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Beneath the tall and sturdy ancient tree, which shone with a faint golden light, were piles of corpses of Blue-Faced Beasts. The bruised green beasts staggered, and some of the lame ones climbed up the tree trunk. Some of them climbed halfway and fell down.

More and more green faced beasts were lying on the tree branches, looking down in a daze. Those round faces were squeezed together, layer after layer, like superimposed phosphorous tablets, almost to the point of innumerable. Meng Xiaodie had not eaten anything in two days. In addition to the intense fighting and the heavy consumption of her physical strength, as he held the black sword, he began to feel that his hands were weak, and his legs were trembling. He glanced at the pile of dead animals' bodies that were emitting the smell of meat, and thought to himself, 'It doesn't matter if these corpses are bad or hungry, it's still better to eat them than to starve.' He stretched out his hand and used the black sword to cut open a piece of the beast's skin.

Seeing Meng Xiaodie cutting off the meat of her companion, those green faced beasts were agitated and frightened. Some of the braver ones jumped down from the tree trunk, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws to intimidate Meng Xiaodie. With a glare, Meng Xiaodie was so scared that she climbed back up the tree.

After sitting cross-legged on the ground for an hour to recover his energy, he got up to check the environment inside the cave. There was no other exit in this cave, and the only exit was most likely on the ancient tree trunk, he did not know how tall the tree was, nor did he know what the situation was like up there. But even if there were piles of Cyan Faced Beasts' corpses here to feed him, once they decomposed and released their stench, this cave would not be able to stay any longer. He decided to climb up the tree trunk. There might be a chance of survival.

Meng Xiaodie walked up to the ancient tree and looked up. Those phosphorous faces were still crowded on top of it. He jumped up onto the tree trunk. Those green masked beasts looked flustered and hurried to climb up. Their movements were very quick, and in the blink of an eye, they were dozens of meters away. Meng Xiaodie jumped to the lowest branch of the tree. These branches were coiled around, and the bark was worn down for a long time. It was smooth and transparent, forming a golden line. Because the Cyan Faced Beast had been climbing on it for a long time, all the branches on it had already been broken. Meng Xiaodie stretched out her arm, grabbed the branches on top of her head, and quickly climbed up. Her speed was not slower than the Blue Faced Beasts, and in the blink of an eye, she had caught up with the Green Faced Beasts that were behind her.

After he climbed about a hundred meters, the trunk of the main tree began to thin, and the branches of the tree also began to flourish. In some places, he had to carefully pass through the branches, or else he would be hurt by the sharp branches. When Meng Xiaodie stopped to look up and down, the trunk seemed to extend upwards without end. If that were the case, his expedition would have been a complete failure.

Thinking like this, Meng Xiaodie stopped climbing. Leaning on the tree branch, she carefully thought about the cave he had just passed through. What had gone wrong? Or had he overlooked something, some link? As he walked, he realized that it was a straight small cave with no forks in the road or traps. There was also no other way out of this vertical cave. The place he was standing was about three Zhang away from the wall. To him, this distance was not difficult to jump into. Moreover, there were some branches that extended outwards, so the closest distance was less than three Zhang.

However, the wall was vertical and the surface was smooth. There were almost no protrusions on the wall and it was shaped like a well wall. There was no place to go or grab.

Meng Xiaodie only looked at the nearest section. He wasn't sure about the other parts, but with his experience, he could tell that the structure of the rock in this natural well like cave should be the same.

After eliminating the possibility of there being secret traps on the wall, Meng Xiaodie looked up and down at the huge ancient tree that he was standing on. After billions of years, the ancient tree had petrified and became a rare fossil of the ancient tree, its hardness was several times stronger than normal rocks. If the top of this tree was leading out of the mountain, then where would its trunk lead to? Meng Xiaodie made a hypothesis in her heart, that after the tree had weathered, some of its core would have already become hollow, and this tree would become another cave. It would pass through a thick root and reach into a passage in the underground castle.

Whether or not this hypothesis can be established requires further verification, but how can it be ascertained that the tree is hollow? Because the ancient tree was too big, the skin of its rings was undoubtedly thick, making it impossible to judge by the echoes produced by the knocks. However, Meng Xiaodie knew that every tree had its own incomplete parts, such as the tree scars they left behind when they grew, or the decay caused by a certain branch of the tree, these places were easy to find, and these places were the weakest parts of the entire tree, so using external force to knock on them a little would easily break the skin.

In order to confirm his hypothesis, Meng Xiaodie started to look up and down, looking for a gap in the tree trunk. He was looking for a gap in the tree trunk, when he suddenly heard a sound of something colliding with him from above. Meng Xiaodie thought that it was the Cyan Faced Beast jumping down, but after thinking for a while, the monster's jumping didn't make any sound.

She couldn't see anything clearly, and the sound of the collision seemed to be getting closer. Meng Xiaodie suddenly understood that the sound of the collision came from the stone hitting the tree trunk, and he secretly cursed that those green faced beasts were not simple, they must have picked up the stone somewhere up there, and threw it down, with the intention of smashing him to death.

Hearing the sound of the collision, Meng Xiaodie knew that there were a lot of stones being thrown. Moreover, those sounds kept coming from above, some were coming from close by, and some were coming from far away. The place where Meng Xiaodie stood was not hidden at all.