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The large number of demons gathering behind him had caused quite a commotion. Lu Xiaotian secretly congratulated himself for leaving quickly enough just now. If he had hesitated even a moment longer, he probably would have had to expend considerable effort to fight his way out.
After advancing more than ten miles, another ape cry rang out. It was much clearer than the previous one, showing that he was obviously closer to the demon beast. Lu Xiaotian propped up his chin and thought for a moment. If I can approach directly and kill the Bone-Eating Apes, it might save me much more effort than finding other demon beasts to use as bait.
Thus, Lu Xiaotian continued forward along the rugged mountain path. The ape cries grew clearer and clearer, and there was more than one of them. There was also a miserable neigh that sounded like a horse, accompanied by a series of booming explosions as the mountain rocks were blasted apart.
When Lu Xiaotian arrived, he happened to see three apes—two large and one small—with gray-black bodies nearly ten feet tall. Two sharp canine teeth jutted from their mouths like zombie fangs, ghastly white and several inches long. They looked no different from certain bloodsucking demon beasts. Their nostrils pointed toward the sky, and their eyes gleamed with murderous ferocity. They were precisely the Bone-Eating Apes described by the Primordial Spirit inside the Soul-Sealing Pearl.
Surrounded by the three Bone-Eating Apes was a vigorous horse covered from head to hoof in blue-green scales. It looked somewhat like the Serpent-Scaled Colt recorded in the Record of Demon Beasts!
The three Bone-Eating Apes circled the Serpent-Scaled Colt. The claws on their hands were