The blow came so quickly that many European server players were caught off guard.
This was especially true for some European server knight players who had spent a lot of money to form a team for the Instance Dungeon. When they received the message from their friends, they had a mental breakdown.
This time, in order to catch a Soul-Devouring Beast, some of the knight players even took out their savings from three years of battles and borrowed a lot of soul coins from their friends before they formed a team.
Their idea was simple. As long as they had a mount in the Ghost King Realm, it would be easy to earn money. Monsters that they did not dare to challenge before would no longer be a problem in the future. The efficiency of earning soul coins would be greatly increased.
However, when the post of Reading More Than Ten Thousand Scrolls was published in the local forum and reposted on the European server forum, they suffered a blow and could not accept the cruel truth.
Many teams that refused to believe it decided to continue trying.
However, the truth was as Reading More Than Ten Thousand Scrolls said. The Soul-Devouring Beast could not be beaten to the brink of death. If it was seriously injured, it would split itself. The more it was fought, the more it would split.
Under such circumstances, the European server knight players were extremely depressed and gave up on the idea of capturing the Soul-Devouring Beast.
However, at this moment, a new turn of events came.
As one of the popular players in the forum, Sun Qi posted a post and attached a video.
The video showed the scene that Gu Yu and the others saw with their own eyes in the grassland of the second region of the Hell Path.
A Soul-Devouring Beast chased after a group of Demonic Apes and finally killed them.
The scene that excited the players in the video was that when the Soul-Devouring Beast killed the Demonic Apes, it would not harm their bodies. After swallowing them, it would spit them out completely.
At the end of the video, Gu Yu and the others naturally did not waste it and kept all the Demonic Apes into the channel.
At this moment, the players felt as if they had seen a road to riches. Not only the local server, but even the European server players felt the same way.
The value of the materials of the dead Demonic Apes could be seen from the auction house.
The players could not wait any longer. They immediately formed a small team and headed towards the second region of the Hell Path.
Although they could not defeat the Demonic Apes, they still had the Soul-Devouring Beast!
According to Sun Qi in the post, the Soul-Devouring Beast would not hurt the players. As long as it knew that the player was a soulless creature, it would ignore the player even if the player took the initiative to attack.
This also meant that many lower-leveled players could take advantage of this point. As long as they lured the Demonic Ape to an area with Soul Devouring Beasts, they could collect the Demonic Ape's corpse and materials to make a fortune.
It was said that the pioneers in the early stages of every industry were the most profitable.
In reality, this was also the case. For example, when they went to the forest to move the corpses, because there was a large gap in the market at the beginning, the first batch of pioneers could sell the same corpse for a higher price than those who came later.
Once the market was established and the price stabilized, the profits would decrease.
Therefore, the players set off without hesitation.
He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the materials produced by the Devil Ape were very scarce in the auction house to test the waters. Perhaps he could become the first batch of people to eat crabs.
Not long after Sun Qi's post, many players in the Hell Path's Second Precinct started to try it out.
They followed the coordinates provided by Gou 'zi and headed toward the central border where the Demon Ape Race might be. As long as they met the Demon Apes on the way, they would provoke them in all sorts of ways. Then, they would lead the Demon Apes to the nearby Soul Swallowing Beasts.
During this period, there were many failures.
There were even a few teams that were annihilated by the angry Demon Apes. However, there were many players who succeeded. They would share the situation on the forum and show off the materials. This ignited the passion of more players.
This also led to more players joining in.
In the following development, the walkthrough appeared under everyone's expectations.
The professional players came up with various ways to increase the efficiency of collecting corpses from the Demon Apes. They also came up with ways to increase the efficiency of luring monsters and reduce casualties.
For example, there was a relay. One person in the team would stay near the Soul Swallowing Beast while the others lined up in order.
As long as the player at the front came into contact with the Demon Apes, he would send out a notification in the live chat channel. Then, he would run to the player closest to him. Even if he died on the way, it would be fine. Another person would pick him up and bring him to the side of the Soul Swallowing Beast.
Escaping was secondary. When it came to luring monsters, the professional players came up with more tricks.
In the early stages of exploration, a professional player from the original server recalled that the Demonic Ape Clan seemed to be very interested in the Corpse Clan during the battle in the Land of Aether. Hence, he bought the body of a Corpse Clan warrior from the auction house and used it as bait to attract the Demonic Ape Clan warriors.
