Chapter 205: Chapter 125: What an Incredible Coincidence

She took the initiative to free herself from his embrace, landing on the ground with her feet. "My injuries aren’t serious, but let’s prioritize our safety first."

"If this continues, we’ll end up dying together here."

Saying this, Haitang felt a bit annoyed, "I told you not to risk your life to save me, you foolish man."

She had secretly decided in her heart that if her identity was revealed, so be it. It was time to decisively use that item. They couldn’t just express their feelings then turn into a pair of star-crossed lovers, could they?

Moreover, as the power of the vines continued to escalate, it had already reached the limit of triggering the protective treasures on both of them, increasing their chances of escape.

Chu Xuan heard her words and only smiled slightly. He picked up the leg bone placed to one side and examined it.

The Divine Command had absorbed a drop of vital blood, so he gently retrieved the token.

At this moment, the four ancient tadpole scripts on the front of the token had transformed from [Intelligent Stone Monkey] to [Long-armed Ape].

The stone monkey pattern on the back also changed to a tall ape with quite long arms, holding the sun and moon in its left hand, and grasping a thousand mountains with its right.

Simultaneously, Chu Xuan gained a new understanding in his heart:

Long-armed Ape: Seize the sun and moon, shrink the mountain ranges, discern fortune from doom, manipulate heaven and earth.

This still corresponds to four divine techniques:

1. The ability to seize the sun and moon, corresponding to the power of telekinesis;

2. Shrinking huge objects into the palm, forcibly compressing them;

3. Discerning fortune and misfortune, with a knack like "premonition";

4. Manipulating a realm, corresponding to the mastery over a territory.

Like the Intelligent Stone Monkey, these four divine techniques also require cultivation to reach full power. Currently, Chu Xuan cannot compress mountains into his palm, let alone seize the celestial bodies.

The most unique among them is naturally the "Heaven and Earth Manipulation." Chu Xuan carefully perceived that, with the help of the Divine Command, he can initially control a specific area with his hands.

For instance, by clasping his hands together, a forceful compression attack would flatten everything within a three-yard radius.

When the divine techniques are cultivated to the fifth level, true mastery of a realm is achieved. In that realm, Chu Xuan is akin to a sovereign, capable of altering the fundamental laws within it.

It is immensely powerful, and to Chu Xuan, among the four chaotic monkeys, the two strongest divine techniques are the Intelligent Stone Monkey’s "Law of Heaven and Earth" and the Long-armed Ape’s "Heaven and Earth Manipulation."

As for the remaining Six-eared Macaque and Red-butt Horse Monkey, their abilities are more inclined towards support, especially the Six-eared Macaque.

In conclusion, the abilities of the Long-armed Ape are formidable, more than living up to Chu Xuan’s expectations.

He was already imagining, in the future, casually grasping an enemy to shrink them into his palm; with a simple squeeze, effortlessly crushing them like an insect.

Gu Haitang saw Chu Xuan looking thrilled, like a child receiving an interesting new toy, and asked with a hint of amusement:

"You seem incredibly happy, did you succeed?"

Chu Xuan coughed, "Yes, and our method of leaving also relies on this."

Outside, the Six Souls Banner transformed into a large cauldron, and the thick layer of green vines entangled it, unable to penetrate, not even from the ground. The Six Souls Banner can take any shape and won’t leave an opening.

Chu Xuan observed the external situation with his divine sense, then, like when he activated the Stone Monkey’s vital blood earlier, he swapped it to the Long-armed Ape’s vital blood this time.

Instantly, the surrounding vines, as if having life, actively retreated.

This reassured Chu Xuan, confirming the array was initially set to guard the ape’s leg bone. Although the array’s intricate design didn’t appear to originate from this troop of long-armed apes, its essence remained unchanged.

As long as he tricked the array into believing the token in his hand was the array’s core, the leg bone, it wouldn’t attack the token holder.

Regarding the leg bone itself, Chu Xuan couldn’t activate its power, so it didn’t have this effect.

The leg bone, despite being affected by the Divine Command, remained undamaged, still a special treasure.

Chu Xuan put away the "cauldron" and, with the astonished Gu Haitang, walked out. During this time, although the surrounding vines remained "watchful," they didn’t attack them.

In this way, they successfully used "Shift the Stars and Change the Dipper" to escape.

Upon reaching the outside, the aura and pressure of the Long-armed Ape emanated from Chu Xuan’s token, causing the long-armed apes to kneel down en masse, each with a look of terror, trembling in fear.

This was true bloodline suppression, incomparable to the earlier intimidation with the Stone Monkey’s aura.

Even the silver ape king and the elder monkey didn’t dare to confront Chu Xuan now. Although their intelligence was clearly superior, they couldn’t resist the instincts in their bloodline.

Originally, Chu Xuan didn’t plan to take the leg bone with him, fearing it would anger the ape troop, considering the elder monkey had previously led the troop to make way for them.

But unexpectedly, the old creature had set a trap for the two of them, pretending to retreat while actually luring them into the array. Chu Xuan wouldn’t be polite to them anymore.

Seeing him pick up the leg bone to leave, the ape troop wailed in sorrow, and the elder monkey brought the ape king to kneel before him, seemingly begging for mercy.