Chapter 59: The Monkey King
Shi Yan was stunned by her reaction. What a weird thing? He scratched his head and felt numbness on his right hand. There was a wet mark on his sleeve. Ye Yier saw him looking at the water stain on his sleeve and her pretty face turned red. The water stain was the saliva mark she shed when she went to bed last night.
The main reason was that she slept so comfortably in Shi Yan's arms last night. She had a beautiful dream. She dreamed that Shi Yan sent her home. She entertained Shi Yan at home and asked the nanny to prepare a large table of sumptuous dishes. She drooled as she watched Shi Yan wolfing down the food. After all, she was the host and it was not good to snatch food from the guests. But when she woke up, she found that it was just a dream. She was still lying in Shi Yan's arms, and her saliva had wet a large area of ​​Shi Yan's sleeves.
She was so embarrassed that she didn't know what to do and really wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
"What is this?" Shi Yan asked curiously.
Ye Yier's face flushed, she grabbed his hand and pulled him up, "Hey, don't worry about what this is, come and take a look, something weird has happened!"
Shi Yan was pulled by her to the exquisite hut. There used to be a bonfire in front of the hut, but now it was a pile of ashes. Mingxiang, Xiaoli, and Zier were all gathered here. Their expressions were exactly the same as Ye Yier's. Shi Yan was puzzled. What was going on? Even Mingxiang, who was always cautious, showed such an expression. His curiosity was also aroused.
Seeing Shi Yan coming over, Ming Xiang raised her head and gave Shi Yan a bitter smile, "It's hurt again!"
After hearing her words, Shi Yan didn't react at first, but when he saw the little monkey she was holding, he understood what she meant. He asked Ming Xiang curiously, "Is it injured again?"
Mingxiang nodded, her face a little serious, "That's right."
Shi Yan picked up the little monkey and found that it was covered with scars just like what he found yesterday. Everywhere he looked, there were shocking scars.
Shi Yan frowned, "What's going on? Wasn't it cured yesterday?"
Mingxiang shook her head. "I don't know. Yi'er was the first one to discover it."
Shi Yan looked at Ye Yier, and she shook her head. "I woke up early in the morning and found it lying next to the house, breathing weakly. I woke up Sister Mingxiang, and then came to call you."
"No matter what, let's cure it first, and then investigate further." Shi Yan's face was solemn. "This matter is a bit strange. If it happens once or twice, it's understandable, but if it happens again and again, we have to investigate it thoroughly."
"That's right, especially now that we are outside, we need to be more careful." Mingxiang nodded.
Shi Yan searched in his bag and found that the Baiyu Pills had been used up. He flipped through it again and found a pill with healing effect, but it was much higher in grade than the Baiyu Pills. Shi Yan was reluctant to use it. This pill was called Tianyuan Pill, which replenished vitality and could improve spiritual power within two hours after taking the pill. The grade of Tianyuan Pill was the third grade, which could be considered a small top grade. However, he would use it, just like Mingxiang said yesterday, it would be a good deed!
After rescuing the little monkey for the third time, Shi Yan and others discussed for a moment and decided to retreat first and monitor the little monkey in secret.
Shi Yan and the others retreated a hundred meters away, and observed the little monkey with all their might.
The little monkey was left there for about a quarter of an hour, then it suddenly opened its eyes, stood up and looked around.
"It's awake!" Shi Yan whispered to the people around him. Although the two were a hundred meters apart, he still didn't dare to be careless. He whispered, "Get ready. After it leaves, we'll follow it and see!"
"Yeah!" Ye Yier and the others nodded. Although they felt that Shi Yan was a little too sensitive, they couldn't resist their curiosity. They didn't know what was wrong with this little monkey. Every time they saw it, it was covered with wounds, so they didn't reject Shi Yan's proposal.
The little monkey looked around and found that there was no one around. It quickly stood up, jumped onto the branch, turned around on the branch, then exerted its strength and stepped on the branch of another big tree. With the help of the elasticity of the branch, it walked quickly in the green sea.
"Follow me!" Shi Yan and others moved, following behind slowly, with light steps and swift speed.
The little monkey was moving quickly in front, perhaps in a hurry to get on with his journey, and did not notice Shi Yan and others following behind him.
One after the other, they moved forward all the way. Soon, the little monkeys passed through the outer circle of the Hundred Trees Forest and flew rapidly towards the center.
Shi Yan stopped on the trunk of a large tree at the innermost part of the periphery, looked at Ye Yier who had followed him, and said, "It has gone to the middle. What should we do? Should we continue to follow it?"
Ye Yier was completely immersed in excitement. She nodded excitedly and replied, "Follow, why not follow?"
Xiao Li has the same temperament as Ye Yier, and since he has a contract with a spirit beast, he is even less afraid.
Fortunately, Zi'er and Mingxiang were relatively calm. Mingxiang thought more comprehensively. Considering the overall strength, it was still too dangerous to enter the middle of the Hundred Trees Forest, so she did not agree to continue following.
"Ah? Why don't you continue?" Xiao Li looked at Mingxiang disappointedly and pouted.
Ye Yier also had a look of longing on her face. She blinked and looked at Shi Yan, with stars twinkling in her eyes.