In the end, it was really successful.
When the Demonic Apes saw the corpses of the Corpse Clan, they gathered from all directions as if they had gone mad. Then, under the Soul-Devouring Beast Formation that the player had set up, they died en masse. In the end, the player gained a lot and posted a selfie of himself standing on over ten Demon Apes' corpses on the forum.
After this post appeared, the Corpse Race corpses in the auction house were swept clean.
The veteran players could imagine how valuable this non-renewable resource would be in the future, especially when they knew that it could be used as bait to fish the Demon Apes.
Just as they thought, the regional live chat channel was filled with players who wanted to buy the corpses of the Corpse Race within a day. Moreover, the price was three times higher than the original price.
The players who smelled the business opportunity and hoarded the corpses of the Corpse Race made a lot of money.
After a few days, the players started to practice the method of fishing the Demon Apes described in the strategy post. When they succeeded, the value of the corpses of the Corpse Race soared once again.
At that moment, the players treated the Naraka Realm's Second Precinct as a treasure vault. While they were in there to punish the Demon Apes, they could earn material fees from the Demon Apes.
As the materials of the Demon Apes appeared in the auction house one after another and kept increasing, the price became relatively stable. Hence, there were more players who bought these materials to replace their equipment.
With the materials brought by the Demon Apes, there was a wave of equipment replacement craze in the local server and the European server.
With the help of the Demon Apes, the overall strength of the players began to improve rapidly.
Initially, the players went to the Naraka Realm's Second Precinct to catch a mount. However, they did not expect it to develop into such a mode. This was beyond the players' expectations.
It could be said that the flowers planted intentionally did not bloom, but the willows planted unintentionally grew.
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In the east of the Naraka Realm's Second Precinct.
A gigantic white gorilla stood on the ground like a mountain.
Countless Demonic Apes hung from his body.
These Demon Apes seemed to have treated its body as their home. They rested on it and built many strange buildings.
Looking up, the Venerable Demon Ape's head passed through layers of clouds and mist.
In front of the Venerable Demon Ape, two Soul Pearls, one red and one purple, were snuggling together and rotating slowly.
Upon seeing this, the Venerable Demon Ape's eyes were filled with anticipation.
It could not remember how many years had passed since it last saw the Corpse God's Twin Pearls.
At that time, it was not the Venerable Demon Ape, nor was it as powerful as it was now. It was only the leader of the Demon Apes that was kept in captivity by the Corpse Clan in the Naraka Realm's Second Precinct.
Many of its memories were blurred, but the Venerable Demon Ape still remembered one thing clearly. The Corpse Clan treated them as food and did everything to the Demon Apes.
At that time, the Venerable Demon Ape thought that he would not have any trouble in his life. Although he was the leader, he would be devoured by the Corpse Clan one day. He would meet the same fate as his clansmen and die a worthless death.
However, he had never thought of resisting. In fact, he firmly believed that this was the fate of the Demon Apes and it could not be changed. To him, it was a joke to fight the powerful Corpse Clan. It was impossible even if he was 10,000 times stronger.
However, his fate was not as mediocre as he thought it would be. A variable quietly arrived.
On that day, there was a rain of blood. The entire Naraka Realm's Second Precinct seemed to be experiencing a catastrophe. Chilly winds howled and countless spirits drifted between heaven and earth. It was as though the end of the world had arrived.
Accompanied by a loud sound, a hole exploded in the sky. A blood-stained black metal rod descended from the sky and stabbed straight into the territory of the Demon Apes.
At that time, the leader, the Venerable Demon Ape, was shocked.
After seeing this black metal rod, his first reaction was not to check if this rod was a treasure. Instead, he decisively informed the Corpse Clan and asked them to investigate the situation.
The members of the Corpse Clan arrived very quickly and started to investigate this black metal rod.
However, no matter how hard the members of the Corpse Clan tried, this black metal rod seemed to be connected to the ground and did not move at all.
Even if the members of the Corpse Clan dug three feet into the ground, they still could not bring this black metal rod away.
Helpless, the members of the Corpse Clan chose to leave and were prepared to inform the higher-ups. However, before they left, they brought away over 20 of the clansmen of the Venerable Demon Ape and instructed them to produce more descendants!
At that time, the Venerable Demon Ape was not angry about the instructions of the members of the Corpse Clan. Instead, he nodded his head as though it was a matter of course.
