Chapter 418: Networking Again!
[Before reopening the false rift, you burst out of the sea and gazed toward the continent.]
[You had planned to use this chance to return to the human world to see old friends and family.]
[But instead you saw the annihilation of the human world.]
[When the situation could no longer be salvaged, you felt an unusual calm.]
“This disaster is actually pretty easy to avoid.”
In the real world, Chen Yi also thought of a countermeasure.
The human world ended up like this because the Five Element Root Vessels were destroyed.
But in reality, at this moment, the five Root Vessels were all still intact — although some lacked spiritual power, others were missing parts of their artifact bodies.
If he could hide the five Root Vessels so the mastermind couldn’t find them, the human world wouldn’t suffer this catastrophe.
“Where to hide them?”
While continuing to watch the simulation, Chen Yi pondered this question.
[Just like Ji Wuqing in the previous two simulations, you will wave your hand and channel power to perform a Divine Art.]
[You will use the Divine Art at specific frequencies to trigger rhythmic fluctuations in the laws of heaven and earth.]
[Those disturbances will transmit to the Real Realm. Although extremely weak, the Star Apes have special means to sense them.]
[They will once more activate the Void-Passing Divine Altar and open a false rift between the Void Realm and the Real Realm.]
[Once this rift opens, objects near the rift that belong to the Real Realm will automatically be pulled in by the Real Realm’s gravity.]
[Void Realm objects will not be affected.]
[In the earlier simulations you thought Ji Wuqing was some grand figure of the Real Realm, able to open passages between worlds with a wave of her hand.]
[Now you understand it was actually aided by the Star Apes’ divine artifacts and astronomical resource buildup.]
[Although you are from the Void Realm, this projection of yours originates from the Real Realm.]
[So you were taken along.]
[The human world gradually blurred before your eyes.]
[Within the spatial turbulence, both sense of time and sense of space vanished.]
[When everything stabilized again, you found yourself back atop the Void-Passing Divine Altar.]
Behind you were the Creation Sun Stones pinning down the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey and your doppelganger Chen Four.
Sun Xiaosheng and a group of Star Apes flew over eagerly.
Like the Dragon-Scale Horse, these creatures were both natives of the Real Realm and ancient divine beasts, born to adapt to vacuum environments.
Seeing the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey, Sun Xiaosheng’s excitement was hard to hide, but he still took out a jade-green bracelet and placed it onto the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey’s wrist.
The Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey snarled at him.
“Ugh! What is this you put on me, you monkey?”
Sun Xiaosheng smiled.
“First Prince, this is a royal jade bracelet. In our Star Ape royal line, each person has a bracelet matched at birth. If you can wear it, it confirms your identity, and only then can we take you back to report our success.”
“Royal line? Star Apes…”
“First Prince, don’t worry. You fell into the Void Realm and were reborn, losing your memories. We will help you recall them later.”
The Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey half resisted, half accepted, and put the bracelet on.
The jade bracelet’s size slowly tightened until it fit the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey’s wrist perfectly.
The Star Ape envoy burst into ecstatic laughter.
“We didn’t expect to complete our mission so quickly!”
“The Great King dispatched ten thousand envoy delegations, spread across the universe. Now that we have completed this great task, then…”
“My colleagues, prepare to return home to be promoted, get rich, and ride our luck!”
Sun Xiaosheng and the others were overjoyed.
Seeing the Imperial Universe Shield still surrounding your body, you weren’t in a hurry to leave and curiously stepped forward to ask.
“This monkey really is your prince?”
“Of course! Of course!”
“The kind who can inherit the throne?”
“Of course! Of course!”
“By the way, actually there are two monkeys, the other is the Four-Eyed Spiritual Monkey, he…”
“Not important! Not important!”
“Not important? Weren’t you searching for two?”
Sun Xiaosheng didn’t answer you. He scampered over to the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey.
Because the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey was still pinned beneath the stone, Sun Xiaosheng simply lay down and looked him in the eye.
“First Prince, rest assured, we are steadfast in supporting you. If the Second Prince hadn’t framed you back then, you wouldn’t have fallen into the black hole…”
Sun Xiaosheng jabbered on and on.
You more or less understood.
The Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey and the Four-Eyed Spiritual Monkey were not only princes of the Star Apes, they were two very powerful princes.
The Star Apes didn’t follow strict birth-order succession.
They favored a Black Tortoise Gate inheritance system: whoever is strongest inherits.
The Great King’s princes had to compete among themselves; the one with the greatest comprehensive strength was eligible to inherit the throne.
Many years ago, the First Prince Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey and the Second Prince Four-Eyed Spiritual Monkey fought most fiercely.
Once, the Second Prince set a trap to frame the First Prince, planning to use a black hole to destroy the First Prince and his loyal followers.
Unexpectedly, the First Prince’s ministers desperately tried to save him, and in the process dragged the scheming Second Prince into the disaster.
A group of Star Apes with invincible physical bodies fell into the black hole. In the end, only the two princes survived, at the cost of being reborn as stones, and both lost all their memories.
Now the Great King had sent out ten thousand envoy delegations to search for the two princes.
These people had their own calculations.
If they found the First Prince, they would support him.
If they found the Second Prince, they would support him.
Who knew whether the other was dead or alive?
If they found both, then they would play it by ear.
The Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey didn’t pay much attention to what Sun Xiaosheng was saying.
“Blah blah blah, what are you chattering about? Aren’t you going to free me yet?”
“First Prince, please be patient. The treasure will arrive soon.”
“By the way, Chen Yi went through great trouble to bring me back from the Void Realm. Aren’t you going to thank him?”
“Of course! Of course!”
Sun Xiaosheng handed you a black stone.
“What is this?”
“This stone contains a sleeping Immortal King of our race!”
“Immortal King?”
You had heard Ji Wuqing mention it.
Above the Transcendent Realm there are three more realms.
Because those who reach these three realms are invariably people of high status within certain regions or powers, people commonly refer to them as Immortal Lord, Immortal King, and Immortal Emperor.
“If trouble comes, crush this stone. That Immortal King will awaken and lend you a helping hand, but only once, because this Immortal King is extremely uncontrollable.”
“I feel like you sealed him inside. You aren’t presenting a captive as a favor, are you?”
“No way, how could that be! Hahaha!”
The Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey looked over and spoke.
“Chen Yi, if someday I truly become, whatever, the King of the Star Apes, I will not forget you!”
The corner of your mouth lifted slightly.
Networking +1!