Chapter 158 - Shocking the Inner Palace
While the news on the dark web said that the sightings were unconfirmed, the author of the article still sounded confident in his presentation of all the information.
It was certainly clear that many more than just that white ape alone had been able to make the breakthrough.
There was a mystical tree in Mount Tai, and that tree had quite a few mystical fruits hanging from its branches, fruits that had never seemed to ripen.
However, a Spiritual Eye had also appeared at Mount Tai during the previous night’s Spiritual Tide, and it kept gushing with spirit qi. Over half of the spirit qi that flowed out had been absorbed by the tree, and those long-unripe mystical fruits ripened all at once during the night.
The mystical fragrance of the ripe fruits spread far and wide.
Several terrifying giant monsters had emerged from all corners before the army was able to take over the mountain. All of the monsters had been able to steal one fruit each behind the army’s back.
The army fought long and hard, yet they were only able to take two fruits back. All the rest were probably divided among the terrifying giant beasts.
Those beasts fled as soon as the opportunity presented itself.
This had happened because the monsters were simply too cunning. They had countless beasts surrounding the entirety of Mount Tai before the assault, and there had been monsters of considerable training among those animals.
The military garrisoning at Mount Tai had clashed with those beasts right away. There had been loopholes in their defenses, which enabled the monsters to take advantage of the military.
Lu Xuan knew that in the world of such monsters, formidable ones became true alphas while the weaker ones were reduced to pawns of such alphas. These weaker pawns were so dominated that they were unable to resist, even if they were sent to their deaths.
The monsters last night had apparently been the best among them, so it was only reasonable for them to be able to command other beasts.
What differed from his past life was the fact that the Mount Tai branch of the Special Task Force had acquired methods of crafting runic ammunition from Lu Xuan.
As such, they had large amounts of such ammunition at hand. This gave them a decisive advantage against the Invincible Vajra level monsters, beings that the fighters would have otherwise been unable to beat. The runic ammunition enabled them to injure those monsters right away.
The white ape king’s injuries had been especially severe. Later, it fled in the chaos.
Things would not have been all that bad if that was all that had happened. But the white ape king had run amok after being injured, killing everything that got in its way.
Over 10,000 people were slaughtered in a single night. Its escape route was a path littered with blood.
That turn of events had shaken even the Inner Palace.