Banquet X Monkey Wine

Night.

"It's so noisy!"

Men Qi sat on the wooden stool, her legs taut and swinging wildly as she screamed, covering her ears with her hands.

And all around.

"Ooh-ga-ga!"

"Chirp chirp chirp coo coo coo."

"Giggle!"

All sorts of strange cries, both piercing and chaotic.

Monkey were everywhere, in the trees and on the ground, playing and making strange Monkey.

One Monkey's strange cry triggered a chain reaction among the other Monkey, and soon the surrounding area was filled with strange cries.

"Coo coo chirp chirp!"

And this damn gold.

By this time, Jin had completely integrated into the monkey troop, mimicking their Monkey poses and making similar strange noises.

It's so good it makes you roll your eyes.

"Has he reached the point where he can even quickly integrate into a group of Monkey? I've had enough."

Men Qi covered her ears and complained.

After venting his frustrations, he picked up a small wooden cup and poured the fruit wine inside into his mouth.

"Hiss~ Ha!"

He gulped it down, making a satisfying sound.

"These wines are incredibly well-made."

Only these fine wines could keep Men Qi sitting here in this noisy environment, without moving an inch.

This makes perfect sense, and Morel and Kevin, who were standing nearby, nodded in agreement and clinked their glasses together.

"It's very layered, with a hint of wine, yet not harsh; the flavors of over a dozen fruits blend perfectly together."

Buhaci also savored it.

Even someone of his size had a slightly flushed face, looking somewhat drunk.

The Monkey King sat down next to Xiahara, one hand draped over his neck, like two human brothers.

Among them, Xiahara was the only one whose size could rival that of the Monkey King.

Even their drinking capacity is comparable to each other to some extent.

At this point, the monkey and the human were completely drunk.

During the day, after Kevin defeated the Monkey King outside the forest, the monkey troop invited them into the mountains.

There's a hidden paradise in these mountains.

What appears to be a jagged mountain range on the outside is actually just the outer edge.

By passing through the woods, walking through crevices, traversing caves in the mountains, and crossing waterfalls, you can enter the mountain itself.

The surrounding mountains form a ring, but in the middle of the forest, there is an upward-sloping plateau.

It is almost invisible from the outside because it is obscured by the shoulders of the mountain, but it can be clearly seen if you fly over it from high above and around the clouds.

Because the mountains are not very high, the altitude here is neither high nor low. In addition, the surrounding clouds make the area very humid.

The entire Mountain Plateau is covered with all kinds of fruit trees.

Although it's hard to understand.

But there are indeed at least twenty different varieties of fruit trees here, and it's clear that they shouldn't be growing in the same area at all.

Observation reveals that these fruit trees were transplanted by Monkey.

After spending most of the day together.

Jin gave these Monkey a very fitting name.

"Martial Monkey"

Their appearance and habits are almost identical to those of Monkey in human society; even their fur color can be found to be similar.

If there's any difference, it's probably that they are much stronger and larger than Monkey in the human world.

However, they are much smarter than Monkey in the human world.

Because these Monkey have already been able to make some simple tools, such as the wooden cups they are using now.

There are also stone benches made from tree stumps, and rattan beds made of vines and leaves.

It can be said that we have entered the tribal period to some extent.

They also engage in planting.

The Mountain Plateau are clearly their chosen planting area and their Core Homeland, where the mother monkeys and some of their cubs are housed.

Meanwhile, the male monkeys with fighting skills would frolic and play around on the outskirts of the mountain, both to avoid being seen and as a form of patrol and protection.

Secondly, these Monkey are very fond of fighting.

They would fight each other, but their battles were not the kind of savage slaughter; rather, they were clearly skillful combat.

It's strange, but you can actually see these Monkey fighting in the ring.

Just like now.

Kevin looked into the distance.

The area where Jin is located.

Right in front of them, two Monkey of similar size were surrounded by a group of monkeys.

They left an open space in the middle, and the two Monkey were hitting each other.

They looked at each other and jumped around on the spot.

That's right, it looks very much like a boxer's footwork.

Its attack was swift as the wind; instead of using its claws to grab, it clenched its fist and swung it out.

Clearly, in internal conflicts, they will try to avoid using harmful attacks against their own comrades.

These Monkey have very sharp claws, which could pose a deadly threat in a fight.

