Heroically Liberating Poor Monkeys From Their Tyrant Dictator
Three days after the caravan left the village.
In the rock forest inside the mountain, filled with dark red light.
Huge stone pillars extended down from the ceiling, resembling long and gigantic tree trunks, forming into a majestic grey coloured stone forest.
Yami was retreating from battle in the rock forest.
Chirpchirpchirp…...
A bunch of stone monkeys stared with their green circular monkey eyes, chasing after Yami relentlessly.
"Moonglow Gu!" Yami called in his mind, his right arm chopping towards the direction of the monkey gang.
Pew.
An eerie blue moonblade as large as a face formed into a crescent and pierced through the air, cutting into the monkey gang.
A jade eye stone monkey was jumping in the air. With no foothold to escape on, it was hit directly by the moonblade.
Before it could scream, in the next moment, its entire body was split into two from head to toe.
It had lost all its remaining life force and was enveloped in a deep aura of death.
In a split second, its lively eyes became a pair of jade pearls. As its body descended, it turned into a rock statue.
Bam.
With a crisp sound, the statue fell onto the ground, smashing into pieces.
The moonblade only dimmed a little, and after killing this stone monkey, its force remained as it rushed for the monkeys behind.
Kachakkk…
After a few cries, five or six stone monkeys were killed on the spot.
Chirpchirpchirp!
Their companions' death fueled the monkey gang's rage as they screamed furiously, their influence doubling, imposingly leaping at Yami.
Yami was unfazed by the danger, his heart remaining as calm as ice. He fought and retreated appropriately. As the stone monkeys neared, he attacked with the moonblade.
The Moonlight Gu in the past, even with the boost from Little Light Gu, each moonblade could only kill one or two monkeys. But now, with one attack the Moonglow Gu could kill five or six stone monkeys.
But there were positive and negative impacts. The Moonglow Gu, to the current Yami, had a huge cost.
Each moonblade used 10% of his red steel primeval essence. Yami only had 44% primeval sea in his aperture.
This meant that he could only use four moonblades in one go.
"If I can successfully fuse the Four Flavors Liquor worm and refine my primeval essence, I would be able to shoot eight moonblades. What a pity. Even though I have the second Liquor worm and three out of the four flavours of wine, I am lacking the final one, I'm stuck at the final step," Yami sighed deeply.
Three moonblades later, his aperture only had 14% light red primeval essence left.
To play safe, he no longer used the moonblade, but activated the White Jade Gu.
The stone monkeys encircled him, the closest monkey jumping to Yami's leg and going into a frenzy. From down to up, it used its monkey head to hit Yami's chin.
Yami snorted, he wanted to use his fist to crush this overconfident monkey.
But suddenly he had a thought and stopped his hand, using his chin to receive the blow instead.
A moment before the point of impact, his chin shone with white jade cold light.
A loud bam sound resounded.
The force of the attack caused Yami's head to tilt back. But that monkey laid on the ground, hugging its head and rolling around the ground screaming in agony.
Without the White Jade Gu, Yami's chin would've been smashed. But now, Yami only felt slightly dizziness with no injuries.
But, even with the White Jade Gu's defense, he still had to withstand the impact of the attack.
Yami took a few steps back before recovering and seeing the scenery clearly before his eyes again.
He had intentionally withstood the monkey's headbutt earlier, it was to have this body get used to such attacks and get used to the slight dizziness.
This way, in the future when he falls into a life-and-death crisis, encountering such an attack, he would be able to recover much more quickly and fight for a survival chance.
Yami was always ruthless with his methods. This ruthlessness was not only towards enemies, but also himself!
He came here to kill stone monkeys almost every three days.
His motive was not just the Flower Wine Monk's strength inheritance, but also another motive — to utilize the stone monkeys to train his own fighting ability.
A Gu Master's physical stats, physical combat proficiency, aperture primeval essence, battle experience and every Gu worm, they were all elements that affected the overall battle strength.
