Chapter 35: The Monkey Demon
Zhu Youqing was lost under the leadership of the lightning marten, so if you find it, you can also find the whereabouts of Zhu Youqing and Xie Xiaohong.
When Zhu Youdao arrived, the lightning marten was being attacked by a big bird. This mink is naturally extremely fast, likes to eat all kinds of spiritual fruits and poisonous insects, and has highly poisonous teeth and claws, but few things can hurt it.
But poison martens are not invincible either, they are afraid of some large birds of prey.
It is a bird of prey that is attacking the lightning marten, which looks like an eagle but not an eagle, and on weekdays, the mink has long escaped without a shadow, but at this time it seems to be injured, and it is very inflexible between jumps, and it is forced by the big bird to be in danger, and it screams again and again.
Zhu Youdao paused, and saw a white light flashing on the ground in front of the lightning mink, and the big bird that was attacking it suddenly fell to the ground and didn't move anymore, but it had been killed by Zhu Youdao's flying knife.
After several years of sacrifice, the Flying Knife has begun to show its power, although this big bird is fierce, but it has not yet broken away from the category of mortals, so it naturally can't block a blow.
The lightning marten was stunned for a moment, and when he saw that it was Zhu Youdao, he suddenly jumped and screamed excitedly, because he hated Zhu Youdao for capturing it, and never let Zhu Youdao get close, but at this time he ran towards Zhu Youdao, but he didn't run a few steps, he fell to the ground and struggled to crawl towards Zhu Youdao.
Zhu Youdao walked over, picked up the lightning mink, and found that it was not lightly injured and had shed a lot of blood.
It's all this little thing that is causing trouble, luring Zhu Youqing into the back mountain! Zhu Youdao wants to peel it alive, but he still has to rely on it to find someone, so he can only let it go for the time being, take out the healing pill from the storage bag, and treat it.
After applying the wound medicine, the lightning marten pointed in one direction with its little paws, and screamed in a rapid voice.
Zhu Youdao said, "Is your master there?"
The lightning marten nodded repeatedly.
Zhu Youdao asked again: "How is she now, is she injured?"
No matter how smart the lightning marten is, it is just an animal, it just barks and gestures, and Zhu Youdao can't understand what it means. Fortunately, with a direction, it is much easier to find.
He thought for a while, took out a communication charm, and passed it to Li Yunniang, telling her that he already had a clue, and told her not to worry and wait patiently.
Then, Zhu Youdao continued on the road with the lightning mink in his arms.
Half a day later, Zhu Youdao stopped on a hillside, he looked at a haystack in front of him with a solemn face, and after opening it with his hand, there was a hole more than three meters deep below.
It's a simple trap!
Zhu Youdao wondered in his heart, is it difficult that there are still people living in this mountain, but he can't be sure, after all, this is the cultivation realm, but there is not only a human being, but an intelligent creature.
Zhu Youdao walked cautiously, and there was gradually a passable path in front of him, which was obviously left by intelligent beings who often walked.
Guided by the lightning marten, he found a hidden valley.
Zhu Youdao didn't dare to rush into the valley, but found a hidden place to hide, half an hour later, the lightning marten suddenly moved its little claws, Zhu Youdao patted its head, signaling to understand, it turned out that there was a team of creatures walking not far away.
Zhu Youdao's heart was turbulent, the team of creatures turned out to be several monkeys, they walked in person, holding sticks and other weapons in their hands, some carrying animal corpses, and some holding fruits, plant stems and other food.
It turned out to be a group of monkey demons!
These monkey demons are not powerful, and compared to the cultivation of human monks, they are only the second or third level of qi training.
Even Zhu Youqing, relying on the magic weapons and spirit runes prepared for her by Zhu Youdao, can deal with more than a dozen such monkey demons, but Zhu Youqing is lost, and Xie Xiaohong has not returned, obviously there is a more powerful existence in the valley.
Zhu Youdao swept it with his divine sense, and after not finding the ambush, he quietly followed the monkey demon and entered the valley.
Zhu Youdao followed all the way to the lair of the monkey demon.
It is a pocket-shaped valley, with a small lake at its innermost point, and dozens of rough shacks have been sparsely built around the lake.
From time to time, monkey demons haunt the shacks, coming and going without knowing what they are doing.
