Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 240 Ambush
Deep in the Fantasy Moon Mountains, thousands of feet high peaks rise from the ground and reach the sky. In front of these towering peaks, any living creature seems insignificant.

At the foot of one of the thousand-foot-high peaks is a gentle hilly valley with dense forests and towering ancient trees. When the mountain breeze blows, the forest waves are surging and the green waves are surging.

Chen Yuan was wearing a gauze veil, standing on the top of a tree more than ten feet high. He habitually hid his body among the branches, staring at a valley more than four hundred feet ahead without blinking.

Twelve days ago, he left the market town and entered the depths of the Huanyue Mountains. He climbed over two thousand-foot-high peaks, put on a veil, and walked here step by step, where he had been for nine days.

That inconspicuous valley is where the white ape lives. For the past nine days, Chen Yuan has been monitoring the valley day and night, but has never seen the white ape.

He knew that the white ape was still in the valley. The jade beads in his left hand were now emitting a strong red light and had completely turned red.

If he had not been wearing the thousand-year-old ice silk gloves, he would definitely have felt the scorching heat on the surface of the jade pendant.

The valley was within the range of his spiritual sense, but he did not dare to release his spiritual sense. He could only rely on the jade beads to determine whether the white ape was still in the valley.

It was early morning, the sun was just rising, and a light mist filled the woods. The sunlight passed through the mist and turned into a colorful rainbow. The edges of the beams were a little fuzzy, and there was a hint of fantasy in the splendor.

It was quiet all around, with the occasional small animal running through the bushes, rubbing its body against the grass, making a slight rustling sound.

Chen Yuan blinked lightly, and he finally felt a little tired.

During these nine days, he did nothing, but his mind was always tense, even more nervous than when he was refining the elixir, for fear that the white ape would detect his whereabouts.

He was no match for the white ape. If discovered by the white ape, he could only flee far away.

Although he had relied on Luo Yansha to escape from the white ape, Luo Yansha was only a top-grade spiritual weapon after all. But Chen Yuan, who was cautious by nature, did not dare to pin all his hopes on Luo Yansha.

He could only stay here far away, relying on the sensing power of the jade pendant, patiently waiting for an opportunity, waiting for the white ape to go out.

In a head-on confrontation, he is no match for the white ape. The only viable way is to wait for the white ape to go out, sneak into the valley, set up a formation, and wait for the white ape to return, then use the power of the formation to kill it.

Monsters are different from cultivators. Cultivators only need to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to improve their cultivation. A retreat often lasts for several years.

However, the speed at which monsters can temper their bodies by simply absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is too slow. If one wants to speed up the process, one must hunt other monsters, devour their monster cores and blood, and strengthen their bodies.

The white ape is so powerful and invincible at the same level. It will definitely not simply absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to strengthen its body.

But Chen Yuan didn’t know how often it hunted monsters. Maybe it would leave the valley the next moment, or maybe it would leave the valley two months later. The only thing Chen Yuan could do was to wait patiently.

Three more days passed in such a boring way. Chen Yuan still had no trace of annoyance. In the dark night, he stared at the entrance of the valley in the distance.

Suddenly, the jade bead in Chen Yuan's left hand trembled slightly. He looked down and saw that the red light emitted by the jade bead was slowly dimming.

Chen Yuan's eyes flashed with a sharp light. He stepped down from the top of the tree and walked forward step by step.

Wrapped in a veil of gauze, he could neither fly nor perform the art of lightness, and could only walk like an ordinary person.

Chen Yuan had just walked out a dozen feet when the red light on the jade pendant faded away and returned to its original appearance.

This was a sign that there was no true spiritual bloodline within a thousand miles, so the white ape left the valley.

Chen Yuan tore off the Luo Yansha, rode on the light of escape, and flew towards the valley.

He didn't know when the white ape would come back, so he had to seize this hard-won opportunity and set up the formation as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Chen Yuan had previously killed all the monkeys and monsters outside the valley. Without any monsters guarding, he could enter the valley unhindered.

Compared with three months ago, the valley has become much more dilapidated. Traces of the battle between Chen Yuan and the white ape can be seen everywhere. The mountain walls have collapsed, the grass and trees are sparse, the ground is charred, and rubble is everywhere.

The white ape obviously had no intention of clearing the valley, but as long as the spiritual vein existed, it would not leave this place, giving Chen Yuan the opportunity to ambush it.

Chen Yuan had a serious expression on his face. He stroked his storage bag and took out twenty-four flags of the Meteorite Array. With a wave of his sleeves, the flags flew out in all directions and stuck into the ground, surrounding the entire valley.

