Chapter 64: We're Going to Kill Them

The Monkey Head Gang's stronghold.

Yuan Er glared at the envoy in furious shock: "What did you say? Hand over the monkey corpses? To, to that Flying Disk Workshop for refining?!"

His hair stood on end in rage, his eyes bloodshot. He roared like a man-eating beast.

The envoy remained expressionless: "This is Lord Feisi's command. The Monkey Head Gang has disappointed the Lord greatly. So many monkey pets have died. How can you shoulder the Lord's expectations?"

"Instead, it would be better to make good use of these monkey corpses to refine more mechanical monkeys."

"This year's Fire Persimmon Festival is extraordinary! Even the City Lord is watching. You must act for the sake of the greater good!"

The phrase "for the sake of the greater good" drained the color from Yuan Er's face.

He gritted his teeth, "I, I need to consider this carefully..."

The envoy interrupted, "There's no need to consider this matter. Just execute it. This is an order!"

But then, he caught sight of Yuan Dasheng, coiled like a bear or tiger, and his pupils contracted slightly. His tone softened, "However, I also understand your difficulties. I'll give you some time to come to terms with it."

"I'll be right outside the door. I won't return empty-handed this time."

"I hope you can adjust yourselves as soon as possible."

The envoy left the room and closed the door.

After he left, Yuan Er picked up everything within reach and smashed it against the ground.

The sounds of shattering filled the air, reaching the envoy's ears, eliciting only a faint sneer.

"Too much! This is simply too much!"

Yuan Er roared, "It was the Flying Disk Workshop! They're the ones aggressively buying up wild monkeys! They're the ones offering exorbitant bounties, luring demon cultivators to attack and kill our monkey pets! They're the ones who assassinated me!"

"They're after the Fire Persimmon harvesting business. They want to uproot the foundation of our Monkey Head Gang!"

Yuan Er's roar gradually turned into a mournful sob.

Yuan Dasheng remained calm.

Since Yuan Er's assassination attempt, it had moved in to live with him.

To prevent its soul from being extracted for the palace, it would deliberately damage its own soul every so often, avoiding the soul-hooking mechanism (Yuan Dasheng's conjecture).

Looking at Yuan Er before him, Yuan Dasheng felt like he was transported back to the past.

Yuan Yi was ambushed and seriously injured.

The attacker brazenly left his name, declaring, "You're just a beggar. How dare you dream of marrying my family's young lady? Hah!"

"Forget about it."

"To be honest, I was sent by the young lady herself."

"This is a lesson for you. Stop daydreaming and take a piss to look at yourself."

Seeing Yuan Yi lying on the bed, barely clinging to life, Yuan Dasheng flew into a rage and wanted to charge over and fight to the death with the enemy.

Yuan Yi desperately held him back, "Dasheng, Dasheng! Calm down!"

"Anger... anger won't solve anything!!"

"That Lady Zhang... I must marry her. Only through marriage can my gang gain a foothold and ally with other factions."

"So, even if I'm humiliated, even if I'm ambushed, I'll pretend it never happened."

Yuan Dasheng glared at Yuan Yi, so enraged that he broke free and grabbed anything within reach, smashing it in a frenzy. The intensity of his anger seemed to distort the air itself.

Yuan Yi leaned against the wall, gasping for breath. Blood seeped through the bandages again.

He patiently waited for Yuan Dasheng to calm down a little before walking back to his side.

He put his hand on its shoulder, his voice hoarse and heavy, "Dasheng, I know you're angry."

"My humiliation makes you even angrier than your own!"

"But let me tell you... let me tell you..."

"Humble origins are not a shame. To bend and stretch is the mark of a true man!"

"I will definitely marry that woman. Her father is already leaning towards cooperating with our Monkey Head Gang. It's not up to her to decide."

"We can't cause trouble. It will ruin everything."

"But I promise you, I will repay today's humiliation a hundredfold in the future."

"We must overcome this hurdle, Dasheng." Yuan Yi patted the ape's shoulder forcefully. "We must climb up, we must fight our way up. One day, we will stand very, very high!"

Under Yuan Yi's comforting words, the ape's flushed face and raised eyebrows gradually smoothed out, settling into an expression of age and vicissitude.

Its monkey sons and grandsons were poisoned, yet they didn't even have the right to be buried, but were going to be used as materials by the enemy to create puppets!

Yuan Dasheng’s chest held a raging inferno, but his expression remained tranquil.

He watched Yuan Er smash everything in sight, thinking of his old comrade, now lost to the world.

Sadly, he was no longer here.

And so, the ape's anger was tinged with sadness.

It slowly stood up, went to Yuan Er's side, and gently placed its hand on the latter's shoulder.

Yuan Er shuddered, turned around, saw Yuan Dasheng, and immediately collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down his face. "Uncle Monkey!"

...

Magma Immortal Palace.

Puppet Ning Zhuo had been waiting quietly for some time.

Finally, he was certain that Yuan Dasheng would no longer enter the Immortal Palace.

"The plan has worked!" Ning Zhuo thought.

Whether it was offering high prices, enticing demon cultivators to constantly attack and kill the Monkey Head Gang's monkey pets, or the intentional assassination attempt on Yuan Er, all were meant to create pressure on Yuan Dasheng.

It seemed to be working well.

Yuan Dasheng realized that a storm was brewing, and the Monkey Head Gang was being targeted, so how could he care about exploring the Immortal Palace?

"This way, the Four Great Powers won't discover Yuan Dasheng in the short term."

"Furthermore, Yuan Dasheng won't discover other competitors and will misjudge the situation in the Immortal Palace."

"And myself? Am I not also in a precarious situation?"

Zhu Xuanji, a member of the Divine Arrest Division, arrived much sooner than Ning Zhuo had expected.

Although Ning Zhuo was prepared.

"The two main incantations cultivated by members of the Divine Arrest Division are the Mind Warning Incantation and the Root Tracing Method."

"The former is the source of the Alarm Bell's prohibitions, and the latter can unearth closely related items."

As long as Ning Zhuo were to detonate the Immortal Palace, he would definitely be exposed under the Root Tracing Method. To solve this problem, Ning Zhuo took the initiative to appear, contacting Chen Cha with his true form and deliberately exposing the Mechanical Fireblast Monkey.

Now, this arrangement had taken effect.

"But how long can I hide?" Ning Zhuo didn't know. Perhaps he would be exposed and captured the next second.

He was mentally prepared.

He could only race against time and continue forward.

"Now, all that's left is to wait for the Fire Persimmon Festival."

...

Zhu Xuanji and Chi Dun concealed their forms and left the Black Market.

Chi Dun was puzzled: "Lord Zhu, what is going on? Under your Golden Eyes, they cannot lie. But no one has purchased a large amount of Fire Essence recently."

Zhu Xuanji was silent for a moment, then smiled slightly: "It seems that the culprit came prepared."

"You can tell from the Mechanical Monkey that the culprit has specifically prepared for our Division's Root Tracing Method."

"The markets, large and small, in Fire Persimmon City have no suspicious buyers who purchased Fire Essence in large quantities. Either they purchased it in large quantities from elsewhere, or they purchased it in batches."

"Either way, it was premeditated!"

Chi Dun: "What should we do next?"

Zhu Xuanji rubbed his chin and sighed, "Next, prepare for the Fire Persimmon Festival!"