Chapter 137: Demonic Crystal Pill!

Seeing the ape king stop his movements, Ye Yuan also breathed a huge sigh of relief, feeling utterly drained.

Although he had been forcing himself to stay calm, the pressure of a third-tier beast's aura was no joke.

This ape king was not a half-baked half-step Condensation Crystal like Su Yubai, but a genuine third-tier beast, equivalent to a human Condensation Crystal realm existence!

No matter how monstrous Ye Yuan was, he could not cross two major realms to defeat his opponent.

For a Yuan Qi realm martial artist's attack to threaten a third-tier beast was already incredibly heaven-defying.

The gibberish he had just spoken was Ye Yuan's last trump card. If even this card failed to work, he would really be done for today.

Fortunately, Ye Yuan's words were not 'playing the lute to an ape'; this ape king truly understood!

What Ye Yuan spoke was the common beast language, a universal language for demons established collectively by the great demonic powers of the Divine Realm countless years ago, aimed at enabling communication among demon races.

The demon race had countless clans, and no single clan could rival the human race.

To unite the demon race against humanity, the ancient demonic powers jointly established a series of measures, and this common beast language was one of them!

After countless generations of reproduction, the common beast language had become a hereditary memory of each race, passed down from generation to generation.

If this ape king had not awakened his hereditary memory, Ye Yuan would truly have been 'playing the lute to an ape.'

The Stone Ape clan had once produced an incredibly heaven-defying existence, the Qitian Sacred Ape, who was a Divine Realm powerhouse!

Although the bloodline of the boundless stone ape had grown very thin as it was passed down through generations, it was still possible to awaken some inherited memories.

Ordinary ape soldiers and generals could hardly awaken their inherited memories, but this ape king had a chance.

What Ye Yuan had just said was: "Lord Ape King, please hold your hand!"

The ape king was clearly astonished that a human could understand the common beast tongue.

The ape king realized that this human youth seemed extraordinary—not only was he extremely powerful, but he even knew the common beast tongue!

Even he himself had only learned the common beast tongue after awakening his inherited memories.

The ape king also communicated with Ye Yuan in the common beast tongue: "Boy, you trespass into my territory and steal the Red Soul Grass—what crime do you deserve!"

Since the ape king was willing to talk, Ye Yuan was no longer so worried.

He bowed to the ape king and said, "Lord Ape King, please forgive me. I came for the Red Soul Grass out of necessity. A close friend of mine suffers from the Nine Yin Meridian Block, and the cold poison is about to erupt. I urgently need the Red Soul Grass to save his life. I implore you to be generous!"

"What does your friend's matter have to do with me? I have great use for this Red Soul Grass myself—how could I easily give it to you? Setting that aside, since you have trespassed into my territory, do not think of leaving today!"

The ape king was no merciful bodhisattva; he clearly could not be bothered with the life or death of a stranger.

If he hadn't found Ye Yuan somewhat interesting, he would have slapped him to death long ago, without wasting so many words.

After speaking, the ape king let out a few roars, and immediately a group of long-armed stone apes surrounded them—all were second-rank high-level beasts!

Feng Zhirou was greatly alarmed and quickly moved closer to Ye Yuan.

One ape king was already deadly enough; with so many second-order high-level beasts surrounding them, how could they survive?

"Ye Yuan, can you really talk to that ape king?" Feng Zhirou whispered.

Ye Yuan nodded: "Luckily the ape king awakened his inherited memories and learned the common beast tongue, otherwise we'd be dead! Master taught me the common beast tongue back then and I didn't take it seriously, but I never thought it would come in handy."

Ye Yuan also knew that communicating with beasts was shocking, so he had to shift the blame onto his "master" again.

Feng Zhirou looked at the surrounding Long-armed Stone Apes and smiled bitterly: "In this situation, we're still dead."

Ye Yuan smiled: "Not necessarily! If the ape king hadn't awakened his inherited memories, then there would be nothing to discuss. But since he has awakened, not only might we not die, we might even be able to leave with the Red Soul Grass!"

"Stop joking! You talked to him for a long time, and not only did his attitude not improve, but he summoned this large group of second-order high-level beasts. How could he let us leave alive?" Feng Zhirou said gloomily.

Indeed, being surrounded by a large group of second-order high-level Long-armed Stone Apes was no less stressful than facing the ape king.

Fortunately, these second-order Long-armed Stone Apes had not received orders to attack, otherwise Ye Yuan and the others would have been turned into meat paste by now.

"Hehe, just watch me!" Ye Yuan laughed.

"You two have been chattering endlessly. Are you ready to die? You humans hunt our demon race every day; now it's time for you to taste what it's like to be hunted." The ape king snorted coldly.

But although he spoke fiercely, he did not order those ape generals to pounce.

Ye Yuan stepped forward two paces and smiled at the ape king: "Ape King Senior won't kill me!"

"Nonsense! Why wouldn't I kill you? Just because you know the common beast tongue? Kid, you overestimate yourself, don't you?"

"Hehe, Ape King Senior is mistaken. It's not that I overestimate myself, but that you underestimate me!"

At this point, Ye Yuan couldn't be bothered to play weak anymore; he simply put on an air of fearing nothing.

He, a dignified Alchemy Emperor, couldn't handle a mere third-order beast?

Hearing Ye Yuan's words, the ape king couldn't help but laugh loudly. But a stone ape laughing like that was somewhat hair-raising.

"Kid, you really are a newborn calf not afraid of tigers! Judging by your bone age, you're at most fifteen or sixteen. So young, how can you expect me to think highly of you?"

Ye Yuan just smiled without refuting, and calmly uttered three words: "Demon... Crystal... Pill!"

The ape king, who had been laughing, suddenly changed expression upon hearing these three words, his huge ape eyes staring fixedly at Ye Yuan.

His expression was as if he wanted to devour Ye Yuan.

"Kid, does your elder know how to refine Demon Crystal Pills?" the ape king asked word by word.

From his attitude, one could see how significant the Demon Crystal Pill was to him.

Although Feng Zhirou didn't know what they were talking about, she could tell from the ape king's state that Ye Yuan had successfully whetted the ape king's appetite, and she couldn't help but feel a bit of anticipation.

The ape king fully expected Ye Yuan to nod in agreement, but Ye Yuan shook his head and said, "No."

Hearing this, the ape king flew into a rage: "Kid, are you toying with me? Do you believe I'll swallow you alive?"

Ye Yuan laughed heartily and said, "Swallow me, and you'll probably be stuck at the third-order initial stage for the rest of your life. No matter how much Red Soul Grass you eat, it won't help."

Ye Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, showing no fear before the ape king.