Then he took out the meteorite array's formation plate and twelve medium-grade earth-attribute spirit stones, placed the spirit stones into the grooves on the formation plate, raised his hand and injected true essence into the formation plate.

The array plate lit up with a light yellow light, and then split into twenty-four yellow light threads, connecting all twenty-four array flags.

The twenty-four formation flags glowed slightly, gradually became transparent, and finally disappeared into the air.

Chen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. The meteorite formation had been set up. Even if the white ape rushed back to the valley now, he would still be able to fight.

But this was not enough, he took out the flags and plates of the Earth Fire Array and the Wood Fort Array, and inserted the flags around the valley. He embedded medium-grade spirit stones of fire and wood attributes into the plates respectively, activated the formation, and hid the flags.

Chen Yuan smiled slightly, and activated three formations at the same time. Even if the white ape's strength was comparable to that of a Jindan cultivator, it would be dead.

After setting up the formation, he quickly walked into the deepest cave in the valley and found the silver sword and blue flying sword that were taken away by the white ape.

These two top-grade spiritual weapons, like the things Chen Yuan had taken away from the cave before, were piled in the corner of the cave, and their light was dim.

Although the white ape could use the strange white flame to wipe out the consciousness that Chen Yuan left in the spiritual weapon, he was still a fourth-level demon beast after all. Before his demon pill transformed, he could not use the spiritual weapon. All the things he took from the cultivators were placed in the cave.

The two top-grade spiritual weapons that Chen Yuan asked Lin Hao to pass on to Sun Congyao and Shen Danmei were taken away from here.

The two top-grade spiritual weapons were of average quality, similar to the blue flying sword, and were of little use to Chen Yuan, so he simply gave them to the two of them before leaving Lingyun Sect, as a way of repaying the care of his two senior brothers and sisters.

Chen Yuan picked up the Silver Sword and the blue flying sword, injected a trace of true energy into them, and discovered that the imprint of his spiritual consciousness had been completely erased. He had to refine and nourish them again before he could use them in a fight. This time, he could not count on them to fight the white ape.

He shook his head, put the two top-grade spiritual weapons back to their original places, and walked out of the cave.

Chen Yuan looked around and came to a corner. He took out a piece of gauze and put it on. His figure slowly disappeared and the valley became dead silent again.

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Time passed slowly, the moon set, the sun rose, the mist in the mountains and forests was dispersed by the bright and warm sunlight, the trees were lush and green, crystal dew rolled on the grass leaves under the breeze, the sound of chirping birds spread, and the Fantasy Moon Mountains, which had been sleeping for a night, woke up again.

The white ape, with scarlet blood on its mouth, climbed down from a thousand-foot high peak and ran through the mountains and forests. After leaving the valley last night, it hunted a level 5 monster and devoured its monster pill, blood and flesh, and strengthened its monster body a little more.

This is a mountain-shaking bear. It has strong bloodline, immense strength, and is proficient in two innate magical powers. However, it is powerless in front of the white ape.

It didn't even use the strange white flame, but just relied on its tremendous strength to beat the beast to death.

In the Fantasy Moon Mountains, no level five monster can match the white ape, and only a few level six monsters can suppress the white ape, but it can also escape unscathed.

From the moment it was born with intelligence, the white ape knew that it was different from others.

Its bloodline is far stronger than that of other monsters. Even just a trace of its aura can make other monsters tremble in fear.

In just over twenty years, it hunted and killed hundreds of monsters, growing from a low-level first-level monster to a fourth-level monster, and never encountered any bottlenecks.

Not only that, those human monks who came from outside the mountain were also slaughtered by it one by one. No one could leave alive after seeing it.

For some reason, the white ape always had a violent impulse in his heart, wanting to tear to pieces all the living creatures he saw. Killing seemed to be his innate desire.

But as its level increased, the white ape gradually became more and more rational.

Although violent impulses still surge in its heart from time to time, most of the time it can control these impulses very well and is far smarter and more shrewd than other monsters of the same level.

It gathered a group of monkey monsters to guard the valley, and actively hunted human monks who entered the Fantasy Moon Mountains, forcing them to open their storage bags before they died and use elixirs and spirit stones to practice, greatly increasing the speed of condensing demonic power.

In a few years, its demon core will be able to undergo a transformation and become what human cultivators call a level five demon beast.

