The first three to reach the Orange Qi refused to yield to one another. Seeing that none of them could gather the qi and leave directly, they quickly turned their attention to each other. The three immediately began fighting, paying no heed to the others who were also drawing near.
Perhaps the three seemed foolish to you, but this might well have been a display of confidence in their own strength.
The three had fought for less than a day when one of them carelessly gave the other two an opening to surround and kill him. Unexpectedly, those two had been together all along, merely positioned in different places and pretending not to know each other. In secret, they had feigned an alliance with the one being surrounded, pretending to join him in killing their own companion. Yet the surrounded man never realized he had fallen into a trap. Delighted in secret, he had planned to play both sides against each other and reap the fisherman's profit, only to die by the cleverness he had trusted in.
Not long after, the two tried to flee with the Orange Qi, prompting the others to speed up and stop delaying. At that very moment, the Stone Monkey caught up using a divine ability and shrouded two of them within an unfathomable space.
Not everyone could comprehend Dao Patterns at the Immortal Emperor Realm while also resisting the urge to focus on breaking into the Five Qi Supreme Realm. These two were cultivators without Dao Patterns. Once they entered that space, they could not remain unaffected as you did. They were likely doomed.
You had also noticed that the Stone Monkey's condition improved after killing one person. Combined with your previous observations, you vaguely sensed that this monkey might possess a talent related