Chapter 22: Crazy Ancient Ape

  After leaving the training base, Li Meng fell asleep as soon as he lay down on his bed and was only awakened by hunger at dawn. He simply took out Shan Hai Jing from his heart position and quickly entered it.

  A roasted chicken's lower abdomen, Li Meng finally recovered his full physical strength. At the same time, he was surprised to find that the power of promotion, which had been stagnant for several days, showed signs of strengthening again.

  "Getting beaten up can actually increase my strength!" Li Mang's heart was tangled, but his face had a hint of joy, because through this matter, he confirmed that he could improve his own strength through hard training. However, he didn't realize that the reason for his significant improvement in strength wasn't entirely due to hard training, but rather the effect of taking the wild chicken after training.

  Then Li Mang came to the bank of Lixu River, where there was a bamboo raft tied with Xiangfei bamboo, which was the result of Li Mang's hard work in recent days.

  "Tangting Mountain, I'm here!" Li Meng suppressed his excitement and carefully carried the bamboo raft into the water, bringing along the mountain-opening knife and other defensive weapons. He then stepped onto the raft and slowly moved forward with a bamboo pole.

  The water quality at the source of Liuxi River is very clear and beautiful, like a fairyland. Standing on the bamboo raft, Fang Li felt refreshed and invigorated, with all his pores feeling smooth.

  A distance of fifty meters, approaching unknowingly, the bamboo raft is less than ten meters away from the opposite Tangting Mountain.

  "Squeak!" "Squeak..."

  The sudden monkey cry from the front made Li Meng jump, and he quickly used a bamboo pole to stop the bamboo raft. He looked up towards the front and his expression changed greatly.

  Near the source of Lijiang River, there is a shallow beach where you can rarely see the shadow of white apes, which is also why Li Mang chose to cross here.

  Unexpectedly, before he even landed on the shore, the white apes of Tongting Mountain had already discovered him and started to stir up the entire forest. At first, it was just a few, but soon a vast expanse of white shadows appeared at the water's edge, baring their teeth and brandishing their claws in warning Li Mang not to approach.

  These giant apes were as big as tigers, with blood-red mouths and sharp teeth that inspired fear. The sight of their bared teeth was so intimidating that Li Mang did not dare to move forward one step, standing stock-still on the bamboo raft.

  "Wah wah zhi zhi……"

  However, these ancient white apes refused to calm down, pacing back and forth on the shore with a ferocious expression that made Li Mang slightly flustered.

  However, what surprised him even more was that the group of monkeys on the shore suddenly made way for a path, and a larger male ape walked to the end of the path, looking towards Li Mang's direction.

  "It won't want to jump over, will it?!" Li Mang was greatly shocked, regardless of whether the gibbon had such ability or not, he must quickly leave, and immediately pushed the bamboo pole to the bottom of the water.

  But at the same time, the macaque on the opposite side also started to move, taking a forceful step on the ground and quickly running towards the shore. The speed was incredibly fast, and in an instant, it arrived at the shore, then jumped high into the air, forming a beautiful parabola with a height of about 5-6 meters!

  "Damn it!"

  Li Mang was shocked, his bamboo pole had just reached the bottom of the lake. How could he still hesitate? With all his might, he pushed again - "Whoosh!!"

  The bamboo raft flew quickly back and forth, but his movements were still a step too slow. A white shadow was getting closer and closer, and then Li Mang felt the bamboo raft sink down, the creek water splashing up from the gaps in the bamboo, directly soaking all of his clothes, making him feel icy cold!

  "Ahh!" The male gibbon that fell onto the bamboo raft was very excited, pounding its chest with great force like a gorilla, while the white gibbon troop on the opposite riverbank cheered it on with loud calls!

  "Die!" Li Meng was greatly shocked and instinctively loosened his grip on the bamboo pole, instead picking up the large mountain knife placed on the bamboo raft.

  "Ahh!!!" The male monkey seemed to sense danger, and without hesitation, let out a loud screech and pounced over with its bloody mouth wide open!

  "Get out of here!" Li Meng's anger surged, and the giant mountain-opening knife in his hand swung out - "Ka Cha!"

