74: Killing the Ape Leader (Bonus Chapter, first time the number of requests for updates exceeded 100 yesterday)

Old Hei, on its side, no longer wasted time and continued to launch its attack.

This time, it did not dare to directly ram the opponent's head, but instead aimed for other injured parts of the body.

The Ape Leader did not defend; it only counterattacked based on instinct.

Even so, a simple, ordinary punch directly left a crack-ridden dent in Old Hei's shell.

The two sides fought head-to-head, exchanging ramming attacks for punches, directly staking their lives against each other.

The Ape Leader's severe injuries and poisoning ensured that Old Hei's attacks were, at the very least, not completely ineffective against its defense.

Old Hei's defense, along with the continuously stacking [Attack Absorption], also allowed it to withstand a few more punches.

Of course, the main reason was that the Ape Leader had already expended a huge amount of energy earlier, greatly weakening its strength.

This mutual weakening and strengthening allowed Old Hei, a Transcendent Rank, to fight the Commander Rank to a standstill.

"It might not succeed!"

Lin Chuan sighed.

Even a severely wounded, dying Commander Rank was enough to give Old Hei a run for its money.

After today, regardless of success or failure, Old Hei would have to recuperate for a period of time again.

"Watch out for its skills!"

Old Hei could barely withstand ordinary attacks, but skills were genuinely impossible.

[Taunt]

The skill the Ape Leader was just charging was immediately interrupted, forcing it to resort to ordinary attacks.

Lin Chuan noted the time; there was barely even one second of control duration.

A max-level Taunt could control a Transcendent Rank for ten seconds.

The rank suppression was truly fierce.

However, Old Hei only needed to ensure the opponent couldn't use its skills.

Moving forward, as soon as the Ape Leader started charging a skill, Old Hei would immediately interrupt it with Taunt.

Gradually, the Ape Leader started to overheat.

Even though its remaining sanity told him that it should leave immediately and find a place to recover its injuries, this Transcendent Rank 'big bug' kept provoking and Taunting him, making him incredibly furious.

Finally, the Ape Leader couldn't take it anymore and resolved to destroy it, even if it meant overdrawing its own body.

The Commander Rank's [Ghost-Faced Illusion] should have, by all rights, made this bug kneel and submit, but it seemed to have no effect.

Consequently, the Ape Leader grew even angrier. Its body flashed with red light, and it activated a skill.

[Furious Monkey Fist] Lv9 (Active, sacrifices Defense attributes, increases Strength by 50%, increases Attack Speed by 50%, duration 1 minute.)

Sacrificing Defense meant deepened damage taken.

This skill placed an immense burden on the body. The Ape Leader had used it several times previously when fighting the monkey group, which was why it had been so severely injured by the Elite Rank monkey group; it was a pure exchange of injury for injury.

Crucially, the monkey group also possessed this ability, and their benefit was even greater.

After all, whether ordinary monkeys defended or not made little difference; to a Commander Rank, they were all just one punch away from defeat.

Old Hei's Taunt could not interrupt the [Furious Monkey Fist] skill, as it was instantaneous.

In this state, if Old Hei took one punch, it would immediately be killed.

However, this was the opportunity Lin Chuan had been waiting for.

"Old Hei, fly as high as you can, and grow as big as possible!"

The top of the cave was only about a hundred meters high at most, but it was enough.

Immediately after, Old Hei flipped its body in the air, landing on its back.

It knew exactly what to do: use the double acceleration of [Air-Treading Rapid Acceleration] plus gravity to smash down fiercely.

Activate!

Simultaneously, [Soul Spike] was released.

He hadn't used it until now because he was waiting for the exact moment when the Ape Leader finished using its skill and its defense was maximally reduced.

"Roar... Oww!"

Just as the Ape Leader activated its skill and was about to viciously beat Old Hei, Old Hei flew into the sky, making it even more furious.

Moreover, it started to feel some apprehension, guarding against Old Hei's sneak attack.

Suddenly, a familiar sharp pain came from its head, causing it to lose focus momentarily for one second.

After long-term torment, its resistance had increased significantly, and it no longer reacted violently.

However, this short second was already enough.

In fact, less than a second was needed. Old Hei's twenty-meter shell descended from the sky like a meteor, smashing viciously onto the Ape Leader's body.

If the ground had been soft dirt, the Ape Leader would have been hammered into the earth like a nail.

But unfortunately, the floor of the cave was hard rock.

"Boom!"

The massive sound caused the entire cave to shake.

Lin Chuan rubbed his ears, alleviating the ringing.

Afterward, he recalled Old Hei.

Old Hei was once again severely wounded and fell into a deep sleep, even more serious than the last time.

The shell already had numerous cracks inflicted by the Ape Leader, and with this suicidal attack, the entire carapace shattered into countless pieces.

To advance, Old Hei had truly gone all out. Once it moved, it was fighting for its life.

Next, Lin Chuan walked directly to the Ape Leader's remains and began inspecting them, not worrying at all that it might still be alive.

Lin Chuan was so brave because he had confidence: the progress of the [death fruit] had suddenly surged by 10%.

Coupled with the monkeys he had killed earlier, the progress was now over twenty percent, approaching 30%.

Unfortunately, the hundreds of apes that died here were all killed by the Ape Leader, making their potential contribution a complete waste.

But Lin Chuan didn't lose out; he had gotten this for free anyway.

If Old Hei had truly done the killing, who knew how long it would have taken.

To Lin Chuan's surprise, the Ape Leader's body had not been smashed to pieces; instead, it remained remarkably intact.

The fatal injury was its entire spine being broken backward, ensuring it was dead beyond resurrection.

A Transcendent Rank actually managed to kill a Commander Rank—Lin Chuan felt secretly pleased.

Afterward, Lin Chuan stored its corpse in his storage ring, temporarily not intending to absorb it.

Now, waiting for Old Hei to recover would take at least four or five days, and Lin Chuan, with his slender limbs, probably couldn't even defeat the weakest Ghost-Faced Ape by himself.

If he truly encountered danger, he could release it and have the Gray Snake control it to fight.

Next, Lin Chuan searched cave after cave and discovered many more ape remains.

However, because a few days had passed, they were no longer fresh, and their value was greatly reduced.

An Elite Rank ape, which could originally be converted into three to five [enhancement fruit], might now yield less than one.

Even a mosquito is meat; Lin Chuan did not mind.

At this moment, the [enhancement fruit] and [skill fruit] on the golden tree were approaching fifteen hundred—a number Lin Chuan had previously never dared to imagine.

At the very least, before coming here for special training, he had never thought of it; he only wanted the [advancement fruit] to mature.

After seeing the group of Ghost-Faced Apes, he vaguely developed this idea.

But now that he truly had them, he felt like he was dreaming.

How should he put it? He had lived a hard life for too long before this. He used to live frugally and meticulously, yet he suddenly earned five million in one go.

Furthermore, this 'five million' didn't seem very difficult to acquire! It truly showed that those who commit arson and murder gain great wealth.

Thinking back a few weeks ago, Lin Chuan was still trying every possible method to acquire Yao Beast flesh and blood... It could only be said that his strength had grown too quickly, increasing geometrically.

"Wait, I'm already this awesome? Haha..." Thinking this, Lin Chuan searched all the way to the Ape Leader's dwelling.

Moreover, he remembered that the Ape Leader seemed to have collected quite a few good things.

For the next few days, he planned to stay here. With the Ape Leader as a Puppet, he wouldn't need to worry about the other monkeys returning.