Top-tier shadow replacement ability allows for the complete replacement of an opponent's identity from the causal level, but only if the opponent is weak enough and doesn't resist.

Clearly, this squad leader doesn't meet the conditions.

Therefore, he needs to be weakened, weakened to the point where he meets Li Cheng Yi's requirements.

Lu Shan.

Inside the first cave, a wisp of black smoke suddenly coalesced, descended, and transformed into the complete form of Duke Lu Shan.

He had just returned from the Gong Shan family, attending a small family meeting to discuss how to deal with the Fu family's situation.

Gong Shan Rong's power and strength were quite prominent among the surrounding families, so whether to fight or negotiate had to be carefully considered.

After some discussion, Duke Lu Shan felt somewhat tired.

"Someone, bring tea."

Ascending the small building to the third floor, he found a chair he often sat in and sat down.

Soon, a deer-demon carefully served a cup of hot tea.

Duke Lu Shan picked it up, took a sip, and immediately frowned.

"It's missing something." He looked at the deer-demon, suddenly reached out, broke off a section of the deer-demon's antlers, crushed it into powder with one hand, and sprinkled it into the teacup.

Taking another sip, the taste was immediately much better.

"Hmm, I was wondering what was missing, turns out it was deer velvet."

He nodded in satisfaction, looked at the deer-demon girl who was enduring the pain and lowered her head, waved his hand casually, signaling her to leave.

"By the way, where are the others?"

"Reporting to master, the young masters are all out and haven't returned," the deer-demon girl quickly replied.

"Is that so?" Duke Lu Shan didn't know why, but he felt something was a little strange.

Since Gong Shan Zhu joined the sect, the atmosphere within the sect hasn't been as natural as before.

Everyone has become more and more harmonious...

He picked up the teacup and took another sip.

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Several days later.

Li Cheng Yi returned to the Lu Shan cave again, resuming his original secluded semi-retired life.

The others from the Xuan Ji Sect, except for the squad leader, had all been completely subdued by him using the Zi Wei Royal Power.

But that was the limit. With his current cultivation and strength, without using Flower Language and dimensional abilities, he was at most at the first-rate level. And the dimension was too perverted, the changes too great, and not convenient. Flower Language was secretive enough.

However, Flower Language could only be used as a trump card. The key was to increase true essence to continuously accelerate the enhancement of mental power.

Therefore, after obtaining all the memories and identity of the Xuan Ji Sect squad leader, Li Cheng Yi didn't immediately replace him, but instead returned to Duke Lu Shan's place.

After investigating for several days in a row, he chose a gloomy rainy day and quietly came to his master Duke Lu Shan's small building.

Outside, the wind and rain were pouring down, and lightning flashed and thundered.

The small building deep inside the cave was constantly illuminated by the lightning coming through the large hole above.

"Master, this disciple has some doubts and seeks verification. I wonder if you have time to give some guidance?"

Li Cheng Yi clasped his fist respectfully and said loudly.

"What is it? Come in," Duke Lu Shan's voice floated out from the small building.

Li Cheng Yi's face took on a hint of sinister smile as he quickly walked into the small building.

Following the somewhat old stairs all the way up, with crisp footsteps, he soon arrived at the third floor of the top floor.

His master Duke Lu Shan was sitting quietly on a chair, holding a pipe in his hand, slowly and deliberately smoking opium.

Grayish-white smoke continued to spread around, somewhat choking.

"Speak, what is it?" Duke Lu Shan said calmly.

"It's actually just a small matter." Li Cheng Yi showed a worried expression and said, "Recently, when this disciple was practicing my cultivation technique, I would always experience a faint itching sensation, and my meridians would occasionally feel a slight numbness..."

Hmm?

Duke Lu Shan narrowed his eyes.

This was a promising seedling that he had high hopes for. If something went wrong, his own cultivation completion would have to wait for some time.

Immediately, he didn't suspect anything else, and his figure flickered, appearing in front of Li Cheng Yi in an instant.

"Let me see." He pointed a finger on Li Cheng Yi's shoulder, and began to investigate the situation inside his body.

