Chapter 909: Voluntarily Swallowed

The magic vine had no choice but to keep sinking to dodge this suction.

"Good thing the magic vine reacted quickly, otherwise we'd all be sucked away!" Yuan Datou felt the strength of this suction, far beyond what they could resist.

However, they were happy too soon.

The magic vine was sinking, but the speed at which the ground was being sucked away was also getting faster and faster.

Ye Liuyun already felt that, as the suction strengthened, the protective shield formed by the magic vine was also being pulled by that suction.

The surrounding mist had been completely sucked away, revealing a strange ferocious beast.

This ferocious beast looked like a fat toad, its appearance extremely ugly, but its body was huge, like a giant palace.

The monster lay on the mountain peak, staring at Ye Liuyun and the others, wildly inhaling with its mouth open.

Yet all the sand, soil, and rocks were directly sucked into its belly, as if it could never be filled.

"Cloud-Swallowing Beast!" Ling Shuang exclaimed upon seeing it.

"Cloud-Swallowing Beast?"

Ye Liuyun didn't know the name of this giant toad, only that its cultivation level was around the fifth or sixth layer of the Life and Death Realm.

"It's similar to the Star-Eating Beast—it can swallow anything! It just lives on land!"

Ling Shuang had heard Ye Liuyun mention the Star-Eating Beast before, so she directly used it as a comparison to help him understand quickly.

At this moment, the magic vine was also straining against the Cloud-Swallowing Beast, pulling the protective shield, with neither side gaining the upper hand.

"Star-Eating Beast?"

Upon hearing "Star-Eating Beast," Ye Liuyun immediately thought of a way to deal with it.

He immediately used his divine sense to communicate with the magic vine: "Let it swallow us, then we'll deal with it from inside!"

After receiving his message, the magic vine hesitated a bit, held on for a moment, but ultimately decided to trust Ye Liuyun.

It suddenly loosened its roots embedded in the soil, and was instantly sucked away by the Cloud-Swallowing Beast.

The vine shield tumbled and spun in the air, rolling toward the beast's huge mouth.

"Ah!" Inside the shield, Ling Shuang and Yuan Datou cried out, thinking the magic vine couldn't hold on any longer.

"Roar!"

The Cloud-Swallowing Beast also thought the magic vine couldn't hold on, and after swallowing it, it immediately let out a proud roar, boasting of its victory.

It stopped sucking up soil and stones from the mountain, tightly closing its mouth as if fearing Ye Liuyun and the others might escape, only slowly exhaling mist from its nostrils.

The mist quickly spread, once again shrouding its body, then continued to diffuse outward.

After the magic vine was sucked into the beast's mouth, it immediately followed Ye Liuyun's instructions, constantly extending vines to pierce the beast's interior, but the immense suction and inertia snapped the vines, which finally rolled onto the beast's belly.

The beast's belly was filled with a large amount of highly corrosive mist; even sand, soil, and rocks could be corroded and dissolved into mist.

The vines' outer surface was instantly dissolved by the mist, at great speed.

The magic vine had to regrow vines from within to reinforce the shield; the space around Ye Liuyun and the others naturally shrank.

"Damn, the corrosion is too strong—I can't get out either!" Ye Liuyun miscalculated this time as well.

He hadn't expected the beast's suction to be so great that all the vines it extended were snapped.

Ye Liuyun decisively released the blood-colored bat from the Hundred-Refined Soul Banner to attack the beast's soul.

The beast's soul power was actually comparable to that of the blood-colored bat, making them evenly matched.

Ye Liuyun dared not release his own soul or the ghost butterfly's soul to assist, fearing the aftermath of their battle would harm him.

The magic vine also urgently sent a distress signal; the vines it had just grown were corroded away again.

In the crisis, Ye Liuyun immediately took out a venerable-tier weapon and struck the Mourning Bell.

"Boom!"

Ye Liuyun's powerful strike shattered the venerable-tier weapon directly.

Yet the Mourning Bell's toll resonated inside the beast's belly, shaking the souls of both the Cloud-Swallowing Beast and the blood-colored bat until they felt dizzy and nauseous.

Ye Liuyun seized the opportunity to drag both of them into his Yin-Yang Realm, then used the Mourning Bell to envelop the beast's soul.

Once the beast's soul was shrouded, the corrosive ability of the mist in its belly noticeably decreased.

Seizing the chance, the magic vine grew vines to explore, quickly locating the beast's belly wall; the giant maw at the vine's tip tore off a chunk of the stomach wall in one bite.

Afterwards, several vines together gripped the stomach wall and pulled Ye Liuyun's group's shield over.

The vines dug while pulling the shield into the stomach wall, temporarily settling it there.

"Phew!" Ye Liuyun also exhaled. "Finally safe!"

Their position had already entered the beast's flesh; even if the beast recovered, it wouldn't dissolve them.

"Boom!"

The Mourning Bell was struck.

Within Ye Liuyun's Yin-Yang Realm, the Cloud-Swallowing Beast was trapped inside the Mourning Bell; it tried to suck the bell in, but found it couldn't be moved at all.

After turning a few circles, it couldn't hold back and rang the Mourning Bell loudly, which stunned itself again—saving Ye Liuyun the trouble of acting.

He had originally planned to join forces with the blood-colored bat to subdue it together!

Ye Liuyun immediately opened the Mourning Bell, implanted a slave seal on the Cloud-Swallowing Beast, then retrieved the bat's yin soul into the Soul Banner to let it recuperate.

After the beast woke up, Ye Liuyun ordered it to temporarily halt the mist in its belly, allowing the magic vine to crawl out of its mouth.

Immediately, the beast opened its huge mouth and began to spray mist.

Strangely, the mist sprayed from its mouth had no corrosiveness.

Ye Liuyun collected the magic vine's seeds and questioned the beast, learning that its belly retains all corrosive components, maintaining their concentration to digest what it swallows.

The mist it sprays, due to its high concentration of various substances and greater density, can shield against divine sense and golden pupil scrutiny.

"It seems this Cloud-Swallowing Beast, aside from swallowing things, isn't much use otherwise!" Ye Liuyun thought to himself.

But after all, it is a sixth-layer Life and Death Realm ferocious beast; Ye Liuyun still decided to temporarily keep it, at least on the battlefield its advantages are quite clear.

"What resource are you protecting?" Ye Liuyun asked again the question he cared about most.

"It's the Primordial Power of this Secret Realm!" the Swallow Cloud Beast replied cautiously.

It was marked by Ye Liuyun with a Slave Seal, felt very resentful, yet could not defy Ye Liuyun's will, could not lie.

This Primordial Power is the energy he cultivates. If it were spoken of, it would likely go to Ye Liuyun.

"Give it to me!"

Sure enough, Ye Liuyun gave it no courtesy and snatched it up directly.

a thousand shoes all together sigh