When Zhong Yue saw that his thoughts were exposed, the expression on his face became extremely ugly, and his eyes were full of resentment when he looked at Ye Li.
Ye Li didn't care what Zhong Yue thought. They were already competitors now, so there was no reason for him to help the other party hide his thoughts.
"Hahaha, Zhong Yue, I told you long ago that you are not a good person. Fortunately, this brother from the Ye family saw through your thoughts, otherwise we would have been tricked by you for no reason."
Ma Mengji laughed as he looked at Zhong Yue's gloomy face. Anything that could make Zhong Yue unhappy would make him feel happy.
Cao Wenhou and Cao Wende, with honest faces, looked at Zhong Yue with contempt, but looked at Ye Li with admiration.
His younger brother Cao Wende couldn't help but praise him: "As expected, Ye Li is the number one of the younger generation of the Ye family. We can..."
Before he could finish his words, his brother Cao Wenhou grabbed him hard and stopped him from continuing with his eyes.
Everyone else had basically heard of Ye Li's name, after all, he was the champion of the Ye family competition. They just had never seen him in person. Now that they suddenly knew his identity, and thinking about Ye Li's performance when he just exposed the other party, everyone else's eyes turned towards Ye Li with extreme vigilance.
In a competitive relationship, an opponent who is both superior in intelligence and strength will definitely be feared.
After Cao Wenhou stopped Cao Wende from speaking, he quickly said to Ye Li with a guilty look on his face: "Brother Ye, I'm really sorry, my brother is not very sensible."
Ye Li also felt that everyone's attitude towards him suddenly changed, and he secretly thought that something was wrong.
However, when he saw the guilty look on Cao Wenhou's face and the confused look on Cao Wende's face, he really couldn't blame them for being too talkative. After all, the three of them were secretly in an offensive and defensive alliance.
So he could only shake his head and said, "It doesn't matter. My identity is not a secret."
After the twelve people had their own thoughts and calculations, they finally stepped into the lair of the Crystal-Eyed Ape.
The cave where the Crystal-Eyed Ape was located was very spacious. The twelve people walked in two rows, front and back, and it did not seem crowded.
Ye Li walked in the first row, accompanied by two people from the Zhong family, one person from the Zhang family, Cao Wenhou and Ma Mengji.
The light in the cave passage was very dim, so everyone took out small rune lamps for use in the wild and hung them on their bodies for lighting.
The group went deep into the cave for a while. After turning a few corners, they finally heard a series of beast roars from deeper inside the cave. It seemed that the Crystal-Eyed Treasure Ape had already noticed their arrival.
Everyone cast defensive spells on themselves, and Ye Li also released the spirit bell and light body talismans in advance.
"Everyone, from the sound, there are quite a few Crystal-Eyed Treasure Apes in there. Let's speed up. Fighting in the cave passage will not be good for us.
As far as I know, Crystal-Eyed Ape likes to live in a spacious environment, so there must be a cave suitable for fighting inside. "
The thin and dark young man from the Luo family spoke.
After everyone nodded, they quickened their pace and walked forward.
Ten breaths later, after turning the last corner, a huge and bright cave hall appeared in front of everyone.
There is a large hollow hole in the upper part of the cave hall, through which the sunlight from outside can shine directly in, and everyone can clearly see everything in the cave.
Just as everyone appeared at the entrance of the cave hall, bursts of angry beast roars rang out in the cave hall, and nine giant apes with silver-white fur and eyes as clear as crystal appeared in front of everyone.
Facing Ye Li and his group of uninvited guests, the giant apes roared, stretched out their strong arms and began beating their chests, revealing their sharp fangs.
"Damn it, there are actually nine crystal-eyed apes. You all must fight with all your strength. Otherwise, let alone treasures, it will be a problem whether you can get out safely."
Zhong Yue showed a serious look on his face. The Crystal-Eyed Treasure Ape was a monster beast from the early to late Spiritual Mist period. Although they outnumbered the monster beasts, they might not be able to get an easy win.
There was no need for him to remind them, as everyone had already entered combat mode and started drawing talismans immediately.
The Crystal-Eyed Treasure Ape is a demon beast belonging to the earth and wood elements. As it roared, it released its demonic power, which condensed into a thick armor made of earth and stone on its body.
The ape-like monster was very intelligent. After building up its defense, it actually released its wood-type magic power to construct spiritual vines out of thin air, which surrounded everyone.
And their real bodies, taking advantage of the cover of vines, rushed towards the crowd.
Seeing the monsters' coordinated movements, they must be used to fighting in groups. Zhong Yue hurriedly shouted in the crowd, "The monsters can fight in groups, so we should join forces to fight. Those with fire talisman roots should burn the vines first, and the earth and wood elements should prepare defenses to block the monsters' attacks."
Ye Li had already released the Flowing Flame Talisman in his hand, and the raging flames rushed towards the evil vines released by the Crystal-Eyed Treasure Ape like flowing water.
His own strength had reached the late stage of the Spiritual Mist Period, and the Heaven-level Flowing Flame Talisman was incredibly powerful. Coupled with the attribute restraint, he actually destroyed most of the evil vines in the row in front of him with just one talisman.
One of the two talisman masters from the Zhang family in the team also had a fire talisman root. The talisman he released spewed out a pillar of fire as thick as a person, which burned towards the vines that were rolling over.
Other talisman masters who possessed two rows of talisman roots, earth and wood, released a series of earth walls, ground spikes, and thorny vines to temporarily block the monster's charge.
The monsters had amazing physical strength. Under the protection of their earth and stone armor, they were not easily injured. They quickly broke through the first wave of spells cast by the crowd with the impact of their bodies.
However, everyone also cast a second wave of talismans at this time. Ye Li maintained the Flowing Flame Talisman to continuously burn the surrounding demonic vines, while drawing out one explosive talisman after another to bombard the Crystal-Eyed Treasure Ape.
He did not use the technique of concentrating the talisman to transform into another form. After all, the Flowing Flame Talisman was needed to resist the invasion of the vines, so he could only use a simple Explosive Talisman to attack.
Even so, relying on the power of the heavenly-level talisman, the explosive talisman he released still blew away many Crystal-Eyed Treasure Apes.
After all, humans are more intelligent creatures. After a brief period of adjustment, they immediately entered into teamwork mode.
Ye Li and another member of the Zhang family were mainly responsible for resisting the continuously influx of vines, and occasionally harassing the monsters.
The two brothers of the Cao family and Zhong Yue were responsible for building earth walls, earth escape techniques, swamps, stalagmites, etc. to defend against and delay the attack of the Crystal-Eyed Treasure Ape.
The remaining people all had the Gold Root Talisman, so they were all responsible for the attack. For a moment, the Gold Talisman made a sharp cutting sound, echoing throughout the cave hall.
The earth and stone armor on the Crystal-Eyed Treasure Ape's body was quickly shattered by the cutting and slashing of the Gold talisman, and wounds of varying depths began to appear on its fur.
If they had fought separately in this battle, it would have been difficult for them to gain an advantage. However, in this kind of coordinated combat, humans' ability to cooperate clearly had an absolute advantage and quickly crushed the Crystal-Eyed Ape's fighting spirit.