Going deeper into the cave in front of him, Ye Li finally began to smell the stench coming from deep within the cave.
This stench is indeed not like the salty smell of sea water, nor is it the fishy smell of a fishman, and it is even somewhat different from the stench of decay.
Generally speaking, this stench is very special. When Ye Li smelled it, he was reminded of the smell of the manure pits dug by the villagers in the village when he was a child.
Ye Li passed by the place where the previous sea apes were, and it was now empty. Except for the corpse of the sea ape whose soul was devoured by Ye Li, the other sea apes had long disappeared.
I think after these sea apes woke up and saw the bodies of their companions, they must have been very scared, and finally chose to flee the island and did not dare to stay here any longer.
Ye Li continued to go deeper into the cave. After passing through several winding cave passages, he finally came to the deepest part of the cave. He was now below sea level.
The stench here was so strong that Ye Li could no longer breathe. Even taking a breath made him feel dizzy.
While Ye Li held his breath, he even controlled the power of wind to form a thin film directly on the surface of his body. The air approaching him would be directly expelled to avoid making his clothes smell bad.
Ye Li took out the crystal lamp and shone it around. The environment here was a bit strange. The extremely damp rocks were covered with all kinds of tiny strange mushrooms.
The deeper they went, the bigger the mushrooms became, and in Ye Li's field of vision, a lot of brown feces began to appear on the ground around them.
Where these distinctions exist, mushrooms seem to be able to absorb sufficiently rich nutrients to allow them to grow to extremely large sizes.
Ye Li even vaguely saw a huge mushroom that was half a person's height. It was really shocking when viewed from a distance.
Unwilling to walk through the feces, Ye Li flew directly into the air. He could see a path in the feces area. There was no feces on the path. It looked like the path that the sea apes walked on when they came here.
There were no mushrooms on this path, but the surrounding area was filled with feces and covered with huge mushrooms.
These mushrooms had strange colors and were very twisted in shape. After searching his memory, Ye Li finally remembered something.
When he absorbed the souls of sea monkeys before, he had seen in the sea monkeys' memories that these sea monkeys seemed to be using these mushrooms as a means of controlling flying insects.
This kind of mushroom can make the flying insects outside listen to them, and the flying insects can continue to reproduce and grow by sucking these mushrooms.
After learning about the uses of these mushrooms, Ye Li also understood why the sea ape wanted to cultivate these mushrooms. It must be a preparation for the power of blood soul.
This kind of mushroom may only be able to grow here, so the sea apes turned the extremely humid area deep in the cave into a cesspool, allowing these mushrooms to grow freely here.
Their feces become nutrients for mushrooms, which can accelerate their growth.
Ye Li was suspended in the air, flying over the mushrooms, and quickly explored the front of the cave.
The area of this cesspool is not very large, and the amount of feces does not seem to be enough compared to the number of sea apes.
However, Ye Li immediately realized that these mushrooms would decompose and absorb a large amount of feces, so the amount of feces here would naturally not be too much.
If the sea ape that swallowed the elder of the Gu family had also defecated here, then there would definitely be traces of the ring in this area covered with mushrooms and feces.
However, Ye Li didn’t know which pair of feces the ring was in, and he certainly couldn’t search for it bit by bit in the feces.
After thinking for a while, the invisible fire on Ye Li's body began to burn, and a little bit of blurry red shadows spread out, burning towards the mushrooms and feces around him.
The mushrooms were instantly burned to ashes in the flames, and the feces also turned into ashes in the flames. Under Ye Li's control, the dust floated towards the depths of the cave.
Ye Li's body was protected by the power of wind, so no ashes would fall on him. This made him feel less disgusted.
Along the cave, Ye Li continuously released flames and breezes, sweeping the entire ground, and then moved towards the deepest part of the cave.
Soon, he cleared the entire identification area, and finally saw a ring shining with green light on the ground near the bottom of the cave.
In Ye Li's opinion, this ring must be a space talisman. Although the light on it is a little dim due to its age, this thing can withstand the burning of invisible fire and is obviously not an ordinary thing.
The moment he saw the ring, Ye Li's face showed an extremely excited smile. It seemed that his previous idea was indeed correct.
Ye Li fell from the suspended state, and all the feces and dust on the ground were blown away.
Ye Li wrapped his fingers in a ball of water power and stretched them towards the ring.
The power of water first wrapped around the ring, and the water began to rotate at high speed, instantly washing away the feces and dust on the ring.
When Ye Li picked up the ring, it had become as shiny as new.
However, Ye Li felt a little uncomfortable thinking that the ring had been immersed in feces all the time.
Restraining the awkward feeling in his heart, Ye Li picked up the ring and flew directly out of the cave.
There may be a lot of things in the ring. Even if Ye Li wants to find what he needs, it will take some time. He doesn't want to sit down and search in the environment just now. Even if the feces have been burned, Ye Li still doesn't think that area is a clean place.
After flying out of the cliff cave, Xiaoqing also flew to Ye Li's side.
"Ye Li, have you found the ring?"
Xiaoqing asked.
Ye Li took a deep breath of the air outside the cave and a smile appeared on his face.
He raised the ring on his hand and shook it towards Xiaoqing, saying, "We have the ring. Now we need to find a place to look through the contents. It may take another day or two."
Hearing this, Xiaoqing said, “There is a platform on the top of that hill over there, let’s go there.
I can also rest there, the platform is quite spacious.”
Ye Li nodded when he heard that, and then flew with Xiaoqing to the top of a small hill on the island.
There is indeed a treeless rock platform in the center of the hilltop, and the rocks here look like they have been moved and piled up by humans.
However, judging by the roughness of the placement of these rocks, it is obvious that they were made by sea apes. After all, if humans want to place a platform, it must appear quite flat. (To be continued)