The Caged Gray Ape is the current leader of a group of apes in the Cenji Mountains. Before he became the ape king, he fought with a white bear and was seriously injured. He was later rescued by the young Pang Jian and his father.
That time, the reason why his father was willing to rescue him was because he saw that the gray ape had high spirituality.
After that, this gray ape with ice blue eyes became his companion in the Silent Mountains.
In the years since then, he has never hunted the apes under the leadership of this gray ape. Sometimes when he was in danger while hunting, the gray ape would come to rescue him when he saw it.
Two years ago, after he hunted mountain leopards alone, he was viciously targeted by other veteran hunters in Linshan Town.
The old hunter bullied him when he was young. Seeing that his father had been missing for a long time, he wanted to rob the mountain leopard he had captured.
When he was fighting back desperately and was about to be defeated, he got help from the Gray Ape and his group of apes.
After that conflict, the three hunters who were notorious in Linshan Town disappeared into the forest forever.
Seeing Gray Ape being imprisoned in an iron cage and becoming a prisoner of the Shangguan family, Pang Jian, who had been hiding behind others, suddenly stepped forward.
"The gray ape?"
When he moved here, Zhou Qingchen was also alarmed. Looking at the solemn look on his face, he asked curiously: "Do you recognize him?"
"Friend." Pang Jian replied seriously.
"friend……"
Zhou Qingchen was thoughtful.
When Shangguan Qin arrived in front of everyone, his charming face was full of weirdness, and he said casually: "This gray ape and its subordinates attacked us not long ago. The apes under its command are not contaminated by the evil spirits in the mist.
The power was quickly eliminated by us."
"As for this gray ape with ice-blue eyes..."
Shangguan Qin pursed her lips, looked at Pang Jian, then at Zhou Qingchen, and said with a smile: "It seems to have become spiritual."
"Are you spiritual?"
Zhou Qingchen's face moved slightly.
Shangguan Qin nodded lightly, his eyes flickering with hope, and he explained with a smile: "After we captured it, we tried various methods, and we are convinced that it has extremely high intelligence and spirituality. You also know that ape intelligence
It is already very tall, and it is much taller than ordinary apes."
Zhou Qingchen suddenly realized: "It seems that he has transformed into a spiritual beast."
There are many precedents for beasts to undergo transformation in places with strong aura of heaven and earth, or under the shroud of "strange mist".
Beasts that cannot cleanse the filth in their spiritual energy are extremely ferocious and powerful, but because they cannot communicate, they are defined as ferocious beasts.
Fierce beasts are difficult to tame and discipline, and have no value for practitioners to keep alive.
Spirit beasts are different.
Once the spirit beast is tamed, it can become a practitioner's partner and can drive the spirit beast to do many things.
Shangguan Qin captured this gray ape alive, probably intending to take it out and completely tame it so that it could be used by the Shangguan family.
"Friend..."
Zhou Qingchen touched his chin, sometimes looking at the gray ape in the iron cage, sometimes looking at Pang Jian, weighing the value of the two in his heart, thinking about whether to redeem the gray ape from Shangguan Qin's hands.
The spiritual gray ape that falls into the hands of the Shangguan family is naturally of high value. If you don't pay a price, you won't be able to get it back.
Pang Jian's ruthlessness in assassinating He Ziren and his familiarity with the Silent Mountains were of certain value, and he did intend to recruit Pang Jian.
It's just that Pang Jian's cultivation talent is indeed not very good. Unless there is an extraordinary encounter in the future, his achievements will still be limited.
After thinking about it, Zhou Qingchen felt compassion for the word "friend" and said: "Aunt Qin, can this gray ape give up your love? You just heard it, my little brother said,
The gray ape is his friend."
Ning Yao, Ning Yuanshan and others all felt incomprehensible at this moment, wondering why Zhou Qingchen suddenly looked at Pang Jian in a different light.
Zhou Qingchen clearly didn't look Pang Jian in the eye when they first met him, but after the murderous incident at the pile of rocks, he took the initiative to go in and give him meat and a dragon-marked spear.
