Braised Dragon with Soy Sauce

Those running at the forefront are naturally the magical beasts that excel in speed and have lower magic power levels.

Although monsters are much stronger than ordinary wild beasts, the monster world is still a place where the strong prey on the weak.

Those who are weaker must first learn how to escape in order to survive, just as ordinary herbivores are born to be excellent runners.

In a short while, the surging tide of beasts approached the area of ​​the Cliff of Self-Sacrifice, and the earth began to tremble violently, the sky and earth changing color.

The air currents stirred up by the running beasts formed a hurricane, and suddenly a strong wind arose, with sand and stones flying everywhere.

The demonic beasts left a trail of destruction in their wake. Apart from a few giant trees that would take forty or fifty people to encircle and still stood precariously, all the other trees, vines, exotic flowers and plants were trampled into mud along with the demonic beasts' corpses.

The ancient, hard rock walls on both sides of the canyon were shattered by the impact, and sand and stones flew everywhere.

Dugu Xian and Li Mubai, who were keeping watch ahead, turned pale and were thrown into chaos when they saw what was happening before them.

Especially Li Mubai, if Dugu Xian hadn't reacted quickly and pulled him back, he would have almost lost his balance and fallen from mid-air.

Looking at the scene before them, the two suddenly realized how naive their previous idea of ​​preventing the monsters from entering Yishi Valley had been.

There's no need to overthink it; this situation is simply beyond the capabilities of just a few dozen people. Only someone among them with the extraordinary ability to move mountains and fill seas could even attempt it.

With the monster so close, escaping unscathed was no longer a realistic possibility.

The two had no choice but to quickly return to where everyone was lying in ambush, gather them together, and quickly huddle behind the rocks below the Fire Cloud Cave to hide, hoping to escape this calamity by relying on the two natural barriers of the cold pool and the hot spring in front of them.

The old men quickly gathered under a boulder and surrounded the two children tightly in the middle.

Before the people on the outermost edge could even activate their inner energy for defense, a sandstorm carrying the demonic beast, thick with the stench of blood, rushed towards them.

Although the icy pool at the very front is a forbidden zone feared by most magical beasts, and all the magical beasts that pass by try to avoid it, some magical beasts are still involuntarily bumped into it and instantly turned into ice sculptures.

Just as the first monster was frozen into an ice sculpture, the second monster immediately followed and smashed it into ice shards, which splashed into the pool. Then the second monster took its place and was frozen into an ice sculpture once more.

As one after another, living ice sculptures of magical beasts formed, and were then quickly smashed and fell into the pool, the water level in the pool rose rapidly. The surface of the pool seemed to boil, producing a large amount of water vapor and frost, which shrouded the cold pool in the air...

"Shi Potian, you lead all the earth-attribute cultivators to quickly build a spiritual energy defensive wall around the perimeter."

Zhang Tieqiao, you and the fire-attribute Xuan practitioners are next;

Mo Wen, you and those with the wood attribute are next; He Sheng and Huang Rongrong, you lead the others to form a five-element cyclical defensive formation! That cold pool will soon be destroyed, the hot spring will be useless, and the demonic beasts will probably rush over soon. Next, we will directly face the demonic beasts' onslaught!

Fortunately, the monsters were just fleeing for their lives and weren't coming for us.

Even so, the impact from Warcraft will still pose a great threat to us.

Especially the high-level magical beasts later on, and those... sigh..."

Dugu Xian did not continue speaking. Instead, he and Li Mubai went to the top of the rock closest to the two children and sat down with their eyes closed.

At this moment, everyone had tacitly taken their positions and activated their profound skills. No one objected to the arrangement made by the two of them.

"Boom, bang, bang..."

With each loud bang, colorful "fireworks" burst forth from the golden defensive shield formed by the crowd.

In the constant clash of magic, one magical beast after another turned into bits of flesh and blood mist, which drifted away in the turbulent dust storm.

A massive protective shield of profound energy, composed of dozens of people, stood like a huge, thick, and unbreakable wall of copper and iron, protecting everyone.

Despite the howling of ghosts and wolves outside the barrier, the continuous wailing of demonic beasts, and the thunderous explosions of profound energy that rammed, trampled, and tore apart the demonic beasts with devastating force.

But inside the shield, all was peaceful, without the slightest noise, demonstrating its strong defensive capabilities.

However, as time went on, more and more magical beasts collided with the defensive shield, and the level of magic power also increased, making the explosions more and more powerful.

The seemingly impregnable defensive shield began to become unstable, its color sometimes fading and sometimes vibrating slightly.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on everyone's foreheads. Although the defensive shield formed by multiple people had amazing defensive power and was almost perfect, maintaining the stability of the shield required everyone to continuously output their profound spiritual energy.

Time is the greatest enemy. The prolonged output of spiritual energy has left everyone exhausted and unable to sustain it.

There's no need to go all out to defend against the monsters' attacks. We can divide into two or three groups and have everyone take turns defending, which will extend the defense time as much as possible.

However, due to a wrong decision at the time, they naively believed that they could stop tens of thousands of monsters outside the pass with the strength of a few dozen people.

What was originally a natural barrier to stop the monsters has now become the most dangerous target.

After squeezing through the narrow pass, the monsters scattered like a flood bursting its banks.

At first, there was a thick rock wall blocking their way, but after being rammed by countless exploding monsters, a huge gap was blasted into the hard rock, making the people hiding behind it the target of everyone's attacks.

The intense impact forced everyone to fight with all their might to withstand the monster's desperate attack.

