Hearing the leader's stern tone, the black-robed man behind him quickly bent down in a panic and said, "Please forgive me, sir. I will go and tell them to release all the monsters."
After hearing his answer, the leader said with satisfaction, "Very good, as long as it can cause trouble to the people inside, you can put it in to prevent them from escaping.
After all, we don't expect to rely on these monsters to kill them all. We just need to delay until the gate of the underground fire opens. By then, the entire maze will be swallowed by the underground fire, and we can then launch a large formation to devour their souls.
It's just a pity that their essence, blood and spiritual energy will be turned into smoke and dust under the burning of the earth fire, and we won't be able to collect them."
As he spoke, he waved to the black-robed man who had spoken earlier, indicating that he could leave.
After the black-robed man left, another black-robed man beside the leader said, "Sir, don't feel sorry for the blood and spirit energy. We have other plans in progress at the same time. We will soon be able to collect enough blood and spirit energy. This year's mission should be completed smoothly."
Hearing his words, the black-robed leader nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well, well done, after this matter is settled, we can also leave Shanhai County.
This place is very remote, and it's not as comfortable as living in the East.
All right, hurry up and prepare to activate the Earth Fire Gate, and then start the formation to collect souls."
After hearing his order, the other two men in black robes responded respectfully, then turned and left the cliff.
The only person left on the mountain was the black-robed leader, who was still silently looking in the direction of the maze cave. The brim of his long robe and cloak hid his face in the darkness, so his features and expression could not be seen clearly, making him look extremely mysterious.
In the maze cave, Ye Li and his four companions went all the way deep into the cave. Along the way, they encountered several attacks from monsters, including underground monsters that lived in the maze cave and ordinary monsters that entered from the outside world.
After killing the monsters that entered from the outside world, Ye Li discovered that after death, they indeed exuded a trace of faint soul power.
If he couldn't see this aura directly, even Ye Wujin wouldn't be able to detect it at all just by feeling.
From then on, Ye Li finally confirmed that this incident was not ordinary and that there was the shadow of a mysterious organization behind it.
There are now two types of monsters in the maze. The monsters living underground are not controlled by the power of soul, while the monsters that come in from the outside are all controlled by the power of soul.
The monsters from the outside world will not attack anything except humans. Even if attacked by underground monsters, they will not fight back. It seems that they can only see humans with their eyes.
However, although Ye Li and his four companions encountered many monsters, fortunately, none of them were particularly powerful. And because the maze cave was located on the edge of the Monster Mountain Range, the strongest monsters in it were only at the Deification Stage. As long as they did not encounter too many at once, they would not be in any danger.
After the five people carefully turned a bend, another fork in the road appeared in front of them, and seven or eight broken bodies were lying next to it.
After taking a look at the corpses, the five of them frowned slightly. Ye Wujin said, "This is the fifth pile of corpses we have encountered. It seems that many people have died here."
Elder Shan nodded and said, "If Ye Li's guess is correct, then this incident was premeditated. With deliberate planning and calculation, there will definitely be a large number of casualties.
I think if we find the hunting team, we must leave here immediately, no matter if there are earth unicorns or not, we can't stay any longer."
Hearing his words, Ye Wujin frowned even more and said, "It would be great if Fourth Brother is willing to listen to my advice. I'm afraid he is too stubborn and believes that there will be a miracle in a crisis, so he insists on rushing to his death.
Alas, it is superfluous for us to say anything now, we can only do it after we find them first."
Ye Li is just a junior, so it is not convenient for him to interrupt in many matters.
However, ever since Tunri woke up from his state of meditation, they have been talking in secret.
"Senior Tunri, what did you mean when you said this is the Gate of Earth Fire?"
While Ye Li followed Ye Wujin and the other three and chose a fork in the road to go deeper, he began to communicate with Tunri in the sea of consciousness.
“The Gate of Earth Fire is the channel for the power of Earth Fire to be released. There are many such places in the world.
Judging from the density of underground monsters here, it has been a long time since the underground fire erupted, and this place can be regarded as a closed underground fire gate.
But now I can feel that there seems to be an extremely powerful fire force gathering underground. Could it be that the underground fire gate here is about to open again?"
Tunri said to Ye Li with a puzzled look in his eyes.
After hearing what Tunri said, Ye Li became even more confused and asked, "Senior Tunri, what would happen if the Earth Fire Gate was opened?"
Hearing Ye Li's words, Tunri rolled his eyes in a very human way and said, "What else can we do? Of course, the underground magma will gush out and engulf the entire underground cave.
There are even powerful streams of fire that will spray from the ground into the air, making a large area around it extremely hot.
However, even if the underground fire gate is to be opened, it will take a long time to accumulate the power of the underground fire. According to my feeling, the underground fire here will not erupt in a short time. "
Hearing Tunri's words, Ye Li nodded gently and said, "That's good. After all, we are all in the maze cave now. If the underground fire gate is opened, no one can escape."
Tun Ri said: "Of course, although the Liuyanyan Furnace can avoid flames, when the underground fire erupts, the magma will impact these caves at a very fast speed. Even if you are not burned to death, you will be smashed to pieces by the powerful impact force.
I only let you go deeper because I didn’t sense any danger, otherwise I would have made you leave immediately.”
While they were talking, the sudden sounds of fierce fighting and the roars of monsters coming from a cave hall in front of them made the five of them pause.
Ye Li also withdrew his attention from the sea of consciousness and looked vigilantly towards the cave hall not far away.
In addition to the light from the crystal lamps in the cave hall, there is also the shining light of talismans during battle, making the originally dark cave very bright.
After the five people looked at each other, Ye Wujin said: "From the fluctuations of the spell, the combatants are not very strong. It seems that only one person has reached the Lingdan stage, and most of the fluctuations are still only at the Lingwu stage.
That means the monsters they fight won’t be too strong. We can go over and take a look.
If we can rescue them, we will do so. After all, what happened here has been proven to be a conspiracy. If we can gather more manpower, we will be more capable of dealing with danger."