boyutpedia 016 The Long-Armed White Ape
016 The Long-Armed White Ape
Rentou Mountain is low-lying and adjacent to Kunze Lake. Due to its northern location, it does not receive enough sunlight, resulting in extremely damp and shady conditions.
Many medicinal fungi thrive in this environment, and even rare and precious plants like the Ice-Freezing Grass and the Soul-Calling Flower are occasionally discovered by herb gatherers.
However, recently, many herb gatherers have become terrified of it, and whenever it is mentioned, they subconsciously touch the back of their heads.
"That's weird! That stone flew from who-knows-where, and it was incredibly accurate!"
"That's right, I was taking a dump in a cave when a rock knocked me out. When I got back, my wife was washing my pants while she was yelling at me the whole time."
At the foot of Rentou Mountain, several herb gatherers with white cloth wrapped around their heads gathered in a pavilion and chatted.
In the distance, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly came, and the group instinctively craned their necks to look.
Before long, a young man in black robes appeared through the morning mist.
The young man was dressed in gold-embroidered robes, carried a long halberd, and rode a magnificent black horse; he was clearly a person of noble status.
Seeing this, the group of idlers exchanged glances, then chuckled and whispered, "We've got a haul. Once he's knocked unconscious, we're sure to find some valuables!"
At that moment, the group continued drinking tea without making a sound, but the topic of conversation changed to which family's daughter-in-law was pretty, and whose daughter was radiant, and so on.
Once Ning Kui disappeared down the mountain path, they quickly took out an iron pot from under the table, put it on their heads, and stealthily followed him up the mountain.
The big black horse snorted and shook its head all the way.
Ning Kui reached out and gently patted the horse's face, laughing, "Good horse, you were able to detect that someone was following you, how could I not know? Don't worry."
He didn't want to alert them, preferring to wait for them to make the first move. If their method was also to throw stones, then...
Don't blame him for being ruthless.
"call out!"
Just as he was thinking about how to lure these people into making a move, a fist-sized flying stone let out a sharp whistle, piercing through the morning mist and hurtling towards Ning Kui's head!
Ning Kui only caught a fleeting glimpse of a shadow before the stone was already pressed against his face.
"when!"
With a slight deviation of the blade, the Dragon Scale Halberd blocked the flying stone at the last possible moment, and a tingling, trembling sensation reached Ning Kui's palm.
The stones themselves shattered into powder and scattered with the wind.
"That's incredible force! That's meant to kill!"
If the flying stone is that powerful, an ordinary person would not just suffer a head injury; their head would probably explode.
Just as they were filled with surprise and doubt, "whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Three more stones flew in from all directions, their momentum even more ruthless than the first one.
He felt a faint, stabbing pain, like needles, simultaneously in his head, heart, and chest.
"Spinning Tail Wave Slash!"
Ning Kui's expression turned solemn. Without saying a word, he immediately summoned a high-speed flowing water wall to protect himself.
At the same time, aiming at the direction from which the flying stone came, he swung his halberd fiercely!
"Pfft!"
The rock pierced through the water curtain, its kinetic energy greatly reduced, and it was thrown about to an unknown direction by the current, posing no threat to Ning Kui whatsoever.
With a single slash of his halberd, the dragon formed from the condensed water crashed into the depths of the mist, creating a tremendous explosion.
And a painful howl from a monkey.
"Squeak! Chirp!"
In the vast expanse of mist, a white figure swiftly fled towards the mountaintop.
"Leave it for me!"
Having achieved a decisive victory, Ning Kui immediately leaped off the back of the black horse and chased after the source of the screams!
When did monkey monsters start inhabiting Human Head Mountain?
He was incredibly fast; with each leap, he left shallow footprints on the mountain path. His body moved like a cannonball, charging and crashing, causing the monkey demon to squeal and scream.
The herb gatherers who followed Ning Kui up the mountain saw nothing but heard several loud explosions, and immediately looked at each other in bewilderment.
"What should we do? That guy seems to have some real skills!"
"Should we retreat?"
Just as the group was about to back down, the clear sound of horses' hooves suddenly came from the morning mist.
They opened their eyes wide in horror, only to see a tall, black horse striding towards them with a ferocious grin, its teeth as sharp as a lion's or tiger's.
