Chapter 2366: Monster's Lair

There are too many monsters in Fatal Cliff.

Wanting to kill all these monsters and reach the bottom of the cliff is no easy task.

Ye Liuyun was worrying when he heard the monsters' roars drawing nearer.

These roars came not only from the tunnel but also from the cliff face.

Song Girl went to the edge of the cliff and looked down, indeed seeing many monsters quickly climbing up.

"They're coming up, they're coming up!"

Song Girl anxiously shouted to Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun immediately released the soldiers he had captured, having them form ranks, some guarding the tunnel mouth, some guarding the cliff edge to kill monsters.

Ye Liuyun and Song Girl then entered the Flying Swallow again, took off, left Fatal Cliff, and attacked the monsters climbing up from a distance.

The entire cliff face was covered with monsters crawling up swiftly, making Song Girl get goosebumps all over.

"Quickly kill these monsters, they're too disgusting to look at."

Song Girl urged.

Ye Liuyun immediately activated the Energy Cannon, continuously bombarding the monsters to help the defenders above ease their pressure.

Ye Liuyun and the defenders held out for half a day before the monster numbers began to dwindle.

"How many monsters are in this cliff!"

Even Song Girl exclaimed: "We must have killed over a thousand by now?"

Ye Liuyun nodded: "Yeah, definitely over a thousand.

And we still don't know how many are in the tunnel!"

Compared to the cliff, the tunnel is easy to defend; the soldiers with spears block the rear, so the monsters can't charge up.

The monsters' combat ability is actually not strong; they are just good at climbing, giving them an obvious advantage on the cliff face.

Once on flat ground, if they have no room to run or move, the soldiers can easily kill them.

But soon all the monsters retreated and disappeared completely.

With no monster howls, the whole Fatal Cliff fell silent.

Ye Liuyun piloted the Flying Swallow down again and landed on the summit.

"These monsters, seeing they can't break through us, have gone on the defensive."

Ye Liuyun didn't want to go in and fight them to the death.

Seeing this, he had the soldiers guarding the tunnel withdraw to rest, while he himself took the Demon Slaying Sword, stood at the tunnel mouth, and lured the monsters to attack again.

Sure enough, after a while, monsters came to scout; seeing only Ye Liuyun at the tunnel mouth, they let out a howl to inform their companions and then charged at him, where he cut one in two with a single stroke.

Soon Ye Liuyun heard a rustling sound.

From the tunnel, countless monsters rushed out.

Ye Liuyun calmly chopped at the tunnel mouth, one stroke after another, trying to use the minimum force needed.

He gradually realized that even using only sword intent, he could kill three or four monsters with a single stroke.

So he easily stood at the tunnel mouth, continuously chopping inside, stroke after stroke.

Those monsters could not break through his sword-light blockade.

Gradually, the monsters stopped charging here and instead watched Ye Liuyun from afar.

Ye Liuyun also began to extend his Divine Sense to probe the interior.

He discovered the entire mountain was hollow.

Around it there is a ring of downward steps, estimated to lead to the mountain base.

Within the range his Divine Sense could reach, the steps were packed with monsters.

Ye Liuyun estimated that there were at least another one or two thousand monsters in this cave.

Ye Liuyun also tried different methods to attack them.

He tried using the Golden Pupil to release flames, igniting one monster.

That monster flailed helplessly, and even after being burned to death, it had no effective way to extinguish the fire.

"Effective!"

Ye Liuyun felt delighted and immediately continued to set fire to the monsters.

The monsters gathered together, with nowhere to escape.

The front-rank monsters could still charge at Ye Liuyun to fight desperately.

The rear-rank monsters could only stand there until they were burned to death.

"Huh?"

Ye Liuyun suddenly noticed that these monsters had previously been throwing the corpses of killed monsters downwards.

But now, even after being burned to death, no monster dared to jump down.

The burned corpses remained until the flames on them were completely extinguished before they dared to toss them down, clearing a path.

"Is there something down there they fear hurting?"

Ye Liuyun thought, and released the Vermilion Bird.

"Follow me and set fire down below!"

Ye Liuyun ordered the Vermilion Bird.

The Vermilion Bird wrinkled its nose, also disliking the smell here.

But it dared not defy Ye Liuyun's command, so it followed him downwards.

"You seal the tunnel mouth and wait here for me."

Ye Liuyun ordered the soldiers and Song Girl to wait here for him.

He used flames to clear the path ahead, while the Vermilion Bird spat fireballs to burn downwards.

Roar!

Inside the mountain, a sharp whistle suddenly rang out.

All the monsters instantly went mad, scrambling up the cliff wall to charge at the Vermilion Bird and Ye Liuyun.

"There's no flight ban here; fly up and spray fire downwards."

Ye Liuyun sensed it and found no flight-suppressing pressure here, so he let the Vermilion Bird try.

The Vermilion Bird, engulfed in flames, flew into the air and indeed felt no flight-suppressing pressure.

But those monsters couldn't fly; they could only shriek at the Vermilion Bird.

The Vermilion Bird immediately spat two more fireballs downward, causing all the monsters to shriek.

Some monsters even disregarded their lives, kicking off the cliff wall to leap at the Vermilion Bird.

For a moment, all the monsters focused on the Vermilion Bird, ignoring Ye Liuyun entirely.

The Vermilion Bird dodged in the air; even if a monster could reach it, it was instantly burned.

On the contrary, some monsters caught fire and fell down.

After that, those monsters dared not pounce at it anymore.

"There must be something down there that they guard, which fears fire!"

Ye Liuyun, realizing this, took advantage of the monsters' inattention, launched the Flying Swallow to swoop in, activated its protective shield, and piloted the Flying Swallow straight downwards.

"Roar, roar..."

The monsters shrieked as they all chased after the Flying Swallow.

But there was no flight ban anymore.

The Flying Swallow's speed was far greater than theirs.

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil finally saw what lay beneath the mountain.

There was a huge monster soaking in a giant blood pool.

Ye Liuyun immediately blasted it with the energy cannon.

But because the distance was still far, the monster actually dodged.

Its speed in the blood was also astonishingly fast.

But soon, Ye Liuyun's warship would reach the mountain's base.

That monster nervously leapt out of the blood pool, pointed to a cave, then raised both hands and surrendered!

"Is it surrendering?"

Seeing that pose, Ye Liuyun dared not be sure whether the monster was surrendering.

He didn't fire the energy cannon again; instead, he stopped the Flying Swallow and aimed the energy cannon at it.

The monster then pointed to a cave, gesturing.

Ye Liuyun didn't know what it meant, so he probed with his divine sense, but discovered an especially strong energy fluctuation.

"Primordial Power?"

Ye Liuyun felt that only primordial power could produce such immense energy.