This was because the Demon Apes had been like this long before he was born. They had always been the blood food of the Corpse Clan. For generations, they had been kept in captivity by the Corpse Clan. They had never resisted or been dissatisfied.
With regards to this request of the Corpse Clan, the Venerable Demon Ape immediately agreed. On that day, he informed his clansmen that they had to produce more descendants. This was the order of the Corpse Clan.
Sometimes, when being enslaved became a part of life, many unbelievable things would become a matter of course.
And that was the case for the Venerable Demon Ape at that time.
Ever since they were born, they had been exposed to the ideology of the 'supreme Corpse Clan'. Being able to become their food was their fate. It had already become a matter of course.
During those few days of waiting, another group of people from the Corpse Clan came. They started to investigate the black metal rod again and tried to pull it out from the ground.
However, they still did not succeed this time. These members of the Corpse Clan returned resentfully and brought away another group of Demon Apes.
The turning point occurred when the Corpse Clan came for the third time.
This time, a high-ranking general of the Corpse Clan came. Like the members of the Corpse Clan before, he also tried to pull the black metal rod out of the ground.
However, something unexpected happened. The black metal rod suddenly vibrated and erupted with an unimaginable power.
Just like that, that corpse general exploded into a cloud of blood mist under the incredulous gaze of the Venerable Demon Ape.
Before this, the Venerable Demon Ape had always thought that the Corpse Clan was supreme. There was nothing that they couldn't do.
However, this time, a high-ranking member of the Corpse Clan was actually blasted into a cloud of blood mist by the black metal rod. This scene was like a sharp sword that pierced through the determination in the Venerable Demon Ape's heart.
It turned out that the Corpse Clan wasn't invincible.
At that time, the Venerable Demon Ape could only sigh in his heart. However, he still didn't have the slightest impulse to resist.
As the rest of the Corpse Clan retreated in a hurry, the Venerable Demon Ape became curious about this metal rod.
At that time, the Venerable Demon Ape's thoughts were very simple.
He only had a guess and a concept. Since the metal rod could kill members of the Corpse Clan, did it mean that the metal rod was greater than the Corpse Clan?
Perhaps this comparison was very laughable to many people. However, the Venerable Demon Ape, who had never come into contact with the outside world and had always been kept in the Corpse Clan's territory, had such a laughable and simple comparison.
After that, the Venerable Demon Ape's heart was filled with reverence for this metal rod.
The members of the Corpse Clan came one after another. Other than the supreme Corpse God, almost all the high-ranking members of the Corpse Clan had come.
They tried countless methods, but they couldn't pull the metal rod out of the ground.
In the end, they came to a conclusion. This metal rod was already connected to the ground. Other than the Corpse God, who was currently not in the second region, it was absolutely impossible to pull it out.
Before the Corpse God returned, the Corpse Clan gave up on studying this black metal rod.
However, the Venerable Demon Ape had seen everything that the Corpse Clan had done. He felt even more reverence and reverence for this black metal rod.
At this time, the black metal rod was equivalent to the Corpse Clan in the Venerable Demon Ape's heart. In fact, it was an existence that was one level higher than the Corpse Clan.
Every morning, when the sun rose, the Venerable Demon Ape would worship this black metal rod. When the sun set, the Venerable Demon Ape would repeat his actions in the morning.
Just like that, five years had passed.
The Corpse God still hadn't returned, and the Corpse Clan had long given up on studying this black metal rod. They would only occasionally come to the Demonic Ape Clan to collect blood and food.
However, the Corpse Clan didn't know that the leader of the Demonic Ape Clan had quietly changed.
After worshipping the black metal rod every day, the Venerable Demon Ape discovered that his heart had become very calm. It was as if there was some kind of hot liquid flowing in his body.
Gradually, his hair turned white, and his strength increased day by day.
It was as if every time he worshipped the metal rod, the metal rod would give him a kind of power that improved his physique.
After five years of worshipping, the Demonic Ape was even more reverent towards this blood-stained black metal rod. He regarded it as a god in his heart.
While worshipping, the Venerable Demon Ape also discovered that he had become completely different from his clansmen.
It was as if he had become a different kind of creature.
