Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Man-Eating Ape

  "Princess, we've been out for eight whole days now. If we don't go back, I'm afraid the Crown Prince will blame us."

  "Hmph, are you afraid of being blamed by the Crown Prince? Don't you fear being blamed by me, the Princess?"

  She glared fiercely at the two senior eunuchs, and Huang Shan didn't care about anything else, nor did she care whether the Heavenly Punishment Forest was dangerous or not. Anyway, she just wanted to find the young man as soon as possible and return the favor.

  A certain part of the Heavenly Punishment Forest.

  It's also considered the outer layer, Lin Yun didn't enter the inner part at all. After all, his current cultivation has just broken through the Pre-Heavenly Wu Guest boundary, and he only needs to re-acquire two kinds of Wu Guest-level Benming Wujue to do so. Therefore, he doesn't continue to venture deeper into the inner part. What if he encounters a Pre-Heavenly Third-Grade Spiritual Beast? Wouldn't that be looking for trouble?

  Among the eight major forces in the world, the power of metal, wood, water, fire and earth are the easiest to encounter. However, after finding many spiritual beasts with fire attributes, Lin Yun was not very satisfied. This time he prepared to find two more useful innate martial skills, unlike last time when he obtained two innate martial skills from the Ice Fire Python, which were basically useless.

  Can't help but admit, the Ice Fire Python as a congenital third-level spiritual beast has two innate martial skills that are very powerful, but not representative. Now Lin Yun has finally summarized a result, which is that innate martial skills cannot only look at whether the power is great, but also whether they have it, just like the Space Shadow just obtained, the power is not great, but wins in strangeness.

  Yanxing giant beast, fire attribute spirit beast, has a skill called Huomu. Once used, it's like a waterfall, and its power is quite good. Lin Yunxuan chose the Yanxing giant beast in order to obtain Huomu, which can be combined with Space Compression Shadow. Imagine using Space Compression Shadow first, then using Huomu within that space - would the opponent still be able to withstand it?

  Flaming Star Beast, with a body length of over four meters and a height of nearly one meter eight, looks like a small rectangular mound. However, despite its large size, the Flaming Star Beast has poor defense capabilities, which is why Lin Yun has confidence in killing it.

  Her eyebrows flashed, and a purple sword suddenly appeared in her hand, constantly swinging the sword energy towards the Flame Star Beast. One wave of sword energy followed another, dense and numerous sword energies continuously shot onto the Flame Star Beast's body. Along with the Lingbo Micro Step, no matter how furious the Flame Star Beast was, it could only be anxious and helpless. After all, its massive body was really too inconvenient, and it could only constantly spit out flames from its mouth.

  Swallowing the fire curtain is useless, Lin Yun doesn't confront the Flame Star Beast head-on at all, but instead goes around to its back and left and right sides, continuously swinging out sword energy. The cold sword energy keeps shooting onto the Flame Star Beast's body, provoking wave after wave of frantic roars.

  To deal with the Flame Star Beast, Lin Yun didn't even use Spatial Shrinkage. After all, for this level of battle, Spatial Shrinkage was useless. The most effective method was to use sword energy to continuously attack the Flame Star Beast.

  Can't help but admit, the power of Jian Qi is indeed very great, surpassing all external martial skills and innate martial skills. With Jian Qi's continuous attack, more and more blood mouths appeared on the body of Yan Xing Ju Shou, and after nearly half an hour of continuous attack, it finally knocked Yan Xing Ju Shou to the ground.

  Looking at the fallen Flame Star Beast, Lin Yun's heart suddenly felt a thrill of excitement, without any hesitation, he took a step forward and grabbed the beast's forehead with his right hand, and threads of power continuously flowed from the beast's body.

  This time it didn't take half a time, just a short while, Lin Yun had already finished searching for the spirit and successfully obtained the Flame Curtain skill from the body of the Blazing Star Beast.

  He was truly surprised in his heart, and within a short period of time, he had actually obtained two innate martial skills, Space Shrinkage Shadow and Fire Curtain. With a flash of his body, Lin Yun's figure suddenly changed from one to two, from two to four, from four to eight, and from eight to sixteen, directly transforming into over a hundred figures. At this moment, among the over a hundred figures, Lin Yun's true body swung its right hand, and curtains of fire quickly emerged, filling the entire small space with fire curtains everywhere.

  If it were under normal circumstances, others would have killed the Flame Star Beast and obtained the Fire Curtain's ultimate technique from it, which could only be a fire-type ultimate technique. It was impossible for it to be an attribute-type ultimate technique. However, Lin Yun was different. He had just acquired the Fire Curtain's ultimate technique and directly upgraded it to become an attribute-type ultimate technique.

