Diverting Disaster Eastward, Second Update

One day later, Ye Xiwen sat cross-legged on the branch of a towering tree and let out a breath. His wounds had healed seven or eight parts out of ten. The healing effects of the Ming Yu Gong were exceptionally good. If this had been on Earth, injuries like these would have taken at least several months to heal completely, yet here, he had recovered seven or eight parts in merely one day. Martial arts truly were miraculous.

Over the course of that day, he had been hiding here and there. More and more Zhang Family members had joined the hunt. Zhang Family disciples had been training throughout this area. Though they did not know what Ye Xiwen looked like—everyone who had seen him had been killed by him—that did not hinder their pursuit. Anyone who looked remotely suspicious would be seized and killed.

Better to kill three thousand by mistake than let one slip through!

After chasing him for a day, they showed no sign of stopping. Naturally, Ye Xiwen had slaughtered two young masters of the Zhang Family. How could the Zhang Family not be enraged? And as time passed, more experts would appear, and they would only grow stronger.

He had to think of a way to shake them off, or make them suffer devastating losses!

"Roar!" Suddenly, a continuous series of beastly roars rang out, like the cries of apes magnified countless times.

The voices of who knew how many violent apes echoed through the air, resounding across the heavens.

Ye Xiwen immediately rose to his feet, leaped onto another great tree, and swiftly darted toward the source of the sounds.

From afar, Ye Xiwen saw more than a hundred giant apes. Their bodies were covered in silver-white fur, each standing roughly over two meters tall, with savage faces and bared fangs. They looked exceedingly ferocious.

The Ironback Silver Ape group!

Ape-type demon beasts were not uncommon in Green Peak Mountain, with several different clans among them. The Ironback Silver Ape was one of the more renowned kinds. Every one of these violent apes possessed boundless strength. An adult Ironback Silver Ape possessed more than Four Tigers Strength, comparable to a Houtian Fifth Stage martial artist. They could tear tigers and leopards apart alive, their bodies tough and sturdy like steel bars, impervious to blades and spears.

Amid the sea of silver-white giant apes stood a golden violent ape, proudly positioned atop the treetops. It was nearly three meters tall, much taller than the ordinary silver giant apes.

This was the Ironback Silver Ape King. Its aura was extremely terrifying. By human standards, it had definitely surpassed the Houtian Eighth Stage and possessed boundless strength.

With more than a hundred Ironback Silver Apes, this was already quite a sizable clan.

Ye Xiwen immediately came up with an idea. He would lure the Zhang Family members over. Ironback Silver Apes were creatures that valued their territory greatly. Any creature that attempted to approach their territory would be regarded as a provocation and torn to shreds.

Then Ye Xiwen could escape amid Troubled Waters.

Having made up his mind, Ye Xiwen turned around and headed toward the Zhang Family's group.

Within the forest, a group of Zhang Family martial artists carefully searched for traces of Ye Xiwen's passage, trying to find something. The higher-ups had already issued an order: capture Ye Xiwen and kill him. Better to kill by mistake than let him go.

Suddenly, a Black Shadow sprang down from the crown of a tree. Amid a rumbling thunderclap, a huge hand struck down from above.

"Bang!" One martial artist in the group died instantly.

"This is the culprit who killed so many people from our Zhang Family! Capture him!" A martial artist immediately recognized Ye Xiwen and shouted.

After Ye Xiwen killed one martial artist, he turned and left. The Zhang Family martial artists immediately chased after him.

After several leaps, Ye Xiwen disappeared into the forest. More and more Zhang Family experts pursued him from behind, a mighty force of dozens.

"Chase him! We must catch this culprit today!"

"Kill him! Tear his corpse into ten thousand pieces! He dared lay hands on members of our Zhang Family!"

"Kill him! Avenge the young masters!"

"Brat, die!" With an explosive shout, the Scarface Middle-Aged Man joined the pursuit of Ye Xiwen.

Ye Xiwen could sense many powerful auras behind him filled with killing intent. He immediately sneered. Come on. The more of you who come, the better my chance of escaping amid Troubled Waters.

The pursuers behind him drew closer and closer, while the territory of the Ironback Silver Ape clan was right before him. Ye Xiwen grabbed a large stone from the ground and hurled it at an Ironback Silver Ape in the distance.

Immediately afterward, Ye Xiwen made a diving leap into the brush, flattened himself against the ground, and concealed every trace of his aura.

"Bang!" The large stone directly knocked that Ironback Silver Ape unconscious. Ye Xiwen's strength was tremendous, measured in thousands of jin. Only because the Ironback Silver Ape possessed steel sinews and iron bones had it survived; had it been an ordinary demon beast, that savage blow would have split its skull open.

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

The Ironback Silver Ape group was enraged. Someone had actually dared invade their territory and attack their clan. They threw back their heads and roared furiously, beating their chests with both hands, their savage aura soaring to the heavens.

At an unprecedented speed, the Ironback Silver Ape group charged toward the direction Ye Xiwen had just gone under the lead of the ape king. These muscular hulks moved extremely fast through the trees, swinging from branch to branch with their arms and leaping several meters with each change of grip.

At this moment, the Zhang Family members pursuing Ye Xiwen also arrived, shouting with murderous intent that they would kill him.

Both sides were caught somewhat off guard. Visibility in the forest was already obstructed, and both sides were charging at tremendous speed. Like two raging torrents, they crashed fiercely into one another.

A Zhang Family martial artist at the Houtian Fourth Stage who had charged at the very front was directly sent flying by an Ironback Silver Ape and smashed to death.

When these Ironback Silver Apes ran at high speed, they were like fleshy tanks, valiant and invincible.

"Damn it, why are there so many Ironback Silver Apes here?" The Scarface Middle-Aged Man cleaved an Ironback Silver Ape in half with one slash and cursed under his breath. The Ironback Silver Ape group was not a clan to be trifled with in Green Peak Mountain. Though the Zhang Family was arrogant, they did not dare provoke such a group recklessly. Even during training, they would only choose lone demon beasts rather than attack an entire clan.

What was more, Ironback Silver Apes were themselves a powerful clan.

The two torrents crashed fiercely together. At once, quite a few Zhang Family martial artists were killed by the Ironback Silver Apes, sent tumbling in all directions, though many Ironback Silver Apes were also slain by the martial artists.

"Roar!" The Ironback Silver Ape King, covered all over in golden fur, roared furiously. Its howl shook the heavens as it leaped down from the treetops.

"Boom!" It directly crushed a Zhang Family martial artist, shaking the earth itself.

"Bang!" A martial artist slashed down with his saber, only for the Ironback Silver Ape King to catch it barehanded. The refined steel saber was directly crushed into a sheet of iron, and the martial artist was killed by a single punch from the Ironback Silver Ape King.

Amid the overlapping shadows of its fists, there was actually the trace of a fist technique. Ye Xiwen was utterly astonished. This demon beast actually knew a fist technique—it must have been Monkey Fist!