Over the next few days, Yu Sheng and Shi Guang repeated the trick.
Shi Guang was gravely injured, Yu Sheng was gravely injured, or both Shi Guang and Yu Sheng were gravely injured and barely clinging to life.
All sorts of traps brought plentiful returns!
This novel way of fishing fooled quite a few Demon Beasts that had never experienced it before.
Even some passing humans' eyes lit up when they saw this.
They recognized Shi Guang, but they did not recognize Yu Sheng!
They instinctively assumed that Shi Guang had gotten hold of a white ape somewhere and spent several months taming it to help her hunt.
As a result, all across the temporary Demon-Hunting Base built near Demon-Suppressing Pass, people shouted that they were paying high prices for young Demon Beasts! White apes preferred!
For a time, many people driven mad by poverty roamed the Thousand-Li Demon Plain, searching with bloodshot eyes for white apes to hunt.
But after making their rounds and practically turning over the ground itself, they still failed to find a single white ape.
Only then did they realize, as they thought back over all their days on the Demon Plain, that they really did not seem to have encountered this species before.
Scarcity drove up value, and for a time, the price of white apes was hyped to astronomical heights.
Many joked that catching a single white ape would take you straight to the pinnacle of life, with no more need to risk your neck in the Demon Domain. The money from selling it alone would be enough to cultivate comfortably to the sixth awakening!
If you were a little frugal, you might even break through to the seventh awakening!
All sorts of rumors even began circulating!
White apes were naturally intelligent and