It was an ape!
It was a dark red ape with a crazed look on its face. Its neck was bound tightly by a chain. Ulcers had even appeared on the fur under the chain, and some of its flesh had already fused with the chain.
The chains were now stretched taut by the ape's galloping, making it difficult for the ape to even breathe. However, it was still frantically trying to break free from the restraints of the chains.
Its dark red fur did not seem to be its original color, but was instead caused by being dirty for a long period of time. If it was completely washed, then the red at the tip of its fur would be a fiery red!
It was not big, only the size of a child of three or four years old. At that moment, it was sprawled on the ground and howling at the area around it. There was terror and hatred hidden in its eyes as it looked at its surroundings, and its body trembled.
Su Ming trembled. He looked at the fiery red ape before him, and booming sounds reverberated in his head. He forgot where he was, and everything before him turned into a picture buried deep within his memories.
In that image, a young man dressed in animal skin was laughing happily as he jumped up and down in the mountain forest. On the young man's shoulder was a fiery red monkey. One of its hands was tightly gripping onto the young man's hair, while the other hand was holding onto a fruit pit. It was gnawing on it, and occasionally, it would make squeaking sounds, but the sound was also filled with joy.
"This is a mutated Fire Ape! This ape loves fire, so it's impossible for it to live in the land of Freezing Sky. Even within the territory of Western Sea Clan, we've never seen it before!
"I've even checked some ancient scrolls, and the climate and environment in the entire Land of South Morning are not suitable for this Fire Ape to live in. That's why I call this ape a mutated species!
"It's incredibly rare. I don't know whether it's the only one of its kind, but over the years, I've only seen this one." The boy smiled and cast the Fire Ape a glance before speaking languidly.
"It's just a monkey. Aren't you placing too much importance on it by bringing it out to be auctioned off here?" A piercing voice came from the people sitting by the side. The person who spoke was indistinct, and his face could not be seen clearly.
"This isn't an ordinary ape. It's so fast that even if I were to chase after it, I would have to expend quite a bit of effort … Also, the blood of this ape can extend one's lifespan, and if one consumes it frequently, one's cultivation will improve.
However, the most important thing was that this monkey was extremely rare. If its soul was extracted and absorbed into a weapon, then the weapon's power of fire would be shocking!
Also, this ape was extremely strong and could fight against those at the Bone Sacrifice Realm! It's not bad to use it to guard the cave, and it might even be able to transform, "the boy said slowly.
No one else might have noticed Su Ming's trembling, but Tian Lan Meng, who was by his side, saw it with just one glance. Her face was calm, but there were questions in her heart.
She looked at the ape, then at Su Ming. She could not imagine why Su Ming would act this way.
Su Ming ignored the people's words. He looked at the ape, and after a long, long while, he closed his eyes.
"It's a pity that this ape is so stubborn and unruly. I've tried everything I can, but I can't tame it completely. I've even suppressed it under the sea mountain, but it didn't yield at all …
"Or else I wouldn't have been willing to sell it," the boy said with a rather sentimental tone. The boy sighed with emotion. After introducing the ape, he took out a few other items and explained their effects one by one.
Each of the items he brought out would definitely stir up a ruckus in the auction hall during the day, but in this place, they did not stir up too much of a commotion. At most, they would only attract a few more gazes.
However, those who could come to this small auction hall were all cunning people. Their faces had become indistinct, and no one could see them. Even if they could see them, they would not be able to find any clues from their expressions.
Those who could reach the later stage of the Bone Sacrifice Realm or even the Berserker Soul Realm were definitely people who had gone through countless life and death situations. Those who could survive this sort of test were definitely not ordinary people.
Those who lacked intelligence would not have been able to survive until now!
Su Ming did not hear the items the boy brought out after that. He closed his eyes and quelled the raging emotions in his heart. The first item to appear in this small auction had caught him completely off guard. It descended so suddenly, causing Su Ming's heart to feel as if it was in a storm. Before he could accept it, it had already appeared before his eyes.
'Xiao Hong …' A trembling voice echoed in Su Ming's heart. Xiao Hong had been like family to him during his time in Dark Mountain. It had accompanied him throughout his childhood, and it had borne all of his joys, sorrows, and joys.
The scenes of him getting to know Xiao Hong, the scenes of them playing together, the scenes of him talking to Xiao Hong when he was lonely … All of these scenes appeared in Su Ming's head.
His childhood memories were filled with beautiful moments, and in those beautiful moments, there was always a fiery red figure that accompanied him as he grew up, accompanied him to search for Bai Ling, and accompanied him to steal Dark Dragon's Saliva …
Most of the time, Xiao Hong was Su Ming's only audience when he was talking to himself, even though every single time he did that, Xiao Hong would hold onto a fruit by his side and throw away the core.
