Chapter 655: Sister Que, When Will You Let Me Go?
Eastern Province, Western Region.
An expansive, endless stretch of primeval forest.
Suddenly, a horde of giant apes roared as they rushed through.
Each of them was as massive as a small mountain, their bodies knotted with bulging muscles.
They possessed terrifying strength—effortlessly uprooting towering trees with a single pull.
With one swipe of the hand, they stripped the branches clean, turning them into bare tree-trunks.
The apes pressed the trunks against the ground, and in the blink of an eye, sharpened them into massive spears.
Gripping a spear in each hand, they assumed a battle stance.
With a low growl from the lead ape—
All at once, the apes hurled their spears forward.
Whoosh!
Over a dozen massive spears tore through the air like meteors streaking across the sky.
The spears rained down on a nest high atop a distant mountain peak.
But before they could land, two black dragons whipped through the sky, shattering them into countless wood splinters.
"If you want to challenge me, go train for another eight hundred years first."
A deep voice echoed from the nest.
Roars erupted from the furious apes.
But the Ape King suddenly raised a hand, silencing the uproar.
It pointed to the nest and unleashed a sky-shaking roar filled with unshakable confidence!
In that instant, a phantom of a six-armed giant ape emerged behind it—
Over eight hundred zhang tall, like a giant holding up the heavens and trampling the earth.
Just like cultivators, high-level beasts could also manifest dharma images.
However, their dharma images were not inherited from external techniques, but awakened from ancient bloodlines.
The stronger the bloodline, the more terrifying the dharma image.
In the next moment, five powerful auras surged from within the nest.
The first—an ancient elephant trumpeting across the universe, its trunk coiled and ready to tear apart the stars.
The second—an endless torrent from the Undying River, surging forth with unstoppable momentum.
The third—a blazing Solar Eye, scorching hot and filled with thick smoke, as if it could incinerate the heavens and boil the seas!
The fourth—a divine white steed streaking like lightning, wrapped in wind and thunder, ceaseless and mighty.
The fifth—a Battle Titan with three heads and six arms, wielding a different weapon in each hand, seemingly capable of shattering the world!
Compared to these, the six-armed ape's dharma image was utterly dwarfed—instantly suppressed!
The Ape King shrank its neck, whimpered, then turned and fled.
The entire horde bolted in terror.
They no longer dared to compete with the "fierce beasts" within the nest.
"Sigh, hanging around these mountain-moving apes every day really isn't a long-term plan."
A helpless sigh came from inside the nest.
"Sister Que, when are you going to let me go?"
Inside the massive and chaotic nest, a single figure lay nestled among three giant eggs.
Surrounding them were soft feathers and various warm, fluffy straw tufts.
All of it was enormous.
By comparison, that lone figure was no bigger than a doll.
It was Shen Mo.
Not long ago, he had ridden atop the Shijie, crossing the void and arriving in the vast mountains of the Western Region.
Only… the landing had gone just a tiny bit off.
Originally, he had intended to land near a cultivator-populated city.
But the Shijie was suddenly ambushed by a swarm of void mites.
Void mites were like parasitic insects that latched onto powerful void beasts.
A mighty beast like the Shijie, destined to reach the Saint Realm someday, naturally drew the void mites' attention.
To shake them off, the Shijie had to make an emergency maneuver, throwing the intended landing off course.
Shen Mo's fortune failed to work its magic this time.
He had flown through the boundless mountains for over ten days, seeing nothing but endless greenery—no signs of human life, no flashes of a cultivator's light.
At first, it was bearable. But the longer it went on, the more it felt like he was trapped in a green hell.
There was no escape.
A month ago, he had accidentally encountered a Heaven-Shrouding Cloud Que.
A creature with power comparable to that of a Supreme Realm expert.
Shen Mo was promptly captured and brought back to its nest.
Though the Heaven-Shrouding Yun Que was powerful enough to completely suppress Shen Mo, it didn't seem to treat him as prey.
It merely gravely injured him and tossed him into the nest, then went off on its own to hunt.
This entire region belonged to the Yun Que.
It was a pure-blooded ancient variant beast, known for its incredible speed.
It was said that the purest-blooded Yun Ques could even rival the speed of the primordial White Steed.
Shen Mo had attempted to escape multiple times, only to be driven back each time by the Yun Que.
Left with no other option, he remained in the nest.
Still, the Yun Que wasn't unkind to him.
Every time it brought back prey, it would share the meat with him.
Occasionally, it even returned with rare heavenly treasures.
Some of them were of Saint-grade.
These spiritual herbs had tremendous effects on Shen Mo.
Each time he used inner vision to examine his dharma image, he saw his Dao markings surge at a rapid pace.
After one year, his total Dao markings had skyrocketed to 250!
Moreover, after spending a year in the nest, Shen Mo had more or less figured out the Yun Que's intentions.
On the borders of its territory lived a group of mountain-moving giant apes, apparently long-time enemies of the Yun Que, who regularly came looking for trouble.
Due to its massive appetite, the Yun Que had to leave the nest to hunt.
The apes had figured out this pattern and always came to cause trouble when the Yun Que was away.
Clearly, the Yun Que had deliberately left Shen Mo in the nest, hoping to use his strength as a guardian to protect its three eggs.
"Sister Que, I chased off those monkeys again. Say something, will you?"
Shen Mo raised his head and looked at the colossal Yun Que.
At that moment, it was grooming its beautiful feathers, clearly ignoring the tiny human cultivator.
Shen Mo smiled helplessly.
Suddenly, the Yun Que let out a soft trill and took off into the sky.
In the blink of an eye, it had become a tiny black dot, then vanished entirely.
"Out hunting again..."
Shen Mo shook his head.
Just then, a cracking sound came from one of the giant eggs.
A fracture appeared on the shell's surface.
It quickly spread like a spiderweb.
Shen Mo raised an eyebrow.
Mom just left, and you're already breaking out?
Don't mistake me for your mother.
Crack, crack!
A tiny head pecked through the shell, poking out.
Yun Que hatchlings were nothing like ordinary birds.
Normal chicks emerged blind, featherless, and terribly ugly.
But the Yun Que's young were stunning from birth.
They were fully feathered the moment they hatched.
Only their eyes remained closed.
"Little one, you're quite cute."
Shen Mo chuckled.
At that moment, he suddenly noticed flashes of battle light in the distant sky.
Along with the anguished cry of the Yun Que.
"Hm? A Supreme Realm cultivator?"
Shen Mo raised an eyebrow.
Heaven must have heard his prayers.
After more than a year...
He was finally seeing human cultivators again.
"If a Supreme cultivator is holding off the Yun Que, then others must be taking this chance to infiltrate..."
He thought for a moment and scanned his surroundings.
Sure enough, he spotted a group of red light streaks rushing toward the nest from afar.
But just as they approached, over a dozen blue light streaks appeared from another direction and intercepted them midair.
Battle broke out instantly.
Red and blue spiritual light clashed across half the sky.
On one side were red; on the other, blue.
Clearly, these were two factions of cultivators with opposing cultivation methods.
Now and then, a figure would plummet from the sky—either heavily injured or already dead.
Shen Mo's expression turned odd.
Two rival groups, fighting each other.
And from the looks of it, the blue side was clearly at a disadvantage.
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