Another half month later.
Inside the Crimson Heaven Spirit Garden.
"Rumble!..."
Watching Xiaohei, who had transformed into a giant ape several hundred zhang tall, forcibly knock down a black ape of equally enormous size, Xu Taiping inexplicably felt somewhat dazed.
"Thud!"
Just then, the black ape's enormous body crashed heavily to the ground.
Xiaohei, in giant ape form, abruptly raised a foot and stamped hard on the black ape's head.
Then, with his foot planted on the black ape's head, Xiaohei turned toward Xu Taiping and said:
"My lord, this Black Macaque Ape's heart aperture makes a fine spirit medicine. Would you like a bucketful to enjoy?"
Xu Taiping hurriedly shook his head.
"No need. Eat it yourself."
As he spoke, Xu Taiping took a stalk of spirit herb shaped like a lingzhi mushroom from his sleeve and chewed it while surveying his surroundings.
According to the map Haitang and her husband had given him, this lingzhi-shaped spirit herb was called a Qi Mushroom. Though far inferior to a Yaoguang Fruit, it was quite good for replenishing qi and blood.
Even for someone with Xu Taiping's physique.
Eating a single stalk could sustain his expenditure of qi and blood for two hours.
"Hmm?"
Just as Xu Taiping's gaze swept over a nearby mountain peak, he suddenly frowned and murmured:
"Why does that spot look so familiar?"
After a brief moment of puzzlement, Xu Taiping's eyes suddenly lit up.
"That's right. That peak seems to be the place shown in that Moonshadow Stone, where the Old Daoist who left behind the Lushu Hide map of the Crimson Heaven Spirit Garden... hid the second Moonshadow Stone and his treasures."
According to the last words of this Old Daoist, who had explored deep into the Crimson Heaven Spirit Garden, he had divided the