116: Chapter 116 Long-Armed Ape

The clear voice resounded throughout the entire secluded street, ruthlessly trampling Ye Feng's face underfoot and thoroughly cementing his defeated and destitute plight.

Fearing complications that could arise from prolonged delay, Lin Ye wore a calm expression and raised his hand to directly complete the transfer of ten billion divine coins.

Beep——

A clear transaction arrival notification suddenly rang out.

The gloomy elder looked down at the solidly arrived ten billion balance in his account, his murky pupils suddenly contracting, a look of pleasant surprise hanging on his face. Immediately afterward, he put away all his previous casual demeanor and respectfully handed over the three pitch-black iron cages sealing the ferocious beasts.

Lin Ye casually took the three iron cages, lifted them lightly with one hand, and turned around to leave directly with Wang Hu, his steps calm and his aura steady.

The two quickly walked out of the core streets of the black market. As soon as they broke away from the noisy crowd, Wang Hu, who had been holding it in all the way, immediately wanted to open his mouth to ask, his face full of heartache and confusion.

But just as his mouth opened slightly, Lin Ye by his side gently pulled his sleeve, while casting a slightly slanted gaze to scan indifferently at the gloomy street shadows all around.

Wang Hu's heart tightened, he instantly understood, and immediately tightly closed his mouth, restraining all expressions.

Following Lin Ye's gaze to perceive carefully, he indeed sensed that in the dark corners on all sides of the street, several obscure and greedy divine senses were hidden, locking onto the two of them vaguely.

But just as his mouth opened slightly, Lin Ye by his side gently pulled his sleeve, while casting a slightly slanted gaze to scan indifferently at the gloomy street shadows all around.

Wang Hu's heart tightened, he instantly understood, and immediately tightly closed his mouth, restraining all expressions.

Lin Ye's expression remained unchanged, pretending to be nonchalant throughout, and took Wang Hu leisurely toward the black market's exclusive management office.

He was well-versed in the rules of the black market; here, no amount of secret prying could compare to the reliability of official security.

After arriving at the management office, Lin Ye was decisive and straightforward, directly speaking to hire security. With a wave of his hand, he offered an exorbitant reward of one billion divine coins, specifically naming and hiring four true-god-grade guards stationed in the black market to escort them along the way.

A reward of one billion was enough to match the salary of an ordinary true god for several years. Under the heavy bounty, four true god guards with deep auras and stern presences were instantly in place. The divine patterns around their bodies lay dormant, their coercion restrained, as they silently accompanied the sides, firmly protecting the two in the center.

With true-god-level powerhouses guarding the helm, those obscure divine senses lurking and coveting in the dark retreated completely in an instant, leaving not a shred of abnormal movement.

Afterward, Lin Ye took Wang Hu and the four guards straight to the Supreme Platinum Hotel, which had the highest specifications and strictest security in Cangnan City. Without hesitation, he spent one million credit points to secure the top-floor private suite. The entire registration process was encrypted, isolating prying eyes and shielding divine sense detection.

Stepping into the suite that completely isolated external detection and closing the layers of protective barriers at that moment, the two completely dropped all their defenses, their tense minds suddenly relaxing as they let out a long breath.

After being completely safe, Wang Hu could no longer hold back, his face instantly collapsing as he wailed with a heart-wrenching expression.

"Brother Ye! That show-off just now was truly too handsome, and the aura was maxed out! But that was a full ten billion!"

He pointed at the three iron cages placed in the corner, his face showing extreme heartache: "Just buying these three mediocre-looking waste ferocious beasts—this is such a huge loss! Smashing ten billion out, it's practically losing everything!"

Watching Wang Hu's appearance of beating his chest and stamping his feet with full regret, Lin Ye couldn't help raising his head and laughing heartily, his eyes filled with certainty and a confident glow.

"A huge loss?"

He slowly restrained his smile, turned his head to look at the small monkey in the iron cage that was still defiantly roaring and covered in wounds, his tone extremely solemn.

"When have you ever seen me do a losing business?"

"Not to mention ten billion, even if it's a hundred billion or a trillion, I am determined to get this one monkey, and I will never lose a single fraction!"

Wang Hu was instantly stunned, his face full of astonishment: "Ah? Is this monkey worth that much?"

Lin Ye's gaze gazed at the defiant little monkey in the cage, speaking word by word in a deep voice to reveal the secret: "Do you know, what flows in this little thing's body is the top-tier bloodline of the ancient variant—the Long-armed Ape, and right now it is in an extremely rare bloodline atavism state! SSS-grade is nothing at all to it!"

Wang Hu completely froze in place, his eyes wide open, his face filled with extreme disbelief, and a sense of shock rushing straight to his mind.

He repeatedly scrutinized the scar-covered, unremarkable little monkey in the iron cage, unable to connect this down-and-out B-grade ferocious beast with the supreme treasure worth hundreds of billions or trillions in Lin Ye's words.

"Brother Ye, this... this looks just like an ordinary little monkey! It clearly only has a B-grade rating, how could it have such a terrifying value?" Wang Hu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, unable to help asking out loud, his heart full of incomprehension.

Lin Ye's gaze fell softly on the little monkey in the iron cage, slowly opening his mouth to explain the mystery in detail for him: "It is indeed currently only at the B-grade base rating, looking ordinary on the surface, and even weaker than many high-tier ferocious beasts."

"But its most terrifying aspect has never been its current combat power, but the ancient variant bloodline inside its body. I don't know what happened, but its bloodline has never stopped evolving for a moment, constantly undergoing spontaneous refinement and continuous atavism."

"The reason why its evolution has completely stagnated now is not because its bloodline potential is exhausted, but because its energy is completely depleted."

Lin Ye pointed at the dense new and old scars on the little monkey's body, a hint of understanding in his eyes: "It is covered in wounds, confined and suppressed all year round, unable to obtain even a shred of heaven and earth spiritual energy or origin nourishment, and even its own bloodline energy is constantly being depleted and overdrawn. Without sufficient energy to support it, the extremely defying-the-heavens path of bloodline atavism was forced to get stuck halfway."

"However, as long as we can gather massive resources to replenish all the vitality and energy it lacks, the moment the shackles are severed, its bloodline evolution will immediately restart, breaking through all shackles all the way and completing the ultimate atavistic transformation."

As his voice fell, Lin Ye's tone became increasingly certain, carrying absolute confidence: "For this complete Long-armed Ape bloodline, let alone consuming massive resources, even if we smash more family foundations into it, it's not a loss at all. This is simply not a losing deal!"

The Long-armed Ape is one of the four great spiritual monkeys of ancient times, capable of shrinking a thousand mountains, grasping the sun and moon, discerning good and bad fortune, and manipulating heaven and earth.

Born with a peerless physical body, leaping-level slaughter, and unparalleled self-healing, its growth ceiling is vast and boundless. Once fully atavistic, in the future it will be enough to become the top-tier battle pet under his command, rivaling or even surpassing all commander-grade family dependents. This foundation cannot be measured by resources at all.

More importantly, perhaps after it becomes a true Long-armed Ape, it might be able to awaken bloodline inheritance; this point is the most important one.

At this moment, the little monkey in the iron cage seemed to possess supreme intelligence far surpassing ordinary ferocious beasts, accurately understanding the goodwill and promise in Lin Ye's words.