Moreover, the Venerable Demon Ape also discovered that he seemed to love thinking about problems. He started to think about many things. He wasn't like his clansmen who only knew how to live a mediocre life. Apart from reproduction, they only knew how to eat, drink, sleep, and wait for death to come.
He started to think about the meaning of life, and he even started to explore the mysteries of nature.
However, he didn't know the answer to all of this.
Therefore, the Venerable Demon Ape curiously started to pray to the 'black metal rod' for knowledge.
When he was praying, the Venerable Demon Ape was filled with respect. He didn't even think that what he was doing was a very stupid move.
This was because the Venerable Demon Ape had already regarded this metal rod as a god, an omnipotent god!
In fact, it was this stupid move that changed the Venerable Demon Ape, changed the future of the Demonic Ape Clan, and completely changed the fate of the Corpse Clan.
At that moment, the Venerable Demon Ape obtained the knowledge he wanted, and a secret scripture appeared in his mind.
This was a secret scripture with no history and no words. Rather than calling it a secret scripture, it was more like a piece of enlightenment.
After this secret scripture appeared in his mind, a thought appeared in the Venerable Demon Ape's mind.
I should be the strongest creature in the world. Who else but me can be the strongest in this world!
This was a feeling, and it wasn't a complete cultivation technique record.
It was also this feeling that made the Venerable Demon Ape unwilling to submit. He was even more unwilling to sink into depravity. He wanted to become the strongest!
The beginning of everything was because he worshiped the black metal rod from the bottom of his heart.
This allowed him to obtain the black metal rod's recognition, and he obtained a supreme inheritance!
However, the inherent concept in his heart made him try to suppress the idea of 'looking down on the world' several times. He even felt that his idea was very laughable and undesirable.
However, as time passed, as the power he obtained became stronger and the knowledge in his mind became richer, he realized that he was gradually accepting this concept.
Therefore, when the Corpse Clan came to their territory to collect their clansmen again, the Venerable Demon Ape didn't refuse, but he was already dissatisfied in his heart.
This was because he felt that since he was the 'strongest', why did he still have to offer his clansmen to the Corpse Clan?
And why did the Corpse Clan have to be above him?
The seed of hatred towards the Corpse Clan was planted in the Venerable Demon Ape's heart, and it grew strong and healthy.
After that, the Venerable Demon Ape yearned to become stronger. While worshiping the black metal rod every day, he prayed to it to obtain more power than the Corpse Clan.
This was because he wanted to rebel against the Corpse Clan, and he felt that he was the strongest creature in the world.
At that time, the secret scripture was like a seed that took root in the Venerable Demon Ape's heart. It caused him to change from the inside out, and it also forged his dao heart on the path of cultivation.
Even if he didn't have the corresponding strength, the Venerable Demon Ape already had the heart of a powerhouse.
In this path of cultivation, the Venerable Demon Ape obtained something that others could only dream of at the beginning, and it laid a rock-solid foundation for his future path of cultivation.
Time flew, and the Venerable Demon Ape steadily walked the path of cultivation for a hundred years.
And after every hundred years, it was also time for the Demonic Ape Clan to change leaders.
As leaders, they couldn't escape the fate of becoming blood food. Although they could live for a hundred years more than their clansmen, they had to accept the fate of becoming blood food at this time.
This was also the iron rule that the Corpse Clan had set when they raised the many blood food clans!
Although the Corpse Clan felt that under their control, it was impossible for the blood food clans below them to betray them, they still had to be on guard.
Because such examples were too common in the Underworld, no one knew which force would subvert the race they were in.
External powers and internal powers were all possible.
The Corpse Clan also knew that there was no eternal rule for royalty, so they had to eliminate all threats.
Because of this, they set a rule that every blood food clan's leader would be replaced every hundred years to ensure that the clan wouldn't be united and wouldn't have any thoughts of rebelling.
In fact, this was indeed very effective. All the blood food clans were firmly under their control, and it was impossible for them to betray them. Therefore, their Corpse Clan's dynasty was incomparably stable.
And after a hundred years, it was time for the Demonic Ape Clan's leader to become blood food.
As usual, the members of the Corpse Clan came to the Demonic Ape Clan's territory and started to select their clansmen. At the same time, they prepared to take away the Venerable Demon Ape.
At that moment, the Venerable Demon Ape, who had been suppressed for a hundred years, erupted.
