Chapter 256: Social Finesse, Monkey's Blessing
You say fight, so we fight, you say don't fight, so we don't fight?
Is this a monkey business!
Xu Qing understood clearly that if he didn't make a strong impression today, this monkey would boast about being personally invited by the Sect Leader of Cat Immortal Hall to be a guest and would call him Younger Brother Xu in front of others. Could he really show a bad face then?
Crafty like a monkey, the old saying is indeed right!
"Brother Xu, we're neighbors, fighting and killing doesn't look good. How about going for a drink? I have monkey wine on my mountain..."
Xu Qing blocked the red-tailed monkey's retreat path, smiling and saying, "Between neighbors, it can only be considered friendly sparring, the Hou Immortal Family need not worry."
While speaking, Xu Qing clapped his hands, and the next moment a crow fluttered its wings and hovered in front of him.
"Go to Yellow Stripe Mountain and inform Old Yan, tell him my Cat Immortal Hall will spar with Hou Immortal Family of Monkey Mountain today, so as not to alarm the neighbors with the noise later."
"..."
The red-tailed monkey understood it had met an opponent; even if it could win a magic confrontation, it had already lost in cleverness.
"Does Sect Leader Xu really want to spar?"
Xu Qing's gaze fell on the red-tailed monkey, nodded and then shook his head.
"Spar, but not with me."
Xu Qing had other plans; Xuan Yu had just condensing her Demon Core, a grinding stone of similar realm was needed, and this monkey was just perfect.
The red-tailed monkey didn't know Xu Qing was using it as experience for Xuan Yu. Upon hearing the opponent was the little cat before him, it actually breathed a sigh of relief.
Xu Qing gave the impression of being a mountain, a mountain shrouded in clouds and mist, and the red-tailed monkey couldn't fathom his depth, but clearly knew it could not be Xu Qing's adversary.
In comparison, though wary of the sword pill in the hands of the girl before him, it didn't feel insurmountable.
On Old Platform Mountain, Xu Qing stood aside watching.
At a certain moment, a fishy wind blew, and a burly man in yellow appeared beside him.
"Sect Leader! This monkey is too rude, let me step forward and settle things with it..."
Xu Qing waved his hand, quieting Guan Dazhuang.
"Profound Jade Immortal Family has just passed a calamity and is not yet fully familiarized with the Demon Core's power, this monkey coming is just right, you may also learn something."
Guan Dazhuang's tiger eyes shone brightly, immediately holding his breath, and started observing the magic duel before him.
Xuan Yu had two braids tied by Xu Qing when she went out, looking very well-behaved and harmless.
But when she raised her long sword, the cat's aura significantly changed.
Her body was as light as a leaf, her toes barely touched the ground as she soundlessly flew toward the red-tailed monkey.
The monkey was surprised the girl did not use her sword pill, thinking the little cat was not relying merely on a toothpick to challenge it?
However, as Xuan Yu was about to arrive close, the red-tailed monkey saw the figure blur a moment, splitting into two identical clones, quickly followed by a third, a fourth...
In an instant, eight identical figures of Xuan Yu appeared atop the mountain, all wielding long swords, the red-tailed monkey couldn't distinguish which was real and which was fake!
As eight sword lights simultaneously attacked, the red-tailed monkey sneered, his Two Sight eyes glowing.
"Mere trickery! I don't believe all these clones are real!"
The red-tailed monkey's eyes are born with insight, able to perceive yin-yang shifts and see enemy flaws, plus it had developed Wide Eye Recognition during cultivation, seeing through illusionary clones, even hundreds or thousands couldn't fool its discernment.
"Ah? Wait! Slow down!"
The red-tailed monkey noticed something wrong, how these eight clones appeared solid, only one possibility came to mind in urgency—they were all real!
Eight versus one, with the element of surprise, catching it defenseless—this was quite unreasonable!
Xuan Yu ignored the babbling monkey's words, her sword hacking down on the red-tailed monkey's head and face.
"Get up!"
The red-tailed monkey's hair bristled, arm muscles instantly bulged, and the imprisoned dragon staff moved like a sea dragon, carrying the domineering momentum of locking up a heavenly dragon, sweeping forward.
Just before unleashing the staff strike, the red-tailed monkey's Two Sight eyes shifted to black and white, as if yin-yang energy cycled within, continuously calculating the opponent's weaknesses.
When the staff momentum fell, Xuan Yu's movements clearly halted, eight identical sword techniques were simultaneously resolved by the red-tailed monkey!
Not far away, Xu Qing watching exclaimed in surprise, this monkey seemed somewhat extraordinary.
Regardless of people or demons, even with Nine General Knowledge activated Eye Recognition, it can only view the wicked, with no other functions, whereas the red-tailed monkey's eyes, besides discerning battle fortunes, also demonstrated black and white duality anomalies.
This was very similar to his celestial eyes of Yin Pupil, Xu Qing mused that only innate divine techniques had such effects.
Just as Xuan Yu's innate divine technique was Nine Life Clones, the monkey before him obviously also comprehended its own divine technique.
That day, the clear skies above Old Platform Mountain echoed like thunder, or like the mountain collapsed, the noise of that tumult could be heard a dozen miles away.
The imprisoned dragon staff had tremendous force, seemingly weighing a thousand pounds, everywhere the staff swept across Old Platform Mountain was pitted and cratered, with the burnt smell from stone collisions permeating all around.
The red-tailed monkey's techniques appeared open and closed, but were exceptionally intricate, while Xuan Yu's skill level was slightly inferior, seeing her Yue Maiden Sword Technique couldn't suppress the opponent's vigor, she finally summoned the Female and Male Sword Pills.