Blood-Eyed Ape Spirit, Setting the Formation, Abandoned Infant Forest

Lin Guanhuo and the others left the Demon Suppressing Division and headed west.

They walked along the street, with the leading Silver Badge Agent, Ye Yinyue, moving forward sword in hand.

Though beautiful, she lacked the delicate softness of most women.

This drew countless gazes from the street, all converging on her.

"That one... I've seen her before... she should be the Silver Badge Lord from the Demon Suppressing Division... Ye Yinyue, right?"

"A true beauty of the Martial Dao... I've long heard the Demon Suppressing Division has a pair of sisters. She has an older sister, Ye Yinxue, doesn't she? She's a Gold Medalist of the Demon Suppressing Division, a true great genius of our Blackwater City..."

"Incredible. Her sister is even more remarkable, entering the Bone Forging Realm at such a young age... How many Bone Forging Martial Masters does Blackwater City even have?"

"On ordinary days, which of these badge holders from the Demon Suppressing Division doesn't travel with a full convoy, grand and imposing... Yet today they appear on the streets in person—there must be important business..."

The crowd murmured, not daring to look directly at Ye Yinyue, and parted to make way.

"Brother Chen. Where are we going?"

At the rear of the Demon Suppressing Division's formation, Lin Guanhuo and Chen Jianxing walked quietly.

Chen Jianxing lowered his voice: "Lord Ye has been tracking a great demon for the past few months. Looks like she's found a lead."

"Great demon?" Lin Guanhuo was puzzled.

"Mm." Chen Jianxing nodded, his expression grave: "A great demon comparable to an Eighth Rank Martial Artist! It's called the Blood-Eyed Ape Spirit. This beast is deranged and loves to suck out human brain marrow. Especially the brain marrow of newborn infants."

"Over the past few months, in several other major cities and towns under Blackwater's jurisdiction, there have been many dead infants. Every single one has a soft, collapsed skull. Some Taoists peeled back the skin and found the skulls completely hollow inside—all the work of this beast."

"But don't worry. Lord Ye is a Second Rank Tendon Forging Martial Master. Calling us along is just to lend a hand. The villain will meet its match. We'll do what we can and earn some reward money."

Chen Jianxing was easygoing and spoke lightly. Since a big shot was leading, they just needed to provide some moral support.

"Makes sense. Better keep our distance." Lin Guanhuo nodded in agreement, but inwardly he wasn't nervous at all.

Now, with his 'Golden Armor' enhancement and the new killing move 'Tiger Subduing Style' he'd cultivated from the Precept Breaking Saber Art.

If you can subdue a tiger, why fear a monkey?

Lin Guanhuo's eyes flickered as he walked.

An Eighth Rank Great Demon—if he could kill it, wouldn't he get tens of thousands of Draw Sword counts in one go?

Right now, Lin Guanhuo was thinking about whether he could find a way to snatch the kill later...

"Stop. Quiet steps."

After walking for about an hour, the group left Blackwater City and reached the outskirts.

They walked a bit further, and Ye Yinyue, who hadn't spoken for half the journey, suddenly raised her hand, signaling everyone to be silent.

Ye Yinyue's beautiful eyes fixed on the forest ahead, and she said softly: "That beast has sharp ears. Keep your voices down."

Hearing this, the group lightened their steps and followed Ye Yinyue as they advanced.

As they walked, a mist gradually rose around them. The area was desolate and uninhabited, with a forest not far ahead.

But strangely, the trees in that forest were a dark red, each one twisted and contorted. From a distance, they looked like agonized, writhing bodies.

"Are those... tombstones?"

The group passed through the mist and approached the forest, where they could faintly see tombstones scattered haphazardly among the trees.

Further off, there were pits and hollows, with countless white bones piled up.

"This is the Abandoned Infant Forest." Ye Yinyue held her longsword, walking at the front of the group, lowering her voice as she moved: "In the past few years, there have been plagues and demon calamities. Many infants didn't survive a hundred days. The yamen, fearing demonic energy and plague, disposed of all the bodies together. Right here in the Abandoned Infant Forest."

