Chapter 2440 - 1420
Tang Feiyang’s group was large, and the monkeys’ ranks were also very sizable.
The Monkey King himself did not join the fight; the battle between the Human Cultivators and the monkeys could be said to be locked in a dead heat.
Maybe these people had Dual Cultivation capabilities; the monkeys could feel that this batch of Human Cultivators was a bit stronger than the Human Cultivators from the morning, not so easy to fool.
Seeing that darkness was about to fall, the monkeys grew anxious as well.
Once night fell, they had to secure the orchard, had to make sure that when Ghosts were roaming and the ground was full of that strange pull, they could shut down the orchard’s Formation and hide inside, so they wouldn’t be threatened by Ghosts and that gravitational lure.
Perhaps sensing their subordinates’ agitation, the Monkey King chirped a few words with several others. Of course, they were discussing whether to let these people go, or to defeat them in one go and drive them far away.
The Monkey King was confident that, given their strength, any fight against these people would be absolutely unfair, because their power was far above that of these Humans.
They hadn’t taken action before, and now they were even less inclined to make a move. Dealing with such low-level Human Cultivators—if they struck, wouldn’t that be lowering themselves?
The few times they had acted before, the targets they dealt with were King Level figures.
They had once been Immortal Level monkeys, so naturally they disdained dealing with these Humans whose strength was so lacking.
If not for these people barging into their own territory, they wouldn’t even have bothered to look.
Was it because their master had given an order?
Only when the Artifact Spirit of the Hell Palace issued a command did they receive the order that all Humans who entered must undergo divine tribulation.
So those of them stationed here, especially the Demons contracted by the master, were required to properly train these weak Humans.
To raise their strength, so their master would have no worries.
Only then would their master not be held back from leaving this place quickly by these weak Humans.
The Demonic Beasts who had signed contracts with the master all hoped the master could quickly succeed in cultivating these people.
And leave this mere Cultivation World of The Mortal Realm as soon as possible.
The Monkey Kings had once been taken by their master through many different planes.
Having seen many places, they knew that a Deity could travel to all realms.
Just like in the past, when they were in regions of the Immortal Realm, they could see beings from The Mortal Realm and the Mortal Realm.
Ever since the heavens collapsed and the earth cracked, though their master could no longer soar like a godly figure, he instead possessed a power even stronger than the Immortals of the past.
The Immortal Realm was no longer the same, and The Mortal Realm was not the same old Mortal Realm either.
They didn’t know why things had become like this, why there were so many planets.
And each planet had a different situation—same era, yet people and backgrounds belonging to different eras.
Maybe this was simply how things were after the ten thousand years that had passed; the times had changed, and even the Monkey King felt his horizons broadened.
The several Monkey Kings discussed for a while and decided that since these Humans would be undergoing divine tribulation here for some time, there was no rush to keep fighting them; dusk was already close.
So they would let the Human Cultivators rest for a while—whatever those Humans would face afterward was not their concern.
The Monkey King then called out to his subordinates, and they sprinted back to the orchard with agile speed, immediately shutting down the Formation.
When Wen Yuanyuan heard several monkeys chattering, she knew that they were already Monkey Immortals—their speech was no longer Beast Language. All those who had been watching these monkeys and the Human Cultivators playing with them understood this.
It was night now; the monkeys were calling their companions back to the orchard. This clearly meant they were retreating.
When the monkeys began to withdraw, everyone ceased their attacks as well. They understood the monkeys’ words: now what they faced was surviving the night without being harmed by other Ghosts or other creatures.
In the nighttime they would likely be facing even fiercer battles.
Even with the Monkey King never making a move, the fight so far had already been arduous.
If, in the night, even more powerful Ghosts appeared, could they still hold their own?
Tang Feiyang and his companions all had this question in their hearts. Before the sky turned completely black, they opened up their defenses.
First, they brought everyone into a Flying Artifact. Although in the Hell Palace they couldn’t fly very high,
they still had speed. As long as they boarded the Flying Artifact and then used their Spiritual Pets to activate a Formation, this dual protection should allow them to safeguard themselves when powerful Ghosts appeared.
From here on, they had to be cautious.
Tang Feiyang had everyone enter a single Flying Treasure.
Then the Flying Treasure activated its Invisibility and slowly rose into the high sky.
The moon arrived; as the night descended, a blood-red moon gradually floated in the sky of this space.
Although their Flying Artifact could reach the high sky, it could not fly all the way to the moon!
Under the moon’s radiance, the Flying Artifact could absorb the Essence of the Sun and Moon contained in the moonlight.
This Essence of the Sun and Moon also bathed the artifact, and the people inside could sit in their seats and feel the Spiritual Energy within that essence.
Though they were already preparing for the next battle, they were still seated in meditation.
They had just fought for quite a while; now they were meditating to recover the energy they had expended.
Tang Feiyang and his people had come here in search of fortune and opportunity.
Once their artifact flew up into the high sky, they could feel what was happening in the place where they had fought earlier.
In the darkness, many Ghost Flames appeared. Perhaps because they’d withdrawn so quickly, the newly emerged Ghost Flames were now searching everywhere.