Chapter Eighteen: Acquiring Spoils of War

  It is said that when the army is defeated, it collapses like a mountain. The white-haired man led the little monkeys to launch a surprise attack, which became the last straw that overwhelmed Lu Yicheng and Da Hu Zi. They only felt wave after wave of chilliness, and they didn't even have time to collect Zheng Yuan Guang's body before they had the idea of running away.

  "Leave, and the green hills will remain; no need to worry about firewood!"

  But no one expected that the first to suggest running away was Cai Xia, who suddenly let out a loud shout and took out several talismans emitting spiritual light from her hand, slapping one on each of the people beside her.

  As soon as the talisman was stuck on their bodies, Lu Yichen and the other two felt a sudden surge of energy in their bodies. This energy was like a wave, rushing into their legs at an incredible speed. At the same time, a strong desire to run appeared in their hearts. In a flash of light, they floated up instantly, and then like a bolt of lightning, they rushed towards the distance, disappearing from sight in the blink of an eye.

  "Divine Movement Symbol!!"

  Lu Yichen saw it and couldn't help but feel overjoyed. His tense and nervous heart suddenly felt at ease.

  To know, during the Qi-refining period of a cultivator, it is fundamentally impossible to control and use flying artifacts, let alone fly using one's own spiritual power. Unless they have cultivated certain techniques, such as Wind Control Technique or Divine Movement Technique, they can't soar through the skies at high speeds. However, even if they do cultivate these techniques, due to the limited amount of spiritual energy within a Qi-refining cultivator's body, their speed still cannot reach the level where they disappear in an instant. The Divine Movement Symbol precisely solves this problem.

  It is a high-ranking master, using the divine art of engraving on spiritual symbols, possessing the magical power of traveling thousands of miles during the day and eight hundred at night. It is an essential item for low-ranking cultivators in the Qi Refining stage to travel through the Cultivation Realm.

  Of course, the price is also very expensive. Generally, a monk would not be able to afford one even if he spent his entire life savings, yet Cai Xia can take out several at once, her status is absolutely not ordinary.

  "Go!!"

  At this time, saying anything was superfluous. After a moment of joy, Lu Yichen's face flashed with a fierce expression. Before retreating far away, he reached into his storage bag and pulled out all the spirit symbols he had accumulated. He activated them with his full spiritual power and threw them in front of Qi Lei, then followed by retreating far away.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!!!

  Only a loud rumbling sound was heard, and those spiritual symbols turned into fierce lightning, transforming into sharp attacks. A brain-sized fireball, short and sharp blades, majestic long knives with a murderous aura, unexpected hidden stabs, and several even transformed into jackals, tigers, leopards, opening their bloody mouths, spreading their sharp claws, rushing towards Qi Lei.

  All these attacks add up to dozens, even hundreds of blows.

  In an instant, it was like a sudden stormy rain, and it rushed towards Zilei, shrouding him.

  "Whoosh!!"

  Zi Lei's expression turned solemn, he looked up at the sky and let out a long cry. His two wings flapped violently, generating strong gusts of wind that blew horizontally, meeting the fireballs, sharp blades, and long knives head-on. At the same time, his figure flashed, and his two sharp claws swiped forward, launching continuous attacks that neutralized the incoming assault.

  "You think your little tricks can stop me? Not a single one of you will leave here alive!"

  His eyes were icy cold, shooting out tiny glints of chill light. His feathers stood on end, and even the strange little flower in his mind's eye suddenly lifted its head and began to shake violently. The flower seemed weak and small, but this shaking caused the mist that shrouded the great mountain to disperse for a moment.

  "One word can gather so many accomplices, coming to kill me five times three times, let alone this time I have already killed one, absolutely cannot let them escape."

  He used to be a human being, and naturally he was very clear in his mind that as the shortest-lived creature in the world, the greatest characteristic of human beings is "driving away the young and inviting the old", today if they are allowed to escape, then who will have to flee in the future may be himself.

  Being too kind and soft will inevitably bring about one's own demise!

  However, the Divine Movement Symbol was a high-level cultivator's refinement, containing a large amount of spiritual energy within. In an instant, it could be unleashed, making people as fast as lightning, swift beyond imagination. Moreover, with the addition of Cai Xia and Lu Yichen, they felt that something was amiss and desperately urged their own spiritual energy to be released. In an instant, it brought out its true divine effect, and its speed was simply extreme. Even though Qi Lei's wings were extremely fast, after being blocked by the spirit symbol thrown out by Lu Yichen for just a moment, he could no longer catch up to them.

  After searching for a while, he found nothing and had to return to the previous battlefield.

  A large group of monkeys, led by Bai Mao, have begun cleaning up the battlefield.

  With his guidance, the little monkeys were still a bit mischievous, but they were already quite orderly. They dragged all the spoils of war, including the bodies of the bodyguards, to Zheng Yuanguang's side, arranged them neatly and quietly waited for him to dispose of them.

