Chapter 904: Magic Vine's Triumph

Get ready, Honored Rank beasts! I'll send the ghost butterflies ahead to clear the path, Yuan Datou will cover the rear!

Ye Liuyun reminded Ling Shuang again, then released the ghost butterflies and followed behind them.

After the ghost butterflies were released, they first scouted around, then chose a passage.

Ye Liuyun and the others followed the ghost butterflies not far before seeing several blackened skeletons.

These skeletons still carried blood aura, obviously left by the guards who had just entered.

"How did this happen?" Ye Liuyun asked the group.

The ghost butterflies' reply was a bat-like aura.

At that moment, Ye Liuyun and the others also heard a flapping sound, as if something was flying over in a swarm.

"Bats?"

The sound quickly approached; Ye Liuyun didn't have time to think, immediately putting up a defense. He released a wall of fire toward the direction the sound came from.

Then Ye Liuyun and company saw a flock of blood-red bats with black fangs, swarming toward them.

However, the fire's power was stronger; these bloodthirsty bats were low-level, so they dared not rush forward, merely emitting piercing screeches outside the fire wall and launching sonic attacks.

The ghost butterflies also launched spiritual soul attacks, wiping out those bats one by one.

But there were too many bats to kill them all.

"Those bats' fangs are deadly poison—don't let them bite you!" Ye Liuyun warned Yuan Datou and Ling Shuang to be careful.

He also immediately acted, pushing the fire wall forward to continually drive those bats into the flames. m.

However, the bats outside the fire wall kept increasing. Moreover, the further they went, the higher the bats' levels.

"Ice Magic Tiger."

Ye Liuyun called out, releasing the Ice Magic Tiger as well, to have it freeze the bats.

The bats' defensive ability wasn't particularly strong; either fire or ice power could be lethal.

But their numbers were too many, endlessly surging. Even if Ye Liuyun held up the fire wall, he probably couldn't last long.

Moreover, high-level bats often broke through the fire wall. If it weren't for the ghost butterflies dutifully protecting them, they'd likely be in danger now.

"This won't do! There are too many bats; we can't hold out much longer!" Ling Shuang said worriedly.

Ye Liuyun was also thinking about how to deal with so many bats at this moment.

He took out the Hundred-Refined Soul Banner, trying to absorb the bats' souls, and even released Yin Soldiers to attack their souls.

However, the bats' souls were extremely weak, not worth nurturing in the soul banner.

So Ye Liuyun had to bother using Nether Ghost Fire to burn those souls away.

The Yin Soldiers were also much larger than the bats, so many bats still leaked through.

Fortunately, Ye Liuyun's and the ghost butterflies' souls were strong, killing the leaking ghost butterflies one by one. At least this eased the wave of bat attacks.

"Lost the way!"

At this moment, the ghost butterflies sent information to Ye Liuyun.

It turned out they had been focused only on fighting, ignoring the Migung, and had been led off course by those bats.

Moreover, the bats' aura severely affected the ghost butterflies' judgment; they now had no idea which direction to go.

Yuan Datou then shouted: "Ghost butterfly sounds come from all sides! Just how many of these things are in here?"

Although these bats can't phase through walls, their sonic attacks have already reached us.

Although the bats' souls are weak and their sonic attacks pose little real danger, their great numbers made the three of them extremely irritable, their ears buzzing.

"Too bad the Magic Net is broken!" Ye Liuyun felt regret, then suddenly thought of the Magic Vine.

"If this guy's vines grew denser, wouldn't that be just like a Magic Net?"

Ye Liuyun thought of that, immediately took out the Magic Vine seeds, threw them underground, and tested the effect.

The test actually worked well; the Magic Vine first extended its vines, wrapping them up tightly.

Afterwards, its vines kept extending from various spots underground, swinging wildly; each swipe, the thorns on them could carry away many bats, sucking them dry into jerky.

Sometimes, the large mouth at the tip of a vine would open and swallow an entire swath of bats.

"Your Magic Vine is truly terrifying!" Ling Shuang looked at the Magic Vine and felt it was growing too fast.

Ye Liuyun nodded: "If it absorbs all these bats, it will become even more terrifying later."

Although these bats' souls are weak, each of their cultivation levels is genuine.

Ye Liuyun estimated that there were at least tens of thousands of bats in this great Migung. After the Magic Vine absorbs them, dealing with a Honored Rank first- or second-stage expert would be easy.

Ye Liuyun and company remained hidden inside the shield woven from the Magic Vine.

Even if a bat occasionally flew over, they couldn't touch them; they were caught and absorbed by the outer vine shield.

Ye Liuyun and company inside only heard the "pat, pat" of bat carcasses falling to the ground.

The surrounding bats' shrieks also grew fewer and fewer.

Next, they heard human voices and the clashing of True Essence. After a while, the human cries also ceased.

"Probably the Magic Vine encountered the remaining experts of that group and absorbed them too!"

Ye Liuyun sensed a fluctuation in the Magic Vine's divine sense, as if it were saying that.

Only when Ye Liuyun and company could no longer hear bat sounds did the Magic Vine open its protective shield.

However, from other directions of the Secret Realm, battle sounds still came; it seemed the Magic Vine was cleaning up.

The Magic Vine's protective shield opened only a gap; then all its vines pointed in one direction, as if indicating that Ye Liuyun and company should follow its lead.

"Huh, is this Magic Vine showing the way?" Yuan Datou exclaimed in surprise.

"Let's go check it out first!" Ye Liuyun now also wasn't sure whether the Magic Vine could find an exit.

But after walking a stretch, they felt the Magic Vine had surely found an exit, since vines kept sprouting from the ground everywhere to guide them.

"Haha, this guy is clever—by filling this underground palace with it, you can find the exit!" Yuan Datou praised the Magic Vine.

Ye Liuyun's heart also began to anticipate. "If that's really the case, then the Magic Vine can be said to have rendered great service!"

Following the Magic Vine's instructions, they wandered around in the Migung, and suddenly their vision opened up, arriving at an open space.

The surroundings of this open space were all walls, with only the single passage behind them.

Above the center of this open space, a huge blood-red bat skeleton hovered suspended in midair.

Beneath that skeleton lay a blood-red sphere, exuding a strong bloody odor.