Chapter 143: I Want to Change Too

Good friend Song Yue!
This name quickly spread throughout the blessed land of the white apes.
Yuan Yingning and Yuan Lanzhi, the two sisters, were overjoyed!
They were the two young daughters of the white-browed old ape, given uniquely human names by the old ape who was fond of human civilization.
The younger daughter, Yuan Yingning, was particularly excited, feeling that this hairless and rather ugly human being looked many times more pleasing to the eye!
"Brother, you are truly amazing!"
Yuan Yingning said with a skip and a hop.
"Where are your manners? Call him uncle!" The white-browed old ape reprimanded from the side. "He is my sworn brother, what kind of decorum is it for you to call him brother?"
Song Yue: "..."
He felt that being called brother was quite nice; he was not that old.
Yet in the eyes of the white-browed old ape, seniority was always determined by realm.
Although Song Yue was a very young human, his combat prowess was enough to make even it shudder; how could it possibly have the nerve to treat him as a junior?
The white ape clan possessed hundreds of members within this blessed land.
Their number was not large. After clearing the battlefield outside, the white-browed old ape gathered all its clansmen together and announced its decision to enter the human world.
Except for a small number of older members who hesitated slightly, almost all of the younger generation cheered endlessly.
The brilliant human world, the bustling mortal realm—they had yearned for it for too many years.
Unfortunately, when the former ape king was still around, it had strictly forbidden them from making contact with humans.
Entering the human world was even more out of the question.
Now that the ape king had ascended, the second-in-command had immediately set things right. It was simply brilliant and mighty!
The white-browed old ape warned its clansmen that even upon entering the human world, they must never commit evil deeds, or else terrifying human powerhouses like Song Yue would wipe them out without hesitation!
The group of white ape creatures were all frightened.
When they went out to clean the battlefield earlier, they had already been quite startled.
Hearing the second-in-command say this now, they instantly felt that the human world had become terrifying.
In their minds, there must still be many humans like Song Yue throughout the entire human world!
The white-browed old ape offered appropriate encouragement, saying, "As long as you are obedient and do not commit crimes, no one will bully you!"
By alternately applying pressure and offering reassurance, it quickly calmed the restless clansmen.
Song Yue increasingly felt that an arch-monster like the old ape was truly suited to go to the human world to establish a sect and found a faction.
Perhaps years later, it could even cultivate a large number of young powerhouses.
Between the human race and the demon race, there was really no need to remain in a state of perpetual opposition.
Proppping up the white-browed old ape was also a great way to let other arch-monsters see what it was like to oppose the human race, and what it was like... to cooperate with the human race!
Instead of rashly moving the entire clan directly into the human world, the white-browed old ape brought its two daughters and came to Hangzhou first, alongside Song Yue.
They intended to conduct a preliminary inspection, and once they were certain there were no issues whatsoever, they would bring the suitable clansmen into the human world.
Song Yue made a phone call to Xiao Meng.
Xiao Meng ran out to meet him at the very first moment.
Over the phone, Song Yue had only told him that he was bringing a high-level expert to his home. Only after meeting did he shockingly discover that the expert Song Yue had brought was from the demon race.
Brother Yue was truly becoming more and more formidable!
Meng Xudong looked at the two young female apes wearing dresses who were asking Qian Qianxue questions about this and that, praising them in his heart.
"Xiao Meng, this is Mr. Yuan, the leader of the white ape clan. His realm has already reached the peak of the Pill-Condensing stage!"
"Mr. Yuan, this is the young master of the Elite Martial Arts Gym, currently fully responsible for the operation of the entire Elite Martial Arts Gym."
Song Yue introduced the two parties to each other.
Meng Xudong was shocked on the spot, thoroughly startled.
Pill-Condensing... peak?
Holy cow!
Just now, he had also secretly guessed the realm of this white-browed old ape, but he had only dared to think as far as the Bone-Shattering realm, never daring to dream of the Pill-Condensing domain!
Just as he still had no idea what realm Brother Yue was currently at.
Song Yue always said he was at the Grandmaster realm, but he didn't believe it.
Under normal circumstances, a Grandmaster among martial artists corresponded to the Foundation Establishment stage among cultivators, and only a peak Grandmaster dared to correspond to a Conduit-stage cultivator.
Song Yue was simply an anomaly!
He could not be measured by the ordinary standards of grandmasters or grandmasters.
One only needed to look at the things he had done recently to know: if one merely regarded him as a talented martial artist, one would die without knowing how one died.
Yet even so, in Meng Xudong's view, Brother Yue's current true realm was about the same as a cultivator at the Pill-Condensing level.
The white-browed old ape before him clearly looked very polite to Brother Yue.
