Chapter 466

The golden light receded and Zi Chen was clad in a robe. The powerful aura surging around him was also slowly receding into his body.

At this point, his strength had broken through and reached the middle stage of the Zephyr Realm. It took him more than a year to reach the middle stage from the early stage.

Looking at Zi Chen, the surprise in Tyrant's eyes grew stronger. Zi Chen had just broken through the middle stage of the Zephyr Realm, but his realm was much stronger than the average middle stage Zephyr Realm expert. The Heavenly Thunder Tribulation had helped Zi Chen break through again and again. He had already walked a long way in the middle stage of the Zephyr Realm.

This would save him a lot of time to reach the late stage of the Zephyr Realm in the future.

"Have you put everything away?" With just a few flashes, Zi Chen appeared in front of Tyrant and asked.

"What things?" Tyrant played dumb.

"Inner Core, Inner Core fragments, and the spirit rings of the Inner Core experts." Zi Chen emphasized.

"Weren't those destroyed together with the self-destruction of the Inner Core experts?" Tyrant asked with a puzzled face.

Zi Chen nodded and didn't say anything else. Only a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Such a loud noise, which lasted for a long time, attracted many powerful warriors of the Zephyr Realm. There were no less than a hundred of them. Their eyes flashed with greed, but when they saw the deep pit on the ground, their greed turned into fear.

Just as a few reckless Zephyr Realm experts were easily killed by Zi Chen, their fear turned into fear.

As Zi Chen's cold gaze swept around, the Zephyr Realm experts in the distance began to retreat. In a few breaths, they had all disappeared.

Zi Chen also flew away, followed by the Devil Ape and Tyrant. As for the Inner Core experts, they didn't show up. They must have gone back to heal their wounds.

"Zi Chen, it's time to distribute the liquefied essence." In a safe place, Tyrant's voice sounded, asking for the liquefied essence from Zi Chen.

"What liquefied essence? Didn't I use it all to save you?" Zi Chen turned his head with a puzzled face.

"You're lying. Are you trying to deny it? I asked the Devil Ape before, and it said there was more," Tyrant said angrily.

"Oh, do you have more?" Zi Chen looked at the demon ape.

The little girl looked at Zi Chen and then at the monk. She shook her head like a rattle-drum and put on an innocent look.

"You two!" Looking at the two rascals, the monk was so angry that his body was trembling.

Zi Chen looked up at the sky indifferently. The Devil Ape was also scratching its ears and cheeks, looking around with its innocent little eyes.

The monk was so angry that he wanted to bite the two of them to death. In the end, he sighed helplessly and said dejectedly, "Alright, alright, you win. Everything will be shared."

With a pained expression on his face, Tyrant took out his Dan yuan and spirit ring. After receiving Zi Chen's permission, the Devil Ape also took out its liquefied essence, which made Tyrant stare at it for a while.

Following this, the two of them had different opinions on how to split the spoils, and they continued to argue.

"You really are a greedy monk."

"You're the greedy one. You already swallowed quite a bit of essence before, so why should we split it fifty-fifty? Seventy-thirty? I'll take seventy, you take thirty!" roared Tyrant.

After arguing for a while, they ended up splitting it sixty-forty. Zi Chen also got a portion for the Devil Ape. Now that he knew the true value of essence, Zi Chen wanted to get as much as he could, even if he had to suffer a loss in other aspects.

Zi Chen received sixty percent of the essence, while Tyrant received forty percent. However, he took the rest of the Dan yuan, Dan yuan fragments, and spirit rings.

Zi Chen also only received a Dan yuan and a spirit ring. Of course, neither of them were satisfied with this result.

Tyrant flaunted his Dan yuan fragments in front of the Devil Ape, wanting to use them to exchange for the Devil Ape's portion of essence. Only after the Devil Ape swallowed those Dan yuan fragments did Zi Chen become satisfied.

As for Tyrant, he was so angry that he didn't look the slightest bit like a monk.

News of that day's battle quickly spread, causing quite a stir.

Wild Wolf Stronghold's third boss had been killed by the two of them, and their Dan weapons and essence had been taken away. As for the other Dan yuan experts who had chased after them, they had been inexplicably struck by heavenly lightning tribulation.

As soon as this news spread, the entire region was shaken. But it wasn't because they had killed Dan yuan experts, but because of the essence.

The value of Yuan liquid was simply too high. This was a rare item that could help people break through. In this area, eight out of ten Original Core realm old monsters would forever be stuck at the early stage of the Original Core realm. They had no chance of reaching the mid stage, and Yuan liquid was the only way for them to step into the mid stage.

As a result, even more experts appeared, and they began to search for Zi Chen and Tyrant's traces.

Other than Zi Chen, who had recovered from his injuries due to his breakthrough, both Tyrant and the Devil Ape had been injured. So they spent the rest of their time healing.

As for Zi Chen, he was familiarizing himself with his realm. His breakthrough had made Zi Chen's battle prowess even stronger, and his comprehension of various battle skills had also deepened.

Several days later, Tyrant's injuries were completely healed. He then used the essence to break through to the late Dan yuan realm, and Zi Chen stood guard for him.

As for the Devil Ape, it had always been willing to give. But now, it had taken a fancy to Zi Chen's Dan yuan. Dan yuan was a kind of solidified energy that contained extremely powerful and pure energy. Even Zi Chen didn't dare to casually absorb it. Only Dan yuan experts could easily absorb it.