Zhu Youdao's eyes lit up, his heart was slightly happy, and within his line of sight, there were two human beings imprisoned in two wooden cages more than one person high, which were Zhu Youqing and Xie Xiaohong's two daughters.
Seeing that the two of them were just a little sluggish, they didn't look like they were seriously injured.
Seeing that the two of them were fine, Zhu Youdao finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
A few little hairy heads were obviously curious about the people in the cage, and poked the two of them with branches from time to time.
These are monkey demon cubs, fluffy and somewhat cute.
What made Zhu Youdao speechless was that Zhu Youqing didn't have the consciousness of being a prisoner at all, and actually played with the little monkey cub.
Zhu Youdao couldn't help but smile bitterly and looked around to find a way out. Thinking in my heart, how to save the two girls.
"Since the distinguished guest is here, why don't you come in!"
Zhu Youdao was looking around, but was startled by a strange voice. Immediately, a powerful divine sense locked onto him.
Zhu Youdao broke out in a cold sweat, and tightly clasped the teleportation talisman in his hand, preparing to escape first.
The other party easily discovered him, and his divine sense was strong, so he was afraid that he had the strength of a foundation building monk.
As the voice fell, a group of monkey demons with guns and sticks rushed out of the hut and surrounded the monkey demon cubs in the middle, as if to defend themselves against the invaders.
Now that he was discovered, he appeared generously and walked into the colony of the monkey demon.
Zhu Youqing and Xie Xiaohong in the wooden cage were excited. Xie Xiaohong shouted: "Husband, go quickly, the monkey demon is very powerful, you can't deal with it!"
Zhu Youqing burst into tears: "Big brother, save me, big brother, save me......"
Zhu Youdao's heart was like a knife, but he didn't look at the two women, but the lightning marten jumped out of his arms and got into Zhu Youqing's arms.
Zhu Youdao said loudly: "Why don't the seniors show up?"
"Hehehe~" The voice is obviously imitating human laughter, but it is extremely weird, making people have goosebumps, a monkey demon close to the height of an adult human walked out with a stick, its figure, for a monkey, can be described as tall and strong.
"Daoist friends didn't do anything to my children, I'm very grateful, Lao Dao! Unlike them, ......" The tall monkey demon pointed at Zhu and Xie Ernu, and continued, "One of them wants to steal my baby, and the other one will hurt my child when they come, which is very unfriendly......"
Zhu Youdao hurriedly bowed down and apologized: "The seniors forgive their sins, but the juniors don't discipline their families well, it's really rude!" This monkey demon can speak human words, and calls himself "old Tao", which makes Zhu Youdao a little confused. He hid the Flying Knife at his feet, but he couldn't trigger it. The strength of the people is strong, and they didn't take the lead, so Zhu Youdao naturally wouldn't do it casually.
It is best to be able to speak, and as long as you can communicate, there is hope for a peaceful solution.
Zhu Youdao took out a few bottles of pills from the storage bag and said with a smile: "These pills are an apology, compensate for the Taoist friends who were hurt by my family!"
The tall monkey demon's eyes lit up: "You...... You call us Daoyou, you don't discriminate against us demon clan?"
Zhu Youdao said with a straight face: "Daoist friends are wrong in what they say! All creatures are born with all creatures, how can there be a distinction between high and low? What my generation of monks are bent on seeking is the Immortal Dao, in front of the Great Dao, all living beings are equal, and humans and demons are Taoist friends, how can they discriminate against each other!"
He was in business in his previous life, and he was the best at observing words and feelings, and although this monkey demon was powerful, he was not very good at hiding his true thoughts. Zhu Youdao found that the other party learned to call each other Taoist friends by human monks, and it seemed that he was a little inferior to the identity of the demon clan, so he took the opportunity to talk about the equality of humans and demons, and it was time to say that humans and demons coexist peacefully, since they coexist peacefully, you must let my family go first.
However, he overestimated the comprehension ability of the tall monkey demon, looking at the other party's thoughtful expression, he knew that he had fooled too much, and hurriedly said more bluntly: "Fellow Daoist, we are dedicated to cultivating the Tao, and we will not be enemies of the demon race, the demon race is a natural elf, and so is the human race, we should coexist peacefully and should not hurt each other!"
The tall monkey demon understood this time, and he said happily: "Fellow Daoist, fellow Daoist, you are a distinguished guest, please enter the cave, children, prepare fruits to entertain guests!"