  Zi Lei's eagle eyes scanned them briefly, and he knew that the bodyguards were all ordinary people. Their combat strength might not be bad, but there was no spiritual power fluctuation on their bodies, so the swords they used would naturally be useless against him, and could only be used for monkeys to play with and practice.

  It was on Zheng Yuanguang's body that he found a small cloth bag tied around his waist, which had a very strong spiritual power fluctuation, and he remembered it very clearly. Lu Yichen's spiritual symbols were taken out of the cloth bag at his waist.

  "Is this what they call a storage pouch? It's actually quite useful for me!"

  As for that treasured sword with cracks in it, he actually looked down on it, but following the principle of "better than nothing", he still picked it up.

  "Squeak, Your Majesty, we have won! Squeak, we have won!"

  Bai Mao saw Qi Lei collecting the spoils of war and hurriedly ran forward, shouting repeatedly, excitedly waving his hands and stomping his feet.

  "Squeak squeak! With our great king in command, any future invaders will be killed without mercy!"

  Zi Lei originally wanted to nod in appreciation, but after hearing this sentence, his heart was moved and a strong sense of crisis arose.

  The helpers summoned by Yan Dao are getting stronger and stronger, first a group of "old masters", then a group of martial arts masters plus several cultivators. Will the next time be even more powerful cultivators? Can he still have a good chance of winning at that time?!

  "Grow stronger, only by constantly growing stronger can one survive."

  Of course, he can't just get stronger by himself. As a reliable assistant to Bai Mao, he has already proven his loyalty and should have some real power; otherwise, with two fists against four hands, he will eventually be at a disadvantage.

  Thinking of this, he flapped his wings and flew towards White Hair!

  "Oh no!"

  Baimao couldn't withstand the blow, his massive body was like a light straw, flying backwards and heavily falling into the thicket, making the originally chaotic battlefield suddenly quiet, all the little monkeys were scared to shrink their necks.

  "Spare our lives, Your Majesty! Spare our lives!"

  Bai Mao was so frightened that he trembled all over, nearly losing control of his bowels and bladder. Although he had been thrown to the ground, he didn't dare linger for a moment. He quickly scrambled to his feet and kowtowed repeatedly to Qi Lei, begging for mercy.

  "Hmph, shout all you want, after absorbing the essence of the sun and moon, according to the way I infused your body with demonic energy, it will surely come to fruition in the future!"

  Zi Lei's words were like a block of ice on a summer day, which made Bai Mao shiver with excitement and filled him with great joy and gratitude, truly treating Zi Lei as his reborn parents.

  "Thank you, Your Majesty! White Hair vows to serve with his life!"

  Qī Léi nodded and sternly swept his gaze over the envious crowd of monkeys, saying: "In the future, whoever establishes meritorious deeds will be able to obtain my Xiu Yao inheritance!"

  This sentence delighted the monkeys so much that they cheered endlessly, and the entire forest almost got turned upside down!

  The monkey tribe has always been stubborn and unyielding, with a temperament that is also prone to sudden changes in emotions. They are the most difficult to tame among all living creatures. However, as the saying goes, "where there's a flaw, there's also an advantage". Once the monkey tribe truly submits with a sincere heart, they will share joys and sorrows together for life, never changing their loyalty.

  After teaching Bai Mao the way of cultivation, Qi Lei still couldn't rest.

  As Yan Wang's backing grew stronger and stronger, he became increasingly anxious. Whenever he had a little time, he didn't dare to relax and hurriedly started cultivating.

  However, the third move of the "Eagle Claw Divine Technique" was extremely difficult to master and far from being as smooth as the first two moves. Moreover, the Monkey Wine had already been consumed, and the new batch did not have the same effect. He now had no external help to rely on and could only make slow progress through his own painstaking practice.

  "This won't do, if I can't break through the fourth layer quickly, and the Way of Speaking is gathering reinforcements, I'll only have to flee in defeat."

  With a furrowed brow, he suddenly thought of Zheng Yuanguang's storage bag.

  "The Beast Tamer's Notes" mentions the storage pouch multiple times, but only describes it in passing, as if it were a completely ordinary thing that didn't need to be explained. This has left Qi Lei at his wit's end. Even when he got his hands on Zheng Yuanguang's storage pouch, he was still clueless about how to use it.

  It is said that when one is ill, they will try any doctor. Being forced to the limit, he had no choice but to follow the method of the Shu Ling Bag, gritting his teeth as he experimented.

  He squeezed out a drop of essence blood, and then the Eagle Claw Divine Technique started to operate, condensing a strand of spiritual energy onto his claws. He then merged as much spiritual energy as possible into the essence blood, and carefully dripped it into the storage bag. Throughout this process, he focused all his attention on the essence blood, not daring to relax in the slightest.

  Although the storage bag was small, it could completely disperse a drop of essence blood on its surface, which was also a troublesome and laborious task. Fortunately, he had been practicing the "Refining Spirit Technique" diligently, and his spiritual awareness was stronger than that of cultivators of the same rank, so he didn't faint halfway through.

  "Haha, succeeded!"

  He let out a breath of relief and with a sweep of his consciousness, the items in his storage bag floated before his eyes.

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