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

“Not quite. I was cultivating in isolation last night. That was quite a rare opportunity, as I’m sure you know,” Lu Xuan said plainly.

“So that’s what happened to you. I’ll keep it brief, then.”

Ming Yueyao began to elaborate.

“There were several attacks from monsters last night. A number of mystical fruits were taken, and they ate the fruits on the spot. All of them mutated right away.”

Lu Xuan nodded and said, “I know this. I was just checking the news, and they seemed to have fled.”

Lu Xuan did not find any of that to be out of the place because he knew every single one of those monsters personally. They were renowned monster kings back in his past life, with every single one of them reigning supreme over a region.

Not only were they more powerful than the rat king that Lu Xuan had taken out last night, but they were also even terrifying enough to threaten human societies.

Lu Xuan was not actually all that familiar with how those monsters had come to power, but he was at least able to recall something.

“Things wouldn’t have gotten so bad if they had just run away.”

Ming Yueyao sounded rather bitter when she said that.

“Those monsters rampaged all over Mount Tai last night. Our men from the Mount Tai branch fought the monsters and suffered severe casualties. In fact, even the branch chief died in combat.”

Lu Xuan had a severe expression on his face by then. It was obvious that being a member of the Special Task Force was not as glorious as it looked on the surface. They had to shoulder an untold number of threats and crises, and it was possible that they might die at the hands of powerful cultivators or monsters at any given moment.

Ming Yueyao explained the events of the previous night to Lu Xuan.

The monsters had overrun Mount Tai and clashed with the humans. Not only did the military participate in their extermination, but even the fighters from the Mount Tai branch of the Special Task Force joined the fight, too.

What shocked Lu Xuan most was how, from that point on, things developed differently from what he remembered happening in his past life.

The Huaxia military had been assaulted, and they were unable to react in time, which left them unable to do much of anything as the monsters fled by various different routes.

This had happened because the monsters were simply too cunning. They had countless beasts surrounding the entirety of Mount Tai before the assault, and there had been monsters of considerable training among those animals.

The military garrisoning at Mount Tai had clashed with those beasts right away. There had been loopholes in their defenses, which enabled the monsters to take advantage of the military.

Lu Xuan knew that in the world of such monsters, formidable ones became true alphas while the weaker ones were reduced to pawns of such alphas. These weaker pawns were so dominated that they were unable to resist, even if they were sent to their deaths.

The monsters last night had apparently been the best among them, so it was only reasonable for them to be able to command other beasts.

What differed from his past life was the fact that the Mount Tai branch of the Special Task Force had acquired methods of crafting runic ammunition from Lu Xuan.

As such, they had large amounts of such ammunition at hand. This gave them a decisive advantage against the Invincible Vajra level monsters, beings that the fighters would have otherwise been unable to beat. The runic ammunition enabled them to injure those monsters right away.

The white ape king’s injuries had been especially severe. Later, it fled in the chaos.

Things would not have been all that bad if that was all that had happened. But the white ape king had run amok after being injured, killing everything that got in its way.

Over 10,000 people were slaughtered in a single night. Its escape route was a path littered with blood.

That turn of events had shaken even the Inner Palace.