Chapter 21: Slaying the Demon Ape

  The situation was urgent, and no one had expected that their luck would be so bad. They had just arrived at the bottom of the earth when they encountered a large number of powerful Underworld Demon Apes, with over a hundred of them present, which was by no means a small number.

  The demon ape moved at incredible speed, appearing before everyone's eyes in the blink of an eye. Its enormous and ferocious aura spread out, covering the sky and earth, causing people's faces to turn pale.

  "Not good, these demonic apes all have at least innate early-stage powers, be careful!"

  "What bad luck! I didn't check the almanac before going out today, it's inauspicious!"

  "Damn it, I'm done for, you little devil, come and get me!"

  Wang Dao, Li Haoran, Zhao Kuang, Huang Zheng, and Zhao Changqing cursed at the top of their lungs, but their actions were swift and decisive, instantly pouncing on their opponents.

  Zhou Qing was also exceptionally fierce, with a flick of his hand, a long sword with a bright blue light appeared in his hand. This senior brother's swordsmanship became even more ruthless, the sword energy surged horizontally, and with a flash of blue light, he pounced on a demon ape in front of him. The long sword stabbed, and with a wipe, a line of dark magic blood flowed out. The demon ape let out a mournful howl, its head flew high into the air, and it was clear that it would not survive.

  "Zhou Shixiong's Qingyun Swordsmanship is becoming increasingly fierce, we can't fall behind either!"

  Li Haoran burst out laughing, and a milky white true yuan erupted from all over his body. In his hand was a pen-like weapon with a sharp and fierce tip, which was an iron pen.

  "The iron pen writes of spring and autumn, life and death are unpredictable!"

  With a loud shout, he drew his sword and with one swift stroke, the demon ape was torn open from chest to belly. The dark scales scattered outwards, emitting a pungent smell of char, as if they had been scorched by fire.

  The others were not to be outdone and also displayed their special skills.

  Wang Dao shouted in one voice, "Tai Xuan Sword Manual!"

  A long sword in hand, emitting a faint blue light, seemed real and illusory at the same time, instantly passing through the eye of a demon ape and piercing its brain.

  "Vajra Dharani!"

  Zhao Kuangdiao took out a talisman and stuck it to his chest, instantly radiating dazzling golden light all over his body. He became exceptionally ferocious, swinging his hands like giant axes, charging forward with reckless abandon. In the blink of an eye, he was hacked into a pile of minced meat by a demonic ape.

  "May our friendship last forever!"

  Zhao Changqing was unequivocal, the true yuan surged, the talisman rotated, and a beautiful green vine suddenly formed, instantly entwining a demon ape. The green light flashed, and the demon ape let out a mournful howl. In an instant, its body had shrunk by a circle, and the essence of its blood and flesh had been absorbed by the long vine, leaving its life force at an all-time low. It died immediately.

  Huang Zheng, however, was practicing the Earth-elemental technique, his hands forming a seal as if holding up a hazy mountain of earth, which fiercely smashed onto a demonic ape's body, causing it to let out a series of miserable cries, its bones already broken and tendons torn.

  These six people were all in the later stages of their cultivation, with thick and rich true yuan, and mysterious and subtle techniques. In just a short moment, more than ten demon beasts died at their hands.

  Wang Qian just took a rough glance and didn't have time to take a closer look when a demon ape had already appeared in front of him.

  He was different from others, without any dazzling light or divine aura, like an ordinary martial artist. He unleashed a set of bitter sea seal techniques, his body moving like a fierce tiger, stirring up a violent storm. With one palm strike, he moved at incredible speed, tearing through the air and creating a long, winding shockwave that boomed loudly. The demon ape didn't have time to react before being pressed down by his palm, colliding with a loud crash, flying high into the air, and exploding into a ball of blood and flesh in mid-air. This was because Wang Qian's body had reached the second turn of refinement, possessing an extremely ferocious divine power. Although the demon ape's scales were tough and its defense strong, its internal organs hadn't been refined yet, and it was directly shattered by the massive force that burst into its body, destroying its five viscera and six bowels. Wang Qian's palm strike was like inserting a high-explosive grenade into the demon ape's body, which then brutally exploded, naturally turning it into a pile of shredded flesh.