But it was also from the mouths of those human monks who begged for mercy that the white ape learned that the outside world was dominated by human monks. There were Nascent Soul monks who were comparable to eighth-level monsters. Monsters were merely prey to human monks, providing them with monster pills and monster materials.

The white ape will not be angry about the death of other monsters. Few cultivators have killed more monsters than it, but it does not want to be killed by high-level cultivators.

Therefore, it cannot leave the Fantasy Moon Mountains. Only when it becomes strong enough can it hunt those weak human monks without restraint.

Yes, in the eyes of the white ape, human monks were very weak and could not even hurt it, until three months ago, when it met that human monk.

This person was the only human monk who escaped alive after seeing it. He was also seriously injured and it took him a full month to recover.

This man also killed all the monkey monsters he had captured. He had no time to recruit new subordinates. Two months ago, two stupid low-level monsters broke into the valley, and he had to deal with them personally.

All of this made the white ape extremely angry, and he remembered the aura of this human monk deeply in his heart.

It has never been so miserable before. One day, it will definitely find this human monk and eat him alive!
With deep hatred, the white ape practiced more diligently, even going against the nature of the monster. It absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth day and night, transformed it into monster power, and tempered the monster pill and monster body.

After it was born with intelligence, it inherited the method of cultivation from its bloodline, as well as the innate magical power of white flame, and its efficiency in converting spiritual energy into demonic power was far superior to that of monsters of the same level.

For an ordinary fourth-level monster, it only needs to hunt two or three monsters of the same level a year to strengthen its body.

However, the white ape needs to hunt at least twenty monsters of the same level, or four or five level five monsters, every year to maintain its cultivation speed.

Whenever its physical body stagnates, it will leave the valley, hunt monsters, devour their monster pills and flesh, and then return to the valley to continue practicing.

This Earth-Shaking Bear is enough to support the White Ape's training for at least two months. After that, after hunting four level five monsters, its monster pill will be able to complete the transformation and be promoted to a level five monster.

The white ape stuck out its tongue and licked the blood on the corner of its mouth. Its eyes slightly narrowed, revealing a comfortable expression like that of a human monk, and it hurried back to the valley.

It jumped down from the mountain wall on the left, landed lightly in the valley, and walked towards the cave.

Suddenly, the white ape stopped, sniffed, and a hint of doubt flashed in its eyes.

It seemed to smell a familiar scent, but it couldn't remember where it came from.

Suddenly, it opened its eyes wide and finally remembered the source of the breath. It was the breath of that human monk!

At this moment, Chen Yuan's figure suddenly emerged from the corner of the valley, holding the meteorite array disk in his left hand, and pointed with his right hand, madly injecting true energy into the array disk, and shouted: "Rise!"

The formation plate shone brightly, and the twenty-four hidden formation flags reappeared around the valley, emitting a light yellow glow, condensing into a layer of light curtain, which quickly spread upwards, attempting to cover the entire valley.

When the white ape saw that Chen Yuan dared to come back, a sense of brutality surged from the bottom of his heart. Regardless of the meteorite formation that was about to take shape, he roared and rushed towards Chen Yuan.

It wants to tear Chen Yuan into pieces!
Chen Yuan was not afraid at all. He threw the meteorite array disk into the sky. His body suddenly grew to about eight feet tall. His muscles bulged and turned bronze in color as he rushed forward.

Seeing that this human monk dared to engage in close combat with him, the white ape felt that he had been seriously provoked, became even more angry, and punched with all his strength.

Chen Yuan also threw a punch, and the man and the ape collided with each other. The white ape only took two steps back, but Chen Yuan flew backwards and smashed heavily into the mountain wall. The rubble exploded, and the broken valley added another scar.

Although the white ape is only a fourth-level monster, its body is comparable to that of a sixth-level monster. Chen Yuan is far inferior to it.

The white ape pounded his chest excitedly, roared, and rushed forward again.

But Chen Yuan quickly flew out from the mountain wall, looked at the white ape with a look full of sarcasm, and shouted: "Lose!"

Just as the white ape rushed forward, a huge yellow rock about ten feet in size fell from the sky and smashed heavily into the white ape.

When Chen Yuan blocked the white ape's punch, the Meteorite Formation had already been fully formed!

The yellow boulder had a long tail flame and was moving very fast. The white ape had to stop and raise his hands to block it in front of him.

boom!
The huge rock hit the white ape and exploded with a loud bang. The white ape retreated three feet but just shook its head.

It roared angrily and rushed towards Chen Yuan again, but at this moment, two yellow boulders about ten feet in size, with long tail flames, fell from the sky!

(End of this chapter)