On the river valley highlands, a habitat originally occupied by demons, Li Chen sat atop a boulder some ten feet across, revealing his true human form.
Scattered around him was a demon population whose nest he had usurped like a cuckoo, a mixture of Servant Demons, Horned Demons, Spine Demons, Swordtooth Demons, and Earth Demons.
Normally, these demons had different temperaments. They might live together without trouble for a short time, but eventually they would fight to the death. Human cultivators possessing pure spiritual energy were all the more their mortal enemies.
Yet strangely, they seemed to have formed an entirely new order here, living peacefully with one another.
They also treated Li Chen, who sat among them, as though he did not exist.
However, whenever the demons moved, they instinctively kept some ten feet away from him. Not one dared approach the boulder.
In their minds, the area around him had already become an absolute forbidden zone. They would suffer severe punishment if they approached.
"Once something like this reaches a certain scale, the snowball effect will become increasingly pronounced. Dealing with small demon populations is already as easy as turning my hand. Keeping them normally requires no effort; I only need to lift the prohibition, let these demons hunt outside on their own, and have them return on time. Even if a few are killed or injured, as long as the Potter Wasp Cores remain intact, I can capture other living demons to replenish their numbers promptly."
"Unfortunately, my Divine Sense still cannot reach a sufficiently minute level. Without that, I cannot refine these cores down to the size of mosquitoes and make fuller use of the Demon Cores' power."
"If I could make them invisible to the naked eye, I could distribute them widely throughout the demons'