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Chapter 136 Ghost Howling Valley

Yingxiang looked at Li Youan, who was lying on the ground, breathing weakly, unable to resist, and about to faint completely.

Thinking of the entire Thirteenth Squad that had already led the team to escape, Ying Xiang quickly weighed the options in his mind. Although he also hated Li Youan, what angered him even more were the rest of the Thirteenth Squad.

Because of the injuries he sustained, and the fact that most of his underlings died not at the hands of Li Youan, but at the hands of Luo Jingshan, Qi Xuan, He Xiaoluo, and others.

Especially Qi Xuan and He Xiaoluo, these two have killed the most eagle demons, and now there are only a few true spirit realm eagle demons left in his clan.

"Alright, let's do it this way, Brother Hou!"

After a quick thought, Yingxiang nodded, but the killing intent in his eyes did not diminish.

"This junior human array master will be left to Brother Hou to handle. We must give him a good welcome and make him wish he were dead."

After speaking to the monkey, Ying Xiang looked at the other monsters standing around the arena.

"How are you all feeling now? How are your injuries? Can you still move?"

Upon hearing Ying Xiang's question, the Golden Armored Unicorn Lizard and the other four True Spirit Realm demon beasts, despite having suffered numerous injuries and a significant drop in strength, quickly assured him that they were fine and ready to carry out the subsequent mission arrangements at any time.

"In that case, you come with me and hunt them down. Letting them go like this is too lenient."

As Ying Xiang spoke, he spread his wings and soared into the sky, though he looked a little unsteady.

But they still rushed towards the southeast, in the direction where Luo Jingshan and the others had retreated.

The leader of the Golden Armored Unicorn Lizard, along with two monkey demons, an eagle demon, and a shadow leopard, also endured their injuries and followed behind Ying Xiang, flying forward as well. Soon, the group disappeared into the Ten Thousand Demon Forest in the southeast.

Monkey didn't stop them, but he wasn't optimistic that Eagle could catch up. If the humans tried their best to escape, it wouldn't be easy to catch them.

However, this is the Ten Thousand Demon Forest, their home ground, so I believe Eagle Soar won't have any problems. Let him be.

Monkey King didn't look in the direction the Yingxiang and the other demonic beasts had left. Instead, he turned around and walked towards Li Youan. He then forcefully ripped off the breastplate on Li Youan's chest, which was now dim and cracked.

"Snapped!"

The breastplate shattered completely, and the milky white light dissipated entirely.

Monkey King took the broken mirror, examined it carefully, and then casually threw the completely damaged magic weapon on the ground.

Monkey looked at Li Youan on the ground, and casually picked her up like a chick. The unconscious Li Youan, whose breathing was extremely weak, was easily lifted up and carried on his broad, wall-like shoulders.

Then, its eyes, which had regained their orange-yellow color, scanned the battlefield it had been searching for for so long. The battlefield was now littered with corpses, blood and flesh flying everywhere, a scene of utter devastation.

Thinking of the heavy casualties and enormous losses suffered by his side of the demon beasts, Monkey was extremely angry.

Looking down at Li Youan on his shoulder, Hou Da seemed to have thought of something, his eyes revealing a hint of expectation, and something else.

"You little brat, your life now belongs to me. I hope your worth makes me feel that keeping your worthless life is worthwhile, otherwise you'll be begging for death."

After saying that, Monkey King said no more and had no desire to stay on this battlefield that had saddened him. Carrying Li Youan, he did not choose to fly, but instead strode away slowly in the northwest, in the opposite direction from the southeast, towards Ghost Howling Gorge.

Monkey's imposing figure quickly merged into the dense gray-green miasma, slowly turning into a black dot before finally disappearing.

The remaining demon beasts exchanged glances and hurriedly followed Monkey King away. They didn't clean up the battlefield at all, as demon beasts don't have the habit of cleaning up battlefields.

The battlefield in the miasma valley gradually returned to its previous deathly silence.

