19: Titan Ape, the King of the Forest

Chapter 19: The King of the Forest, the Titan Giant Ape

Let’s look again at the Shrek Seven Devils, excluding Tang San. What was their Soul Power level before enrolling, and how fast did they cultivate?

After Yu Xiaogang arrived, how many levels did they advance in two years?

If not for consuming Immortal Plants, the speed at which the Shrek Seven Devils’ Soul Power increased in those two years could only be described as “useless,” completely wasting their high natural talent.

Later, after the Shrek Seven Devils graduated, without Yu Xiaogang, they were almost all around the Spirit Ancestor level. In five years, each of them advanced more than ten levels, with a few abnormal ones advancing 18 or 19 levels.

This shows how terrible Yu Xiaogang’s teaching level was; he was completely misleading his students!

Therefore, Ye Wen absolutely did not want Tang San to leave Yu Xiaogang’s side. It was fine for him to stay with Yu Xiaogang.

Threaten Tang San, coerce Tang Hao to appear?

Killing Tang Hao was just a matter of time for Ye Wen; he would have plenty of opportunities in the future. He wouldn't resort to such despicable methods.

“Evil Tiger, Xiao Bai, let’s go,” Ye Wen retracted his power, also intending to leave.

“Yes, Boss.”

The three of them thus left Nuoding City and headed towards the Star Dou Great Forest.

The severely injured Tang Hao, having fled to the vicinity of Shrek Academy, was currently hesitating whether to take Tang San away. But recalling Ye Wen’s words when he left, the other party shouldn’t really harm Tang San, right?

From Tang Hao’s perspective, after all, there was no deep hatred between them!

It was just because Tang San was beaten by Ye Wen in his human form, Tang Hao wanted to beat Ye Wen, but he himself was beaten by Ye Wen in his semi-human form.

That was all it was.

Moreover, Tang Hao didn’t want to keep Tang San by his side now. After some consideration, he decided to secretly protect Tang San for a period of time, constantly, for now.

A few days later, the three students who beat Tang San no longer returned to Noding Academy, and the terrifying strong person who brutally beat Tang Hao also no longer appeared. Tang Hao finally felt much more at ease.

This time, Tang Hao had been taught a deep lesson. He even had a bit of a psychological shadow and wasn’t quite daring to casually go out and hit people anymore.

Several days also allowed Ye Wen, Evil Tiger, and Xiao Bai to arrive near the Star Dou Great Forest.

The three of them stood on high ground, gazing into the immensely vast forest in the distance, all slightly astonished, because it was too large, so large that it had no edge, as if boundless.

As Sea Soul Beasts, they had never seen such a large forest.

Evil Tiger said with some excitement, “Boss, I’m suddenly a little excited.”

Xiao Bai said, “Me too. I want to see how many land Spirit Beasts I haven’t seen in here.”

There are actually many scattered islands in the ocean, some large and some small, but of course none are too large. For example, when the Shrek Seven Devils first went to Sea God Island, they encountered an attack from the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, fell into the sea, and finally drifted to a place called Pearl Island.

And among these scattered islands, there are some that have land Spirit Beasts, but not many types.

“I’m also quite excited,” Ye Wen smiled. Although he knew about the Star Dou Great Forest, it was his first time personally experiencing a visit.

“Let’s go.”

“Okay.”

The three officially stepped into the Star Dou Great Forest, heading straight for their destination, the Life Lake in the core area.

“Evil Tiger, Xiao Bai, even at our semi-human form’s speed, it will take several days to reach Life Lake. Therefore, we will now take turns switching to semi-human form to advance,” Ye Wen said.

“Alright, I’ll start then,” Xiao Bai said, then switched to her semi-human form.

Then, carrying one person in each hand, she swiftly rushed deeper with Ye Wen and Evil Tiger.

Currently, Ye Wen, Evil Tiger, and Xiao Bai are only at level 10+ in their human forms. If they came to a dangerous place like the Star Dou Great Forest, they would even be killed by Spirit Beasts when they reached the inner area.

Sometimes, Spirit Beasts suddenly appear, and you don’t even have time to switch.

Moreover, the time a semi-human form can exist on land doesn’t reset if you switch to human form and then back to semi-human form; there’s a cooldown rule.

So they must take turns maintaining one of them in semi-human form to ensure safety along the way.

Through this rotation method, Ye Wen and the two were getting closer and closer to Life Lake.

A few days later, they finally arrived near Life Lake.

The Titan Giant Ape, lying on the land next to Life Lake, enjoying the cool, seemed to sense something and immediately stood up, contacting the Sky Azure Bull Python beneath the lake: “Big Brother! It seems there’s a powerful presence heading our way!”

“Hmm!? Is it human?”

“They’re here!”

Whoosh!

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Ye Wen, Evil Tiger, and Xiao Bai had all switched to their semi-human forms, landing steadily from a high place, less than two hundred meters from the Titan Giant Ape.

“Huo, this is the Titan Giant Ape! It looks quite impressive,” Ye Wen stood in the middle, a faint smile on his lips, sizing up the large gorilla not far away.

It looked like both an ape and a chimpanzee, with every part of its body covered in muscles more terrifyingly powerful than granite. Its body height reached over 15 meters, but not quite twenty meters.

It possessed unparalleled strength, speed, and physical toughness. It looked very powerful, its strength superior to Xiao Bai’s.

“Are they human?”

The Sky Azure Bull Python remained hidden in the lake, communicating with Er Ming through Mental Energy.

Er Ming carefully observed the three of them. They looked like humans, but also a bit different from humans. It was a bit confused: “They don’t seem to be ordinary humans.”

“Is that so? Er Ming, drive them away!”

“Get out of here!!!”

“Roar!!!!”

The Titan Giant Ape roared loudly at Ye Wen and the two, its terrifying aura making Evil Tiger and Xiao Bai feel a bit apprehensive.

“Is this the 100,000-year Spirit Beast of the continent? The Titan Giant Ape’s strength seems to be far above mine,” Xiao Bai said with a solemn expression.

Let alone Xiao Bai, even Evil Tiger was not confident in defeating the Titan Giant Ape.

“Titan Giant Ape, we didn’t come here just to stroll around and leave.”

“Is that so? Then what do you want to do?!” The Titan Giant Ape’s killing intent had already risen.

“Don’t worry, we’re not here to hunt you, nor do we want to acquire your 100,000-year spirit ring,” Ye Wen said directly, without wasting words: “We came here to tell you that from now on, Life Lake will be my territory!”

“And you will become my loyal subordinates.”

The Titan Giant Ape was stunned. Humans often wanted to hunt them, 100,000-year Spirit Beasts, to obtain 100,000-year spirit rings, but this was the first time it had heard of someone wanting a 100,000-year Spirit Beast to be their subordinate.

But no matter the reason, the Titan Giant Ape wouldn’t give them a good face: “You have ten seconds to get out of here!!!”

“Otherwise, you will suffer the wrath of the King of the Forest!”

“King of the Forest? Hahahaha!” Ye Wen burst into laughter, shaking his head speechlessly: “I thought the King of the Forest was a title given to you by humans, but you actually consider yourself the King of the Forest?”