
For some time, Li Chen repeatedly risked exposure or injury to go hunting, and almost every time, he successfully