Only by gathering all these elements tightly together can one exert the greatest fighting strength.
The stone monkey group was like a hammer, and Yami was the ingot that had just came out of the cauldron. With every hit of the hammer, he would become more sturdy, more refined, and more compact.
Fifteen minutes later, this battle ended.
On the ground, there were rock fragments all over the ground, and within those were dozens of jade pearls.
"I killed fourty-one jade eyes stone monkeys this time," Yami counted in his heart, and every time he would collate the battle results. From each battle, he'd reflect upon himself and improve upon what he did not do properly. At the same time, he would feel his own improvement speed.
"In the earlier battle, the Moonglow Gu was the most contributing factor, with three moonblades killing at least seventeen or eighteen stone monkeys. That is about half of the entire battle results, the remaining monkeys were all killed by my close combat.
Moonlight Gu's effect on the stone monkeys was not very obvious. But after advancing to Moonglow Gu, it jumped to being Yami's most powerful attacking method.
Not only was its attack power strong, but more crucially, its efficiency was very high.
Yami utilized three moonblades only in the span of a few breath's time, but when he used his fists and kicks to smash the stone monkeys, that took over ten minutes.
These stone monkeys were very agile and had swift movements.
When the stone monkeys were on the ground, there was no point thinking of hitting them physically. With a jump, they could easily leap away and avoid Yami's attack.
The only weakness was that when they jumped in mid-air, they couldn't change their moving direction. Yami being able to kill them, was due to this weakness.
But this was owing to his rich fighting experience. If it was any other Rank two Gu master, even Torune, Hana or Hashirama, they would not be able to catch the weakness every time like Yami.
His previous life's memories could allow Yami to sensitively catch the opportunities in battle and seize them. He could meticulously use every ounce of his strength. Even though he was Rank two, he could already utilize his fighting strength to the limit of his abilities.
He was definitely not like Naruto, having the Jade Skin Gu, but on the arena after being overwhelmed by Yami's aura, could not even display his supposed strength.
Of course, Yami's cultivation was still very low, and against the monkey group, he could not overwhelm them by brute force.
Every time, he had to fight while retreating.
Luckily, the monkeys did not have high intelligence. They could not adjust their attack patterns, and even after seeing Yami crushing them in mid-air many times, they still leapt towards Yami while attacking.
At the same time, every time they chased Yami, if it was too far from their homes, their longingness to their homes would overwhelm their anger. Many monkeys gave up on the chase due to this.
Gu are the essence of heaven and earth, humans are the spirit of all living things.
Yami is relying on the intelligence of humans to understand the stone monkeys' habits and using the correct fighting methods to get deeper into the rock forest, at this point he was already near the central area of the rock forest.
After many attempts, Yami finally exterminated the monkey group on this rock pillar.
Right now, in front of him, was the final pillar.
It was the largest and thickest rock pillar in this rock forest.
The pillar extended downwards from the ceiling, almost touching the ground. It emitted a majestic aura amidst the silence.
Yami counted the number of rock caves on the pillar, getting an estimation of at least five hundred stone monkeys. This was the largest monkey group he had encountered up till now.
But no matter how many jade eye stone monkeys there were, to Yami, it was just a small bit of trouble, at most he'd have to exert more effort and waste a few more trips.
What caused his gaze to become serious, was the rock cave at the most upper level.
The entrance of this cave was larger than any of the surrounding caves, at least twice as large if not more.
And below it, the caves were tightly cluttered together, forming and resembling a position where they were worshipping and revering.
"It seems that there is a monkey king in this rock cave." Yami frowned.
This was where the problem lay.
As long as a beast group is large, there would be a beast king created. There was a wild boar king in the wild boar group. Obviously there would also be a monkey king in the monkey group.
The threat of a beast king was multiple times higher than a normal wild beast.
The reason was that their bodies had one or two Gu worms inside. These Gu had a mutual partnership with the beast kings, and once the beast king is attacked, they would come out and assist.
