The two sides joined forces.
One side possessed overwhelming strength, while the other excelled at luring monsters. Naturally, everything went exceedingly smoothly.
Lin Chen soon finished off the entire troop of Mountain Apes, then darted into the valley and headed straight into its depths.
Along the way, he encountered a few more Mountain Apes fleeing in panic and casually cut them down.
Before long, he followed their tracks to a huge cavern in the mountainside.
The cavern was spacious, formed by the hollowing out of the mountain. As soon as Lin Chen entered, three naturally formed bluestone troughs came into view.
The troughs were filled with golden, translucent amber liquid as thick as honey. Its rich wine fragrance alone was enough to make one feel as though they were floating toward immortality.
Chu Xu and the others stood beside the wine troughs.
They had evidently cleared out the remaining Mountain Apes in the cavern and were now waiting nearby for Lin Chen.
Without further ado, Lin Chen took out a jade jar and carefully used his true essence to draw out two troughs of hundred-year-old Monkey Spirit Wine.
After experiencing it firsthand, Lin Chen confirmed that the spiritual energy within the Monkey Wine was vast and pure. Two troughs would be enough for his breakthrough.
The remaining trough held roughly seventy or eighty jin. As agreed, he left it to Chu Xu and the others.
"Thanks to your help, Fellow Daoist Lin, we managed to get some. Otherwise, we wouldn't have obtained even a single trough of Monkey Wine."
Chu Xu stored that trough of spirit wine in his wine gourd and looked at Lin Chen, his voice tinged with emotion.
Had their original plan gone smoothly and secured them all three troughs, he might have been able to use