  Two monkey paws flew out simultaneously, making two splashing sounds as they fell into the lake, and the crimson blood instantly dyed the originally clear lake surface red.

  "Ahhhooooo!!!!!!"

  The miserable howl of the orangutan, its voice piercing to the ear, and the blood that seeped out from where its hand was severed instantly stained its white fur red!

  Li Meng's heart was soft, but his movements didn't stop. He dared not and immediately kicked the monkey king with all his might!

  "Boom... Splash!"

  The ape responded to the sound and fell into the lake, struggling desperately in the water. The bright red blood instantly dyed a large area of clear water red, looking bleakly beautiful.

  The white ape couldn't swim to begin with, otherwise it wouldn't have been trapped in the Tangting Mountain. Not to mention that its two claws were cut off now, and after struggling on the water surface for a while, it slowly sank down. But due to the clear creek water, Li Mang could still see the situation of the male ape in the water. What made his scalp feel numb was that possibly because of the bloody smell, the strange fish in the water suddenly went crazy, ignoring the external noise and frantically swimming towards the white ape, a large patch of black, with many varieties, including strange shapes.

  "Hmmph..."

  At the bottom of the deep water, the strange fish were frantically pecking at the body of the white ape... It shouldn't be called a corpse, as the white ape still had a thread of breath left, but in the end it was unable to resist the overwhelming force and slowly died.

  What made Li Mang's scalp even more numb was that as the number of strange fish increased, in just a moment, the white ape at the bottom of the water had already become bloody and blurred, and its skeleton could be seen gradually.

  But that's not all, some of the strange fish that arrived later even wanted to gnaw on bones, and a faint crunching sound was vaguely transmitted to Li Meng's ears. Maybe it was his illusion!

  The hairs on Li Meng's body stood up instantly, and he felt a chill run down his spine. He had gained a new understanding of the terror that lay within the world of Shan Hai Jing!

  "Rustling and chirping sounds..."

  The ancient white ape opposite saw its companion die and its anger value soared to the extreme, baring its teeth and warning.

  "Ahhhroo!"

  A gigantic ancient white ape suddenly appeared in Li Meng's line of sight, its body size was at least twice that of the other white apes, and its appearance was also quite ferocious, with sharp teeth exposed. As it let out a loud roar, the frenzied ancient ape group immediately calmed down.

  "King of the Apes!" Li Meng couldn't help but think, and he was startled out of his daze. He hastily looked for the bamboo pole, but who would have thought that when the gibbon fell onto the raft, it was too tense and the pole was still in the water, unable to be picked up, and now it had drifted downstream.

  "Die!" Li Meng's face changed greatly, but he didn't rush too much. At least for now, he was still safe. What gave him a headache was that there were only two big knives on the bamboo raft, and there weren't any other tools to paddle the boat.

  Using a big knife to row the water? It's also okay, but it's undoubtedly very slow. After all, this bamboo raft is heavy itself, and it's not made of dried bamboo, plus the blade isn't wide, so the resistance that can be generated is small, and the speed naturally can't keep up.

  "Hmm..."

  The sudden sound made Li Meng feel a sense of danger, nowhere to hide, he could only shrink his body at the tail end of the bamboo raft, a strong gust of wind brushed past him - "Whoosh!"

  A loud cracking sound came from the rear, it was a huge boulder, and it was personally smashed by the ancient ape king on the opposite side. This couldn't help but make Li Meng's heart sink, thinking to himself that things were not going well!

  As expected, with the ancient ape king taking the lead, the other ancient white apes also started picking up stones. If Li Meng was still stunned on the bamboo raft, he would inevitably be buried under a mountain of stones!

  "Hoo...hooo..." With a series of faint whooshing sounds, the ancient white ape on the opposite shore finally began to throw stones, hundreds of large and small rocks covering the sky like a canopy!

  Li Mang knew he couldn't stay for long, gritted his teeth and jumped into the water - "Splash!"

  Li Mang fell into the water, and soon after, rocks came pouring down from the sky. Some of them landed in the water, but many hit the bamboo raft, which couldn't withstand the great pressure and gradually began to sink, threatening to plunge to the bottom of the lake.