Initial Fusion of Three Tribulations

Looking at the mountain apes on the ground, Shi Tiexin fell into deep thought.

How... were there two of them?

He looked at the blade. One was impaled on it, right, this was the one he had cut down. But what was with the smaller one sprawled beside it? Was it dead too? Crushed to death? Where had it come from? Had it been standing here all along, only for a bolt from the blue to land right on its head?

Just how many fucking mountain apes were there?!

Had he been dodging and weaving his way straight into the mountain apes' nest?!

Shi Tiexin was abruptly startled. Looking up, he saw hundreds of towering vats all around him. That smaller one had fallen out of one of those vats.

Then—

Killing intent?

Shi Tiexin shuddered and whipped around. Just twenty meters away, twenty mountain apes stood in a row like a wall of flesh and blood. Many of them were standing in rather improper poses; at a glance, they looked like the Eighteen Arhats.

There were also many researchers in white coats. They had presumably been staring at his backside earlier, but now they were silently staring at one another, wide-eyed.

Mountain apes: (↓↓)(↓↓)(↓↓)(↓↓)(↓_↓)*20

Shi Tiexin's thoughts: (←Д←)!(↑Д↑)!(→Д→)!

Fuck me!

I...!

Suka blyat!

Suddenly, he understood something. He looked at all the cultivation vats around him, then at the twenty mountain apes standing arm in arm and shoulder to shoulder. The shock in his heart was beyond description.

Th-these things... were they cultivated from those vats?

There are so many vats, then... then there are... this many of these things?!

*I was already tired as hell after fighting two in a wheel battle. Now twenty of them are ganging up on me all at once—fuck, I, I'm going to...