Chương 153: Demonic Ape Essence Blood

After answering Fang Yang's questions, Daoist Qisha once again disappeared into the void. With this quasi-saint as his protector, Fang Yang felt not only completely at ease but also extremely secure.

"This senior's cultivation is so high, no wonder he is a guest of Zixiao Palace."

"In the past, we were too narrow-minded. We always thought that the guests in Zixiao Palace, apart from giants of heaven and earth like Senior Styx and Senior Zhenyuan, were only people like Daoist Ran Deng. It turns out that Daoist Ran Deng was just a rather special one among the guests in Zixiao Palace."

"That day will come. As long as we serve our teacher and senior brother Fang Yang well, we may still have hope of advancing to quasi-saint."

The realm of saints is too ethereal and unattainable; even Daoist Qianyao and others wouldn't dare to dream of it. In their eyes, saints and they are from two different worlds.

Quasi-Saints are a different story; the Quasi-Saint realm is the lifelong pursuit of most disciples of Saints. Conversing face-to-face with a living Quasi-Saint, the immortals felt as if they were confronting their own future, their tension and excitement indescribable.

Hearing the immortals' words, Fang Yang nodded secretly.

Every Great Luo Golden Immortal should aspire to advance to the Quasi-Saint realm; only by achieving Quasi-Saint status can one reach the pinnacle. Opportunity favors the prepared.

With his worries gone, Fang Yang took the Heaven-Mending Stone and led the immortals to the Water Curtain Cave.

The Heaven-Mending Stone was crafted by the goddess Nuwa, and he has a profound connection with it. Fang Yang intends to bring it back to Golden Turtle Island so that it can take human form there. In this way, the Jie Sect can forge a positive relationship with Nuwa's Palace.

Only by developing as many friends as possible and keeping as few enemies and useless allies as possible can the Jie Sect ensure its long-term prosperity.

Rumble!

Huaguo Mountain is an extremely special blessed land; it is both a blessed land for spiritual practice and possesses a grotto-heaven. Even Qingcheng Mountain is not called a blessed land.

This is all because Huaguo Mountain has a very special geographical location; the ancestral veins of the Ten Continents and Three Islands all originate at the foot of Huaguo Mountain.

Admittedly, the spiritual energy at the source of an ancestral vein is not necessarily more concentrated than in other parts of the vein. Just like the Yangtze River, the source of the Yangtze has a relatively small flow, while the downstream and even the estuary of the Yangtze have the largest flow.

However, Huaguo Mountain is destined to have this good fortune. The ancestral lineage of the Ten Continents and Three Islands all originated from Huaguo Mountain, which has long earned it the reputation of "Huaguo Mountain, a blessed land, and the Water Curtain Cave, a celestial paradise".

Fang Yang wondered what connection the Chaos Demon Ape had with the Great God Pangu, and why Pangu would take such good care of the Chaos Demon Ape's descendants. He almost suspected that the Chaos Demon Ape was a time traveler who had become sworn brothers with Pangu during the chaotic era.

Of course, who Pangu liked to swear brotherhood with was not of much concern to Fang Yang, who had already led the immortals to the outside of Huaguo Mountain Grotto.

Rumble!

A massive waterfall cascaded down from the mountaintop, its waves crashing into the pool below, causing a series of enormous explosions. The force of the waterfall alone was equivalent to a powerful celestial being unleashing their full power in a relentless bombardment of the pool below.

Beyond this waterfall lies the entrance to the Water Curtain Cave.

"Let's go in."

Fang Yang flicked his finger, and the waterfall in front of him automatically parted, leaving a vacuum zone about two meters wide in the middle. Fang Yang transformed into a beam of divine light and entered the Water Curtain Cave.

Upon seeing this, the immortals followed closely behind.

Beyond the waterfall lies not a cave, but a void. Above this void floats a vast, otherworldly realm.

Fang Yang and the others immediately spotted a massive portal on the surface of the cave world. This portal was covered in ancient innate runes, blocking anything that wanted to enter the Water Curtain Cave.

