Chapter 104 - Monkey Fruit Wine Is the Best (1/2)

Beast cultivators belong to a different kind from human cultivators. People always talk about killing beasts and demons, and the “beasts” refer to cultivators of other species while “demons” refer to human cultivators who study evil spells and step on the path of temptation.

If Wen Guanjing was here, he would never follow the old monkey into the cave and he would decisively swing his sword and kill it. However, Lin Luoran and Li Xi’er have never heard of such taboos, which is their difference of concept from Wen.

As a matter of fact, this old monkey is bold because it is wounded. The monkey believes that even it uses all its strength and manages to kill one of the human cultivators and dies together with her, however, the other one will definitely slaughter all the other monkeys. Therefore, the old monkey decides to take the risk and invite the two female cultivators to the cave house. It prepares to let them take everything they want as long as they don’t hurt the other monkeys. The old monkey thinks that lives of the monkeys are more important.

As expected, the two female cultivators seem to be nice because they didn’t attack the monkeys at the first sight. The old monkey is thinking about what to give will make the two human cultivators leave in peace… However, it is alerted again because it senses that Lin Luoran is probing it.

Inside of the old monkey, there is not only Reiki but also a shadow around its lung.

“Are you wounded?”

The old monkey is stunned. However, it can’t deny the truth since she has already seen the shadow. The old monkey nods.

Li Xi’er feels bad. She looks at Lin Luoran with wet eyes, and then looks away.

Lin Luoran is silenced. The nature of wood centers on vitality, and she knows a healing spell from Spells of the Five Elements. She never tries to cast the spell before, but according to the book, this spell will at least consume half of the Reiki inside of her — there are so many beasts and monsters in the secret land, and she is lucky to be able to tame Goldie whose talent is unawakened. It will be so dangerous for herself if she uses up her Reiki.

The old monkey is relaxed since Lin Luoran doesn’t pursue. It claps its hands and the monkeys waiting outside bring three stone cups into the house. The fragrance of wine comes along. Li Xi’er exclaims,

“It’s the monkey fruit wine!”

“You recognize it?” Lin Luoran asks curiously.

Li Xi’er nods and tells a story to Lin Luoran in low voice.

The school which Li Xi’er is from is also located in a mountain. As a lively little girl, Li Xi’er often went to play on the mountain, and she sometimes made fun of the animals living there. One day, she found the den of some monkeys and took almost all the monkey fruit wine they made. Those monkeys went to make trouble at the gate of Li’s school every day. Then Li’s master heard about what she did and commanded her to give back the wine.

Lin Luoran is amused by the story. Li Xi’er is always able to do things that put others in dilemma.

However, it seems that the “monkey fruit wine” means a lot to the monkeys?