When Ye Yang was preparing to take over the shift, he received an order to lead a team to complete an emergency operation mission overnight.

Although he sighed for a long time, lamenting that he couldn't go home to spend time with his daughter tonight, he didn't complain at all.

Not only because the Martial God is his only belief in this life, but also because the Martial God Temple, or Hong Xuanwu, gave him the opportunity to change his fate.

Many, many years ago, Ye Yang belonged to a small tribe on the Yangning Plain, but when he was a teenager, the small tribe was directly wiped out because he encountered a monster with third-order strength.

Ye Yang, who had lost his home, floated in the world like duckweed, he tried to be a hunter who lived alone in the wild, but he couldn't survive the winter; he tried to be a mercenary, but he didn't even have the strength of the second order, and he couldn't even complete the most basic mercenary registration.

The destitute Ye Yang could only think of a way to wander the wasteland, begging for rations and a safe place to spend the night.

Until he was picked up by a team of people from the Martial God Temple.

At the head of the team riding by at that time, it was Hong Xuanwu, who glanced at Ye Yang, who was covered in injuries and dressed in tatters, and said, "His roots are not bad." ”

So, Ye Yang joined the Martial God Temple, he put on a clean leather armor, and suddenly had meat to eat, he cultivated hard, and at the age of thirty-three, he successfully broke through the third order and advanced to the transcendental.

Since then, he has become a squadron leader in the Diocese of the Nanlin Peninsula of the Martial God Temple, responsible for the maintenance of order in Breeze City on weekdays, and soon married a wife and gave birth to a lovely daughter.

It was Hong Xuanwu who changed his life, so as long as it was Bishop Hong's order, Ye Yang would not have a trace of dissatisfaction and hesitation.

"Xiao Li, tell me to go down, from the first squad to the fourth squad, each squad will send three people to me, and I want to find the strongest person. Set off after dark, go to the logistics office to order equipment and potions. ”

Ye Yang was now at the peak realm of the third order, and he could break through to the realm of the fourth order great master at any time. He believed that this was not only due to his extremely hard cultivation, but more importantly, from the love of the Martial God, and it was the love of the God that made him where he is today.

Therefore, before leaving, he came to the statue of the Martial God and prayed respectfully.

After dinner and when the sun was setting, a team of thirteen people led by Ye Yang left Breeze City on a fast horse.

The purpose of their trip was a monster lair that Hong Xuanwu had accidentally discovered many years ago. At that time, Hong Xuanwu led a large team, and he wanted to destroy the lair directly, but who expected that the more monsters were killed there, and it seemed to be deep and bottomless, and there was no end at all.

Not only that, the deeper he went, the higher the level of the monsters there, and even the fifth-order Venerable Hong Xuanwu felt struggling later.

In desperation, he had to return, but he still recorded the location of the lair, and every once in a while he would send people to clean up those and kill as many monsters as he could.

It's just that today I don't know why, Hong Xuanwu gave an order, asking Ye Yang to lead a team to the lair overnight, and asked them to go deep into the deepest part of the lair and record everything there.

For this reason, the Martial God Temple took out the few invisibility potions in the warehouse, and specially took them to Qi Wanli this afternoon to mix the potions with higher efficacy.

It is said to be an invisibility potion, but it is not invisible, but a very precious spiritual elixir, which can make the user a "spiritual blind spot" in the eyes of other creatures, even if he sees, smells, hears or even touches the user, he will subconsciously ignore him.

After nearly an hour of galloping, the team came to the vicinity of the mission destination.

Ye Yang ordered the team to stop and rest in place for a quarter of an hour.

"Don't leash your horses, let them attract monsters roaming around. Everyone, check the equipment, check the potions!"

He commanded with a straight face, and after the team completed the basic inspection work, Ye Yang's face softened a little, and said: "You remember, tonight's mission is very important, in order to complete this mission, anything, including our lives, can be given up at any time!"

"I can't tell you what we're going to face, because I don't know either! But this mission was ordered by Bishop Hong and Vice Bishop Ning, and they only told me one thing: it's a matter of life and death for everyone in Breeze City!"

"When you act, remember that your every move will directly determine the life and death of everyone in Breeze City! Your parents, wives, children, friends, whether they can live in peace or not depends on you!"

"Next, you are people who have no emotions and no thoughts, and everything must be strictly followed by orders!"

Finally, Ye Yang squeezed his right hand into a fist, lowered his head slightly, touched his forehead with his fist, and said, "Give your soul to the Martial God!"

"Give your soul to the Valkyrie!" the other members of the team shouted in unison.

The location of the monster's lair has long been marked on the map, it is located near the western coast of the Nanlin Peninsula, in a forest at the foot of the Lanshui Peak, there is a cave there, it looks no different from an ordinary cave, but after going deep for nearly 100 meters, a dark river will be found in the cave, and countless monsters live in the caves on both sides of the dark river.