Fang Yang was not a destined person of the Water Curtain Cave, therefore, the Water Curtain Cave kept its doors tightly shut and did not intend to welcome Fang Yang in.

"Senior brother, are the monkeys not all dead yet?"

Upon seeing this, Daoist Chaotian couldn't help but feel somewhat disappointed. Flower Fruit Mountain was already his Daoist temple, and he wouldn't allow any areas within it that he couldn't control.

Fang Yang did not answer immediately. He activated the power of his second physical body and sent his thoughts directly into the Water Curtain Cave.

With the World Tree in his possession, no plane, grotto-heaven, or small world can refuse him. He can invade any grotto-heaven or blessed land at any time, whenever he wants.

As soon as Fang Yang's consciousness entered, he was shocked: the Water Curtain Cave had been petrified!

The Water Curtain Cave should have been a beautiful and picturesque place, with its own sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, birds, beasts, flowers, insects, and fish. However, when Fang Yang's divine sense entered it, he only saw a world of stone.

Inside the cave, both living and non-living things were petrified. Even the flames on the sun star went out, and all the essence of the sun star disappeared, turning into a pile of large stones that could no longer emit light or heat.

"All the essence and spiritual energy of this grotto-heaven disappeared. Living beings, the earth, and the spiritual veins all lost their vitality, which is why they turned into stone."

"All the essence and spiritual energy of this grotto-heaven disappeared. Living beings, the earth, and the spiritual veins all lost their vitality, which is why they turned into stone."

Fang Yang scanned the interior of the cave several times with his senses, and soon he knew what had happened in the Water Curtain Cave. Even Fang Yang couldn't help but gasp several times upon reaching this conclusion.

He didn't even need to investigate further to know that everything that happened in the Water Curtain Cave was not accidental; it was all man-made.

Whoosh!

Fang Yang darted towards the center of the cave. There lay a stone forest, overgrown with towering stone trees and vines. This indicated that this place had once been a vast forest.

Soon, Fang Yang arrived at the center of the Stone Forest.

"These... these are monkeys!"

Fang Yang fixed his mind on the spot, looking at the rows of petrified monkey-shaped stone statues in the center of the stone forest, their bodies frozen in a terrified posture, and his mind became focused.

He finally understood how the monkey tribe had been wiped out.

The great beings of the heavens had long foreseen the extinction of the monkey race. The fortune of heaven and earth all have their masters; the fortune that once belonged to the monkey race returned to the heavens, inevitably leading to their annihilation.

However, no one ever knew how the monkey tribe was wiped out. Now, Fang Yang has found the answer.

His thoughts turned toward the very center of the forest, to the towering altar.

On the altar, a giant monkey with a hairy face and a thunder god's mouth sat cross-legged in a stone pool, its hands forming a hand seal, its face showing pleasure. In the blood pool was a pool of deep red divine blood.

Fang Yang sensed a rich aura of chaos from the divine blood. This aura was many times purer than that emanating from the Chaos Fire Raven's egg.

The giant monkey opened its mouth and made a frantic sucking motion towards the blood pool, as if it wanted to suck the divine blood in the pool into its mouth.

"This giant monkey is the Spirit Stone Monkey, could it be the Fighting Sacred Ape!? The divine blood in this blood pool is the essence blood of the Chaos Demon Ape!!!"

"According to the novel's plot, it must have been that the Fighting Saint Ape, in order to achieve the body of the Chaos Demon Ape, attempted to refine the entire monkey clan to replenish its own blood, which led to the destruction of the entire monkey clan."

"We can't say that the Fighting Holy Ape destroyed its own race to test its own strength or to protect the peace of the forest."

Seeing the scene before him, Fang Yang began a brainstorming session.

However, whether the truth is truly as he speculated is perhaps a matter for fate to decide. The monkey population is extinct, and there were no eyewitnesses who survived the incident; the truth about the monkey population's extinction will likely remain forever buried.