Zi'er thought for a moment, looked at Shi Yan, and asked, "What do you think?"
Shi Yan's eyes flickered, "You can give it a try!"
"No, I don't agree!" Mingxiang refused: "This is too dangerous. If something happens, how will we explain it when we return?"
"Sister Mingxiang, it's okay!" Xiao Li said coquettishly.
"No, no matter what you say, I won't do that!" Mingxiang said firmly: "I'm doing this for your own good. What if we run into some dangerous and powerful spirit beast?"
Zi'er nodded, "We can't rule out this possibility!"
She turned to look at Shi Yan, and felt that Shi Yan was not worried about the danger ahead at all, as if he was confident.
She frowned and said tentatively: "Shi Yan, I'll listen to you. You are the captain, you decide what to do!"
Shi Yan looked at Ye Yier, then at Mingxiang, Xiaoli, and Zier, and said with a smile: "Let's go in!"
"But," Mingxiang wanted to say something, but Zi'er spoke first: "What if we encounter danger? Do you have any solution?"
Shi Yan smiled and said, "I can't really guarantee this, but I think it's unlikely that we'll encounter a powerful spirit beast along the way."
He pointed at the little monkey running in the distance, "What do you think of its strength?"
"The first level of spiritual communication!" Mingxiang replied.
Shi Yan nodded, "Since it can get in, why can't we?"
Zi'er nodded, saying that there was some truth in what he said!
"Moreover," Shi Yan added, "we can make use of Xiao Li's hidden beauty!" He told them his plan, and Ming Xiang nodded after listening, "According to what you said, we can give it a try!"
Xiao Li was stunned, "But I have never tried to hide the flowers and willows like this."
Shi Yan said: "Don't worry, just use Hua Zhai Liu Yin at full power, I will take care of the rest!"
After that, he handed Xiao Li a Tian Yuan Dan and asked her to take it. Then Shi Yan asked Ye Yier and Xiao Li to stand together, holding their palms together, Xiao Li used the Flower Covering Willow Hidden Technique, and Ye Yier slowly used the fire attribute spiritual power to form a light film, amplifying the effect of Xiao Li's Flower Covering Willow Hidden Technique.
As Shi Yan expected, after the two of them did as he said, not only Xiao Li, but Ye Yier also disappeared out of thin air!
Shi Yan smiled happily, "That's all! You all go in, and we'll move forward in stealth!"
Honglian Volcano is located in the middle of Baimu Forest and is an active volcano. It covers a very large area. According to relevant estimates, Honglian Volcano covers an area of ​​15,000 square kilometers and forms a mountain range with dozens of peaks. The direction they were heading was exactly one of the peaks in the Honglian Volcano Mountain Range.
This mountain is shaped like a monk sitting cross-legged in meditation, or like a Taoist looking up at the sky.
"When you look at a mountain from the front, it looks like a mountain range; when you look at it from the side, it looks like a peak; it looks different from different distances and heights!" Ye Yier chanted with inspiration.
Shi Yan nodded, "Yes, from every angle, you can see different scenery. The wonders of nature are truly awe-inspiring."
As they traveled, they encountered many spirit beasts, including some powerful ones. Fortunately, they were able to avoid them carefully under the effect of Xiaoli's flower-covering and willow-hiding. After another quarter of an hour, they walked slower because of the flower-covering and willow-hiding. Although they were still following the little monkey, the distance had increased from 100 meters to 350 meters. Fortunately, Shi Yan was careful and left his scent on the little monkey, so he didn't lose it.
Finally, I came to the foot of the mountain. Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up at the mountain, I found that from this position, the mountain actually looked a bit like a monkey sitting cross-legged! A monkey sitting cross-legged was already quite absurd, but Shi Yan felt that it actually looked a bit holy, which made Shi Yan feel even more incredible!
Along the way, we saw a lot of monkeys. These monkeys were all red. Some had a small flame burning on their long tails, and some had a ball of red fire above their heads in addition to the small flame on their tails.
"This is the Little Fire Monkey and the Flame-Top Fire Monkey!" Mingxiang whispered, "They are both fire-attributed spirit beasts, smart and clever. The Little Fire Monkey can spit out ordinary fire, but the Flame-Top Fire Monkey can spit out real fire!"
"One true fire?" Shi Yan asked, "But is it the fire in the wood?"
"That's right, the fire in the wood, also known as human fire." Mingxiang nodded, "When ordinary people burn wood to make fire, it is called human fire, which is the second-grade true fire, one level higher than ordinary fire."
Following the little monkey further up, Shi Yan and the others actually saw the evolved version of the Flame Monkey, the Red Flame Monkey!
The Red Flame Fire Monkey is twice the size of the Flame Top Fire Monkey. Its upper body is burning with flames, as if it is wearing golden armor, and it looks very heroic and extraordinary.
Shi Yan was secretly surprised that all these red-flame fire monkeys were at the psychic stage or above. Along the way, he had not seen a single one at the intelligence stage.
Finally, after reaching the top of the mountain, the little monkey stopped and looked up. He saw a stone chair on the top of the mountain. The stone chair seemed to be born in the sky, but it was magnificent. On the stone chair, a huge monkey was sitting on it, looking down at the little monkey.
"This must be the Monkey King!" Shi Yan stammered in surprise.