Therefore, they will use boxing, which they are less accustomed to, to fight.

Their fight was clearly structured.

Although these Monkey still feel like they're in a tribal era, their fighting skills far surpass those of their civilization.

The Monkey on the mountain have clearly distinguished different martial arts styles.

For example, the Monkey King is a representative of the Xingyi school of Form and Intent arts.

Imitating the boxing techniques of various creatures.

Kevin also noticed the distinction between Hard Fist School and Soft Fist School among the Monkey's playful fighting.

This refers to Claw Strike School primarily using claws.

There's also the Speed Strike School, which uses its tail and arms to launch continuous attacks.

It can be described as a flourishing of diverse styles.

Therefore, everyone felt that the name Jin was very suitable.

Just then, chaos erupted in the distance.

Everyone looked over.

The Monkey that was just barking and chattering with Jin seems to have gotten into a fight with him for some reason.

The Monkey around them, seemingly enjoying the spectacle, immediately formed a circle.

When the other Monkey saw this, they immediately gathered around.

The main reason is that they had previously seen Kevin completely suppress the Monkey King, and now King, who is of the same race as Kevin, is also starting to want to fight.

They would naturally come over out of curiosity.

These Monkey are known as Martial Monkey, and their combat instincts are extremely sharp, allowing them to clearly discern who in Kevin's team has higher combat strength and who has lower combat strength.

It's obvious that Kim belongs to the category with high combat strength.

It immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding monkeys, who surrounded it in layers, with many Monkey even hanging from the tree branches.

Kevin remained seated.

He suddenly understood why this was the Throne.

This location offers an excellent view of the surrounding area, which is crucial in case of a battle.

It is a perfect observation deck.

The Monkey King was now arm in arm with Buhaci, drinking and watching.

Soon, Jin let out Monkey- like cry and started fighting with his opponent.

Although Kim is not a pure Martial Faction.

However, as a Nen ability user acknowledged by the Chairman, Ging's combat abilities are undoubtedly formidable.

His exceptional learning ability has endowed him with a wealth of close-quarters combat experience.

It's just using pure Nen ability techniques.

They quickly overwhelmed their opponent in close combat.

After a struggle, he successfully used a locking technique to firmly restrain the Monkey.

So much so that the Monkey could only cry out in pain and finally admit defeat.

Upon his victory, Jin was immediately surrounded by Monkey, who even lifted him up.

"What's going on? Why does it seem like Kim is more popular than you?"

Seeing this, Men Qi asked with some confusion.

Kevin watched the whole thing, and he roughly knew why.

"Kim used technique, or rather, he used very sophisticated fighting techniques; he didn't rely on brute force to suppress the opponent."

The Martial Monkey here are all martial arts experts; they can clearly see whether victory comes from numerical superiority or skill.

Kevin, without a doubt, crushed the Monkey King purely through sheer numerical superiority.

Therefore, these Monkey showed Kevin a sense of respect for his strength.

But for someone like Jin, who relies on skill to suppress others, and with skills that these Monkey haven't seen much of before.

These Monkey embody a desire to learn, a respectful apprenticeship mentality—it's completely different.

Strength cannot be learned; it is innate to the species.

But the techniques are different.

"So clever!"

Illumi took a sip of Monkey Wine and said.

The Koala sipped its drink, leaned against a tree stump, and murmured, "Perhaps this is why these Monkey were able to transform intelligence into civilization."

Overcoming the strong with the weak, unity, and inherent weakness.

These conditions allowed these Monkey to develop the rudiments of civilization.

Are these Monkey powerful?

From Kevin's perspective, it's not actually that powerful, at least not in the Dark Continent.

The Monkey King could probably be considered Knight Rank, but the problem is he doesn't have any special abilities.

In the Giant Beast Kingdom, they would only be considered slightly above average.

Not to mention there are so many little Monkey, and very few of Monkey can even reach the Knight Rank.

If we had to make an analogy...

These Monkey can probably only be considered elite Enhancement Type Martial Faction warriors with basic Nen ability.

The difference in the level of thought capacity is roughly in the range of 150,000 to 200,000.

In human society, that would undoubtedly be the powerful Demonic Beast race.

But that simply won't work on the Dark Continent.

If it were the Chimeric Ant crisis they encountered before, it would have been enough to severely damage the monkey troop.

