Qian Xu soon came out of Yu Jiasheng's office and summoned Li Gujian.

Li Gujian confidently strode toward Yu Jiasheng's office.

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Tap tap tap!

Very light footsteps echoed in the dim forest, intermittently revealing the moonlight that seeped through the leaves, casting upon the face of the man stealthily advancing through the trees. The light illuminated his square face, his stern expression, and his appearance of being in his forties.

Snap!

Suddenly, the sound of a breaking branch came from directly ahead, followed by a tall figure appearing in front of the square-faced man.

"Greetings, Envoy!"

The square-faced man stopped in his tracks, cupped his hands together and bowed his head to the towering silhouette with his back to him.

"Have you failed?"

The tall figure spoke while turning around, revealing an ordinary-looking man, appearing to be in his mid-thirties with a small face and features almost squeezed together, which gave an uncanny feeling.

On his head grew a pair of three-inch-thick, finger-sized blue horns.

One horn on each side, located right above his forehead, the left showing Life Force and the right displaying Death Force.

"I am incapable, please punish me, Envoy!"

The square-faced man's head drooped even lower.

"That enemy named Yan Ping is too formidable. It's not your fault. You have been exposed, and you can no longer stay here. Leave now!"

The tall figure spoke in a gentle tone, showing no intention of punishing the square-faced man, "Qin Lei arrived ahead of schedule; take his identity and leave Twilight Forest Village overnight."

"Thank you for your magnanimity, Envoy; I dare not disobey!"

The square-faced man was deeply grateful and bowed respectfully to the figure.

"Turn around, back to me!" The tall man with the blue horns of Life and Death commanded in a low voice.

"Forgive my disrespect!"

The square-faced man didn't dare to turn his back directly to the tall man, uneasily he half-turned so that his side faced the tall figure.

At that moment, moonlight poured through the gaps in the leaves, falling right on the square-faced man's features. Had Xiao Mu been there, he would have recognized at a glance that this square-faced man was Lan Yan.

The tall man took out a gray-white Stone and placed it above Lan Yan's head.

A sudden burst of gray-white Brilliance spilled from the Stone, carrying supreme majesty. A crack abruptly opened at the top of Lan Yan's head, and with a point of the tall man's finger, the crack widened. A layer of human skin peeled off Lan Yan's body as easily as one sheds a garment.

Now, Lan Yan's appearance had transformed, his physique slender and tall, looking to be only in his twenties, with fine brows and eyes, and a same pair of blue horns of Life and Death on his head, though at least half the size of the tall man's.

The tall man flicked his finger, and a ball of True Fire flew out, striking Lan Yan's human skin, which instantly turned into Ashes. With a puff of Wild Wind from the tall man's mouth, these ashes dispersed into Heaven and Earth.

"Put this on!"

The tall man took out another piece of human skin from his Storage Space and tossed it to Lan Yan.

The slender 'Lan Yan' stepped into the human skin as if into a protective suit, then grasped the sides and pulled it upwards, slipping into it like a piece of clothing.

At last, 'Lan Yan' became a chubby man, friendly and affable when he smiled, appearing to be around twenty-five or twenty-six years of age.

The slender man brought out the same gray-white Stone and pressed it against the gap atop Lan Yan's head.

The gray-white air flowed again from the Stone, streaming into Lan Yan's body.

As the gap healed, Lan Yan's aura changed, no longer that of a Mutated Being of the Life and Death Sect, but of a common human Variant. Even his height and physique had altered.

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