If it weren't for the lingering, overwhelming stench of blood in the air, the spirit stone powder floating in the air, and the remains of the demonic beast on the ground, no one would have noticed the anomaly in this place.

Only these things silently tell the story of the extremely brutal battle that just took place in this place, a battle that changed the fate of countless people.

In the long-windless Miasma Valley, a gentle breeze blew through the valley entrance, stirring up the blood mist and ashes of the spirit stones in the air, creating a "whooshing" sound that echoed through the valley for a long time.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Youan felt as if his consciousness was floating up and down in the cold seawater, unable to see the light above or touch the hard seabed.

He drifted like this for a long time. Although Li Youan could sense the existence of his limbs, his limbs were unable to make corresponding movements according to his thoughts.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Youan felt himself crash into the seabed.

Then, excruciating pain spread from all over his body, especially in his shoulder, where the wound that ran from front to back felt like it was on fire. With each breath, the rise and fall of his chest pulled at the wound, bringing a tearing pain.

As his physical sensations became clearer, Li Youan felt as if he were being repeatedly pierced by countless red-hot thin iron wires. There was no vital energy in his meridians, leaving them empty. But upon closer inspection, it felt as if his meridians were filled with sticky mud and sand. Even the slightest movement of his cultivation technique caused excruciating pain, like having his bones scraped.

He tried to open his eyes, but his double eyelids were like heavy stones, and he couldn't lift them. After trying hundreds of times, he finally managed to do so.

Li Youan finally lifted her heavy eyelids, but her vision was blurry and she felt only darkness. It took a long time for her to focus and regain her sight.

The first thing that caught Li Youan's eye was the rough, moss-covered, and claw-marked rock dome, made by some unknown monster.

With a slight twitch of his nostrils, Li Youan could smell an extremely strong, fishy, ​​and rotting stench in the air.

Upon closer inspection, one can discover that there is also an indescribable aura in the air, but it is a unique aura originating from the demonic beast.

The space where Li Youan was currently located was extremely dimly lit.

Only at the very top of the rocky dome that first came into view were a few holes, roughly the size of a fist, but Li Youan couldn't tell whether they were naturally formed or carved out later.

A few extremely faint rays of light, of unknown origin, pierced through the hole, allowing him to barely make out the general outlines of his surroundings.

He was now in a cave, a huge, dark, damp, and foul-smelling cave.

Li Youan tried to move her body and immediately felt that she was restrained.

He looked down and found himself leaning against a cold stone wall.

His wrists and ankles were firmly bound by several rough and exceptionally tough dark green vines.

These vines were no ordinary plants. To Li Youan, they were not only extremely cold, but also covered with a layer of fine thorns that pricked his skin.

Although these small thorns did not cause him any pain, Li Youan sensed that they were inhibiting the flow of vital energy within his body.

Li Youan tried to mobilize the last bit of vital energy in his body, and immediately felt a needle-like stinging pain coming from the places where his body was connected to the vines. The vital energy in his meridians was frozen as if by ice, and could not flow at all.

Li Youan was just about to test whether the [Seed of Longevity] in his dantian would be effective when he was startled awake by a voice beside him, "There's someone else?!"

"Don't waste your energy, it's useless and will only make you hurt more."

A hoarse, dry, and low voice, filled with deep weariness and pain, came from the shadows to his right.

Li Youan was startled by the sound. He quickly turned his head and looked with difficulty in the direction of the sound.

He had now adapted to the dark environment of the cave. With the help of the extremely faint light, Li Youan saw two figures huddled in the shadows.

The speaker was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties or fifties, but if he was a cultivator, it would be impossible to determine his exact age.

The man's clothes were extremely tattered, and his face was pale and bloodless. Through the gaps in his tattered clothes, one could see many old and fresh wounds on his body.

The man's aura was extremely weak. Judging from the cultivation level he revealed, Li Youan estimated that he was only at the third or fourth level of the Kaiyuan Realm, and that it was extremely unstable and might even decline further.

