Chapter 2412: Using People as a Cushion

"Attack!"

Ye Liuyun used his red eyes to control that monster, making it attack the beast beside it.

"Aoo" sounded, and the beast clamped its jaws on the neck of the other monster, tearing it violently.

The other monster kept wailing.

The monster Ye Liuyun controlled extended its sharp claws again, slashing open the belly of the monster it had bitten, spilling its entrails all over the ground.

The surrounding beasts froze for a moment, then rushed to feast on the entrails on the ground.

"Find a passage quickly!"

Ye Liuyun swallowed, urging Qiong Qi.

"Can't find it.

Release more people to try one by one!"

Qiong Qi, seeing how ferocious the monster was, felt a bit worried.

Within the Secret Realm, Ye Liuyun had captured many Reinforcement Troops, never training them, intending to use them as cannon fodder.

He immediately released two thousand soldiers, dividing a thousand of them into four squads, each charging toward a different bridge.

The thousand soldiers bolstered the defense.

"Kill!"

At his command, all soldiers began their assault.

"Aoo!"

The beasts let out a howl and rushed at the soldiers.

The beasts' strength was comparable to the soldiers', yet they kept crawling up from below, and Ye Liuyun couldn't see how many were below.

The thousand scouting soldiers braved the beasts' onslaught, charging toward the four stone bridges.

"Ah!"

A soldier let out a howl as a beast seized his legs, pulling him out of formation and biting off a huge chunk of his body, even tearing away bone.

The soldier's blood spurted, inciting the beasts to frenzy; some grabbed soldiers' feet from beneath their shields, others leapt straight into the ranks, clawing and biting.

Seeing this, Ye Liuyun immediately dispatched several squads of Flying Swallows to fire at the beasts from the air.

But one Flying Swallow flew too low and was struck by a beast that leapt up, crashing straight into the ravine.

"Higher!"

Ye Liuyun promptly ordered the Flying Swallows to fly higher, thereby evading the beasts' attacks.

Once the Swallows rose, they immediately suppressed the beasts.

The defensive pressure on the soldiers lessened instantly.

Ye Liuyun also sent a Flying Swallow to try breaking into the Grand Hall shrouded in mist.

However, the mist was so dense that it blew the Swallow out.

At this moment, of the four bridge‑crossing squads, three on the bridges encountered those beasts.

The beasts crawled up from beneath the stone bridges, attacking soldiers' limbs, leaving them defenseless.

The remaining squad, however, charged across without trouble.

Moreover, crossing the bridge, they even withstood the mist.

Qiong Qi and Ye Liuyun waited until those soldiers reached the opposite bank and stood before the Grand Hall before ordering them to move toward the stone bridge.

After securing that stone bridge, Ye Liuyun had the soldiers hold the bridgehead while he and Qiong Qi rushed onto the bridge.

The two hurried across the bridge to the Grand Hall and indeed encountered no attacks.

Ye Liuyun glanced with his Golden Pupil, saw the interior of the Grand Hall and opened his mouth in astonishment: "We've struck gold now!"

"Ah?

What did you see?"

Qiong Qi also got excited.

"All good stuff!"

Ye Liuyun's eyes swirled as he saw that inside were all kinds of resources.

"Send two soldiers over to open the door!"

Ye Liuyun immediately ordered soldiers to open the Earth Peace Gate.

At the hall's entrance stood two bronze men wielding great axes; Ye Liuyun feared they were Kuailei and hesitated to strike.

Ye Liuyun's guess was correct; as the two soldiers approached, the bronze men attacked them.

Moreover, the bronze men were immensely strong; the shields on the soldiers' armor were split open by a single axe swing, unable to block their attacks.

"Up!"

Ye Liuyun ordered the soldiers to strike together, but the bronze men showed no fear and offered no defense.

"Burn them with fire! Refine them!"

Qiong Qi promptly reminded Ye Liuyun and began unleashing flames toward a bronze man.

Ye Liuyun thought, "It's so slow to burn it down!"

He immediately dispatched Xiao Binglan, Man Shu, Wu Qingcheng, and Yu Er, all releasing Ice Power to instantly freeze a bronze man.

Meanwhile, Qiong Qi's flames had not yet affected the bronze man.

"Then you go!"

Qiong Qi also gathered the flames.

Together with Ye Liuyun, they froze the bronze man.

"Throw them down the ravine."

Ye Liuyun again immediately ordered the soldiers to lift the two bronze men and throw them down the mountain ravine.

Then Ye Liuyun again sent someone to open the hall door.

This time, after the hall door opened, the two demonic images on the inner side of the door suddenly spewed out a gust of yin energy, and two powerful yin souls rushed out from inside, beginning to slaughter those soldiers.

These two yin souls were too strong; Ye Liuyun estimated that in life they should have been at the second level of the Heavenly Human realm, so he directly used his Golden Pupil to shoot black light, quickly eliminating those two yin souls.

"You little brat still have so many tricks!"

Qiong Qi continually sighed from the side.

Ye Liuyun looked at the soldiers before him; only twenty-odd remained.

Fortunately he had many reinforcement troops under him; otherwise they wouldn't have been able to hold up.

At the other end of the bridge, monsters kept rushing to attack the soldiers.

The soldiers on the other three stone bridges had all been completely slain.

However, no monsters had come from that side.

Ye Liuyun, to be safe, still released another thousand soldiers to defend this place.

Then he commanded those twenty soldiers to enter the Grand Hall.

But as soon as those soldiers entered, they all immediately collapsed from poison.

"It's poisonous!"

A soldier issued a warning before dying.

"I'll go!"

Ye Liuyun stored Wu Qingcheng and the others back into his space, then walked toward the Grand Hall.

"I'll go too!"

Qiong Qi, however, did not let Ye Liuyun go on the adventure himself.

After they entered, they indeed found the poisonous gas thick here, and it lingered in the Grand Hall without dispersing, obviously deliberately designed.

The two of them practiced the Ten Thousand Poison Heart Sutra while cautiously approaching a door inside the hall.

"Inside are stored various weapons and treasures."

Ye Liuyun told Qiong Qi to let him open the door.

That door had a formation, and Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil spotted it at a glance.

Qiong Qi also began to decipher the formation.

After some effort, the formation was undone and the door opened automatically.

"Haha, there really aren't few good things!"

Seeing a large room full of treasures, Qiong Qi immediately beamed with joy.

Ye Liuyun, meanwhile, instantly collected everything in the room into his Space World.

"Next room!"

He urged.

Soldiers on the other side of the bridge were still fighting.

Although they were prisoners, Ye Liuyun also did not want the soldiers to all die.

"Geez, what's the harm in letting me take another look!"

Qiong Qi complained, but his hands and feet were not slow; he immediately began to decipher the formation on the next door.

"After collecting everything, return to the Space World and look at whatever you want!"

Ye Liuyun also laughed.

Next, the various room doors were opened one after another.

Various elixirs, medicinal herbs, ores, Divine Crystal essence, and Primordial Power were all collected one by one by Ye Liuyun and company.

Moreover, several rooms contained soldiers' armor, starry sky warships, and other equipment, all ready-made.