"This jade eye stone monkey king should not be very strong, at least weaker than the wild boar king. Otherwise, the surrounding monkey groups would've been under his control already." Yami using his experiences, gauged the monkey king's strength.
Normally, the bigger the beast group, the stronger the beast king; weaker beast kings did not have the ability to rule over a large number of its kind.
According to the beast group's size and classifying of the beast kings, from low to high, they could be classified as hundred beast king, thousand beast king, and myriad beast king.
The wild boar king that sickly snake's group hunted was a thousand beast king, it ruled over a thousand wild boars.
The stone monkey king before Yami was a hundred beast king, it only had several hundred stone monkeys under its rule.
The culprit behind the wolf tide, the lightning crown wolf was a myriad beast king, every single lightning crown wolf ruled over at least ten thousand lightning wolves.
The difference in ability between the three beast kings, were huge.
Thousand beast kings needed three teams to cooperate together to be able to barely kill it. The sickly snake group was able to deal with the wild boar king, mostly due to it being injured beforehand.
A myriad beast king required the clan elders and clan leader to work together to be able to go against it head on.
As for hundred beast king, a regular five man group would be able to handle it.
But for Yami who wanted to deal with this monkey king, he could not borrow outside strength, and could only rely on his own power.
"Rank two initial stage primeval essence is ineffective here, it seems it is time to use the red steel Relic Gu." Yami eyed the rock cave deeply, then left the second secret room and closed the rock door.
If what stands in his way is a thousand beast king like the wild boar king, Yami would retreat without thinking.
But if it is only a hundred beast king, if Yami had Rank two middle stage cultivation, he could give it a shot.
Of course, the results could go either way. Even with middle stage cultivation, he still had roughly 75% chance of failure, his chances of success not even hitting 30%.
The translucent light membrane, faint red primeval sea and the surging waves.
On the sea surface, two fat white Liquor worms were absorbing the water. In the air above the sea, a black ladybug-like Black Boar Gu was shaking its wings and hovering around the red steel Relic Gu.
The pebble like White Jade Gu had sunk to the depths of the sea and was motionless.
Spring Autumn Cicada had concealed itself; it was in a deep slumber to recuperate.
"It is time." Yami willed; the sea waves paused, and a portion of primeval essence surged up and poured towards the red steel Relic Gu.
The red steel Relic Gu immediately shook and flew up, giving off bursts of red rays of light.
It was like the slowly rising sun, its rays of light shining upon the aperture wall.
The rays of light were as hot as fire and as dazzling as a sword.
The Black Boar Gu was soon unable to bear it and fell down to the primeval sea.
The two Liquor worms also sunk down to the depths of the primeval sea.
White Jade Gu was flashing inside the sea.
For Yami to advance to rank two middle stage with normal methods, he could only use the method of grinding; using his light red primeval essence to cleanse the light membrane aperture wall.
But now, red steel Relic Gu gave off majestic red light which replaced the light red primeval essence and poured directly into the aperture wall, giving astonishing results.
Yami could see the whole light membrane thickening at an astonishing pace.
The light on the light membrane condensed into streams of light, gradually changing to a water membrane. The white shimmering rays flowed continuously; becoming clear one moment and dark in the next.
Right now, Yami had advanced to middle stage!
However, the Relic Gu was still bursting with red rays of light.
The rays of light filled the whole aperture; it replaced the primeval essence and continuously injected its essence and foundation into Yami's aperture.
The water membrane accepted it all and the shimmering rays of light on it was like water as it flowed freely.
This continued on for about fifteen minutes.
Red steel Relic Gu had thoroughly exhausted all its energy; its body turned transparent and disappeared in the red light.
The penetrating red rays of light also suddenly dissipated with its disappearance.
The aperture recovered its tranquility once again.
However the water membrane had become much thicker. Using the red steel Relic Gu had saved Yami from wasting a lot of time and effort.
