Journey to the West: A clone sacrifices to the heavens, possessing boundless magical power.

Under the threat of death and the wrath of the Demon King, the panicked lesser demons finally regained some sense of reason. Under the suppression and expulsion of the middle-level leaders, they reluctantly began to return to their respective posts.

Fan Yuan observed that, following the issuance of the order, the cave's defense strategy underwent a significant change. Several teams of demon soldiers who were originally responsible for patrolling the depths of the cave were urgently transferred to the front courtyard and the cave entrance, clearly indicating that all forces were to be concentrated on dealing with external threats.

This means that the regular patrol forces deep within the area experienced a brief lull at this moment.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the black stone gate slammed shut. Countless mysterious wind patterns on the stone gate suddenly lit up, emitting a pale blue light. The entire Yellow Wind Cave entered a state of full alert at the highest level.

Huang Mao'er returned to the side corner where he was on guard duty. He held his spear, head down, motionless, just like the demon soldiers around him who still wore expressions of fear.

But his heart was beating slightly faster, and his thoughts were clearer and calmer than ever before.

The death of Tiger Vanguard and the impending personal battle of King Yellow Wind—these two successive events finally brought him the change he had longed for.

At this moment, King Yellow Wind was furious, and all his attention was focused on Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie outside the cave.

The moment he left the secret chamber, passed through the passageway, and stepped out of the cave, and when he was engaged in a fierce battle with Sun Wukong outside the cave, with the entire cave's attention drawn to that earth-shattering battle of supernatural powers, that was the golden time when the internal defenses were most relaxed and the cave was least sensitive to any anomalies deep inside!

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Huang Mao'er mingled among the outermost guards, silently observing the passageway leading to the core area.

To his delight, after the Yellow Wind King led his army out of the cave amidst a chorus of majestic roars, the two black-armored demon generals who had been stationed at the entrance of the passage for years also followed.

Their duties were transferred to two other demon generals.

The impending great battle that would determine the fate of the entire Yellow Wind Cave successfully drew the attention of all the little demons left behind inside the cave.

It's now!

Fan Yuan silently thought to himself, "The time has come!"

He manipulated Huang Mao to silently break away from his guard team and walk towards a minor leader in charge of front yard dispatch.

The leader was pacing back and forth anxiously, completely unaware of the blond-haired boy's approach.

"Leopard...Leopard Leader," the blond-haired boy's voice carried just the right amount of respect and nervousness, "Just now, Wolf Commander under Tiger Vanguard Grandpa gave orders for us to regularly check the defenses of all the side passages to prevent that monkey from using his sorcery to infiltrate. Now...now Wolf Commander...you see, is this order still..."

Before he could finish speaking, the leopard leader waved his hand impatiently. With Tiger Vanguard dead, his command structure was already in complete chaos, and Wolf Commander had also died outside the cave, so there was no way to verify the order.

In addition, Huang Mao'er's recent honest and diligent behavior made him completely unaware of any suspicion.

"Go away! It's good that you have this idea! Go check it out, be careful! Don't bother me!"

"Yes! Yes!"

Huang Mao felt as if he had been granted a pardon, and then turned around and, without hesitation, headed toward the secluded side path leading to the stone wall that he remembered.

He walked at a moderate pace, his expression solemn, as if he were truly carrying out an important mission.

On an outer corridor near the core area, he ran into a patrol of demon soldiers wielding long spears.

The group of demon soldiers immediately stopped him. The snake demon in the lead had a cold look in his eyes: "Halt! The front courtyard is under martial law. What are you doing here?"

Huang Mao'er immediately stopped, took out the domino symbol representing his identity from his pocket, and respectfully handed it over, repeating what he had just said: "General, I have been ordered to check the defenses of each side road, just in case."

The snake demon took the dominoes and looked at them. He then glanced at the familiar face of the blond-haired man and recognized him as a demon soldier from the third team of the Bing class. He didn't investigate further, since everyone's attention was focused on the earth-shattering battle outside the cave.

"Okay, go ahead, be careful!" The snake demon threw the dominoes back and led the group onward.

After passing through the corridor, with no further obstacles ahead, he soon arrived at the familiar fork in the road and stood before the stone wall that held the earth-shattering secret.

Just as he was preparing to find a way in, something unexpected happened!

Without warning, the entire Yellow Wind Cave began to shake violently!

Above the dome, countless pebbles and dust fell like a torrential rain, and the ground beneath Huang Mao's feet seemed to have turned into a turbulent sea, making him almost unable to stand.

Immediately afterwards, an extremely terrifying wailing sound came faintly from outside the cave through the thick mountain!

From the direction of the front courtyard came countless screams and wails of terror from the lesser demons. They all lay prostrate on the ground, trembling as if the end of the world had come.

Even deep within the mountain, Huang Mao'er felt an unprecedented impact! The Weak Water True Meaning in Fan Yuan's sea of ​​consciousness was passively activated to its extreme at this moment, and layers upon layers of water film surged wildly to protect Huang Mao'er's demon soul origin, thus preventing it from collapsing on the spot.

At the entrance to the passageway leading to the core, the two black-armored demon generals, though still struggling to stand, had lost all color in their faces, revealing an undisguised look of horror.

One of the demon generals whispered to his companion in a dry voice:

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty is truly enraged! He... He has unleashed his true divine power!"

The violent tremors caused by the Samadhi Divine Wind became Fan Yuan's best cover.

Without further hesitation, Huang Mao'er moved like a ghostly figure skimming the ground, swiftly traversing the dim and swaying passage.

Relying on the routes he had memorized from his previous odd jobs, he plunged into those long-abandoned, narrow side roads.

These branch paths are as dense as a spider web, some even requiring one to squeeze through sideways, but in Fan Yuan's mind, a crystal-clear diagram of the cave's interior structure had already been constructed.

He knew which path would avoid any potential sentries and which path would lead him to the secret-hiding stone wall the fastest.

He knew very well that the Yellow Wind King's Samadhi Divine Wind was his ultimate, fundamental divine power, with unparalleled power, but its consumption was bound to be earth-shattering.

Such supernatural power could not be used indefinitely. The battle outside the cave could be decided at any moment, and might even be over in the next instant.

He had to sneak into the secret chamber and retrieve the lamp oil residue that was crucial to him before the outcome was revealed.

Just as he passed through an abandoned tunnel full of rubble, with only two more stretches left to reach his target, the howling wind outside the cave suddenly rose to a frequency that seemed to tear his very soul apart!

Immediately afterwards, a loud bang, like a piece of glass or jade being smashed to pieces, came through the mountain, muffled yet clear!

Along with the loud bang came an uncontrollable scream filled with endless pain!