It should be noted that even the lowest-level magical beast's explosion will generate power several times higher than its original magical power level.

If you are at the epicenter of the explosion, even if your magic level is one or two levels higher, you will hardly escape unscathed; even those three levels or more higher will be affected.

Normally, neither monsters nor humans would easily resort to such an extreme method as exploding their bodies in a desperate gamble.

Unless one is in a state of extreme fear and death, or when one's mind is in such a state of hysteria and out of control, and there is no hope of survival, one would adopt such an extreme attack method with the mindset of taking the enemy down with them.

The fleeing monsters are currently in a berserk state, their fear of the central region reaching its peak, causing them to completely lose control. Escaping that area has become their only hope for survival.

Therefore, in such an out-of-control situation, they will easily regard any obstacle in their path as a mortal enemy, and a desperate fight becomes their first choice.

The Five Elements Cycle Defense Array is an extremely advanced defensive formation composed of five or more people with different spiritual attributes, combined according to the principles of the Five Elements' mutual generation and restraint.

The more people in the formation, the stronger the defense, and it provides excellent protection against magical attacks of all attributes. Moreover, this Five Elements Cyclic Defense Array has another significant characteristic: compared to other defense arrays, it can be maintained for a longer period of time and consumes less spiritual energy.

This super defensive formation, composed of multiple people, was already an abnormal entity; in normal confrontations, it would be invincible.

But then they encountered a once-in-a-millennium monster horde.

Protected in the center of the crowd, Mo Yuming, being short, was not very clear about the situation outside. However, from the occasional glimpses he saw through the gaps in the crowd and the expressions on everyone's faces, he could tell that the situation outside was not optimistic.

But everyone around him was engaged in battle and couldn't be disturbed. Mo Yuming was eager to know what was going on, but he didn't know how to ask.

Just as they were wondering who to ask, they heard the old man's voice.

"If you get bored, you can join the battle pool and fight with everyone. I can teach you how to do it!"

"I……"

Mo Yuming raised his head, about to speak, but found that his voice could not be heard from the array.

"The defensive array cannot transmit sound. You need to use a secret voice transmission technique to talk to me."

To use this technique, one must first calm the mind and concentrate the spirit, and then let the mind follow the thought…

Under Dugu Xian's guidance, Mo Yuming honed his skills at the last minute, and after several practice sessions, he was only able to produce a few sounds, albeit half-baked.

Just like a child learning to speak, although it is difficult to express what they want to say fluently and accurately, and the message cannot be conveyed far, simple communication is no longer a problem.

With a few more practice sessions, Mo Yuming will be able to use this sound transmission technique smoothly.

"Grandpa Dugu, since we can't stop the monsters from entering Yishi Valley, wouldn't it be better for us to leave sooner rather than waste time fighting them here?"

After a conversation with Old Man Dugu, Mo Yuming learned that the current situation was not optimistic, and asked in confusion.

"Alas, we also wish we could leave, but it's too late now that we're entangled with the monsters, and in this narrowest part of the terrain, there's simply no room to escape."

Moreover, this defensive formation cannot be moved. Once we move, the defensive formation formed by everyone will collapse, and then it will be very difficult for each of us to fight against the monsters in their frenzied state with our individual strength.

Even if some people manage to escape, it's estimated that at least half of them won't make it.

It's better for everyone to stay together and leave it to fate.

Although we've all been through life and death together, we've been together for so long, and losing either of us would be painful.

"Since we can't escape, can't we at least hide in the Fire Cloud Cave?"

Mo Yuming couldn't understand it. Huoyun Cave was so close, and the cave was so spacious that it could easily accommodate a mere few dozen people.

It's a good place to hide from monsters, I don't know why everyone doesn't hide inside the cave.

"Fire Cloud Cave is a forbidden area. The fire clouds inside are extremely poisonous and unbearably hot. Even fire-attribute magical beasts dare not approach it."

"Going in there would be suicide!"

Mo Yuming almost choked on his food after hearing this. What kind of Fire Cloud Poison was this? It was just sulfur-containing, high-temperature smoke erupting from underground magma. Moreover, it was an intermittent eruption, and only one of the branch caves connected to the magma cave was emitting smoke. As long as you avoided that cave entrance, the other caves inside were perfectly safe.

As for why the magical beasts dared not approach, it was most likely because of the magical beast with the collar among them.

With that divine beast-like existence, what daring magical beast would dare to approach?

However, the monster didn't harm anyone. It seems these old men have been wasting their time in this canyon for hundreds of years.

Illiteracy is truly a killer; it seems that you can't do without any scientific knowledge!

"Grandpa, Fire Cloud Cave is very safe. There's no poisonous smoke inside. I've already been inside and checked. It's true! I'm not lying to you. We went in a few days ago."

"If you don't believe me, ask Xinlan."

Mo Yuming's words were undoubtedly a bombshell, exploding in the old man Dugu's mind.

He never imagined that a ten-year-old child would dare to take such a big risk to enter the Fire Cloud Cave.

Even a powerful figure like him would keep his distance from the choking fumes and dare not approach rashly.

He was truly a young calf unafraid of tigers; who dared to do such a thing on his behalf! Old Man Dugu was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses.

"You mean it's safe inside the cave because there's no smoke?"

The old man, Dugu, could not contain his excitement, and his voice trembled slightly as he asked the question.

He no longer had the mind to consider why Mo Yuming had ventured into the Fire Cloud Cave, nor did he have time to ask him what he had seen inside.