A thread of scarlet red primeval essence appeared in the primeval sea.
This was the rank two middle stage primeval essence. It was more condensed than the light red initial stage primeval essence. It sank to the depths of the primeval sea and lingered around the White Jade Gu.
A red steel Relic Gu could directly strengthen the foundation of the aperture. To a Gu Master, this meant advancing by a small realm.
This type of Gu worm was naturally better if used early.
To a Gu Master, higher cultivation meant stronger fighting force, better survival rate, more mission completions and also more primeval stones earnings. It had a great influence on every aspect.
After reaching the middle stage, Yami took several primeval stones and started recovering his primeval essence. He stopped only after the 44% percent primeval sea in his aperture had completely filled with middle stage scarlet primeval essence.
Half an hour later, he once again stepped into the stone forest, heading towards the central area.
He stepped into the warning zones of the monkey groups; immediately, furious jade eye stone monkeys came out of the stone pillars.
They screeched and pounced upon Yami.
Yami's expression didn't change, most of his attention was on that cave at the highest layer of the stone pillar.
When encountering a common jade eye stone monkey, there was no need to be nervous as long as you weren't surrounded by them. The main problem was the stone monkey king.
What Gu worms resided on it? Yami didn't know.
Yami slowly retreated while cautiously observing, but the stone monkey king didn't appear.
Yami was baffled, "Is there no monkey king in this monkey group? If there was a monkey king, then it would no doubt be the first to come out if someone infringed on its territory. Hold it, maybe it has already come out!"
Just as he thought of this, the sleeping Spring Autumn Cicada in his aperture suddenly floated into appearance. Its body was trembling as it gave a weak startled cry that resonated only within Yami's mind.
The vital Gu's warning!
This appeared only when the vital Gu felt there was an intense threat against the Gu Master's life.
In that split second, Yami's hairs stood up. Without thinking twice, he directly used the White Jade Gu.
A layer of bright white jade light covered his whole body.
In the next instant, the stone monkey king - who was three times bigger than a normal stone monkey - suddenly appeared on the left side of Yami and fiercely struck out with its sharp claws at Yami's left shoulder.
Bang.
The stone monkey king's attack was blocked by the White Jade Gu's defense; its attack failed.
In the instant Yami received this attack, the White Jade Gu in his aperture suddenly lit up and consumed five percent of the scarlet primeval essence.
If it was when Yami was at the initial stage, ten percent of light red primeval essence would have been used up.
From this, one could see how sinister and vicious the stone monkey king's sneak attack was.
Despite Yami having a calm character, he couldn't help breaking out in cold sweat at this moment. If it were not for him sharpening himself these days and polishing his condition to a peak combat state, he might have really been hit by the stone monkey king's attack.
Had his reaction been just a bit late, his left shoulder would have become crippled and unusable. Yami would then end up miserable just like Choza not long ago.
"There is actually a wild concealing-type Gu worm residing in this stone monkey king!" Yami hurriedly retreated, he had no way to detect a concealing Gu worm and ended up in disadvantage all of a sudden.
The stone monkey king seemed to be more cunning than normal stone monkeys. After its attack missed, it again hid itself away.
This undoubtedly was a huge mental pressure on Yami.
He used the White Jade Gu to form a defense around his whole body. Such a method used primeval essence every moment and it was impossible for him to maintain this defense.
Even when he had fought with the stone monkey troops before, he would only use the White Jade Gu at the crucial moment.
If he continued to maintain this state, then his primeval essence would completely dissipate not long after.
Over five hundred stone monkeys encircled Yami aggressively.
Yami used his greatest speed to retreat and pull some distance.
Some stone monkey's momentum became weaker, whereas some stomped on the ground and began to head back to their homes.
"Chirp!" Right at this moment, the jade eye stone monkey king appeared and commanded in a loud voice.
"Chirp chirp!" The stone monkey groups immediately responded; their confusion and hesitation disappeared and again started their chase after Yami.
