Chapter 47 (1/2)

Why is Ren Tianxing’s son so abnormal? What’s inside his brain?

The smiling face elder recalled Ren Jie’s performance previously and concluded that Ren Jie was never normal. He decided to remain silent and simply grabbed Ren Jie.

Ren Jie was not unfamiliar with that. He let the smiling face elder capture him and bring him away from his house. Ren Jie felt that he was once again in the semi-conscious state. The next time he regained his consciousness, he discovered that they were already in a natural forest.

Forest. When Ren Jie saw the forest, he was immediately reminded of the natural forest that his sixth uncle was staying in. Upon closer inspection, he noticed that the forest that he was currently in was different from his sixth uncle’s. The forest that his sixth uncle was in was easily recognizable. He was evidently in a forest outside of the Jade Capital.

Ren Jie used his divine sense to detect his surroundings. The area covered by his divine sense could now reach a radius of fifty meters. Ren Jie immediately discovered a problem based on his observations of the fifty meters radius around him. There were many trees in the huge forest which affected his divine sense. That was…

An array formation!

The array formation was not man-made. Its effect on people’s divine sense was very unique. It seemed like…

Ren Jie immediately recalled something that he read about in the library pavilion—Soul Bewitching Demonic Monkeys. Soul Bewitching Demonic Monkeys were level three early-stage demonic beasts. Their powers were equivalent to humans who were at the seventh to the eighth level of the Body Refinement Realm. They were the size of a palm and were not threatening individually. However, they lived in clusters and had an innate divine power to alter the surroundings where they lived to create a unique soul bewitching array formation. Furthermore, they could affect one’s divine sense. Most importantly, the more demonic monkeys there were, the stronger the array formation that they created would become, and the same went for its impact on one’s divine sense.

There was a myth that if there were more than a thousand Soul Bewitching Demonic Monkeys living together, even level six late-stage demonic beasts or people who had perfected the True Qi Realm and were knowledgeable about array formations would not be able to survive inside the array formation.

“Leave this place before daylight. Or else, I will punish you by slapping you on the buttocks ten times. Okay, now scram…” The smiling face elder put Ren Jie down. He then lifted his leg and kicked Ren Jie’s butt into the array formation.

“Wait!” Ren Jie turned around suddenly and stopped what the smiling face elder was doing.

“What’s there to wait for? I call the shots here.” The smiling face elder was stunned for a while. He remembered the fortunate thing that happened previously. When he saw Ren Jie looking at the forest in a daze, he thought, Surely he won’t be that fortunate this time. How is it possible that he saw through this as well?

Although the Soul Bewitching Demonic Monkeys were not very powerful, they lived in clusters and were not that easily found. He had spent a lot of effort catching them. Moreover, he had specially confined the monkeys for a few days, allowing them to transform the place such that it was suitable for that rascal’s use.

“Nothing. Didn’t you say that this is a failed spiritual artifact just now? I just wanted to show you what I could do. It’s time to witness a miracle.” Ren Jie suddenly recalled the catchphrase of a famous magician in his previous life and used that as his ending sentence.

“Time to witness a miracle?” The smiling face elder was a little confused by what Ren Jie said.

“I have a way to repair this and turn it back into a superior-grade spiritual artifact. All I need is a little help from you.” Ren Jie pinched his thumb and index finger together to show that he merely needed a little help.

“What are you talking about? Go inside. I am not going to compensate you for the time that you have wasted…” The smiling face elder almost burst out laughing. Repairing that failed superior-grade spiritual artifact was even harder than creating an ultimate-grade spiritual artifact. Even top spiritual artifact creators who could create ultimate-grade spiritual artifacts would find it hard to repair that failed spiritual artifact. Repairing it was ten times harder than creating a new spiritual artifact.

Therefore, the smiling face elder was prepared to throw Ren Jie into the forest. He did not want to continue the conversation with Ren Jie.

Ren Jie turned and took a look at the forest that the smiling face elder had painstakingly constructed and said in disdain, “This is way too simple. Even three-year-olds could leave that place within fifteen minutes. Let us first…”

There was no way Soul Bewitching Demonic Monkeys would appear near the Jade Capital. That meant that they were captured by the smiling face elder himself. He had to confine the monkeys and let them feel that they were in danger so that the monkeys would create a temporary habitat to protect themselves. That explained why such a place would exist.

Anyone would be furious if something that they had spent so much effort creating was belittled. With the smiling face elder’s temper, there was no way that he would not be mad about that.

“What did you say?” Expectedly, the smiling face elder exploded with rage upon hearing Ren Jie’s words. He closed in on Ren Jie with a smile on his face and said, “How dare you say that what I have constructed was easy even to three-year-olds? Who are you to have the guts to say that what I have constructed is easy even to three-year-olds?”

“Umm…” Seeing how he had successfully angered the smiling face elder, Ren Jie shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, “Why don’t we have a bet? If I can leave the forest within fifteen minutes, you will have to do as I say for the rest of the night and facilitate me in repairing this superior-grade spiritual artifact.”

Fifteen minutes?

Although the smiling face elder was wearing a mask with a smile drawn on it, his disdain and rage could be sensed from underneath the mask.