My Arms Can Turn into Blades-Chapter 126 - 119: Monkey

The time shifts back slightly.

Chen Lusi leaned against the tree trunk, trying hard to steady himself until the sound disappeared.

No one spoke.

After all, what should he say?

Answer the other party?

Or say it was all a misunderstanding?

He felt neither was appropriate.

... This was entirely an unforeseen disaster.

This journey was fraught with events, and if he traced the source, it seemed to be related to him flipping through the ’Descriptive Book’ in Kunlun.

If he didn’t flip through the Descriptive Book, there wouldn’t be any alteration.

Kunlun wouldn’t have been struck by lightning.

That Tianze named Li Ge wouldn’t have rushed to aid in such a hurry.

The subsequent internal conflict in the Monkey Anomaly Realm wouldn’t have occurred.

Xia Yue wouldn’t have fought with Li Ge.

He wouldn’t have been dragged into the Monkey Anomaly Realm because of that.

The origin of it all... was because he read the Descriptive Book.

God?

Chen Lusi moved his hand away from the tree trunk and sighed.

If only that were the case.

But the problem is... he wasn’t.

He didn’t even know what was going on.

Let alone explain it to others.

Right now, more than anyone, he longs for an answer.

The sound gradually faded away.

Chen Lusi patiently waited for a while, and when he noticed the sound didn’t reappear, he let out a sigh of relief, thought for a moment, and then began to walk forward.

Staying where he was definitely wasn’t viable.

The fact that the Anomaly Realm intentionally pulled him in clearly indicated a purpose.

If he stayed in place and they really came to find him, he didn’t think he could handle it.

Moreover, he remembered Xia Yue saying that not only could people from the Celestial Strategy Mansion enter the Anomaly Realm, but people from Self could as well.

Therefore, he should go find the main group.

They were more professional than him and perhaps could give him a good suggestion, and it would be nice to have someone to rely on.

With this thought in mind, Chen Lusi began to walk in the direction where he last saw the main group from the Celestial Strategy Mansion before being pulled in.

At first, everything seemed peaceful.

He neither encountered any enemies nor anything strange.

But as the distance lengthened, strange things began to happen.

As Chen Lusi walked, he suddenly saw a monkey — a short-tailed monkey with dark brown fur on its back, small in size, and with an extremely short tail.

It stood atop a tree branch, staring intently at Chen Lusi.

"..."

Chen Lusi paused his steps, looking at the macaque that appeared out of nowhere, and directly changed direction, heading another way.

But he hadn’t walked too far when he saw monkeys again.

This time, there were two.

Chen Lusi changed direction once more.

But still, he couldn’t escape, and this time there were three...

Seeing three monkeys on the tree, Chen Lusi’s steps faltered, then he continued forward.

This time, he didn’t change direction.

It was obvious... escaping was no longer possible.

The other side had already found him.

No matter how many times he changed direction, he would still encounter the monkeys.

So he decided not to make any futile efforts and moved forward to see what would happen.

...

Rustle, rustle, rustle.

Footsteps echoed.

In the primal forest.

Chen Lusi moved forward unhurriedly. Although his expression didn’t change much, a hint of tension could be seen in his body language.

Because there were simply too many... too many monkeys.

Even though he had mentally prepared himself.

He truly hadn’t expected it to escalate like this.

On tree branches, vines, along the path, on both sides, all around...

Everywhere he looked, there were monkeys. Initially, they were only monkey species—short-tailed monkeys, wart monkeys, macaques, mandrills, pygmy long-tailed monkeys...

But gradually, as the distance lengthened, apes appeared too.

Those brown apes, big apes, and chimpanzees, almost human-sized, started to emerge one by one.

Finally.

Looking around, Chen Lusi saw nearly all were monkeys.

At least a hundred monkeys were staring intently at him.

They neither shrieked nor made any movements, just stayed quietly and watched Chen Lusi.

As if awaiting something.

A hundred gazes.

The psychological pressure was immense.

Chen Lusi walked another few meters, seeing the monkeys continuing to increase, and finally gave up.

He slowly came to a stop, looked around, sighed, and then looked at one of the monkeys and spoke, "I’m sorry, I think you’ve misunderstood."

There was no response.

After a moment of silence, Chen Lusi was just about to speak again.

But as the monkeys around him saw that he had indeed stopped, they finally began to move.

They jumped down from the trees and moved along the vines, approaching from both sides.

They began closing in on Chen Lusi.

Chen Lusi saw a dense crowd of monkeys approaching, and his right hand slowly clenched into a fist.