Over five hundred jade eye stone monkeys were persistently chasing after him, but Yami didn't panic; his lips revealing a cold smile on the contrary.
This accident was already in his expectations.
He had chosen the easiest route towards the central area of the stone forest, opening up a passage. In the surroundings of the passage were large numbers of stone monkey groups.
Yami was very familiar with this passage.
However, with the low intelligence of these stone monkeys, how could they know? Under the supervision of the stone monkey king, they stormed through the stone forest, infringing on other monkey groups' warning zones and resulting in counterattacks from the other monkey groups.
The stone forest was in a great chaos!
Countless jade eye stone monkeys stood at their place, starting a massacre to defend their homes.
In ten or more years, the stone monkey king might even advance to become a thousand beast king and completely unify this stone forest. But now, it was only a hundred beast king and didn't have the ability to control so many stone monkeys.
The different groups of stone monkeys fell into a chaotic battle with each other.
For a moment, all Yami could hear was the screeching and screaming sounds of the stone monkeys.
Those five hundred stone monkeys that were chasing him were quickly entangled with the other stone monkey groups. But the stone monkey king still persisted on chasing after Yami.
Yami was attacking and retreating. In this period of time, he suffered many sneak attacks from the stone monkey king and every attack would consume great amounts of his primeval essence. Luckily, he had advanced to middle stage before this. Otherwise, with the initial stage primeval essence, he wouldn't have been to handle this consumption.
Yami landed in absolute disadvantage; he had not found any weakness in the stone monkey king.
The only chance to attack lay in the moment the stone monkey king was about to attack. But even if Yami was able to react, he had no time to even make an attacking movement.
The stone monkey king possessed a concealment-type gu worm and firmly held the initiative. It could attack Yami whenever it wanted to attack. Even if Yami injured it, it could use the concealment-type gu worm to safely escape; it was in an invincible position.
"Without a stealth-removal Gu worm, the probability to win this battle is extremely low! If I had a wide area attacking method, maybe I could give it a try. But Moonglow Gu...I will only be able to hit this stone monkey king if I am lucky, but the probability is too low."
Yami clearly understood the battle situation and immediately retreated.
However, the stone monkey king seemed to be determined to kill him.
Yami retreated to about a hundred meters from the rock door when he suddenly stopped.
"I only have a bit over 10% of my primeval essence remaining. It won't be enough to cover this hundred meters of distance. And even if I am able to enter the second secret room and close the rock door, this stone monkey king might just break the door!"
Yami had thought that the stone monkey king would give up after chasing him for such a long period of time. Yet who could have thought that it still persisted on chasing him.
He was already out of the stone forest now and around him was a patch of empty ground.
Countless stone monkeys were fighting chaotically in the stone forest, causing an uproar. Their noisy sounds kept on echoing within this empty space.
Yami didn't budge; his battle intuition told him that the stone monkey king was hiding somewhere, waiting for him to show a gap before making a fatal attack.
Yami knew he had already fallen into an impasse.
Normal Rank two Gu Masters would have already fallen apart from this fear, unable to endure this formless pressure.
But Yami was still calm.
This situation was also within his expectations, though its probability was very low. According to logic, the stone monkey king should also possess the stone monkey's habits and be reluctant to leave its home. But for some reason, this stone monkey king was hell bent on chasing and killing Yami.
"If you choose to take a risk, you need to be willing to risk your life!" Yami's eyes flashed with a cold light; he then took off his upper garment.
"11% primeval essence, this means two moonblades or sustain the monkey king's sneak attack twice. Relying solely on the Moonglow Gu or White Jade Gu will not do. My only chance is the instant where the monkey king attacks me, I have to grasp the opportunity and shoot the moonblade, instantly killing it!" Yami's thoughts sparked like flint, thinking of the most optimum strategy.
Stone monkeys did not have outstanding defense, and since the monkey king chose a sneak attack approach, it revealed that defense was its weakness.