In its speech and demeanor, it even revealed a trace of unperceived restraint.
Such a demon race expert was actually at the peak of the Pill-Condensing stage?
Then what realm was Brother Yue at right now?
Meng Xudong felt that his brain capacity was almost running out.
He sighed that people truly could not be compared with one another!
Thinking back to half a year ago, it seemed he was still able to exchange a few blows with Brother Yue... Damn it, would this matter become the biggest boast he could ever make in the future?
"Greetings, Senior Yuan!"
These thoughts flashed through Meng Xudong's mind like lightning, but his outward expression showed not a single flaw.
He was extremely enthusiastic and very polite.
The old ape felt that it was being valued.
It had actually experienced this kind of feeling before when entering the human world, but those people were mostly hypocritical, wanting primarily to extract things from it.
If it were a fair trade, that would be fine.
However, those people were mostly greedy by nature, wanting only to take without wishing to give anything in return!
There were also many who treated it like a fool.
When encountering such people, the old ape only wanted to slap them awake with a big hand—I am a demon, not a damn fool!
Although the young man named Meng Xudong before it also possessed the slickness typical of a merchant, the old ape, having seen countless people, could still sense that this person was different from ordinary humans.
"There is no need to be so polite."
The old ape smiled and nodded, acting very amiable.
Song Yue looked at Meng Xudong: "Xiao Meng, I intend to let Mr. Yuan open a large martial arts gym in the capital. You will handle the commercial side of things—the site selection, leasing, or purchasing of the venue... I'll leave these to you."
"As for management, you can help provide guidance in the early stages, and later on you can leave it to them to run themselves. Afterwards, we can just agree on a profit-sharing ratio."
"My suggestion is to let Mr. Yuan and his clan take the lion's share of the profits, because the significance of this matter goes far beyond mere commercial cooperation."
Meng Xudong wore a solemn expression: "Brother, I understand. Rest assured, leave it all to me. I guarantee I'll make you satisfied!"
Song Yue said, "It's not about me being satisfied..."
Meng Xudong smiled and said, "If Brother is satisfied, Mr. Yuan will certainly be even more satisfied!"
He was also a clever person; with just a slight hint from Song Yue, he understood that this was not only about boosting the prestige of the Elite Martial Arts Gym, but also about bolstering the prestige of the entire Huaxia cultivation world!
So what if the Li family was gone?
It directly brought in a powerful demon race grandmaster who caused fewer troubles!
With such a terrifying arch-monster holding down the fort, who would dare to casually make trouble for the Elite Martial Arts Gym in the future? Who would dare to easily swagger into Huaxia?
"Brother Yue is farsighted and holds the country and the world in his heart. It is truly admirable!"
Once Meng Xudong figured it out, he smoothly offered a flattery.
Strange to say, Qian Qianxue, who suffered from mild social anxiety, showed not the slightest bit of impatience when facing the strange-looking white ape demon sisters Yuan Lanzhi and Yuan Yingning.
The elder sister, Yuan Lanzhi, was relatively steady, while the younger sister, Yuan Yingning, was very lively—not the annoying kind of hyperactive, but finding everything fresh and possessing an ultra-strong thirst for knowledge.
Qian Qianxue was also very patient, carefully answering the two sisters' questions.
In the end, she even took out some of her own unworn clothes that she had bought and gave them to them.
Seeing this scene, the white-browed old ape also felt a deep sense of gratification.
Its long-cherished wish of many years seemed to truly have a chance of becoming reality now. It just didn't know what expression its brother, who had been forced into the cultivation world, would make if it knew it was cooperating with its "enemy."
Ah, let's hope everything goes smoothly!
The white-browed old ape sighed inwardly.
Just like the treatment previously given to the Grandmaster Miao Qiang, Meng Xudong took the shortest possible time to find a manor in the capital for the old ape's family.
The price was naturally very handsome, but compared to the profits to be gained next, a manor counted for nothing at all.
The board of directors of the Elite Martial Arts Gym passed it unanimously.
From the initial skepticism of some people regarding Xiao Meng's capability to their current near-brainless worship, Meng Xudong had taken only a little over half a year to achieve this process.
Perhaps in Meng Xudong's eyes, his achievements today were inseparable from Song Yue, whom he had initially met through a misunderstanding; but in the eyes of the Elite Martial Arts Gym's board of directors, this young young master was simply... too outstanding!
In just half a year, the talent Meng Xudong displayed in the commercial field made their scalps go numb with awe!
The current Elite Martial Arts Gym was more than ten times larger than it had been half a year ago.
Its market value... had multiplied countless times over.
Everyone who hitched a ride on this vehicle made a fortune.
