Chapter 20: You're a Strong Monster, I've Got Treasure

  Wang Guang was also a clever and resourceful person. Seeing that the several lightning fires had gone down to cover up the traces of the bombing, he stopped holding the lock chain in his hand to be on guard.

  "Brother, do you need help?" The first sword light that flew over hovered slightly in the distance before landing on the ground, and a young female cultivator jumped down from mid-air. Afterwards, several other sword lights also landed here one after another, each either controlling flying sword treasures or condensing dark thunder techniques, preparing to go forward and hunt down that giant macaque.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable! Everyone, this demon beast has been surrounded by us and our people are rushing over here. I suppose your help is no longer needed." Wang Guang swung the chain in his hand and shouted loudly: "If you're interested, you can watch from here, but don't try to snatch this demon beast!"

  "Then so be it!" The female cultivator who came first nodded, then lowered her head and spat out a mouthful of magic power to inject into the sword light. The sword light wrapped around her body and flew towards the sky.

  Just when Wang Guang and Dahe Shang thought that the female Qi practitioner had left, the other Qi practitioners would also leave one after another. However, the female Qi practitioner in the sky suddenly split her sword light, and a cold air fell heavily on the body of the big macaque.

  Nor did I know what kind of Taoist technique the female practitioner was cultivating, but when the cold air came down, it didn't freeze the giant ape, instead it exploded violently. For a moment, the white cold air wrapped around the ape, which was struggling to move, and the sound of muffled thunder was transmitted from within the cold air.

  The horse monkey was attacked by the female practitioner, and it suddenly let out a desolate cry. It then jumped out of the cold air in a frenzy, jumping from one black bear demon's head to another, before crazily fleeing into the distant dense forest.

  "Don't let the demon escape." Wang Guang saw this situation not only without worry, but instead became excited. However, he didn't just watch as Ma Hou escaped, and instead pulled out seven or eight thunderbolts to throw at him.

  The big monk's eyes rolled over, and he suddenly understood Wang Guang's method. "Amitabha Buddha, donor, what is this for?" He said, throwing out two demon-subduing pestles that spun around each other and struck the horse monkey.

  Unfortunately, this horse monkey ran fiercely, except for a lightning fire that exploded on its body, all the others were shaken off by the horse monkey.

  "Hehe! I see you're having a hard time, want to lend you a hand." The female cultivator chuckled and flashed her sword light towards the direction where Ma Hou escaped. The other cultivators who followed also had a glint in their eyes, ignoring Wang Guang and the others, and chased after them tightly.

  They all knew that the appearance of a horse monkey at this black bear's lair meant something, and it was certain that the horse monkey was a high-ranking demon beast. Only such a high-ranking demon beast would dare to leave its own ethnic gathering place and wander around elsewhere, even claiming to be king or overlord.

  It's extremely difficult to encounter a high-ranking demon beast, and the various materials on their bodies are very precious. If you're lucky, one of the materials from a high-ranking demon beast can be exchanged for a low-grade flying sword treasure, and if you know how to refine treasures, just the fur from a horse monkey can be refined into a defensive treasure. Moreover, its own blood combined with other medicinal herbs can refine some special elixirs. It's precisely because of this that these cultivators have been tempted.

  "Do you dare to leave your names? Are you not afraid of being kicked out of the Black Wind Cave for stealing our monster?" Wang Guang waved his chain in anger and shouted loudly. The big monk on the side was no exception, also jumping up and scolding loudly.

  Those few practitioners who snatched the monster didn't care about the two of them, but instead chased after the giant ape tightly, not letting it escape their line of sight. From time to time, there were lightning and spells attacking the ape.

  "Maitreya Buddha! Hurry up and get to work, while those people are chasing that horse monkey, let's quickly open this broken stone." After the few Qi Gong practitioners and the big horse monkey disappeared from view, the big monk on the side hurriedly shouted loudly.

  "You get out of the way, I'll take care of this stone this time." Wang Guang swung out his Hundred Miles Flowing Light to wrap around his body and float in mid-air. After moving away from the giant stone by thirty or fifty feet, he opened the gourd at his waist and slapped its bottom. A thousand firebolts shot out like a swarm of bees leaving their nest, crazily crashing into the giant stone.

  "Dry!" With a burst of energy, he released a thousand Thunderfires. Although each Thunderfire only carried an extremely weak hint of magical power, the thousand Thunderfires still drained his magical power by almost half. If not for his extremely pure magical power, he wouldn't have been able to release so many low-level Thunderfires in one breath.

  "What the hell! Are you crazy?" The big monk saw Wang Guang suddenly throw out so many thunderbolts and immediately jumped up and scolded loudly.

  In his haste, the Great Monk didn't even have time to put away those black bear demons in the altar, and hastily sprayed out a stream of magical power to use the Demon-subduing Mallet to roll up his body and fly far away, seeking to avoid the shockwave from the explosion of thousands of thunderbolts.

  The next breath, thousands of thunder and fire struck the giant stone. Only a loud noise was heard, and a large cluster of thunder and fire over ten feet high burst out from the giant stone.

  The red is the erosive poisonous smoke, the blue is the lightning, and the black is the flame. For a time, the earth shook and the mountains trembled, the entire mountain peak was shaking, countless rocks splashed everywhere, if it weren't for the protection of the Hundred Miles Flowing Light, Wang Guang would have been smashed to pieces by those rocks long ago.

