469: Chapter 355 469: Chapter 355 The Monkey King at this time didn’t have any thoughts of eating; it thought only of escape, of fleeing the control of humans.
With its current abilities, even without a body, it could live freely outside.
Even if it couldn’t be a king anymore, that was still better than being sealed in its body with no freedom for millions of years.
What it needed was freedom.
Would Jiang Tang let the Monkey King escape?
Naturally, he wouldn’t.
Once again employing a familiar trick, he took out a magical treasure, the Hell Palace, and collected all the monkeys on the mountain, including the Monkey King, within it.
Jiang Tang did this, of course, to avoid future trouble.
This Monkey King had been here for millions of years.
If it were to be stolen away, this place would become restless.
Indeed, only the Hell Palace could take away these monkeys, and he wasn’t bothered about whether two monkeys meeting each other would start fighting.
After taking all the monkeys into the Hell Palace, Jiang Tang still took a keen interest and went to the cave with everyone else.
It was only when the others saw the sealed body of the monkey in the cave that they understood why Jiang Tang had collected those monkeys.
Of course, Jiang Tang wouldn’t want to trouble his own space and had never thought about collecting future animals into the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space; even less so for his original space.
The Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space had its own creation skill, such as the Green Ox, which was born within it.
Or perhaps the space had its own consciousness and wouldn’t cause trouble for him.
Jiang Tang had once conjectured whether the space didn’t produce so many animals automatically because it found them noisy!
Jiang Tang sized up the Monkey’s body; indeed, this monkey was worthy of having ascended to the heavens, as its body was sealed.
The Monkey’s body still emitted wisps of Immortal Qi and, amidst the Buddha Seal, faint Buddha Light was also emitted.
Jiang Tang observed the cave, where on one side, there were many jars of wine, and outside were lots of fruit trees, yet inside, there were also many hidden dried fruits.
There was also a fire pit in the cave, and the monkey seemed to have enjoyed itself, likely having barbecued with other monkeys here before.
Monkeys imitating humans was not entirely the same as humans; there was no kitchen equipment for cooking in here.
Inside the cave, there was also a pungent, fishy stench; indeed, animals will always be animals, never as clean as humans.
The girls followed Jiang Tang into the cave, all inevitably covering their noses.
With a wave of his sleeve, Jiang Tang cleared away the unpleasant odor in the cave.
He was observing the cave, whether aside from sealing the monkey, there could also be resources sealed here.
Indeed, just as he had discovered, beneath the monkey’s body, there were two Spirit Veins, the Spiritual Qi Acupoint and the Fire Spirit Cave.
Jiang Tang was overjoyed, this trip had gone very smoothly, with no need for any power to find the Saint Sect’s graveyard.
Suddenly, the Monkey’s body seemed to sense something, and its head was actually able to move a bit.
Could it be that this monkey had produced more than one soul?
Jiang Tang noticed that the sealed Monkey’s body’s head was occasionally moving; becoming alert, he indeed saw another soul floating out from the Monkey’s body.
The soul was not only trying to escape but also sprayed a poison mist at everyone.
The sudden change caught Jiang Tang’s companions off guard; they were too late to defend, not expecting such a turn from the sealed body, and their proximity meant that the poison mist reached them just as they smelled the foul odor.
Thinking to themselves, “This is bad, we’re about to fall under its influence.”
The girls’ faces changed color; Tang Yanhong, who was accustomed to using poisons, already understood that this was highly toxic.
The Dugu siblings, who used worm insects, felt that this poison was even more potent than theirs.
Hua Xian’er could indeed concoct pills but had no ability to create poison or antidotes; the sudden change made everyone’s faces turn pale.
Only Jiang Tang remained calm; with the highest ability and being the most vigilant, in the nick of time, he swung his hand out and a ring of light enveloped everyone, the poison mist dispersing only outside the transparent ring.
The soul, having missed with one strike, launched another heavy one, its eyes fiery red in the darkness, sending out flames that exploded in front of the onlookers, causing the earthen cave to erupt in a cloud of dust.
