Chapter 22 - Under the Cliff

Ye Shang knew that the skin of some monster beasts were very hard, and cleaving would be useless as it might end up ripping the skin only.

Understanding about the hardness of the skin, his next attack by the black iron spear finally made a wound appeared on the red tentacle.

The injured tentacle, however, did not release the white bird, but the other intact tentacle loosened the white bird and whipped at Ye Shang, getting a hold of his feet and before pulling him forward as well.

The two tentacles gripping Ye Shang and the white bird pulled forward, almost squeezing them together.

Ye Shang clenched the black iron spear with his right hand and stroked the red tentacle that entangled the white bird. At that moment, Ye Shang felt jittery in handling the red tentacle wrapped around his feet since he and the white bird were squeezed together, and there was no room for easing his hands to move around, he needed to liberate either one of them or both.

As Ye Shang continued to swing the black iron spear, the tentacle that constricted the white bird was finally almost cut off in the middle.

Like Ye Shang, the white bird was also struggling to free itself, so it could only bow its head and attack the red tentacle on Ye Shang’s feet.

Seeing the behavior of the white bird, Ye Shang was shocked since the white bird was showing its intellectual level, since it could easily make out that while Ye Shang meant no harm, the tentacle certainly posed the greater threat.

It understood that it was necessary to work together against this enemy of theirs.

Pulled by the red tentacles, they were dragged like a rag doll out of the woods to a place without any trees. As they slid faster, the red tentacle wrapped around the white bird’s claws was almost cut off by the continuous attacks from black iron spear.

However, as cunning as this monstrosity was, it decisively released the white bird to avoid being completely cut off by Ye Shang.

The white bird released from the bondage didn’t leave but continued to attack the red tentacle at Ye Shang’s feet with its sharp beak.

At that moment, Ye Shang’s expression changed he saw the red tentacle suddenly elongating, and the thickest part of it became as thick as a human head.

The red tentacle shook, drew a circle in the air, and wound around Ye Shang two more times. Moreover, as Ye Shang’s desperately tried to hold his fainting breath, he suddenly lost the grip of his spear as his arms were grabbed by that tentacle. One of the red tentacles continued to drag him towards the front, and the other was still attacking the white bird.

The white bird, however, shrewishly evaded the red tentacle while continuously trying to free Ye Shang of its death grip.

Ye Shang felt that his bones had been shattered since seething chills of pain were running down his entire body.

He looked up at the sky, on the cliff, the two red tentacles were still shaking.

Ye Shang knew that he didn’t die because the tentacles were long enough.

Shaking his body, he found that he broke his right arm with some minor bruises all over his body.

The white bird stood beside him and was in an exceptionally better state than him. When the Earth Dragon Worm loosened it, it intellectually flapped its wings thereby reducing the impulse from its harsh landing.

Sitting up, Ye Shang tried to find the medicinal herbs in his pocket.

After touching the bottles, Ye Shang found that his Bigu Pills and Core Elixir were still fine. Even though the bottle of the Vein Pills were broken, the medicine was still intact.

After taking a Vein Pill, he fed the white bird some herbs to help in waning the healing time of its injured wings.

Ye Shang looked around the surrounding environment and found that he was now on a platform which was two or three meters wide.

Ye Shang stretched out and looked down at the platform, but he couldn’t see the bottom since it was quite misty.

Turning around, Ye Shang looked towards the other direction of the platform and found an unusual place.

There were traces of humans left on the cliff.

Looking closely, Ye Shang found a stone gate under the cover of the vines, which should be called a hole, and there were clear handwritten characters on both sides of the stone gate.

On the left side was ‘Awake’, and on the right side was ‘Enlightenment’.

Looking at the hole covered by the vines, Ye Shang went in with the black iron spear.

Usually, Ye Shang wouldn’t do it recklessly, however, he had no choice since it was too dangerous out there.

The platform was small. If any monster rushed out from the hole, he would be forced to jump off the platform, thus he’d better fight inside the hole.

Originally, Ye Shang thought that the cave was dark and damp and was filled with snakes and bugs, but he found out that it was a clear passage, except for a little moss at the entrance.

The cave was very clean and jewels with a half-inch of diameter inlaid on its ceiling.

Turning his head toward the stone wall, he saw some knife marks.

Looking closely, he found a knife mark at a distance of two or three feet. Thus it could be said that these walls were created after a long toil of cleaving the stone for at least five or six times.

Holding the black iron spear, Ye Shang tapped against the wall. With the crisp sounds created by the stone, he could tell how hard the stone wall was, as there wasn’t any stone powder dropping and no marks were left on the wall.