  "My Wan Zai Kong Qing." The big monk wailed like a mourner. With a ferocious face, he glared at Wang Guang, as if with one discontent, he would pounce on him and swallow him alive.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable! Don't be impulsive, this outer shell of the Wan Zai Qing is extremely hard, even a mid-grade flying sword can't cut through it. You can rest assured, if this treasure suffers any damage, I'll take my own life in front of you." After being blown away by the explosion for dozens of meters, Wang Guang finally shook his head, took some medicinal pellets to replenish his depleted spiritual energy. However, these pellets weren't expensive, and wanting to recover his peak spiritual energy without an hour of meditation was simply impossible.

  As they spoke, the flames from the explosion of thousands of thunderbolts dissipated. The two looked intently at the giant rock and saw that a deep pit over ten zhang deep had appeared where it was, with countless large and small cracks around it. The smooth-as-jade giant rock still lay quietly in the pit, without even half a crack's worth of damage.

  "Damn it!" The Taoist and the monk began to curse loudly, a string of insulting words spewing from the mouths of the two monks. "I really don't know how this stone was formed. According to reason, the Wan Zai Qing has two layers of shell, one layer is ordinary stone, and the other layer is the real protective shell. That ordinary stone, even if it has been tempered by the spiritual energy of Wan Zai Qing for thousands of years, will not be so hard!" The fat-headed monk said with an extremely ugly expression.

  "Boundless Heaven Lord! Could it be that this giant stone is the last outer shell of the Wàn Zài Kōng Qīng? Only this explanation can explain why thousands of thunder fires couldn't blast open this giant stone!" Looking at the giant stone, one zhang square in diameter, in the deep pit, Wang Guang's heart involuntarily trembled violently.

  If it's really as he guessed, the number of Wan Zai Qing in this giant stone is staggering. If the news leaks out, even the Dan masters will come to rob.

  "Don't speak again." The moment the big monk heard Wang Guang's words, his body involuntarily trembled slightly. He then stared at Wang Guang with a pair of fierce eyes, and the demon-subduing pestle in his hand began to rotate rapidly.

  "What's the matter? Want to kill me and silence me? Hehe! Don't forget, we're all the same. Back in the day when we were wandering around Jianghu, we've all been through bloody depths. I don't have the means to kill you, but I'm not short on escape methods either." Wang Guang coldly laughed and ignored the monk. After feeling a hint of his internal energy recovering, he jumped into the large pit and sat cross-legged on a giant rock to start meditating and practicing his Qi. The big monk, on the other hand, rolled his eyes a few times before retracting his fierce glow and went off to find the remaining black bear demon.

  But as soon as Wang Guang moved the Dharma power, he suddenly felt that the recovery speed of his internal Dharma power was three to five times faster than before. The Dharma power that originally took an hour to recover was fully recovered in just a moment.

  When Wang Guang opened his eyes, he found that the big monk had somehow brought out more than 100 black bears. These black bears were moving stones and piling them around the deep pit. It seemed that they wanted to fill the giant stone into the deep pit and block the Wan Zai Qing from view, so that others wouldn't discover it.

  "You're really stupid, leaving this thing here is no better than taking it back. Are you waiting for others to discover and snatch it?" Wang Guang said with a disdainful glance at the big monk.

  "You're just a fool." The great monk swung the demon-subduing pestle in his hand and slammed it heavily on a nearby giant stone, roaring: "A piece of Wan Zai Qing as big as a fist weighs a thousand catties. How many fists can this piece of Wan Zai Qing hold? If you can move this stone, it's yours. I, the poor monk, don't want it either, and won't go around proclaiming it."

  "Hmm! So that's it, I was in a hurry and forgot. Wang Guang shrugged his shoulders and said with a helpless expression: "I think neither of us can move this giant stone, so why not do this? Let's fill the big pit with broken stones and then dig a secret room underneath. On ordinary days when we sit and practice our internal energy, we can come here. On one hand, it will increase our speed in practicing internal energy, on the other hand, it will also be a good place for us to escape from enemy pursuit in the future."

  "In the future, when you become a master, you can also set up some secret methods here. Even if you are reborn from scratch in the next life, you can grow again at the fastest speed. What do you say, is that true or not?" The big monk wiped his bald head and smiled with a mouthful of teeth.

  "It's exactly as you said, good monk, you've spoken my mind." Wang Guang clapped his hands in delight and laughed, saying: "According to the classics, this Wan Zai Kong Qing not only can speed up the cultivation of Qi Refining practitioners, but also can slowly improve the quality of magical artifacts, and even purify various minerals. Calculating carefully, as long as we can keep this thing safe, when we become Dan Masters later, it will be even more useful to us."

  "What, aren't you coming up quickly? Are you going to make me bury you inside?" The big monk shook his bald head, not knowing whether he was excited or nervous. Layers of sweat emerged from his head, flowing down his face and neck, looking quite comical.

  "This treasure is more precious than any other in the world, no wonder he's so tense." Wang Guang looked at the big monk's tense appearance with cold eyes and muttered to himself. He didn't have the same tension as the big monk, this treasure could speed up his cultivation if he had it, but without it, he wouldn't be unable to cultivate, unlike the monk who attached great importance to the treasure. The difference in their mental state was vastly different.