True Lord Xiao Yuanmei had suffered severe injuries and would need to recuperate in the underground sea of fire beneath Liu Province for decades before recovering. Naturally, she could no longer use the Heavenly Fire Altar to burn through the Thousand Ape Wild Forest.
By now, the people of Liu Province had already penetrated more than a hundred thousand li into the Thousand Ape Wild Forest, yet that was not even one-third of the entire forest.
Ahead still lay three to four hundred thousand li of boundless primordial woodland. Who knew how many Demon Race members lurked within, or how many arrangements and traps they had laid?
Without True Lord Xiao Yuanmei using heavenly fire to burn a path through the forest, Liang Zhaohuang and the others had no confidence in punching through these hundreds of thousands of li of wild forest and taking the Thousand Ape Wild Forest.
Leaving aside anything else, there was the tens of thousands of li of Azurewood Forest before them. The previous great battle had destroyed only around ten thousand li, while another twenty to thirty thousand li still remained. Ape cries rang endlessly from within, as figures of Azure Apes appeared atop one azurewood tree after another—climbing or leaping, all baring their fangs and snarling threats at the people of Liu Province.
Liang Zhaohuang had seen this sight before the battle.
At the time, he had assumed those Azure Apes were a race of ape demons living in this Azurewood Forest, and that the Azure Ape Demon King had taken the form of an Azure Ape under their influence.
But after the battle just now, Liang Zhaohuang was no longer so sure.
For a moment, he found it difficult to judge whether these Azure Apes were truly demon beasts, or whether they had