A wisp of extremely subtle Xiantian Jin Yuan (Innate Metal Essence) rapidly surged out, flowing continuously along Li Cheng Yi's meridians.

"Strange, everything is normal, there is nothing unusual." Duke Lu Shan frowned.

"Is that so? Master, can you be more careful?" Li Cheng Yi lowered his head and suddenly hooked the corner of his mouth.

Chi!!

In an instant, Flower Language was activated in unison.

The Heaven's Mandate Sure-Hit Blade combined with the Wisteria Flower Flower Language Eternal Sleep Hand erupted simultaneously.

Purple light and golden light intertwined and shone, covering Li Cheng Yi's back of the hand, accompanying it as it turned into a sharp blade, stabbing forward.

Dozens of tons of impact force was nothing in Duke Lu Shan's eyes, but what shocked him was that Li Cheng Yi would actually attack him??

And what made him even more stunned was that although the other party's attack seemed weak, he couldn't break free from the lock of this stab???

A strange, indescribable sense of restraint acted on his whole body, forcing him to stand in place and resist this stab head-on.

"You!!!!?"

Fortunately, the power of the other party's attack was very weak, it was nothing to him. As long as he withstood this attack, he could turn around and capture Gong Shan Zhu, and interrogate him as to why…

Boom!!

Suddenly, with a loud noise, two figures flickered and appeared at the same time, one person striking out with a palm, and the other piercing with a sword, attacking Duke Lu Shan at the same time.

The most exaggerated thing was that the Jin Yuan (Metal Essence) of these two people was actually Xiantian Jin Yuan (Innate Metal Essence) of the peerless level!!

That is, reaching the pinnacle of perfection, the ultimate Jin Yuan that was so strong that it could no longer be improved!!

Within the ultimate Jin Yuan, there was a faint hint of Dao Fruit (Fruit of the Dao) artistic conception, causing Duke Lu Shan to shiver all over.

His expression changed drastically in an instant, and the Jin Yuan of his whole body frantically scattered outwards, turning into black floating mountains, exploding towards the surroundings.

The huge impact force turned into a golden air explosion, trying to blow away Li Cheng Yi and the other two at the same time.

But unfortunately...

The ambushers were two peerless-level experts. Although they had long lost their minds and completely zombified, their power was far from what Duke Lu Shan could contend with alone.

Chi!

Before the golden light could completely explode, it was suppressed again and dimmed.

Duke Lu Shan stood dazedly in place, spitting out a mouthful of blood. His eyes gradually lost their look.

"That's about right." Li Cheng Yi withdrew his hand and stood up straight.

Whoosh!

His body suddenly turned into a noodle, drilled into Duke Lu Shan's wound, and soon completely disappeared inside his body.

Not long after, Duke Lu Shan trembled all over and let out a painful roar.

But soon this roar slowly faded and became quiet.

About ten minutes later, he straightened up, his face showing the same calm expression as Li Cheng Yi had before.

"With this, the only flaw here has disappeared…" With a thought, the two Huang Sha Palm (Yellow Sand Palm) disappeared quickly.

As veteran first-rate experts, Huang Sha Zhang (Yellow Sand Palm) Huang Qiu, and Qian Mian Jian Ke (Thousand Faced Swordsman) Chen Yan, after being zombified, their Jin Yuan (Metal Essence) had increased fourfold, directly crossing the Jin Yu (Gold Jade) level and reaching the peerless realm of condensing the Dao Fruit (Fruit of the Dao).

But it seemed that because they lacked something crucial, the Dao Fruit (Fruit of the Dao) they condensed was not complete, and they could not be considered true peerless experts.

However, Li Cheng Yi didn't mind, as long as he could control them strongly at critical moments, and the two of them could launch a full-strength sneak attack, the effect wouldn't be much different.

Standing up, Li Cheng Yi slowly walked towards Duke Lu Shan's secret vault.

From now on, he was Duke Lu Shan, and Duke Lu Shan was him. Naturally, everything of the other party's belonged to him.

In particular, the many experiences and insights of cultivating Lu Shan Hundred Transformations were of great help to him.

