There Were Many Things You Had to Do Even If You Were Afraid

The greatest treasure Zhang Ping had gained at the Iron Soul was Liu Tiefeng's knowledge.

Liu Tiefeng knew many Mutated Beasts that ordinary people would rarely encounter. He knew their habits inside out and could reel off details as easily as counting his family treasures.

A Bamboo-Jointed-Tailed Monkey was a Mutated Beast that stood about 2.8 meters tall, yet had a tail a full seven meters long.

They usually lived high in the mountains, driving their tails into rock to move around.

So if you found many small holes in a mountainside, you had to be especially careful. It likely meant Bamboo-Jointed-Tailed Monkeys lived there.

In fact, Bamboo-Jointed-Tailed Monkeys were not carnivores. They ate wild fruit and tender leaves growing on the cliffs. They were dangerous only because they were fiercely territorial: any creature that entered their habitat would be attacked.

An intruder would usually end up with its body pierced through by their tails, dying a horrific death.

Zhang Ping knew the monkeys' tails were their greatest threat. After years of using them to punch through rock and travel between sheer cliffs, their tails had grown immensely powerful. Even steel could not stop one from striking.

But Zhang Ping felt that, with his defenses, he had little to fear from them.

He kept climbing. In the next moment, he felt eyes on him. He looked up and saw an ugly monkey face baring its teeth and making threatening noises at him.

"A Bamboo-Jointed-Tailed Monkey? I remember they're rare near Mingzhu City. And they live in groups—spotting one usually means there's a whole Lineage nearby. Zhang Ping, you'd better be careful," Zhang Shouzhong said quickly.

Zhang Ping nodded. "Mm. I know."

Unfortunately, he had just tried wrapping himself in Psychokinesis, and that seemed to break the Heaven-Piercing Divine Peak's rules