And now, even a demon race heavyweight had been invited over to hold down the fort; what did a mere manor amount to?
It was estimated that if the old ape wanted to marry a human girl, someone would probably proactively offer their daughter!
That was an immortal at the Pill-Condensing level!
Taking one step further would mean truly ascending and becoming an immortal!
Different races... was that even a problem?
Song Yue and Qian Qianxue had also returned to the capital, and proceeded to gift various kinds of demon meat to the Wen family and the Qian family.
Song Yue was already somewhat extravagant these days; he wouldn't even glance at Enlightenment-level demons, and for Awakening-level demons, the meat had to be of the exceptionally delicious kind. Basically, whatever he brought out was at the Bone-Shattering and Pill-Condensing levels.
There was no help for it; there was simply too much of it!
He couldn't even finish eating the high-level ones, so who would care about the low-level ones?
After finishing with the Qian and Wen families, there were Sun Tong, Minister Da, Xiao Meng, Miao Qiang, Old Wolf, and the others.
Thanks to him, the families of these people had also become luxurious nowadays, able to eat demon meat stewed with vermicelli at every single meal without a problem.
Xiao Qi had lost movement these past few days again, missing out once more.
In the following days, Song Yue began to practice diligently.
The several battles of recent times gave Song Yue a clearer understanding of his own strength.
At the same time, he discovered a problem: during battles, once he began to fight for his life, the two internal organs hiding the Dark Canon and the Beast King Scripture would continuously provide a massive amount of formidable energy. However, doing so would cause both demonic Qi and demonic flames to erupt simultaneously.
At first it wasn't obvious, but as his realm rapidly advanced recently, this phenomenon became increasingly pronounced.
Especially in the just-concluded snow mountain battle, although he burst forth with unparalleled and terrifying combat prowess, showing dominant strength in the face of a group of Pill-Condensing arch-monsters, the demonic Qi and demonic flames on his body had also manifested together.
Fortunately, he was fighting a group of demons, and that place itself was overflowing with demonic Qi. If he were fighting a group of human cultivators, he might even be mistaken for a demon!
It seemed that being mistaken for a demon wasn't too big of a problem, but what about a devil?
A devil definitely wouldn't do!
Once he stepped onto the battlefield in the future and started fighting with demonic flames soaring to the heavens, he would nine times out of ten be surrounded and attacked to the death by people who didn't know the truth.
Therefore, this issue had to be resolved.
Song Yue remained quite optimistic about this.
The supreme scriptures of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism all belonged to the human lineage and shouldn't be too difficult to acquire.
Especially since Earth currently had all sorts of ancient ruins and secret realms in abundance, and under the suppression of the heavenly Dao laws, entities with realms that were too high could not enter.
As long as he put in some effort, there shouldn't be any major problems.
However, not long after, Song Yue realized that he was being a bit naive.
During this period, he had taken Qian Qianxue to tour many secret realms. The vast majority of them were places that few people ever set foot in, and even if certain secret realms had been opened before, their key areas—such as underground palaces—were still in a sealed state.
Secret realms were easy to enter, but underground palaces were hard to open.
The vast majority of secret realms could be entered as long as the opening time arrived.
Underground palaces, however, required tremendous fate and fortune. An ordinary person might enter a thousand secret realms and still not necessarily see a single underground palace, let alone manage to enter one—that was even more difficult.
Song Yue didn't have this problem. Like most people, he might find it difficult to locate those underground palaces even with the Qi-gazing technique, but the Yuxu Sky-Piercing Monument could!
When he truly encountered good things, even if he wanted to ignore them, the Yuxu Sky-Piercing Monument would bounce around incessantly.
Right, now there were also the Dark Canon, the Beast King Scripture, and that blade of grass in his spiritual consciousness... once they discovered something good, they would all go crazy and dance around in his body and mind.
He couldn't ignore them even if he wanted to.
Taking advantage of the fact that he had nothing to do during this period, he took Brother Qian for a stroll everywhere. In just half a month, the two of them had explored eight secret realms!
And successfully opened five ancient underground palaces!
Needless to say about the harvest, they saw all sorts of magical artifacts, weapons, scriptures, and mental cultivation techniques... it could be considered a full harvest.
However, the problem was that not a single scripture related to the three camps of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism was up to standard!
A small portion of these could cause a slight fluctuation in the Yuxu Sky-Piercing Monument, but the Dark Canon, the Beast King Scripture, and that blade of grass in his spiritual consciousness didn't give him an ounce of face, not even showing a single reaction.
After obtaining them and reading through them, he could quickly comprehend them, yet they were completely useless for balancing the five elements.
