195 Say Something! (1/2)

The look on Wang Baole's darkened as he watched the Diamond Ape leave and eventually disappear into the Beast Taming Pavilion. He turned and walked towards his cave abode. The gears in his head started spinning, and his mind overflowed with ideas.

Fling Self-Exploding Beads at the stupid monkey? No, that's too obvious.

Get the mosquitoes to bite it? That's a good one. But if it throws a tantrum and triggers an investigation by the Beast Taming Pavilion, I could easily be exposed as the perpetrator…

Pit it against someone else? Sow discord between it and the Beast Taming Pavilion Elder? The technicalities of executing that seem rather complex… that's not something someone as smart as I am should do.

What should I do… Wang Baole frowned. He recalled the numerous encounters he had when he was young, discarding each idea that he could think of. As he stepped inside the cave abode, his footsteps stilled.

Is that Diamond Ape male or female? Wang Baole wondered. He tried to recall his memories in detail. Disgruntlement gradually unfurled within him. He was sure that the Diamond Ape was a male.

As a Foundation Establishment realm beast, it knows no shame, doesn't wear any clothes and exposes itself in front of everyone in public. That exhibitionist has gone too far! Wang Baole snorted. He decided that the sins of the monkey were indeed grave.

I, Wang Baole, have always been a generous and forgiving man. One who never holds grudges. But that monkey is just too shameless. What's more, it likes to expose itself. How are the female disciples of this college to conduct themselves in the face of such shameless behavior. It's an affront to the public. I have to discipline this moral hazard for the college!

At that thought, Wang Baole was suddenly seized by a feeling of solemnity; it felt as if he had been imbued with a sense of mission, and a plan quickly surfaced in his mind.

Since it's a male monkey, there is only one way to go about doing this. I'm going to make a female monkey puppet for it… Wang Baole turned the idea over and played it out in his head. A sense of certainty grew in his heart. He sniggered as he played out the scenes in his plan. He felt excited and was dizzy with anticipation, and both his eyes started dazzling. He turned and ran straight for the smelting furnace, pulled out the materials, and started crafting.

He also logged on to the Spirit Intranet at the same time and started reading up on all sorts of information.

Time flew by. Three days later, Wang Baole walked out of the smelting furnace room with a smaller Diamond Ape trailing behind him.

The Diamond Ape was pink all around, its eyes huge, mouth small like a cherry, and blessed with great curvatures. The Spirit Qi that rippled off it was incredible. The quality of the Numinous Treasure was that of a perfected third-grade Numinous Treasure.

Especially in terms of its hardiness—Wang Baole had wracked his brain, consolidating almost all of the defensive inscriptions he had learned and pouring them into the Spirit Kernel. He spared no expense on the materials as well. The result was the smaller-sized Diamond Ape that was virtually indestructible.

Within the puppet was a self-destructive mechanism, and Wang Baole was the only person in the Upper Academy Island that could activate it.

As for its physical appearance, it was the outcome of Wang Baole logging onto the Spirit Intranet, searching tens of thousands of images of female monkeys, and merging them all together. He added a few inspired touches as well, and his final creation was a puppet that he believed would look extremely adorable and endearing in the eyes of the Diamond Ape.

Once this ape puppet appears, that cheap monkey will no doubt be swept off its feet! Wang Baole was overbrimming with confidence. Thinking about how pleased he was, he laughed out loud. A moment later, he led the ape puppet out of the cave abode in high spirits.

Wang Baole stepped out of the cave abode and, with a snap of his fingers, the ape puppet following closely behind him let out a series of chirping sounds from inside its body. Its body seemed to expand slightly to twice its original size. Standing there, it might not reach the size of a small mountain, but it was still significantly large. Wang Baole judged its size to be fitting when compared with the Diamond Ape.

He strutted around in the Dharmic Armament Pavilion with the puppet. Along the way, those who saw him were all stunned. They made all sorts of odd faces at the sight, and all of them were drawn towards Wang Baole's puppet.

”Is that a… puppet?”

”What's up with Wang Baole. He actually crafted a Diamond Ape puppet?”

”Do you guys feel that this puppet seems a little… slutty?”

Wang Baole heard the surrounding debates and saw the expressions on everyone's faces. He grew even more pleased and assured of his plan.

This is, without any doubt, a work of art! Wang Baole turned back and glanced at the ape puppet with great satisfaction. However, as soon as the thought of why it had been created in the first place popped up in his head, he couldn't help but sigh. He felt as if he had strayed from his path of creating unique puppets, and was wandering farther and farther away from that path, into the woods…

I've sacrificed so much just to punish this cheap monkey who has incurred the public's rage. But it's alright, that's my destiny. My whole life, I was destined to work hard and to help others without holding any grudges, Wang Baole lamented, then simply retrieved his cruiser and leaped on board with the puppet.

He flew the cruiser into the sky and made a quick round of the Upper Academy Island. When he reached the Beast Taming Pavilion, he slowed down… It was noon. From afar, under the sunlight, the pink puppet looked spectacularly provocative. It was like a rose in a forest of thorns. It drew the attention of many and, at the same time, attracted the eyes of one within a cave abode atop a mountain somewhere in the Beast Taming Pavilion.

Those eyes landed instantly on Wang Baole's cruiser and narrowed slightly. A thundering roar followed. Without hesitation—instead, possibly, with a tinge of excitement—the Diamond Ape charged out of its cave abode and headed straight for Wang Baole.

It's coming! Wang Baole became excited as soon as he heard the familiar howling. He hurriedly maneuvered the puppet and flew it out of the cruiser in an attempt to draw the Diamond Ape's attention.

However, when the Diamond Ape approached, howling, it didn't even spare a glance at the ape puppet. Instead, with a slap, the ape sent the puppet flying. The Diamond Ape honed in on Wang Baole and raced towards him. It was as if Wang Baole was the one who had captured his full attention.

What's the situation? He doesn't like it?