Chapter 2476 - 1438
The Monkey King had a suggestion: every meal must include gourmet food, and also fine wine.
In Lai Jianlin’s family, there were people who knew how to brew wine and make gourmet food, and they had learned a bit, too. After all, over the past few years, some of their men had learned top-notch cooking skills from the Imperial Chef.
Otherwise, how could they travel without another master chef?
They learned the all-around ability for them, although they didn’t often cook gourmet meals, they had to learn this skill.
Luo Yaxuan’s team was the same; they had learned quite a bit over the years because they spent too much time training outside.
Moreover, they had chefs around them, and after forming friendships with them, they learned cooking skills. When they traveled, didn’t these skills come in handy?
They had been traveling for so long, even if they brought some gourmet food, they would finish it eventually!
The Demonic Beasts they hunted here could just be used to cook meals.
As for fine wine, beings like them, managers of the Saint Sect, were often gifted fine wine by the Deities, and their base was planted with Spirit Fruits, which happened to be perfect for brewing wine.
Gourmet food was indispensable, and drinking wine was certainly doable.
So they settled down in this monkey territory.
During the day, they practiced against each other in the square outside the orchard, not in a chaotic brawl, but in a challenge format, a one-on-one challenge. With so many people, when someone went up to fight with a monkey, the others would watch from the sidelines.
The monkeys taught by the Monkey King had other skills too. Besides arranging formations, they could also learn Cultivation Techniques and Spells.
Of course, these weren’t innate skills; they might have been learned from battles stored within this Magical Treasure or while fighting other Spirit Beasts and Demonic Beasts.
Their only innate ability was natural agility, which was a strength of these monkeys.
Luo Yaxuan wanted to spar with the Monkey King and try his Thunder, but the Monkey King didn’t think much of him.
The Monkey Kings looked at Lai Jianlin, Luo Yaxuan, and their teams with disdain.
They said, "Beat our subordinates first, then talk about challenging us. If you can’t even beat our subordinates, how dare you challenge us?"
Do you think challenging us means we’ll accept?
Who’s idle enough to waste time?
While lying on a chair, being massaged by other monkeys, wouldn’t it be better to enjoy life?
Although they had become Monkey Immortals and indeed contracted with a Deity, they couldn’t become celestial Immortals. They stayed within this Magical Treasure and didn’t have the benefits enjoyed by Demon Immortals. Their only advantage from the contract was when their master increased in strength, they received Immortal God’s light within them.
Luo Yaxuan first went with several of his subordinates to battle the monkeys in formation.
Watching his subordinates fighting the monkeys, he couldn’t help but admire them.
It turns out Demonic Beasts aren’t inferior to Human Immortals.
It’s just that there are more Human Immortals with Heavenly Dao Laws, preventing Demonic Beasts from dominating the Mortal Realm.
Although these monkeys hadn’t transformed into real humans, they had become quite human-like, and their behavior was much like people’s, except they had long hair on their hands and feet.
And that hair was golden.
Perhaps if they shed this hair, with a slight change in their faces, they’d be almost indistinguishable from humans?
However, their hands and feet were somewhat different from humans’. Their claws were sharp; Demonic Beasts are still Demonic Beasts. They haven’t fully evolved into humans; their shapes remain beast-like.
Luo Yaxuan’s subordinates were the first batch to fight the monkeys. This was part of their divine tribulation.
But they did fight genuinely. Without using real skills, they’d only get beaten.
They didn’t believe those monkeys weren’t really fighting. Those monkeys, with eyes sly and shifty, seemed to want to beat the humans down.
Although they didn’t speak human language, they seemed almost to have become spirits, taking no loss, as if determined to injure and subdue humans.
Perhaps they disrupted the peace here, and maybe the monkeys didn’t even want to fight, but had to follow their king’s orders.
In fact, they also wanted to be lazy since the orchard here didn’t need frequent Raincasting. Besides picking fruit for themselves and their king, what else was there?
Every day eating fruit gets tiresome, and the monkeys wanted to eat meat, so they’d sneak out. Such sneaking out undoubtedly brought hardship.
So they went in small groups, using the Great King’s taught methods, trapping their desired prey within the Formation. Weren’t they then free to attack and kill?
They couldn’t eat the humans, as they weren’t man-eating monsters.
When the king demanded diligence, they bore a grudge against humans. Really, they didn’t want to fight: lose, and they’d be dealt with; win, and they’d still continue to fight.
But these monkeys divided into several batches, dealing with group after group of humans, ensuring the humans didn’t battle them as a team.
They wanted these humans to see how diverse their monkey species was.
Only then did Luo Yaxuan notice that the previously unseen monkey cubs and elderly monkeys had appeared.
They had seen hundreds of monkeys before; now, there were over a thousand.
Their two teams were only two to three hundred people.
They really couldn’t match them in numbers.
With human abilities, even fighting one on one, there wasn’t much issue, especially since they had Spiritual Pets.
That’s what they thought. As the monkey groups mobilized, they also split into groups.