The First Sword of the Universe

Chapter 143: The White Ape in the Peach Forest and the Four Volumes of the Shurangama Sutra.
Kunlun Mountains.
It is known as the first sacred mountain in China, the mountain of all ancestors, and the ancestor of dragon veins.

There are many myths and legends about it, the most famous of which is the Queen Mother of the West and a series of wonderful stories surrounding her.

This mountain covers a vast area, starting from the Pamir Plateau in the west, across Xinjiang, Tibet, and extending into Qinghai. It has majestic mountains and many branches, hiding countless canyons and deep rivers.

After Xu Xingchen entered the Kunlun Mountains, he changed his appearance again and wandered around, trying to find out the address of Zhu Wu Lianhuanzhuang in a covert way.

The two owners of Zhuwu Lianhuan Manor, Wu Lie and Zhu Changling, were both skilled in martial arts and had a great reputation in the area, so it only took him a few days to find out the whole situation.

Afterwards, he sold the carriage, bought some things, packed his bags, and set foot into Kunlun Mountains.

A few days later, Xu Xingchen came to the foot of the mountain where Zhuwu Lianhuan Manor was located. He glanced at the manor halfway up the mountain from afar and vaguely heard the fierce barking of dogs coming from inside, but did not approach.

He took Zhuwu Lianhuan Village as the center and began to investigate in the surrounding mountains.
Using flying claws and ropes as rock climbing tools, he flies and swings on the cliffs, like a bird flying freely in the mountains.

Sometimes I would climb to the top of the mountain, look around, and look for the legendary peach forest!

He thought it wouldn't take long for him to find the place, but it ended up taking him half a month to finally find the canyon at the foot of a mountain on an ordinary hill.

Standing on the top of the mountain and looking down, there is a wide valley below, covered with green grass and countless peach trees.

At this time, it is the end of spring and is about to turn into hot summer. There are still some peach blossoms left on the peach trees. They are sparse pink. Although the number is small, the blooming ones are extremely bright and vivid.

It was precisely because of those peach blossoms that Xu Xingchen determined this location. Otherwise, looking down from the top of the mountain, how could he tell whether the green trees below were peach trees or other trees.

After all, there are many canyons filled with green grass and trees nearby.
Flying claw climbing and rope rappelling!

It didn't take long for Xu Xingchen to reach the bottom of the valley, collect his tools and pack them into his bag.

As he walked into the peach forest, he was surprised to find that the peach trees here blossomed and bore peach fruits all year round, and the size of each fruit was much larger than that of ordinary peaches.

"Could it be that this valley is like spring all year round?"

"Otherwise, how could there be peach trees with their growth seasons messed up?"

Pick a peach and spread out your five fingers. You can just grab the bottom of the peach, which shows how big the peach is.

Looking closely, the "skin" of this peach is snow-white with a hint of bright yellow, and the bright yellow is covered with half a bright red. The three colors, from light to dark, are superimposed layer by layer, which is extremely beautiful.

I opened my mouth and took a bite. The flesh was just the right hardness and softness, and full of juice. I chewed it a few times and swallowed it. It tasted extremely delicious.

Xu Xingchen did not control his appetite and ate the whole peach in no time, filling his stomach by one third.

Then he threw away the peach pit in his hand and muttered to himself: "No wonder Zhang Wuji was able to stay here for five years in the world of the book. It turns out that he fills his stomach with these peaches every day."

After strolling in the forest for half a mile, Xu Xingchen heard the cries of monkeys in the distance. His eyes lit up and he quickened his pace.

After a while, they encountered a group of monkeys and a white-haired ape surrounded by the monkeys.

Xu Xingchen looked at the white-haired ape's belly, and sure enough, it was bulging, with a long and thin wound faintly visible in the gaps between the hair.

When the monkeys saw the strangers, they were all frightened and shouted, jumped and leaped.

There were also a few monkeys who climbed up the peach tree, picked a few peaches and threw them to Xu Xingchen.

It was obvious that their actions were intended to intimidate him as an invader and drive him out of their territory.

Even the white-haired ape that understood "human nature" quite well was jumping up and down, baring its teeth and yelling, full of hostility towards Xu Xingchen.

Xu Xingchen dodged the attacks of several peach fruits and tried to express his goodwill several times.

However, even though he smiled brightly, he still couldn't dispel the monkeys' hostility towards him.

"As expected, since I'm not the protagonist, I don't get the treatment of a protagonist?!"

"It's because I've killed too many people along the way. The murderous aura on my body is too strong and heavy, so they can sense it."

"Well, maybe, it is really the second reason."

Seeing that he could not get any kindness from the white-haired ape, Xu Xingchen was unwilling to wait any longer, so he rushed forward, blew away the group of monkeys, and grabbed the soft skin behind the white-haired ape's neck.

The white-haired ape stretched out its body and tried to resist, and surprisingly it was quite strong. However, Xu Xingchen pinched it with his claws, and its muscles and bones immediately became weak, and it could no longer move.

The monkeys and their descendants around became furious when they saw their ancestor being captured by humans. They screamed and picked up stones on the ground and peaches on the trees and threw them at the hateful human.

