Chapter 158 - Shocking the Inner Palace (1/2)

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.

The army tried to attack the beasts after that, but it ended with not a single one of those giant beasts being held back while the army suffered huge casualties, instead.

According to speculations, the giant beasts had probably mutated further on the spot, breaking through into Invincible Vajra levels, for as even Level Eight Deity-level monsters would have died all the same when subjected to heavy bombardment.

Only by becoming a Level Nine Invincible Vajra could a being withstand being bombarded by heavy weapons and survive.

The news shocked the entire dark web immediately.

There had been some sightings of such monsters before, but no one paid any attention to them. While there were indeed power differences among the monsters, none of them had ever actually been able to fight humans.

Even without human cultivators, a simple group of military units would have been able to take them out.

But things were different this time. The Huaxia military was actually unable to hold the great monsters at bay, which was a testament to just how terrifying those monsters truly were.

They obviously knew something; they must have even known when those fruits on the tree would become ripe. Otherwise, they would not have been able to ambush the military in time.

Such feats suggested that their intelligence had risen to the same level as humans, and that was a shock to many people.

The very reason that humans were the dominant species on the planet was that all the other animals had inferior intellectual capacity.

Yet those beasts that had been on the mountain had intelligence comparable to that of humans, and given how weak and frail humans were compared to other animals, such creatures were essentially walking disasters.

Lu Xuan read the news and was exasperated at just how much had happened during the previous night. The intelligence network of the dark web was indeed formidable. There were actually some users capable of simulating what had happened during the night, and they sounded convincing.

All those speculations were in fact not that far off from what Lu Xuan remembered from his past life.

Suddenly, while he was still looking at the news, his phone rang.

He took a look at the caller ID and saw that it was Ming Yueyao.

Her voice could be heard on the other end as soon as he picked up the phone.

“Thank goodness I’m finally able to reach you, Mr. Lu!”

“What happened?” Lu Xuan asked, sounding rather intrigued. “What is it that made you called me so urgently, Chief Ming?”

Ming Yueyao seemed rather shocked, and she asked, “Mr. Lu, didn’t you hear what happened last night?”