Cave Demons Appear

Accompanied by that howl, rumbling tremors came from within the Great Tree Cave.

Even the Metamorphic Trees beside the Great Tree Cave were staggered by the shaking.

Fear inevitably appeared on their faces.

"Cave Demons!"

The Great Tree Cave was pitch-black, making it impossible to see the path, let alone discover the creatures lurking in its depths.

Gritting his teeth, the leader directed the Metamorphic Trees to carry the Cube into the Great Tree Cave.

Inside the Great Tree Cave, Mo Ling saw the familiar ring-shaped tree roots again. The Metamorphic Trees carefully carried the Cube downward.

It was exactly the same.

The structure inside the Great Tree Cave had not changed at all, except that the creatures embedded in the roots were gone.

Glowing mushrooms still covered the entire Great Tree Cave, their faint fluorescence guiding the way down.

These mushrooms looked utterly normal, with no twisted roots and no strange biological remains.

Nor did those grotesque riot creatures suddenly leap out from the corners.

Everything seemed so quiet.

The expressions of the Metamorphic Trees remained conflicted. They both longed for and feared the Great Tree Cave.

They constantly observed the wondrous scenery within the Great Tree Cave while warily guarding against their surroundings.

Long ago, every newly born Metamorphic Tree would muddle-headedly walk toward the depths of the Great Tree Cave. It was their destiny.

Even now, the Great Tree Cave still held an inexplicable attraction for these Metamorphic Trees.

"Careful! We've reached the area where Cave Demons appear!" the leader warned.

The Metamorphic Trees had clearly studied these natural enemies and knew the areas they frequented and their habits.

At the leader's words, all the Metamorphic Trees tensed up.

The leader straightened himself and said heavily, "According to the plan, are there any warriors now?"

Hearing this, Mo Ling suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Me!"

"Me!"

The Metamorphic Trees raised their hands eagerly, and the leader selected one of them.

The chosen Metamorphic Tree walked up to the Cube and touched it longingly.

Then he bid farewell to his companions and headed down beneath the roots alone.

He was bait!

Mo Ling once again marveled at the Metamorphic Trees' resolve to face death without fear.

At that moment, the small Tree Transformation Warrior seemed incomparably tall.

The warrior had not gone far when the familiar tremors returned.

A dark brown creature entered Mo Ling's field of vision.

Like a tadpole, it had an enormous head with no facial features above it, while a short tail trailed behind.

The creature sped through the walls of the Great Tree Cave. To it, the solid cave walls were like liquid.

It burrowed beside the Tree Transformation Warrior, suddenly broke through the cave wall, and leaped out.

Only then did Mo Ling clearly see its true appearance.

It turned out that while traveling through the roots earlier, the creature had been spinning at high speed the entire time.

Using the Spiral Shards on its body like a drill, it bored deeply into the cave wall.

Only after bursting out of the wall did it stop spinning.

That enormous head had merely been an illusion created by its rotation.

Its actual body was only a slender section, like a centipede. Once it stopped rotating, the short limbs on its body became clearly visible.

After the creature drilled out of the cave wall, the Spiral Shards on its body folded up like umbrellas.

Its short limbs planted firmly into the tree roots as it charged toward the Tree Transformation Warrior at high speed.

The warrior's eyes widened as he stood frozen in fear.

"The Cave Demon has appeared!" the Metamorphic Trees cried out.

So this was a Cave Demon. It truly was a peculiar life-form.

Mo Ling aimed at the Cave Demon and directly stripped its short limbs away along with the tree roots.

The Cave Demon, still charging at high speed, suddenly lost its support and fell to the ground before the warrior with a mournful howl.

Seeing this, the Metamorphic Trees cheered again.

The Tree Transformation Warrior was encouraged as well. Raising his weapon, he knocked the Cave Demon off the tree roots.

This sight excited the Metamorphic Trees even more.

However, the falling Cave Demon spread open its Spiral Shards in midair. As if blowing a horn, it sent out a long howl through the Spiral Shards, echoing throughout the Great Tree Cave.

Accompanied by that howl, responses began sounding within the Great Tree Cave. Countless Cave Demons roared, their cries reverberating through the cave.

The terrifying sounds made the Metamorphic Trees stop cheering.

After the roars ended, the entire Great Tree Cave fell into dead silence.

Mo Ling's expression grew grave as he remained alert.

Although he saw nothing, dull tremors kept coming from below.

Something was approaching!

Suddenly, a black shadow flickered through his vision.

More Cave Demons!

The tremors grew increasingly violent, and cracks began appearing across the cave walls. Dense swarms of Cave Demons entered Mo Ling's field of vision.

So many?

In his view, the cave walls were nearly filled with Cave Demons. They constantly darted through them, boring out twisted paths.

Though the Metamorphic Trees could not see what was happening inside the cave walls, they could all feel the violent tremors.

Shivering, they crowded around the Cube, raised their weapons, and guarded against their surroundings.

Mo Ling did not remain idle either. He began teleporting the Cave Demons within the cave walls.

He teleported faster and faster. Before these Cave Demons could even reach the cave wall, they had already turned into chunks of flesh.

Mo Ling also reused the stripped-off pieces of flesh, tossing them into the bodies of other Cave Demons.

Those Cave Demons that had been traveling normally suddenly stopped in agony, unable to move as Fresh Blood spilled from their bodies.

Even the occasional straggler that managed to drill out of the cave wall was already riddled with holes.

Though every Metamorphic Tree was trembling, they showed no mercy when attacking the Cave Demons.

These already wounded Cave Demons quickly fell beneath the Metamorphic Trees' combined assault.

Before long, the number of Cave Demons dwindled. The Metamorphic Trees sensed this too and struck even more fiercely to finish them off.

But Mo Ling felt that something was wrong.

"Why are the tremors getting more violent?"

With so many Cave Demons destroyed, the tremors should have weakened, yet Mo Ling felt increasingly unstable.

The violent shaking even knocked the Metamorphic Trees carrying the Cube to the ground, and the Cube fell onto the tree roots.

Why did this scene feel so familiar?

Sure enough, the tremors intensified, shaking the Cube farther and farther downward until it began sliding down the roots faster and faster.

"Holy Object!"

The Metamorphic Trees hurriedly formed a circle to stop the Cube from sliding, but their frail bodies could not even remain standing amid the tremors.

The Metamorphic Trees who came to block it were knocked aside by the Cube. Before their despairing eyes, it shot off the tree roots and fell toward the depths of the Great Tree Cave.

"Here we go again."

Mo Ling was even more despairing. This was not the first time something like this had happened.

"Am I going to fall back down again?"

As he fell, Mo Ling's view kept shifting, and he finally saw the source of the tremors.

Outside the walls of the Great Tree Cave, numerous Cave Demons had joined together to dig out an enormous hollow. Then they spread open their Spiral Shards and pressed together.

The Spiral Patterns on the Spiral Shards interlocked, causing them to spin faster and faster. The Cave Demons formed a circle and rhythmically struck the cave wall with their rapidly spinning Spiral Shards.

Although he had found the source of the tremors, Mo Ling could do nothing about them now.

The speed of the fall continued to increase.