Purple Mist Dao Master
Chapter 201 - 177: Star Stone Seals the Gate, I am the King in Shuilian Cave! [6700-word Mega - !]

Chapter 201: Chapter 177: Star Stone Seals the Gate, I am the King in Shuilian Cave! [6700-word Mega Chapter!]

Iron Arm Monkey Mountain is picturesque with clear mountains and waters.

It combines mountains, water, forests, waterfalls, and rocks into one, with mysterious, dangerous, majestic, and graceful elements. Dozens of waterfalls are scattered high and low throughout the mountain, flowing down precipitously. The vertical drop of the first waterfall, ’Carefree Waterfall’, is more than two hundred zhang, making it spectacular.

At first glance—

Apart from the mountain and the waterfall, there is nothing but lush trees. From the outside, it seems impossible to imagine that a group of over a thousand Iron-armed Monkeys lives here, hidden by the canopy, making them hard to find.

However.

Look at the Carefree Waterfall.

The weather is clear, and under the refraction of the sunlight, a rainbow blends into the flying waterfall, forming a rainbow bridge in the valley. Dimly, black shadows can be seen crossing the bridge and shuttling behind the waterfall.

"This is—"

Yan Chuan picked up the ’Thousand-mile Mirror’ and looked at the Carefree Waterfall. He saw that the black dots were exactly Iron-armed Monkeys. They were taller than humans, covered with red fur, had blue eyes, and arms that reached past their knees. They looked formidable. They could leap in the air or use vines to cross valleys of several or even dozens of zhang, disappearing into the waterfall.

The ’Thousand-mile Mirror’ has the ’water penetration’ trait.

Through the cascading waterfall, Yan Chuan saw, at the back of the waterfall, on the cliff face, a person-shaped cave entrance with clear springs hanging down. Water dripped from the fissures at the entrance, falling like crystal beads, forming a curtain.

"A white rainbow rises to the sky, a thousand spans of snow waves fly. Mountain winds cannot break it, it shines around the river like a compass. The cold air parts the green peaks, its residual flow moistens the verdant foothills. Named cascade roars on, like a drapery holding up a veil."

Yan Chuan couldn’t help but praise: "What a magnificent ’Water Curtain Cave Heaven’!"

...

Yan Chuan could discover the wonder of this ’Water Curtain Cave,’ so naturally could the Iron-armed Monkeys native to Iron Arm Monkey Mountain. At this moment, several dozen Iron-armed Monkeys were occupying the Water Curtain Cave, which inside resembled a spacious hall, with stone pots and stoves, stone bowls and basins, stone beds and stools, creating quite a scene.

"The weakest Iron-armed Monkeys capable of getting past the waterfall into the Water Curtain Cave must be at the Limit-breaking Level."

There are several dozen Iron-armed Monkeys in the ’Water Curtain Cave’, meaning: "At least several dozen Limit-breaking Level Iron-armed Monkeys!"

Amazed!

Yan Chuan clicked his tongue!

Iron-armed Monkeys are creatures of a colony; provoke one and you provoke the whole group. With dozens at the Limit-breaking Level, even Innate Level Limit-breakers would only find themselves fleeing in panic. How on earth Fu Zhe and the others managed to steal the ’Monkey Wine’ from the protection of the Iron-armed Monkey group is unknown.

"Iron-armed Monkeys!"

"Monkey Wine!"

Yan Chuan basically gave up the idea of stealing ’Monkey Wine,’ acknowledging that he lacked the strength to withstand the chase of dozens of Limit-breaking Level Monkeys: "Better to honestly and quietly find a lone Iron-armed Monkey, teach and learn from it the ’Monkey Form’, to help me practice ’Monkey Form.’ That’s the right way."

Yan Chuan thought this, was just about to put away the ’Thousand-mile Mirror.’

Suddenly—

"Eh?"

He paused, holding the Thousand-mile Mirror with both hands, saw through the rainbow and waterfall, a few spears shot through the waterfall—in a manner of breaking an army—straight towards the cave entrance—

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The spears seemed like cannonballs, piercing into the cave and causing fragments of rock to roll.

"Yah, yah, yah!"

The group of Iron-armed Monkeys in the cave was taken by surprise and jumped in fright, anger inflaming their brows as they brandished their arms, picked up various weapons lined inside the cave, and rushed angrily towards the entrance.

About ten Iron-armed Monkeys running at the front reached the entrance without losing speed, leaping out and locking on the direction from which the spears came.

"That is—"

Yan Chuan turned the ’lens,’ also searching.

However, before he discovered who attacked the ’Water Curtain Cave,’ he saw that from the opposite sides of the cliff valleys of the ’Water Curtain Cave,’ Iron-armed Monkeys were flying out as well.

"There were actually ambushes!"

From this angle, Yan Chuan could only see the ’Water Curtain Cave’ behind the ’Carefree Waterfall,’ unaware of the situation at the sides of ’Carefree Waterfall’ and ’Water Curtain Cave’ or on the opposite sides of the valley. Now he realized, while the ’Water Curtain Cave’ was in the open, hidden cliff caves and the Iron-armed Monkeys were also defending and guarding secretly.

Once an attack occurs, they would swarm out from all directions.

Looking again.

Iron-armed Monkeys at the Limit-breaking Level were not just dozens, perhaps over a hundred.

Terrifying!

Yah, yah, yah!

One by one, the Iron-armed Monkeys roared with anger, some wielding weapons, others lifting rocks and hurling them with both arms—

Bam, bam, bam!

Their arms like catapults, those rocks were like cannonballs, smashing towards the direction of the attacker.

"What tremendous strength!"

Yan Chuan was once again astounded.

Limit-breaking Iron-armed Monkeys throwing rocks weighing several hundred jin with such might are truly shocking, the power displayed terrified him. At the very least, Yan Chuan asked himself honestly if he could manage to throw such large stones so far, so fiercely.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The giant rocks were like cannonballs, smashing through the air, striking the rocky cliffs.

Frightening to behold.

But that’s expected; Limit-breaking Level Martial Artists who drink a jin of Monkey Wine can increase their strength by two hundred jin. With the ability to brew Monkey Wine, the Iron-armed Monkey group enjoys an ample supply of Monkey Wine. Drinking ten or a hundred jin, how much can their strength increase?

Not to mention twenty thousand jin.

At least two to three thousand jin should be expected, right?

With ’Monkey Wine,’ these Iron-armed Monkeys displaying such power is also reasonable.

While Yan Chuan was stunned by the strength of the Iron-armed Monkeys, he was also curious about who dared provoke these formidable beings. He used the ’lens’ to search, and finally saw—

"Found you!"

On the lower cliff wall, there was a person with a treasure sword on their back, utilizing both hands and feet to dart along the cliff wall, moving as if stuck to it, stable yet agile, dodging boulders and shards, quickly fleeing into the distance.

While he hadn’t faced this person directly, nor seen them properly engage, just from this scene, Yan Chuan could roughly assess that this person’s strength was at least Fourth Grade and their Qinggong was extraordinary.