On the peak of Cloud Cliff, Chen Xu's wide sleeves fluttered in the wind.

Within his sleeves was a small mouse, and on his shoulder perched Wei Yuan.

Though he was heading to Pingyang Prefecture to take an examination, the worldly pursuits of fame and fortune seemed incredibly distant to him at this moment.

Everything from Xiaopo Village drifted away, and even the grudges with the monkey demons in the mountains seemed insignificant.

The moonlight washed away all the dust of the mortal world, its silvery brilliance lightly draped over the earth, resembling an ink painting, imbued with poetic elegance.

Chen Xu couldn't help but laugh aloud, his steps as swift as the wind, and in a moment he was descending the mountain along the path beside the dense forest on the eastern side.

"To sing while drinking wine, how short life is."

"In a hundred years, there are thirty-six thousand days, each day should see three hundred cups drunk..."

The night after drinking is always different from an ordinary night.

Wei Yuan, sitting on Chen Xu's shoulder, was captivated as he listened to the verses recited aloud, inevitably feeling entranced.

The first line was a poem by Cao Mengde, the hegemon of the Northern Wei, but the latter line Wei Yuan had never heard before.

He presumed it was a new work by Chen Xu, deeply admiring the bold spirit within the verse about "three hundred cups a day."

Just as he wanted to hear the entire poem and inquire about the whereabouts of the Ghost Market, he suddenly heard Chen Xu, smiling, ask, "Which fellow Daoist is visiting? Hiding in the dense forest is no act of a hero, why not show yourself?"

Wei Yuan's heart leapt abruptly.

He wasn't sure why, although Chen Xu asked with a smile, Wei Yuan felt an indescribable chilling killing intent in that instant.

Before he could figure out the source of this killing intent, suddenly a flash of cold light appeared beside him.

No, the cold light Wei Yuan saw was actually delayed.

Because as the cold light appeared, the sound of shock and anger had already sounded on the other side: "You... ah!"

A painful cry and a muffled grunt.

Boom——

From the dense forest, a gigantic black shadow suddenly rose.

That black shadow was more than three zhang tall.

The sharp cold light, with an unpredictable force, directly struck the left chest of that gigantic black shadow.

If it weren't so towering, with a stature like a giant, that strike of cold light would have pierced completely through its chest!

However, in this world, many attacks cannot surpass the power of sheer size.

As long as it's enormous enough, lethal damage can be reduced to an ant going through the eye of a needle.

That black shadow was too high and too large; it groaned and roared furiously.

Rumble!

It stepped forward with its tree-like long legs, crashing into one giant tree after another on the side, and as the trees fell, Wei Yuan finally saw its form clearly.

It turned out, it turned out to be a giant black ape!

Chen Xu was not short, tall and slender, considered very tall among ordinary people.

But no matter how tall one may be, facing an ape three zhang tall... no, to be more direct, facing an ape ten meters high, like a three-story building, one would inevitably seem insignificant.

At that moment, Wei Yuan sitting on Chen Xu's shoulder, felt all the spines on his body sharply stand on end.

He was so nervous he almost forgot how to react.

Only to hear that black ape roar in anger: "Human race, mind your own business, what kind of hero are you then?

A mere scholar, to perform a sneak attack, and you dare call yourself a hero? Ah..."

Before the black ape could finish speaking, Chen Xu moved.

That same cold light, that same Wu Hook.

Only this time, Chen Xu held the Wu Hook in his own hand.

His body flashed, and though it seemed nothing had begun, in the next instant, he appeared directly in front of the black ape's head.

Holding the Wu Hook, the hook raised high.

In a flash of lightning, a thunderbolt approached.

The Wu Hook slashed down, and in facing the giant black ape, it was as if he was merely chopping wood.

In this slash, majestic True Qi exploded.

Rolling Qi Blood like molten lava fell from the sky, accompanied by the moonlight, drawing power from ancient, incomparable poetry.

Such a huge creature as the black ape, usually required no extraordinary combat skills; it only needed to continually strengthen itself, making its physique as robust as a mountain, thus naturally subduing all with one force.

No magic or magical treasures, nor ingenious techniques, could typically pierce its fur's defense.

And it only needed an instant of collision to turn all obstacles ahead into dust.

It feared nothing, acting wildly and unrestrained.

Even when facing the old monkey king of the gray monkey clan, what it truly feared was not the other's trump card, but the possibility of actually killing the old monkey and consequently losing the only one who could brew the Thousand Delicacies Brew.

That Thousand Delicacies Brew, the black ape dared not lightly drink.

Though rough, it had its plan against the gray monkey clan.

The black ape planned well. It wanted to first break the backbone of the gray monkey clan, then press them step by step into panic, making them helpless, leaving them no choice but to bow down and submit.

Thus, even the gray monkey king had to bow its aged head.

From then on, obediently becoming its brewer, until it had enough confidence to drink the Thousand Delicacies Brew.

Or, until the old monkey improved the Thousand Delicacies Brew, removing its terrifying danger as a spirit wine.

As for this moment, the black ape appeared here —

Perhaps it should not be called merely a black ape, but by its rightful name, Heitian Lie.

Heitian Lie appeared here for one purpose only.

It wanted to warn this human who suddenly intruded upon the mountain that the gray monkey clan was its prey, and should the human race dare to aid the gray monkeys lightly, they'd face the wrath of the black ape king.

No, Heitian Lie was already deeply enraged.

Why bother with warnings? It wanted to immediately shred this human, to declare to the countless creatures of the Ten Thousand Hills Mountain Range that any who dared defy Heitian Lie would surely die without question!

However, no matter what, Heitian Lie could not have imagined that this human was even more violent than it.

No sooner said than done, the other struck with intent to kill.

With intent to kill wasn't enough; the other's earth-shattering strike carried an overwhelming momentum.

That enormous Qi Force descended like a blade capable of slicing mountains and crushing peaks, locking firmly onto it, slashing down.

In that moment, Heitian Lie felt a great and unprecedented crisis.

But at this moment, even though a thousand thoughts raced through its mind like streaks of light, in reality, its gigantic body couldn't even react.

It couldn't move, only letting out a hoarse, furious roar: "Human race, do you dare, ah!!!"

Boom!

Ultimately, that blade fell down.

Ruthless and relentless.

It was a blade Heitian Lie had never seen before.

The wielder of the

It couldn't move, only letting out a hoarse, furious roar: "Human race, do you dare, ah!!!"

Boom!

Ultimately, that blade fell down.

Ruthless and relentless.

It was a blade Heitian Lie had never seen before.

The wielder of the blade couldn't move, only letting out a hoarse, furious roar: "Human race, do you dare, ah!!!"

Boom!

Ultimately, that blade fell down.

Ruthless and relentless.

It was a blade Heitian Lie had never seen before.

The wielder of the blade couldn't move, only letting out a hoarse, furious roar: "Human race, do you dare, ah!!!"

Boom!

Ultimately, that blade fell down.

Ruthless and relentless.

It was a blade Heitian Lie had never seen before.

The wielder of the

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