The shocking combat strength that he displayed shocked the members of the Corpse Clan. Facing the Venerable Demon Ape, they discovered that they were actually powerless to resist and were all killed in a short period of time.
This scene also scared the Venerable Demon Ape's clansmen silly.
However, after the Venerable Demon Ape killed all the members of the Corpse Clan, he looked at his clansmen with joy and said that he wanted to take them with him, but the reaction of his clansmen was out of his expectations.
The clansmen looked at him with eyes filled with terror, disgust, fear, and unfamiliarity.
They couldn't imagine how their leader could become so powerful, but most of them thought that their leader could be so stupid and actually dared to go against the Corpse Clan.
In reality, it was only the Venerable Demon Ape's wishful thinking. No clansmen were willing to rebel with him, and no clansmen were willing to follow him on this supreme path.
Because they were already used to this kind of life, becoming blood food was already a matter of course to them.
When everyone was unbearably stupid, the one who saw the reality and dared to rebel became an idiot in everyone's eyes.
The Venerable Demon Ape, who was unwilling, tried to persuade his clansmen, but no one paid attention to him. They didn't even dare to face him.
At that moment, the Venerable Demon Ape's heart was filled with anger.
He didn't hate his clansmen, but he hated the Corpse Clan for making them so stupid!
He didn't choose to leave by himself because he knew that if he left, the Demonic Ape Clan would definitely be annihilated.
He was born here, and he had been living with his clansmen for a hundred years. He already had feelings for them, and he couldn't bear to see his clan being annihilated. He could only beg his clansmen, hoping that they would wake up.
But soon, the Corpse Clan's clansmen discovered the Demonic Ape Clan's abnormality and rushed over.
A great battle broke out again. This time, the Venerable Demon Ape roared at his clansmen as he killed the Corpse Clan's clansmen. He wanted to prove to them that the Corpse Clan wasn't supreme and inviolable, and that they would also die.
In order to prove this point, the Venerable Demon Ape even left one of the Corpse Clan's clansmen to kneel in front of him and beg him to prove this point to his clansmen.
But what the Venerable Demon Ape didn't expect was that the clansmen's eyes were still filled with hesitation, and they didn't wake up at all. They even knelt on the ground and wanted to release the Corpse Clan's clansman in front of him, begging for his forgiveness.
The furious Venerable Demon Ape killed the Corpse Clan's clansman on the spot.
The Corpse Clan's army arrived, and the Venerable Demon Ape fought alone while bathed in blood. But the actions of his clansmen made him despair.
From their eyes, the Venerable Demon Ape could see that they hoped for the Corpse Clan to kill him, and not for him to obtain victory.
In this battle, the Venerable Demon Ape suffered serious injuries. Among the overwhelming number of experts from the Corpse Clan, there were many existences that were stronger than him.
But even though his entire body was bathed in blood, the Venerable Demon Ape still fought with all his might.
Even if he died, he wasn't willing to submit to the Corpse Clan. He was supposed to be the strongest creature in this world!
At that moment, the black metal rod seemed to resonate with him. It rose from the ground and was firmly grasped in his hands.
Boundless energy continuously flowed into his body. At that moment, the stubbornness in his heart was protected by the black metal rod, and the Venerable Demon Ape went berserk.
With a raise of his hand, he pierced through the sky, and with a wave of his hand, he swept through the army. He was like a god of war.
This battle lasted for more than a year. Every time he was on the verge of death, the black metal rod would pull him back from the brink of death, giving him the strength to continue fighting.
In this year of bloody battle, the Venerable Demon Ape got stronger and stronger. Finally, he became a god, and his name was engraved on the Yin God List.
The heavens and earth wept blood, and all living beings naturally celebrated.
But at the moment when he became a god, the Venerable Demon Ape placed a law curse on his clansmen.
"Since the Corpse Clan treats my Demon Ape Clan as food, then I will curse the descendants of my Demon Ape Clan to become addicted to the Corpse Clan. I will swallow their flesh, blood, and bones, and absorb their bloodline power. Demonic thoughts will be born in our hearts, and we will be unable to resist for generations to come!"
This curse was engraved on the flesh and blood of every member of the Demon Ape Clan. From then on, whenever they saw the Corpse Clan, they would be unable to resist and want to swallow them. This was because this was the curse of the Venerable Demon Ape.
This was also the beginning of the Demon Ape Clan's control of the Hell Dao's second domain!
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