Chapter 48: Taking Them by Surprise, Slaying the Giant Ape

The giant ape had put its full strength into that slap and stunned itself. Qin Xiao seized the chance to leap onto its back.

Like a human, the ape had a spot it could not reach: the middle of its back. No matter how strong you were, you could not scratch there.

“Disciple, stop watching! Attack now! Aim right here, where I am!”

Qin Xiao shouted urgently to Yun Man.

“Master, I understand.”

Hearing his call, Yun Man immediately locked onto Qin Xiao’s aura and sent a powerful streak of sword qi toward him.

Qin Xiao was busy too. He drew his Top Grade Spirit Weapon and stabbed repeatedly at the ape’s back.

But the ape’s hide was too tough. Even the Top Grade Spirit Weapon could not pierce its defenses. Qin Xiao had no Spiritual Qi to power it, so he could only use it as a sharp weapon.

The ape felt something irritating its back. It reached around to scratch, but could not reach the spot.

Yun Man’s sword qi was aimed at Qin Xiao. As the ape reached behind itself, its long arm struck the incoming attack.

A bloody gash opened on its arm, and blood gushed out.

Qin Xiao had planned to dodge at the last moment so the sword qi would hit the ape’s back. Still, this worked too. Though its arm had blocked the attack, the sword qi had wounded it.

The pain drove the ape into a frenzy. Since it could do nothing about Qin Xiao on its back, it charged Yun Man.

Yun Man was no fool. She ran circles around it, forcing it to keep turning to track her.

“Disciple, stop spinning! Your master is getting dizzy.”

They went round and round without getting anywhere. Qin Xiao felt ready to vomit and hurriedly called out.

“Master, I have no choice. If I run in a straight line, it’ll chase me. If we run into other Demon Beasts on the way, we’ll be in even more trouble.”

Yun Man had no choice either. She kept looking for an opening, but the ape was no fool: it kept turning with her.

“Wait. I’ll climb onto its head. Then it’ll try to attack me, and you can find an opening.”

Qin Xiao could not take any more. This was his only option. Keep spinning, and he would pass out first. How the hell would they fight then?

The ape sensed movement on its back and immediately stopped turning. It swung a hand toward its own shoulder, trying to slap Qin Xiao dead.

As soon as the ape stopped, Qin Xiao knew it would try to slap him. He deliberately paused on its left shoulder, then took a huge leap onto its head.

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Qin Xiao held tightly to the fur on its head and shouted.

The ape ignored him and slapped at its own head.

“Damn, that is ruthless!”

Qin Xiao hurried to its nape. Fortunately, the ape was not foolish enough to use all its strength, giving him time to move.

While the ape was busy with Qin Xiao, Yun Man found an opening. She charged her sword attack and aimed at the middle of its back, where he had been.

A deep wound opened in the ape’s back.

In pain, the ape left Qin Xiao alone and turned to charge Yun Man, who posed a threat to it.

Qin Xiao returned to the middle of its back. Now there was a deep wound there. Without a word, he thrust his Top Grade Spirit Weapon inside and stabbed over and over.

Its defenses kept me from stabbing it before. Now let’s see if I can stab it to death.

Before the ape could reach Yun Man, the pain in its back made it howl.

“No, I’ve got to hurry. This ape is calling for help.”

Hearing the ape howl, Qin Xiao stabbed faster. But against its huge body, his sword was like a toothpick stirring a vat. It could cause pain, but could not do any serious damage.

Yun Man wanted to help, but the ape kept watching her. She had no chance to get close.

“Fuck it. I’ll get dirty. I can’t worry about that now. If the usual methods won’t work, I’ll use biology.”

Qin Xiao crawled through the wound in the ape’s back and felt around inside its body.

“Found you.”

After feeling around for a while, Qin Xiao finally found the ape’s spine.

“No matter how mighty a Demon Beast you are, I refuse to believe you can still move once your spine is severed.”

Qin Xiao took out his High Grade Spirit Weapon and searched for a joint. Once he found one, he cut down hard.

As he cut, he shouted, “Be paralyzed, my giant monkey!”

The blade met with little resistance and sheared straight through the bone.

The ape, which had been thrashing about, suddenly fell flat. It lost control of all four limbs. It was paralyzed.

The ape’s collapse startled Yun Man. It had been moving just fine. Why had it suddenly stopped?

“Master, how did you pull that off?” This chapter is updated first at novelрing.com.

Only when Qin Xiao crawled back out from the bloody wound did Yun Man realize he was the one who had subdued the creature.

“I can’t explain it all right now. The ape can’t move, but it isn’t dead. Finish it off before it calls its companions again.”

Qin Xiao urged Yun Man to finish the ape quickly. Everything else could wait.

Yun Man knew he was right. She drew her sword and struck the ape’s head. Unable to move, it could only watch as it died under her blade.

Once Yun Man was done, Qin Xiao used his clothes’ self-cleaning function to remove the blood and grime.

Then, under Yun Man’s astonished gaze, he put the ape’s corpse into the System Space.

“Master, just how vast is your storage space?”

Yun Man could not help being amazed. He had stored such a huge corpse just like that?

A basic Storage Bag had less than a zhang of space inside. An intermediate one had three to five zhang, while an advanced one had over ten. Yun Man’s own bag was an advanced one.

Yun Man’s own Storage Bag could hold the ape’s corpse too, but storage space was precious. People usually cut out the useful materials and took only the most valuable parts. Who would pack away a whole corpse? Qin Xiao had done it without hesitation. His storage space must be enormous.

“Why do you always have so many questions? Children shouldn’t ask about adults’ business.”

Naturally unwilling to reveal the secret of the System Space, Qin Xiao brushed the question aside.

“Then why is your movement art so strange, Master? Even the ape couldn’t hit you! And, and—what attack did you use to make it stop moving?”

Yun Man was like a curious child, fascinated by everything Qin Xiao had done. This was a peak Nascent Soul stage Demon Beast, after all.

“Uh, I call that the Stop-Short Movement Art. It’s all about counter-inertia and prediction. As for the attack, I call it the Biological Structure Method.”

Qin Xiao did not know how to explain it, so he made things up.

“Master, can you teach me that movement art? Was it called Stop-Short? I want to learn it.”

Yun Man asked curiously.

“You can’t learn this. I had no choice, but you’re at the Nascent Soul stage. Just overpower them!”

Qin Xiao had no idea how to teach it. He had only thought of it in the heat of the moment, with a little prediction thrown in. He could not teach that.

“Very well then… But if there is anything else suitable for me in the future, you must teach me, Master.”

Yun Man sounded a little disappointed, as though she had been wronged.

“Quiet. Do you hear that?”

Qin Xiao had been about to answer when he thought he heard something from the stone wall.