One moonblade could slaughter five or six jade eye stone monkeys. Even if it couldn't kill the monkey king, it can still heavily injure it.
But do not think that this is easy; getting to this point is difficult, even if a group of Gu Masters came, without a stealth removal type Gu they would still lose their lives.
"This monkey is cunning, choosing not to attack, is it waiting for my primeval essence to be used up? Nevermind, I shall trust the Spring Autumn Cicada once and bet on this chance!" Yami instantly decided, his eyes shining with a cold and ruthless light.
He stood on the spot, both hands hanging beside him, holding the collar of his shirt. At the same time, he closed his eyes, only leaving a slit of visibility. What is more shocking is that he removed the defense of the White Jade Gu.
The expenditure of the primeval essence in his aperture, finally stopped. At the same time, he was no longer under the protection of the white jade light.
The rock forest continued to reverb with the cries and anguish of the monkeys, but Yami could feel that these noises were getting closer and closer to himself.
A type of calmness enveloped his heart and mind.
He was silently waiting for the stone monkey king's attack.
When it attacks, that is when the match is decided!
Waiting...
Waiting...
Suddenly, the Spring Autumn Cicada vibrated in the aperture.
Pew!
The very next moment, Yami heard an explosion and the stone monkey king appeared on his left!
"White Jade Gu!" Yami's eyes shone with brilliance as the white jade light covered his entire body.
Bam.
The stone monkey king hit Yami's body with a strong force, almost causing him to topple, his primeval essence dropping by 5%, only left with the other half!
Seeing that his attack did not finish Yami off, the stone monkey king tried to escape!
Yami had no time to counterattack, but it was enough for him to flick his upper shirt.
Suddenly, he felt that there was someone on his upper shirt, tugging towards the outside direction.
The shirt was not made of steel, and to prevent it from tearing, Yami let go of both hands, seeing the floating shirt fly around the place at a shocking speed.
"Now!" Yami's eyes shone with cold light as the battle's outcome would be decided with this moonblade, his heart cold and calm as ice.
The monkey king was afterall a wild beast, and after having its face covered by a shirt, it flew into a panic.
It emitted a shrill scream, calling its stone monkeys to help. At the same time the shirt continued to move around, changing directions and going all over the place.
An eerie blue moonblade flew out and hit the stone monkey king.
The monkey king cried in pain as its camouflage was exposed.
Its appearance was the same as a normal stone monkey, but its body size was three times bigger, and at the same time its eyes shone with a bloody red light.
A long and deep wound stretched from its chest to its left leg, blood continuing to pour from it.
Although not dead, it had already suffered a heavy injury, and the aura of death permeated its entire body. It covered its wound in shock, going invisible again.
Yami's upper shirt was cut open by his moonblade, falling onto the ground. But the blood traces exposed the monkey king, and it hurriedly retreated, no longer having the idea of killing Yami. With such a grave injury, if it did not deal with it, it would lose its life.
At this time, Yami also retreated to the rock door. After activating the moonblade, his aperture only had a little bit of primeval essence left, and his battle strength dropped drastically.
Although it looked like a draw, Yami had won.
The monkey king's injury could not be recovered shortly. The more blood it lost, the weaker it felt.
But Yami could use the primeval stones to recover his primeval essence and recover his battle strength.
Even without a stealth removal type Gu, nor a wide area attack method, with his rich fighting experience and the will of steel in the face of danger, Yami could beat the strong in a weaker state.
"Monkey, fox, snake, these wild beasts have extraordinary intelligence compared to ordinary wild beasts, and are more cunning. Because of this, they lack the wild courage and often retreat while injured. If it were a wild boar or bull, they would go into a frenzy while injured. This monkey king seems to only have one Gu worm. Although the Gu worm could grant stealth, it cannot hide blood traces, and if my guess is correct, it should be the Rank one stealth rock Gu."
Yami pondered in his heart, and relying on his memories, the monkey king had no more secrets in front of him.