Xu Xingchen didn't want to get entangled with them any longer, so his figure turned into a flowing cloud, carrying the white-haired ape with him, and drifted away into the distance.

In the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the depths of the peach forest!
Only a bunch of monkeys and their descendants were left, anxiously jumping up and down and chasing after him, squeaking and shouting, with tears in their eyes, thinking that their ancestor was in great danger and would never come back.
Xu Xingchen led the white-haired ape and performed the Cloud Escape Technique. They ran for several miles in the peach forest and came to the foot of a mountain wall. Here, the terrain was open, the sun was shining, the ground was covered with green grass, and there was a small waterfall next to it, flowing endlessly, falling into a small shallow pool below.

The quiet environment and beautiful scenery made Xu Xingchen very satisfied.

The white-haired ape was thrown on the grass beside the pond. Before it could jump up from the ground, the scabbard of the sword suddenly appeared and hit its head crisply.

The white-haired ape's body shook, its eyes rolled like mosquito coils, and it soon fainted.

"Now that we have the old ape in our hands, let's get started!"

Xu Xingchen put down the bag on his back, opened it, and took out two wooden boxes and a dagger from it.

A flash of cold light.
The dagger had already opened the thread of the wound on the white-haired ape's abdomen. He reached his hand in, fumbled around a few times, and soon took out something, which was a tightly wrapped oil paper bag.

After taking a look, he threw it on the grass beside him. Xu Xingchen concentrated his mind and used a knife to remove the rotten flesh from the wound until fresh blood flowed out.
Although his movements were swift, the pain inflicted on the white-haired ape was extremely intense. Its body twisted, its limbs twitched, and it woke up from its coma in agony.

However, it was greeted with another blow from the dagger's handle.

The white-haired ape, who had just woken up from the pain, fainted again without a sound.

Xu Xingchen put down the dagger, opened a wooden box, and took out a curved embroidery needle and special catgut.

Threading the Needle
Afterwards, the wound on the white-haired ape's abdomen was sutured roughly.

Every time the needle landed, even though the white-haired ape was completely unconscious, its body would still twitch uncontrollably, and mournful whimpers would unconsciously come out of its throat.

It looks extremely pitiful!
She sewed eighteen stitches in a row, broke the catgut, and tied a beautiful bow.

Xu Xingchen looked at his "masterpiece", nodded with satisfaction, and praised: "The technique is fast and steady, and the wound is sutured neatly. Not bad! Really good!"

Then, he opened another wooden box, took out a white porcelain bottle, pulled out the cork, and poured some powder of unknown color onto the wound that had just been sutured on the white-haired ape.

As he leaned over, he said, "This bottle of golden medicine is a good thing I got from the Butterfly Medical Fairy. White Ape, oh White Ape, you are lucky to meet me."

I don’t know what the unconscious white-haired ape felt when he heard these words, or whether he could understand the meaning of these words. I don’t know what kind of feeling he had in his heart.

After washing the blood off his hands in the pool of water nearby, Xu Xingchen took out a long, clean cloth from the package again, wrapped it around the waist of the white-haired ape, and tightly wrapped the wound.

"Okay, this operation was a success, you're welcome!"

He stood up and looked at the still unconscious white-haired ape. He saw that its breathing gradually became steady and even its twitching body began to relax. He knew that the golden wound medicine had begun to take effect and relieved its pain.

Xu Xingchen then picked up the oil paper bag on the grass, opened it, and revealed four volumes of the "Lingyan Sutra" inside.

Throwing away the oil paper, he opened the first copy of the Shurangama Sutra, and saw lines of twisted words on the pages. Xu Xingchen didn't recognize them, and guessed that they were probably Sanskrit.
He ignored it and went straight to look at the small Chinese seal script written in the gaps between the characters. Although each character was very small, the strokes were clear and could be seen clearly.

Those small seal characters, each word is mysterious, as if explaining a grand ideological realm, a supreme martial arts concept, yet they are extremely difficult to read.

Xu Xingchen flipped through the pages quickly, looking at the words between each page. The more he flipped, the more his brows furrowed.

"This Nine Yang Divine Art is complex, profound, and miraculous. It is definitely not something that can be fully comprehended overnight."

"In the book world, Zhang Wuji learned the Wudang Nine Yang Kung Fu, and under the guidance of Master Zhang, he laid a solid foundation in martial arts."

"Even so, after he obtained the complete Nine Yang Divine Art, it still took him five years to learn it all."

"Afterwards, he cultivated to perfection in the Qiankun Yiqi bag of the monk Budai."

Closing the book in his hand, Xu Xingchen tilted his head to look at the white-haired ape beside him and couldn't help but smile: "White Ape, it seems that we two will be neighbors for a long time."

“I hope we can get along well.”

By the time the monkeys followed the smell and came to the shore of the pond, the terrible and hateful human had disappeared.

The monkeys surrounded the white-haired ape on the ground, squeaking and pushing it continuously until the unconscious white-haired ape was awakened and immediately somersaulted in joy.

The white-haired ape used his claws to scratch and rub his forehead, which was still in pain, with a dazed look in his eyes. When he realized that the pain in his lower abdomen was not as severe as before and was still tightly bound, he seemed to understand something and started to cheer along with his fellow monkeys.

It seems like celebrating his own new life!

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