"Some families set up tombstones, but most were just thrown into the pits."

Hearing this, one of the accompanying Division Servants couldn't help shrinking his neck and said: "No wonder when I did night patrols before, I could always hear babies crying outside the city..."

"This is all resentment... Look." The servant pointed at the red trees deep in the forest.

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Now they finally understood why the trees in the Abandoned Infant Forest were red.

They were drinking human blood...

"Enough. Stop talking." Ye Yinyue snorted coldly: "We martial artists are filled with righteous spirit, slaying demons and vanquishing evil. Why fear resentment?"

"Yesterday, a batch of plague-stricken dead infants was transported out of the city. That beast smelled the blood and followed. Today, we will slay it here."

With that, Ye Yinyue waved her jade hand, signaling everyone to stop.

Then she took several scrolls from her Brocade Bag and handed them to Lin Guanhuo and the others: "That beast has cultivated some kind of divine ability—it's extremely fast. It escaped several times before."

"These are Restriction scrolls personally drawn by the Gold Medal Lord. Stick them around the area, and be quick!"

"Yes!"

Lin Guanhuo, Chen Jianxing, and the others took the Restriction scrolls and pasted them on nearby cliffs, trees, and boulders.

The entire Abandoned Infant Forest wasn't very large. In less than half an hour, they had formed an encirclement using the Restriction scrolls.

"All of you, hide well. I'll slaughter that beast and carry it back."

With the Restriction in place, a smug smile appeared on Ye Yinyue's pretty face.

She thought, if she could slay this beast and bring it back, her elder sister would think more highly of her, wouldn't she?

With that thought, Ye Yinyue hesitated no longer. In a few strides, she crossed into the forest, sword in hand, and dashed forward.

"Gurr gurr gah~ Damn, this one's rotten!"

"Gurr gurr gah, mm, this one's passable!"

Deep in the forest, before a large pit, a figure over three or four meters tall was crouched there, its build like an ape's.

This figure had a pointed mouth and sunken cheeks, its entire body covered in red fur. Its tongue, surprisingly, could extend several meters like a straw, and it was currently feeding.

The most striking feature was undoubtedly the pair of scarlet eyes on its ugly, twisted face—redder than blood itself.

It was the Blood-Eyed Ape Spirit.

It rummaged back and forth among the pile of corpses, satisfied with some, dissatisfied with others, tossing the rejects aside carelessly.

"Still, live ones taste better; dead ones are nasty."

"Sigh... the babies in the nearby towns are almost all eaten up by me..."

"As for Blackwater City... the Demon Suppressing Division keeps a tight watch, hard to make a move. If not for Lord Monkey cultivating a fine movement technique, I'd have been caught by those bastards in the Demon Suppressing Division long ago."

"Hm??"

Just then, the Blood-Eyed Ape Spirit suddenly paused, as if sensing a presence.

It whipped its head around!

Then it saw, not far behind it, a woman holding a long sword, her beautiful eyes fixed on it coldly.

"Blood-Eyed Ape Spirit, you won't escape this time." Ye Yinyue said in a cold voice.

The next instant, Ye Yinyue, holding her long sword, wasted no words and directly slashed down fiercely!!

The Muscle-Tendon Realm was the first realm of a Martial Master.

By refining all the major tendons throughout the body, both speed and explosive power far surpassed a Ninth Rank Martial Artist by several times!

At this stage, one could easily release inner force externally. Without needing any Martial Art, a flick of the finger could deliver a killing blow.

Boom boom!!

After the sword strike came down, it actually formed a vast and mighty Sword Qi, sending trees, sand, and stones flying in all directions!

"Such powerful Sword Qi... So this is a Martial Master!" Lin Guanhuo and the others watched from behind distant trees, and Chen Jianxing couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

Faced with this strike, even the Blood-Eyed Ape Spirit dared not take it head-on.

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