"The results has been decided." Yami returned to the rock room, closing the door and replenishing his primeval essence.
A moment later, his primeval essence went back to its peak state, and Yami opened the rock door, being in the rock forest once again.
The rock forest was still a mess, but better than before.
"After this chaos, the entire rock forest's forces will be reset. The stone monkeys will relocate and regroup, and the roaming and isolated stone monkeys form into new monkey gangs. The path that I painstakingly created would thus vanish."
Yami's heart sank, he needed to kill the stone monkey king before this path is completely gone.
If not, opening this path would expend much of his time again, and by the time he got to the center again, the monkey king would've completely healed.
He shall chase after and annihilate lingering enemies with bravery, rather than be easily contented with fame and compliments like Xiang Yu.
Yami trailed along the opened path, invading the rock forest. The stone monkeys who appeared in his way were all exterminated.
Fifteen minutes later, he appeared at the central pillar once again.
The stone monkey king laid on the ground; it had turned into a statue and was already dead.
A jade eye stone monkey was stepping on its corpse, screaming about.
Replacing the title of king, with the death of the former king, a new king takes its place. Regardless of the beast group or human society, this was the cruel elimination system.
"Saved some effort of mine." Yami slowly got closer.
At this moment, a Gu worm slowly floated from the corpse of the stone monkey king, flying towards the new king.
Moonglow Gu!
Yami shot out a moonblade just in time, chasing away the new stone monkey king, then walking up and grabbing the Gu worm.
This Gu looked ordinary like a grey rock, with an uneven surface that was not even squarish nor spherical. If this Gu was thrown on the road, no one would notice it based on appearance.
But in reality, it was the essence of a rock, a natural Gu nurtured by Mother Nature.
It seemed like an inanimate object, a rock. But in fact, it was the real deal, a living being with its own consciousness and thought.
As Yami predicted, it was the Stealth Rock Gu.
Grabbed by Yami, it desperately struggled, trying to be free of his demonic grasp.
Spring Autumn Cicada.
Yami called in his mind, and the Spring Autumn Cicada appeared in his aperture, leaking a trace of its aura.
The Stealth Rock Gu instantly went dead, not daring to struggle, like a mouse meeting a cat.
Yami's red primeval essence activated and instantly refined it.
Another Gu in the bag!
The Stealth Rock Gu was kept in the aperture and sunk to the bottom of the primeval sea, side by side with the White Jade Gu.
The stone monkey watched helplessly at the side, and on seeing Yami keep the Stealth Rock Gu into his body, it frantically jumped about, screaming incoherently.
It had just gotten the new position, so not many monkeys obeyed it.
With another moonblade, Yami took a few more monkey lives. Those that gathered around their new king instantly dispersed.
The new stone monkey king gnawed its teeth at Yami.
"Scram." Yami stared at it, saying a word, with his expression cold as ice.
The monkey king shuddered, feeling the intense killing intent from Yami. It stared at Yami blankly before gulping and turning around to escape, showing its superior intelligence compared to wild beasts.
Yami chased these stone monkeys away and ignored them, getting to the bottom of the rock pillar as soon as he could.
As he got close, he found a cave below the rock pillar.
The cave was not big, and some rock stairs extended downwards into the darkness.
Yami had no investigative Gu worm, so he could not tell what was down there.
With the situation unclear, Yami did not enter the cavern and walk down the stairs. He had barged his way in earlier, and his body condition was not at its prime. Furthermore, the chaos in the rock forest was disappearing and was stabilizing.
He had spent much effort and time to open the path, but many stone monkeys were starting to reside in the pillars along the way.
"Haste brings no success. Now that I have found the inheritance clue, I have achieved my goal. It is time to return." Yami controlled the urge to investigate, and returned via the same route.
On the way, the pressure intensified but eventually, he endured the pressure as he was chased by hundreds of monkeys, tragically rushing out of the rock forest.