Now, he wants to ask for the gray ape from the Shangguan family for Pang Jian's sake?
Ning Yao and others didn't know the reason.
The gray ape in the iron cage seemed to have understood human nature. After Pang Jian said the word "friend", a pair of ice-blue eyes stared at Pang Jian for a long time without moving.
"Who is he?" Shangguanqin asked curiously.
"A hunter who is most familiar with the Cenji Mountains. We will rely on him for all our subsequent explorations of the Cenji Mountains!" Zhou Qingchen replied.
"Just...a hunter?"
Shangguan Qin was surprised and confused.
She thought for a moment, looked at the bones near the Wuding ferry, the blood moon price tag on her clothes, and the flying black banner on the ferry, and suddenly changed the topic: "Qing Chen, how long have you been here? What happened to them?
Dead?"
"It was like this not long after we came here. When we came here, all the artifacts on the corpses were still there. I feel that they were also attacked and killed by wild beasts, and their flesh and blood were eaten away by wild beasts." Han Duping said flatteringly.
"You all know the relationship between our Shangguan family and Xueyue."
Shangguanqin rubbed his forehead and looked at the huge Wuding ferry with a troubled look.
"Let's do this. After leaving the Serenity Mountains, I hope that the artifacts you searched from Xue Yue's corpse can be sold to our Shangguan family. Next, we will search for this Wuding ferry. The things inside include this ferry,
Our Shangguan family will all submit it to the Blood Moon."
"how?"
Shangguan Qin just looked at Zhou Qingchen and asked.
She chose to ignore the opinions of Ning Yuanshan, Ning Yao, and Han Duping.
"How does this work?"
Han Duping couldn't help it anymore and felt that the conditions offered by Shangguanqin were really harsh.
The Infinite Ferry Boat is huge, and it would be difficult for people in the lower world to fly it without obtaining the secret method of the Blood Moon.
It's probably very difficult for the Zhou family to capture this special ferry, and they won't give up even if they capture Blood Moon.
But if there is a harvest in the cabin, since the Zhou family is the first to come, of course they should get a share of the pie, and they cannot let the Shangguan family behind take advantage of it.
A gray ape that has just gained spirituality has not shown its potential in the future and is of little value. Shangguan Qin is like a lion.
"good."
To everyone's surprise, Zhou Qingchen actually agreed and immediately pointed to the iron cage and signaled to Pang Jian: "It belongs to you now."
"Thanks."
Pang Jian, who was taciturn, thanked you seriously this time and said in a deep voice: "I will carefully consider what you said in the pile of rocks."
For the Gray Ape he cared about, Zhou Qingchen could actually give up such a huge benefit, which really touched him.
After thanking everyone, Pang Jian dismounted and came to the iron cage in front of everyone's strange looks.
The big man, as muscular as a tall tower, saw Shangguan Qin nodding in approval, and handed the iron rope tied to the cage to Pang Jian, preparing to hand over.
Pang Jian shook his head and did not pick up the iron rope. Instead, he looked at the gray ape in front of the cage.
The gray ape with ice-blue eyes was also looking at him in the cage, with a hint of sadness in his cold eyes, as if he was still grieving for the death of his species.
After Pang Jian and Gray Ape looked at each other for a moment, they opened the lock on the top of the cage and lifted the lid.
"Ugh!"
Many onlookers looked at the scene with strange expressions.
"Hide, stay away, and don't show up again in the near future." Pang Jian whispered to the gray ape in the cage.
The gray ape seemed to understand what he said, and when he finished speaking, he nodded humanely, and immediately jumped out and rushed towards the densely wooded mountains.
It turned back from time to time and looked at the practitioners in the Shangguan family, its ice blue eyes full of fierceness.
"This gray ape is very dangerous. His spirituality has improved very quickly. I even regret it."
Under its fierce gaze, Shangguan Qin felt an inexplicable chill. She always felt that letting this gray ape leave so easily might bring trouble to herself.
