I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

“Enemies?” Fraina and Masna were slightly surprised.

“That jackal bit my butt… How cunning, it actually fooled me?” The Beholder Jackal, Elana, was both angry and taking action.

Thus, the first to pursue was Elana's petrifying gaze—a petrifying force suddenly shot into the soil, just like before, hitting the moving mass of tentacles in the soil.

This time, Li Yue learned his lesson. While running, he directly changed the angle of his tentacles, imitating Dandan's shape, bending them into a bowl shape, turning the suckers outward, and sucking up the obscure and incomprehensible magic in the petrifying gaze.

When Li Yue gathered that obscure magic on one octopus tentacle, he also discovered that he could shoot out petrifying rays like a Beholder.

“Very convenient…” Li Yue sighed at the contribution of the "Octopus Shapeshifting" to the Demon Blueprint—even in the soil, the tentacles' movement happened to be behind him, able to easily help Li Yue break attacks from behind.

However, just as he was thinking this, the soil ahead suddenly became surrounded by cold air.

“Drilled in from the soil?” Fraina confirmed that no suspicious demons had entered the Extreme Cold Barrier, and at this moment, looked at Elana with some disdain, “What are you doing?”

While speaking, Fraina laid down a layer of cold air near Li Yue, about ten meters in front of him.

Masna, on the other hand, didn't chase after him for the time being, only using his claws to tear open the human skin on his back, and the fur on his neck also burst out all at once; peeling off the skin of the Fallen Noble, as if casually taking off a piece of clothing.

“If Mandena were here, that would be great. With this dog, I could see what exactly is in the soil…” Fraina relied purely on demonic intuition to release the Extreme Cold Barrier, and the control of the position was not very precise in a short period of time.

And this also gave Li Yue a little room for adjustment—Li Yue separated his tentacles into three in the front and four in the back, even sucking the cold air in front of him into his suckers.

Earlier, Li Yue had also thought about using this method to pass through the Extreme Cold Barrier, but he was afraid that Fraina would notice, so he chose to take a detour. Now that there were no restrictions on concealing his tracks, he would of course choose the fastest method.

After freezing off one tentacle, Li Yue also successfully opened a passage in the Extreme Cold Barrier, breaking through; at the same time, the three tentacles absorbed three kinds of power respectively.

Petrification, extreme cold, plus the toxins accumulated in the soil before, he could spray three earth bullets.

“It escaped?” Fraina sensed a loophole in the Extreme Cold Barrier, spread his arms as if to fly, but could not spread its invisible wings in the narrow cave passage, making him anxious.

And a wolf claw next to him pressed back Fraina's arm—it was Masna, who had put on the skin of the Demon Wolf Warrior.

“Two wastes…” Masna was a whole section taller, and even had to bend over to barely stand in the cave passage.

And he didn't have much combat power for long—Masna waved his wolf claws and quickly dug a hole in the direction of the petrified soil to chase after him!

Li Yue was seeing a Demon Wolf Warrior digging a hole for the first time—back in the Blood River simulated battle, Finley had burrowed a hole to go under Steel City, and the action was probably the same as now.

Calculating the speed, Li Yue found that Masna was not much slower than him, and hurriedly moved all six hands, advancing into the depths of the soil.

Masna's nose twitched, the smell getting closer and closer, and he naturally dug even harder; Li Yue knew that he couldn't shake off Masna like this, so he changed the position of his tentacles and shot an ice bullet at his back!

The octopus tentacle swam over, and no passage was created in the soil, so Li Yue's bullet directly exploded behind him, not causing any damage to Masna, only forming a solid block of frozen soil.

“Clang!” The wolf claw touched the frozen soil and was powerless. Masna twitched his nose in the ice layer, grinned, and gave up the chase.

Li Yue took the opportunity to widen the distance and finally escaped beyond the sight of the Beholder Jackal, Elana, regaining his freedom.

Returning to the cave, Masna bent over and breathed heavily—not from exhaustion, but from anger.

“Let's go, we'll chase after him, I'll ride you…” Elana called out to Fraina, preparing to unleash their classic combination—the Beholder Jackal plus the flying Jackal's aerial reconnaissance.

Chasing Li Yue to the ends of the earth.

“Isn't the boss going to do a blood sacrifice? Why are we chasing?” Masna felt ashamed and scolded Fraina and Elana, “In a while, no one is allowed to tell the boss about what just happened, understand?”

Fraina's Extreme Cold Barrier was useless, and Elana only confirmed the identity of the intruder on the second try. Of course, they didn't dare to argue at this moment, and acquiesced to Masna's arrangement—after all, no one wanted to be bitten by the "boss", that would break their neck.

“What is that thing… Did Fintus find a new helper?” Elana muttered, “Is their Demon Wolf clan going to start a war with our Jackal family again?”

