Bountiful Harvest

"Ape Demon, Ape God—those are rather meaningful names."

The corners of Bi Ji's lips lifted slightly into a gentle smile. Her gaze drifted around the area before she asked softly, "Then where is your husband?"

At those words, Ape Demon's eyes instantly dimmed, and a trace of loneliness crossed her face. "He disappeared," she said quietly.

"Disappeared?"

"Yes." Ape Demon nodded, her expression darkening. "After my husband and I gained intelligence, we understood that the bloodline of our Wind Baboon clan was weak. So, we had always lived on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, where we also had a child."

"But seven years ago, while my husband and I were breaking through to ten-thousand-year cultivation, our child slipped out of our sight. By the time we found it through our bloodline connection, it had already become a cold corpse."

"Our child was also a Wind Baboon, but perhaps because my husband and I had once accidentally eaten a strange fruit, its bloodline contained a measure of something extraordinary as well."

"When we touched its corpse, bloodline resonance allowed us to glimpse its memories before death. In those memories, the one who killed it was a human boy whose Martial Soul was an eye and who wielded a dagger." At this point, pain and hatred flashed in Ape Demon's eyes.

"Our child had been killed, and we even knew the killer's exact appearance. Of course we wanted revenge. So my husband told me to wait for him here in the Star Dou Great Forest. He said that once he found that human and avenged our child, he would return."

Ape Demon's voice trembled slightly. "But I have waited for seven long years. To be honest, I am filled with regret now. I regret not leaving with my husband