Then there were the many secret treasures in the secret vault, which could completely allow him to successfully break through the seventh level and reach the eighth level.

From the beginning when he sensed Duke Lu Shan's malice, he had already decided on the ending of this moment.

Now it seemed that everything was going quite smoothly.

Soon, walking to a wall in the small building, he pointed a finger.

Immediately, the wall stirred up faint ripples, and Li Cheng Yi walked inside, his body passing through the ripples.

On the other side was a dim secret room of about five square meters.

The walls of the secret room were full of shelves, and the shelves were filled with densely packed treasure boxes of various sizes.

On the outside of the treasure boxes, there were various names pasted.

Li Cheng Yi smiled with satisfaction, and reached out to take a black treasure box with dragon patterns among them.

The name was pasted on it: Yuan Mu Yao He (Original Wood Demon Lotus).

This was exactly the secret medicine he needed for his subsequent breakthrough.

Picking up the treasure box, he opened it, and inside was an earth-yellow, palm-sized lotus flower emitting specks of white light.

Picking up the lotus flower, Li Cheng Yi's Jin Yuan (Metal Essence) surged in his palm, seeping into it.

Soon he saw the lotus flower melt, turning into countless white viscous liquid, like a living thing, penetrating into his skin from his hand.

Buzz!

The seventh level cultivation of Lu Shan Hundred Transformations, in an instant, was like completing the missing last piece of the puzzle, completely perfected.

The color of pure gold Jin Yuan (Metal Essence) appeared on Li Cheng Yi's body.

Soon, the golden color transformed towards dark gold, and the total amount began to increase rapidly, and the density and strength were also rapidly increasing.

In the outside space, it seemed that countless invisible energies were constantly replenishing his Jin Yuan (Metal Essence).

More than ten minutes later.

The Jin Yuan (Metal Essence) on Li Cheng Yi's body completely transformed into dark gold.

This marked his official entry into the eighth level.

And among the entire Duke Lu Shan's sect, apart from the original Duke Lu Shan, only he had the highest cultivation.

There was still one last level left before he could reach the supreme realm of Jin Yu (Gold Jade).

And this level, for Li Cheng Yi, would not take long to reach.

"Having reached this step, my body's endurance is even stronger, and I can also zombify experts with higher strength."

He had tested that using his mental power to cut off the life lines was mainly because his energy and physical strength could not keep up, and his mental power was more than enough.

Previously, his limit was to cut off the life lines of first-rate experts, and he could do nothing above that.

Above that, the speed at which he cut off the life lines was not as fast as the speed at which the other party's life lines regenerated.

Yes, Jin Yu (Gold Jade) level experts above the first-rate level could regenerate life lines.

And now, his own cultivation was also close to the Jin Yu (Gold Jade) level, and it was easier to deal with this level.

Whoosh!

In an instant, Li Cheng Yi disappeared from the spot, left the cave, and hurried towards the Xuan Ji Sect's contact point.

After having no worries on this side, he should also truly lay out the situation on the other side.

At night, the rain was pouring down.

On the way, Li Cheng Yi's original body as Duke Lu Shan began to rapidly transform into the appearance of the Xuan Ji Sect's elite squad leader.

Crack.

Suddenly, a magnificent golden light burst out in the distant night sky.

Li Cheng Yi stopped instantly, and looked up and over.

'That direction... is the Gong Shan family?'

His heart frowned slightly, and then he mobilized several zombies in his heart to go to guard.

Gong Shan Qing Yang and his wife, and the little fatty were still there, they were relatives and friends after all, he wouldn't completely ignore them.

The Jin Yuan (Metal Essence) in his body was continuously put into the sword furnace for burning, and the original dark gold Jin Yuan (Metal Essence) was once again shrinking and solidifying.

Adding in the eighth level Lu Shan Hundred Transformations cultivation method, Li Cheng Yi estimated that he would be able to enter the ninth level, completely complete, and achieve Jin Yu (Gold Jade) in at most one month.

After arranging everything properly, he continued to turn around and rush towards the intended direction.

(End of this chapter)