"Ape Demon, Ape God. Those are quite meaningful names."
The corners of Bi Ji's lips lifted slightly into a gentle smile. Her gaze drifted around the area before she asked softly, "Then where is your husband?"
At those words, Ape Demon's eyes instantly dimmed, a trace of loneliness appearing on her face. She lowered her voice. "He disappeared."
"Disappeared?"
"Mm." Ape Demon nodded, her expression turning somber. "After my husband and I gained intelligence, we understood that the bloodline of our Wind Baboon clan was weak. So we lived on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, where we had a child."
"But seven years ago, while my husband and I were breaking through to ten-thousand-year cultivation, that child secretly ran beyond our sight. By the time we followed our bloodline connection and found him, he had already become a cold corpse."
"Our child was also a Wind Baboon, but perhaps because my husband and I had once accidentally eaten that Strange Fruit, his bloodline also carried some unusual qualities."
"When we touched his corpse, we were able to glimpse his memories before death through bloodline resonance. In those memories, the one who killed him was a human boy whose Martial Soul was an eye, and who wielded a dagger." As she spoke, a flash of pain and hatred passed through Ape Demon's eyes.
"Our child had been killed, and we even knew what the murderer looked like. Of course we wanted revenge. So my husband told me to wait for him here in the Star Dou Great Forest. He said that once he found that human and avenged our child, he would return."
Ape Demon's voice trembled slightly. "But I have waited for seven long years. To be honest, I am filled with regret now. I regret not