Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

Chapter 1158 - 542: Hi Myth·Water Monkey_2

"What a good disciple, showing such care for your master, not only returning personally to pay respect but also bringing such treasures."Its eyes, like light bulbs, darted between Chu Yang, the plaque, Fifth Gangqiang, and the box containing the Little Holy Tree, leaving one unsure who exactly it considered a treasure.

Black water surged, and in no time, the small village in the mountains transformed into a vast lake.

Chu Yang and Fifth Gangqiang clung to the plaque, rising and falling in the water under the protection of the Array.

"Ho ho ho, delicious, so delicious, good disciple, come with your master for a chat in the Dragon Palace!"

With that, it attempted to sweep the two of them and the plaque into the water well.

However, halfway through, the strange ape realized that no matter how large a wave it raised, it couldn’t sweep away the plaque or the two people even a little.

At the vortex’s center, an unexpected figure appeared.

Zhang Ze stood with his hands behind his back, striking a pose, and upon meeting the strange ape’s gaze, he clicked his tongue lightly.

"Damn, even water monkeys can become spirits!"

Zhang Ze hadn’t misjudged; the strange ape was indeed a water monkey turned into a spirit.

In the past, this ’master’ of Chu Yang had accidentally acquired a human form, but with a naturally dull mind, it stumbled on the path of cultivation, making no progress beyond spraying water, its original skill.

Helpless, it retreated to the remote countryside, seeking secluded mountain villages to perform some tricks to deceive people.

Once it gained trust, it would eat up the villagers and then look for the next village.

When it came to Chu Yang’s village years ago, it had a similar plan.

Unexpectedly, the night it planned to start with the orphaned Chu Yang, it suddenly noticed something unusual in the dried-up well in the child’s house.

Its innate sensitivity to water led it to the abnormality beneath the dried-up well.

Screwing up its courage to investigate, it found a peculiar earth altar beneath a fissure at the bottom of the well.

The earth altar had no water, but upon closing its eyes, one felt as though submerged in the legendary Spirit Water Realm.

At the altar’s center lay a dual cultivation and possession Dharma Method of Yin and Yang.

The story then turns cliché; it took Chu Yang as a disciple, intending to use him as a Tripod Furnace for possession.

Meanwhile, it rigorously followed the Dharma Method for cultivation, abandoning its acquired human skin, reverting to its beastly form to cultivate with the mysterious earth altar.

It planned to possess Chu Yang and achieve ultimate success when the time was ripe and fateful.

According to the Dharma Method, the Tripod Furnace practicing the sub-technique would later assuredly have deep blessings and return here.

Thus, the water monkey spirit, which placed its faith in the Evil Technique, was unbothered about Chu Yang leaving the village, expecting him to inevitably return. It didn’t foresee that Chu Yang’s blessings were so profound that he brought back quite a company.

Like...

Zhang Ze.

As for Mr. Zhang, he happened to be nearby today, dealing with another little tree issue.

Upon seeing the signal for help on the little walnut, he rushed over without hesitation.

This feeling was novel; people often said one would encounter reinforcements after dealing with minors. In the past, he always played the minor’s role, yet now, suddenly being the reinforcer was quite a unique experience.

Zhang Ze didn’t dwell much on trivialities. He stretched his hand, intending to teach the water monkey spirit what Sword Sect’s protection really meant.

Yet, it seemed someone acted quicker than him.

Before Zhang Ze could grasp the water monkey spirit, a larger giant hand reached out from the dried-up well, capturing the spirit in its palm.

The arm was sizable and un-scaled, covered in sleek black fur, and after grabbing the strange ape, a sinister cackle emanated from the well’s depths.

"Kekeke, after a hundred years of seclusion, with heaven’s timing, earth’s advantage, and human harmony, it’s now time for me, the true self, to rise."

Just like stuffing sausages through a tube, an even larger water monkey emerged from the little well opening.

The prolonged sleep seemed to have left it muddle-headed.

Standing over ten meters tall, it bellowed skyward, then reversed and reached for Zhang Ze.

As for Zhang Ze, his expression did change slightly.

But it wasn’t fear—it was surprise.

For, truth be told, he had never seen such a large water monkey before, thinking even the Sect Leader might not have.

Hiding behind Zhang Ze, Fifth Gangqiang and Chu Yang were also taken aback. Fifth Gangqiang nudged Chu Yang, "Brother, you’re not secretly a water monkey too, are you?"

Saying so, Fifth Gangqiang pinched Chu Yang’s tender face.

Brushing his senior brother’s unclean hand aside, Chu Yang frowned, "Don’t prod me. I’m no monkey, I’m human."

Fifth Gangqiang replied, "Then surely your ancestors either ran a monkey business or opened a Monkey Mountain; how else to attract so many monkeys?"

This water monkey’s cultivation was seemingly higher than Chu Yang’s ’master’, likely due to its prolonged nurturing in the well.

After some probing, Zhang Ze thought it might have significant value and ought to find a place in the Monkey Mountain of the Beast Taming Sect.

Zhang Ze flipped his hand, and a silver ring appeared in his palm, accompanied by Fuji’s lively voice.

[Need to deal with unused magical treasures? Put them on the ring for sharing, agents come to pickup. The ring is the first Six Sects verified second-hand...]

Even though Zhang Ze was a VIP of medium P level, he couldn’t escape Lily’s intrusive advertisement.

Thankfully, as the ad was being recited, the rental process of the ring wasn’t delayed, but to prevent the water monkey from escaping, Zhang Ze still shouted.

"Li!"

As soon as the words fell, Li, who had been hiding somewhere and watching the spectacle for a while, returned from the shadows.

In the past six months, having dug pits across the Four Continents and trinketed quite a few treasures, Li’s cultivation had vastly improved, playing new tricks with the golden space in its stomach.