  It's worth noting that the power of fire and the innate martial arts of fire attributes are two completely different concepts. After mastering the innate martial arts of fire attributes, Lin Yun prepared to continue searching for a spiritual beast with ice power, filling in the gaps of his previously acquired ice attribute innate martial arts. At that time, he would officially possess three kinds of innate martial arts with different attributes... no, it was two kinds of innate martial arts with different attributes, and one kind of powerful innate martial art.

  After all, spatial contraction is only a powerful innate martial skill. To upgrade to an attribute innate martial skill, unless one's cultivation breaks through the boundaries of a pre-heavenly martial artist and successfully attracts a spatial attribute foreign species, at that time, it can be transformed into a spatial attribute innate martial skill.

  The spirit beast with the power of ice is much rarer than the one with the power of fire, and after searching for a whole day, not even one spirit beast with an ice attribute was found. Having no choice, on this dark and windy night, I can only rest first and think about it later.

  "Lin Yun, so you're here after all, I've finally found you."

  Just as Lin Yun was about to rest, he suddenly saw three figures quickly approaching from a distance. They were the three Huang San people who had just parted ways yesterday. To be honest, he still had a good impression of this beauty, after all, no man didn't like beauties.

  "Stand up," Lin Yun also smiled and said: "Beauty, what can I do for you?"

  Huang Shan had already arrived in front of him, and upon hearing that the other party did not call out his name but instead called out "beautiful woman", he didn't show any anger at all. Instead, a hint of red appeared on his face.

  Seeing this, the two imperial guards were completely bewildered. As for the little princess beside them, they knew her all too well - a typical mischievous and cunning girl. If anyone else dared to speak so boldly and flirtatiously, they believed the princess would have struck back long ago.

  "You saved our lives before, I'd like to return this favor to you first."

  Return kindness? Seemingly surprised, Lin Yun said casually: "Are you going to marry me?"

  "How dare you be so rude to the princess."

  Princess? Lin Yun didn't feel the slightest surprise that the little girl in front of him was actually an imperial princess. He had just spoken hastily and regretted it immediately. No matter what, Huang Shan was still an imperial princess. If things went wrong because of a joke, it wouldn't be worth it to get himself into trouble.

  "Shut up, it's not your turn to speak yet, move over to the side."

  Seeing the princess without any anger, the two imperial guards were completely confused and did not dare to continue lingering around, but instead walked to a very far place and stood still, vigilantly looking around.

  Her face still flushed, Huang Shan looked at the young man in front of her with a twisted expression and said: "Although you saved my life, but to marry me, it seems...it seems..."

  I'm dizzy.

  "Huang Shan, I was just joking earlier. Besides, I've always wanted to be a hero and save the beauty once, and this time it happened to come in handy. If you really want to return me a favor, don't refuse when I need your help next time."

  When the other person said it was just a joke, Huang Shan felt both disappointed and relieved in her heart for some reason. She nodded and said, "Don't worry, no matter what happens to you in the future, I'll definitely take care of it."

  Then, the two of them simply ate a little game meat. The dark night had two martial arts servants guarding it. Lin Yun also prepared to sleep well and wait until tomorrow to continue searching for the spiritual beast with ice power.

  Just at this moment, in the pitch-black forest around, a pair of bright, evil and poisonous eyes flashed one after another, and nearly two hundred man-eating apes appeared under the dark moonlight.

  Man-eating apes, a kind of ape, each one over two meters tall, with shiny bodies and no cover, the man-eating apes opened their bloody mouths wide, their eyes gleaming with evil light, staring at the four people in front of them. Suddenly, the man-eating apes took off with big strides, rushing towards the four people wildly.

  The two imperial guards who had been keeping watch without sleep for a long time did not know what was happening, and were suddenly pounced on by more than 200 man-eating apes, and with a few screams, they were already eaten into the belly of the apes, becoming their dinner.

  Man-eating apes, first-class spiritual beasts from birth. If there were only one or two of them, they wouldn't be a match for the two Innate Martial Guests at all. But suddenly nearly two hundred man-eating apes burst out and directly attacked the two Imperial Guards, catching them off guard. Before the two could react in any way, they had already been swallowed whole.

  Two senior imperial guards had just been torn apart and swallowed by the man-eating apes, when Lin Yun woke up. He took one look at the over two hundred man-eating apes rushing towards them and was shocked. He immediately shouted to wake Huang Shan from her dream. Seeing the evil man-eating apes closing in on them, Huang Shan almost screamed: "Mom!"

  "Don't yell for mom, even if your mom were here, it wouldn't be of any use," I hate how women always shout for their moms whenever something happens, what about dads?

  "Lin Yun, think of a way quickly, I saw this thing in a book before, it seems to be called man-eating ape, which can tear human body apart and eat people directly."

  Man-eating apes? Not to mention what man-eating apes are, just the fact that they eat people is fierce enough, and Lin Yun didn't dare to be careless. He had already observed that the man-eating apes approaching them from all directions were only first-class spiritual beasts, but the man-eating apes had an advantage in numbers. There were more than 200 of them surrounding them.