Last time, the Devil Ape had eaten a few pieces of broken Dan yuan. Zi Chen had been shocked for a long time. He had never imagined that the Devil Ape would ask for the complete Dan yuan in his possession.

Just as Zi Chen gave the Dan yuan to the Devil Ape, the Devil Ape put it into its mouth and swallowed it as if it was chewing candy. This made Zi Chen's jaw drop.

After swallowing a complete Elixir essence, the Devil Ape fell into a deep slumber. The black light around its body became thicker, almost covering its entire body. Zi Chen knew that it was refining the Elixir essence, so he waited patiently.

Ten days later, the Devil Ape woke up.

"Zi Chen."

A slightly childish voice sounded in Zi Chen's mind. The latter's expression changed. He looked around, but found nothing.

When he lowered his head and saw the Devil Ape's surprised and excited eyes, his expression became hesitant. He whispered, "Devil Ape, it's you."

"It's me, it's Zi Chen." The Devil Ape's voice was intermittent. It was very childish, like a child who had just learned to speak.

"It's really you. You can talk." Zi Chen's eyes widened in disbelief.

"This is telepathy. Telepathy." The Devil Ape slowly adapted.

"Telepathy? Didn't you have telepathy before? Why can't you use telepathy?"

Zi Chen had always been puzzled about the Devil Ape's inability to use telepathy. He had asked several times, but the Devil Ape made gestures that Zi Chen could not understand.

"My telepathy was too weak before, and my realm was not high enough," the Devil Ape said again. This time, the telepathy was very fast, but the childish voice could not be changed.

After that, the two began to communicate. Zi Chen asked about all the doubts in his heart, and the Devil Ape, who had just learned to use telepathy, was happy to communicate with Zi Chen like this.

"By the way, how did you appear in the Holy Burial Ground?" Zi Chen asked.

The Devil Ape shook its little head and said, "I don't know. When my memory came back, I was already there, and I have been absorbing the aura there for a living."

With that, the Devil Ape showed an embarrassed expression and said telepathy, "You are the first human I saw. I was very curious, so I have been following you, wanting to scare you."

Zi Chen could not help but think of the scene that day. Because of Elder Hiroshi's speculation, they felt that the Holy Burial Ground was extremely terrifying. After that, the Devil Ape's ghost-like figure really scared him.

The two continued to communicate, and it could be said that the more they talked, the more excited they became. Zi Chen also asked about the thing he was most concerned about and most concerned about. "What is that move you often use called? Can you teach me?"

"That is a kind of magic similar to confinement. I awakened it naturally. I only know how to cast it, but I don't know how to teach it."

Zi Chen could not help but feel depressed when he heard this, but he also expected it, because Elder Hiroshi had said it before.

"Then what is your strength now?" Zi Chen asked again.

He had known the Devil Ape for three years. During these three years, Zi Chen broke through from the Ninth Layer of Heaven to the middle stage of the Zephyr Plane, but he did not see the Devil Ape grow.

"Using the realm of you humans, I am now in the late stage of the Zephyr Plane," the Devil Ape said.

"Late stage of the Zephyr Plane? You swallowed an Elixir Core and several broken Elixir Cores, and you are only in the late stage of the Zephyr Plane." Zi Chen was very surprised and asked, "Then what realm were you at before, the early stage of the Zephyr Plane?"

"I was at the peak of the middle stage of the Zephyr Plane. The energy contained in the Elixir Core was not pure. After refining it, I barely broke through to the late stage."

"What?" Zi Chen's eyes widened, and his face was full of disbelief.

The energy contained in the Elixir Core was more than a hundred times purer than that of a high-grade Primordial Stone. Perhaps only the legendary supreme-grade Primordial Stones could compare. Even if Zi Chen had ultimate energy, he dared not say that the energy contained in the Elixir Core was not pure.

"If the energy in the Elixir Core is not pure, then what kind of pure energy do you need? Liquefied Essence?" Zi Chen could not help but ask.

Unexpectedly, the Devil Ape nodded immediately and said, "Yes, liquefied Essence is very good. Or more Elixir Cores will do. Elixirs that are more than ten thousand years old will do as well."

The Devil Ape's answer made Zi Chen almost speechless. Everything the Devil Ape wanted was not easy to find. Zi Chen's breakthrough required a huge amount of resources, but now he had met an even bigger one, and one that was even more picky than Zi Chen.

Not to mention the preciousness of liquefied Essence, just the Elixir Core itself was not so easy to obtain. One Elixir Core was equivalent to a Core Core Old Monster, and Zi Chen did not have the ability to kill one yet. As for the ten-thousand-year-old elixirs, in the Land of Chaos, even if there were some ten-thousand-year-old elixirs, they would have been picked by others.

"Without these things, it will be difficult for my strength to improve. The energy in those high-grade Primordial Stones is not as pure as the energy in the bones in the Holy Burial Land."

Zi Chen stared blankly, not knowing what to say. He had originally thought that he had found a powerful pet that didn't need to expend energy and only knew how to pay. But today, when he opened his mouth to speak, he realized that he had found himself an ancestor.

Seeing Zi Chen's unnatural expression, the Devil Ape hurriedly said, "The stronger I am, the more powerful my Innate Magic will be. I can feel that I still have many powerful battle skills that have not been awakened."

"Is this considered a temptation?" Zi Chen could not help but roll his eyes.

At this moment, a powerful aura surged from the monk who was sitting cross-legged in cultivation. At the same time, it attracted the surrounding Spiritual Qi.