The sun is high in the sky.
Chang Ping and his group were slowly advancing towards the center of the Gulan City ruins.
The guide, Old Man Li, held the map in his hands with a gloomy look on his face.
He suspected that the map that Elder Hu Shuo gave to his brother-in-law was fabricated. He had clearly bypassed the monster's lair according to the markings on the map, but their team still encountered a very fierce attack, and several warriors and attendants were slightly injured.
At first, he suspected that this was related to his brother-in-law's weapon that could make a loud noise, and suspected that it was it that attracted the monsters.
But later, the son-in-law was no longer needed, and the number of monsters that came to attack not only did not decrease, but increased sharply.
Just like now, they were surrounded by a group of black-skinned, white-haired giant apes.
"Old Li, how did you lead the way? How did we get into the lair of the giant ape?" Chang Ping blamed. These clever beasts are all silver-level monsters and are very dangerous.
Generally speaking, bronze-level monsters are herbivorous, silver-level monsters are omnivorous, and gold-level monsters are carnivorous.
Although the giant ape eats fruits, it also eats meat. If they don't eat the sixteen lumps of fresh white flesh and blood that were delivered to their doorstep, they would be too sorry to the merciful and generous demon god.
"I don't want to either, son-in-law." Old man Li shrugged innocently, "There's something wrong with the marking of the monster's nest on the map. Maybe the monsters were influenced by the adventurers from our City of Glory and moved their nests."
He didn't believe that Elder Hu Shuo would give his son-in-law a fake map. He had no reason to do so. Would it be of no benefit to him to kill them?
No!
Old man Li suddenly remembered that Elder Hu Shuo's grandson Hu Tianlai had been pursuing Director Yang and wanted to win Director Yang over to his faction.
There are two factions in the Alchemist Association, one is composed of civilian alchemists headed by President Gu Yan, and the other is composed of aristocratic alchemists headed by Elder Hu Shuo.
The populists advocated that alchemy was for the benefit of all people and for the revival of the human race, and that it was a glorious and great cause.
The aristocratic faction is very utilitarian, and only wants to make money, some are even profit-driven.
Since Gu Yan is the president, the civilian faction often has the upper hand over the aristocratic faction, and the prices of pills in the Alchemist Association are generally relatively cheap, so even civilians can afford them if they save up some money.
The noble party is very dissatisfied with the current strategy of small profits but quick turnover. They believe that they should hoard goods and make huge profits from them, so as to acquire a large amount of wealth and strengthen the family behind them.
If they could win over Yang Xin, the representative of the civilian faction, or simply kill him, their aristocratic faction would be able to overturn the current marketing strategy in a vote in the Elders' Council and start their money-making business.
Now the five kinds of elixirs, namely Soul Nourishing Pill, Soul Condensing Pill, Soul Tempering Pill, Red Flame Body Tempering Pill and Nine Revolutions Pill, are hot-selling. It is a great opportunity to make a lot of Monster Spirit Coins!
Thinking in this way, it makes logical sense that Elder Hu Shuo forged the map he gave to Chang Ping in order to kill Chang Ping and take Director Yang back.
"Is Elder Hu Shuo really so vicious?" Thinking of this, Old Man Li's hair stood on end. The power struggle among the top leaders of the association may have reached a serious level.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a basketball-sized rock flew toward Old Man Li's forehead.
Old man Li reacted quickly, raised his hand and punched the stone into powder with a rising dragon punch.
He looked closely and found that the giant apes were picking up rubble and stones from the ruins and throwing them at them.
"Holy Flame Demon Bear!" Chang Ping roared, urging the demon spirit to possess his body, and in the blink of an eye it expanded into a giant flaming bear about three meters tall.
Although the appearance of the space ring grew along with his body size, the internal space did not change at all. It remained the same cubic volume as before.
Chang Ping took out a giant pagoda pillar from his little finger ring, held it in his arms, and smashed it like a battering ram at the huge tree where the giant apes lived.
He hadn't upgraded the Holy Flame Demon Bear yet, and it was only level zero, with no attack or defense bonuses. However, after activating the demon spirit to possess it, it could increase its size, making it easier for him to use the pagoda pillars flexibly.
Although the monster spirit is very weak now, Chang Ping's body is very powerful, and its attack power is not weaker than any black and gold two-star monster.
When the giant apes discovered Chang Ping rushing towards their lair, they all went crazy and threw the "bombs" they had picked up at Chang Ping.
Bang, bang, bang!
What the Cangbi Giant Apes never expected was that all the shells they threw were smashed into powder by Chang Ping's stick.
The Cangbi Giant Apes should be thankful. If the bricks and rubble were not so old and no longer solid, they would have returned with even greater force and smashed their heads!
"Tiger Attack Palm!"
Chang Ping held the giant pillar of the pagoda with his hairy armpits and slapped the stunned giant ape through the air.
"Ouch!"
A tiger covered with spots all over its body roared and rushed towards the giant ape, opened its bloody mouth, and bit its head to pieces in one bite.
The headless corpse lost its balance and fell from the broken high wall, falling heavily to the ground with a thud, crushing an innocent bush.
After killing the target, the Golden Star Black Tiger returned along the same route, shrank from big to small, and sank into Chang Ping's furry bear paw.
Chang Ping frowned slightly and muttered, "It would be better if Tiger Attack Palm was a group attack skill."
If he could use the Black Sky Dragon Flame now, he could kill these giant apes with one move of Dragon Star Cluster.
After killing the ape to scare the others, Chang Ping continued to pick up the giant pillar of the pagoda and rushed towards the towering tree.
The giant apes looked on helplessly, and none of them dared to attack anymore.
"roar--"
A roar that split the sky and the earth came from the crown of the giant tree. The sound was like a gust of wind, shaking the entire ruins of Gulan City.
The giant apes changed color when they heard the sound. They picked up stones again and attacked Chang Ping and the women of Chang Ping.
"Bang, bang, bang!" Chang Ping smashed the stone into powder with a stick, put his hands on the sunshade, and looked up.
I saw a majestic monkey king squatting on the tree canopy. He wore a flower crown on his head, his hands on his hips, and his muscles were strong and big.
While Chang Ping was observing it, he was also looking at Chang Ping.
"Dragon Crash!"
Chang Ping had no intention of exchanging glances with it. He held onto the giant pillar of the pagoda and directly attacked the ancient tree.
Boom boom boom boom!
Chang Ping rushed out in all directions in the blink of an eye. The ancient trees shook violently and leaves fell everywhere.
Crackling!
The giant ape on the tree fell down like dumplings in a pot.
"Come again!" Looking at the dent on the giant tree caused by his impact, Chang Ping launched the dragon attack again.
Boom boom boom boom!
The force of the collision was equivalent to a full-strength attack from a Black Gold four-star warrior.
A black-gold four-star warrior with a strength of 400,000 jin, the ancient tree is now equivalent to being hit eight times in a row by a 200-ton truck.
With a "crack", the ancient tree was broken in half.
With a loud bang, it fell into the ruins, crushing rows of rotten high walls. For a moment, rubble flew everywhere and smoke and dust rose up.
As the saying goes: When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter.
Their lair had been destroyed, and the group of giant apes immediately fled in all directions.
However, there was one person who was not afraid of death and stayed.
It was the Monkey King.
It crawled out of the ruins covered in dust and blood, staring with hateful ape eyes, like a Shura from hell.
(End of this chapter)