“When haven't we been at war?” Fraina scratched under his armpit—he was a little itchy since he couldn't fly anywhere.

“I think it's better to tell the boss, after all, this demon… we've never seen it before, maybe it's a new enemy?” Elana still retained a sense of crisis as a guard.

“Then you tell him, explain it in detail, anyway, you're the only one who saw it.” Masna replied unkindly.

“You tell him!” Elana understood, whoever spoke first would have to bear the boss's anger first.

“Don't be polite… you tell him…” The three jackals who controlled the demonic relics pushed and shoved each other, walking towards the Jackal altar deep in the cave to participate in the blood sacrifice.

… …

“What time is it? How long has it been?” On the tree, an egg spread fine particles over its shadow.

“Only half has passed, there's still half left.” The shadow also arranged words to speak, “You've asked ten times, can you ask less? It will make you seem very frivolous.”

“Frivolous? I'm overweight, okay? You're the frivolous one.” Dandan twisted its body, wanting to smash against the tree to make some noise, but was firmly fixed by Yingying.

“Don't mess around, you'll ruin things.” Yingying spoke righteously, “Do you still want to fight in the Slaughter Cup or not?”

“I want to fight, but my skin is itchy, can you help me twist it.” Dandan made its request, and Yingying had no choice but to twist it a bit, slightly deforming Dandan.

“Wait a minute, he's back.” Yingying was the first to sense the movement of the shadow under the tree, and coincidentally, that small ball of shadow also floated back to the tree, it was Li Yue.

“How is it?” “Can we take action?”

Yingying and Dandan asked differently, but they were asking the same thing.

“Not yet, we still have to wait.” Li Yue transmitted his thoughts, “I need more time, I'm coming up to tell you.”

“Friend, breaking promises is very impolite behavior.” Dandan was unhappy as soon as it heard this, “What is more precious than a promise?”

“What's going on, is the progress not smooth?” Yingying rubbed against Li Yue, comforting him.

“The progress is not bad, I've already completed three-fifths, but I've been discovered.” Li Yue reported truthfully, “It's just that there's a jackal who's quite special, I still need to take a look, so maybe you need to wait a little longer…”

Li Yue was talking about Mandena, the jackal who could control minds—the Jackal family was constantly refreshing Li Yue's understanding. When he encountered this guy who was likely the biggest threat to the Brain Spirit, Li Yue felt it was best to complete the recording of it, otherwise, there would be no time to adjust his tactics in the arena.

On the way back, Li Yue was struggling with whether to re-sneak into the depths of the cave—thinking about it, if he wanted to understand the Jackal family, he shouldn't be able to find a better opportunity than this "blood sacrifice".

Moreover, the jackals would definitely not expect that the octopus coil that had just been driven away would return with a different identity.

“Need help?” Yingying listed a line of words.

“Wait a minute, this matter hasn't been decided yet, right?” Dandan was still reluctant to wait a while longer on the tree.

“It hasn't been decided yet, this is a discussion.” Li Yue answered Dandan first, then turned to its shadow, “Also, I need you to help… with two things.”

“The first thing, you have to ensure that that ‘Hyena Uncle’… doesn't return to this cave.”

Li Yue was preparing to transform into a hyena and enter the cave, shrinking into a corner.

“Ensure? Can we kill him?” Dandan was originally dissatisfied, but as soon as it heard that there was something to do outside, it immediately changed its attitude.

《Reincarnation Paradise》

“If you only kill the hyena, you can.” Li Yue relaxed the requirements, “It's best to do it silently, can you do it?”

“Yes, kill him now? He's in the 7 o'clock direction, three miles away.” Yingying knew the whereabouts of the nearby jackals like the back of its hand.

“Not now, if he wants to return to the cave, then kill him.” Li Yue touched Yingying, and Yingying trembled.

“The second thing, you are here, you can detect the innermost part of the cave, right?” Li Yue confirmed with Yingying.

“Yes.” Yingying expanded slightly.

“Then you follow my shadow, wait for my signal, once I send out the signal, execute the retreat strategy.”

“The signal is?”

“Like this…” Li Yue transformed into the appearance of a hyena, stretched out his right hand straight to the side, and then scratched his head three times powerfully.

“Okay.” Yingying confirmed, firmly introducing the shape change of Li Yue's shadow into its consciousness.

“Remember, the retreat strategy remains unchanged, as soon as the signal comes, you execute it.” Li Yue instructed, “'He' will understand, be polite…”

After Li Yue finished speaking, he practiced the jackal's vocalization a few times in a low voice, and then jumped down from the tree with a cackle.

And just as Li Yue landed under the tree, a chattering jackal howl suddenly came from the cave, like some kind of call.