Eternal Life: I Rely on Fortune Points for Improvement-Chapter 257 - 166: Enemies Cross Paths (Part 2)
"Roar!"
The White Ape, filled with righteous anger at the sight of its fallen and injured kin, let out a furious roar. The nearby Little Vajras, over two meters tall, wielding stone clubs, leaped over the sea of fire and charged into the valley.
The White Ape then harnessed the Power of Heaven and Earth with its hands, creating a cyclone that drew the flames into it, forming a fiery tornado that gradually dissipated in the air.
With the surrounding flames gone, the ground was littered with the charred bodies of monkeys. Those not burned to death had their fur singed off, their skin red and blistered, resembling infants, as they lay on the ground wailing.
"Roar roar!"
The White Ape was enraged.
It gave the command to kill all humans in the valley.
The monkey army behind it surged forward into the valley, fearless and relentless.
"How do we fight our way out of this?"
Jiang Feng felt a chill run down his spine.
Monkeys were everywhere.
It seemed as if the White Ape had summoned every monkey from Huaguo Mountain, and Jiang Feng felt as if he was surrounded by countless troops.
Seeing the Second Prince’s men guarding the Spiritual Spring battling the monkey army, Jiang Feng decided to retreat further into the valley.
"A cave?"
"Is the Spiritual Spring inside the cave?"
As Jiang Feng retreated to the depths of the valley, he noticed a cave at the far end. The Power of Heaven and Earth flowing into the valley ultimately converged towards this cave.
"Should I go in or not?"
Jiang Feng was conflicted.
If he fled into the cave, he feared that being cornered by the monkey army would leave him with no way out.
Yet if he tried to fight his way out now, Jiang Feng was unsure whether he could bypass the White Ape.
What unsettled him most about the dense monkey army was the White Ape itself.
In a one-on-one fight, Jiang Feng might stand a chance, but a single call from the White Ape could send the monkey army into a frenzy. If all the monkeys charged at him, no matter how fast his Saber Technique or how refined his Body Technique, he feared he couldn’t break through.
"Maybe I should hide in the cave first, wait for the White Ape to clash with the Second Prince’s men, and then use the chaos to escape."
Jiang Feng pondered.
Facing only the White Ape or only the monkey army, Jiang Feng could manage, but if the White Ape combined forces with the monkey army, it would be overwhelming.
"Eek eek!"
Suddenly, as Jiang Feng was debating whether to hide in the cave, a group of monkeys descended from the top of the valley along the cliff face and ran into the cave.
"Boom!"
The monkeys near the cave seemed to trigger a mechanism or touch an array, transforming instantly into a mist of blood at the entrance.
"This is..."
"A trap mechanism."
"An array?"
"The Spiritual Spring must be inside the cave."
"The Second Prince definitely has a backup plan."
Jiang Feng was astonished.
The fate of the monkeys made him realize that seeking refuge in the cave might not be as easy as he thought.
"Roar!"
At that moment.
The White Ape’s Brown-haired Vajra mount, wielding a stone club, smashed a powerful practitioner of the Qi Refining Realm into a pulp. The faint fluctuations of the Power of Heaven and Earth around it suggested either a racial talent or that it had reached the Innate level.
It leaped to the entrance of the cave.
Thrusting the stone club it held in its hand into the cave.
"Buzz!"
This time, Jiang Feng saw clearly that at the cave entrance, where the stone club made contact, a shimmer appeared, likely the power of the array. Cracks formed on the Brown-haired Vajra’s stone club.
After the shimmer produced a ripple, the stone club in its hand shattered into pieces.
The Brown-haired Vajra was also blown back by the force, landing thirty meters from the cave entrance, but it quickly got up, hefting a large boulder the size of a water tank, and hurled it into the cave.
"Bang!"
No shimmer from the array appeared.
The stone easily entered the cave, echoing from within.
"Eek eek!"
Then another Red-haired Vajra arrived, carrying an Upper Three Grades human expert, who was the middle-aged man previously speaking with the White Ape, fluent in Beast Language. Now, he was bloodied and unrecognizable.
The Red-haired Vajra threw him toward the cave.
"Buzz!"
Just as the middle-aged man was about to pass through the cave entrance, the shimmer from the array appeared, rebounding him back.
He fell in front of the Brown-haired Vajra.
"Bang!"
The Brown-haired Vajra smashed the middle-aged man’s head with one stomp.
Exchanging glances with the Red-haired Vajra, the two monkeys eeked to each other a few times, and Jiang Feng watched as they rushed at the cave, attempting to force their way in.
"Buzz!" 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
When the two monkeys encountered the array shimmer, the expected scene of them being repelled did not happen. Instead, they were working together to tear open the light barrier, ignoring the lightning coursing through their scorched fur.
It seemed they were acting under the White Ape’s orders, trying to destroy the array at the cave entrance.
"Boom!"
Just as Jiang Feng marveled at the two monkeys’ resilience against the array’s power, a palm seal shot out from the cave, blasting both monkeys away. The immense force sent them flying, blood spraying in mid-air, and they crashed forty meters from the entrance, howling in pain and unable to rise for a long time.
Jiang Feng then saw a silhouette emerge from the cave.
A familiar silhouette.
Celestial Profound Fourth, Liu Jinhu!
"The Second Prince actually left him here."
Jiang Feng was startled.
He quickly hid himself as securely as possible, not daring to cast another glance.
"Such a fool, I should’ve realized earlier. With the importance of the Spiritual Spring, the Second Prince was bound to have a contingency, and Liu Jinhu was his most trusted choice."
Jiang Feng belatedly realized.
Overcome with regret, he realized he shouldn’t have approached the valley in the first place.