Beside this man, another figure was huddled in a deeper corner, which Li Youan could not see clearly. However, judging from his face, he seemed to be a younger cultivator, whose aura was even weaker, and whose life force seemed to be about to be extinguished.

"This is the Spirit-Locking Vine," a plant unique to the demon race, specifically used to combat cultivators or demonic beasts.

"Once someone is trapped by this Spirit-Locking Vine, not only will their energy circulation be more than ten times slower than usual, but the more the target struggles, the tighter the vine will tighten. Moreover, the small thorns on the surface of the vine will release a paralyzing toxin, causing the target to become neurasthenic and weak."

The middle-aged man's eyes were devoid of any emotion, utterly numb. He explained weakly, as if these few words had drained all the strength from his body. After catching his breath a few more times, he continued.

"Judging from your injuries, you're badly wounded. How did you end up in the hands of these monkey demons? Your cultivation level doesn't seem very high either."

Li Youan did not rush to answer, because he remembered what his master had told him before: except for teammates he highly respected, he should be very careful with others.

All living beings, whether they are demonic beasts or human cultivators, must devote their utmost energy to dealing with this.

Li Youan had fully adapted to the dim light and continued to observe the environment inside the cave.

The cave was extremely large and very spacious. Besides the three human cultivators, there were several piles of dry grass and some skeletons further away by the wall.

But these skeletons belong to both humans and demonic beasts, and the stench in the cave comes from there.

Apart from the unknown source of light in the sky, there was only one entrance and exit in the entire cave.

The entrance was blocked by a huge, rough stone pillar that would take five or six people to encircle. Faintly visible, extremely rudimentary patterns of primordial energy flickered on the pillar, indicating that it had been subjected to some simple seals.

In the entire cave, apart from Li Youan and his two human prisoners, Li Youan did not find any guarding monsters.

However, Li Youan could faintly hear some extremely noisy roars and howls coming from outside the stone pillar, mixed with some sounds of stones being struck.

This should be the lair of that monkey demon or that eagle demon, but Li Youan didn't know the exact location.

Li Youan swayed slightly and found that she had nothing left on her except her clothes.

The few bottles of pills he had brought with him were all gone. Fortunately, during the battle, he didn't need the Bloodthirsty Spear because he had to set up an array, and it would have been cumbersome to carry around, so Li Youan had put the Bloodthirsty Whip back into his Heavenly Pivot Ring beforehand; otherwise, his losses would have been much greater.

At this moment, the Heavenly Pivot Ring had completely merged with his finger, and unless he lost his life, no outsider could detect it.

"Our team was ambushed by this group of monsters. We were injured and unconscious, and then we were captured by them."

Li Youan gave a brief, evasive answer to the man's question, deliberately making her voice extremely hoarse and dry, as if her throat had been slashed by a knife.

He didn't reveal a single detail about his identity or the specifics of the battle. In this enemy's lair, even in a prison, caution was paramount.

"Do you know where I am? Was I captured by a monkey demon or an eagle demon?"

Without giving the man time to ask questions, Li Youan took a breath, her chest heaving, and continued to ask in a hoarse voice.

As Li Youan asked the questions, he secretly tried to move his fingers and sense his body's condition.

"This is the lair of those monkey demons, called Ghost Howl Gorge."

Sure enough, the man knew exactly where this place was.

Li Youan sensed that his body was in extremely bad shape. Not only were his injuries severe, but he had also lost too much blood and his vital energy was almost depleted from the battle. The Six Spirits Trapping Killing Array that he had forcibly controlled earlier was now causing his brain to feel as if it were being torn apart.

Moreover, he was now bound by the Spirit-Locking Vine, and his situation was extremely dangerous.

"An encounter?"

The middle-aged man gave a bitter laugh and continued.

It's rare to find a cultivator at the Kaiyuan Realm who can be captured alive and imprisoned in the Ghostly Jade Valley's food cave.

Those demonic beasts, once they capture a human cultivator, either kill them on the spot or tear them apart and eat them. It seems you have some special value.

Li Youan ignored the probing in the words and felt a sinking feeling in his heart.

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A food cave?

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