  Once the fight began, Wang Qian relied on his well-trained body to charge into the group of demonic apes. With one punch, it was like a mountain collapsing, and an ape's head was smashed into its chest cavity. With one palm strike, more ferocious than a large axe, another ape was split in two from head to toe, with black blood splattering everywhere, severed limbs and shattered bones scattered all over the ground.

  Fists, palms, feet, and legs, Wang Qian's expression was cold and cruel, like a killing machine, charging into the demonic apes. His fists and feet flew quickly, and the killings were endless. Every moment, a corpse of a demonic ape was lifted high, then exploded into shredded flesh. In just a short while, dozens of demonic apes had died at his hands, with brutal methods and extremely bloody results.

  This is a force that can subdue ten wills, his physical strength is strong, one punch and one kick have the power of ten thousand kilograms, this kind of low-level demon in his hands, compared to tofu, it's not even as solid, naturally it's a big kill.

  Wherever Wang Qian passed, fierce winds tore apart, broken bones and severed limbs flew wildly, black blood splattered everywhere. Within ten breaths, he pierced through a pile of demonic apes, killing from one end to the other.

  Zhou Qing and several others were fighting fiercely when they suddenly heard a series of mournful cries. Turning around, they saw that everyone's face had turned pale with shock.

  They were all shocked by Wang Qian's means, it was really too cruel and too brutal. All the magic apes he killed had no intact corpses, they were all reduced to a pile of wreckage.

  "What kind of move is this? Isn't it too ruthless?"

  "Zhou Shixiong, didn't you say that this Wang Qian Shidi is usually very calm and peaceful, with a gentle temper?"

  "Alas, even more demonic than the Demon King!"

  Several of them were filled with emotion, and then they killed the demon monkeys even more fiercely. They were also among the best in their daily lives as inner door disciples, proud and arrogant, and couldn't easily be surpassed by others. Naturally, they had to regain face from these demons.

  Zhou Qing did not expect Wang Qian to be so ruthless, and with a sigh, the sword light in his hand danced even more eerily.

  Wang Gan didn't have the mind to care about others, he was still experiencing this battle. With a rough glance, around one hundred demon apes were killed by their group in a short period of time, leaving only fifty remaining.

  "Ah, this Nine Revolutions Body Refining Technique can only be fully comprehended in the midst of battle!"

  Feeling the turmoil of blood and energy within, the source of the blue divine power in the sea of suffering, although not mobilized, it is even clearer and more lively, no longer like a stagnant pool of water as before.

  The movements of the bitter sea seal were complex and numerous, but in summary, it was just one style of seal. However, he had not yet mastered it to the point where complexity could be simplified, so he could only practice step by step, one move at a time, and naturally, many demon apes were killed during this process.

  Half an hour later, the place was a vast expanse of emptiness, all the demon apes had been slaughtered, and the ground was covered with dark demon blood and broken demon ape corpses.

  Wang Qian calculated that he himself had killed about half of them, but his face was not red and his breath was not short. Instead, he felt a sense of unfulfilled desire. In his previous battle, he had already begun to comprehend the profound meaning hidden in the Suffering Sea Seal, but it was only a faint feeling, and there was no major breakthrough yet.

  Zhou Qing and the others didn't have such good physical strength, half a time of uninterrupted fighting, and the scales on these magic apes were tough and solid, not easy to break open. As a result, each true yuan was consumed greatly, now they were all panting, sitting cross-legged, taking out dan medicine from their storage bags to take, recovering their true yuan. This kind of dan medicine Wang Qian knew, called True Yuan Dan, was used by the inner disciples of the Pre-Heavenly Boundary, could be used for cultivation or recovery of true yuan, and could be said to be an indispensable dan medicine for the inner disciples' cultivation.