The extremely bizarre scene made the group shudder, followed by a cool sensation spreading from their groins.
"A monster!!!"
……
Ning Kui chased after the white ape's figure, gradually closing the distance to within ten zhang.
Along the way, the white ape kept grabbing fruit and pebbles and throwing them at Ning Kui. Even though it was just a casual throw, its speed and accuracy were extremely high.
"Could it be that this beast also possesses supernatural powers?"
Thinking of this, Ning Kui narrowed his eyes. He had initially thought that someone was hiding in the shadows and doing evil, but he never expected that it was a monster causing trouble.
He could already feel the birthmark on his back burning slightly.
"die!"
Ning Kui roared and immediately activated his [Water Control] supernatural power as the white ape fled to the edge of a deep pool.
Tons of water surged into the sky, transforming into a giant hand that fiercely suppressed the white ape.
"Squeak!!! Glug glug..."
The moment it was enveloped by the endless flow of water, the white ape only had time to let out a terrified scream, followed by the pain and helplessness of choking on water.
"Heh, he can run pretty fast."
Ning Kui stood by the emerald green pool, flicked his finger, and a huge water sphere drifted across the sky.
He was only a foot away from the struggling white ape, and could see its expression and appearance clearly.
Judging from its size and appearance, it resembles a young ape.
Because the water inside the water sphere was flowing at high speed, it was constantly squeezing out the air from the baby ape's abdominal cavity, and at this point it was on the verge of suffocation.
Its struggling long arms moved slower and slower, and its bluish-gray pupils were filled with terrifying reddish-purple blood vessels.
Ning Kui intentionally manipulated the water flow to penetrate the baby ape's body through its seven orifices, but it seemed to be protected by some kind of power or law.
Once the water enters the organism's body, the connection between it and Ning Kui is greatly reduced.
Just like he can't manipulate blood.
"I wonder if, with the continuous advancement of my water control abilities, I might be able to evolve the ability to manipulate blood."
He sighed. He had so many ideas he wanted to experiment with, but obtaining Yin Qi points was incredibly difficult.
Especially for subsequent promotions to higher ranks, the amount of Yin Qi points required is frighteningly large.
"I am not a bloodthirsty person..."
Just as he was worrying about becoming stronger, a huge roar suddenly came from behind him.
A sense of unease arose in Ning Kui's heart. As he turned around, he manipulated the water sphere to move in front of him to act as a shield.
Holy crap!
Upon realizing what had happened, Ning Kui immediately uttered a phrase from traditional Chinese culture.
He stared in shock at a house-sized boulder hurtling down on him from above. What was that?
The boulder itself weighed tens of thousands of kilograms, and with the potential energy of falling from a great height, Ning Kui couldn't even imagine the consequences of being hit. Even if the pig god worshipped by the Zhu family came, he would be staggered by the impact.
Seeing that it was too late to escape, Ning Kui felt a surge of ruthlessness.
The water from the mountain spring converged rapidly, forming two giant hands that lifted upwards.
At the very front was a water balloon containing baby monkeys.
Come on, let's see who dies first!
"Gurgle!!!"
The baby ape struggled with all its might; it even tried to turn around and run away.
Unfortunately, in the next instant, it was "poof" turned into red mist upon impact with the boulder and the water sphere.
Immediately afterwards, two giant water hands lifted the boulder from below, and under its pressure, it shattered inch by inch.
"Hold on!!!"
Ning Kui gritted his teeth and roared, as the water from the deep pool continuously replenished the giant hand, repairing the trend of collapse.
He himself took advantage of this fleeting moment to quickly escape the area covered by the boulder.
"boom!!!"
A deafening roar, like a cannonball exploding, echoed as the boulder shattered the giant hand of the water flow and crashed against countless enormous rocks in the mountain ravine.
The powerful airflow generated by the impact spread out like a hurricane of force 10 or higher, sending Ning Kui tumbling backward.
The moment he landed, he quickly got up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and stared intently in the direction from which the flying stone had come.
But then he saw an old white ape with white beard and hair, its eyes red, raising a huge boulder the size of a small mountain and roaring at him.
"Humans! Pay for my son's life!"