Chapter 380: The Monster Spirit Ancestors True Form (1/2)

The declaration crashed into the world of immortals like a thunderbolt. Proclamation complete, the Scarlet Ape resumed its carnage. Every single human currently in the North Sea, whether cultivator or immortal, fell to its staff.

The ape killed everything in its way in a bloody progression to the shores of Ingress Island.

Thousands of kilometers across, the island was the size of a large province in one of the human majors. Gleaming with the hue of precious gems, a rich spiritual aura permeated the air. This island was a pearl of the North Sea, one of its most fertile regions.

Fire erupting from its eyes, the ape looked coldly at the vast island.

“Senior, Ingress Island is our ally!” Beigong Xuan hastened to say, still following behind the Scarlet Ape. The two other great factions of the North Sea—the Dark North Sword Sect and Ingress Island—weren’t pure monster spirit factions, but included humans as well.

The Scarlet Ape glanced back and leveled a glare filled with utter malevolence at the blackwater snake. Beigong Xuan’s mind immediately went blank and he shrank in on himself from trepidation.

“Do you wish to imitate the dragons, phoenixes, qilins, and tortoises in becoming humanity’s flunkeys?” Cold and eerie, there was a murderous undertone to the ape’s raspy voice.

Beigong Xuan looked down, afraid to utter another word.

This Scarlet Ape was a survivor of a distant era far, far in the past. If one were to describe that era with words, it could be called ‘primeval’, and what the ape spoke of was obviously a secret from those primeval times.

What made Beigong Xuan’s heart tremble was that... the four true spirits were humanity’s lackeys?

He, too, didn’t hail from the current era. He’d once been the spirit pet of Qi Hai, the foremost pill master of the ancient era, and had followed him into the dragon tomb. That was how he’d survived the great immortal war.

True, the ancient dragons and phoenixes had been subordinates of the immortal court, but said court hadn’t been a human dynasty, but had encompassed every race of the immortal world. Humans, monster spirits, and divines alike had made up the ranks of the immortal emperors.

While the current relationship between monster spirits and humans was indeed antagonistic, the Scarlet Ape’s vehemence seemed to go far beyond that.

“We monster spirits possess hearts of steel and an unyielding spirit. Why do we need to ally ourselves with humans?” A round of black waves billowed erupted from the staff in its hand as it swung it down at the island.

Boom!

Faster than one could blink, formations and restrictions on the island shattered one after another from the impact, crushing too many cultivators to count.

Monitoring the island from the shadows, Su Xiaoxiao tensed. Without a word, her figure gradually faded into nothingness as she returned to the netherworld.

Behind the ape gone berserk, the cape fanned out multicolored lights that surrounded the creature’s golden figure in what resembled balls of flames, while formidable waves surged from the staff—a perfect combination of fire and water.

Boom!

Seaquell was now more than three thousand meters long, and the impact from it slamming into the island produced a tremendous fissure that ran from one end of the land to the other.

“Humans on the island, scram from the North Sea. Else, die!”

Rumble!

Shooting forward, the Scarlet Ape announced its landfall with a tremendous roar that ripped through the island like rolling thunder. However, a pair of hands hundreds of meters wide formed in response and slapped down at the ape with an imposing momentum.

The master of Ingress Island had finally shown his hand.

Upon revealing his power, clouds and winds surged in the sky and dimmed the world, and the lifeforce of the land around the Scarlet Ape was expelled, so much so the area around the creature almost seemed disconnected from the world.

“Ingress realm?!” Scowling at the giant hands in the sky looming over him, the ape growled as if deeply insulted. “How dare a mere ingress realm human attack me!”

It stuck its staff into the ground and spread its arms wide, compelling Seaquell to swell into an enormous mountain range that faced the island master’s hands head-on.

Boom!

Within a radius of fifty thousand kilometers, seawater and hundreds of millions of living creatures exploded violently when mountain met hands. Legs sunk deep into the ground, the Scarlet Ape’s golden fur was now dyed by the scarlet of its blood.

Hum...

The droning hum of a sword rang out as a grey sword appeared from nowhere and slashed at the Scarlet Ape.

Clank!!

A metallic clang echoed when the weapon neared the ape, unceremoniously halted by the blazing cape. A man clad in grey materialized and retrieved the immortal sword, joining the giant hands in the sky in an offensive against the giant ape.

Roar!!

The raging Scarlet Ape threw its head back and howled its fury at the sky, its golden fur glinting sharply. In the next moment, two extra heads and four extra arms grew out of its body.

Three heads and six arms!

The strength of its aura increased once more, and the black staff in front of him rippled with light as it split into three identical copies. Thus bolstered, the ape leapt in the air to do battle with the grey-robed immortal and the pair of giant hands.

……

Inside the North Sea capital seas, a great white path suddenly broke through the water’s surface, immediately followed by dozens of thousands of immortals and a black fortress ship.

In the last moments of the dragon and phoenix nest’s destruction, Lu Yun had summoned the Path of Ingress once more and brought the surviving immortals away from the crumbling tombs.

“Ingress Island and the Dark North Sword Sect have both made their moves!” The immortals sensed the great battle over Ingress Island as soon as they emerged.