Su Ming would never forget all of this. He still remembered one of Xiao Hong's actions. It would sniff at the fruit with an intoxicated look on its face. That look was deeply imprinted in Su Ming's memory.
Su Ming still remembered that he had once followed Xiao Hong to investigate the matter in secret, and he had seen Xiao Hong grabbing the bear's fur … and everything else.
When Dark Mountain changed, when the void appeared and Su Ming was swept into it, when he opened his eyes once again, Dark Mountain was no longer around, the elder was no longer around, the tribe was no longer around … Xiao Hong was also no longer around.
The sky was not the sky of the Alliance of the Western Region, and the earth was not the land of the Alliance of the Western Region. Everything was unfamiliar, so unfamiliar that it was enough to force a person to grow up quickly, to get used to silence, and to learn how to kill ruthlessly … Only in the dead of night could he sit in a corner and look at the sky alone, count his memories, and accompany his loneliness …
Su Ming opened his eyes, and the moment he did so, everything around him seemed to have recovered from its silence. The Fire Ape's wails reached his ears, along with the boy's voice and some of the people who were offering a price.
Su Ming saw the ape with the dark red fur struggling nonstop, as if it could not breathe. It gave up on the thought of escaping and instead crouched down on the ground with grief on its face. Its gaze was no longer in the area, and its soul was no longer in its body. It was as if it had left to a place far away, and no one knew what it was thinking about.
Su Ming looked at it and felt a sharp pain in his heart. That pain drowned him like a tidal wave, even though he could tell that this ape was not Xiao Hong …
It had the same agility as Xiao Hong, similar fur, and the same speed. However, Su Ming had been with Xiao Hong for many years, and he could tell that this was a Fire Ape based on some of the minute details, but it was still not Xiao Hong.
It was just like Bai Su, it was not Bai Ling …
When Su Ming looked at the ape, it seemed to have noticed that there was one person among the dozen something people it hated and loathed that had been staring at it since the beginning. That person's gaze was different from the others. There was no aloofness in his gaze, but a form of grief.
It had also seen a few gazes like this after it was captured. However, in its memories, when it saw those gazes, the grief in those gazes was almost always filled with sympathy and pity.
It did not need this sort of pity …
However, that person's gaze was slightly different. The highly intelligent ape that was crouching down on the ground turned its head around and looked towards the direction of the gaze. It saw an indistinct figure and the gaze that was looking at it.
There was no sympathy in that gaze, neither was there pity. There was only pure grief, and that grief made the ape shudder.
"This ape can't be bartered for alone. Its value can vary. How about this? I'll use a wisp of starlight that I've refined for nearly a hundred years in exchange for your two Sea Creation Stones!"
"I don't have starlight, but I obtained the skeleton of a Shaman Tribe's sacred beast in the past. I refined it into a puppet, but the puppet's value surpasses the items you have. Give me another ten drops of Western Sea Clan's Sea Marrow, and I'll give it to you in exchange!"
This was an auction Su Ming had never seen before. They did not use stone coins to bid for items, but used items to trade for other items. There was no such thing as the highest bidder getting the item. The person who traded with the person would depend on what the person who brought out the item lacked. The person's will could decide everything.
"I can refine starlight myself, even though it'll take some time … As for the Shaman Tribe's sacred beast puppet, if I put some effort into it, it's not as if I can't get it from the Shaman Tribe …
"I want some rare items. If you don't have them, then forget it." The boy shook his head. Four items floated before him. One of them was a jade bottle, and the other three were a small umbrella and two black stones.
Based on his introduction just now, the jade bottle contained Sea Marrow. He did not mention its effects, but judging by the words of the people around him, most of them seemed to know about it.
As for the small umbrella, it was an enchanted treasure with a unique effect. It could make a person's presence disappear completely. The last two black stones were Sea Creation Stones.
Its effects were just as its name suggested. It could create an ocean out of thin air, and it possessed great power.
Besides these four items, the Fire Ape was the only other item.
However, there were not many among the dozen people who were interested in the items the boy brought out. Only the two people who were offering a price, but they could not satisfy the boy.
"Is there no one who has any rare items? If there isn't, then the next person will have to take the treasure." The boy was slightly disappointed. Once he swept his gaze past the people around him, he was just about to retrieve his item.
Yet at that moment, a glint appeared in Su Ming's eyes and he spoke.
"Wait!"
"I'll trade for it with Sky Pearls!"
Almost the moment Su Ming spoke, Tian Lan Meng's voice came from beside him at the same time!
The two of them could be said to have spoken at the same time, causing the boy to immediately look over once he heard it. The first person he looked at was not Su Ming, but Tian Lan Meng, who was standing beside him.
The boy looked at Tian Lan Meng and asked with a smile, "How many Sky Pearls do you want?" "To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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