Very quickly.

All the monkeys surrounded him, circle after circle, due to their sheer number.

Chen Lusi found himself unable to move.

"...Tell me."

A long-armed ape with a flat nose, protruding forehead, white head, and cyan body broke away from the encirclement, crawled up to Chen Lusi, supported itself with its forelimbs on the ground and spat out in human language, "Why?"

Chen Lusi gave it a glance, remained silent for a moment, then said, "...Sorry, I don’t know, I don’t even know what you’ve encountered, I’m not the god you speak of, I can’t give you an answer, perhaps you can seek help from the Celestial Strategy Mansion."

"Why?"

The long-armed ape seemed not to hear him, suddenly raised its long arms, and started pounding the ground frantically, raving, "I don’t have white ears! My flesh can’t make people swift as the wind! I am not Sheng Sheng!"

"I don’t have four ears! The sound I make is not a moan! I am not Changyou!"

"My fur is not clean! My limbs are not crimson! I am not Zhu Yan!"

"There are no patterns on my arms! My tail is not like a leopard’s! I am not Ancestor Ju!"

"I don’t fall to the ground and laugh when I see people! I don’t have a cow’s tail, a horse’s hooves! My eyes aren’t red, my body isn’t yellow!"

"I am not a Demon Monkey!"

"I am not a Funeral Monkey!"

"I am not a Deceitful Monkey wearing a human-skin mask!"

"I am not that monkey on a pilgrimage for scriptures! I am not called the Monkey King! I’ve never been to the Celestial Palace! I am not!"

"I am not!!!"

"..."

It was madly pounding the ground, becoming more and more deranged as it spoke.

And the eyes of the monkeys surrounding Chen Lusi, originally calm, all turned scarlet.

It looked like madness was imminent.

Chen Lusi took a step back silently.

He said nothing.

In the next second.

After venting.

The long-armed ape that was crazily pounding the ground suddenly calmed down.

It froze for a moment, then sluggishly said, "Then...who am I, really?"

"Monkey?"

Chen Lusi, hearing this, paused and gently reminded.

"..."

This time the long-armed ape with a white head and cyan body finally heard him.

It was stunned, slowly raised its head, looked at Chen Lusi, and a hint of clarity emerged in its eyes, then, like a human, showed a pleading expression, saying, "Isn’t it enough? Upper God, I just want to go home..."

Chen Lusi: "..."

At the moment the long-armed ape with a white head and cyan body regained its clarity.

He clearly saw...

Including the leading long-armed ape...all the monkeys surrounding him had a string above their heads.

But unlike when Sun Rensheng controlled the dead.

The strings above their heads were much thicker and more solid, shimmering with a dazzling array of colors.

Chen Lusi cast his gaze at the string above their heads.

He only looked for a short while.

Countless images appeared in his mind.

A deceitful monkey wearing a human’s skin, eerie and unsettling.

Laughable yet terrifying upon reflection, a monkey dressed as a woman marrying someone.

Of course, aside from these strange images.

More were the images of the monkeys in that supernatural novel.

People’s countless imaginings about monkeys...seemed to converge on that one string.

Chen Lusi gazed at the string above its head, somewhat lost in thought.

"It’s still not enough..."

Seeing Chen Lusi not speaking.

Without getting an answer, the clarity vanished once again from the long-armed ape’s eyes.

It suddenly let out maniacal laughter.

And as the laughter echoed, the many monkeys surrounding Chen Lusi began to gradually disappear.

Finally.

The long-armed ape with a white head and cyan body also became ethereal.

"I stir up trouble, but after redeeming my sins for so long, you imprison my body, directing all the legends about monkeys at me, for thousands of years, isn’t that enough, Yu?"

"I just want to go home..."

As the final sentence fell.

The long-armed ape with a white head and cyan body completely vanished.

Then, the piercing and resounding cry of a monkey suddenly rang out!

The entire monkey anomaly realm shook violently!

As if boiling oil had been poured into water.

The ground trembled.

Chen Lusi couldn’t even stand steadily.

He staggered, sensing something, painstakingly lifted his head.

In mid-air, a massive phantom of a monkey was reflected in his pupils.

Simultaneously reflected in his pupils was also a...a vibrant ’Stone’ gleaming like a blue sapphire, comparable in size to the one on the Kunlun Bronze Gate.

Chen Lusi’s pupils constricted.

This is, the true form of the Monkey Anomaly Realm...?

But before he could react.

Ahead, not far away, a violent spiritual fluctuation was felt again.

Along with it came a voice, seemingly...Jin Yi?