  But for him, the effect is not that great. The spiritual energy contained in a single elixir is not as fast as absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth himself. To use it for cultivation, he would need thousands or tens of thousands of elixirs piled together to have an effect. However, where can he get so many spirit stones to buy that many elixirs? The ones distributed by the sect every month are just a drop in the bucket, with little effect.

  Soon, Zhou Qing and several others came back to their senses, each looking at Wang Qian with eyes full of resentment.

  "Wang Qian, junior brother, you're indeed formidable! We both consumed a huge amount of true yuan, yet you don't show the slightest sign of weakness!"

  Huang Zheng stared at Wang Qian in surprise, muttering to himself.

  "Huang Shidi, you don't know this, but Wang Qian's cultivation method is specifically for strengthening the physical body. The battle just now was nothing to him."

  Zhou Qing naturally knew that Wang Qian's nine-turn body-refining technique was extremely abnormal, but he couldn't help feeling envious, as he himself was unable to cultivate it.

  "Alright, let's quickly clean up the battlefield. There are many materials on these demonic apes' bodies, whether we use them ourselves or take them back to the sect to exchange for contributions, it's a considerable fortune."

  Zhou Qing immediately began calling out to everyone, collecting materials from the bodies of the dead magical apes.

  This yin-yang demon ape's scales can be used to refine defensive treasures, and if there are enough of them, taking the essence of them can even refine a spiritual instrument. This kind of defensive spiritual instrument is extremely precious, much rarer than ordinary attacking treasures.

  There are also the sharp fangs of the magical gibbon, these things can be taken back to the sect as evidence of their demon-slaying, after calculation, they can be converted into contribution points according to quantity, which can be used to purchase skills, treasures, elixirs and so on.

  "Haha, Brother Zhou is right, this time we killed over a hundred monsters from the start, our contribution when we return will definitely not be less, it's like making a small fortune!"

  "That's right, while we still have a lot of elixirs and supplies that we brought with us, let's kill as many monsters as possible."

  These young disciples had a hard time fighting just now, but when it was time to reap the rewards, they were overjoyed.

  Wang Gan was no exception, and the spiritual energy he needed to cultivate now was simply enormous. He had become a veritable big eater, and no amount of wealth was too much for him. These demonic apes were naturally very pleased with their haul.

  When everyone came out, they each brought a storage bag with a large space inside that could hold many spoils of war, which was just what they needed now.

  Since becoming a disciple of Yunshan, Wang Gan was no longer as poor as before. At least his master gave him a storage bag of relatively high quality, although it was still not comparable to the rich young master Wang Qi he killed in the Mingyue Mountains, but among the disciples of Qingyunmen, it was considered top-notch.

  "This storage bag has a space of about several hundred cubic meters, which is still acceptable. If one day I can get a storage waist belt or a storage ring and so on, that would be great."

  He was still unsatisfied in his heart and had already begun to covet higher-level storage magic treasures.

  He had already made up his mind in his heart that after this task, he would secretly go down the mountain and sell all the things he got from those Tianyuan Sect disciples, exchange them for spiritual stones or spiritual pills to help him cultivate.

  The plan was set, and immediately, together with others, they quickly swept away the dead body of the demon ape on the ground. Everything that had value was taken away, it can be said that even if heaven were three feet higher, it would not have made a difference.

  Having killed over a hundred ghostly demon apes, everyone's confidence greatly increased.

  "Let's keep going deeper and strive to make a profit in one go!"

  Huang Zheng's face was pale just now, and his consumption was huge. Now that he saw himself gain a lot, he became even more spirited, and let out a loud roar with great momentum.

  Others were the same, no one opposed it.

  Then Wang Qian and his party continued deep into this dark land.