However, they were able to occupy a decent territory here, patrolling and protecting it.

What do you think?

Kevin looked at Men Qi and asked.

The reason for asking Men Qi is that the benefits these monkey troops can bring are strongly correlated with Men Qi's abilities.

First of all, there are more than twenty kinds of fruits here, of which more than ten are edible to humans.

After all, these Monkey are creatures of the Dark Continent, and their digestive systems are different from those of humans; they are much stronger.

These dozen or so fruits all have a variety of benefits.

Not to mention the Monkey Wine that is brewed from it.

Although Men Qi also brews wine, he is clearly not an expert.

These drinks seemed to be good for them as well.

"Being able to trade is certainly good, after all, I've never seen many of the fruits here before."

"Men Qi said."

These Monkey don't seem like the type to attack without thinking.

How should we trade with them?

Extorting protection money?

Stop talking nonsense, they don't even have a territory that truly belongs to them right now.

They really couldn't offer any goods or services for trade.

After all, they themselves may not even have enough supplies.

"Technology, fruit tree cultivation techniques."

Jin, who had somehow returned, suddenly spoke.

"Oh? Tell me."

Kevin turned around and asked curiously.

"I observed them carefully and talked to them. They planted fruit trees by bringing back some seeds, or even digging up saplings and planting them randomly on the terrace."

"In fact, they found seeds of various fruits and fruit trees of over a hundred kinds, but only these twenty survived."

"They have no planting techniques at all; they just plant them in the soil."

As he spoke, he picked up the wine glass and swirled the Monkey Wine inside.

"This wine contains two types of fruit that are not grown within their cultivation area, and they never seem to survive. So, in order to drink this wine, they have to organize teams to travel far away to pick the fruit, and each time the expedition results in the loss of members."

After hearing Jin's words, everyone nodded.

"Wait a minute? Communication? You can already talk to Monkey?" Men Qi suddenly realized and asked.

Jin nodded.

"It's quite simple. These Monkey use a rather primitive way of communicating; they can communicate relatively smoothly through some vocalizations and gestures."

Jin waved his hand, indicating that it was nothing to worry about.

Tewashi and Ximo, who were standing nearby, were already used to it and didn't care or show any surprise.

Jin can speak almost all human languages, and even many of the languages of Phantom Beast.

Learning a language was not difficult for him at all; it was simply a matter of satisfying his interests and need for communication.

The Monkey's communication methods were too easy for Jin; he was able to communicate with them in just half a day.

If he spends another day or two, Jin will be able to blend perfectly into the monkey troop.

It must be admitted that Kim's learning ability is enough to make him a polymath.

"Let's talk about that later. We've already made contact, so communication should be easier from now on."

Kevin thought for a moment and then said.

The main problem is that they don't have a stable territory right now.

Kevin plans to go to the Gravity Zone for a high-intensity workout to get his sluggish body moving.

Then let your mental capacity exceed one million.

He felt that breaking through a million units of mental energy should be considered a bottleneck, a kind of biological level advancement.

Then they can start planning and finding a suitable location for their base.

It's better to consider these things after we have a stable base.

That's all.

They stayed on the Martial Monkey Terrace for two days before leaving.

Before leaving, they also received three gourds from the Monkey King.

The gourd was just an ordinary gourd, except that it was filled with Monkey Wine.

These Monkey Wine are made from top-grade B-Rank ingredients.

Those fruits are available in both B-Rank and C-Rank.

There are actually Monkey Wine that can reach A-Rank, but they are extremely rare.

Only on the first night did the Monkey King take out some wine, and everyone drank a cup.

However, he didn't feel much after drinking it, and Kevin didn't have much time to explore A carefully.

What are the effects of high-grade Monkey Wine?

The group continued their journey.

The next node on the path is the Abyss.

It's only a three-day journey to Martial Monkey Terrace.

They spent two days reaching the edge of the Abyss at noon on the third day.

It was Kevin and his friends' first time there, and they stood at the edge.

Looking at that boundless, bottomless pit, like an ocean.

This kind of shock is something that ordinary things can hardly match.

It was as if they had suddenly reached the Boundary of the world, and as far as the eye could see, there were cliffs of the world.

This feeling makes your heart stop beating, like being held tightly in someone's hand.