His current status quo was that his realm was rapidly advancing every day, even if he wanted to slow it down, he couldn't!
His mental cultivation method and physical body cultivation method were too formidable, the Taiyi Body-Refining Scripture was too powerful, the pills were too high-grade, the ingredients were too good... under such circumstances, how could he possibly slow down?
Song Yue had even begun to be able to sense the existence of the heavenly Dao laws.
This made him somewhat panicked.
This was not a good sign.
The moment you could sense the existence of the heavenly Dao laws, the heavenly Dao laws could also sense your existence!
Just like that famous quote—when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss is also gazing into you.
Being able to sense the laws of the mortal world indicated that his realm had begun to infinitely approach the Nascent Soul domain.
Although the path he walked was different, the realm produced by his understanding and cognition of the Dao converged to the same destination by different routes. As long as he reached that realm, regardless of whether he was a martial artist, a magician, a formation master, or any other profession... in front of the heavenly Dao laws, they were all the same!
For Song Yue, the best place to acquire the supreme scriptures of the Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist camps was Earth!
If he couldn't find them on Earth, then when he later entered the cultivation world or the Nine Passes world, wanting to obtain them... would be far too difficult.
Just like those human-world demon kings, they were supreme existences in the mortal world, stamping their feet to make half the Earth tremble.
Once they went to the cultivation world, they instantly became high-grade ingredients, gate-guarding beasts, trial checkpoint guardians, and materials for refining various magical artifacts in the eyes of others—as miserable as it gets.
In the mortal world, he could use his full burst of power to slash a newly advanced Nascent Soul high-level cultivator with his saber, but if a mid-to-late Nascent Soul stage cultivator appeared in the cultivation world, he would most likely have to run.
Go to an ancient sect to beg for the supreme scriptures?
It might be possible if he completely became a core disciple, but he had a master!
A teacher like Miao Qiang was fine, but asking him to kneel on the ground and kowtow to take another master was impossible.
Without taking a master, it was impossible to become a core disciple, and even more impossible to come into contact with the supreme scriptures.
Scam and swindle?
Better forget about it. It was fine to put on airs himself, but he couldn't treat everyone else like fools.
Thinking about this matter more optimistically, there should still be opportunities for Confucianism and Taoism. When he went back to find his master, he would most likely be able to possess at least one of them.
Buddhism... surely he couldn't go become a monk, right?
It seemed he could only go back and ask his master for help.
Song Yue couldn't help sighing, full of melancholy.
He couldn't even perk up.
Even Brother Qian could sense that something was wrong with him.
After exploring yet another secret realm and harvesting quite a few Conduit-stage great medicines, Qian Qianxue—who was growing increasingly bright and stunning—looked at Song Yue and asked, "How come you've seemed so preoccupied lately? Have you encountered any perplexities?"
Song Yue shook his head: "No perplexities, just missing my master a bit."
Qian Qianxue believed him.
She couldn't think of any reason for Song Yue to be unhappy.
So she comforted Song Yue, saying, "Your realm is improving by leaps and bounds. Not to mention your peers, looking across the entire Huaxia cultivation world, I'm afraid only your master can compare with you."
Song Yue glanced at her: "You know about my master?"
Qian Qianxue nodded and said, "I've heard a lot. It is said that when your master was young, his realm also improved by leaps and bounds!"
Recently, Qian Qianxue—whose status at home had risen manifold—had heard quite a few secrets about the Master from the elders in her family.
It was also the first time she learned that there really were people in this world whose talent was good to that extent.
"Compared to geniuses like you, someone like me is just too ordinary."
Qian Qianxue said with a serious expression: "When I previously heard the elders at home mention all sorts of wondrous things about the Master, I seriously reflected on myself and even apologized to them. I might have been a bit too sensitive in the past; they were right, I really am quite dull."
Song Yue: "..."
Looking at the breathtaking profile of Brother Qian sitting beside him, he couldn't help asking, "How did your family react when they heard that?"
Qian Qianxue said softly, a bit embarrassed, "I feel like they probably really wanted to curse out loud at that moment..."
"Curse?"
Song Yue's mouth twitched: "Are you sure they didn't want to beat someone? And then didn't dare to make a move just because they couldn't beat you?"
Qian Qianxue let out a chuckle.
A pair of bright eyes looked at Song Yue: "Whether they wanted to do that or not, I don't know. But I do know that you're definitely not unhappy just because you miss your master."
Brother Qian seemed to have gotten even smarter.
Song Yue sighed lightly, grabbed his hair, and said with some depression, "Maybe one day, I really am going to turn into a demon or a monster."
Qian Qianxue reached out, grabbed Song Yue's hand, and said, "Can I learn it too? I want to change too!"
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