And as the river goes downstream, it will go deeper and deeper into this lair.

Winter nights are the season when monsters are extremely active, so the team led by Ye Yang drank the invisibility potion when they were still two kilometers away from the cave.

After drinking this potion, even the people in the same squad would have a mental impact on each other, so Ye Yang suddenly subconsciously ignored the other twelve people in the team, and had the idea of "I'm doing a solo mission".

But they were prepared for this situation, and before drinking the potion, they all wore a wristband around their wrists, which was made of the skin of the evil eye, and was slightly toxic, but the toxic effect was only moderately painful.

Importantly, the wristband made of this evil eyelid allows the wearer to resist the psychoactive effects to a certain extent, and the pain caused by the above toxicity will also make people more focused.

So, under the effect of the wristband, Ye Yang tried to concentrate his attention, repeatedly emphasizing in his heart that his group was a team of thirteen people, and soon regained attention to his team members.

This was the kind of training that the Martial God Temple had been doing, and it was not the first time that the other members of the team had faced this situation, and it didn't take long for them to make gestures to show that they were already able to resist the reaction of the potion.

After cautiously confirming again, Ye Yang motioned for everyone to start acting.

They soon made their way around the foraging monsters that roamed the forest and made their way to the cave.

At night, most of the monsters in the cave went out to forage for food, so there were fewer monsters here than outside, but Ye Yang didn't dare to be careless, he ordered the team members to take the prepared crossbow in their hands and start moving quickly into the depths of the cave.

A hundred meters passed in an instant, and a dark river appeared in front of them.

To be on the safe side, they didn't use any lighting tools, and they were all looking at it with the naked eye, but luckily there were a lot of faint white grass growing on both sides of the dark river, so that they could at least see the outline of things here.

The first thing that catches your eye is the countless monster cubs.

This monster looks like a combination of a spider and a dragonfly, very terrifying and disgusting, their name is "Demon Bug", it is an insect-type monster that spews acidic solution, the adult body is the size of a puppy, but now the demon worms lying on the rock walls on both sides of the Dark River are only the size of a palm.

These demon insect pups cover the rock wall tightly, without a single gap, and it makes people's scalp tingle to see.

Ye Yang took a deep breath and led the team into the gently flowing dark river and began to walk downstream.

The river is knee-high and bitterly cold on winter nights. But Ye Yang, who was at the peak of the third order, was not afraid of this level of cold, and most of the other team members were second-order martial artists, and they were all people who were close to the limit of human body training, and their faces did not change.

Then, they saw many, many more monsters.

A night corpse like a hairless monkey, a fox squirrel with sharp teeth and eyes like a copper bell, and a screaming bat with a strange human face......

The more they went down the dark river, the more terrifying the monsters they encountered, from the monsters that a first-order martial artist could deal with, to the mutant species that Ye Yang couldn't help but sweat in his palms when he saw it.

The effect of the invisibility potion lasts for half an hour, so when they are advancing along the dark river, they drink the potion again, and at this time, the monsters resting on both sides of the dark river are already monsters of the level of night demons and evil eyes.

And these monsters left in the cave are not just cubs, but also obvious adults. I don't know why they didn't go outside to forage for food like other people of the same kind, but chose to stay in the cave to sleep, but Ye Yang didn't want to know the reason, they only knew that this greatly increased the danger level in the cave.

"This monster's lair, what the hell...... How deep?"

When he drank the invisibility potion for the third time, even Ye Yang, who was extremely firm in his faith, couldn't help but let out a trembling question in his heart.

While they were trying to fight against the potion reaction, a mutant scavenging bear with a breath obviously above the fourth order raised its head from its sleep, swept towards Ye Yang with confused eyes, and spewed out a mouthful of fishy and sour smell before burying its head and continuing to sleep, shocking everyone into a cold sweat.

In addition to the monsters, as you walk along the way, you can also see obvious traces of battle on the surrounding rock walls, mainly large sections of knife marks, which have long dried up blood stains, telling the story of the extremely tragic battle many years ago.

"This is the knife mark left by Bishop Hong back then!"

Ye Yang's blood boiled when he saw it, and he secretly made up his mind that sooner or later, he would also enter the realm of a fifth-order venerable like Hong Xuanwu, and kill seven in and seven out in the monster's lair.

After walking for a while, the knife marks disappeared, and at this time, there were no monsters below the third order on both sides of the dark river, and these monsters with terrifying auras were hiding in the dark places of the cave, quietly exuding a murderous aura, making it difficult for the team to move.

Several times, Ye Yang thought that they were going to be discovered by monsters.

Just as the team was about to drink the potion for the fourth time, suddenly, they saw a door.

It was an iron door embedded in the rock wall, and the door was wide open, and nothing could be seen inside.

Ye Yang's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, he forcibly suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, motioned for everyone to drink the potion again, and began to move towards the iron gate.