The monkey soul believed its two suddenly cast spells would catch the human occupants off guard and deal a heavy blow.
Unfortunately, its calculations were in vain.
How could it get its way against these extraordinary humans?
After two unsuccessful strikes, the monkey soul’s blood-red eyes glinted ferociously.
With a vicious and slightly panic-stricken gaze, it emitted an even denser smoke and then took the opportunity to flee.
The people, protected by Jiang Tang with a ring of light, had by now come to their senses.
Having Jiang Tang’s protection, they all took out their own magic artifacts for defense.
Jiang Tang, with a wave of his sleeve, turned the thick smoke released by the monkey soul back towards it, intermingling it with golden Buddha Light.
The monkey soul, struck by the smoke it itself had released, took it indifferently, but the oncoming Buddha Light dealt a huge blow to its soul.
“Ah…”
Clutching its head, the monkey soul returned to its body, whose two eyes still flickered with malice.
Showing a hint of unwillingness, it initially delighted in seeing the soul captured by Jiang Tang, happy at no longer having to covertly possess the body.
Regrettably, before the pleasure lasted long, this human nemesis arrived at the scene.
Not wanting to be captured by humans like that soul, it struck preemptively, aiming to deal with the humans first for the purposes of possession.
However, the human it encountered was not as easily subdued as it had imagined.
“Oh dear, this monkey is something else.
Sealed with one soul, it grew another, and now it’s hiding yet another soul in its body.
If every monkey could do this, the world would be overrun by monkeys!”
Dugu brother exclaimed thoughtfully.
“I won’t let it do as it pleases,” Jiang Tang said confidently.
“Jiang Tang, if you can capture so many monkeys, one more won’t make a difference.
Just let it kill itself.”
Prior to this, Dugu brother had only seen Jiang Tang take out a magic artifact, which he assumed was a storage artifact for capturing demonic beasts.
He had no idea that it contained more than one type of demonic beast.
Apart from the two monkey souls he had previously encountered, the other monkeys in the Hell Palace had no allegiance to them.
Could two of the same monkey souls become friends?
Now with an additional soul and body, he let them fight it out amongst themselves inside.
Jiang Tang smiled without responding.
First, he used Buddhist Law to seal the soul within the monkey’s body; this soul was more ferocious than the previous two, and if it escaped, it could potentially do evil.
The crowd watched silently as Jiang Tang went about his work, not uttering a word.
Jiang Tang began observing the monkey’s body, only to discover that the seal used on the monkey was also a Buddha Seal.
Similar to the seal used on the monkey soul, Jiang Tang had already learned the method for unsealing.
As all spells require adaptability in use, one cannot generalize them without adjustment.
Since coming into contact with Buddhist scriptures, and with the translations provided by Eryao, each character Jiang Tang learned emitted Buddha Light in his mind, radiating auspicious and peaceful energy.
Jiang Tang stood in front of the monkey without sitting down in meditation, deeming the cave floor too dirty.
He gently waved his hands, rotating them to shine Buddha Light at the tip, slowly forming a Buddha character within the streams of air.
The monkey soul, secretly watching, froze as its eyes caught this sight, and a horrified Divine Sense flashed through its motionless body before slowly closing its eyes amidst the Buddha Light.
The Buddha character Jiang Tang cast possessed the power to expel evil, slowly eroding the malevolent nature of those with wicked hearts, as well as animals, influencing their mindset towards peace and taking away their aggressiveness, thereby transforming their disposition.
As Jiang Tang moved his hands, those behind him felt almost hypnotized, and all the humans closed their eyes.
Taking a look at his ten male and female comrades, Jiang Tang discerned that they must have held some malevolent thoughts to be swayed by his technique while he was entrancing the monkey as well.
This was akin to the Buddha Ancestor ferrying souls to tranquility, allowing evil hearts to find serenity!
Jiang Tang didn’t immediately put the monkey’s body into the Hell Palace but instead used his spells to initiate a change in the monkey.