"Okay, you can go to Wuding Ferry to search now."
Zhou Qingchen actually kept his promise. He first asked the servants of the Zhou family who were loyal to him to leave the sailboat, and then waved to Pang Jian, gesturing for him to return to his side.
Pang Jian waited until there was no trace of the gray ape anymore and it was confirmed that it would be difficult to pursue Shangguan's family, then he returned to Zhou Qingchen.
"I'm surprised to be friends with the spiritual ape king." When Pang Jian came over, Zhou Qingchen opened his mouth and laughed heartily, saying, "Pang Jian, you are quite interesting."
In his mind, Pang Jian, who was hired by the Ning family, was already his, Zhou Qingchen's.
Ning Yao also saw this.
Although it was Pang Jian who she had invited with a bag of silver bullion, since Zhou Qingchen had adopted such an attitude, Pang Jian was probably destined to end up together with Zhou Qingchen.
"You, you, and the rest of you!"
Shangguan Qin waved her snow-white jade arm, named a few people who were loyal to the Shangguan family, and ordered: "Go to the Wuding ferry and check carefully to see what's inside."
Several people nodded in agreement and immediately took action, heading straight for the sailboat moored on the dead branches and wood chips.
Shangguan Qin, who had no mount, asked the others to stay where they were, while she came to Zhou Qingchen and Ning Yao.
At this time, she seemed to finally see Ning Yao. She glanced at Ning Yao's slightly bulging breasts and said pointedly: "Hey, girl Ning, you have grown up too."
When Ning Yao wanted to respond with a straight face, her face suddenly turned cold and she said in a cold tone: "Ning Yuanshan, are you not dead yet?"
Ning Yuanshan gave her a laugh without a smile and did not engage in any verbal entanglement with her.
Everyone can see that Shangguan Qin and the Ning family are not on the same page, and there may have been some trouble in the past.
"Qing Chen, what did you discover on the way?"
Seeing that Ning Yuanshan didn't talk to her, Shangguan Qin didn't act aggressively and started chatting casually with the young master of the Zhou family.
While they were chatting, the Shangguan family, the Zhou family and the Ning family were all paying attention to the movements of the Wuding ferry. They watched a few people loyal to the Shangguan family go along the wooden ladder to the deck, and then sneak from the deck into the cabin.
Pang Jian also learned from their conversation that the Shangguan family entered from the east of the Cenji Mountains and encountered many wild beasts on the way.
Like them, the Shangguan family also hurried over after seeing the huge standing dead bones from a distance.
"Bang! Bang! Bang bang!"
When they talked about the mystery of phoenix bones, there was a terrifying sound of flesh and blood exploding from inside the cabin of the Wuding ferry.
Shangguan Qin suddenly changed his color, and the others were also shocked.
Soon, thick blood was seen shooting out from the cabin like blood arrows, with strange and bloody features, injected one by one into the blood moon pattern on the dark pennant.
A blood-red crescent moon moved with the wind, swallowing up the streaks of blood, and then slowly swelled up inside the banner.
The gradually brightening blood-red light was released through the crescent moon, and the crescent moon also turned into a full moon in a short period of time.
It looked like a demonic blood pupil embedded in a pitch-black banner, faintly facing where everyone was.
The strange changes of this "blood moon" made everyone feel horrified. Everyone who looked at it had their eyes stinging, and their temples felt like they were pierced by two steel nails.
"The Eye of the Brand!"
After the fright, Shangguan Qin was the first to calm down. She raised her hands and screamed at the dark pennant whose crescent moon turned into a full moon due to blood seepage.
She was so excited that her eyes were full of expectation and longing, as if she was waiting for the blessing of an evil god.
On the banner, the terrifying bloody eye slowly rotated, searching for a target to freeze.
Suddenly, Pang Jian felt a heat in his chest, and his eyes were instantly dyed red with thick blood.
He immediately looked into that monster's bloody eye, and scenes suddenly appeared in his mind, as if some kind of memory was being forcibly poured into him.
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